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Dimensions 09/19/25: Don't Take My Word For It...

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
if I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like boy.
I hope he's qualified.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Wow, listen now, if I hear that I'm telling you right
now, if I see a black man as apilot, you're going to be going
to question some things, man, ifthat's all that, I saw, man,
I'm calling him a racist,straight up and down.
Straight up racist.
But listen, don't take my wordfor it just because you heard it

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from me.
You got to get into the wordand do your own homework, right?
That's what we all got to do.
Stay tuned.
More of this coming up onDimensions.
What's going on?

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Everybody?
It's your boy, pastor J AnthonyGilbert, right back here at
Dimensions, coming at you at thevery least five days a week,
monday through Friday, everysingle evening at 8.30 pm.
Listen, I'm so excited, I can'twait to get here each and every
day just to share with you whatI believe God's putting in my
spirit helping prepare the bodyof Christ and the bride of

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Christ for the return of JesusChrist, because he is coming
back, ladies and gentlemen.
Yes, he is, he is coming backand I want to.
Yes, he is, he is coming backand I want to get you prepared.
God gave me three things.
He said.
Tell my people keep oil intheir lamps, love in their heart
, sin and leaven out of yourlife.
I just did a series, started aseries on leaven and you can

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look at that there on YouTube.
And I did a series calledLiving Leaven Free.
Just started it earlier thisweek.
It'll be a blessing to you.
Leaven are those things in yourlife that cause your spiritual
senses to dwindle, causes yourfire for God to dwindle and your
things and your passion for thethings of the world to begin to

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accelerate and to increase.
Begin to feed the passions ofthe things of the world, to
begin to accelerate and toincrease.
Begin to feed the passion forthe things of the world.
But when you keep sin andleaven out of your life, the oil
stays in your lamp, which meansyou stay burning bright, come
on somebody, which means you'reilluminated from the deception
and the darkness that'shappening in the world.
When you have oil in your lamp,oil can be used for heating and

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so it keeps you warm, so thecoldness and the darkness of
this world doesn't infiltrateyour heart and mind and your
emotions and cause you to bedeceived and discouraged and, as
a result, you keep that love inyour heart and when you have
that, ladies and gentlemen, youcan share the truth and love.
You're not getting burned out,you're not discouraged, you're
not frustrated with the thingsof the world.

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You can keep peace and love andjoy in your heart, regardless
of what's going on, because youhave God's perspective on what
is happening Hallelujah.
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I don't know how many episodeswe got, but I did so many
different things, my goodness.
I did stuff on spiritual abuse,I've done things on the end
times.
I've done things I mean, youname it, I have talked about it
y'all and I got a whole lot more.
Because I believe you'resomebody that wants to know what
God is saying in the prophetic.
Now you want to know, just likewe all do, what is God saying

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to this, to the body of Christ?
What does God feel about thesemoments?
What, what exactly is happening?
I want to know.
I remember back in the dayshe's saying inquiring minds
want to know.
We need to inquire of the Lord,we need to seek him, and that's
why we use platforms like this,so then you can hear what thus
saith the Lord and what'shappening, and you can have a
keen eye.
It's so easy, ladies andgentlemen, to get caught up by

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what you see on the news.
I tell people this all the timeI don't go by what the news
says.
I don't go by what justsomebody online says.
I don't go by those.
That's why I put down the titlefor today.
Don't take my word for it.
Why is that important?
I don't care whether a preachercomes unless you have done your
own research.

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We are in a day and an hour.
We have information overload.
Ladies and gentlemen,information overload it's
everywhere.
I mean there's informationeverywhere.
I mean you go online.
You can have one subject matterand have 15 different views.
How do you know which one todraw from?
How do you know which one youshould go with?
How do you know what's reallyhappening?
Number one you've got to getyour own relationship with Jesus

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Christ, that you hear from himfor yourself.
Number two you've got to getinto the word and do your own
homework.
That's 2A, 2b.
You've got to do your ownhomework on what's being said
and what's being done.
I just showed you that clipjust for a moment.
Play it again for me, mrProducer.
Play that clip again.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
If I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like boy.
I hope he's qualified.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
If I see a black pilot boy, I hope he's qualified
.
If I see a black pilot boy, Ihope he's qualified.
Who wouldn't take that as aracist comment?
I mean, of course, I look at ablack man because now what I'm
doing like I gave you thedefinition a couple days ago
about racism and white supremacyit takes something and it says

