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The Demise of Gospel Music has been happening slowly over the last several years! Groups like Maverick City Music, and artists like Kirk Franklin, and Lecrae have been aiding it in its slide as of late! So what is the future of the Gospel music genre?
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has two point he has two this two
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million he only got 46 posts
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that's pretty good man
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that's actually really good
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for him to only have 46 posts and he has
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two million followers that's pretty
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doggone good actually
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um and you know who Lecrae is Lecrae has
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been on the music scene for for a while
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he's been doing this for a while
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and uh and actually started out he was
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one of my uh let me let me do this real
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quick because I want to talk about this
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for a second so
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so
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um
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when I came out of the world
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I still loved hip-hop I'm not going to
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even lie
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um
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but at the same time I knew that it was
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a music genre that I could not grasp and
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hold on to because of the content
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um so
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um I started gravitating toward what was
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at the time called gospel rap
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uh that's what they used to call it and
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I'm going to be quite honest with you
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when it came out it was garbage man it
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was it was good from the standpoint of
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they're not talking about killing and
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not talk about drugs they're talking
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about God they're talking about the
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gospel but the music was just bad and
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then honestly when Lecrae came on the
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seat scene I got hope I got hope okay
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this dude he know he gets it he gets it
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and he's doing it right but
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as I watched as lecrae's uh as his
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popularity rose
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he he started sliding and slipping a
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little bit
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he starts slipping away he started not
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sounding sound he started sounding less
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biblical all the time even though he was
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boasting I got a
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theology degree and you know what I'm
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saying in his his all this stuff was
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lyrics was was theology uh theological
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and all that stuff but then he started
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to slip
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he started to slip he started to do
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stuff like
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uh well uh oh I think that the um the
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Shaq there's nothing wrong with the
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shack if you know anything about the
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movie The Shack that that's the shack is
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heretical he agrees with it
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um he started doing stuff like saying he
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came out and said hey I don't even don't
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don't call me a gospel artist no more
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don't call me a gospel artist anymore I
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don't want to be and and as a matter of
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fact Lauren Daigle says the same thing
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she says the same thing
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don't call me don't call me a gospel
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artist
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just call me music artist why are they
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saying this
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they're trying to they're trying to
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distance himself
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why are you just and you know what's
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really funny about Lecrae is that he
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distances himself from
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what's called now it's not gospel rap
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anymore it's called Christian hip-hop so
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he says don't call me as a Christian
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hip-hop artist but he gets the awards
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for Christian hip-hop he takes the
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awards but don't call me Christian
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hip-hop artists that's hypocritical bro
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that's hypocritical
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give back all your words Lecrae
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give back your Awards my guy
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get back your Awards if you're not a
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Christian hip-hop artist then why do you
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have Christian hip-hop Awards
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dude just give them back
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and we won't call you a fraud bro
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cause right now you're a fraud my guy
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real talk
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so so another thing he did wrong let's
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let y'all know
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and this this is something hold on I
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think I can pull this one up actually
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I can pull this one up
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let me see let me see if I can pull this
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up real quick
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because he again I don't want nobody
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just saying I'm just making up stuff I'm
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just saying stuff
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yeah yeah yeah you know Jim is just Jim
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is just saying stuff
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you know he he don't know he don't
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really know what he what he talked about
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he he just saying stuff right Jim just
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saying stuff right
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so so let's go so let's see
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um
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I need to go to
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uh
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okay so oh man okay so I know where it
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is is oh wait is it here
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okay so this was after oh yeah here it
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is here it is okay so this was after I'm
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gonna bring us up Huda
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okay so so we go let me hold on let me
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let me let me get on up over here
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Okay so
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uh where's the
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okay so here let me go back
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okay so here is
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here is a a a a a little now I'm gonna
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warn you guys what you good what you're
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about to hear may shock you okay
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um this is a this is a clip I'm gonna
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play it was after the Super Bowl
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um it's the Hebrew Israelite group
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called The Sakari who are very uh uh um
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very uh uh
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uh
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um how should I say
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they're foul
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I don't know I don't know how else to uh
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to say to say I don't know how to say it
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they're very foul so
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um but
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Lecrae was there
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listening to this preaching
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the Hebrew Israelite preaching and you
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guys if you know anything about the
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Hebrew Israelites you know you already
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know you know it's bad you know these
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guys are a cult you I don't have to tell
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y'all that
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but but but he's sitting there listening
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and he actually
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affirms the preaching what
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what
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what are you off what's wrong with you
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now you got it's kind of faint you gotta
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listen but it's on there
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uh okay hold on let me let me let me
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pull it up instead of just just saying
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stuff let me let me get this let me get
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it going because
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um
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look at this
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um
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what's this so yep what is this okay so
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I'm gonna make that big like that okay
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hold on
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okay hold on hold on guys hold on hold
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on that's what I'm doing all right I'm
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ready let me put it let me go ahead and
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put it in place
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nope
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nope
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yep that one okay
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so let me put this on here so I want
