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Today I'm joined by Brenna from Rose colored books and we're talking about her brand new Fabel book club!!!! Join here: Follow her on Instagram: And to join my book club: --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message

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THROUGH ROSE COLORED LENSES, 5min., USA Directed by Arie Forma In the midst of a toxic triangle with the love of his life, and her abusive boyfriend, Shawn Anderson, a college student blinded by love, is seeing his world fall apart. Get to know the filmmaker: I was motivated to make this film after living through the events of this film. This film is a culmination of the years of lessons, mistakes and wearing of my pair of “Rose Colored Lenses”. This is a very personal story that I felt needs to be told. Plus, I felt very alone going through this trauma, and felt no one could understand the pain heartbreak and toxic love has on your heart and soul. So, I wanted to reach out to those who may have felt this pain, to let them know they aren't alone, and that others can relate to this. You can sign up for the 7 day free trial at www.wildsound.ca (available on your streaming services and APPS). There is a DAILY film festival to watch, plus a selection of award winning films on the platform. Then it's only $3.99 per month. Subscribe to the podcast: https://twitter.com/wildsoundpod https://www.instagram.com/wildsoundpod/ https://www.facebook.com/wildsoundpod

This week we had a viewer suggestion. Does the NES has a ton of Shovelware like the Nintendo Wii ? Maybe lots of you are wearing Rose Colored glasses and just enjoy a lot of the games on NES even though they are bad. Well me and  @NESADDICT  dive into it all on this episode of The Weekly Warp Pipe Podcast

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Within this MindShift Monday we will explore Vision and How Do We Really See The World - Is our 2020 Vision For the foreseeable future which is N.O.W activated or - Are We Reflecting What We Truly See in The World Check out everything here https://www.flowcode.com/page/allisonjones --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/iamajonesadjust/message

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You're not a delusional person. At least not usually. But you may be one when it comes to publishing. And that's why I made this episode. It's based on the book I'm currently writing and it's about the delusions I see first-time authors suffer from. Seriously, publishing seems to inspire more delusions than Hugh Grant movies! So here's your wake-up call. Don't hit snooze!  And if you want exclusive stories, resources and info about this book as I write it, you can sign up for that on annadbook.com.

Two weeks ago I posted on social media a photo of an antique tractor next to a modern machine. In my post I referenced the advancements we've made since the antique tractor worked the land — 7 times increase in per acre yield, less natural resource consumption per calorie produced, environmental advancements, etc… Then, as often happens on social media, the detractors began commenting. This post brought out the nostalgia for simpler times back when small farms could compete and farming was easier and more profitable. The only problem with these comments of course is that they're completely inaccurate. In this episode I debunk revisionist Ag history. The good old days weren't always good. Sponsored by Pattern Ag pattern.ag and AGvisorPRO getagvisorpro.com

Just how good can you let life be? Can you let yourself do more of what you love? These are the big questions at West of Wonderland this week. Where's the fun police when you "need" them - Bay and Laura have booked their next sabbatical to Walt Disney World. What's it like to create, even when you are in a pit of despair? This episode is chock-full of fun parks, leadership and inspiring creativity updates in the ethos of Disney Fandom that you never knew you needed, including a fun Rapunzel update! You are very welcome!

Paxton, Clint and Jeff discuss grocery store grapes, disgusting concoctions and how not to tip. For daily bits, follow our socials https://linktr.ee/FromBehindTheBarcast consider supporting us at Patreon.com/frombehindthebarcast Special Thanks to Sydney at the Wind-Rose for broadcasting us on Thursdays! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/frombehindthebarcast/message