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OK, now remember this is veryimportant when you're dealing
with racism and white supremacy,they're not dealing with a
person and an individual.
They are making the class ofpeople.
Using that statement alonewould clearly clearly make him a
racist, because he's sayinganybody that's black can't fly.
Cool, totally understand that.
And the reason why I'm sayingthis to you about don't take my
word for it this thing withCharlie Kirk is bigger than you

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know what I mean by that.
I'm using this as an but don'ttake my word for it.
This thing with Charlie Kirk isbigger than you know what I
mean by that.
I'm using this as an example toteach you things.
Just because somebody sayssomething in the word of God and
it sounds good, just because apreacher says that abortion is
okay, just because somebodycomes online which I've heard it
said before there was apreacher that came out online
and said hey, listen, I want youto hear this.

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This is very, very important.
Zoom in real quickly and justpause and hear this with your
ear.
This is a preacher.
I don't really mention a lot ofnames of preachers because I'm
not one into bashing preachers.
My purpose in doing all of this, ladies and gentlemen, is not
to get caught up in clickbaitand to get all.
I don't want people beingdeceived.
I don't want people taking anarrative that is not correct

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and driving it home, becausemany times people are too lazy
to really research and do thehomework.
That one clip if I were to playthat right there and cut it, of
course you would think somebodyis racist.
And the reason I'm saying thisis because in the news media,
whether it's the left or theright, they are driving a
narrative.
For us in the body of Christ,our job is to find the truth.

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The Bible says buy the truthand sell it not.
We need to find the truth,identify it and then walk in it.
I'm using this to teach yousomething completely different
Not to go in and on about whathappened with Charlie Kirk and
all of that and whatever.
Teach you something completelydifferent not to go in and on
about what happened with CharlieKirk and all of that and
whatever, but to talk about thenarratives that people drive and
how, what we do, we sit downand we get on our computer, we
get on our phone and we look,listen to what somebody said and

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we just take the word.
A little soundbite they had andthat's all that we do.
How do you know they're tellingyou?
That's why I said don't take myword for it.
If I'm preaching something,don't take my word for it.
Go home and study it, study foryourself, study it, so then you
can find out what it is that'sactually being said.
It's very, very important inevery single area of our lives.
Ladies and gentlemen, there wasa preacher that came out not

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too long ago and he said listen.
He said we have to come up witha new way of preaching the
gospel here, because you know,if you're dealing with someone
that's 14, 15, 16, never beensexually active, then of course
you need to preach abstinence tothem.
They are the ones that need tostop having sex.
They can't have sex untilthey're married.
But if you're 34, 35, 36, youwere married and got divorced.

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We got to come up withsomething different, because you
know they've already beensexually active and you know, as
a result of that, there's gotto be another way that we can
help them out.
Now this is stuff that's comingforth out of people's pulpits.
I mean, I've seen people inpulpits taking two women and
then saying, ok, we're going todedicate their children and call
them a family.
If I were to mention theirnames, some of you listen to

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their music, their worship,leaders of national prominence.
I mean, we've got all sorts ofthings that are going on in the
world, ladies and gentlemen,that are happening, and my thing
is this it's not to be hatefultowards people, because, let me
say this as well, one of thethings about Charlie Kirk now,
listen, everybody has their owncall and their destiny.
So I don't judge anybody when itcomes to how they say things.

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He says things that I believe,but I probably I might not say
it the same way.
He would say it, I would say itdifferently, I would probably
season it with salt.
But you know, one of the thingsI look at too is I've been
preaching the gospel for aboutas long as he's been alive, and
if I had to go back into myearly twenties and my twenties
and my early thirties, theremight be things I would say

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differently now.
Now, knowing what I know now,because I've adjusted some
things, I've grown, I'vetailored some things, there were
times I had to go back andcorrect.
Now what I was saying was right, but how I said it may not have
been correct, and sometimespeople don't know how to listen
for the message.
How many times do people dothat in relationships?
Somebody can be sayingsomething and you hear their

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words, but you don't hear theirheart, and so you take it and
you translate it how you want to.
And it's very, very importantwhen you are a person of wisdom
is to be able to hear the wholecontextualization of what's
saying.
Do you know how many timespeople I heard?
Somebody came to me not toolong ago where the Bible says in
the book of Genesis that Godgave every herb bearing seed for
you, for fruit and for meat.

