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In this video, I take a deep and honest look at "Shook Ones Part II" by Mobb Deep—one of the most iconic tracks in hip-hop history. While the beat is undeniably powerful and the song has long been praised for its rawness, the Holy Spirit prompted me to truly listen to the lyrics this time—and what I heard was deeply troubling.
As a follower of Christ, I was convicted by the violent, prideful, and godless messages in the song. What does it mean when we, as believers, casually enjoy media that glorifies murder, hatred, and lawlessness? How should we respond when culture tries to win our hearts, just like Babylon did with God's people?
I break down specific lyrics from "Shook Ones," compare them to Scripture, and explore how media can subtly lead us away from God’s truth. This is not about legalism—it’s about discernment, obedience, and spiritual clarity in a world that normalizes wickedness.
📖 Key Scriptures referenced:
2 Timothy 3:1–5
Galatians 5:16–24
James 3:6–12
Proverbs 3:31 & 16:29
Psalm 1
🎯 If you’re a believer struggling with the music you consume, or if you’re just curious about how Christians engage with culture, I pray this video gives you something to reflect on deeply.
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i heard the lyrics before but this time
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I believe the Holy Spirit wanted me to
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listen to He wanted me to listen to the
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lyrics again pay attention to what I was
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listening to as a believer in Christ and
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as I paid attention I quickly realized
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how polluted and how vile and how
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utterly disgusting the lyrics were this
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is straight from the pit of hell and I I
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kind of want to show you um the lyrics
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here real quick and then when I show you
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the Hello good morning uh this is T from
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tes.com and today we have a quick uh
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little study that I have prepared so
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before I get into it I just want to give
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you a quick um story uh it is said that
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the Assyrians back in biblical times
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whenever they took over the place what
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they did was really awful so they came
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in and they kind of raped the women
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killed all the men took all the children
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and turned them into slaves and they
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also what they did was when they were
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taking you back to their cities they put
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the hook on your nose and this is how
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people were connected so they were
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really violent and they actually would
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skin the people and use it for their
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wars the Assyrians did that so they were
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really a violent uh group of people but
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then you have the Babylonians so Babylon
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is known is known as the seven wonder of
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the world right so Babylon so what
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Babylon did was when Babylon came to
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take over a place so they took you and
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they took you back to Babylon and
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Babylon was a great city that was nice
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so what they did to you was this they
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gave you food they gave you pretty much
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everything that you needed you were a
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captive but they came in there and they
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warned you by winning your heart so they
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didn't treat you like uh the Assyrians
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did they were not using violence they
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came and took over your city but then
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they took you back to Babylon they fed
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you they showed you all the beautiful
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places they taught you their language
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they taught you
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um their literature they taught you
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everything and then they treat they
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treated you well so in another way they
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did that to win you over and then they
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they won you from the inside and out
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they want you from the inside and out as
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opposed to the Assyrians who were really
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violent so why am I saying this this
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morning is because as a believer and as
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a Christian Babylon if you look at
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Babylon the book of Revelation Babylon
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is synonymous to the world that we live
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in and this is what the world trying to
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do to us as a people of God they're
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trying to win us over they're trying to
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teach us they're trying to change our
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taste pallet right they want to make us
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a citizen of the world when the
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scripture tells us that now even though
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we live in the world we are not of the
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world because we are citizens of heaven
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right because we have been endowed uh
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with the things of God and we have the
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Holy Spirit living in us if you're a
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believer in Christ Jesus so why am I
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saying that this morning what why am I
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even mentioning this is because a few
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days ago I was driving and I was
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listening to Shook Once uh part two by
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Mar a song that I really like a lot
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right the beat just gets you that beat
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actually the the song itself is praised
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by one of the
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it is told about the song that this is
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probably one of the best beat that was
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ever created and is a really catchy beat
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when you listen to it you go whoa you
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want to arrive you want to go with it
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you want to listen to it and you kind of
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want to go along and sing the lyrics but
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it's interesting because a few days ago
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when I was listening to this song I
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heard the lyrics before but this time I
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believe the Holy Spirit wanted me to
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listen to he wanted me to listen to the
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lyrics again pay attention to what I was
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listening to as a believer in Christ
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and as I paid attention I quickly
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realized
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how polluted and how vile and how
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utterly disgusting the lyrics were this
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is straight from the pit of hell and I I
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kind of want to show you um the lyrics
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here real quick and then when I show you
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the lyrics I'm going to show you some
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scriptures and as a Christian should we
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be listening to this kind of stuff
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you make that decision for yourself okay
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so let's listen to the lyrics here i I I
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highlighted those that I wanted to show
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you for for example listen to what he
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says in the beginning here for real
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[ __ ] when ain't got no feelings okay
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when ain't got no feelings so I mean
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someone that has no feelings i mean I
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know that I'm a man and as men people
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think as a man as if we we not supposed
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to show emotions no I do have feelings
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because they were they were man-made
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those feelings were given to us by God
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for a purpose okay now listen to what it
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says here uh I got you stuck off the
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realness we be the infamous you heard of
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us official Queensbridge murderers
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official Queensbridge murderers no shame
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in saying this right and listen to what
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he says next the mob comes equipped for
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warfare beware of my crime family we got
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we got enough shots to share for all
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those who want to profile and pose rock
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you in your face stab your brain with
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your nose bone
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listen to that again rock you in your
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face stab your brain with your nose bone
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you all alone in the street cousin every