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INTRODUCTION: Branch Isole and I are here to teach you about the crucifixion of Jesus and what it means for you. This is especially special as we roll into Easter weekend. Jesus is the core of this podcast and it brings me much joy to spend a couple hours talking about Him. :) He, like me, is a former drug dealer, he's been to jail, he's been homeless, and like myself he understands his mission is to do all he can to help others now that he's been given a second chance. Branch is a poet, a storyteller and the author of 22 books! Branch was born in Osaka, Japan (my favorite country) and has the traveled the world extensively! Branch graduated from Texas State Univ. B.S.Ed., did post graduate work at the University of Houston, M.Ed Adm., and holds an Oxford M.A. Theology degree from Trinity Bible College and Seminary. Branch shares how strength of choice can change consequences and this man is known worldwide for his contemporary short story prose that reveals emotions and issues often experienced, but not always voiced.  Author of twenty-two books Branch Isole shares "how and why" strength of choice can change consequences. He's known worldwide for contemporary short stories revealing issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. Storytelling is either about 'what has been' or 'what can be.' The story of "what can be" encourages us to embrace the duality of what is and more importantly, what is possible. Podcast program audiences tune-in to learn if your guest can help fulfill their aspirations and ambitions. My efforts are to help you produce a show with takeaways that benefit your listeners. The topics I share impart elements for personal, career and/or spiritual self-reflection. I believe we will give your audience a show they'll receive, use, and thank you for.I share edifying and entertaining self-development topics offering information and takeaway steps listeners can use after hearing our episode. These topical conversation starters provide audiences with identifiable grounding and growth elements for contemporary life issues.Spiritual Christianity:Life 101: Albatross or Millstone?The ‘Bucket List' Item Many IgnoreThird Act Specs; Rose Colored or 20-20?Relationships:7 Steps of Relationship RepairChange Your Response, Improve Your RelationshipsWork-Life Balance: 12 Key LessonsReligion:Bible Prophecy: Warnings or Promises?These 'today topic' discussion starters are designed for seekers, searchers, the fallen away and disillusioned. Those who question, wonder or are ready to explore self-reflectively their lives and relationships.  You're invited to book one today!Previous engagements and upcoming shows- https://www.manaopublishing.com/bookings.html  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to): ·      A Detailed Look Into The Crucifixion Of Jesus·      C&E (Christmas & Easter) Christians – WTF?·      Why Do Believe What You Believe?·      The Negotiable Nature Of God·      Why It's OK To Be Feel Weak Sometimes·      How To Read The Bible·      Hypocrites AKA Republicans·      YAY ALCOHOL!!!·      Graduating From Church ·      Spiritual Understanding·      The Simplicity Of The Lord CONNECT WITH BRANCH: Website & Other Books: https://www.manaopublishing.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podcastguestbranchisoleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/branch-isole-851433201/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzN66BkAUAemYX76Smnn0GA CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonEmail: DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS: ·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com ·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net ·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org ·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org  INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?: ·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon TRANSCRIPT: [00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hello? Hello. Hello, Oman, beautiful listeners out there. God bless each. And every last fucking one of you. I love you to the core, my soul. So this week here, we've got branchy Solei back again, and we are here to teach you about the crucifixion of Jesus and what it means for you. And this year, the specially important as we roll right on into this Easter weekend.and look, Jesus is the core of this podcast and it [00:01:00] brings me so much joy to be able to spend a couple hours talking about him. And of course, that's the reminder of my new book, sex, drugs, and Jesus, a memoir of self-destruction and resurrection. It's out. I started taking notes on this book back in 2013, and then it took me two years to finish it.Once I got started around the beginning of the pandemic almost two years ago. So I'm very proud of it. Please check it out. Sex drugs, and jesus.com. I hope you enjoy this episode and happy Easter, everyone. Well, welcome back to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. Everyone. We have a branch Easter laid back with us for like the fifth, the 1000th time. I don't know. He's like a resident guest at this point. So expect to be seeing a more from him and hearing more from him. The man has like about a thousand books, which you can see it as website Manoj.Oh, publishing.com. I will put all of it in the show notes as I always do. [00:02:00] He's an incredible author. He's an incredible podcast guests. And today we're going to be talking about the sweet baby Jesus as we were coming up on the crucifixion day which is also known as the one day in the year. Some people go to church.Hello, branch, how are you doing? That's how I feel. So I love the Lord and I know you do too. And like, I'm not that I wouldn't say that those of you who only go to church once a year on Easter, you know, I kind of, I would like for this, I would like for one of you to reach out to me and tell me why you only go one day out of the year, is it out of guilt, out of a sense of obligation?Is that your one trip up to the sanctuary to repent? Like they did back in the old Testament. So I would be curious to know and no judgment. I've just always found it to be particularly titillating. What do you think about that brand? [00:03:00]Branch: Yeah. You know, I grew up as a C E Christian, Christmas and Easter. And I don't know whether my parents thought that's all we needed or they were just too busy. You know, that, that was the obligation of the year. I can understand that I am in agreement with you. I'm not sure why, but you know, we all make our choices.At least at least we'll go at Easter, go and, you know, and recognize the importance of that day and, and its symbolism and that connection with the Lord.De'Vannon: Hallelujah tabernacle and praise. This reminds me branch. The when I was at Lakewood church in Texas, before I got kicked out for not being straight, but it's an image that will always be plastered my mind because I got up into this thing in the adult choir [00:04:00] at Lakewood. And the first Sunday that I sang was an Eastern. Good initiation.they haven't got an initiate until the church has always packed. Like big of a church with every seat filled. I was like, so in the fucking zone. And so I rocked out with my cock out was probably part of the reason why I got kicked out,you know you know, I used to shake it for the Lord up in those cars thing. I will loopseveral people. Look, they can find some YouTube videos of their cameras did love me. So anyway, we're not here to glorify me. We're here to glorify Jesus. And so. The show that receipt at this one has to do with the Eucharist and communion. We're going to touch back on that a little bit later in this episode.So the way it [00:05:00] went according to recorded Hebrew history is that Jesus came was on the earth. He did all those miracles starting as, from what we know with turning the water into wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee, which is why I keep me some red wine on stock at all times to honor my savior.Hallelujah. And then he did these miracles. He worked with people, he stirred up controversy just by being himself. He made the religious leaders mad and angry and he hurt their feelings. And then so they wanted to kill him off. You know, people don't like it. They just want to kill you. This is the way the devil works.And so we see he's now at communion Washington's disciples feed. The breaking, the bridge, drinking the sweet, sweet, and wine or bitter bitter. Why? I don't know, I probably would have served bitter wine considering what was about to happen. And so so Jesus has, is a snitch, a criminal informant, a CAI, a confidential [00:06:00] informant.His name we have learned is Judas, Iscariot and main wish he'll ever be marred. The Bible tells us that at some point, the devil entered into Judas and begin to turn him against The Lord that scripture has always stuck out in my head because that means that Judas wasn't always against the Lord at some point, some sort of thoughts, some sort of emotion, some sort of influence came over him that made him feel this way.He did not counter this influence or question that he went along with it and made the deal to sell what he does out for. The legal was 30 pieces of silver. And you know, I had my own informant back when I was dealing drugs. I wouldn't say gee, now we're in the exact same business when we had our informants, but cops work the same way then as they do now, they want to get to the head of the organization.They get a snitch, a weak link in the chain and they send a man find out where you're going to be on a certain day at a certain [00:07:00] time. Then they come NAB you that much. I do have in common with the Lord. We both got sold out. So what do you think about Judas? Branch: Well, you know you, you made an interesting comment just now about. Being, none of us are originally against the Lord. You know, we come into this life as babes, obviously, and we know nothing, and we are brought up in a family and a community, whatever that may be religious or not. And none of us is against the Lord.And certainly the Lord is not against any of us that are our transition from being ignorant to being neophytes, either on the spiritual path or not on a [00:08:00] spiritual path, you know, is a result of who we are and how we grow. So Judas was not against the Lord to begin with. Obviously he was one of the original 12 disciples.And like you say he was tempted and then coerced or bribed to go against the Lord and then similar or the same kind of fashion we today are often tempted or bribed by the world and things of the world to a go against the Lord, or even worse than a lot of cases is just be indifferent or ignore the Lord.So we have that in common with Judas Iscariot.De'Vannon: Okay. So then this beckons [00:09:00] beckons us back to what, how I always say to pay attention as to why we believe what we believe and why we think what we think and not to accept every thought that comes to us. So it might not be a group of jealous religious people coming to, to NAB your soul, to get you to fill out for 30 pieces of silver.It could be betraying, thought, feeling and emotion. I don't know of anyone out there ever. Just, you see somebody in a wave of disliked comes over you towards this person. Suddenly you just feel like you don't like Felicia or Pam or Jim or whoever. And you even know why you don't like them. You just don't like them.I've heard people say that before that they're like, say they just have this problem against somebody. I'm all like, what'd they do to you? I don't know. I just don't like them. I'm like, well, that's okay. You can just, you know, Branch: Well, you know, we see that in evidence every day in our day and age with just to name a few labels, racist homophobes, [00:10:00] phobes, misogynist, you know, they dislike other people's. Because of their skin because of their color, because of their beliefs or their actions. And yet they have really no foundation for that hatred or that dislike other than in most cases, just the way they were brought up the environment that they grew up with and the biases that they grew up with.You know you might've found an idea certainly in, in the military when you're thrown in with a bunch of different kinds of people, with different beliefs and backgrounds, from different parts of the country you have a tendency, you know, to kind of go with your own to begin with, but it doesn't take long in the military for me to realize.You know, the value that others bring into your [00:11:00] unit or into your company. And a lot of times, you know, we're able to and motivated go look beyond those initial bias that we might've come into the military with. I think it's a real good experience for people to give them an opportunity to grow as people doesn't work for everybody, but certainly worked for the group of guys that I was with back in the Vietnam era.De'Vannon: I think everyone. Wait tables or a few months and go to the military. But for a few months, I think some countries do have like a mandatory military thing. And I really think it makes all the difference. I ain't saying it eliminates all the foolishness and people, cause some people are just going to be foolish no matter what, no matter what, but certainly grant some perspective when you have to deal with bitchy, Karens, and shit, coming in to make unreasonable demands at restaurants and then they won't even tip.[00:12:00]And then you go up to go, then you go to the military and your life is on the line and you're, and you don't have a choice. You're going to participate and get along with people no matter how, unlike you, they are. So you don't have this luxury of being like, well, I just don't like him, so Branch: life, life, life, and tasks can make a big difference in one's attitudes.De'Vannon: right. And You know, when we all grow in tour for different reasons the life and death has made a difference in my attitude. And I'm because I've been exposed to so much of death in my time, which I appreciate. And so I find myself having to make myself be patient people who haven't been exposed. I had to grow up fast like I did, because I went to the military at 17.So, you know, I'm like, okay, you got some more experiences go through. You are mature and your time. I hope Branch: Okay.De'Vannon: [00:13:00] so. Let's see here. So there's this time. Okay. So Jesus went into, I believe it was the garden of gets Semini to pray as he was nearing this crucifixion. And he knows that this is what he was called here to do. He knows this is what it's. Now he's the son of God, God manifested in the flesh, but he had some trepidation leading up to this.And I believe that he chose to be vulnerable and transparent in this moment as a guide for us. Now, he didn't call the Legion. Legions of angels were coming to rescue him when he was tempted by the devil. You know, he didn't exercise his power in a way to save himself specifically. And so he, he toiled with this, you know, we asked the Lord, we ask God, you know, is there like a, is there another way, you know, let this cup [00:14:00] pass for me now. I know God to be very negotiable. There've been times I've been in a lot of trouble and, you know, he chose to bring me out of it. Whereas, you know, others might've been in probably surely would have been ensnared. And who knows. Sometimes we ask God, you know, God will say like one thing in. And we may be like, okay can we do that another way?For instance. So like when I was growing up in church, my profit has evangelists Nelson. You know, when I say prophetess, I mean, someone to whom God speaks like Isaiah, Jeremiah, somebody who's really, really has their ear, the mouth of God gifted in all gifts of the spirit she was and all of their prophecies, you know, like came true.And so, and there's a litany of people who are, you know, across the world who will testify to that. So there's one woman, you know, here in the south, they would stand you up in church. The profits of stand you up and, you know, whenever God gave them a word and they would minister this word on to you. And so she told her that the Lord gave the church [00:15:00] member who she was talking to or had given this woman a vision of who her soul made it. Now evangelists, Nelson and her clairvoyance see other people's visions that God had given to other people, even if they didn't tell her what that vision is. And so, and so she told us a woman, you know, God gave you this vision of your soulmate, but this woman, the church member didn't want this man. She wanted a different person.And so now one would think that God would be like, okay, no bitch. I already told you who the is going to be. That that's my story. And I'm sticking to it, but that's not the way it was. The Lord worked with her in the Lord, shifted in and created her soulmate into this other person that she wanted. And then, then let the other one go. And and so God has. A very negotiable way. Some stuff is from like that stuff. I went through, like being homeless and done all of that, that had to happen. That was like foretell than prophesied. I had dreams about it. [00:16:00] I didn't know what, you know, what, what the bad stuff was, was going to happen, but there's no way that I could have gotten around that.You know, that, that, that was a permanent thing in my life that was fixed. But trouble, other troubles and stuff like that, we were able to negotiate around. So when we talk about it, when we pray, understand you're talking to a being who has a very reasonable mind, you know, and he's, he has all power, he can do anything he wants to do. Okay.You don't want that soulmate if he feels like it'll just give you another one, you know, you know, you can do whatever he wants to all about your faith in what you believe. That woman that charged me would probably had enough faith to believe that God was able and willing to shift it for her. But it's probably played a lot of part into that. And so. Jesus asked, you know, can this cup pass from me? What do you think about what was going on with the Lord while he was, while he was going through in sweating and all of this going on, going through all these [00:17:00] changes.Branch: Well, we have to remember that Jesus was a man, you know, he was man and God. So he experienced and felt and had the emotions you know, the successes and the highs, as well as the depression and the lows from living among men and women in his day and age, so that, you know, he is part. He is the, he is the reflection and the connection for us as humans to the spirituality of God, father and spirit.So in experiencing what we experience as human was, he understands us and he understands, you know, what we're going through and what we're struggling with. That's an interesting statement. He [00:18:00] makes about, you know, when you take this cup from me, that's the one time in Bible scripture that we actually see his humanity in evidence as it applies to both him and to us and in him asking that, you know, that's that human response.I don't want to die. I don't want to give up what I have right now in my life and in the next thought and the next breath he says, but not my will, your will be done. And that's what kind of, what you're describing with within lady is he wants us to recognize God wants us to recognize and acknowledge and have competence that we can accept his will [00:19:00] for us.Because as a loving father you know, he wants what's best for us. Most of the time he wants what's best for us, even more than we want what's best for us. He has our best interest. Always at heart and therefore his actions on our behalf, like the changing of the man for that lady his actions on our behalf can be made to align with our wants, but we have to be willing to make that surrender just like Jesus did not my will Lord, not my will father, but yours be done.So in that moment of his humanity and his response, similar to what our response would be, I don't want to die by so rendering [00:20:00] in order to fulfill his design and his purpose, he chose to. The father's will accept what was coming at the end of that night. And so we've got the surrender of my will to his will.We've got the acceptance of my deaths for his purpose, but that's a great, great example of his humanity. You know, that you bring up about the, the garden of gifs 70 event.De'Vannon: Look, so thank you for that breakdown brain. So look, y'all, it's okay to feel weak. You know, this, this is something that I struggle with is trying to be too perfect and too precise and too good, like all the time. I get a lot of that from military. I get a lot of that from the Pentecostal church, this idea that you must be [00:21:00] perfect and especially in the millet, well, both of them are kind of like if you put one toe at a line, then bad things are going to happen.And in the military is the air force is all about protection. Everything has to be perfect. Perfect. Perfect, perfect. Perfect. From the way you folded your socks to the way you fix a part of him playing at the beach down to the last step, down to the period dot everything. And I was very impressionable in my teens and stuff like that.And I internalize too much of that. I didn't filter it at all. And so I still struggle with being like to right all the time. And then Bible talks to us about the, the, the dangers of trying to be over righteous, you know, and not accepting the fact that you're gonna mess up and that you're going to feel weak.The Bible tells us that in his, in our weakness, that God's strength is made. Perfect. So he's designed us to have this humanity in these weaknesses and these shortcomings, and he's also giving us, given us Jesus to have a way out. So, so it's okay for us to have these garden and get so [00:22:00] many moments, You know, and stuff like that.And, you know, but in this garden, Jesus is praying is like my evangelist Nelson used to say all the time. And the name of her show that she had was called prayer changes things. And so know, Jesus did, did you know his, his, his share of praying and I'm reminded right now, as, I'm talking about the the Mount of transfiguration I don't, I don't really know necessarily that this ties directly into the crucifixion. It was one of those moments when, you know, Jesus was you know, off praying and everything. And he had taken two of his disciples with him. I do believe. And I do believe while he was praying, then they were appeared unto him. I think it was Moses and Elijah, maybe. I think it was those two that appeared to him in spirit. So, so what does this tells us? Jesus needed encouragement. You know, this was the, see his [00:23:00] humanity. There really was no one. Fit on this earth who could like say encourage Jesus, you know, you know, he's pretty much as high as it gets, you know? So the Lord had to sin people from eternity to talk to him is something that I would think about, say like with my evangelists, you know, really high spiritual people in this earth, you know, like who in the hell can counsel them when they're counseling everybody else all the time.And so so even Jesus needed a good talking to, you know, some encouragement. He needed a couple of homeys that look, he didn't have 50,000 friends, you know, I don't care what your social media tells you. You don't have that many true friends. So he, God sent two people to hold peopleto come and cheer him up. Go ahead, branch.Branch: You know, as, as usual you've, you've said [00:24:00] lots of different triggers for me. Yeah. That the, that instance of transformation was evidence to the disciples who were there of his holiness and Moses and Elijah coming to stand there, be with him was a real important vision for a couple of reasons. Number one, Moses and Elijah will be the two witnesses who come during the first half of the tribulation to warn the world.Of what's about to come and the events that are unfolding during that first three and a half years in the tribulation, they will be the two witnesses who come and physical form and stand on the steps of the third temple in Jerusalem, prophesizing about the end of the world. The second thing [00:25:00] that, you know, you said that's important is about the discipline in the military and keeping your socks in a certain way.And everything you do in the military is discipline. Well, you know that, of that word discipline, that's where we get discipleship. So someone who is a disciple is practicing discipline. And for us as believers, you know, our faith is the practice of discipline. In our obedience to the word of God. So all of these things have a connection.You know, one of the great things about learning to read the Bible is you discover literally in sentences and paragraphs in stories. So many aspects of life, that if you reflect on what's being told [00:26:00]and, and expressed, you can see it taking place in your own life. And I just wanted to comment about that. Discipline in the military discipline in any job situation, you know, every career you've got has a certain discipline to it. There are certain rules that need to be followed in order to be successful in that endeavor and discipleship or obedience to the word of God. Isn't the same thing. That's what discipline is all about.It's having self control to listen and see and understand, you know, what you're experiencing and how it applies to your everyday life. So I just want to comment about that discipleship and discipline relationship.De'Vannon: You better preach. Hallelujah, tabernacle and praise. So you mentioned read the Bible and when you said that I, I, I believe that I understood that I should [00:27:00] give this warning to people do not try to rush through and read the Bible in a year and do not read it from Genesis to revelation. I've heard it said that it can actually like hurt your mind to try to read the Bible from front to back.I've I've heard that said I did it. I think I read the Bible from front to back like two or three times. And I tell you though, Do it do not hurt yourself that way. So this is my older self telling my younger self, this advice. If I was talking to my younger self or my kid, or if I could transform one of my cats in the real humans, I've tried, it didn't work.And I would be like, okay, look, look, look a little motherfucker. You don't take this Bible in parts. Now the whole reason you're reading it in the first place is to try to get closer, to know this God that you, that you're thinking about serving, or you decided to serve. Now, you live in an age where you have the internet, so you [00:28:00] can Google things.You don't have. You know, you don't have to go to a library. You know, like I had to when I was a kid. So first thing you want to do is understand the structure of the Bible. The thing doesn't go in chronological order from front to back, it skips around, and then there's some overlap some in some intersectionality in there and understand you're reading a historical book.That's given us snapshots of what writers deem to be important, what God deemed to be important and have collected record from the middle east. You know, like people from back in the day, and we're going to glean the themes and the, from, from the lessons that God clearly wants us to learn through these readings about how other people handled it. I would tell my younger self or my newly trans mutated cat to human kid, that everything is not in the Bible. I'd say a [00:29:00] lot of stuff is in the Bible, but not at a hundred percent of everything. Because the world has changed. It's changing all the time. And I would say go at it in pieces. I might tell you to start in the new Testament before you get in the old Testament, I probably would tell you to start with grace before you talk about all those rules and laws and stuff so that you don't get confused and start to think that you try to, that you have to live like a Hebrew in the old Testament, which is how I was, you know, that's what I would say.So what do you think about that? Branch: Great summary. You know, we need to think of the Bible as sort of the cliff notes version. The Bible, the canonized Bible that we have today is it's a story about one person basically, but it's not a novel and you're right. You don't read it from front to back. It's divided up into two different sections, the old Testament and the new Testament, the old [00:30:00] Testament is about God's relationship with the Israelites, the Jews, and the new Testament is about his relationship.With everyone, but particularly the Gentiles, the Christians, the non Jews, non believers in Christ. There's two different focuses about Jesus, you know, as spirit and as man there's lots of books you left, you made it a good point. There's lots of material. That's not in the Bible. You know, there's the Apocrypha, which is a collection of writings and books that are not in the Bible.We have to remember that the Bible, like you said, is a historical record that goes back about 3,500 years. So there's no way, you know, everything could be in there. The Bible is a compilation of books and letters from people over that [00:31:00] 3,500 year period. And much of it was passed down orally. Especially the Jewish part was oral tradition, not written records.And the Bible books that we have was a compilation decided by a council of church leaders, our elders in the third century, you know, they, they couldn't have everything in one book. So they decided these are the things that are most important to have textualized for people, you know, coming after us. It's just like the encyclopedia.There's no way you can have everything. Not all knowledge can be found in one book. So you take the highlights and you know, the things that can. Have a correlation to other important things. And then that's the tech [00:32:00] we have. So there's lots of things outside of the Bible itself that we can read and gain knowledge from.So think of the Bible as sort of the cliff note version of this history of the world and civilizations, but with the focus on the most important person who has an effect on our lives and that's Jesus Christ.De'Vannon: Right. I concur. And then now as you all the reading through it, it doesn't contain everything, but I'm going to say you, you want to When you come across the part that that might be controversial to you, you want there's these things called commentaries, which is like other people have made within archeological research or anthropological research and different things like that.And they're giving you a more historical context to it. You can get concordance to this, which are these really thick books that actually write [00:33:00] down each word in its original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic pencil, how deep you want to get with it. You don't have to launch it right into all of that from the get go, you know, take your time and just have baby steps that if you come across something that you felt like it might change your life.So you're not straight. And you come across in there where it's talking about, man shall not lie with man. And you've heard people use these scriptures to try to tell you that you're wrong. Okay. Well, we know that the word homosexual, for instance, wasn't added to the Bible until sometime in the middle of the last century.So humans have taken. Some liberties with certain certain phrasiology within here. I think that within the Bible, and I think that that's abundantly clear the Waze wouldn't have a thousand different translations of the same texts. You know, somebody got creative somewhere, you know, I really don't understand why we have to have so many translations, but at the same time I do, because people want to, they have people have different agendas in certain, certain translation.So if the [00:34:00] Bible had been written in Spanish and say, we were going to say El Gato S Moya Flocko, which is how you say the cat is very skinny in