September 9, 2025 • 29 mins
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to identify someone else’s mistakes, yet so difficult to spot our own? That’s because as humans, we all carry blind spots—areas of our lives, habits, and thought patterns that we simply don’t see clearly.
These blind spots don’t necessarily make us “bad” or “ignorant”—they make us human. But if left unchecked, they can limit our growth, strain our relationships, and keep us from becoming the best versions of ourselves.
Blind spots don’t define us—they refine us. The moment we choose humility and curiosity, we begin to see more clearly. And once we see, we can grow. That’s exactly what we’ll be unpacking in this podcast episode. Be blessed
#Blindspot
#HiddenPatterns
#WhatYouDontSee
#MindBlindSpots
#SelfAwareness
#SeeClearly
#SelfDiscovery
These blind spots don’t necessarily make us “bad” or “ignorant”—they make us human. But if left unchecked, they can limit our growth, strain our relationships, and keep us from becoming the best versions of ourselves.
Blind spots don’t define us—they refine us. The moment we choose humility and curiosity, we begin to see more clearly. And once we see, we can grow. That’s exactly what we’ll be unpacking in this podcast episode. Be blessed
#Blindspot
#HiddenPatterns
#WhatYouDontSee
#MindBlindSpots
#SelfAwareness
#SeeClearly
#SelfDiscovery
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Questions about you on.
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Nothing as the records.
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Because you don't go along look out.
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And that is my love.
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You'll be joying.
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My mom got bet my lun.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I love music.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Mano Boy had to say, shy, welcome back to the
African Blues Podcast and I am your host, Nesca. Thank
you so much for everybody who has been following up
and just asking what am I doing?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
When is a podcast coming back?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Some people have been coming in my dreams, so I
just want to say thank you, thank you so so much.
I really appreciate the love and the support. I believe
that probably I'm bringing something right then. So yeah, we're
back with the podcast and it's just going to be
the African Blues Podcast, and we'll only be having one show,
not like three shows previously on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
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It's just going to be one every other episode, and
by God's grace, I believe it's going to carry us
through until the next transition.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So as we begin, shall just say a word of
prayer Heaven, the Father, We just want to say thank
you for your goodness, thank you for another great opportunity
for the Lord to study your word, to share your
word and to just sit at your feet and just
fast with you. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ,
Spirit of the Living God, I just want to pray,
committing this time into your hands. May you alone have
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your way, Let your kingdom come, and you will be
established in our lives and in our hearts. In the
mighty name of Jesus Christ. I pray that mere discussion
today take root and produce fruit. In the mighty name
of Jesus Christ, that we run from generation to generation.
And Father, I just want to speak a special blessing
upon everybody who will take time to listen, and you
please bless them replenish their pockets, so God, because I
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know they'll be using data or Wi Fi, whatever they're
going to be using. So please, I pray Father, that
may they never know what it means to lack with
the sacrifice that they're making. And I pray that you
may also cover the people that they love and care
for supply or their needs according to your riches in glory.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I pray with
thanksgiving and praise in my heart. Amen, welcome back once more,
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and I hope we're all doing well. So today, as
we resume the podcast, our opening scripture is coming from
Sound Chapter one. I'm going to read for verse one
until verse three, and the Bible reads blessed is the
one who does not work in the step of the wicked,
or stand in the way that sinner stake, or sit
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in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in
the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his
load day and night. That person is like a tree
planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit
in season, and whose live does not be there whatever
that they do, prosperous.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Amen Amen.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
So that's a scripture that we're running with as we
start today. And I'm going to be sharing on a
topic today that I have entitled blind spot. So many
of us, maybe that have the anatomical idea, might know
where exactly a blind spot can be seen in the eye.
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We we just maybe you might know the definition of
it coming from a medical perspective. So I'm going to
give to particular definitions, the medical one and the metaphorical,
if I should call it that, And our focus mainly
is going to be on the metaphorical part. But the
reason I'll be giving the medical definition as well, is
because there's something in it that I found to be
very intriguing, if I should say so. The aspect of
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a blind spot that we're going to be looking in
terms of the story today is the definition is a
persistent lack of awareness concerning an aspect of one's personality
and or behavior. A persistent lack of awareness concerning an
aspect of one's personality and or behavior.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Now, the blind.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Spot, that is the medical part of it, is what
I'm going to be defining now, which is so the
medical definition of a blind spot is a small area
in the visual field where there are no photo receptor
cells due to the optic nerve exiting the eye, So
the area is insensitive to light, and therefore it's called
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a blind spot. However, we usually don't notice it because
our brain feels in the missing information using the input
from another eye and its own perception. Okay, so each
one of us actually does have a blind spot because
the brain feels in the missing information because there is
a composition for each Because the brain composates for it,
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it's not something that is noticeable or you don't actually
get to feel any effects of it. So our story
today is coming from Genesis chapter six, from verse five.
I'm going to read until verse fourteen, and the Bible
reads verse five. The Lord saw how great the wickedness
of the human race had become on the earth, and
that every inclination of the thoughts of man's heart was
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only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he
had made human beings on the earth, and his heart
was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, I will wipe
from the face of the earth to human race I
have created, and with them the animals that bres the
creatures that move along the ground, for I regret that
I have made them. But Noah found favor in the
eyes of the Lord. This is the count of Noah
and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among
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the people of his time, and walked faithfully with God.