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y'all to listen I want you guys to
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listen I'm gonna make this bigger
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so that you can get but let's listen to
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what's going on here and and I apologize
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for any foul language you may hear or
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whatever I don't know what part of this
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is all I know is this is the part right
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before Lecrae walks up but here we go
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but Americans explain why I'm fighting
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so goddamn afraid of scared of Vladimir
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bariatric
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was afraid that boy over there in Russia
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you know why because he got big guns big
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guns he got big guns okay
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intercontinental ballistic missiles is
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what he got what up oh that's the crane
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it's my fault bro you know Hey listen
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this brother man I know I know I know
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Christianity ain't giving you a lot of
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heat right now okay see look okay see
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he's there listening here we go but
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guess what who cares because it's about
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God
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it's not about the issue I've seen your
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Tweet but it's not about the Institute
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it's so beautiful that you said that
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because these institutions
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taking us away from God and just brought
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us into an institution right it's time
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it's hard time for us as a people to
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come and to serve our God man for real
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in truth and in talk man not just in
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talk in truth
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worship Our God man beautiful to me
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really Hebrew pleasure to meet you
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brother all praise
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oh pray let's get back to it so he says
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bless you bless you appreciate y'all
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now I don't know how long he was sitting
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there
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I don't know how long he was sitting
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there
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he might have just walked up
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but I'm pretty sure that this brother
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knows what kind of doctrine that these
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guys represent he knows
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he knows
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he knows that they don't preach the real
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gospel
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he knows that they preach against that
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the white man is the devil for the most
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part especially this sect you know
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there's all kind of different sects of
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of Hebrew israelism this particular one
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uh is more aggressive uh more
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um uh quote unquote uh
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I'm trying to be nice
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um
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um what's the word I should use their
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language is very coarse they cuss as
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y'all just heard okay while all while
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trying to maintain
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the standard of God
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he comes up he heard at least that part
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so for him to come right behind him and
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say oh God great great job appreciate
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y'all what what are you doing Lecrae
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what are you doing dude
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what are you doing
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I'm gonna make this statement right now
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anybody
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who possesses the spirit of God has the
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spirit of God in them upon hearing this
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right here hearing the cussing hearing I
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could go back a little bit farther and
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this is a really bad this this preaching
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I don't know if he was this far back but
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this preaching Burgers information
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before I have you have all praise to the
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most high brother and that's what we are
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we out here just bringing this word out
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man have you heard this information
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before I have he says
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what if you heard this information
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before the information that this group
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this movement that is not a movement of
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God
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you heard it before
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now you heard it firsthand
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why are you affirming them by saying I
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appreciate y'all hold on a second power
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structure and system that we're in let's
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get ready to come crash again
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why not why not why is your geriatric
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president so afraid of that boy in
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Russia
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explain that to all you proud Americans
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explain why biting so goddamn afraid are
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scared of Vladimir okay now see he just
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heard him say look
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what
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I I don't I don't know
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but but here you know what's funny in
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this particular clip a little bit
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further down
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he takes issue
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with another brother
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but this dude this brother that he takes
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issue with
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hold on a second
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and and that's how easy it is for
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somebody to lose faith in God right
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okay here's the here's the other part
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eternal life I don't want that
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you know okay so let me let me okay so
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let me let me uh let me uh let me set
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this up okay so here's like down the
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street down the street a little bit
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further
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there's a street preacher who's out here
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preaching and if you don't think about
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street preaching these guys preach hard
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man they preach the gospel they preach A
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Hard Knocks gospel no fluff no nothing
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funny this is the Hardcore gospel that
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they preach out here you know what I'm
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saying so Lecrae down the street a
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little farther uh or at some other time
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he he runs into this guy
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who's a Street Preacher let's see how he
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reacts for alternating this one sucks
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sure then why don't you pull out a can
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of gas at a lighter and get the party
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started why would I do that you said you
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want to burn for all eternity
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why don't you get it started you're not
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acting like Jesus man
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okay now I'm gonna say this right now
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now the guy now this is not an approach
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that I would take personally he's
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telling the guy the guy saying I want to
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go to hell he said well why don't you
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get the can of gasoline and get the
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party started you know implying it go
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ahead and set yourself on fire right now
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if you want to go to hell now I'm not
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agreeing with that I'm not agreeing with
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that Approach at all
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that's not the point the point is if you
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see right here Lecrae is right here
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getting ready to talk to the guy and
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he's getting ready to come after the
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Street Preacher too here we go did you
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hear what he said to me he said he don't
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want to go to you did you hear what he
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said when he walked up so he didn't hear
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that see I get the whole context I said
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Jesus Christ
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well you curse you curse along with the
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names
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that's a lie number one dude uh he
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judged the Pharisees fairly roughly
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let's correct that all sinners
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[Laughter]
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do you know that Peter and Matthew would
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have been diametrically opposed to each
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other a tax collector and a zealot they