Spanish. L means the Gato means cat S means is Moines means very Flocko means skinny. You don't need a whole college of, of spiritual people. That archeology is and everything to give you 50 different translations of that.So, so, so Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. Are not what would be considered simple or like romance languages. They're just not, they're very complex in order to interpret them. It's a very subjective template that you employ, which means that a person's biases, prejudices and the way they feel about shit certainly comes into play.When they are interpreting ancient languages. Now they feel like they're smarter than YouTube, because most people they're not going to go and dig up these old [00:35:00] languages and stuff like that. But I'm going to tell you, you don't have to do it for every word in the Bible, but when you come across certain scriptures that make you raise an eyebrow and make you question yourself, then go and get a second and third opinion by doing further research, which is now readily available at your fingertips on the internet.Don't read through there. And get somebody's take on something or let a preacher tell you something's wrong with you before you go and do your research yourself. I let them influence me that way. And they cause me to doubt myself. They had me thinking masturbation was wrong and wine was wrong. And me secular music was wrong and everything was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, based on their reading of this Bible.So we got to read it for ourselves and be patient and just take it easy when you're doing it. When you come across something that may or may make you think something's wrong with you, or something's the matter with you, I want you to stop and pray and do further research before you just internalize that. [00:36:00] Now, even though this book was written by people and it didn't have everything in it, there's still power in the word of God. I, when I've been reading through the Bible, there's been times where I may have felt like a chill pass over me and I knew God was healing me or something like that. Or I've had like spiritual experiences.I don't know how God is going to deal with each of you out there. But I do know that if you reach for him, that he will reach back to you and reading your Bible and trying to learn is certainly a way of you reaching out God. So I'm not saying expect chills to pass over you, but what I do pray, so the Lord to manifest themselves to each and every last one of you in a way that you're going to know that it's him and what does cause he did that with me.He got all kinds of things he could do. So I would just say be open-minded to your own unique experiences, because I can't expect somebody to, you know, follow a God that doesn't present himself to them, you know, in some way. And I think that that's fair. [00:37:00]Branch: Hey, man. Couldn't agree more, De'Vannon: Oh, Branch: but I don't know of, we talked about this before or not. I think we probably have, but for those people who want to get into scripture, what read the Bible. Here's my suggestion. And I've made this before. Get a red letter version of the Bible. That's where Christ's words are printed and read star in the book of Matthew.You're going to read Matthew, mark, Luke and John. The four gospel books and all you read is the red letters. Anything that's printed in red, if it skips from one paragraph to the next that's okay. You just read the red letter. And what that will do is number one, it will give you an exposure to Jesus, his thoughts, his words, and his [00:38:00] deeds.Number two, that will help you establish that base of relationship that the advantage just had mentioned. And number three, it will open your eyes to what the Bible is and what its purpose is and how it relates to you in your life. If you just read that part, you'll be able to start from there and establish that relationship with God through Christ.You know, that's been the desire of your heart. We all feel that we're missing something. And that missing part of us is not being spiritually grounded. If you want to get spiritually grounded, I have found, and I often suggest to people who ask me, you know, this is the easiest way to sort of jumpstart that relationship.Red letter version, [00:39:00] just read the red letter text, and then go from there.De'Vannon: Right. And in terms of the, all the different sorts of translations and stuff they have out there.Bible gateway.com is a pretty easy to use website and app. They have it very organized and you can pick, you know, just kind of go through and get something that, that you can understand that it's not. Make you feel intimidated.It's a lot of people don't fuck with the king James version for that reason. You know, however for whatever it's worth, the king James version is maybe like one of the closest versions that actually where the people actually worked hard to give you somewhat, it's a little bit more accurate, you know, although all of them are quite subjective.So, but you got to pick a version that, that, that, that that's gonna appeal to you. You mentioned the word canonized. When you talked about this, I want you to tell people what that means exactly in the, in the way that you're [00:40:00] using it. Because I don't think you mean it like so. Branch: No, no. Yeah, no. The Canon is the label that's used for the Bible. You know, the Catholics have their own version of the Bible. Not that it's completely different, but they've got some things added. Into, you know, their holy book for their catechism, which is instruction. So the cannon refers to the old Testament and the new Testament books, the 66 is sort of the quantified or the, this is the final version for the lay people to read.So Canam simply means that it's the approved version. It's the one that all the deciders got to get. It's like the constitution, you know, when they sat down to [00:41:00] drop the constitution, everybody had an opinion as to what would be in it. And so after all of the back and forth and discussions in the meetings, they all finally agreed, okay, this is what the cost tuition will say.And this is what the bill of rights would say. And they all signed off. So you could say that the constitution was canonized, it was the final version. And so that's what the Canon means is the official version final form.De'Vannon: All right. Good enough on that. So, so do you get sold out in a, you know, Judas does his thing, the guards come, Peter shanks. One of them slices in ear off, you know, as we do. And so Jesus is so nice. He picked his ear up and stuck it back on the, on the food's head. I bet you, that had a lasting impression on that guard.[00:42:00] Now he just received a miracle while he's going to arrest the person who gave him a miracle. So now Jesus is bought before religious leaders of the day and well put putting, you know, it, the religious leaders know exactly what's right, that the man hadn't done anything, but they chose to put the what other people want, what their constituents want over, what they know is right. I'd be willing to say that these people were probably Republicans.I'm just going to allow myself that bit of shade here. Cause it's my show and I didn't do what the fuck I want. And so that wouldn't, you know, it, that religion in front of politics, you know, I think the two of them make strange bedfellows. And so go ahead, branch. Branch: Well, instead of Republicans, we might say hypocrites, you know, that's what Jesus called them. That's what he called the, [00:43:00] the leaders of the Jewish community and the religious leaders of his day. There was the farracies, which were the scholarly. And official religious leaders. There, the Sadducees, which were the sort of the next group down, they work, they were religious people.They're like Christians today versus versus, you know, the priest and the Pope. So the priest and the Pope would have been the Pharisees and the people who attended church would have been the Sadducees. They were also a lot of the merchants in the more wealthy in society of that day. And then you had, you know, all the mass of people who were the workers and the downtrodden and the poverty stricken, and Jesus addresses the leaders, the rich, the powerful as hypocrites simply because they say one thing [00:44:00] and they do another.And so. You know, if you look at our day and age, we have a lot of hypocrites also in our time that say what we should be doing and then turn right around and actually do the same thing. So he called them hypocrites. And not necessarily all Republicans, certainly they're sitting the Democrats, but if we think of them as hypocrites people who are, you know, telling us how we should behave and holding up the Bible as their evidence of how we should behave and then behind closed doors or in our world today, blatantly in the media, in front of everybody, they continue to behave the exact ways that they're declaring that others should not behave.So [00:45:00] hypocrites of Jesus. Hypocrites of our days. Same people, different time, you know, different label and different clothing.De'Vannon: Facts. And the thing is not, it's not be fitting for us to waste emotion, being angry at the hypocrites of the day because these things are ordained of the Lord. You know, if everybody was acting right and everything back in the day, then the crucifixion wouldn't have never happened. You know? So even the evil, they see the Bible says that God creates the evil and the good, you know, but he uses them all according to his purpose.So once we understand and accept that, then we stopped being angry. Like say, when kids die, when crazy shit like Donald Trump happens, you know, you know, when the Corona virus happens, you know, as bad as these things are. Good still comes out of them in some way. But at the end of the day, the Lord is ushering this world towards its inevitable end.But until that [00:46:00] time comes, there are certain things that God wants to happen. And he's using all of these people. I would never want a public high position like that because you know, all authority belongs to God. And if you have something to do with charting policy, that changes literally the course of history and the whole world, you, you know, God was like, just so has its fingers on you.Like, I look at them just like. I think it was on a chess board. So it doesn't matter if you're the president, the vice-president a Congressman or whoever public servant you. I mean uh, you're you have your accountability before the Lord is like very, very, very, very high, you know, in my opinion, because what you do affects like everyone, you know, and nothing you do is done in a corner.And therefore and I do believe the Bible says something about like judgment will start like at the church, you know, you know, it's, it starts with those who have to do with the rendering judgment. And it's so easy to fall into being a hypocrite. The [00:47:00] moment you start to nitpick at somebody else for not living the way you think they should.I do believe that you've become a hypocrite because we all sin every day. And the Lord says all sin is the same. So where the not you stole a toothpick or a woman went to go get an abortion. You, you, you toothpick thief cannot stand there and pull it up. You know, the pictures of the gross babies outside the abortion clinic with a stolen toothpick in your pocket, thinking that it's going to be all right for you when you stand before the Lord.So I'm going to say this again, people, we were not put on this earth to straighten everybody else out. We were not put on this earth, the fuck with other people. Some people go in here and change brands. Some people are just gonna be so caught up in their own insecurities and inferiorities that they just can't help, but try to demean and belittle other people so that they can feel better about themselves, but leave people alone.Our God said it. If you show mercy, you will receive mercy. But if you show judgment, then you will receive judgment [00:48:00] without mercy. So which one do you want? But you can't, you can't do nothing but reap what you saw. And so it doesn't matter how good stuff is for you now. Everything is subject to change.You don't know what tomorrow holds or not even what a day may bring. So you might have money and procedure and position. You don't know that these times are changing so fast. You know, everyone was talking about the cocaine or do you use with, I think Kevin McCarthy and his little friend who decided to snitch last week and the Republican party, you know, and Kevin McCarthy didn't have nothing to say about, you know, You know, Lauren and Barbara and all this crazy ass people, but the mama, they started talking about cocaine or these where he may have been involved.And all of a sudden he's available to speak,not judging you, anyone for having cocaine or these I've done it myself. However, you don't, you don't see me telling people what they're not supposed to do either. You know, I'm leaving everybody alone. So [00:49:00] I'm trying to get into heaven myself. So,oh Lord Jesus. So, so the, so the politicians of the day I knew believed the Bible said that, you know, they didn't want to cause a stir amongst the people. So they just gave them what they want. We do not hold public office. Branton. I don't have the platform that we have to just do what the fuck we want.You know, we have a mandate in our, we have a great responsibility to people. So these leaders weren't praying, they didn't, I didn't read and there we need them prayed, you know, what should I do? You know, or anything like that? They let the voice of the people sway them. They didn't go into their prayer closet.They didn't reach out for the Lord. You know, I didn't see any of that, you know, you know, and these are the things that are shared Jesus onto the cross. So he's onto the cross. They didn't flatter the thorny crown, slap them, spit on him. One person helped him, [00:50:00] everyone else just looked. And so, so so now he's up there on this cross.I believe he has like a murder and a thief on either side of him. He actually wasn't crucified by himself. So, this is where we get this whole cross from. So you see crosses hanging around with people's necks on the back of their fucking cars next to the fish in all of these different Christian symbols and so on and so forth.So what was it, all this Jesus stuff about? Why did he come here one earth? How does seem dying all them years ago? Do anything for me? You know, this is the, this is like the meat of why we're having this whole discussion today and why Easter is such a big deal. Take it away brand. Branch: well, let's back up a minute demand because you said something about the crowd there. And I don't know if we had talked about this before. I don't think so because of the crucifixion, Passover is the [00:51:00] celebration that the crucifixion takes place. There's a weekend three day weekend. We call it Easter. The Jews call it Passover.And what it is is celebrating the. Jews and the Israelites leaving Egypt getting out of bondage would Moses led them out of Egypt towards the promised land. And so Passover symbolizes them symbolizes and recognizes. And it is a celebration to acknowledge that Moses taking the Jews out of bondage in Egypt, when Jesus entered Jerusalem for Passover, Passover happens obviously every year and same weekend.What we call Easter Christians call Easter and in Jesus's day, [00:52:00] virtually everyone in the country who could travel to Jerusalem. Orthodox Jews and practicing Jews would travel to Jerusalem for this festival for the celebration. And when Jesus entered the city he had the entire route into Jerusalem, was lined with people, celebrating his, coming into the city for that celebration jump forward.Two days later, when he's standing before the CEP two agenda, which is the 70 members of the Jewish high order both political and religious, primarily religious, the religious leader for also the political leaders. He's standing before them in sort of a trial situation. And they're condemning. To [00:53:00]death for being a rebel, a zealot who they believe is going to overthrow their authority, because he's got so many of the people supporting him, they think he's going to cause a rebellion and they'll get thrown out of office.And so they have a trial, they condemn him to death, but because they have no authority to actually put him to death, they send him over to the Romans, to just pilot, the governor of Judah and Jerusalem at that time, governor of the province. And they send him over to stand trial a second time, a pilot listens to, it says he's not guilty.Sends him back to the Septuagint and. They refused to hear it. And they sent him back to Pontus, pilot, Pontus pilot says, you know, [00:54:00] I'm not going to condemn him to death. So I'll let you, the Jews decide, you know, what he does. He gets a prisoner out of the prison cell or Rabis and brings him around in the stage and brings Jesus out on the stage and then asks the people who are assembled below, you know, who they should save and who they should put to down.My point is the number of people who were there at that time at the death sentence time was certainly less than the people who were lining the streets two days prior, celebrating Jesus's entry into the city. And you've got to probably imagine that the crowd who was at the was hearing. Was probably made up of some hand-picked people you know, sort of like the religious or political people, getting their shells to [00:55:00] be in the crowd.So when pilot says who you all made it release, but rabbits or Jesus, you know, they all cry out Barabis and that's how it comes to pass that the death sentence is actually decided now because the Jews can kill anyone. The Romans had the duty and the honor to actually put Jesus to death. So there's a, there's the big difference in the crowds and their demeanor towards Jesus. Just kind of you know, the fix was in, so to speak much like we, we experienced today and so. Situations that we are part of, or we are part of as observers, the fix was,De'Vannon: Yeah, shouldn't be being. And Branch: the system [00:56:00] was rigged.De'Vannon: as it was then, so it is now, but it looks, it looks a rig to us, but the Bible says that the lot may be cast in the lap, but its every outcome is of the Lord. His stuff is not random to him. But do you see is not isn't that required for us as humans to understand that every freaking thing, you know, God understands everything and all of the random stuff it's his will.It is so, so Jesus is on the Kraus. Scott hanging out, you know, it's not like, you know, he, then they're challenging him, you know, Hey, if you're really the son of God, you just get yourself down from there, you know, making a mockery of him while he's up there, he's got two homies on the right and the left, one-to-one throwing shade at him.And the other one's like Hey, I believe. And so and so they [00:57:00] mix vinegar with gall, but it on a sponge, they extended up to Jesus' mouth, all these hanging out here on this Crouse. And I think he held him well, was it from the show? I can't remember. I think it was about three hours. So that maybe he wasn't up there on that, on that cross that tells you specifically in the gospels, but it wasn't like.I like that super quick death or anything like that. It was like in my opinion, a long drawn out, slow, miserable death. And so they mixed this vinegar with gall and they put it up to his mouth. He tasted, he spits it out. I think some Bibles might call it wine. I think some might call it like a mixture of concoction.And so I wanted to talk about the difference between a NAZA right and a Nazarene, because I do believe that there are those people who would use a scripture like this to try to further condemn the consumption [00:58:00] of alcoholic beverages. Okay. I want to be, I just want to say that there's nothing wrong. If you want a drink, you a Cabernet Sauvignon or some damn Jack Daniels.I mean, for what it's worth. I mean, the liquor is a derived from fucking plants and all this Scottish shit, you know, but the Bible does warn us against excessive drinking. Again, God's rules and laws and principles are there to help us. When you think about them, they kind of make sense. Common sense.Wouldn't want to over-drink anyway, you get all fucked up. You spend way too money. He may wake up in jail or thinking body parts and shit. And I've been through enough drunken revelry in my life. I think God had the right idea, you know, a sip or two will do. And so So I'm just going to read this. So in the Hebrew Bible, a Nazarite is one who voluntarily took a vow.These vowels are described the [00:59:00] numbers, chapter six, verses one through 21 Nazarite comes from the Hebrew word Nasar meaning consecrated or separated. Those who put themselves under NAZA right vial, which is how like Samson was in the book of judges. That's why he, you know, his strength was in his hair and he wasn't supposed to cut his hair. Those who put themselves under Nazarite vow do so by adding onto themselves a degree of sanctity, as it says for some length of time. So they do things like they abstained from all wine and anything else made from the great vine plant, such as cream of tar, tar, GrapeSEED oil, et cetera. They refrain from cutting their hair. And then they, they, and they, then they do not become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even though it was a family member. So Jesus has raised people from the dead touch, plenty of corpses, you know, turn the water into wine and everything like that. So he was not a, I don't see him as a NAZA right now.A Nazareen is simply [01:00:00] somebody who's born in the city of Nazareth. And so it was fascinating to me when I came across as this difference here. And I really wanted to point that out. But what do you, what do you think about that? Branch: While you're talking about people who are fundamentalists or, you know, like the people we see in Jerusalem and Israel today in the garb, there has Siddiq, is there sort of their sector, their label, and they are fundamentalist Jews. They are you know, practicing old Testament kinds of rituals and lifestyles.And that's like the fundamentalist and any religion, you know, have sort of a set of rules that they adhere to pretty stringently. One thing we have to remember, especially in Jesus' day, but literally up until [01:01:00] at least the 19th century and into the 20th century. Most people drank alcoholic beverages, beer, and wine being, you know, the, the core of alcohol not because they wanted to get drunk, but because the water was not good to drink so much water, they didn't have any purification systems or methods.So all the water that they drank came from Wells and streams and rivers, and most of it was contaminated, you know bacteria, all kinds of things growing in the waterways. So it was not the best health conscious thing to do to drink the water. And that's why people would drink wine and beer because it had been through a fermentation process that helped cleanse that water that was being [01:02:00] used in it.So it wasn't so much. A cultural thing. It was a health issue. And you know, like say this was all up until at least the 19th century and 20th century, most water systems were not running with Predix or pure water. So there was a health factor involved. So if you abstained from drinking beer or wine, except in a ritual or worser situation, that it would be like a fasting scenario where you were, you know, keeping your body from indulging orient by being in something that the common man or the common person did on a regular basis, drank wine and beer. Because they couldn't, or wouldn't drink for water. And so as a fundamentalist, you would only partake in those things that had to do with your worship [01:03:00] service or, you know, your religious traditions or doing it for religious purposes. You wouldn't just go out and drink wine or beer. And that may be what the common person was doing simply so they could be hydrated.So there's a couple of different ways to look at that, but the fundamentalists there, their whole intent is to stick as closely as possible to what their principles and they're gone. And their liturgies describe as a holy life.De'Vannon: Right. And so was the Pentecostals who. tried to drill that into me. You know, that drinking wine is, you know, like the devil and everything like that. And I think they meant well,but at the end of the day, what they told me, wasn't the truth, you know? And it was founded in, in a, in a gross [01:04:00] misunderstanding of the word and how to look at it, which is why I'm such a big proponent of reading and studying the Bible for yourself in, and I'm not really so much for denominations anymore anyway, about growth in those.But but you know, it was a good start, some good training wheels. I love new churches as training wheels, you know, use them as you need to, but you know, you got to graduate from college at some point, you know, I don't see why people shouldn't need a church to teach them how to reach God that he died for the rest of their lives.At some point you should get the. You know, you should, you should learn. So, okay. So he's nailed to the cross. His blood is flowing, so to take the spear, shanks him in like his rib and some water comes down. And so oh, wait a minute. I, wasn't going to talk about Daniel. Cause you've mentioned about taking a [01:05:00] break from wine.So Daniel, there's a book of Daniel in the old Testament. This is probably my second favorite book in the Bible. Second, only to the book of revelation because they talk so much about the same stuff in revelation or these angels and all this stuff going on. And I just love, love, love, love, love. And so angel was gone, the angel Daniel was going through some changes baby.And when he was in Babylon and, and they, and, and they say that he took a break from wine, you know, for like three weeks. To fast for the deliverance of his people. And so I believe that that was stated for a reason, you know, why did, why did the Lord want us to know that he took a break from wine because Daniel was turning up and he was drinking wine for all the reasons brands just said.So we have precedent that it is okay. To have you some wine, he took his fasting break, like you were just saying for spiritual purposes. And that's when the angel Gabriel came and flew to him with his visions and everything. And we have all, all of the [01:06:00] beauty of the book of Daniel. And so so we're up here on the cross.Jesus is bleeding. So branch, if I'm new to Christianity of I'm considering this, but explain to me how this guy hanging on a cross, getting killed and bleeding with this water coming out of the side and mixed with blood. What, what, what does it do for me today? I don't understand, like how does it, what does it do for me?How did they even help me? Branch: wow. Well, the, the innocent, I pulled out one Ephesians one. Verse seven says very simply in the ham, meaning Jesus, we have the redemption, meaning the path of spiritual reconciliation to God, the father, through his blood for the forgiveness of sins. And so [01:07:00] what the blood of Christ does is release us from our sins that we've committed.So in him, we have redemption through his blood for the forgiveness of sins, and that's what that whole blood flowing represents. He gave himself as a sacrifice for us so that we could Or not experience death. And that's what the blood of Christ is. It's covering our sins so that we don't have to die and be separated from God.De'Vannon: So, yeah. So when he says the death, y'all, he means like a spiritual death as opposed to physical. 'cause we all got to die physically once, you know, as the scriptures [01:08:00] say, so in the old Testament, if somebody wanted to be forgiven of sayings, they used to have to go to the priest. And there, you know, it'd be a lot of animal butchering.You know, this is a principle. This is where human understanding. You just, at some point, once God has said something, he's ordained structured, it is what it is. Now. God does not have to explain himself to us. And so us as humans, we got to gain some humility about that and understand who has the power and who doesn't.God is the ultimate. One of authority, not the president, not ourselves, you know, no, nobody but him. He requires a blood sacrifice. This is the way it's always been. I didn't ask him why it is what it is. And so Jesus was the like last sacrifice. So we don't have to do, like they did in the old Testament and take a bull and a Ram or a dove or whatever, and go down there and chop it up for the blood to flow.You know, it's something about when God sees the blood, [01:09:00] you know, it changes, you know, he goes from being angry to cool. You know, that's just the weight that this does, that is just an ordinance that just exists. And so and, and, and the buck stops there. So Jesus, his whole purpose. He's this bloody sacrificing on this cross from this point on no more animal sacrifices needs. We don't have to make a trip to the temple we can. And so when we say we call on the sacrifice that we call on the blood of Jesus, we're not asking him to pour blood all over us. What we're saying is that we would like to take God up on his offer of what the sacrifice represents to forgive us. Now, I was listening to somebody having to do with the war on Ukraine, a lady who was Ukrainian, she was saying, she's not afraid to die.Jesus. She's just afraid to die because she hasn't had a chance to make it to confession yet. Okay. And I'm listening to her and thinking, [01:10:00] I get what you're saying, lady, and I'm here for your strength. You're kicking some serious Russian ass over there, but this concept that we have to wait to go to a confession, to talk to a human before we can get right with God defeats the entire purpose of Jesus. And so by that that's so wholesale, the practice is going back to the old Testament and being like, Well, I can't get right until I leave my house and go talk to this person so they can mediate for me. Jesus, didn't done that. And so he released you from this whole thing. And when I heard her say that I'm thinking, Hmm, wonder she's Catholic.And I don't know, there's other religions out there that still make you go through a person to get absolved of your sins, but babies y'all, don't have to do that wherever you're at. You can just be like, Jesus, I thank you for that sacrifice. I believe that you exist. Please forgive me my sins. And it's done the [01:11:00] moment you believe in you, even if you can't speak, just believe it in your heart.I don't know. I'm just going to be quiet. I just cannot with this whole going to a pre thing to get forgiven, I just can't. I can't. Branch: there's, there's two scriptures. People should keep in mind. Right? Describe and answer all that. You've just said, number one, Matthew seven, verses seven and eight. If you want to know how you get that relationship with God through Jesus Christ started Matthew seven, seven, and eight describes that when you've gone there, then go to Romans 10, 9, 10, and 17.And that will give you what Davanon was just trying to describe. [01:12:00] It gets you, you invited Christ into your life. He's responded and Romans 10, 9, 10, and 17 describes what that woman in Ukraine needs to do instead of waiting to see an Orthodox priest. To get right with God for possible demise. That's how simple a relationship with Christ is.And that's how easy it is to get to God when you pass away. Yeah, there's, there's a lot going on and there's a lot of people, you know, who are confused and frightened about, well, what happens when I die and am I going to get to heaven? And those two scriptures will answer all those questions.[01:13:00]De'Vannon: Yeah. And you know, the Lord hasn't given us a spirit of f