Noah had three sons, shame, Ham and Jeffith. Now the
earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for other
people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said
to Noah, I'm going to put an end to all people,
for the earth is filled with dollars. Because of them.
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I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
So make yourself an arc of sidepress wood, make rooms
in neat and cought it with pitch inside and out.
This is how you are to build it. The ark
is to be three one hundred cubits long and fifty
cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Terry continues with the
descriptions and the missions of what God was instructing Noah to
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do concerning the arks. I'm just going to quickly jump
in chapter eight, we get to understand that the flood
is done, and then God remembers Noah and his family,
and after the waters are receded, he asked them to
come out of the arc, of which they do. When
I was reading this story, I was just thinking about,
you know, how long it might have taken for Noah
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to build the ark, what it had taken for him
to build it. Very popular saying that the heavy is
the head that wears the crown because the responsibility and
the burden, the need for accountability that comes with being
a leader or leading just leading anything, it can be
quite a linging and the amount of sacrifices that people
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get to make just to make sure that things come
to pass or visions. A vision for something comes to
pass like it can be really, it can be very
tedious if I should say so, we're not going to
jump into Genesis chapter nineteen twenty to twenty three, which
is not us getting into the actual story for the day.
So Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard. One day,
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Noah made some wine, he got drunk, went into his
stent and for his clothes. I'm the father of Kennon
saw that his father was naked and told his brothers
who were outside. Sam and Jeffey took a robe, put
it across their shoulders, and walked backward into the tent,
and they covered their father without looking at him. So
now in this story we get to see two different
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responses from Noah's sons after seeing their father's nakedness.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Harm went out.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
After seeing his father's nakedness, I went and told his brothers. Now,
the Bible does not explicitly say if whether he was
laughing about it, was he reporting it, or did he
not know what to do? But I just say he
saw his father's nakedness. I went and told his brothers
after hearing that from him, from their brother. They took
a rob and walked in like putting it across their
shoulders and walking in backwards into the room and covered
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their father. So now, like the question was asking myself
seeing that Noah was a father here like he's a father.
It's a family issue. If I should say, how have
we been responding or reacting after we see our parents' nakedness. Now,
I don't need you physically seeing them naked, but in
moments when you get to see and the context of
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seeing their weaknesses, their flaws, getting to learn about their failures,
seeing them fail you're getting to see how they responding
moments of being vulnerable, like have you been responding to
seeing that aspect of them seeing them in that light?
It could be your parents, it could be your guardians,
it could be your best friends, it could be your
spiritual leaders that have been responding or how have you
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reacted to seeing their nakedness? And we're going to take
the first musical break, and the first thing we're gonna
be taken today is a song by kateus Bloom. It's
a French song, so please pardon me, I.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Will not even attempts to pronounce it.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Pass by Eligi Baby Sammy, you got back to.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
See a bode to see such and some time I
found the jar, I found the j pro facility to
pursue my phy. Ye six, my son, she said, that's
been my.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Song.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I look, I love so when you put the brier
passion jud that problem that grew amazing, baby Jesus on a.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Bye bye eligib is sam going up?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm going about.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You.
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You don't you make it? He'll gone? Don't you.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Welcome back? I hope you enjoyed that song.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
And so just to continue, I believe that many of
us have heard of this thing you should never meet
your hero, like what do you do when you after
meeting you here you realize that they're the most imperfect human.
So I ended with your question, and have we been
responding to seeing the nakedness of our parents, our guardians,
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our best friends, people that are close to us? Because
I think that it's people that are really closest to
us that when things happen, we tend to be very unmerciful,
if I should say it, like at that point, it
just like we run out of mercy or the grace
that is supposed to be ever sufficient it just at
the point when they do something the great just it
runs out like I'm not talking about people who like
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are toxic and I'm talking about people actually you know
that these are your like they need to be in
your life, tested in exchange at least four until God
says part your ways, you know, but they need to
be in your life because not only do you benefit
from them, but they equally benefit from you being in
their lives. How have we been responding? So I'm just
going to pose like six questions and not going to
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get a little bit into the world of God. Have
we been responding by covering them like that's the first
recovering them? Or have we been responding by calling other
people to and see their nakedness? Have we started being
disobedient towards them? Have we been writing them off? Have
we started letting go of the accountability or removing the
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covering over us? Have we started taking or retaken the
necessary of face and holding grudges towards them?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Like?
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How have we been responding?
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And one thing that we always need to keep in
mind is that in which every way that we choose
to respond react, there.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Are consequences that come with it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
There's definitely going to be a boomerang reaction, if I
should call it, that will come with it. So we're
going to get into the world of God and see
a few things that the Bible says in moments like
this and refree responding disobedience. For example, Proverbs thirty seventeen
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says that people who make fun of their father, mock
or use to obey their mother should have their eyes
plucked up by wild birds or be eaten by vouchers.
And then perhaps twenty verse twenty says if you despise
your father or mother, your life will flicker out like
a lamp extinguished into the deepest darkness. So one thing
that we get to pick out from here is that
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if you responding disobedience is going to attract God's wrath.