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So a person said well, god, soback in the day I don't know if
they call that still now, Idon't know all the lingo on it,
but marijuana back in the daywas called a herb.
You know, you got some herb,you're going to roll up some
herbs.
So they would say so.
One person actually said youknow, that's how some people
gravitate to make marijuana aspiritual thing and they say,

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okay, a spiritual thing.
And they say, okay, I'm aRastafarian because God gave
every herb bearing seed, sothat's the herb, so God gave
that to me, and they take itcompletely out of context.
Context is very important,ladies and gentlemen.
That's why I'm saying don'ttake my word for it.
And sometimes you have to hear,and even when you're reading a
scripture, you can't just readone scripture and develop like
one of my favorite things isJeremiah 29.
People talk about Jeremiah.
I believe it's 29, 11.

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Behold, for I know the thoughtsthat I have towards you,
thoughts of peace and not ofevil, to give you a hope and a
future and a good and expectedend.
And people put that scriptureup, do you?
Most people probably have noclue what the context of that
scripture is, and we quote itand put it up like yo, god's got
great plans for me, which hedoes, and he was saying that to
them.
But the context of thatscripture is he's saying listen,

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I'm about to send y'all into 70years of slavery.
You're going to be kicked outof your house.
You're going to be kicked outof your land, you're going to go
into slavery.
But I know the thoughts that Ihave towards you and so a lot of
times people don't realize youcan't just take one scripture
and make a theology around it.
You have to be very, verycareful.
You have to be careful ofsoundbites you listen to on the
news or something that you watchon Facebook or something that

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you hear on YouTube or whateverit is.
And if you don't do yourhomework, like what I just
showed you right there, mostpeople that's all that they
quote when they come to me.
Somebody actually came to mejust a day ago or so and said I
heard that quote.
So I said, all right, I'm goingto do some more research on it.
I already knew he wasn't in myopinion.
I don't believe he's racist atall.
Do I believe that there weresome areas where he could have
tampered his words a little bitbetter?

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Maybe said a little bitdifferently for me?
Yes, for me, but that ain't mycall.
I mean, he's got to.
That was.
I'm not the person for thatmessage, but I'm not God's man
in that area.
So I'm very careful.
But as I've gotten older youknow, I'm 48 years old now.

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I've been preaching the gospelfor almost 30 years.
I've learned how to sharethings a little bit differently.
I realized too, ladies andgentlemen, that the truth will
work all by itself.
Now I'm not a big fan, likesome people do it, like they'll
get into calling people namesand things like that.
I don't, that's not how I roll.
I believe the truth will cutall on its own.
The Bible is a two-edged sword.
The Bible says it's a two-edgedsword, which I believe is why

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it's two-edged.
It cuts going in, but it alsoheals coming out.
It will cut and work all byitself.
It doesn't need my added namecalling.
I look at our president manytimes that he'll say different
things and call names and thingslike that.
That's not how I roll.
I don't feel that's what God'scalled me to do.

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I don't think.
Matter of fact, the Bible sayslet your speech be seasoned with
salt.
So it's important that you knoweven Jesus.
I mean the way he dealt withpeople.
Now don't get me wrong.
He called him a brood of vipers.
There are different things thathe would say, but Jesus and the
way that he was going about itand the way some people are
going about it today.
Sometimes people get into what'scalled a bickering match, and I

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don't believe that's where weneed to go.
I believe you can have a debate, but I don't believe in name
calling and things along thatline.
I believe that our speechshould be seasoned with salt.
But it's important.
Ladies and gentlemen, don'ttake my word for it.
Don't take somebody else's wordfor it.
Don't be lazy.
Go out and put the work in.
Go out and find out what it isthat you need to do.

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You know, it's very, veryimportant that you study for
yourself.
Ladies and gentlemen, very,very Look at this here.
I've been spending time in thisactually all day today.
2 Timothy 2, I want you to readsomething Verse number 14.
Look at this here.
Remind them of these things.

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See, ladies and gentlemen, Ilove the word of God.
It helps us to get back tosquare one, helps us get back to
ground zero, helps us to get towhere we need to be.
This is my roadmap B-I-B-L-Ebasic instructions before
leaving earth.
B for basic, I for instructions.
B basic instruction before theother.
B before L leaving E earth.