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INTRODUCTION: Branch Isole (www.Manaopublishing.com) is back! This man has become a resident guest here and we love having him on our show! Today we are talking about spiritual independence, breaking free from dependency on churches and I even show you how to take Communion/Eucharist at home!!! He, like me, is a former drug dealer, he's been to jail, he's been homeless, and like myself he understands his mission is to do all he can to help others now that he's been given a second chance. Branch is a poet, a storyteller and the author of 22 books! Branch was born in Osaka, Japan (my favorite country) and has the traveled the world extensively! Branch graduated from Texas State Univ. B.S.Ed., did post graduate work at the University of Houston, M.Ed Adm., and holds an Oxford M.A. Theology degree from Trinity Bible College and Seminary. Branch shares how strength of choice can change consequences and this man is known worldwide for his contemporary short story prose that reveals emotions and issues often experienced, but not always voiced.  Author of twenty-two books Branch Isole shares "how and why" strength of choice can change consequences. He's known worldwide for contemporary short stories revealing issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. Storytelling is either about 'what has been' or 'what can be.' The story of "what can be" encourages us to embrace the duality of what is and more importantly, what is possible. Podcast program audiences tune-in to learn if your guest can help fulfill their aspirations and ambitions. My efforts are to help you produce a show with takeaways that benefit your listeners. The topics I share impart elements for personal, career and/or spiritual self-reflection. I believe we will give your audience a show they'll receive, use, and thank you for.I share edifying and entertaining self-development topics offering information and takeaway steps listeners can use after hearing our episode. These topical conversation starters provide audiences with identifiable grounding and growth elements for contemporary life issues.Spiritual Christianity:Life 101: Albatross or Millstone?The ‘Bucket List' Item Many IgnoreThird Act Specs; Rose Colored or 20-20?Relationships:7 Steps of Relationship RepairChange Your Response, Improve Your RelationshipsWork-Life Balance: 12 Key LessonsReligion:Bible Prophecy: Warnings or Promises?These 'today topic' discussion starters are designed for seekers, searchers, the fallen away and disillusioned. Those who question, wonder or are ready to explore self-reflectively their lives and relationships.  You're invited to book one today!Previous engagements and upcoming shows- https://www.manaopublishing.com/bookings.html  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to): ·      God Created Sex, Not Man·      What Is The Meaning/Purpose Of Communion/Eucharist?·      How To Take Communion/Eucharist At Home·      The Power Of Communion/Eucharist·      Why Do We Go To Church?·      Where Did Churches Come From?·      Why Churches ARE NOT NECESSARY·      Building Faith On A Firm Foundation ·      What Is The Blood Of Jesus?·      Why Do You Believe What You Believe?  CONNECT WITH BRANCH: Website & Other Books: https://www.manaopublishing.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podcastguestbranchisoleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/branch-isole-851433201/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzN66BkAUAemYX76Smnn0GA CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonEmail: DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS: ·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com ·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net ·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org ·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org  INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?: ·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon TRANSCRIPT: [00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hello. Hello. Hello everyone. And welcome back to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. One more week. I am so thrilled to have you with me again, and I love you all so very much. And I am grateful for you. Exciting news and my memoir, which I've been working on for like 10 years. It's finally out. You can check it out@sexjugsandjesus.com.Please support it, please like it. Please share it. Please love it. So today I'm talking with branching, Solei branch is now a resident [00:01:00] guests on the podcast. You've seen him. You love him, you know who he is and he'll be back again today. We're going to be talking about. Communion the Eucharist, whatever you want to call it with Easter right around the corner.I wanted to give you some head knowledge about this and show you how to do it yourself at home. And besides this, we'll be talking about spiritual independence, breaking free from independency on churches and how to just grow in the Lord on your own. Take a listen.Branch ECLA. Thank you so fucking much for coming back on the sex drugs and Jesus podcasts for the umpteenth time. How are you? Branch: Doing well, my brother doing well. How are you today?De'Vannon: Oh,I'm fan fucking tastic. You you know, we're definitely winning for the person who's made the most appearances on this show and I don't see any signs of that changing. You're like our first standing resident guests. Branch: well, thank you. I appreciate them. It's [00:02:00] always a joy being with You De'Vannon: Yeah, you, Branch: get to talk freely and openly and, and hopefully that that's helpful to listen.De'Vannon: yeah. You're the only person who has a heart for Christ who can. Who's not offended by my, what some would call vulgarity and who will respond to me every time I called wanting to have a conversation about Jesus. So, you know, it's meant to be. Branch: Well, it's, you know, it's, it's interesting. I was on a podcast yesterday and we were talking about one of my books that's sexually oriented, you know the stories that are all around sexual interaction and all sex, but for play and, you know, intimacy and in the conversation somebody said something about, well, how can you write about Christian subjects and then turn right around and write, you know, what we consider erotica [00:03:00] and.My simple answer is, you know, sex is part of life. It's part of who we are as a species and as part of our behavior. So, you know, if you have a problem with it, I can understand that, but you know, God made sex part of our, our relationships in our life. So it's part of who we are and what we do. So I don't see the transition as being a problem, but, you know, everybody has their opinions and I feel the same way about, you know cussing as they say, or swearing I have yet to meet.So I have people who, you know, are offended by some of the language that they hear and they, they may use. And my point is, you know, at some point in your life, I'm sure you've said that. So You have to get over it or get through it. And it, you know, it's part of life. It's who we are and [00:04:00] what we do. So what can I say?De'Vannon: I concur God created sex. It wasn't our idea. And you know, but if someone wants to try to, to, to play that game with it, then, you know, there's plenty of biblical references to people who, Branch: No. De'Vannon: you know, look at king David, he reigned an earth. He said to rain again, you know, you know, you know, at the end of the world and Branch: Yeah. De'Vannon: like that, he had plenty of pissy, kinds of wives and concubines and shit.So he was highly sexual, but this is a man who God said was a man after who is a man after his own. And so end of story done, you can totally have, have a strong sexual life and be super close to God. don't have to, it's not one or the other. So. Branch: I guess it's a matter of, you know, what people consider sin and I'll often share with people, you know, in God's eyes, a sin is a sin. [00:05:00] There's no difference in degrees of, you know immortality inaction, all a sin. And as believers in Christ, and this is a hard concept for a lot of people to their head around.are forgiven of our sins present and future, even though we may sin again. And, you know, in the human sense, we may sin again in the future, as followers and believers in Jesus, we are forgiving those actions. Now, does that mean we should sin Figure it's okay. Because we've been forgiven as Paul says, of course not.You know, the whole reason we have a relationship with Christ is so that we are tempted to sin in our lives you know, we, we think twice about it and we call on his spirit to guide [00:06:00] us, you know, in our next action. So it's all a matter of belief and trust in him that he has paid for our sins, but we are not sitting in the future simply because he is paid for our sins.You know, we, we are who we are and if our heart like David's was is with God, then we have that communion with God and that communication with God through Christ and he guides our steps. So.De'Vannon: It's really just that simple and I'll quote my favorite line from the movie trip with Jayda Branch: No. De'Vannon: and all them fabulous, divas. My favorite quote from there says, you really can have it all. And So.it is humans that have complicated. There's a life, not the Lord. And so before we get on the the topic of today, a branch [00:07:00] is a website isn't manna, oh, publishing that And that will go in the show showy notes. He has like about a thousand books, he's written poetry and everything like that. He had run his own publishing house and everything like that. And Branch: Um, De'Vannon: a podcast guests Xtrordinair. He's like a porn star with that shit. He's always up on somebody's podcast.And I absolutely it. I met him through pod match.com, which is a phenomenal website. God bless Alexan Felipo for sending that gift to the world through him. a beautiful thing. When I, when I see it being done just right, like way he's doing it, that is his purpose, at least one of his major purposes.And I think nobody would disagree with me on that. And so stuff about pod match will also be in the show we notes. Now, speaking of the complications humans gave to things today, branch and I are going to be focusing on communion. Easter is upon us, and I felt inspired to [00:08:00] enlighten the world communion, some call it the Eucharist.had all of these different names for the same things, it's the little cracker. Usually people eat in some great juice or some wine. I got my setback here. I got me some fucking Cabernet and mine Cabernet Sauvignon, baby, and my unbelieving bread. The Lord drank his wine and his first miracle was turning water into real wine.I'm not about to have great juice, what I'm doing something to commemorate the creator of the entire universe. So we're going to have the real thing. And so. I wanted to do this show because I want to show, I want to show people how to do communion because you can totally do this at home. You don't have to go traipsing to somebody's church to do anything that connects you to Jesus Christ.You do not have to have a church and you don't have to have a preacher. So I want to talk first about why people go to church, [00:09:00] why people get into it in the scripture that I've found with Hebrews 10 and 25. This is the scripture. They always told me growing up. And it says to foresight, not the gathering together of yourselves.And, and they use this scripture to say, you see there, here it is. And Hebrews, you got to always come to church. And if you don't, you're forsaking the gathering together of people and you're breaking the rules and you're sending, if you don't come to church. So what are your thoughts on that branch? Like historically, like what was going on, do you think.That you know, culturally during that time, that would make them write such a thing. Branch: Well, of course, you know, AF after the death of Christ, when the first Christians which, who were actually Jews got together to celebrate what he had taught them and what they had learned they met in what we would call a home church or home environment. You know, they met in small [00:10:00] groups they share what they knew and what they had to learn and what they had experienced when Jesus walked among them.And out of that, No this communion or Eucharist right of passage almost your emotion and your commitment to Christ. So, you know, the church out of those small gatherings of in that first century. And by the second and third century, know, Christianity had spread throughout the Roman empire and the gatherings became bigger and a little more formal leadership could play.So once you get that kind of a structure, you know, you need a bigger place. And then I started building churches and it became a religion as an outgrowth of [00:11:00] that sharing knowledge of Jesus Christ our lives, in our daily lives. Just like every other religion, grew from a seedling of a master of scripture they grow into behemoths where faith part and the closeness to master often gets diluted with the politics of the church.That's who we are as people that's that's our human nature is to try and gain control of it, know, so that we're in control. And that we, once we have control, we have the power to reel over other people in that case, you know, in a church situation over the congregation. So, but you know, you don't have to go to church or show up in a building to have that relationship with Christ, just the abuse, know, have [00:12:00] just pointed out it's it's a person.Spiritual relationship.De'Vannon: It's personal before it is anything else. And like what I did before, when I had made mistakes about. My understanding of God when I got kicked out of Lakewood church and I let that caused a division in between me and God. You see, I was putting the preachers and the pastors and the worship leaders in the church a pedestal and making an idol out of them.And I didn't realize that I was, how do I know that? Because when I got kicked out, I got angry at God and I stopped talking. I stopped going to all the churches and I stopped praying and I stopped doing everything because I had conflated and put God on the same level as Joel Olsteen and Victoria O'Steen and and all the worship leaders in the church itself.And the service I was doing for the church, should have happened is, as soon as I saw that they didn't want gay people serving with the [00:13:00] children. I should have just left the whole church to begin with for them being specifically exclusionary towards a certain group of people. But but since I didn't do that, if they were going to kick me out, for some reason, I should have just said, fuck them, but not fuck God.I shouldn't, I should. Just went to a church that accepted gay people and kept my relationship with God. But I let, what, how people treated me tear my whole religious construct down. So it was torn down. It was able to be torn down because it was built on a weak foundation to begin with in terms of my understanding of it.So I'm doing much of what I do to prevent people from knowingly falling into that same trap giving these preachers in these churches too much damn credit. You know, you don't, they just don't, they don't deserve to have all that. And they're not all that. And they're going to be wrong about shit and they already are.And so when the scandals come out and we have our Jerry Falwell's fucking the pool boys and fucking everybody, who's not as white, know, there's no need for us to [00:14:00] be shocked. You know, this is, these preachers are people they do in everything. Everybody else is doing. And we don't know what the hell they're not doing when that, around us, that the image they present at church is just one side of them.doesn't matter who they are. They still got their own habits and things like that. So it's time for us to get to know God for ourself, because when shit gets worse than this earth, we can't be needing to go run to a preacher to get a prayer through. We can't wait till we get to church, define God. We can't go find a priest to confess, to, to get forgiveness when Christ has already handled that job, you know, I'm trying to bring people face to face with God.Like he wants to be, he said, as near as the air, we breathe, as near I'm near, but you got to go through somebody to get to me, you know, that's not what he said. So. Branch: Well, we live in a fist. We live in a physical world and we grow up in a physical world and that's all we [00:15:00] know, you know one of the big concepts that are hard to understand is worshiping and having a relationship with something on seem, right. And that's what faith is all about is having that relationship with the unseen supremacy of God.And we are a world. By its very nature tries to separate us from God and put him so far away from us that it's necessary for us to go through some ecumenical person, a priest, a pastor Pope in order to reestablish that relationship with God. And because that's the nature we grow up in, that's what we believe to be the only truth.He said it best a moment ago when you send your understanding. When we [00:16:00] understand that God, as our creator is within us and with us all the time, if we choose to acknowledge his presence, then we know that we can have that personal relationship with or without. A church setting or a gathering of fellowship believers. There's certainly nothing wrong with being a believer and attending church, as long as know, you're grounded spiritually in that relationship with God through Christ Christ is our ecclesiastic mediator. He's the one that we go through get to God, necessarily the priest or the pastor or the Pope.So De'Vannon: Right. Branch: right on my De'Vannon: So what's your thing, your, what you hallelujah on a Friday morning. So what'd your thing is what I would agree with. [00:17:00] So people gotta, gotta, gotta start in this physical realm somewhere. Cause that's what we see. And then as they mature, then they can get to a point of what I'm talking about. Branch: Yeah, exactly. Jesus said, you know, we're babies, we get. And as we mature into adults than we can handle the meat. the exposure is the milk, the relationship and the growth, you know, with Christ is the meat.De'Vannon: Right. And so what for me, what maturity in God looks like is going to church. If I feel drawn to not, because I feel like I have to in my personal time with him alone, I feel like I learned more than I can from any preacher. So. Branch: Yeah, sure, De'Vannon: That's what it looks like. Branch: Yeah. That well, that's what communion truly all about is that that talking with God, you know, in our minds with our mouth, that [00:18:00] connection that we have every day it doesn't have to be one hour on a Sunday or Saturday or Wednesday night. It can be every time think of him, spirit, God, the father and God, the son, or any one of the three, they are responding every time we're making that connection.the further you go down the spiritual path and the more they are part of your thought process, the more you'll see his spiritual power working in your life.De'Vannon: Yup. Cause what you want. If so like when, when we die, we don't want to be in a position where we're standing at God and it's, and we feel like we're talking to a stranger, we gotta be facilitating that relationship now. So when we actually see his face as though we've had a long distance relationship with someone who we're finally getting to meet, or we're totally familiar with, so this means I need you to push a social media [00:19:00] way and spend a little bit more time, you know, with God praying fast, want to reading your Bible and doing the things that you can looking at different scriptures, different ways to look at it online, different commentaries, you know, different things than me get serious because this walk with God is kind of like we're dating him.When we date people, we get to know them. We experienced them in different environments, different settings and things like that. So I want people to really get intimate with God, you know? And you were at your best with that when there's no one around and it's just you and him, period. And so, so we're talking about communion.Why am I talking about communion? This communion is a beautiful thing. We first see this act of communion in the gospels, Matthew, mark, John, all of them, when Jesus is getting ready to get crucified, he calls all of his disciples together and he has you know, communion and he tells [00:20:00] them them the wine, the unleavened bread represents his body, is about to be broken.in the blood represents his blood is about to be shared. I believe in communion when I was young and I was a nosy ass kid, poking my nose in places where I believe that should be going So no matter who said where it shouldn't be going, damn it, I needed to know shit. And so the preachers in those days would go around the older people who didn't go to church bring the communion to them and communion consist of great Jews actual fermented wine.Like I said, I got my Cabernet my wine, my communion cutting back here and then unleavened bread, because that was an Israelite thing. Especially during like Passover and stuff like that. They didn't fool with the leaving and that's a whole other topic there, but you know, it's a peer purification thing.So the bread didn't have any leaves. [00:21:00] So the preacher comes, administer his, now this, now we're at her house. We're not in church. And he asked me and I followed him into my grandmother's house and he asked me if I want to commute. And I was like, sure. And I must've been like five or six, just, just a nosy, fucking kid running around.And so I took the brand, gobbled it on down. And then when I took that great juice from the cup or whatever, I drank it. And then immediately, immediately I I felt like I guess you could best describe it as kind of like an electric chill move through my body from like the waist not the top of my body, just the waist down.And it was so much so that I like my legs buckled and they gave out and I like leaned up against my grandmother's bed, which, you know, granny's bed. It's like a thousand Branch: Okay. De'Vannon: tall, so it can certainly support any body. For a few days after that, it's like, my body was clicking that [00:22:00] I was moving faster than I'd ever moved before.Just like in a regular walking straight, I had a new burst of energy in life. This is sort of thing that happens when like God or an angel, you come in contact with one of them. You get, you get in live. And, and I don't know what it did. I didn't know that I needed to touch, but I know when I drank that grape juice out of that cup, that, that preacher had prayed over.Something happened to me. And so I know the power is real. And I want to bring this power to everybody. And I'm not saying every time you drink the cup, you're going to catch the holy ghost. So you're going to feel tingly, but see, sometimes we don't feel anything at all and God is moving a whole, whole lot.So we don't judge. Whether or not, God is doing anything about what we can necessarily see and feel. That's what faith is all about. Believing whether or Not we can't see it. So, oh, no brunch here. Have you ever had, had, or witnessed any sort of personal experiences happening current around.Branch: Not that I can recall that [00:23:00] was that kind of a awakening, what you described two things. Number one, when we have a relationship with Christ, we have relationship with God, the father, through his spirit in Christ, as Christ is in us, you will find your connection to the Trinity is heightened and you will notice his presence in your life.Sometimes it's physical, sometimes it's audit honorable or audio, and sometimes it's just a sense you have He's there guiding your steps. The great thing about his presence is if you recognize it, you will discover later on. At some point could be quick time, or it could be or weeks later, his presence will show up in your life where you will definitely recognize something happened. It's just the way it works and it, you know, it's hard for [00:24:00] non-believers or those who are struggling with that relationship to grasp. It's, like I said, the other day in a show, the further you go down that path with Christ, the more you'll see him working in your life. And once you start seeing it and recognizing it, you'll see it more and more often, and it will become almost second nature.So that every time in your daily life, you think about the Trinity father, son, and or spirit, there'll be a recognition for you that they are recognizing that connection with them. It's just, it's all a spirit thing. And I think you and I talked about, you know, the principalities of light and dark and spirit and the world before, and that's what happens, the greater, your spiritual growth.Takes place with Christ. The more often you see him working and being in your life, and it just becomes second nature and you [00:25:00] automatically turn to him at every juncture when you're or under stress. he responds. And it's just, it's the nature of, you know, his unconditional love and his compassion for each of us as believers in him as the son of God.De'Vannon: Yeah. So just give it time. This is a, a thing of patience. You can't run out and become a spiritually mature overnight. You can't rush any relationship. It takes time.Branch: Yep.De'Vannon: So, so the Eucharist deals with the body and the blood of Jesus. Now I've heard some people say before that the, the concept of the blood of Jesus just sounds disgusting to them. They're like, who wants to be covered in blood? That just sounds like a horror moviebecause you know, people in churches you'll hear them say, you know, I plead the blood of [00:26:00]Jesus or I'm covered in the blood of the lamb, you know, or something like that. You care to explain to us what does it mean to plead the blood of Jesus already to be covered in the blood of the lamb? How does that transfer translate from Jesus's physical blood spilling to the spiritual ways meant today? Branch: Wow. There's about three different things in what you just said. First of all, it's symbolism, right? The bread is a symbol of his body. The wine is a symbol of his blood, as you said, the body was broken and the blood was shed to be covered in the blood of Christ is to take on righteousness, you know, as the, as the sacrifice for our sins.And then when we die, we will be refined by his spiritual power. That was, you know, [00:27:00]when he, when he shed his blood for us, he became the living son of God for us. So, you know, the it's just like the that people were, you know, around their neck or somewhere on their body as a symbol of their, Christian identity.It's a symbol and people who, you know, sort of get caught up in the drinking of the blood and that kind of concept just are missing the whole point. Then, you just, can't, some people just refuse to walk to understand have clarity. And they're not at that place yet. That's all that they're not ready, you know, to make that leap of faith and understand who Christ was, why he came the first time and why he's coming back again.So it's all symbolism. You have to [00:28:00] look past the, the actual wine and see what it represents.De'Vannon: Right. So then if I say I plead the blood of Jesus, our Lord covered me with your blood. What I'm saying is God, I, I understand the sacrifice for me. And I believe that that power is still alive. That day. I'd like to cash in on that. You know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not saying dump a bucket of blood on me. I just, I would like to cash in on the work that you did spiritually speaking. Branch: Yep.De'Vannon: So. So here we have Jesus before he was about to be betrayed. We know Jude Judas Iscariot was the ultimate criminal informant in history of, oh Jesus, wasn't a criminal. I had an informant who snitched me out to the cops before SWAT came and kicked my door in. So I can understand, you know, Jesus feeling betrayed, you know, it's bad when you got somebody who's been running with you close to you, who also don't like you, who platen against you, which is what [00:29:00] Judas was about.So that's where the term, when people say, oh, he's a Judas. It's something like that. You know, we're talking about the ultimate snitch. And so Jesus turned to him and he said that what you do do quickly gone and sell me out for the 30 pieces of silver is already arranged to go cause those secure the bag.So we can get on with this crucifixion thing and then branch and I will be talking about the crucifix. Next week. And now we're going to go into detail about what this whole authority crowns and why, what does a man carrying a cross and dying on the cross have to do with me today? You know, we're going to talk about the crucifixion next week.And so here we are, Jesus. He's already washed his disciples feet and they're sitting down to have this, what we call the last supper. When you hear somebody say the last supper is this, the