Like this is without a shadow of doubt. It's explicitly
stated in the scriptures. We're going to move on to
first pitch, Chapter five. Us want to turn the bibleries.
Don't be harsh or impatient with an older man. Talk
to him as you would your own father, and to
a younger man as your brother, as reverently honor an
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older woman as you would your mother. And the younger
man as your sisters. So this one, I think even
now leaves the shows of your parents. The people that
you have in your life, should I call it your
nuclear family? Like it goes beyond that. So any elderly person,
anyone who is younger, any man who is younger than you,
any lady who is younger than you, treat them like
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your sister, like your brother. You should honor them, the
women like you honor your mother, and the younger ones
like your sisters or your brothers. Because if not, you
are going to attract the wrath of the Lord. But
then again, if you do again, you're doing something good,
which means they're definitely going to attract the blessings of
the Lord as well. In first pitch, Chapter five, verse five,
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Bible reads, likewise, you who are younger and of lesser rank,
be subject to the elders, the ministers, and the spiritual
guides of the church, giving them due respect, and reading
to their counsel cloth, and eppering yourselves, all of you
with humility, as the garb of a servant, so that
its covering cannot possibly be stripped off from you. With
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freedom from pride and arrogance, toward one another. For God
sets himself against the proud, the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful,
the presumptuous, the boastful, and he opposes a frustration and
defeats them, but gives grace, favor blessings to the humble.
I think now this one extends to like spiritual authority,
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and I believe that for some of us are parents,
are like the pastors, are the elders, or like the
spiritual covering over us. Some of us have like actual
pastors where we are under. Others have double parents and pastors,
whichever way. But one thing that the world of God
is actually telling us is that we should not reach
to a point where the covering is stripped from us,
because we want to have freedom, want to express freedom,
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which only leads to pride and arrogance. So if we
look at these scriptures, if we look at these scriptures,
we find that at the end of the day, like
I was saying, however, we respond actually does have its
own consequences. So you're going to either you will hinder
God's blessings. You're going to either attract God's wrath or
attract his blessings. You will end up in regret or
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it might actually end up, you know, coming to a
place of conflict. The second point is have you been
responding by writing people off the Bible? In Jaans chapter five,
verse nineteen to twenty, a ticket from the message translation
the Barbary, My dear friends, if you know people who
have wandered from God's truth, don't write them off, go
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after them, get them back. And you have rescued precious
lives from distraction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away
from God.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
So sometimes it cannot even be necessarily that they wanted
away from you, but it could just be maybe they
could just be going through a season in their lives
that just need a bit of encouragement. Have you spoken
with them, you know, have you tried to sit them down,
reason with them. Have you tried to talk to people
that maybe they are accountable to to help talk to them.
You know, sometimes they could just be maybe a misunderstanding.
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And you know, I've also been in situations where because
of hearsay, you guess do make it in judgments of
people and you write them off because somebody say this
about them, or somebody say they say something. You know
that doesn't sit well with you, But then have you
made the time to actually just maybe sit them there
and make an effort to reach out and really know
exactly what's going on with them. I listened to something
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that apposts to just for Selmon said and really stuck
with me, and he say that sometimes people's actions can
be wrong, but their motives can be sincere. If you
judge people by their actions, you drive away good people
in your life. And because there are many good people
whose actions will hurt you, but they're the greatest blessings
that will be in your life. So you must learn
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to have courage and stiming at to look beyond people's actions,
but look at the heart. So now this is not
to say that we should stay like I mentioned earlier
with toxic people, sorry, or condn't toxic behaviors Like I mentioned, like,
there are people who genuinely intend to do good, like
they really just intend to do good, but it just
it just so happens that it's not good, or maybe
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an interpretation of their good is not good, or in
the moment they just seem to fall away and it
just it doesn't turn out the situation does not turn
up good. So We shouldn't be people that are just
you know, quick to just write people off because we
feel like, eh, I didn't expect to see this side
of you. I didn't expect for you to respond to
the situation in this way, you know, and without getting
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to sit them down a reason they won't speak with them.
We're driving out good people in our lives or driving
away destiny partners, Destiny help us in our lives because
it just feel like this one era that they meet
it doesn't just sit well with you. Now, imagine if
the tables were turned. Wouldn't you want the same amount
of grace to be like extended to you. Wouldn't you
want somebody to come and sit you down and ask
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what exactly is going on with you? Like are you okay?
Oh I heard about this? What happened exactly? I know
it's unlike you to do such a thing.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Or do you feel like.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Maybe you need some time out to you know, put
yourself together. Wouldn't you have found a better way to
deal with the situation, you know, and like where you
find oh, somebody say this and you go and call
other people, or you also said adding your own things
that may not even be existent you know, so we
should be a people that are pretty intentional about covering
one another, because the Bible says we should be each
other scappers, like be a brother skaper. The Bible says that,
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you know clearly. So we're going to take another musical
break and when we come back, we're going to continue
and just conclude on this to picture. Next time, you're
going to be listening to a song by mister Jovi
and it's entitled Amen, be blessed. As you listen, call
me you joby.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Smart smart.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No no no no no no no you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Blie by.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Lada mass.