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B-i-b-l-e basic instructionsbefore leaving earth.
So this is what I use tonavigate these things.
Remind them of these things,charging them before the Lord,
not to strive about words to noprofit, to the ruin of the
hearers.
So that's why you got to makesure you got to know what's to
profit and what's not.
Look, I love this here.
Be diligent and study to showyourself approved to God, a

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worker who does not need to beashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth.
I believe he's talking aboutstudying the scriptures here,
because there was a lot ofhypocrisy, there was a lot of
heresy that was going around,and he's telling Timothy, who is
a young preacher hey, make sureyou study and know your stuff.
Don't just talk from one littleline that somebody gave you.
Don't just talk from one littlething that somebody gave you.

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Make sure you do the researchfor yourself.
Do you know how many thingsthat I've done?
Even when the pandemic came outin 2020 and they had the shots
and all the different things,you know what I did.
Nobody asked me to.
Nobody told me to.
I went through.
I studied every vaccine sincethe 1800s.
I have notes right now Everyvaccine, how long it took, how

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many of them had side effects.
And I, when I studied, you knowwhat the shortest one was?
The shortest one was sevenyears before it was approved.
And the reason why I onlyproved it for seven years is
because it was during a militarytime and they sent it out
quicker because the men need itand they're willing to take the
risk.
So for me I'm not a.

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If you wanted to get a shot,get a shot.
I told people in our churchnobody's to condemn anybody.
Let every man abide where hefeels he is called.
You can't live by my faith.
I can't live by your faith.
Some people like I know onepreacher.
He never takes an aspirin oreverything.
He's never taken one for 30years.
Andrew Womack, I mean, praiseGod for him.

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That's wonderful.
That ain't my calling.
If I got a headache, I'm takingan Advil and I'm not saying
that I'm right or wrong.
I'm not saying I won't try tocome up in that.
But my point is you've got toabide where it is you're called.
I had to study.
I got to live by my own faith.
Work out your own salvation.
Philippians, chapter two, verse12 and 13.
Work out your own salvationwith fear and trembling, for it

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is God who works in you both todo and to will for his good
pleasure.
So the ability to will and theability to do.
It comes from the Lord, andwhat God may be giving him to do
, he may not be giving me to do.
And what God?
That's why every man has toabide in his own call, amen.
So that's why you've got tostudy to show yourself approved

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unto God, a worker who does notneed to be ashamed, rightly
dividing truth, rightly dividingtruth, ladies and gentlemen,
not just in the scripture, butin every area.
Study to show yourself approved.
You hear something on the news.
Study it.
If you don't know, don't havean opinion.
But if you know, then do it.
But don't just take somebodyelse's opinion in one little

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soundbite or something alongthat line and then run with it.
How much research have youreally done?
How much time have you put infiguring out what the truth is?
You take a look at a major courtcase.
They dig for evidence.
Now, what we do?
We just want to say guilty orinnocent.
What do they do?
Oh, they showed us this littlepiece of evidence.
That's it.
Okay, that's enough for me.
Wait a minute.
There's a whole story here.

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You have what's called forensicstudies, forensic science.
You've got all these thingsthat they go through and study
the DNAs and they studiedfootprints and they ask
witnesses and they do different.
I mean they got all thesethings to put the whole thing
together to make sure they comeup rightly dividing the word of

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truth.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me saythis to you You've got to
understand that we're in a dayand hour now that anything comes
forth out of the pulpit.
If you don't want to bedeceived, you've got to study
for yourself.
People say how come you stay inthe way that you do?
How do you say the things yousay?
Well, one of the things becauseI've studied to show myself
approved.
I study, I look into things.

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I don't just take things atface value.
I don't just grab any old thingand run with it.
I make sure I study to showmyself approved.
I don't take one little pieceof something and make the whole
picture.
Some people take one little areaof their life and then paint
the picture of God based uponone thing they went through.
If God's really real, then whywould he allow people to suffer?
Okay, but if God's really real,why would he allow someone to

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win the lottery?
Why would he allow somebody toget promoted?
Why does he allow?
I mean, you can go on and on.
Why did God allow you to liveand someone else didn't live?
How come you got healed fromcancer and someone else didn't?
Why did God allow that?
I mean, we have to look at thewhole picture.
Ladies and gentlemen.
You can't take one puzzle pieceand call it.
You've got to put everythingtogether.

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Study to show yourself Don'ttake my word for it.
Take my word, but go find itfor yourself.
Study to show yourself approved.
A worker who does not need to beashamed rightly dividing the
word of truth.
Hallelujah, I love that there,that rightly dividing the word
of truth speaks of a father thatknows how to break apart the

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word in a way and divvy it up toevery child according to their
individual need.
Hallelujah, they know how toapply truth into their lives.
See, some people are either allright or all wrong.
And what I mean by that?
Listening to people's opinions.
Some people listen to one sideand not the other.
Some people listen to one pieceand not the other.