last time Jesus is having communion or commuting hanging out with his disciples before he's to go to, to get crucified.So this is where the [00:30:00] concept comes from now. First Corinthians chapter 11 is where the apostle Paul kind of lays it out. And he starts started saying for, I have received of the Lord. So it seems to me like maybe this came to him in a vision or something like that, where he learned about the act of communion from God, from Jesus himself.And this was a scripture that they always preach. Every time we had communion and Sunday in the Pentecostal church, every time we did it, they always did it first Corinthians 11. So anything you'd like to say at this point, Bernie. Branch: No, go ahead. Go De'Vannon: Okay. Branch: And it can help. It can also be found in Luke 22 you know, with actual disciples at the supper, but De'Vannon: Okay. Branch: same coach, same scripture.De'Vannon: Right. And so and so basically they, they, they just, there's a lot of information and there's a lot of things that are said [00:31:00] that don't really directly have to do with the bread and the wine, but are still important all the same. So I'm just going to focus on the bread and the wine, because that's what we're here for today.And so. The body represents the physical sacrifice. He said, take eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. Then it says after the same manner, also he took the cup thing. This is my blood drink it, you know, as often as you do this and remember me, so the way he's phrasing this, as often as you do, it means that something that can be done again and again and again, and this wasn't a one-time thing that he shared with his disciples.said this do in remembrance of me. So Jesus wants us to a physical way to remember his sacrifices. You know, when we do things. Physically, it reinforces it in our conscious and our subconscious minds our spirit. And it makes us sacrifice a reality [00:32:00] today in the present, even though it was done many years ago.So he wants us to sit down and celebrate it. I kind of get the feeling of how we do our birthdays or an anniversary or something like that. know, we want to always commemorate it and find a way to keep it alive and fresh. And so that to me kind of like the breakdown of how communion came about to be gave the first example, and then we picked it up from there. Branch: Well, a lot of people, you know, anyone who prays before a meal and, and thanks the Lord for what they're about to receive. That's the same outward expression of what he was talking about. You know, at that last supper, he was trying to describe to the disciples. These are people, these are men who had been with him, you know, up to three years.And an ed walked with him and learned from him every day and still many of them [00:33:00]misunderstood what was happening. And so he tries to describe the suffering. He's about to go through on the cross and why he's going to do it, you know, for his day in four hours. And so what he's asking them to do is every time.You know, you're sitting down to eat or drink in a supper situation, just like we do at supper or dinner. He's giving us that opportunity to reconnect with him through what we're taking in, what we're consuming in our body. If we're remembering him by prayer, before we do that, then we're recognizing that reestablishment of our spiritual consumption of him with us today.And so it's, it's that transfer of the physical to the spiritual, both in his day and for us. And so we, you [00:34:00] can do it. The van and said, you can do it at home whenever, but you can do it every time you sit down for a meal, you can remember, you know, the Lord by what you're taking in. And you're, re-establishing that spiritual reconnection and taking him back in.So go ahead, my brother.De'Vannon: And I've heard it. That's a very good breakdown. My man, I've heard it said. You know what, when you drink that, that grape diesel, that wine, you know, you're drinking actual physical healing yourself. You know, your faith can take you as far as you're willing to go with it. And so, you know, I've heard, it said, you know, you know, when you eat, you eat, eat the bread of represents his body.Then you're taking that life into yourself. You know? So that concept, there are bins around the act of community and attractive heal, physical infirmities. I'm not going to take that away and say that it's impossible, especially not after that touch that I got one [00:35:00] that day when I was a kid, you know, you know, this is, this is, this is a, this is a powerful tool that God has really given us.And so, I mean, it says as often as you do it, if you want to do communion week, every day, you know, that's in between you and God. I ever, you know, it's a one other way. We have the field close to him. But my point in doing this today, as we approach Easter, is to let you know. You did not have to wait until you go to church to experience this communion with God.And so at this point, I am going to show you how I do it. And I'm just gonna reach back here and get this little piece of unleavened bread. It took me a while to track this down on the internet, as you know, it's, there's really yeasty, you know, in this country. But I finally found me some on leaving bread or maybe I went to whole foods.I think I went to whole foods and actually able to get this. And so you can read the [00:36:00] scripture and the Corinthians or a different one if you want to not. So when I do it, I try not to be so super formal about stuff because I don't want to lose the meaning in ritual and in formality, know, I like it to be real.Like I'm just having a conversation with my boyfriend. I don't have. That I use to talk to him you know, I just don't, I just flow. And then, and that's the same way I try to be with God, because it's real because God judges the hearts and the rains, he does not judge the outward actions like that. He's looking into the real reasons why you're doing what you're doing.So it's not really, which no man is qualified to do so. And so it was really about the heart of the matter. So whenever I'm ready to feel a little bit close to the Lord, I will me some unleavened bread like this sucker right here. And maybe I'll say a prayer like Lord, I'm about to take this communion with you.I appreciate the sacrifice that you gave for all of [00:37:00] us all those years ago. That sacrifice is still just as alive today as you are. And I know that as I take this communion, that. Lining up and sinking into and tapping into and becoming one with eternity and within you with you and with all that you are, all that has been is, and what will be actually to take me with you on, into your strength and on into your grace.And as I take it as a bread, and as I drink this wine, want to thank you for what you've done. I want to thank you for what you are doing. I appreciate what you're going to do, heal me and cleanse me and making me right and make me whole by your standards that nobody else is in Jesus name. Now, some people like to break the bread and do it.doesn't matter to me because it's going to be broken once you start crunching on it. whatever suits your fancy, oh My cup, you can get [00:38:00] communion sets off the internet. Really expensive. And you had like a whole, a lot of them and they had like a short expiration date. And so you could get you like some Welch's grape juice honey, or a bottle of wine, like this Cabernet I have right here. And you'll be in a better position.You just drink it. And that's all there is to it. And now I believe the Lord heard that it's a simple thing. I'm a little bit goes a long way with Christ. Like I said, he judges the hearts and the rains, the motives behind things, just because we sat down and take the time to do something special before. And with God, he can't help, but honor that because we take time to do so much everything else that brings us pleasure in life.And I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that, but how much do we travel? Fuck [00:39:00]drink alcohol, go out, have fun party, go to museums, social media for God's sakes. You know, we play our video games. How much time do we spend doing all the fuck we want to do? But if we were to take a snapshot of our time spent in a week or a month, how much time do we actually personally spend with God versus all the other stuff that he's empowered us to go out and do you know, I really want to put him first, you know, with balance, you know, I don't overdo it.I don't underdo it, but if I'm going to be having all of my amenities and things in life for damn sure. Well, I'm going to sit down and take the time to get close to the one who's who's enabling me to do it all, but got to say about it.Branch: Well, you have to think of communion as you just described communicating with God. anytime that we express that either, [00:40:00] know, the way you just did with the bread and wine in prayer or in petition or in our behavior, how we respond, what it got say. And Matthew Love God first and most and love your neighbor as yourself.when we respond to the event, And the people in our lives with compassion and understanding and love, you know, we are communicating, we are communion communing with God because we are responding the way Christ responded. When he walked this earth in the way God would have us respond our daily life.So it's about communion. It's about communicating. about having that relationship where God's spirit active within us. It's part of us. So it's us to have that communion in that communication the, where we [00:41:00] can then in our actions express that we emulate we do what Jesus would have done in the same situation.in that emulation of Jesus thought word, indeed, we further. Children of God and everything we do then an act of obedience because that's what we wish to do. We wish to emulate or use Christ as our example. There's, there's lots of ways to have that communion physically, mentally, psychologically, emotionally, but you've got to have that living spirit within you.So you've got that connection.De'Vannon: And what do you think about in Corinthians that says that not the the body and blood of the Lord and worthiness. For, if you do. So you [00:42:00] bring condemnation on yourself and for this many, for this reason, many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep. So in the church, when I was growing up, they, they wouldn't use that part of the scripture to basically be like, if you come up here and take this communion, unworthily without repeating for your Sans first, then you could get sick or die or some sort of condemnation would come upon you.I wonder. Do you agree with that sentiment?Branch: Not at all, not really. It, it reflects to me, you know, that power that the priest or the pastor is trying to use over the people in the pews. You know, one of the things about with God is the power is the spiritual power. Again, I can't say this enough when you've got the spirit of God living within you.The one thing that you will recognize in your life is [00:43:00] And once you start living with truth in your life, see the fallacy and the fakeness and the false who of the world that you know, and this is not to condemn priesthood, but again, man has manipulated religion, no matter what religion, has been Islam, you know, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, the original master had from God and had writings, which glorified God our nature.once those masters passed away, then people in the church. Oh, where the sin God, you know, took control. And if you are not in that same spiritual place with the [00:44:00] master, then it's very easy to get sucked into the politics and the hypocrisy of religion. no matter what religion it is and the deeper and the more power that the church or the religion gathers in garners, the more it tries to impose on its membership.The fact that, you know, God is up here and we're down here. And the way you get to God is through us. Just like we're trying to express today. The way you get to God is through Christ. So it's, you know, it's power and manipulation of, of men over other men or, you know, clergy over the congregation, they can say, and.Trick people into believing just about anything, because they have convinced people that they are God's representative here on [00:45:00] earth to that group. You know, you have to break free of that. Again, there's nothing wrong with going to church, going to synagogue, as long as when you're there, you're being fed the word and your heart, you know, you you'll know in your heart, whether it's bullshit that they're trying to put out and control you with or whether it's really what God would have you do and respond to.De'Vannon: Mikey often say the church has an agenda. Branch: Yeah, definitely. You know, their agenda is to get more money out of you. You know, w why any church needs to collect funds? Is beyond me. If, if, if their congregation is being fed the truth and being fed a relationship with God through their master or Christ [00:46:00] or Eamomm Muhammad, whoever may be, there's no reason that they, that the congregation won't voluntarily tide.No, you don't have to brown beat them into collecting money, but here again, religions are a human entity with an agenda and that agenda has to be funded. So you know, the Catholic church is one of the richest entities in the world, and yet they still collect tides and dues.De'Vannon: Oh God, the Catholic. Branch: Yeah. Well,De'Vannon: I've been watching on HBO plus the young Pope with Jude law's sexy ass as the young Popin have to say that series, it's quite titillating, it's quite titillating. And I actually want, there was a friend of mine whose family was [00:47:00] greatly damaged by the Catholic church. And I really, really want to have her on my show to talk about it, because I'm just how to say this about the Catalytics, you know, do what you do.And I head judged nobody, but personally there's no way that I would kiss the Pope's ring. I'm not about to are doing it, the doctrines and stuff that they do and the whole confessional and everything. I just don't understand. We're all the rules and stuff came from that they follow it's almost like they have their own Bible or something.I'm like who the hell came up with this shit in. And that way the people wait and hang the, on the on every word, the Pope says, you know, they can't decide for themselves if this is right or wrong until he says it. And then you have the one Pope who may rule one way on something. And an another Pope rule was a different. Something, but then they're both supposed to be the ultimate voice of God. Okay. Well, then there's some human error in here. Some fucking where cause otherwise one poke shouldn't have a different [00:48:00] opinion than the next. So there it's supposed to be like the holiest guy or whatever the fuck he's supposed to be.I don't like that. The actress of the Catholic church, the big robe, it's the big ass hat that dude wears all, all the extra shit. I'm all like what happened to just Jesus? Like what is all of this? And so, so many of my friends are ex Catholics, man. And they, ain't never seven foot in the church. Again, they don't give a fuck.They are done whatever the hell happened to them. And that in that Catholic religion has scarred them and they are over it. They're over all with it. They're not having any of it. Although once they, you know, she's, she's cool with God, but just fuck the Catholic church forever. So then, you know, some of them haven't lost it all, but I don't know people like, they ha they, they have like a PTSD when they leave the Catholic church.Some sort of some right in there, you didn't have that many people saying the same thing. Like they just felt abused. Be it the poor Ulta boy, actually getting fucked [00:49:00] by the, by the priest or like she's like mental abuse. Like that much hurt shouldn't come from a church and I don't care how much money they have.Branch: Well, we live in a world where, know, everyone has. Suffered some form of reviews. You just have to realize that that's way of nature and that's human nature. And it's been going on since the beginning of mankind, you know, no one grows up totally absent of a dysfunctional family. our very nature, we are dysfunctional and the groups that we joined being they religious or social or civic they all have dysfunction within them, by our human nature.We are aggressive and selfish. And you exhibit had those kinds of desires of, [00:50:00] you know, what's in it for me, or it's all about me when we live our lives that way. We are going to cause harm to other people. And, you know, that's what happens when you have societies that are absent of spiritual grounding.And when you have people who, who have been sort of sucked into the world's ways, believing that, know, this is the only way you can live. And that reason, that's the way I'm going to live. You know, they are absent of spiritual grounding. They're unaware that, you know, what is happening is not healthy.not healthy mentally. It's not healthy physically. So it's not just the church situation or the church community has issues. Every community has issues and every group has issues. It's a [00:51:00]matter of how they play out. And of course, know, because religions rely on this power from God as God's representatives to those particular groups, they can use that power to cause a lot of damage and a lot of harm, but that's not just indicative of religions.That's the world we live in. That's why spiritual grounding is so important.De'Vannon: Hmm. So I would say everybody, when we're dealing with churches and preachers and priests or whatever, all of them is to look at them through a filter, you know, like they could be right. They could be wrong. They might be a righteous person. They might not be a righteous person. What they say could be accurate, what they say could be inaccurate.You got to try, try, the tree for the fruit. It bears try these spirits. Jesus said there would be many spirits. And basically he's saying don't believe [00:52:00] everybody, you know, feel it out, research, do your own homework. So we got to stop approaching preachers and churches. Like they're automatically right there.Like they're automatically correct. You. We gotta deal with them. Like we would anybody else like, okay, let me see what you say and make sense, know, like that as opposed to, okay, they're right. I'm wrong. So I'm just going to twist my thinking too, to be in line with whatever comes out of their mouth. That's not going to work. Branch: Well here again, the key is spirits of grounding. If you have the spirit of God living in new food belief in Jesus Christ, you will see fallacy the truth they speak of. You'll recognize. This is the problem with, you know, people who are injured. Who don't have spiritual grounding. They believe what they're being told. like we have today, many people believe what they're being told by [00:53:00] politicians De'Vannon: Yeah. Branch: corporations. And, you know, they're filled with lies because they have an agenda of self enrichment. when you don't know what the truth looks. You can believe anything. And with today's technology, know, they can make anything look true to your eye. You can't tell what's real and what's not real anymore because technology so far advanced. And so you have to have, you have to have the truth living within you so you can recognize the truth or the false hoods that are being presented to you by the world and by the people in the world and the events in the world.do you get that spiritual How do you get God's spirit living within you? So you can see the truth. You go to Matthew seven, ask, you, see you knock Jesus [00:54:00] Christ to come into your life. And what he tells us in John 14 and 26 is when you ask me, I will send my spirit to be with you, to live with you and to guide you.And that's all you have to do. And once you've done that, his spirit, the spirit of God, as creator will come, you, his holy spirit will come through Jesus Christ and live within you. And from that moment on, you will begin to see and recognize the truth at church at synagogue, at temple in your life, in your relationships in your world.And you'll recognize the truth and you'll know what's true and what's not true. And then you have the choice to live by either that truth or the faults of the world. And that's how easy it is to change your life.De'Vannon: And truth is something we must discover for ourselves. Like I say, I don't argue with [00:55:00] people on social media over like politics and stuff like that. I did for like a hot second when I first became political back when all the Trumpy foolishness was happening. And then I quickly realized like, okay, nobody's changing here.And then I Branch: Exactly. De'Vannon: I also realized everything everyone was saying was a third party account. So they're either listening to Fox news MSNBC. And I told them, I think the last thing I posted in regard to politics was this, like none of us have verified any of this information for ourselves.You're choosing to believe a media outlet, but you weren't there. You didn't go get the report. You weren't on the ground. You didn't have boots on the ground. This is not your information. is somebody else's information. So why sit here and argue with you about what Joe Scarborough toe, what I heard Joe Scarborough say, you're trying to tell me what Tucker Carlson said.bitch, neither one of us [00:56:00] went there to go and actually get the shit. And neither did Joe Scarborough or Tucker Carlson. So, and I saw this manifested with somebody who was new to Christianity. When I first met him, he was like agnostic or some shit. He just didn't believe in anything, somewhere along the way he got converted and he decided to become Christian.And so I asked him where his, what his stance was. LGBTQ issues as I tend to do with people who I might be seeing from time to time, because I don't fuck with people who have a problem with my with my sexuality. I refuse to do it because I'm not going to let myself be abused that way again. So he gave me the textbook answer of well, you know, it's not me who has a problem with it.I'm just telling you what the Bible says. And then I told him before I dismissed him and I never talked to him again. Not because we were different, but because when people have these adverse [00:57:00]thinkings about my community, I don't know if they're going to do something to hurt me one day. And so that's why I don't want people like that close to me.Not because we disagree, but because the way they disagree can be violent at times towards me. And so so I tell them, well, that Bible, that you're reading is an American is from the middle east. And it was not a written in English. You know, it was written in ancient languages, which I can already tell you haven't bothered to read, because first of all, you just started walking with Christ like yesterday and you ain't in.So I encouraged him to, as he's going through the Bible to remind himself of the fact that this is someone else's account and you are not an expert on what somebody else said, you can't be because you didn't say it. I mean, you didn't, you didn't research. It is not your fucking shit. And then S and then I encouraged and I told them that.So what you're doing is trying to tell me my life is wrong based on someone else's interpretation of someone else's look. And I refuse to accept that from him. He could not argue [00:58:00] with this logic because it's because it's simply the truth. And so I caution people to why they believe what they believe.You know, if you believe this about this group of people, or you believe whatever's right or wrong, Y you believe. Something about politics. Why is it truly, because you've done the hard work to determine the fact you do your own fact finding and fact checking. Are you just listening to what someone else said or just reading what someone else wrote the right convincing words and the right tones of voice.Many people can be manipulated. So, or, you know, then media outlets will use your emotions to manipulate us we'll preachers. So we've gotta be careful about why we believe what we believe. And most people, I challenge brands about why they believe what they believe cannot respond to me because the reason they believe it is because someone else said it.So. [00:59:00]Branch: Well, we generally believe what we grow up with, you know, and what we, as children are taught and a doc tornado. What, what our family believes is our first fundamental belief, because that's all we know. And so each one of us grows up believing what we've been told and what we've been exposed to. And, you know, for a great number of people that's, as far as it goes, they have no desire or no inclination to step outside of that box and have a broader view of the world.You know, this is why I always encourage people, take the blinders off and see the world for what it is good, bad, and ugly. And there's a lot of people, you know, who, especially in our country who refuse to get out of that box [01:00:00] and they dig their heels in as to their. And in their hearts and minds for them, you know, that is truth.And we live in a world where there's lots of agencies and corporations who are willing to help you continue in those beliefs. That's why we have the world. We have it's not the world that we will experience after this world for believing Christians, but it's the world that we live in now. And that's why it's so important to recognize truth from fallacy and fiction and fabrications. I can't express that enough. You know, the way you get to that place is to have the spirit of Christ living and growing within you. Then you will see the truth and you'll have the option and the choice in the decision. As to how you're going to live your life, you know, with the truth and with [01:01:00]Christ in your life, guiding your steps or battling the world with the world's waves,De'Vannon: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Branch: man.De'Vannon: So also want me to say so for anybody who might get hung up on, and we were talking about how tell people use the scripture to say, if you take communion, will be judged and condemned if it's really bothering you, or if you want to, just to be sure you have a clear conscious, all you merely need to do is just ask the Lord to forgive you of all your sins right before you take it. we should be asking for forgiveness of our sins everyday in way. But but you can just be like, Lord, forgive me, my sins, anything I may have done wrong. You've seen it all. I confess it. I'm not going to hide anything. I'm not running from you. Please forgive me. And I accept that forgiveness in the name of Jesus.And in that moment you're done, everything's clear so that you can go ahead and take your communion just in case those scriptures put any [01:02:00] kind of fear or trepidation in you. And so Well, for the, you know, for your listeners who are listening to this and have wonder, or now are a little bit better versed in what community is, they can start to do it. If they choose to and know the reasons that it took place and what it represents and how it can connect them to the Lord, how they can commune with the Lord.Branch: So I think it's been good, you know, for people who've wonder, didn't know, now they understand a little bit better and they can make it part of their lives if they so choose to. But at least they'll know a little bit more than they might've before. So good job.De'Vannon: And so it. That's all I'm going to say. I wanted to do for us. This is a quick video. We've been talking for an hour, but we usually go for like two hours. So this is probably like our [01:03:00]short is starting the interview to date. So with that, you can go ahead and have our closing word. Did anything you'd like to say, go ahead and say it, man.Branch: I want to thank all the listeners and keep tuning in to demand. The podcast, you know, podcasting is a great opportunity for people to learn a lot of different information from a lot of different people. It's sort of the last bastion of free speech and because it is free, there's podcasts out there on virtually any interest area or any subject matter that you might want or need in your life. We're glad you're here with Davanon and myself. We talk about, you know, Jesus Christ and spiritual growth, and we'd love for you to come back as often as you want.De'Vannon: Hallelujah tabernacle And praise.Branch: And man.[01:04:00]De'Vannon: Thank you all so much for taking time to listen to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. It really means everything to me. Look, if you love the show, you can find more information and resources at sex, drugs, and jesus.com or wherever you listen to your podcast. Feel free to reach out to me directly at DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com and on Twitter and Facebook as well.My name is De'Vannon and it's been wonderful being your host today and just remember that everything is going to be all right. 