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Blieve me baby.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Lada Mas Saturdayaada from this sleep, La from this sleep Sadayaada.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Some listens for you lessens follow me. I did pray
for you, Make you pray for me? You go, you
go mute for that mute from everybody. Happy people. As
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you start us, you go ahead them.
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Well dog promo shots, go get the lads everything, everybody.
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Go bless us. You go blessed pi us every day.
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But it's one day, buddy oa ho if you walk
every day, God's up prayer Like you know about Adia
work warl s.
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Did you look at your pay.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Back welcome back. I hope you enjoyed that song.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
As we continue, I'm going to infromachapter seven, from this
one to five. I'll take it from there. Missus translation
and the Bibery don't pick on people, jump on their failures,
decize their faults, unless, of course, you want the same treatment.
That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy
to see a smag in your neighbor's face and be
oblivious of the ugly snare on your own. Do you
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have the nerve to say, let me wash your face
for you when your own face is distorted by contempt.
It's the whole traveling road show mentality all over again,
playing a holy.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
The low part instead of just leaving your part.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Wipe that ugly sneer of your own face, and you
might be fit to offer a wash clothes to your neighbor.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Amen. So I think when I was thinking.
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About Noah, if you read like extensively, the Bible says
that it was six hundred and one years. I think, ye,
six hundred and one years when the flood actually came
to an end and they came out of the arc.
Others Bible scholars say that it took about between fifty
to seventy five years to build that arc. So imagine
all those things that this man went through, Like can
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we just diagnosing that that was just PTSD him getting
drunk and getting naked like PTSD, like nothing else, because
it must have been a traumatic experience because it's not
like he had other people helping him build the art.
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Was only him and his sons. The Bible says only
them were building the arc.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Now imagine you're carrying the vision.
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Like I mentioned earlier, heavy is the head that wears
the crown. You're carrying the vision.
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We don't know if his sons were actually always there
to do the work, and he was working with the timeline,
he was working with specific measurements from God. So sometimes
it's not really it's not good that we should be
people to be casting the first stone, you know, when
the only thing that is saving us from being exposed
ourselves are the things that we've covered our weaknesses with.
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It could be self glorification, self adorning, how we dress,
the kind of maybe job that we have attached to
our name. That's the only thing that is covering us.
But if all these things are just stripped off from us,
you find that we're just as naked and just as
as naked as the other people that.
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We might be judging.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
This is all that I had to share with us,
and I just want to conclude with Ephesians chapter six,
verse one to three and the Bibery children, Obey your
parents and the Lord for this is right. Honor your
father and mother, which is the first commandment, with the
promise so that it may go well with you, that
you may enjoy long life on earth. I think it's
as simple as that, although sometimes it can seem like
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it's a bit challenging to, you know, to follow, but
this scripture, I believe should really be the standard for
everything that we're doing. Whichever family you're born in, whichever
parents are guardians who have been taking care of you.
I could actually even extend this to like spiritual authority.
In addition, in connection with the one that we read
earlier coming from first Peter. You know, one thing that
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I've come to understand is that what we are connected to,
whether our parents were just they're just like a get
with that God used to bring us to this earth.
So your mother, your father, your mother is just married
to God. Your father is just Peter to God is
just Jack to God. You know, like your mother being
a reverend, she's just you know, Rebecca to God. So
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before anything, before any title, before mommy, before pastor before
any deaconness, before any title, they're just like human. So
I believe that it's really important that we get to
see that human needs to before any title, that we
get to see or learn that they have. And another
thing that I've also come to learn as well is
that you know, when it comes to like spiritual authority,
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it is the gift of God, the calling of God
and the anointing that we're receiving counsel from. It's not
like the person directly, because if they just follow the
human themselves, even like there a lot of people on
spiritual spiritual authority, if I should say that would apparaly
tell you that if not for God, really like it
takes a lot for me to even do it has
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taken a lot, No, it takes has they has taken
a lot for me to do what I do. You know,
I used to be this, I used to do this,
but God has done this. So it's the anointing and
the calling of God that you're civil council from, not
the person. So it's not like their current status. It's
not their weaknesses that you observed in their lives, either
now or in their past. It's none of those things
that you're under but the authority. If God wanted you
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to be connected to any other people, you would have
made that possible. But there's a reason that He connected
you to them. So let's just be intentional about honoring
the people that God has put us under, because at
the end of the day, it is for our benefit.
And my prayer is that at the end of the day,
may God just show us mercy in times when we've
been disobedient, when we've seen the nakedness of our parents,
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of our guardians, of our leaders, of our elders, of
our friends, and instead of covering them, we've gone further
to expose them. We've written them off. We have you know,
taken offense we start, we've held grudges and not wanted
to resolve things. And then may God take us back
to place of obedience. When the Bible says we should
love our brothers, we should be loving them as the
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Bible says, you know, love your neighbor. Have we been
loved in our neighbors? The Bible says, and most importantly
my prayer is that God is going to help us
renew our minds to the understanding of what humility is
and that we may be a people that are a
bit more gracious when we see the nakedness of other people,
especially our parents and guardians and people that are in
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spiritual authority over us.
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So this is all that I had to share with us.