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Wisdom gets the whole council.
The Bible says in the multitudeof counselors there's safety.
When you do a research projectin a school, they don't say just
get one source.
They want you to list.
Your sources Show you have dugout the truth.
People take one soundbite fromCharlie Kirk and then make it a
whole thing.
People take one thing from theKirk and then make it a whole

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thing.
People take one thing from thepulpit and make it their whole
life.
Why don't you go study it foryourself?
Maybe there's things God wantsto reveal to you.
And then what happens?
You can develop a case basedupon you.
Take a look at someone that isa lawyer.
They go through and theydevelop a case.
They take previous cases, theyline them up, even with other

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studies.
They'll say like Jones versusthe state, myth versus this
thing, smith versus that person,and they'll take that case.
And well, how that got linedout.
And then they'll take theconstitution or they'll take
this certain law and they havepoints of law that they argue
and then they build their casearound the different points of
law.
What do we do?
We just take one piece ofevidence and then we run with it

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.
No, I'm hanging on this and I'mgoing to die with it.
Now there are times that you cantake things that really at face
value.
But my question is in this dayand hour, with so much
information, what do you have toprove your case?
How much time have you put intoit In anything?
I'm not even talking about justCharlie Kirk.

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I'm using this as an example ofhow people get deceived in
their lives.
And then what the devil will do?
He'll take one little pieceLike, say, for example, people
that are looking for a reasonfor find racism.
They're looking.
I'm not denying that there'sracism out there.
I know there's racism out there.
I'm not denying the fact thatpeople are racist.

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I'm not denying the fact thatblack people need jobs.
I'm not denying the fact thatthere are qualified black people
that have not gotten jobs.
I'm not even denying that.
I am clearly saying I knowthere are Matter of fact.
In the NFL, the NBA, thereneeds to be more black owners.
But one of the things I tellpeople this all the time not
until lately, in the last maybe20, 30 years, have we started
seeing black billionaires.
We've got to have the money todo that, which big shout out to

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all the African-Americanbrothers and sisters out there
that are coming up, people likeOprah and people like now you've
got Magic Johnson and MichaelJordan.
All these guys they've all comeup to the rankings.
Now, thanks be unto God,because the racial barrier was
broken through the blood of MLKand even Malcolm X.
I even put him out there.
He was willing to stand up forblack people, even though I

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didn't agree with his ways.
Still standing for black people.
He gave up his life for hiscause.
You have RFK and JFK and yougot Abraham Lincoln back in 63,
1863.
Took 100 years to get there andthen from that point on, from
68 by 2000, we started seeingbillionaires coming into the
ranks.
Come on somebody.

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And so my point in saying allthis is that you've got to
develop a whole case, thoughRound about it, not just one
thing, can't just take one pieceand say I'm just going to run
with that.
You've got to study to showyourself approved.
So then you know, you have acase, ladies and gentlemen, and
that's one of the things thatpeople do not do nowadays.

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We just take Facebook andYouTube, we find one little clip
and then we run with it.
We just run with it, we justgoing to go with it.
We don't do any type of study.
We are one clip by somebodyelse.
That has a point.
And my point in saying this isbecause, if you already have had
dealt with racism and nowsomeone throws out there oh,
there's that narrative.
Oh yep, see, I knew it.
I knew white people were racist.

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Are there white racists outthere?
Of course there are.
Of course there are.
I mean, come on, it's still outthere.
But but that don't mean everylittle sound bite means
somebody's racist.
You've got to go through and doyour own research.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Look at what it says here 2Timothy 2, verse 16.
But shun profane and vain andidle babblings, for they will

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increase to more ungodliness.
Shun them.
Why?
How do I shun profane and idlebabblings After you've studied
what this boy is preaching up inhere right now?
My good God, I wish I had anamen in the chat I'm preaching
right now.
See, a lot of times we allowprofane and idle and vain
babblings that increase to moreungodliness, more tension.