INTRODUCTION:This is the third time I'm having Branch on my show!!! He, like me, is a former drug dealer, he's been to jail, he's been homeless, and like myself he understands his mission is to do all he can to help others now that he's been given a second chance. Branch is a poet, a storyteller and the author of 22 books! Branch was born in Osaka, Japan (my favorite country) and has the traveled the world extensively! Branch graduated from Texas State Univ. B.S.Ed., did post graduate work at the University of Houston, M.Ed Adm., and holds an Oxford M.A. Theology degree from Trinity Bible College and Seminary. Branch shares how strength of choice can change consequences and this man is known worldwide for his contemporary short story prose that reveals emotions and issues often experienced, but not always voiced.  Author of twenty-two books Branch Isole shares "how and why" strength of choice can change consequences. He's known worldwide for contemporary short stories revealing issues and emotions often experienced, but not always voiced. Storytelling is either about 'what has been' or 'what can be.' The story of "what can be" encourages us to embrace the duality of what is and more importantly, what is possible. Podcast program audiences tune-in to learn if your guest can help fulfill their aspirations and ambitions. My efforts are to help you produce a show with takeaways that benefit your listeners. The topics I share impart elements for personal, career and/or spiritual self-reflection. I believe we will give your audience a show they'll receive, use, and thank you for.I share edifying and entertaining self-development topics offering information and takeaway steps listeners can use after hearing our episode. These topical conversation starters provide audiences with identifiable grounding and growth elements for contemporary life issues.Spiritual Christianity:Life 101: Albatross or Millstone?The ‘Bucket List' Item Many IgnoreThird Act Specs; Rose Colored or 20-20?Relationships:7 Steps of Relationship RepairChange Your Response, Improve Your RelationshipsWork-Life Balance: 12 Key LessonsReligion:Bible Prophecy: Warnings or Promises?These 'today topic' discussion starters are designed for seekers, searchers, the fallen away and disillusioned. Those who question, wonder or are ready to explore self-reflectively their lives and relationships.  You're invited to book one today!Previous engagements and upcoming shows- https://www.manaopublishing.com/bookings.html  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):·      Stop Being Hard on Yourself·      Guilt and Condemnation Defined – do not serve us·      An Interesting Look Into Unconditional Love·      A Discussion About the Holy Ghost·      What Evangelicals Are Not·      A Warning Against Hypocrisy·      Is Consuming Alcohol a Sin?·      Is Masturbation a Sin?·      Is Dancing a Sin?·      Why Churches and Church Leaders Are Not NecessaryCONNECT WITH BRANCH: Website & Other Books: https://www.manaopublishing.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/podcastguestbranchisoleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/branch-isole-851433201/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzN66BkAUAemYX76Smnn0GA CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook:    https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonEmail: DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS:·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com ·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org ·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?:·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon TRANSCRIPT:[00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hey everyone. And welcome to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. I am so thankful to have you with me again. One more week branch Isole my guest on today. This is the third time I've had this incredible soul on my show.He's a former drug dealer like me. He's been to jail, he's been homeless, like I've been before. And we both get that. We have a second chance on life and we intend to spend this second chance helping as many people as we possibly can. So today we're going [00:01:00] to talk about why we should stop being so damn hard on ourselves.We're going to talk about guilt and condemnation and ultimately how those two things do not serve us. So we're going to take a really interesting look at unconditional love. Love is really the most important thing of all and loving ourselves is key to us. Being able to love anyone else. Please take a deep listen at this episode and enjoy the show.Thank you, Branch Isole for coming on the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. I believe that this is your third time. Taking a voyage with me. How are you feeling today? Branch: Good morning. Yeah, I'm feeling great. I was thinking about third time. I hope is the charm and we are able to answer some questions and touch some people where they live and help them down that path a little bit.De'Vannon: Right. The third time is always the charm darling, but we've been charming since the day [00:02:00] one, because that's how the fuck we get to down. And so. So we talked about eschatology before and all kinds of things. Before today, we are going to be talking about guilt, shame, condemnation, things like that, because people to stop being so hard on themselves.know, we live in a time where the world is full of judgment and it always has been, but with media and everything like that, You can see it happening a lot, a lot simultaneously, and you can get overwhelming. And, you know, we look at the news and we go, oh my God, how can people be so mean? You know, and everything like that.I wonder how much of that really starts within ourselves because you can't give away what you don't have. I heard a wise woman say one time. And so what are your initial thoughts on guilt? Shame, condemnation. Branch: You know, when we talked about doing this topic [00:03:00] I, I wanted to look at it from a place that everybody could, could start from the same spot. Okay. So I, I looked up the definition. Of guilt and condemnation. And I found was, and I'm going to bore our audience for just a minute, but the different issue of guilt is the fact of having committed a specific or implied offense or crime.And that's the legal definition. And then the personal or social or cultural definition is the act of making someone feel guilty in order to induce them to do something. I then looked up condemnation and the legal definition of condemnation is the [00:04:00] act of subjugating to a punishment. And then the personal or a cultural definition is an expression of strong discipline.And the more I thought about it, it's interesting that those two concepts or those two words have dual definitions. That is the first one in both of those as defined, dealt with the legal and the second one dealt with, you know, our personal actions. And so the legal is real simple. You either obey the law or you go, but the second definition for both of those is a lot more subjective and it really touches us each personally in our choices and our behavior and our consequences.So [00:05:00] today I guess our top. To discuss is focused on that second definition. And as you and I talked before we got started Yeah. you know, one of the things that we have a tendency to do when we've made some kind of a mistake in judgment or behavior that we're ashamed of that took place is regardless of what the consequence may be.Legally, a lot of us have this tendency to go to that place where we want to beat ourselves up. And, you know, I guess that's the ultimate action for both guilt and condemnation when we feel guilty. And we condemn ourselves that a lot of times we spend an inordinate amount of time beating ourselves.[00:06:00]De'Vannon: Well, not anymore. We, we, we, we, we just got rid of that right now. And so w what really prompted this branch was still on when I was growing. And shit. I really started to really accept myself probably like last year as I approached my 39th birthday. But when I was growing up, I really struggled with feelings of self-loathing self-hatred condemnation, guilt, all of those bad emotions. That just, and it's, you know, the thing about all of this is we're not really born this way, you know, at some point in life and it, and now it is true that whatever our mothers do when they're carrying. It does have an impact on us. So we are born with some predispositions. I do believe that, but still that's out of the child's control.And so, you know, we are, we are, we are learning, we are, we learn and we are taught this [00:07:00]negativity, you know, from somewhere else, it's like racism and things like that. You know, somebody has to tell you how to be mean like that. You know, you wouldn't arbitrarily just be like, you know what? I think I hate myself today.You know, I think I just don't like this about myself today. You know, those are not our natural thoughts that comes from somewhere else. And in today's world, you know, we could feel bad about ourselves from looking at too much social media. You know, we judge ourselves by ridiculous standards and things like that.We listen to bullshit coming from the church and Branch: Yeah. De'Vannon: epicenter of the, of, of our strength should be in our own knowledge that we gained for ourselves, listening to media, superstars, and things like that, but to ourselves and our own knowledge and our own private time with our spiritual power. And so the scripture that I think sums it all up is Romans eight and one, it says, therefore, there is [00:08:00] now no condemnation for those of us who were in Christ Jesus. John three and 17 though says that for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world. But in order that the world might be saved through him.So if God is not interested in condemnation, Why should we be branch? W where to, where are we getting this from? How did we get. Branch: yeah, well, you hit it right on the head when you opened up your shot and that is, are, are good. Mental health is, is dependent upon our. Acknowledgement that we are worthy. And this is what love in Christ and love in God is all about because when we love God and when we love Christ, it's easy for us or easier for us to be obedient to the moral and ethical [00:09:00] laws, commandments God has set down for us as, as humans.And if we feel unworthy of God's love, then that's reflected in our lives. And we feel unworthy of others. Other people's loves in our lives. And if we are not lovable and we're not worthy of being loved, then you know what, where's my moral compass. Where's my ethical compass. So I find that a lot of people who struggle.You know, with their own identity of who they are and why they are, who they are, comes in this concept that we don't always feel worthy of being loved. And if we don't feel worthy of being loved, then what's the point, know, of, of trying to become a better [00:10:00] person or be a better person. I think at the pivotal grounding point worthiness.And, and, you know, I find in working with a lot of fallen away, Christians, that once they understand God loves us just as we are and for who we are, he created it and he loves everything that he's created. Otherwise he wouldn't have created it. So if God can love it. Then we are worthy of love. And if, we're worthy of love, then our, our legwork, our chore, our job is to find that love, you know, in and of ourselves, but in others, in our lives, the people we find important.So, you know, it's it's can be convoluted and it can't be layered upon or under ourself [00:11:00]delusional concepts. But, you know, as, as John Lennon said, it's all about love. And we get to that point we realize that God loves us and we are lovable, there's no reason for us not to be lovable.You know, in our daily lives, but to be lovable, you have to love, and you have to, as you said, you have to sort of come to grips with yourself and realize you've got the power to make that change. And so you kick out of your life, all of that negativity and all of those things that we allow ourselves to bring this down, which really, you know, are just self-delusional concepts.They really don't have control of us unless we give them that power and that control.De'Vannon: And then the first John three and 20 [00:12:00] helps us regain some of this power and control this group. You hear reads that for whenever our heart condemns us. That's talk about us making a decision, executing, a judgment decision about ourselves, the blooper, whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and he knows everything.So see, this scripted here is saying, and it mimics another scripture that says when we judge ourselves, like we should not be judged. If along those lines, basically. God is really the only one who could have render an effective judgment of us, not ourselves, so that we can be thinking we're like super righteous and not really be super righteous.we could be thinking we were like super shitty and bad and evil into the most terrible thing in existence in God could actually think the complete opposite of that. And so, because we've got all kinds of shit swirling around in our subconscious, the voices of our past, the voices of bad preaching we've heard and everything like that.And it's all static and confusion. And then too often it comes out in [00:13:00] guilt, condemnation and shame. First, John three and 20 is letting us know that when it's all confusing or like David said, when my heart is overwhelmed, then lead me to the rock that is higher than I. And so what he's saying is God got better sense than me.So let me ask him what he actually says about this. And so. This is why it's important to get close enough to God, to be able to talk to him and to hear him and to get peace from the chaos inside of you. When I was researching this branch, I was finding where these feelings, guilt, condemnation, shame can have physical effects on people.It can cause stress, physical health low self-esteem issues of depression, you know, and everything like that, stemming from a belief that you're not enough. And, and it doesn't have to be this way. So challenge here is to understand why we think what we think, we believe what we believe about every thought that comes [00:14:00] to us.And if it's something that is not lining up to what the word of God says, what we know to be true, what's serving us. Then we have to gain the power to reject a thought that is not We can't run off with everything that flies into our brains. And so. What you have to say about that? Like thoughts that come to us, you know, learning how to filter them out and even much beginning to believe that every thought that comes to you, isn't a true thought.Cause that, that thought that notion in of itself is boring to many people. Branch: Wow. First of all, you know, for, from us talking previously and corresponding that for me, the essence is having that spiritual connection. With God through Christ, all the things you just said, you know, it felt thought was rallying around my head is this is a perfect [00:15:00] example of those who do have a relationship with Christ with God.And those who don't have a relationship. If you don't have that relationship, then you've got no guidance outside of yourself. And as, as humans, we we've all experienced this. You know, our thoughts can get the better of us really easily. We can give energy to those negative thoughts or self-destructive thoughts or self self-pity thoughts very easily.And if we don't have any way to. That it can run wild and make us do crazy things or dangerous things. So for people who are struggling, I find a lot of times, one of the reasons they struggle so intently is that they don't have that spiritual relationship, being a spiritual person, being connected to [00:16:00] God.You understand that you have somewhere else to turn and you have the power within you through God's spirit, living within you to stop and to change those negative thoughts. This is what the power of the holy ghost, the holy spirit living within the believing Christian does. It's what separates us from other religions and other practitioners of religion and itself separates us from the non-believers.you have the spirit of Christ in you, then you can call upon his. At any time in any situation and he will respond. is what Jesus says to us. When he, when he describes that he'll send his spirit to be with us, to guide us and to counsel us. And you can only get his spirit active in your life, if you believe in and accept Jesus [00:17:00] as the Christ.once we have his spirit, we then have his holy spirit power within us guide our steps, to guide our thoughts to get us away from those negative thoughts. If we don't have that spirit living within us and we're kind of on our own. And you know, if we're not well-grounded, we can respond do kinds of things ultimately harm us.that for me is the first. Essential part of any conversation that has to do with our mental wellbeing or mental health like you said, you know, of those negative mental things can manifest themselves in us physically and can cause all kinds of physical Millay or physical illness, just, just by giving thoughts, that [00:18:00] power.So the first thing we want to do is take that power away from ourselves by allowing God's power, his holy spirit within us to give us the power to stop the negative. It sounds and crazy, but I truly believe that's what it's about. If we've got that. Living with us that we have God's holy power guide us through the, you know, the negative stuff and the dangerous stuff that we bring up on ourselves.De'Vannon: So then Branch: I think you hit it right on the head.De'Vannon: I concur with what you're saying. I believe in serenity. I believe in God, I believe. And I, I don't feel weak. I don't feel less than because I believe he's more capable than I am. I feel relieved that I don't have to do at all. I don't have to know it all and I don't have to be right all the [00:19:00]time.So, so whenever I hear people. Branch: no matter. God is like a loving parent. Okay. He wants best for us above all else. He, wants what's best for us. He knows what's in our best interest, even more than we do. And instead of a lot of people, you know, these visions or thoughts of what God is and what he's like and what he looks like.Well, I often tell people, you know, think of God as a loving parent and, you know, maybe we didn't have loving parents our growing up cycles and stages, but God is a loving parent and loves all of his children. He responds to those who respond to him. If you don't recognize God for who he is or what he [00:20:00] can do and wants to do, then how can he help you?So I always think of him as a loving parent, as opposed to this, you know, power, that's Helen fire and brimstone and punishment and all these things, every loving parent wants what's best for his or her children. So that's. You know, a way to think of him as a relationship instead of I'm this little thing or person and he's, he's got, and, you know, nothing can come between us that would bring us together.Nothing could be farther from the truth. He's the loving parent. And he walks to treat his children as a loving parent. That's what unconditional love is, is understanding your children and, you know, doing what you can in their best interest.De'Vannon: Yeah, I feel that same way about my cats. You know, I try to [00:21:00] understand them Branch: yeah. Yeah. yeah, yeah. I always, I always, I always tell women who come to me for help and counseling and tell me about their boyfriends or a fiance and, and all this. And I always say, well, you know, how is he with pets? If you want to know how he's going to tell you this. Watch how he treats this paps.De'Vannon: The simple things. So I want to ask you so like, and we're talking about like God having the answers and everything like that, and more so than we do with that conflicts, with the movement in the world that has to do You know, a lot of talk about all the answers already reside within us. You know, this is found in a lot of meditation circles.A lot of people who believe in the universe, you know, they'll go, you know, the, the things that I have friends like this, and I love them. And this is one point that I disagree with them on, but it doesn't matter. I don't look at them [00:22:00] any less than or anything like that. just more of an interesting thing to me, you know, the way they think it's like, know, the power is already within you.You have all the answers you already need. You are your most capable, so you don't need to look outside of yourself or anything. So what, what are your thoughts on that? Branch: I think to a certain degree, the right, the power is the power is within you. Okay. The power is within each of us because we're created by God and his spirit. Then our spirit is part of him, right? So when we are born, we have the power of God within us. We have all the solutions are already within us. Okay.But the dividing line comes between the believer and non believer. You [00:23:00] know, you can believe in the universe and you can believe in the power of the trees and the rocks and whatever. But if you don't have the power of God activate. The power that's in you already, if you, if that power at that spirit is not activated, then you don't have the power of God within you to discover the solutions.Okay. When we're born, we all have God's spirit within our soul, within our spirit. However, it's inactive. Okay. We know innately right from wrong because we are created by God and his character and nature is morals and ethics. So that's already within us, but because we don't have a living relationship with.His spirit that lives within [00:24:00] us is inactive. In that case, then we're going through life, making choices and decisions based on what we want for us, right. The ways of the world. And because we innately know that there is something more powerful, a lot of people then traps for that power to all of these other images or concepts you just described.Yes, I've got the power and I've got the answers and I've got the solution, but I don't have the key to unlock them. Right. So I, I, I'm going through the life captured by life and in life's grasp, and I'm doing the things and I'm behaving and responding the world's way. When, when you had enough of that.And that knowing in your heart and [00:25:00] in your, the essence of who you are, is knowing at you telling you there's something greater, there's a different path. When you turn to Christ and ask him to come into your life, he will send his holy spirit, which is already in you, but he will send his power to activate the holy spirit within you.And when his holy spirit is activated within you, you have the key to finding the answers and the solution, because the solutions and the answers are all grounded in recognition of Christ as who he is, the son of God. And that's, me, that's the difference. You know, people can believe in anything they want to believe in, but just like the religions of the ancient, you know, The gods of Egypt and the gods of our [00:26:00] own all of those gods were given mystical and mythical powers, but they were never really able to express or expose that power in reality along comes Jesus and all of a sudden the power of God becomes manifest in Jesus and in the things that she's said and did you know, the people call it miracles, let me call it miracles.Well, we have that same power. If we want to use it, but you have to use it the way Christ used it, you know, you've got to, you, can't use it for authority and control. You have to use it for, for love for, for loving things. And that's the big struggle for Christians is how, how can I emulate and be Christ like.When the things that I say and do are so hypocritically, not Christ-like. [00:27:00] And that's the struggle I see going on today. And in our day and age is that we have a lot of Christians who claim, you know, that they are Christians, that they follow Christ, but everything they say and everything I do is just the opposite.You know, who they're following is the prince of this world. And yet they're using Jesus and God as an excuse for their hypocrisy. You know, even a lot or most of the churches too. It's very hypocritical because for the church being an organization, you know, it's all about power and money. So they're of the world more than they are of Christ.But if you, you already got the power to know the answers and to find the solution, but if you don't have a living relationship where that power can be activated, and then you don't have the key and believers, followers [00:28:00] of Christ, individuals who emulate Christ in his thoughts, words, and deeds, you've got that activated power.You see the great thing about being one with Christ is you see the truth all around you. And when you know what the truth is, and you see the truth that it's very easy to recognize what's untrue in your. Then you've got the power to say, I'm not going to be part of that world. You know, you and I are not going to stop the evil in this world.And the power of evil. That's trying to dominate people in this world. We aren't going to stop that. It's going to continue, but for the, for the person who becomes a believer in Christ and has his holy spirit within them, they recognize the truth. And then it's very easy to turn away from the truth. You know, most of [00:29:00] United States, Christian now is very racist.And very xenophobic, homophobic misogynistic, you know, and they're following their cult leader down that path. when you have Christ in your life and you have his holy spirit within you, you recognize that from the outset and you know, you choose not to be part of that world. You choose to see the lie for what it is.Hopefully, you know, people will, will hear and and change. But as long as you're on the path, that's not spiritual that doesn't lead to Christ there. You're going to be on the path of struggle and conflict.De'Vannon: The Bible says that when. That the, my sheep hear my voice. You know, they recognize the voice of God from any other voice. So [00:30:00] what this is telling us is that there will be many voices. Jesus said there will be many spirits, you know, and he encouraged us during his physical lifetime to gain the gift of discernment, which is what it is for to not believe every spirit.And so you mentioned activating the holy spirit. So I want you to tell people how they can receive the gift of the holy ghost if they want it. And the holy ghost, the holy go ahead. Branch: No, no, go, go ahead. I'm going to pull up, pull up a scripture.De'Vannon: Yeah. So my precursor to that, so God is a tri human being. So he's three persons in one way of God, the father, God, God, the son, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, whatever you want to refer to him as his symbol is the dove. And so Jesus came physically in the body roamed [00:31:00] around here for like 33 something years.And once he peaced out, he said, I'm going to drop the comforter back down on you. So I don't go to the comforter, can't come for whatever reason, they can occupy the same space in the world at the same time, maybe be too much power for us to handle. And so, but nevertheless, once he left, then end of the book of acts, we see this, the holy ghost enter the world on the day of Pentecost.And so, or at least manifest himself as being here on the day of Pentecost. And so is the power. As we see it first being filled and people These people spoke in tongues. When that happened. There is an instance in the book of acts. I believe when Peter was with Cornelius, where people got the holy ghost and they did not speak in tongues.Don't quote me on that because acts had a lot of action going on in it. So I want, I want you to tell us how people can the gift of the spirit. And when someone in chairs tells them that they have to speak in [00:32:00] tongues or they don't have the spirit, is that true?Branch: I can't answer that. I, you know, I,I don't know. I don't know anything about speaking in tongues or, you know, I know there's churches that do that and accept it. I'm not familiar with that. So I can't comment on that. I'll try and answer the other part. How do we, how do we. You know, spiritual grounding and then how do we make it spiritual strength?So in John 4 24, we're told the God's spirit and as being our creator, then we therefore are also spirit just as he is. However, because we're human, we possess the capacity. We have, we have a spirit that we were born with. That was God-given okay. [00:33:00] As humans, we have a capacity to acquire and possess the holy spirit.That is God, the father, and is God the son. And he is God, the holy spirit. Okay. God is spirit. And as such, because he can't. Because of his very nature of being holy and pure, he can't be in the presence of anything unpure, so he can't come to earth. Okay. However, his spirit can transcend and can transmute time and space.Butthe way that that spirit comes to us is through Jesus Christ. Okay. We've got a spirit, but the holy spirit won't live with and conjoin with our spirit, unless we've accepted Christ. We won't get [00:34:00] into the old Testament stuff, but new Testament stuff, his spirit comes through our recognition of Jesus as the son of God as Christ.So how do we get that spirit? Well, real simple. And Matthew seven. Seven through eight. Jesus tells us simply we invite Jesus into our lives. That is we accept Jesus for who he is, the son of God. Okay. So when we ask or invite Jesus into our lives, because he's no longer living, but his spirit is living, he will send his spirit that same spirit of God, the father to be with us, okay.To be with our spirit. So that's when our spirit gets activated is when we invite Christ to come into our lives by invitation. So he won't come to us unless we ask. [00:35:00] And that's the real kicker, because God won't respond to us. He loves us as children, but he won't respond to us unless we have his spirit.Which proves our recognition of him. So when we ask Jesus to come into our lives, we are accepting the spirit of him and of his father, the same spirit. And now we have that same sphere that is God and the same spirit that is and lives with Jesus, the spirit now, because he's no longer a man on earth, but we now have that connection.We have that spiritual connection. So all we have to do is invite Christ into our lives. He will send his spirit to be with us. Once we have that spirit Jesus says to us in John 14, chapter 16, I will ask the father. And he will give you an [00:36:00] advocate, the spirit of truth to help you and be with you forever.You will know him for, he lives with you and will be in you. She wants he's there. We recognize Jesus for who he is, truth and love. And we recognize God, the father for who he is. And therefore we have an immediate and personal connection with God through Jesus Christ. And in verse 26, he tells us, but the advocate, the holy spirit, whom the father will send in my name will teach you all things.And we'll remind you of everything I've said, Nope, this indwelling of the holy spirit activates our spirit to start receiving God's support and direct. So we, we invite Jesus into our hearts. He sends his spirit to live within us with our [00:37:00] spirit in our soul. And we therefore become children of God with the rights and privileges to talk with God and to receive God's blessings, God's protections.Anything that God wants to give us as obedient believing children. Once you've got the spirit within you, then every time you you're in a situation where you have to make a decision, especially when it's, you know, important decisions. I won't say life and death, but to you, what seems to be a life and