Thank you so much for listening. God bless you.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Going to be standing love with a song by diu
Jo and it's called Corny And.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Until next time. This was Nascan the African Blues Podcast.
Be Blessed, Marching.
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Any time our means up.
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Its last.
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Thank you, Thank you a lot now.
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But you.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Like you day to Mama, take you some time fat
for me, don't man for me? Tell me babu shad.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Are you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
This is a done judging the ball.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Anything that you say no that I'm no there, I'm
coming can be wake.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Of nor sorrow and they're happy on the borrow.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
And don't not say.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Don't know me down down pet projem.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
You know to me on me your.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
Charge hip you projums he project. Had I take my version,
had I take my money.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Since you get to my life, captured my house to
take everything.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Put am I without you hold a leven Noble Bake brand.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I believe that the crazy.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
Enough.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Thank you, Thank you,
Questions about you on.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Nothing as the records.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Because you don't go along look out.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And that is my love.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You'll be joying.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
My mom got bet my lun.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I love music.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Mano Boy had to say, shy, welcome back to the
African Blues Podcast and I am your host, Nesca. Thank
you so much for everybody who has been following up
and just asking what am I doing?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
When is a podcast coming back?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Some people have been coming in my dreams, so I
just want to say thank you, thank you so so much.
I really appreciate the love and the support. I believe
that probably I'm bringing something right then. So yeah, we're
back with the podcast and it's just going to be
the African Blues Podcast, and we'll only be having one show,
not like three shows previously on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
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It's just going to be one every other episode, and
by God's grace, I believe it's going to carry us
through until the next transition.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So as we begin, shall just say a word of
prayer Heaven, the Father, We just want to say thank
you for your goodness, thank you for another great opportunity
for the Lord to study your word, to share your
word and to just sit at your feet and just
fast with you. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ,
Spirit of the Living God, I just want to pray,
committing this time into your hands. May you alone have
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your way, Let your kingdom come, and you will be
established in our lives and in our hearts. In the
mighty name of Jesus Christ. I pray that mere discussion
today take root and produce fruit. In the mighty name
of Jesus Christ, that we run from generation to generation.
And Father, I just want to speak a special blessing
upon everybody who will take time to listen, and you
please bless them replenish their pockets, so God, because I
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know they'll be using data or Wi Fi, whatever they're
going to be using. So please, I pray Father, that
may they never know what it means to lack with
the sacrifice that they're making. And I pray that you
may also cover the people that they love and care
for supply or their needs according to your riches in glory.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I pray with
thanksgiving and praise in my heart. Amen, welcome back once more,
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and I hope we're all doing well. So today, as
we resume the podcast, our opening scripture is coming from
Sound Chapter one. I'm going to read for verse one
until verse three, and the Bible reads blessed is the
one who does not work in the step of the wicked,
or stand in the way that sinner stake, or sit
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in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in
the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his
load day and night. That person is like a tree
planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit
in season, and whose live does not be there whatever
that they do, prosperous.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Amen Amen.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
So that's a scripture that we're running with as we
start today. And I'm going to be sharing on a
topic today that I have entitled blind spot. So many
of us, maybe that have the anatomical idea, might know
where exactly a blind spot can be seen in the eye.
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We we just maybe you might know the definition of
it coming from a medical perspective. So I'm going to
give to particular definitions, the medical one and the metaphorical,
if I should call it that, And our focus mainly
is going to be on the metaphorical part. But the
reason I'll be giving the medical definition as well, is
because there's something in it that I found to be
very intriguing, if I should say so. The aspect of
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a blind spot that we're going to be looking in
terms of the story today is the definition is a
persistent lack of awareness concerning an aspect of one's personality
and or behavior. A persistent lack of awareness concerning an
aspect of one's personality and or behavior.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Now, the blind.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Spot, that is the medical part of it, is what
I'm going to be defining now, which is so the
medical definition of a blind spot is a small area
in the visual field where there are no photo receptor
cells due to the optic nerve exiting the eye, So
the area is insensitive to light, and therefore it's called
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a blind spot. However, we usually don't notice it because
our brain feels in the missing information using the input
from another eye and its own perception. Okay, so each
one of us actually does have a blind spot because
the brain feels in the missing information because there is
a composition for each Because the brain composates for it,
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it's not something that is noticeable or you don't actually
get to feel any effects of it. So our story
today is coming from Genesis chapter six, from verse five.
I'm going to read until verse fourteen, and the Bible
reads verse five. The Lord saw how great the wickedness
of the human race had become on the earth, and
that every inclination of the thoughts of man's heart was
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only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he
had made human beings on the earth, and his heart
was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, I will wipe
from the face of the earth to human race I
have created, and with them the animals that bres the
creatures that move along the ground, for I regret that
I have made them. But Noah found favor in the
eyes of the Lord. This is the count of Noah
and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among
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the people of his time, and walked faithfully with God.
Noah had three sons, shame, Ham and Jeffith. Now the
earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence.
God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for other
people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said
to Noah, I'm going to put an end to all people,
for the earth is filled with dollars. Because of them.
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I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.
So make yourself an arc of sidepress wood, make rooms
in neat and cought it with pitch inside and out.