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would have hated each other
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because of the relationship that was
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established they did not kill each other
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fam all I'm saying is yes you do have to
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bring truth to people but you bring
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truth to people who trust you and who
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who care about who know you care okay so
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I do you guys see what's happening here
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do you guys see this
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do you guys see how this is done like
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this is how come he wasn't this
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explanatory with Gorilla Hebrew
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I
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he didn't have them words when gorilla
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Hebrew was cussing and carried on he
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didn't have nothing to say to him
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he said Hey brother you're supposed to
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be representing God but you cursing
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brother that's that's not a good
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representation of God my brother why
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didn't he check that brother but he
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checks this brother over here
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who actually maybe he's a little
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overzealous but he still
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contextually a Christian preaching the
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Gospel of Jesus Christ
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uh is or if you don't repent is he going
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to hell yes that's what he said was his
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approach harsh yes it was but look at
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his his uh posture
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look at lecrae's posture on how he deals
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with someone who was obviously heretical
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versus how someone is maybe a little
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coarse but at least they're biblical
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you're strange bro
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you're strange
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and I actually have had interaction with
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him personally I have personal
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interaction with him
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in a in a in a let me see let me maybe I
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can pull up these maybe I can pull up
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the tweets we had let me see
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so you guys can see I actually you know
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I asked them questions because I'm
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willing to dialogue I'm willing to
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dialogue
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I wanna I am
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when I am willing to dialogue with
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people I seriously am
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so I seen something and I decided to
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reach out to him and I got a response
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and the response was really interesting
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guys the response was really interesting
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hold on a second here
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uh
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oh here's the here's okay so here's the
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tweet
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here's the Tweet let me let me get it up
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for you guys okay
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uh
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here's a tweet
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okay so here's a tweet where I
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interacted with him it says right here
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he says I'm not Cur I'm not Progressive
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I'm not liberal I'm not conservative I'm
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Kingdom
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that's what he says right
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so here's my response
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would that include your praise of the
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obviously ungodly and heretical Sakari
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um Hebrews like movement
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his response
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I don't support them the video in La was
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used out of context next next topic
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that's what he said
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how is it out of context brother when we
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plainly seen you
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affirm them on video how's it out of
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context
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now
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so
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so so so he was my hold on a second
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here's my this is my this and look at
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the responses this is what's really
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interesting here
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um I said so okay so you didn't say I
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appreciate y'all he never responded
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after that but but people were coming in
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let me find out can I find the responses
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or did he take them down
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did he take him down
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I just wanted that explanation
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I just want an explanation he basically
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brushed me off he interacted briefly but
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he brushed me off
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oh [ __ ] is this it
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oh here here here are some of the
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responses look one guy said the brother
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answers your question is that not enough
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I can't ask him a question
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but I can't ask the brother a question
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this guy says jeez my guy relax
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and because I just responded and said
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look anyone who has the spirit of God
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and seen that preaching and preaching
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that he witnessed would not affirm them
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by saying I appreciate y'all that's my
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point that and that's all I wanted to
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him to explain because maybe he did have
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a different have a point that I didn't
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see maybe he did I don't know
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all I know is what I saw
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was what I saw is
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um was
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you you you you back in Sakari let me
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put this this comment up by my guy Walsh
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he said if you're back in Sakara you're
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definitely not thinking straight
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absolutely
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absolutely anybody who is agreeing with
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these people these this listen listen
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there's many different sects of of uh
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Hebrew Israelite I want to say that
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because I know I get attacked because
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they attack me you destroyed her you're
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pregnant with a broad brush you're just
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trying to put us all in the same kind of
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go no no no no I'm not trying to put you
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in the same category there are some
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things that you categorically are the
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same in
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but
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um there are
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differences like
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Sakari is the is the Rough Side of the
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Hebrew is when I move in one wrong down
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from them is GMS and then one wrong down
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from them is Israel United in Christ
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that's just my personal what hold on is
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that right or would it be
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one body in your house shot I I don't
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know
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there's there's there's levels guys
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that's all I got to say there's levels
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to these guys
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but to Sakari
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the Sakari is not only heretical they're
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nasty and ugly and cussing they talk
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about doing stuff like going to the club
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doing Sabbath I've seen one video where
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they were going all kind of we're doing
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all kinds of they had booty dancers and
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all kinds it was bad y'all all Sabbath
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on the Sabbath
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now I I'm I'm trying to stay in the my
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point is
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how is Lecrae a gospel music artist
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have all these improprieties have all
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these inconsistencies have all these
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non-biblical situations
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but he makes statements and he has
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people standing up for him fighting for
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him
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I stood up and said something and I
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started getting attacked
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I was like what is going on right now
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uh why
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why is this
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because the gospel artists are looking
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and sounding more like the world than
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they are looking and sounding like God
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