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You know we talk aboutfact-checking.
I think for every presidentialdebate, when they bring
something up, they should not beable to bring it up unless they
can fact-check it and prove itright there on the scene.
I mean, bring up a video, whatthey said, bring up an article,
something.
You can't just throw stuff out.
I mean nowadays people just sayany old thing.
Oh yeah, unemployment's beendown the lowest it's been in 100

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years.
Prove it, show me 1977, 78, thestatistic that you have, and
have somebody that facts checkit, I think things would
completely change.
But now we can just sayanything.
If they say, well, it must betrue because they're a president
or they're running for office,so they got to be true.
They wouldn't lie about that.
Since when I mean fact checkeverything, then you can shun.
I mean fact check everything,then you can shun profane and
idle babblings.
Why?
Because if you start arguingprofane, vain, idle babblings,

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it increases to more ungodliness.
Look what it says and theirmessage.
See the message of the profane,the message of the idle, the
message of the vain individualswill always increase and the
devil uses these people and theleft or the right, or preachers

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or whomever, to people that donot look at what go back to.
15.
Study to show yourself approved, a worker.
So people that don't study arelazy.
I'm going to say that againPeople that don't study to show

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themselves approved are lazy.
They're not a worker andtherefore they don't rightly
divide truth.
They'll just take any old thingand run with it versus.
Let me make sure I've got allmy I's dotted and my T's crossed
.
Look what it says in verse 17.
And their message will spreadlike a cancer, quick and easy.
I love this statement here Alie has speed, but truth has

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endurance and their message willspread like a cancer.
Hymenaeus and Philetus are ofthis sort, who have strayed
concerning the truth, sayingthat the resurrection has
already passed, and theyoverthrow the faith of some.
So a lot of people got peoplecalling people names that they
shouldn't even be called.
You got a lot of people callingpeople liars that ain't liars.
Why?
Because somebody decided topaint a narrative.

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I heard a phenomenal man of God.
Tomi Arayemi said something verypowerful that stuck with me.
He says when you're dealingwith haters, they're not the
ones that kill you.
Watch this.
It wasn't the Jewish people.
Watch this.
It wasn't Herod and Pilate thatcrucified Jesus.

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It was the Jewish people'snarrative that drove the nails.
Listen to me when I tell youthis In this day and hour, you
have to study every narrative.
You have to study everynarrative, or otherwise your
faith can be overthrown.
You can be deceived because youbelieve whatever your feelings

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tell you versus really goingforth and studying it.
Verse 23, and I'm almost doneVerse 23,.
But avoid foolish and ignorant,unlearned disputes, knowing
that they generate strife.
You want to know why there's somuch strife?
Cause nobody fact checks,nobody does their research.
How many sources do you have?

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Those of you that say CharlieKirk is not racist and Charlie
Kirk that is racist?
How many sources do you have?
You want to take one statementand give a man his whole life's
work that was willing to take abullet for what he believed, and
take one statement he made andencapsulate that without knowing
the full context.
People do that to Jesus all thetime.

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They'll take one scripture anddevelop a whole context of
beliefs about the Bible basedupon one scripture.
The Bible's full ofcontradictions.
Next time somebody says thathand them the Bible, say show me
it, yeah, but Didn't study.
And so what happens?
They're foolish and ignorantdisputes, knowing that they
generate strife.

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People say, patrick, why wouldyou get on here and talk about
Charlie Kirk in the race?
Because I did my research.
I've listened to hours andhours and hours and hours of his
talks and I've pulled togethera body of work, not a one-liner,
a body of work.
And I do that with preachersI've been studying about for 30

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years.
I do it with preachers.
I do it with every person.
That's why, even with thevaccine, when it came out, I
studied y'all, me and my family.
We never did it Just based uponmy studies.
That was what I did.
I'm not ashamed of what I stoodfor and I have faith in what I
stood for because I studied it.
I'm not listening to just thegovernment, not listening to
just somebody else.
In this day and hour, in thisinformation age, where

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everything's at the click of abutton, you click up one thing,
you'll get a million differentanswers online.
Man, you got to study to showyourself approved.
Look at this.
A servant of the Lord must notbe quarrel, be gentle to all,
able to teach patient humility,correcting those who are in
opposition, if God perhaps willgrant them repentance, so that
they may know the truth and thatthey may come to their senses.
See, some people don't come totheir senses because they don't

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study and escape the snare ofthe devil, having been taken
captive by him to do his will.
Wow, I hope that y'all aregetting something out of this,
because I really want you tocatch the reality of what I'm
saying.
I got.
I wish I had more time, but I'mrunning out of time.
I gotta go.
Maybe I'll come back later anddo another teaching on this.
I want, I want to do, I wantyou to do me one more favor, mr