This is how you are to build it. The ark
is to be three one hundred cubits long and fifty
cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Terry continues with the
descriptions and the missions of what God was instructing Noah to
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do concerning the arks. I'm just going to quickly jump
in chapter eight, we get to understand that the flood
is done, and then God remembers Noah and his family,
and after the waters are receded, he asked them to
come out of the arc, of which they do. When
I was reading this story, I was just thinking about,
you know, how long it might have taken for Noah
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to build the ark, what it had taken for him
to build it. Very popular saying that the heavy is
the head that wears the crown because the responsibility and
the burden, the need for accountability that comes with being
a leader or leading just leading anything, it can be
quite a linging and the amount of sacrifices that people
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get to make just to make sure that things come
to pass or visions. A vision for something comes to
pass like it can be really, it can be very
tedious if I should say so, we're not going to
jump into Genesis chapter nineteen twenty to twenty three, which
is not us getting into the actual story for the day.
So Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard. One day,
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Noah made some wine, he got drunk, went into his
stent and for his clothes. I'm the father of Kennon
saw that his father was naked and told his brothers
who were outside. Sam and Jeffey took a robe, put
it across their shoulders, and walked backward into the tent,
and they covered their father without looking at him. So
now in this story we get to see two different
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responses from Noah's sons after seeing their father's nakedness.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Harm went out.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
After seeing his father's nakedness, I went and told his brothers. Now,
the Bible does not explicitly say if whether he was
laughing about it, was he reporting it, or did he
not know what to do? But I just say he
saw his father's nakedness. I went and told his brothers
after hearing that from him, from their brother. They took
a rob and walked in like putting it across their
shoulders and walking in backwards into the room and covered
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their father. So now, like the question was asking myself
seeing that Noah was a father here like he's a father.
It's a family issue. If I should say, how have
we been responding or reacting after we see our parents' nakedness. Now,
I don't need you physically seeing them naked, but in
moments when you get to see and the context of
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seeing their weaknesses, their flaws, getting to learn about their failures,
seeing them fail you're getting to see how they responding
moments of being vulnerable, like have you been responding to
seeing that aspect of them seeing them in that light?
It could be your parents, it could be your guardians,
it could be your best friends, it could be your
spiritual leaders that have been responding or how have you
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reacted to seeing their nakedness? And we're going to take
the first musical break, and the first thing we're gonna
be taken today is a song by kateus Bloom. It's
a French song, so please pardon me, I.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Will not even attempts to pronounce it.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Pass by Eligi Baby Sammy, you got back to.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
See a bode to see such and some time I
found the jar, I found the j pro facility to
pursue my phy. Ye six, my son, she said, that's
been my.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Song.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I look, I love so when you put the brier
passion jud that problem that grew amazing, baby Jesus on a.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Bye bye eligib is sam going up?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I'm going about.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You don't you make it? He'll gone? Don't you.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Welcome back? I hope you enjoyed that song.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
And so just to continue, I believe that many of
us have heard of this thing you should never meet
your hero, like what do you do when you after
meeting you here you realize that they're the most imperfect human.
So I ended with your question, and have we been
responding to seeing the nakedness of our parents, our guardians,
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our best friends, people that are close to us? Because
I think that it's people that are really closest to
us that when things happen, we tend to be very unmerciful,
if I should say it, like at that point, it
just like we run out of mercy or the grace
that is supposed to be ever sufficient it just at
the point when they do something the great just it
runs out like I'm not talking about people who like
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are toxic and I'm talking about people actually you know
that these are your like they need to be in
your life, tested in exchange at least four until God
says part your ways, you know, but they need to
be in your life because not only do you benefit
from them, but they equally benefit from you being in
their lives. How have we been responding? So I'm just
going to pose like six questions and not going to
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get a little bit into the world of God. Have
we been responding by covering them like that's the first
recovering them? Or have we been responding by calling other
people to and see their nakedness? Have we started being
disobedient towards them? Have we been writing them off? Have
we started letting go of the accountability or removing the
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covering over us? Have we started taking or retaken the
necessary of face and holding grudges towards them?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Like?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
How have we been responding?
Speaker 4 (13:24):
And one thing that we always need to keep in
mind is that in which every way that we choose
to respond react, there.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Are consequences that come with it.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
There's definitely going to be a boomerang reaction, if I
should call it, that will come with it. So we're
going to get into the world of God and see
a few things that the Bible says in moments like
this and refree responding disobedience. For example, Proverbs thirty seventeen
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says that people who make fun of their father, mock
or use to obey their mother should have their eyes
plucked up by wild birds or be eaten by vouchers.
And then perhaps twenty verse twenty says if you despise
your father or mother, your life will flicker out like
a lamp extinguished into the deepest darkness. So one thing
that we get to pick out from here is that
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if you responding disobedience is going to attract God's wrath.
Like this is without a shadow of doubt. It's explicitly
stated in the scriptures. We're going to move on to
first pitch, Chapter five. Us want to turn the bibleries.