death decision or choice before we decide an act, if we will ask Jesus what we should do, he will respond.And what. You say, what would Jesus do in this situation? And his holy spirit living within you, living within us will respond and show [00:38:00] us the path that we should choose. Now here's the dilemma for Christians? Do I choose that path or do I choose the path that, you know, I wanted for me, am I going to do what I want or I'm going to do what God would have me do?And that's the Bailey, you know, dilemma. That's the carrying of the cross. When Jesus says, take up your cross daily. That's what he's talking about. Your cross is whatever that temp tation to be disobedient to God's spirit within you, which is encouraging you and directing you to be moral and. And the ways of the world are trying to kick us, take us off that path of being moral and ethical by tempting us you know, with all the things of the world and all the ways of the world.And [00:39:00] that's the struggle for every Christian, but those who claim to be Christians and are not following the spirit of Christ that lives within them, that's counseling them and guiding them and directing them. And they're turning their back on that spirit and still doing what they want to do. You know, then, then we get a lot of struggling, Christians who say one thing and behave and respond differently.Well, that's, that's the whole. That's the whole challenge for Christians. Are you going to respond Christ-like or are you going to respond saying you're a believer in Christ and yet not respond as he would respond? And to me, that's the problem with the Christian Church today. We have a lot of carnal Christians who want lots of things and possessions and things that they want and will do anything they can to get that [00:40:00] instead of following what Christ would have them do too.And it's just, you know, what you just had had in tones. Very, very correct. My sheep, hear my voice, right? If you're a true believer in Jesus, who he is and what he did for you as a center, then you hear his voice and you hear. The direction and guidance of his holy spirit living within you. You don't turn your back on and say, well, I believe in Christ, but I'm going to go and do this, you know, immoral amoral or unethical thing.And that's how Christ can tell. That's why he says, you know, that the path is narrow. The door is narrow. It's only got space for two, you and him. That's why he says, you know, there's a lot of people who are going to say Christ Christ, and he's going to say, I knew, I knew you not, know, [00:41:00]you can't say you're a Christian and behave like a heathen.You know, you, you can fool yourself, but you can't fool him. And that's what it comes down to. Are you going to be true to him and therefore take the easy path being true to yourself? Are you going to say one thing and do it. If you do, you know, you're like a lot of evangelical Christians out there who are saying one thing and doing the exact opposite. So we're not here to judge them. They're going to be judged just like we're going to be judged, but I'd rather stand before the judge with a, with a true and open heart, you know repenting of my sins than to go all that, all that way, declaring myself to be a follower of Christ and actually acting like a follower of, of evil [00:42:00] and corruption.It just, it's a choice. It's a choice.De'Vannon: I love, I love everything that you just said and and that, although we will not be judging evangelicals and Republicans in such. Today, we, we, we, we can open the library and throw just a tad bit of shade because you know, reading is fundamental as mama Ru, Paul would say, and that's not necessarily judging your, just reading the writing on the wall.And so I got Matthew seven and one through three, and I read from this, I pulled descriptor from the message Bible because there's this a very, very, like, kind of silly reading to me, like in a fun way. I love the message of Bible was very lighthearted. I think somebody might've been smoking some reefer, some fucking good as Cali dank whenever they translated this shit, but I love the message Bible.And so this says, don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults. Unless of course you want the same true. That critical spirit as a [00:43:00] way of boomeranging, it's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, let me wash your face for you when your own face is distorted by contempt.It's this whole traveling road show mentality all over again, playing a holier than now part, instead of just living your own part, wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor. And so basically this is saying, judge, not that you don't be judge for God is not mocked with a romance.Those that also will he reap now this what gets us into the craziness of the church. And everything like that. And what you were saying earlier about like the other religions and how I was talking about people who like, you know, pray and worship through the universe. I think a lot of this came was birthed at, from the lack of love that is found in the [00:44:00] church.You know, a lot of these other, you know, religious and followings because people went to church and they didn't feel loved. They didn't feel accepted. You know, and so they went and found it some the fuck where else. And so. A lot of my own confusion I had in myself came from within the church. You know, the place where I'm supposed to go and leave there feeling better than what I showed up.I came there and I felt worse than what I showed up. And then that shit followed me home. And so to give a few examples of that, I wanted to touch back on the, on the tongues that I was talking about earlier. wanted to talk about this because it is in the Bible and it's something that use the debate in the Pentecostal church.in the Bible, when you see people getting filled with the holy ghost, see them speaking in unknown tongues, tongues, or other languages of the earth. It doesn't say in there, there's an instance where that doesn't happen. There are instances where it does happen, but it doesn't say explicitly you're not qualified to say that you have the holy [00:45:00] ghost, unless you speak in a tongue that you don't know what churches do of and everyone out there.I believe that. Read things into things that, that are not there. You know, just because, you know, the apostles are writing about what their first experiences were with the spirit, because they had never had the holy ghost before. they're just recording what happened as a matter of fact. they're saying they were sitting in a room, they heard a rushing mighty when the tongue showed up, they could see them.And then they started speaking in other languages. just saying what happened to them. I don't read in there or anything where they're saying, and in order for anyone else, for the remainder of the rural world, they have to have the same experience. You know, I don't, I don't agree that you have to speak in tongues in order to believe that you have the spirit living inside of you.to point that out because a lot of preachers, especially here in the south and in Pentecostal churches will say, if you can speak in tongues and the spirit is not in you you need to go speak in [00:46:00]tongues, I've seen preachers, literally forced people to speak in tongues. And then when the preacher said, say that crazy shit, now you have the spirit because you've done what I said you needed to do to get it.But before that you couldn't have it. And so I don't agree with that. And so I wanted to liberate people from this ex expectation because some people are really freaked out by tongues and everything like that. And rightfully so because some people have just ran it into the ground, but that's the way churches can twist things around and they can use.To manipulate you into doing what you want. There's no excuse for, for a preacher to tell someone to speak in tongues. seen them put their hands on people's foreheads and like forced them. I've had, it happened to me, know, put the hand on my forehead and forced me to lay on the ground, you know, and shit, and God is not forced.The Bible says that Jesus taught with such simplicity. You know, the fact that it was noteworthy, that he was being chilled and his delivery, you know, tells us everything about [00:47:00] other religious people, Branch: Yeah. De'Vannon: calm and authoritative. And this stood out to them. You know? So your Sadducees are Pharisees where Jesus is enemies today's world.Those are your Republicans and your evangelicals. Okay. These are the people who are trying to put on a show, all of the pump and all the circumstance. And everything's a big deal. Everyone else is wrong and we're right. Every generation has it. And so. So in, in, so in keeping with this thinking, I want to talk about some of the things that church tells us it's fucked up because other people have heard it. These are the things, some of the, some of the things that have pissed people off about the church and why they've left, because it doesn't add up when talking about alcohol, dancing, worldly music, all of that stuff.Those are the things that I was told was just the devil. When I was a child and I was all fucked up and confused. I was like, shit, I want to go to my high school dance. But if I do, I'm going to burn in hell and God won't love me and everything like that. [00:48:00] And so, so that start with alcohol and the Bible tells us not to get drunk off our asses and things like that.And it gives us a reason because it'll make a mockery of us and it will act a fool, just like all the things God tells us to do is not because he's trying to be authoritative it's because there's actually a common sense reason behind it. Why you wouldn't want to do it any way, if you stop and think about it.So. Just initially, what are your initial thoughts on the consumption of a refreshing adult beverage? Branch: Yeah, well, let me, let me go back to what you had just said a minute. You know, the church today, anyway, the church we're familiar with, but all the way back into the church history, I mean the Christian Church, the church is very accepting of people. As long as the congregants are [00:49:00]accepting the church's doctrine and interpretation of doctrine and of the, the mediators of the priests pastor and the Pope, you know, the church is about control and it's about money.Okay. The church is always ready to condemn those who are not doing what the church wants them to do. And this is what you just alluded to, you know, in the Pentecostal church, that the only way that you can come to God is through the speaking of tongues. Well, the Catholic church is the same way. The only way you can come to God is if you come through the priest, right, or through ultimately the Pope, then you're the intermediaries [00:50:00] between you as a, as a believer and God as the entity and the fallacy of the church is any church is that you have to come through us as the church.In order to have access to God. And as long as that's the belief that someone is in, that they are going to be accepting of and proponents of the way the church operates. And once you, you find people who step outside of that boundary, then they're ostracized or ex-communicated, or pressured to either get back into the fold orally because the church can't have any dissent within it because that threatens their whole, the power base that they control over the people who come to church.So whether it's speaking in [00:51:00] tongues or whether it's, you know, taking communion on Sunday or going to confession or, or having to go through the priest to get to God. That's the fallacy of the church has an organization, regardless of what the church name is or what they call themselves. God never intended for us to have to go through somebody else to come to him.All we have to do is go through Christ. That's one of the reasons you provided Christ for us, and so that we would have a direct line to him as the creator and sovereign power of the universe. As far as, you know, drinking drugs, sex, rock, and roll, that's a personal choice. And my personal belief is whatever activity you intend to engage in.As long as it [00:52:00] does no harm to others. And you do it in moderation and it doesn't make you a wild and crazy dangerous person, you know, who am I to dictate what you can and can't do. God has already dictated to man in the 10 commandments, what he should and shouldn't do. And there's nothing about drinking wine or beer or any other alcoholic beverage in there, except don't do it to excess.You know, don't become a drunkard. You know, it's only the, I watched an interesting program last night on this Trumpy attempt to take over the government and it was on CNN and it was about, you know, the rise of fascism and this is nothing new, but you'll notice as was pointed out through history, all of these kinds of movements are all.Weighing conserver [00:53:00] political conservative movements. And rather than give up power to the Progressive's to the liberals, for the people who walk to spread the wealth, provide for their, their communities and their people. It's very all of these movements, all of these fascist political things happen because of the conservative parties, the people with the power and money, not wanting to lose that power and money.And they would rather destroying the system, then provide for the people. Of their own countries with progressive kinds of programs and, and help. And that's what we're seeing. And the people who are drawn to that are the people who are afraid that what they have is going to be taken away. And this is the [00:54:00] common theme of all of these right-wing political movements, and that is those others are going to take what you've got and they'll use any part of religion that they can to bolster their right, to keep what they've got and not let anyone else have an opportunity to get all of these things play in to, you know, this is why religion is such a big part of political law.And social life, because if you're not with us, you're against us. And you know, we have the only access to God. So if you don't want the access to God and you're not going to come with us, then we're going to do what we can to destroy you. And we live in dangerous times and church, the church as an [00:55:00] organization uses its power and its corruption to keep its power.And the people who buy right into that are the political right in every country, not just here in every country, the hard nosed extreme. Right. You know they're out to destroy the system rather than let anybody else participate in the system. That's not exactly like them. White, Christian. No, it's, it's the world we live in.And once you realize it's the world we live in, then all the more reason you should get a spiritual relationship with God, so that you see the truth. And even if, if the, you know, the truth comes knocking at your door in the form of dangerous people, at least you have God on your side and [00:56:00] his protection.And if your life has taken, at least, you know where you're going to go and you can stand before God knowing you had a truthful heart. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see how many of those hardcore evangelical Trumpy and Christians, you know, missed that last call and are not where they think they're going to be when it's all over or they're there.And they have to face Joe. You know, people need, we need to think about the future right now because we're part of what is going to escalate into very dangerous times. And if we don't have a relationship with the Lord, we're going to be in dire straights.De'Vannon: Right. I agree. It's very, short-sighted this whole fight over things of this world, you know, but this is, this is the spirit of anti-Christ, you know, the way Republicans and Angelicals are, know, they're fighting for political power, but if the world's going to burn up and not going to be here anyway, then I [00:57:00] think it's more prudent to.To fight for a spiritual strength because you have an afterlife is permanent. This one's not permanent. You don't know if you're going to be alive one day to the next. So it was very shortsighted and to be on Grinchy about it. Branch: Yeah. De'Vannon: want our money, But not the black and brown people and the Asians and all of them, you know, but they're going to just take it all.You know, the Bible says that there will be where no fear was because of inequity, you know, because iniquity shall abound, you know, they get really, ain't got nothing to be afraid of, but they're so the way they are, whatever word you'd want to put in there, they've created fear where there isn't anything to be afraid of immigrants and people like that.Coming here with like little or no power at all, how in the hell are they going to take anything from white people? They just trying to get a job help out where they can not cause a scene not to get deported and maybe help their family come over here. Their needs are very simple. And so, but insecure people is not.Branch: and I, you, [00:58:00] you and I both served in the military. And when you're in the military, you are thrown together in a living and working situation with all kinds of different people, from all different kinds of backgrounds and all kinds of different places and beliefs and.I couldn't count on one hand, the number of adverse relationships I had with different people in the military. I had friends that were from all kinds of different places, all kinds of different backgrounds, all kinds of different colors and beliefs. And, you know, that's the one melting pot that if you don't have a closed heart, you will be able to see people for who they are and what they bring to the situation.You know, you, you can break that bond of about [00:59:00] racism when you serve with people of different color. Yeah, you may not get along with all of them, the ones that you do get along with you see them as people. And not as, you know, a different race or different religious belief ethnicity.now you still have, obviously, especially today, you know, white supremacists and right-wing extremists are serving in the military. But my experience growing up as a military and then serving in the military is I had friends of all persuasions and all colors, and they were just great people, and, and bias or prejudice that I had going in.With soon negated when I saw them as real people and not some concept, know, that I had [01:00:00]been sold or believed in or raised with they are certain way because of their skin color their religious background. So you can get over it. If you choose to see people as people and having a, a spirit relationship with the Lord will help you do that.You know, I hate to always keep coming back to that spiritual relationship, that's what it's all about. If you want to grow a person, get connected to God, you know, get connected to Christ and he will you to see the He'll allow you to see people for who they are. You know, are all brothers and sisters, believe it or not the ones who, who won't believe that it won't change.To come to realize that early hurting themselves, and there's going to be a heavy price to pay for it here. I'm here after.De'Vannon: You mentioned communion and I'm going to be doing. Show in the [01:01:00] future about communion and everything like that, but just to touch on it, because we're talking about, you know, wine and everything like that, you know, Jesus, his first miracle was turning water into wine. I heard a preacher one time say trying to defend his thou shalt, not drink wine stance.He was like, Well,he, Jesus turned the water and the great Jews. They didn't have time to ferment. I'm like, bitch. I think if God created the whole world, he could at least make fermented wine if he wants to, you know, just saying. And so, but I love the communion story. The way Jesus is having the dinner with his the dinner that the bread and the wine with his disciples and everything like that the night before he goes to be crucified when he's getting ready to go before the council is not the night before he gets crucified.And so what I'd like to do is to do communion at home. And so I want to be [01:02:00] teaching people how to do that in a future episode, because there's power in communion. I don't look at it. I don't think I need to eat it out of the hand of a priest or anything like that. I just ordered me some unleavened bread online, and I got me some wine, some fermented wine.That's about 15% alcohol. And and that's what I do because when I've had communion, I had at one time when I was a kid, the priest, actually the pastor brought it over to my grandmother's house because back in those days, the preachers used to deliver communion to the elderly people. And so, and I was just a nosy kid.I wouldn't run it up there. I don't know. I must've been like seven, eight, you know, back in like the eighties, early nineties or something. And I'm just, I'm just running on in there just to see what's going on. And the preacher turns to me, he's like, he wants them to him. I like share, I don't know what this is.I'm like that type of kid, whatever. Let's just do it. It isn't about, but when I when I drank that, that, that in his case, grape juice out of that cup, I felt power shoot through the lower half of my body [01:03:00]is like, like, God touched me. Not my upper half, but just from like my waist down. And I like, kind of like stumbled it, it was something the spirit did.Maybe it was a healing I needed, I don't know, but my body was clicking that way and I it's, something was loose and, you know, and it changed the change in my anatomy or something happened. So I can't explain exactly what happened, but I know I didn't make it up. And I know that there is power in taking the time to honor the sacrifice of the Lord through communion.And I believe in doing it at home, I do believe in doing it at church. And so, so I'm gonna teach people how to do communion for themselves. In a future episode, I got me this cute little communion cup set off the internet too. It's going to be a whole thing. And so, and so, but you know, Jesus, I wanted to clarify, you know, Jesus being a Nazarene versus a NAZA right, because. Do you know, Jesus refused a strong drink when he was on the wine. Some people may try to when he was on the cross and [01:04:00] some people may try to take that and try to say, you know, guilt you about you. You want to stop by happy hour or whatever after you've had a long day at work. Okay. So I'm going to read this excerpt.So y'all bear with me for a second. So Jesus was a Nazarene. He was not a NAZA right. The two terms are often confused for one another. The term Nazareen refers to someone who lived in the town of Nazareth. We know he's called Jesus of Nazareth and a NAZA right. It's someone such as Samson, you know, Sampson couldn't cut his hair, you know, who took a special vow before God and was subsequently consecrated to God for service.So a Nazarite is something you have to take a vow to become the, put yourself under. Extra restrictions. And as a Marine is just word where Jesus was born. And I read somewhere where that, that strong drink that Jesus refused had like like a numbing agent in it. And he didn't want to do it, take anything that was going to take away any of the pain for what he was going through.And so this is getting back to what I always tell people is to research things for yourselves. [01:05:00]So don't let anybody tell you, alcohol is wrong. You can have your drink, baby. Just don't get a DUI, you know, and just don't be reckless with it. God teaches us responsibility, but he is not opposed to libations. And Let's talk about masturbation and my gosh, there's nothing better than a good wink. All. Sometimes you just got to like pull it out and pleasure yourself, you know, and just, you know, it's, it's so great. And I've done shows on this before. There's all sorts of great things that happen in your anatomy.Whenever you have a sexual release is good to relieve stress, and it just helps all kinds of things like that. In the case of men, you know, we wouldn't want to get blue balls now, would we? That's not like. That's not just like a, a term, like, it's real. Like if you, if you, like, if a guy, especially for me, like if I have that busted in that in like a while, or maybe like a day or whatever, like my balls start to hurt, [01:06:00] like that whole area is really Tinder.And but if I just go wink it and spank it real quick, you know, all that pain goes away. It's like an actual medical term for all of this. Now, when I was growing up, they told me masturbation was the devil in charge. And so I was all fucked up and confused. You know, I'm like a teenager now I've got this hard Dick, you know, but nobody's telling me what I can do with it.They're just telling me what I can do with, and then that's something that's a blame. I lay at the feet of the church. They've got all these nos, but they don't have any fucking alternatives. And so. There's a situation that happened in the old Testament. I can't remember this dude's name, but the Lord told everybody to be fruitful and multiply.His brother died, left a wife. And in the nation of Israel, the custom was, if the brother died, then the living brother would take on that wife and raise up children in as a way to honor the dead brother. Well, I guess he didn't [01:07:00] give a fuck about his brother or whatever. So he wanted to fuck this girl. He didn't want to come and bite of her to have the children, but he wanted to use her body.The Lord saw his deception and killed him because of his deception. So the people in church said, well, you see that his semen was filled on the ground, whether than the woman. So therefore, because it, semen was spilled on the ground, no one should. And so that was a lot that they gave me as a teenager, I believe.And so that every time I masturbated, I would just feel terrible and I'll fill out guilt and condemn like days after that, I would just feel like so bad, know, because of what these people told me, the only other thing is in the old Testament, and this is the old Testament. Jesus released us from all of these restrictions, unless you just want to be restricted by Branch: Cool. De'Vannon: But if a man had a wet dream that he had to go into a period of isolation and because he was considered unclean, okay, well, you [01:08:00] know, that doesn't really have anything to do with us anymore, but those are the only two things that really ever had anything to do with sperm, you know, but they use the. The case of the deceitful man, to try to tell us that all masturbation was wrong.So it's just like with the tongues, just because they had a tongue experience on the day of Pentecost, does it mean that that has to apply to everybody else, to the rest of all life? You know, just because this dude decided to be all evil got killed by God, does it mean that I can not jerk off? So what are your thoughts about this? It felt Branch: Well,Here again, the church is about control. They try to control your thoughts by threats of a punishing God, and they try to control your actions to make you feel guilty. You're human. So [01:09:00] you're going to respond in human waste. I mean, you know, that's a simple fact, especially young people who are, you know, growing and coming into puberty and, and testing the bounds of their rebellious.That's just what teen life and young adult life is all about finding your place in your world and the things, how you express yourself. So the church tries to control your thoughts by presenting God as a punishing gun. And they try to control the congregants actions by saying, if you do these things, your condemn, and the only way you can get out of that condemnation is through us through the church, through the priest, through the pastor, through the Pope, because we are the intermediary intermediate between you sinner and doer of terrible things.And [01:10:00] God, and if you want God's forgiveness, the only way you can get that for your sinful actions is to come through us. So, you know, it's all a contrived situation of power and control again. And if they can control you, then you'll do whatever they say to do or not to do. You know, you don't need that intermediary to have a relationship or to.Commune with God. No. How many people did John, the Baptist baptized in God's name? I don't recall him ever getting a theology degree and he certainly wasn't a rabbi. So, you know, those, those who are working for God, if they're truly working for God and they're not doing it to elevate themselves or gain control or power or money, [01:11:00] they're doing it because they've been called to serve. We know what's right and wrong innately. We know because we are creatures of God. He created us. So he put that sense of right and wrong within us from the. And assess that as we grow as children, it becomes manipulated, you know, we can do what is right and be rewarded, or we can do what is wrong and be punished.And that's, you know, that's our sole experience with right and wrong is reward and punishment. And that's exactly how the legal system works. That's exactly how the Jewish legal system worked, you know, in the, in the ancient days, in the old Testament days that was reward and protection, or there was punishment Christ has done away with all of that.As you said earlier, you know, with the new Testament and with the [01:12:00] advent of Jesus Christ as savior. That that negates the power of the church. You don't need the church B any denomination to get to God you need, you know, an intermediary and for the Christian, that intermediary, that arbitrator, that mediator is Jesus Christ.If you have a relationship with Christ, that's all you need. Again, you know, if you want to, whatever your activities are, who is who's going to condemn you outside of Christ. And the whole point of his coming was to save us centers. If you, if you're a believer in Christ, you know, your sins are covered.The key is to stop sitting once you, you know, make that belief once you accept that relationship with Jesus, [01:13:00] And if you get baptized in his name, you declare that publicly that you are now a child of Christ, okay. Then the choice becomes, what activities are you going to do? And within those activities, are you going to continue to be a believer or you just gotta be a drunken, you know, masturbating, fool. If I w if you believe in Christ, you are covered, we're godless of what society says, or regardless of what the legal system says. If we don't obey the laws, whatever they may be, then there's a punishment to those laws. But if you are a believer and follower of Christ, you need not worry about those things because your innate desire is to be obese via both.You know, and to the moral and [01:14:00] ethical character and nature of God it's, it's not difficult to obey the speed limit. You know, it's not difficult to be law abiding citizens, but you could also be a spiritually abiding citizen, and that will cover you in all the other areas of your life that you're struggling with.Those who will meet Christ in the next life, regardless of who they are here or what their behavior has been here will be, there will be a tone for, and we'll be, you know, face judgment, but be relieved because of their belief. But when you become a belief that doesn't give you free license, as Paul said, you know, to continue to be wild and crazy, you become a thinking analytical person at that point.And you realize something that is illegal or immoral [01:15:00] or unethical is not in my best interest. The consequences of that kind of activity, whether I'm a believer or not can be detrimental to my health and wellbeing. The point of having that relationship is that before I engage in excessive