(30:07):
Producer.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Show me the first clip one more time if I see a
black pilot, I'm going to belike boy.
I hope he's qualified.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
I hope that he's qualified.
I've heard that say a millionand one times.
Listen to just 45 seconds ofthis context, of this clip.
I'm about to show you Just one.
I can show you a whole lot more, but just listen to this 45
seconds instead of a threesecond clip.
Listen to the whole 45 seconds.
Listen to what it is that heshared, just to drive home the

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narrative of what was he reallytrying to say and why did he say
that statement.
Let's play it.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I'm sorry.
If I see a black pilot I'mgoing to be like boy.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I hope he's qualified Well, that's the you wouldn't
have done that, you wouldn'thave.
You know, and that's, that'snot an immediate no, you
wouldn't have done that before.
That's not who I am.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
That's not what I believe it is the reality the
left has created.
I want to be as blunt aspossible, because now I'm
connecting two dots.
Wait a second.
The CEO said that he's forcingthat a white qualified guy is
not going to get the job.
So I see this guy.
He might be a nice person.
I say boy, he's not aHarvard-style affirmative action
student that has points for.

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And he landed half of hisflight simulator trials.
That's the thing.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Such a good point and , by the way, it also.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
it creates unhealthy thinking patterns.
I don't want to think that way.
No, and no one should.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I don't want to think that way and nobody should
think that because a man isblack, he can't fly.
But if you do your research,like he did, the reason why he
said that statement was becausefrom his research, he was saying
that people from a certainairline are going to take.

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We're going to take 40% ofpeople, whether they're good or
not.
Even if the white man is betterand he can fly better, we're
going to give it to the blackman, even if he's not qualified.
When you take things into afull context even if now, watch,
just stay with me for a second,I know I'm going a little bit
longer Even if Charlie Kirk isincorrect, say for him his

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information is incorrect thatdoesn't make him a racist, it
makes him ignorant.
Racist is saying I don't careif he's qualified or not, he's
black, he ain't qualifiedbecause he's black.
He's saying the research I havedone.
I was talking to a CEO.
He said listen, we're going toput 40% of black people in there

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where they're qualified.
They'll only land half of theirstuff.
I'm still going to put them inthere.
Wait a minute.
I'm putting my life in thisguy's hand because he's black.
Wait a minute.
That doesn't make any sense tome.
Is that a racist statement,though what he just said?
Based upon that, is that reallya racist statement?
I'd love to hear from y'all.

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Show me how it is.
Show me how it is.
Let me tell you this If you area black man and you found out
there was a white man flying, hewas flying and you found out
okay, he only landed 40% of hisflights in the simulator how
many of y'all hopping in thecockpit with him?
I'm not.
Is it because I'm a racist?
No, you don't know how to fly.
What Charlie Kirk was sayingand all that.
Now, he didn't always say itthe best way, but I did research

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to show this way and he evensaid he goes.
I don't want to think that way.
He goes.
Nobody should think that wayabout black people.
Somebody help me with that,please.
You want to know what happens.
People find one narrative andthey run with it.
They take one scripture and I'musing the thing with Charlie
Kirk as the error of our day.

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One person says you can havesex.
One person says a man and a mancan get together, a woman and a
woman can get together.
What research have you done?
Have you done any research.
Have you studied to showyourself approved in any area?
The vaccine people are arguingabout the vaccine.
How many people studied aboutvaccines?
And even though I was studyingabout it, I still never drove

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the narrative to anybody thatthey shouldn't or should take it
.
I just said, hey, if you ask me, I'll tell you.
I had people actually ask mesay would you send me your
research?
Sure, I didn't make a decisionbased upon what CNNnn said,
msnbc, fox news, the left or theright, and you can't trust
anybody in this day and hour.
Really there are some, but yougot to do your own research,

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ladies and gentlemen, and Iwanted to show you that in the
beginning and at the end,because a lot of people, people
say why do you make this answer?
You said because I did myresearch, I study, I looked at
things.
Did he always share things thebest way?
No, but he was 31 too.
But let me say this too heprobably did more at 31 than
some people do in 3,100 years.