Don't be harsh or impatient with an older man. Talk
to him as you would your own father, and to
a younger man as your brother, as reverently honor an
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older woman as you would your mother. And the younger
man as your sisters. So this one, I think even
now leaves the shows of your parents. The people that
you have in your life, should I call it your
nuclear family? Like it goes beyond that. So any elderly person,
anyone who is younger, any man who is younger than you,
any lady who is younger than you, treat them like
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your sister, like your brother. You should honor them, the
women like you honor your mother, and the younger ones
like your sisters or your brothers. Because if not, you
are going to attract the wrath of the Lord. But
then again, if you do again, you're doing something good,
which means they're definitely going to attract the blessings of
the Lord as well. In first pitch, Chapter five, verse five,
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Bible reads, likewise, you who are younger and of lesser rank,
be subject to the elders, the ministers, and the spiritual
guides of the church, giving them due respect, and reading
to their counsel cloth, and eppering yourselves, all of you
with humility, as the garb of a servant, so that
its covering cannot possibly be stripped off from you. With
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freedom from pride and arrogance, toward one another. For God
sets himself against the proud, the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful,
the presumptuous, the boastful, and he opposes a frustration and
defeats them, but gives grace, favor blessings to the humble.
I think now this one extends to like spiritual authority,
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and I believe that for some of us are parents,
are like the pastors, are the elders, or like the
spiritual covering over us. Some of us have like actual
pastors where we are under. Others have double parents and pastors,
whichever way. But one thing that the world of God
is actually telling us is that we should not reach
to a point where the covering is stripped from us,
because we want to have freedom, want to express freedom,
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which only leads to pride and arrogance. So if we
look at these scriptures, if we look at these scriptures,
we find that at the end of the day, like
I was saying, however, we respond actually does have its
own consequences. So you're going to either you will hinder
God's blessings. You're going to either attract God's wrath or
attract his blessings. You will end up in regret or
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it might actually end up, you know, coming to a
place of conflict. The second point is have you been
responding by writing people off the Bible? In Jaans chapter five,
verse nineteen to twenty, a ticket from the message translation
the Barbary, My dear friends, if you know people who
have wandered from God's truth, don't write them off, go
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after them, get them back. And you have rescued precious
lives from distraction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away
from God.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
So sometimes it cannot even be necessarily that they wanted
away from you, but it could just be maybe they
could just be going through a season in their lives
that just need a bit of encouragement. Have you spoken
with them, you know, have you tried to sit them down,
reason with them. Have you tried to talk to people
that maybe they are accountable to to help talk to them.
You know, sometimes they could just be maybe a misunderstanding.
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And you know, I've also been in situations where because
of hearsay, you guess do make it in judgments of
people and you write them off because somebody say this
about them, or somebody say they say something. You know
that doesn't sit well with you, But then have you
made the time to actually just maybe sit them there
and make an effort to reach out and really know
exactly what's going on with them. I listened to something
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that apposts to just for Selmon said and really stuck
with me, and he say that sometimes people's actions can
be wrong, but their motives can be sincere. If you
judge people by their actions, you drive away good people
in your life. And because there are many good people
whose actions will hurt you, but they're the greatest blessings
that will be in your life. So you must learn
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to have courage and stiming at to look beyond people's actions,
but look at the heart. So now this is not
to say that we should stay like I mentioned earlier
with toxic people, sorry, or condn't toxic behaviors Like I mentioned, like,
there are people who genuinely intend to do good, like
they really just intend to do good, but it just
it just so happens that it's not good, or maybe
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an interpretation of their good is not good, or in
the moment they just seem to fall away and it
just it doesn't turn out the situation does not turn
up good. So We shouldn't be people that are just
you know, quick to just write people off because we
feel like, eh, I didn't expect to see this side
of you. I didn't expect for you to respond to
the situation in this way, you know, and without getting
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to sit them down a reason they won't speak with them.
We're driving out good people in our lives or driving
away destiny partners, Destiny help us in our lives because
it just feel like this one era that they meet
it doesn't just sit well with you. Now, imagine if
the tables were turned. Wouldn't you want the same amount
of grace to be like extended to you. Wouldn't you
want somebody to come and sit you down and ask
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what exactly is going on with you? Like are you okay?
Oh I heard about this? What happened exactly? I know
it's unlike you to do such a thing.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Or do you feel like.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Maybe you need some time out to you know, put
yourself together. Wouldn't you have found a better way to
deal with the situation, you know, and like where you
find oh, somebody say this and you go and call
other people, or you also said adding your own things
that may not even be existent you know, so we
should be a people that are pretty intentional about covering
one another, because the Bible says we should be each
other scappers, like be a brother skaper. The Bible says that,
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you know clearly. So we're going to take another musical
break and when we come back, we're going to continue
and just conclude on this to picture. Next time, you're
going to be listening to a song by mister Jovi
and it's entitled Amen, be blessed. As you listen, call
me you joby.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Smart smart.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
No no no no no no no you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Blie by.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
Lada mass.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Blieve me baby.
Speaker 8 (20:36):
Lada Mas Saturdayaada from this sleep, La from this sleep Sadayaada.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Some listens for you lessens follow me. I did pray
for you, Make you pray for me? You go, you
go mute for that mute from everybody. Happy people. As
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you start us, you go ahead them.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Well dog promo shots, go get the lads everything, everybody.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Go bless us. You go blessed pi us every day.