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man for the self in this land will be
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gunning
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and keep them shook crews running like
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they're supposed to now let me go down
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here again i can see I can see inside
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your face you're in the wrong place
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cowards like you get their their whole
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body laced up with bullet holes and such
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speak the wrong words man and you will
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get touched
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you can put your whole army against my
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team and I guarantee you it'll be your
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very last last time breathing so
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basically this is all just violence
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right now listen to what he says here
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your crew is featherweight my gunshots
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would make you levitate
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i'm only 19 but my mind is old really
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your mind is old no your mind is
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corrupted and when the things get for
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real my my my warm heart turns cold
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another [ __ ] deceased another story
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gets told it ain't nothing really listen
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to that and then listen to
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uh let's go down a little bit if I die I
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couldn't choose a better location when
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the slugs penetrate you feel a burning
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sensation getting closer to God in a
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tight situation now no you're not
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getting closer to God if you live like
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this and die like this you're going
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straight to hell
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see this is the the problem with these
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people they don't understand this now
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let's go down now let's let's look uh
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let me look at Havoc right so the first
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one was a prodigy prodigy is deceased by
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the way he died a few years ago right
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now listen to what he says here
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now this really kind of shook me
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yesterday when I read this yo it's a
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must in got we trust safeguarding my
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life really
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you trust in your weapon to safeguard
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your life you see this right
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in God we trust
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no in God we trust in God we trust are
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you serious safeguarding your life no
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god safeguards my life not the weapon
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right
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now listen to this
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um
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let me let me show you sometimes I
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wonder do I deserve to live or am I
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going to burn in hell for all the things
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I did sure will if you don't repent
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no time to dwell on that cuz my brain
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reacts yes you see that's a problem he
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doesn't want a time to dwell on that
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because his brain is going to react
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because he's going to get convicted by
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the Holy Spirit so therefore what do you
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do you violate your brain right you
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violate it and then you become depraved
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okay
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now listen to this i'm sipping EJ got my
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mind flipping of course
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okay
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let's let's let's go down cuz long as
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I'm alive I'mma leave illegal see this
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cuz long as I'm alive I'mma leave
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illegal
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oh gosh now
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this is so violent
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like I don't understand how
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we can listen to this and actually enjoy
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this you know and then usually you see
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this in you know like now a lot of
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people listen to this black white
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anybody and they actually could mob deep
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i used to be one of those too i like
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this song the beat is catchy you know
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the beat of the song is very catchy but
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then when you read the lyrics you see
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the depravity the violence that he
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promotes i want to share some scriptures
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with you okay let's let's see what
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scripture says listen to what the
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scripture says in in second Timothy here
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right but understand this that in the
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last days there will come times of
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difficulty for people will be lovers of
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self lovers of money proud arrogant that
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song right there by Mi speaks arrogance
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abusive disobedient to their parent
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ungrateful unholy heartless yes that's a
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heartless person says no stab your brain
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with your nose bone okay when are
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peaceable slanderous without
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self-control brutal not loving good
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treacherous reckless swollen with
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conceit lovers of pleasure rather than
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lovers of God having the appearance of
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godliness but denying its power the
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scripture say avoid such people
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if he says avoid such people that means
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avoid such people so you should not be
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listening to shoot one's mob deep
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neither should I be listening to that
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kind of stuff it's nonsense is violence
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violence and viral listen to what the
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scripture says in uh Galatians 5:16 to
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Listen to what the scripture says in
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Galatians 5:16- 24 i want to really
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focus on 17 here for the desires of the
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flesh are against the spirit and the
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desires of the spirit are against the
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flesh for these are opposed to each
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other to keep you from doing the things
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that you want to do right but if you are
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led by the spirit you are not under the
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law you see that now the works of the
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flesh are evident sexual immorality
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impurity sensuality idolatry sorcery
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enmity strife jealousy fits of anger
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rivalry dissensions division envy
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drunkenness orgies and things like this
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and listen to what the scripture say i
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warn you before that those who do such
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things will not inherit the kingdom of
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God
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those who do such things will not
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inherit the kingdom of God
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i don't know where a prodigy is he died
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is he in heaven or hell i have no clue
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but I can tell you if you live the way
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he you never repented he's going he went
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to hell and this is unfortunate to say
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that like the scripture tells us what
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good is it to gain the whole world and
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lose your soul you know but then they're
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going to blame the fact that the white
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man did this to me the white man turn
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you have a brain you have a mind just
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like what Havoc said like he he got time
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no feelings because he turned off his
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his moral compass why because he doesn't
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want to to take the time to to think
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about it because if he does then he's
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going to be convicted and the scripture
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tells us in Romans that God eventually
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gives you over the desires of the flesh
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of the unnatural the the vile devices
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that you want he eventually he's going