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And the man died a full lifeand an empty life at the same
time.
He was full of what he wasgoing to do, but he emptied out
everything that he had withinhim, and I'm not saying that he
said everything perfectly.
I'm not saying that he saideverything perfectly.
I'm not saying that.
But for me that's not a racistman.
He's saying based upon myresearch and what I've seen, I

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don't want to think that way hegoes.
That's not even how I think.
Who did that research?
How many of y'all saw that clip?
Did they show that on CNN?
Did they show that on MSNBC?
Did they show that on Fox News?
Did they show that on the clipthat you said he's right?
Did they take that whole thinginto context?
Probably not.
If you would take one clip, runwith it Instead of studying the
whole body of work.
Ladies and gentlemen, as Iprepare to close, I hope that

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you will take from this BecauseI may not go back into more of
this now.
I believe now I've given youwhat I believe the spirit of the
Lord has given me to do, andthe thing that I want you to
take from this whether you agreewith me or not is irrelevant.
I'm not even saying you wouldhave to agree.
Maybe you still feel, I stillbelieve he's a racist.
Well, that's okay.
That's your right to believewhat you want to believe.
It's my right to believe what Iwant to believe, what I'm

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saying.
I'm asking you to challengeyourself in anything you stand
up for.
Have you studied to showyourself approved?
Have you done your own research?
How much time have you put inon digging out, rightly dividing
the word of truth not just withthe scripture, but anything

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that goes on?
And I'll be honest with you, ifI can't find the research on it
, I just won't have a comment ora comment based upon a place of
, to a limited place ofknowledge.
But I've done, I did hours,hours of research on Charlie
Kirk when I put together thewhole body of work.
Now, do I believe that he puttogether everything the way he
should have?
And I might've shared itdifferently?

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Yeah, there might be somethings I wouldn't say, say like
that, like I've said before, theone area that I would critique
him I would have a black manwith me in that.
But just because he made amistake and I always said that
doesn't mean his whole body ofwork is wrong.
Sometimes we just don't studyenough to get the full truth.
I'm going to say something toyou as well.
I might even leave you withthis as I prepare to wrap up.

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Some people watch this.
They study enough to believethey're right, but don't study
enough to know they're wrong.
And see the reality is, if youonly study enough to believe
that you're right oh, I gotenough just to believe I'm right
, but you haven't studied enoughto know that you're wrong, you
will be in error.
I'm asking everybody everywhereget your facts right, even when
you're dealing with somebodythat is talking and maybe you

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have a disagreement withsomebody.
Before you cast judge and juryand conviction and death penalty
on somebody, find out.
Did your friend really say that?
Did they do that?
Give them an opportunity tocome to the table.
Some of you are listening rightnow.
You wrote people off and didn'teven give them an opportunity.
Go get all the facts.
Just because somebody told youthey said that wait a minute.
How do you know what theirmotive and narrative is?

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Remember, narratives drivenails.
It was the narrative of Jesusbeing a bad man.
Pilate and Herod.
They both said ain't nothingwrong with the guy.
But the narrative was drivenhard enough that eventually,
herod and Pilate both said allright, you're good, kill him,
crucify him.
Matter of fact, he said Iwashed my hands, I don't find
anything wrong with him, but thenarrative drove the nails and I

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can't take ownership of that.
I got to get that to tell mearound me.
Man, that was powerful.
I'm saying this to y'all.
Even in that I did research andI'm asking everybody, in every
area of your life, with all thethings that are coming out have
you studied on transgender?
Have you studied on marriage?
Have you studied on any of theresults?
Have you studied on statistics?
Have you studied on whathappens when kids becomes

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transgender?
Have you studied the effects ofmental health on people?
Have you studied people thatare talking about addiction?
Have you studied on addiction?
Have you been around anything?
I mean, have you studied?
Do you know for people, oh,that guy is bad, he's terrible.
Have you?
Do you know about his life?
Do you know why he's done whathe's done and why he's doing,
whether they're right, wrong,different, but you might look at
things differently once youknow the whole story.

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Ladies and gentlemen, study toshow yourself approved.
Don't sit back and just let anynarrative drive the nail.
Find out about the narratives.
Where do they come from?
How do you know?
Their motive is pure.
I just gave you scripture.
The evil narratives have beendriven way back.
When I'm asking you study.

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Show yourself approved.
A workman that needeth not tobe ashamed, rightly dividing the
word of truth.
I'm Pastor J Anthony Gilbert andI approve this message.
I hope that you've enjoyedtoday and I hope that you will
take the time to study.
Know this.
I hope that you have awonderful weekend operating in

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truth, finding out the realnarratives of what's going on.
And listen.
Next week I'll be here Mondaythrough Friday, by God's grace,
at 8.30 pm, rightly dividing theword of truth.
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(39:51):
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Listen to this again.
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That's going to be a blessingto you Until next time.
I'm Pastor J Anthony Gilbertsigning off and I'll see you
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We'll be right back, thank you.