Speaker 8 (21:35):
But it's one day, buddy oa ho if you walk
every day, God's up prayer Like you know about Adia
work warl s.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Did you look at your pay.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Back welcome back. I hope you enjoyed that song.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
As we continue, I'm going to infromachapter seven, from this
one to five. I'll take it from there. Missus translation
and the Bibery don't pick on people, jump on their failures,
decize their faults, unless, of course, you want the same treatment.
That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy
to see a smag in your neighbor's face and be
oblivious of the ugly snare on your own. Do you
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have the nerve to say, let me wash your face
for you when your own face is distorted by contempt.
It's the whole traveling road show mentality all over again,
playing a holy.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
The low part instead of just leaving your part.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Wipe that ugly sneer of your own face, and you
might be fit to offer a wash clothes to your neighbor.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
Amen. So I think when I was thinking.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
About Noah, if you read like extensively, the Bible says
that it was six hundred and one years. I think, ye,
six hundred and one years when the flood actually came
to an end and they came out of the arc.
Others Bible scholars say that it took about between fifty
to seventy five years to build that arc. So imagine
all those things that this man went through, Like can
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we just diagnosing that that was just PTSD him getting
drunk and getting naked like PTSD, like nothing else, because
it must have been a traumatic experience because it's not
like he had other people helping him build the art.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Was only him and his sons. The Bible says only
them were building the arc.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Now imagine you're carrying the vision.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Like I mentioned earlier, heavy is the head that wears
the crown. You're carrying the vision.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
We don't know if his sons were actually always there
to do the work, and he was working with the timeline,
he was working with specific measurements from God. So sometimes
it's not really it's not good that we should be
people to be casting the first stone, you know, when
the only thing that is saving us from being exposed
ourselves are the things that we've covered our weaknesses with.
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It could be self glorification, self adorning, how we dress,
the kind of maybe job that we have attached to
our name. That's the only thing that is covering us.
But if all these things are just stripped off from us,
you find that we're just as naked and just as
as naked as the other people that.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
We might be judging.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
This is all that I had to share with us,
and I just want to conclude with Ephesians chapter six,
verse one to three and the Bibery children, Obey your
parents and the Lord for this is right. Honor your
father and mother, which is the first commandment, with the
promise so that it may go well with you, that
you may enjoy long life on earth. I think it's
as simple as that, although sometimes it can seem like
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it's a bit challenging to, you know, to follow, but
this scripture, I believe should really be the standard for
everything that we're doing. Whichever family you're born in, whichever
parents are guardians who have been taking care of you.
I could actually even extend this to like spiritual authority.
In addition, in connection with the one that we read
earlier coming from first Peter. You know, one thing that
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I've come to understand is that what we are connected to,
whether our parents were just they're just like a get
with that God used to bring us to this earth.
So your mother, your father, your mother is just married
to God. Your father is just Peter to God is
just Jack to God. You know, like your mother being
a reverend, she's just you know, Rebecca to God. So
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before anything, before any title, before mommy, before pastor before
any deaconness, before any title, they're just like human. So
I believe that it's really important that we get to
see that human needs to before any title, that we
get to see or learn that they have. And another
thing that I've also come to learn as well is
that you know, when it comes to like spiritual authority,
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it is the gift of God, the calling of God
and the anointing that we're receiving counsel from. It's not
like the person directly, because if they just follow the
human themselves, even like there a lot of people on
spiritual spiritual authority, if I should say that would apparaly
tell you that if not for God, really like it
takes a lot for me to even do it has
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taken a lot, No, it takes has they has taken
a lot for me to do what I do. You know,
I used to be this, I used to do this,
but God has done this. So it's the anointing and
the calling of God that you're civil council from, not
the person. So it's not like their current status. It's
not their weaknesses that you observed in their lives, either
now or in their past. It's none of those things
that you're under but the authority. If God wanted you
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to be connected to any other people, you would have
made that possible. But there's a reason that He connected
you to them. So let's just be intentional about honoring
the people that God has put us under, because at
the end of the day, it is for our benefit.
And my prayer is that at the end of the day,
may God just show us mercy in times when we've
been disobedient, when we've seen the nakedness of our parents,
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of our guardians, of our leaders, of our elders, of
our friends, and instead of covering them, we've gone further
to expose them. We've written them off. We have you know,
taken offense we start, we've held grudges and not wanted
to resolve things. And then may God take us back
to place of obedience. When the Bible says we should
love our brothers, we should be loving them as the
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Bible says, you know, love your neighbor. Have we been
loved in our neighbors? The Bible says, and most importantly
my prayer is that God is going to help us
renew our minds to the understanding of what humility is
and that we may be a people that are a
bit more gracious when we see the nakedness of other people,
especially our parents and guardians and people that are in
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spiritual authority over us.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So this is all that I had to share with us.
Thank you so much for listening. God bless you.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Going to be standing love with a song by diu
Jo and it's called Corny And.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Until next time. This was Nascan the African Blues Podcast.
Be Blessed, Marching.
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Any time our means up.
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Its last.
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Thank you, Thank you a lot now.
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But you.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Like you day to Mama, take you some time fat
for me, don't man for me? Tell me babu shad.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Are you doing?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
This is a done judging the ball.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
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