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to give you what you want
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listen to what James 3:612 says james 3
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6:12
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let's go to James 3
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i'll show you this and the tongue is a
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fire the tongue is a fire a world of
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unrighteousness and the tongue is set
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among our members staining the whole
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body setting on fire the entire course
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of life and set on fire by hell for
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every kind of beast and bird and reptile
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and sea creature can be tamed and has
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been tamed by mankind but no human being
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can tame the tongue right it is a
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restless evil full of deadly poison
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we we bless our Lord and father and with
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the same thing we curse people who are
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made in the likeness of God you see that
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right mob deep use uses their tongue to
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curse to incite violence
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and they corrupt young man's mind people
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that are listening to it you listen to
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these people and you want to do what
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they are saying in their lyrics people
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say "No it's just lyrics it's just
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poetry." That is not poetry that is not
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beautiful they could have used the
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god-given gift that they were given to
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be able to write rhymes to write
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something that was positive they didn't
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do that they chose instead to incite
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violence incite people to do violence
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so your tongue is important with their
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tongues now they created these songs
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that has been listening to that's been
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listened to by people all over the world
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and every day people listen to that they
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want to do violence because it's talking
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about they talk about quote unquote what
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they live in the street i understand
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that this is street life but you can
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make a choice you can make a choice to
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do that which is right listen
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to that yeah listen to Genesis
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uh Genesis 6:11 i want to show you what
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happened genesis
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6:11
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now the earth was corrupt in God's sight
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and the earth was filled with violence
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this is why God set the floor the first
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time and it's going to happen again when
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Jesus comes back all the wicked people
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are going are going to go to hell
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because of the violence okay now let's
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go to Proverbs 3:31
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do not envy a man of violence and do not
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choose any of his ways
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a lot of people want so bad to be known
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as street people i don't envy Mabik i
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don't want to be like them i don't want
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to be like Prodigy or Havoc i don't want
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their lyrics to pollute my mind i don't
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want to choose their ways i don't want
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to choose the violence that they promote
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it comes straight from the pit of hell i
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don't want to be identified with that
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i don't care if you don't like it this
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is the word of God
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listen to the last one proverbs 16:29
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a man of violence listen to this entices
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his neighbor and leads him in a way that
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is not good
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a man of violence entices his neighbor
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and leads him in a way that is not good
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so if you listen to Mar you get enticed
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by them and he will lead you in a way
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that is not good
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he will lead you away from God because
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you are going to put this in your head
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you're going to fill your head with the
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fifth that they are speaking the
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violence in guts we trust really no we
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don't trust in God we trust in God
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because God is the one that safeguard
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our life that safeguarding our heart so
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you have to protect your heart you know
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listen to what I want you to I want to
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close with Psalm one because it's a song
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that I really give to all young men that
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I know listen to this blessed is the man
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who does not walk in a council of the
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wicked he do not walk in a council of
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mob deepen their lyrics and any rapper
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that promotes violence or anything that
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is overly sexual or sensual
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so he says blessed is the man blessed to
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be blessed by God is to have God's favor
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resting upon you blessed is the man who
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walks not in the counsel of the wicked
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nor stands in the way of sinners because
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you begin to stand with them right and
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then nor sit in the seat of scoffers you
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sit may I sit you begin to take on their
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ways he says "Blessed is the man who
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does not do that but the man whose
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delight is in the law of the Lord and on
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his law he meditates day and night." See
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your delight should be in the law of God
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the law of the Lord you need to delight
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on that day and night and the scripture
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tells us what is the the the outcome of
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that he says he is like a tree planted
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by streams of water that yields its
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fruit in season and and his leaf does
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not wither and in all he does it
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prospers
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he if you do that the scripture tells
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you that whatever you do is going to
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prosper now prosperity is not saying
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you're going to have a lot of money
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you're going to have this no it says
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that you're going to prosper in God's
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way god's favor is going to rest upon
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you and listen to what the scripture
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says the wicked are not so but are like
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shaft that the wind drives away
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therefore the wicked will not stand in
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the judgment they will not nor sinners
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in the congregation of the righteous for
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the Lord knows the way of the righteous
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but the way of the wicked will perish
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you've been warned
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so I'll say trash any music like that
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any rap music that incites violence or
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sexuality or anything that is perverted
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trash it you don't need to listen to it
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you don't need approval from these
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people your approval should come from
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God because the scripture tells I not
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trying to prove to please God or man if
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I was still trying to please men I would
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not be a servant of God so a servant of
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God should not be listening to this
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trash
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i'm struggling with it too cuz I love
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rap music
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but it's more important for me to obey
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God rather than obey man
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so you've been warned today okay have a
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wonderful day i'll see you next time
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