Feb. 22, 2022 Nostalgia is one heckuva good tool to use in making a movie. Wield it carefully; too much, forced... We look back fondly (and less-so) at some rosie-colored examples.

Week 3 references the following Scriptures and gives us a glimpse at life if we live with "Rose Colored" glasses on. It is about joy and the beauty of giving all that worries us over to God. ZEPH 3:14-18 - PHIL 4:4-8 -  LK 3:10-18 - LK 3:7-9 - LK 7:28 - CCC 522 - RM 12 Believe is the newest Advent and Christmas based reflection series from Faith and Real Life - "Let Me Be..." Ministries. Together we explore the scriptures of the week as they relate to own peronal journey.

This episode was recorded on Christmas Eve 2021. As a gift to myself, I'm not writing a description of this episode. Just sit back, get an adult beverage and let me fill your earholes with holiday cheer.  Thanks for listening and happy F'ing holidays!

Our Rose-Colored Sunday, Pastor Linders

Our (almost) daily devotion on 1 Thessalonians 5:1-8. Are you a "person of the day" or a "person of the night"? What difference does it make?

They said Sonic Colors was "the one." This week we delve into Sonic Colors, the 3D Sonic that everyone seems to like... but for what reasons? We examine the game in detail, and find some disappointment. After that, we begin the SNES Revival with a little-known game called Jelly Boy, which seems like it could have inspired Sonic Colors with its myriad similarities. It's two platformers in one this week! Check us out on Twitter @MarkersOnTheMap.

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin' Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets' minor league system. Starting things off, Steve discusses how the Mets' minor league system did last week. After, following up on our conversation from Episode 130, the team takes a look at a few specific players and highlights in detail how they have improved in 2021 and how those improvements will cause them to be more highly ranked on our 2022 Top 25 Mets Prospect list. As always, you can listen or subscribe to the podcast through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts. Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at fromcomplextoqueens at gmail dot com, and follow us on Twitter: Steve (@stevesypa), Lukas (@lvlahos343), (@KenLavin91), and Thomas (@sadmetsszn). Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's episode is perfect for mid-week slumps and keeping momentum alive! Tune in for more random questions with a returning guest! To support Brenna or see what else she has going on check out: https://linktr.ee/rose.colored.books --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message

Welcome to From Complex to Queens, the Amazin' Avenue podcast focusing on the Mets' minor league system. CM PUNK! CM PUNK! CM PUNK! CM PUNK! The team talks about what big Mets returns they would want to be a part of in Promote, Extend, Trade. After, the discuss the mid-season prospect lists released by the major baseball prospect publications and the Mets players who made them. Next, the team discusses how the Mets affiliates did this past week. Following that, on the heels of analyzing the prospects who made the national top 50/100 prospect lists, the team takes a look at some of players who may make the Amazin' Avenue 2022 Top Prospects list After, the team revisits the career of Dilson Herrera in Oh Yeah, That Guy! Finally, the Wilponery of the Week. As always, you can listen or subscribe to the podcast through Apple Podcasts, where we encourage you to leave a review if you enjoy the show. It really helps! And you can find us on the Stitcher app, Spotify, or listen wherever you get podcasts. Got questions? Comments? Concerns? You can email the show at fromcomplextoqueens at gmail dot com, and follow us on Twitter: Steve (@stevesypa), Lukas (@lvlahos343), (@KenLavin91), and Thomas (@sadmetsszn). Until next week, #lovethemets #lovethemets! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the podcast I'm joined by Brenna of @rose.colored.books on Instagram and we are talking about her awesome Bookstagram page. For the most part she focuses on YA reads and Fantasy - but we all need a good healthy dose of imagination and wimsy in our lives, right? So listen in and if you like what you hear go give her a follow and some support @rose.colored.books on Instagram! To follow and support: https://www.instagram.com/rose.colored.books/ https://linktr.ee/rose.colored.books To purchase her favorite book: Six of Crows: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250076960 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincerelybluejaypoetry/message

Optimizing retirement income doesn't happen with a product like investments, life insurance, 401k, real estate or annuities. None of these things by themselves will help you maximize retirement income. You must have an integrated approach that balances the economics of retirement accumulation and retirement income. I am pulling back the kimono on old outdated Wall Street advice without losing site of critical planning decisions related to estate and asset protection planning. DISCLAIMER: Kraig Strom is not an attorney or a certified public accountant. Kraig is a Certified Financial Planner Professional®, a Chartered Financial Consultant®, and an Investment advisor representative. As cool as all that may sound, this video is only helpful hints, tips and education. This video is not specific tax, legal or investment advice. Before you decide to take action on anything you see in this video, please consult with your tax, legal or investment advisor first.

This case story almost reads like a soap opera you would see on T.V.! Its full of Passion, affairs, addiction, and of course murder. Kristin Rossum was accused of poising her husband in order to be with her lover in 2000. A tale as old as time, roses and all. Hope you enjoy this episode! Support the show by leaving a review, and subscribing on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-talkers-san-diego/id1547756396 I wanna hear from you! leave the show a voice message with your thoughts, or case suggestions through the Anchor site: https://anchor.fm/tctsd Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/truecrimetalkers_sd?igshid=yj7d2o939zie Email: truecrimetalkerspod@gmail.com Reddit: TrueCrimeTalkers https://www.reddit.com/user/TrueCrimeTalkers/ Facebook: True Crime Talkers: San Diego https://www.facebook.com/TCTSDPOD/ FB Group: TCTSD Podcast Case Chats: Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWf663DlxEo https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-beauty-14-07-2003/ https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-rossum-offers-theories-tv-death-husband-2002apr11-story.html https://murderpedia.org/female.R/r/rossum-kristin.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Rossum#Recent_events https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-07-01/police-serve-third-search-warrant-at-home-of-missing-chula-vista-mom https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2021-07-01/police-looking-for-woman-who-went-missing-from-otay-mesa --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tctsd/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tctsd/support

"See the silver lining, even in difficult situations." - Melissa Brown, Global FP&A, AWSHowdy friends, today we talked with our good friend and three year Amazon vet Melissa Brown!  We discussed  her lessons learned in finance, on career progression, and the importance of having a healthy outlook.  We also talked about great books and how her passion for French literature led to a career finance , naturally :) Enjoy!Melissa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-brown-90b53335/ --CONTACT THE SHOW:Website | https://www.charleskunken.com/podcastLinkedIn Group |  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13919730/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/financeguyspodcast/Email | charlie@charleskunken.com (Hit us up! Questions, comments, requests for guests, etc)Sid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhodi/Charlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskunkenSubscribe to the newsletter: https://www.charleskunken.com/subscribe —Theme music by Good Baby. ‘Rose Colored'.  You can peep the full music video here: https://www.goodbaby.band/musicvideos

"Win the day...but understand what your limitations are." - Keith Klein, AWS Real Estate, Managing Principal, AmericasHowdy friends. This a great episode with our pal and 9-year Amazon veteran, Keith Klein. We dive into some great tactics for having success as an individual, how he sets his team up for success, and the importance of keeping family first.  We also get into golf, off-roading, and who he'd like to have lunch with. Enjoy!Keith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-klein-620b4613/--CONTACT THE SHOW:Website | https://www.charleskunken.com/podcastLinkedIn Group |  https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13919730/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/financeguyspodcast/Email | charlie@charleskunken.com (Hit us up! Questions, comments, requests for guests, etc)Sid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhodi/Charlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskunkenSubscribe to the newsletter: https://www.charleskunken.com/subscribe —Theme music by Good Baby. ‘Rose Colored'.  You can peep the full music video here: https://www.goodbaby.band/musicvideos

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This week, Kate concludes the three-part hybrid Rachel Hollis/self-help Venn diagram series by reading listener e-mails that detail interactions with RH's material and reveal a wide variety of personal implications found within her (and other self-help celebrities') messaging. Enjoy!Cut footage of first two episodes on patreon.com/bethereinfiveAs a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/bethereinfiveFor a limited time, ButcherBox is offering new members 3 lbs of chicken breast, 2 lbs of pork chops, and 2 lbs of ground beef all for FREE in your first box. Just go to ButcherBox.com/BETHEREINFIVEGo to CLEARme.com/BETHEREINFIVE and use code BETHEREINFIVE for your first two months of CLEAR for FREEGo to Nutrafol.com and entering the promo code BETHEREINFIVE to save 20% off your first month’s subscription

In this (now) trilogy exploring the world of self-help 'mogul' Rachel Hollis, Kate reads a handful of listener emails and walks through the 4-part Venn diagram she's been building since October, mapping the similarities between cults, conservative religions, multi-level marketing schemes, and large-scale self-help gurus that hold conferences like Rachel Hollis and her former 'hero,' Tony Robbins (remember, "I own you?"). In the first hour, Kate reads emails while analyzing Rachel's RISE conference and how the format compares to historical examples of known manipulative marketing strategies (e.g. low-key mind control). She walks through the psychological tactics tied to her former 'hero,' like aggressively teaching psychotherapeutic concepts in his favor (reframing, limited beliefs), resurrecting trauma, using NLP, hosting LGATs, etc. After many listeners reached out asking for more time to write in, she decided she'd air this episode first, but part 3 will be all e-mails. Overall, Kate's exploring her hypothesis that she can link many large-scale self-help & motivational speakers to being deeply rooted in some form of hybrid MLM/evangelical preaching/self-development movement, that when used for nefarious reasons can turn into cults, but best case turn into snake oil empires making professional manipulators and paraphrasers into multimillionaires at the expense of our mental health, preying on generations of vulnerable people who are being told (and sold) that they are 'Made for More.' Enjoy?Kate's Patreon with bonus episodes (will eventually upload cut footage from past 2 episodes): patreon.com/bethereinfiveKate’s IG: @bethereinfiveSUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/bethereinfiveGet 20% off your first mani system when you use promo code BETHEREINFIVE at oliveandjune.com/bethereinfiveExplore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BETHEREINFIVE and get a free trial of Premium MembershipWORKS CITEDhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/20837138https://www.payscale.com/data/gender-pay-gap#section14https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janebradley/tony-robbins-self-help-secretshttps://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Large_Group_Awareness_Traininghttps://thefincheranalyst.com/articles/lgats-and-fight-club-dissecting-a-delusion/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_traininghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_large-group_awareness_training_organizationshttps://www.trajectify.com/blog/2020/2/18/five-lessons-learned-at-my-first-awareness-traininghttps://innersunshine.medium.com/large-group-awareness-trainings-1-0-good-and-bad-cc8bc22df4ehttps://littlevillagemag.com/letter-to-the-editor-rachel-hollis-is-not-the-embodiment-of-female-empowerment/https://hbr.org/2020/08/institutional-investors-must-help-close-the-race-and-gender-gaps-in-venture-capitalhttps://austinemedia.com/jim-rohn-biography-and-life-history/https://freedomofmind.com/multi-level-marketing-and-self-help-cult-groups-learn-the-warning-signs/https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/870234341https://kutv.com/news/local/follow-the-profit-how-mormon-culture-made-utah-a-hotbed-for-multi-level-marketershttp://www.harley.com/writing/large-group-awareness-training.phphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3AZjrFPpIMhttps://www.facebook.com/jordanbelfort/posts/motivationmondaynapoleon-hill-said-the-starting-point-of-all-achievement-is-desi/10154207371793465/https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1962/7/28/the-rosy-world-of-nutri-biohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbalife_Nutritionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Rohnhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large-group_awareness_training

A Rachel Hollis deep dive. In this episode, Kate dives into the recent controversy surrounding the self-help empire of Rachel Hollis, who is a wildly successful motivational speaker, podcast host, CEO of Rise (and formerly HollisCo), among other things, but is probably most well-known for being the author of NYT best sellers "Girl, Wash Your Face" and "Girl, Stop Apologizing." Kate starts with analysis of the troubling dialogue and caption of her now-deleted video and also now-deleted first apology last week. Then, she discusses the problem with "made for more" culture, especially in the context of the RISE conference and support of the MLM industry that preys on vulnerable people via her prosperity gospel-adjacent business coaching. Then Kate talks through her journey with what she's found troubling about Hollis' content, detailing how she thinks it fits in the broader 2010s self-help zeitgeist of #girlboss culture, and shares her journey in how these movements have shaped her view of feminism and empowerment. In the second episode, Kate will read more listener-submitted emails, wanting to give her take so she can open up the floor to give her yours. Please submit any feedback, stories of being in the RH fandom, or thoughts on women's self-help to podcast@bethereinfive.com subject line RH. All opinions in this episode are of Kate Kennedy’s or listeners that submitted emails to Be There in Five Podcast.SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!Go to Feals.com/bethereinfive and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping. Helix is offering up to $200 off ALL mattress orders AND 2 free pillows for our listeners atHelixSleep.com/BETHEREINFIVE.Go to HelloFresh.com/bethereinfive12 and use code bethereinfive12 for 12 free meals, including free shipping!Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit ritual.com/BETHEREINFIVE to start your Ritual today.Works Cited:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/style/rachel-hollis-girl-wash-your-face.htmlhttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janebradley/tony-robbins-self-help-secretshttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/rachel-hollis-girl-wash-face-accused-plagiarizing-quoteshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/how-rachel-hollis--a-texas-mom-of-four--ended-up-writing-one-of-the-years-biggest-books/2018/11/10/59d3e89e-d9e1-11e8-a10f-b51546b10756_story.html Quote from Tony Robbins' seminars:https://medium.com/the-awl/im-with-awesome-fire-walking-with-tony-robbins-fcd4a49d8edSavvy Writes Books RH Reviews:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9WShNx2HsXRGjj9F593HzA Black Magic Violin:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4vsND-4wfP8LaCJX6v0wZg

“Ask yourself what makes you happy.” - Van Tran, Amazon Treasury, Capital MarketsHello folks. Today we bring you a show with our our good buddy Van Tran, Treasury Manager, Capital Markets here at Amazon and with it, our first look inside the Treasury space.We’ve had the pleasure of getting to work with Van and her team on some recent projects and today we got a chance to step back to discuss her background: growing up in Hanoi, Vietnam, comic books, attending undergrad in Maine, infrastructure finance, business school at Upenn, and her path all the way to Amazon Treasury.Van and Sid also connect on their shared passion - what else, Real Estate investing! This was a lot of fun and thanks Van for coming on!Van on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vancamtran/ --CONTACT THE SHOW:Website | https://www.charleskunken.com/podcastLinkedIn Group | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13919730/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/financeguyspodcast/Email | charlie@charleskunken.com (Hit us up! Questions, comments, requests for guests, etc)Sid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhodi/Charlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskunkenSubscribe to the newsletter: https://www.charleskunken.com/subscribe —Theme music by Good Baby. ‘Rose Colored’. You can peep the full music video here: https://www.goodbaby.band/musicvideos

All Show Notes: http://www.flighttrainingpodcast.wordpress.com Special Thanks for This Episode: Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, 1998 Henri Nouwen, Letters to Marc About Jesus, 1987 Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. Music used under Creative Commons. Something Elated by … Continue reading 04 Rose Colored Window

“All you ca do day-to-day is control the things that are within your power.” - Alex Solomon, MBA Intern, Columbia, AWS InfrastructureHappy new year!We’re kicking off the 2021 season with an interview we recorded at the end of last summer with Alex Solomon. He was an MBA intern on our team.First off, it turns out that Alex and Charlie hail from the same neck of the woods (Long Island), so we spent some quality time digging into the culture ;) (bagels, North Fork wineries, Montauk, Billy Joel and the importance of saying ‘ON Long Island’ versus ‘IN Long Island’).Our time was 100% virtual last summer but we all agreed that it not only worked, but we also had a blast working together. Alex shares his journey to Columbia Business School and how he got into the summer program at Amazon as well as what helped him land the opportunity. He also shares what he’s learned about working at Amazon in AWS and having a successful intern experience.Thanks Alex for coming on and we’ll (finally) see you in Seattle after graduation!Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-solomon-cpa-61396662/ --CONTACT THE SHOW:Website | https://www.charleskunken.com/podcastLinkedIn Group | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13919730/Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/financeguyspodcast/Email | charlie@charleskunken.com (Hit us up! Questions, comments, requests for guests, etc)Sid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhodi/Charlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskunkenSubscribe to the newsletter: https://www.charleskunken.com/subscribe —Theme music by Good Baby. ‘Rose Colored’. You can peep the full music video here: https://www.goodbaby.band/musicvideos

A discussion on the concept of, "right person, wrong time."https://linktr.ee/Grinandshareit

To help create our vibrant life visions, look to our Color of the Month for inspiration, Rose Colored. What will you do with this year before you? What would a more beautiful view look like in each area of your Kaleidoscope? Show Notes:  January’s theme: A Beautiful View Color of the month: Rose Colored Prefer to read? This week's forecast, corresponding color and notes can be viewed on our blog: https://kellygalea.com/january-2021-color-reading/ (https://kellygalea.com/january-2021-color-reading/)

“It’s good to round yourself out but double down on your super powers.” - Joe Minarik, Director, AWS Data Center SupplyJoin The FG Podcast LinkedIn Group! https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13919730/First things, first, Joe holds the Finance Guys land speed record for guests at 180mph. Yikes.We’re back this week, this time with the fearless leader of our Business team and AWS veteran, Joe Minarik, Director, AWS Data Center Supply..This episode is where the rubber meets the road, where the cloud meets the dirt. The data center growth strategy of every AWS region on the planet resides within Joe’s 120+ person team. He brings us some cool stories from the early days at AWS going all the way back to 2005 when it was just an internal product for Amazon, to the launch of Asia Pacific, up to the present day. We also talk about what it takes to be successful at AWS, why it’s important to focus on your strengths, boating, race car driving, and making things better.Joe shares his wealth of experience in the cloud computing space and his great approach to simply wanting to make things better. Instant classic.Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jominarik/ --CONTACT THE SHOW:Website | https://www.charleskunken.com/podcastInstagram | https://www.instagram.com/financeguyspodcast/Email | charlie@charleskunken.com (Hit us up! Questions, comments, requests for guests, etc)Sid on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhodi/Charlie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskunkenSubscribe to the newsletter: https://www.charleskunken.com/subscribe —Theme music by Good Baby. ‘Rose Colored’. You can peep the full music video here: https://www.goodbaby.band/musicvideos

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Act II of Rose Colored Glass

The ever-changing definition of style constantly compels its devotees to buy the latest and greatest, and yesterday's fashions get pushed aside. Unchecked, the compulsion inevitably leads to cluttered closets and overflowing drawers. In episode #31 of The Clutter Fairy Weekly, Gayle Goddard, professional organizer and owner of The Clutter Fairy in Houston, Texas, talks about how to take control of your wardrobe without giving up your personal style. She introduces strategies to find the right fit for your space, budget, and lifestyle.The Clutter Fairy Weekly is a live webcast and podcast designed to help you clear your clutter and make space in your home and your life for more of what you love. We meet Tuesdays at noon (U.S. Central Time) to answer your decluttering questions and to share organizing tools and techniques, success stories and “ah-hah!” moments, seasonal suggestions, and timeless tips.To participate live in our weekly webcast, join our meetup group, follow us on Facebook, or subscribe to our mailing list.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/theclutterfairy)

With Mike DuHaime the ballot box is never half-empty. While much of the media has been posting death notices for the Chris Christie campaign, Mike DuHaime, Chief Strategist for his presidential run, joins us to offer a different view. As New Jersey Public Radio's Matt Katz puts it, he is “the guy you want to talk to if you're on your death bed - he's extremely optimistic.” But Mike DuHaime has been down before. While pundits salivate over Donald Trump's surge in the polls and Jeb Bush's massive campaign war chest, DuHaime finds hope in recent New Jersey history. Speaking with Christie Tracker Podcast host, David Furst he says, “It is not the candidate with the most money that always wins. In Governor Christie's own experience running against John Corzine in New Jersey in 2009, we got outspent 3-1 – as a challenger in a very deep blue state. And we still won. Because he was the better candidate.” Mike DuHaime takes questions from Matt Katz and David Furst on the current state of the campaign. Check out the WNYC Data News App: The Christie Tracker.  

Our esteemed colleague Stephanie Green is back to help us mull the current season of The Bachelorette, including the "shocking" twist that began the season, the "explosive" "revelations" we can expect in coming weeks, and why Kaitlyn can't stop sucking her teeth. We also pondered Lifetime's new behind-the-scenes scripted/fictional Bachelor series, UnREAL, before going Around The Dial with That '60s Duchovny Show, Scott & Bailey, all about an HBO documentary from April, and Mr. Robot, and Stephanie hoped Freaks & Geeks could sit at the Canon table. Which Girl is our Winner of the week, and which one's our Loser? How many guest-star Emmy nominations does it take for Sarah to get screwed by Sorkin in Game Time? Can we steal you for a second -- to listen to the latest EHG? GUESTS