"Study To Show Yourself Approved" JOHN MARK

Three Two. Welcome to another edition of Bridging the Gap. We're taking the word to the streets. Bridging the gap. with Dwayne Kennedy.

Oh, don't go nowhere. You're listening to Bridging the Gap. Yes, and amen. Hey, welcome, welcome to Bridging the Gap. We're in the house.

We just love the Lord. It's about letting the Lord have his way in everything that we do and everything that we say, giving God the glory. You know, I got a special guest gonna be in the house today. He's like my Hebrew scholar. Amen.

And I'm going to explain to you a little bit more about him in a few, John Mark. He's just a great guy. I know him personally, but he's also a teacher of mine. I go to him to understand the Hebrew language, which I think is very important. The conversation today, I just like to call it study to show thyself approved.

Amen. Study to show thyself approved. God is good. Hey, let's get into some of this good gospel. You know how I like to roll?

Music Music, please. You think since you got the dope, drop the four stock roll like it's not cop and blow? That's how the dock go, not cop and blow. More like cop the four plus FOMO. Equal in eight, that's for promo.

With a gang, still remain solo. It's in my veins like a cholo. Wood grain with the Momo. Block stained with the same photo. Drug dealing, blood spillin', thug mug killing.

The same logo, A-Eternal, created journal. Yashua's commanding officer, he made me colonel. In the infernal with the fourth man on dart blocks, where they part drops, spark clocks until heart stop. Past the clipping, smashing, dipping, consumed with flashing, trippin', moving too fast to listen till he crashed. That whip into the center divider.

Now seen to decide whether he live or die, dealing with riders. You wonder what it cost him fast, clean another hustler lost in hard times. Got him rich in the bar. He knows what's wrong, but he's caught in the game. Rocks with a fiend, spark in the flame, walk with a cane.

In the hallway, sorting his change. That's where the tables turn tricky. His brothers in the game water like you mentioned. Debbie G and King Griffey. Neighborhood MVP.

Sell dope from the dirt and south. Back down to the CPT. Worldwide like an MP3. Had cheese dipping in cheese before we even seen the kids. Turned 19, supply the homies with that light green.

Flossin'cause he thought he had the right team. But now the fair zone. If a red zone packing up macaroni in the sack for the homies, cold thing, how the cannon go. I drive the change, so what I gotta bang for, long cause my name drove. Hold up.

She flipped like it ain't funny when it came to money. Turned 17 and changed the name to honey. Same as Sonny, that's her best friend. Collect ends, roll her bends on them tight rims. They y'all lean, only getting her ball on matter.

I saw her at the mall, getting honeycomb tattered. She didn't hesitate to switch up. She at the strip club, shaking for them rich thugs. Hoping they tipped up. First chasing money, now she mixed drugs.

Got her a stack left home.

Now she's starting to miss love. Daddy's kissing this hug. Has she reminisces on her life with Russ? But now she's a pole dancer. But it's old Pancer.

Just like Eve, let the serpent romance her. Greed fell for the first trick. Thought up. Wasn't how she was brought up. Grand, cause she was caught up.

You wanna be the partner and we got pain and all the gangsters gangsta's caught up. She got caught up.

So many people getting caught up in this world. I tell you, boy, I tell you, this is some true story. July stuff here. I call this extreme worship because there's a lot of people that went through some things, some things that should have destroyed them and killed them. But God gets the glory.

Hallelujah. We're taking the word to the streets. Bridging the Gap. Yo, hey, you tell them heaven is my destination. Until I reach that, I'm teaching this kingdom education.

Hey, don't be scared to lay your hands on the sick. And don't be scared to catch the devil out quick. Cause your obedience will unlock a miracle, though. Don't act hysterical, radical. Born again, fully as evangelical.

Hey, my commitment is consistent in my father's work. How can you say that you're a Christian if you're not at work? Your temporary Sundays, not enough. The everyday life revivals in everyday life for us. Yo, I can't care less by having titles in the church.

Cause servant hoods, the only hood I'm repping on this earth. Feeling new though, man, I ain't no different than you. I'm just like you, though. Call upon the name of the Lord to see what he do, though. Watching things from heaven's perspective is a better view, though.

Jesus is the truth, he's the truth. Hey, I'm willing to be misunderstood for the gospel I preach. I'm willing to be misunderstood, but my partner's in peace. They might not understand the reason I submitted to Jesus. Mr.

Preacher in your speaker, I hope it's Christ when they see me. I bring my Bible with me everywhere. Revival with me everywhere. Kingdom music everywhere. Spread the music everywhere.

Headshot, red dot, hit Satan in his bone. Hey, Earth is temporary. Tell him heaven is my home. Transformation, new creation, now it's life brand new. They always ask me, how you know that's true?

It's what I tell them. Look, you know it's real, man, when the crip went red. You know it's real, though, when the blood went blue. You know it's true. They turned my father's house into a store of merchandise.

The greedy pastor said, I hope we buy your purse tonight. With such observant eyes, he watch what every person buys. Don't let the gospel be verbalized or commercialized. Hey, I said they flatter the rich, they take advantage of the poor, and then they gather eclipse. Look, your partiality reminds me of some Satanism.

If you gon' love, you better love without some favoritism. Building full of demons, churches turn into a daycare. They should teach you deliverance. If not, you shouldn't spare that. You don't study, you don't preach.

Man of God, you've been warned. Only passion that you have is a desire to perform. Hey, see, I refuse to be a people pleaser. How can you lead the people always trying to please the people intercede for me and my He just can free my people. That's how I feed the people.

Please don't follow Even Jesus came to stick up for the stick up, king. You don't need no blicky, put that blick up, but you give up, king. See the dust you used to kick up, you got mixed up in. See how sin can make you sick, ain't you sick of sin? Ayy, California hotel can lead you straight to hell.

You went 90 on the freeway, then they throw you in a cell. Look, the narrow road, I pray one day you find. It's KMF forever, forever, this kingdom mine. Hey, I remember seeing na-da-da-da. Don't bring that over here, I'll be like, nah, nah, nah, nah.

It's God on my side. Hope it's God, you decide. When you give your life to Jesus, you fully can come alive. My resurrected king, you know what resurrected means. Don't speak death upon my dream.

I'm like, death, where's your sting? From Genesis to Exodus, the best is yet unseen. The less I feed my flesh, the less the mess I have to clean. Ain't life with Jesus, man. I promise it's better with.

Look, look at this legacy, my twin brother Lemon with. Yeah, it's only right. I passed the medal to my nephew. Hey, Lil Brandon, show these steps how you step. KMF.

My uncle, I got you, I'll help you carry the man. I want no police like Jeremiah to preach among the nation. Or Jonah, in the nervous, I just know I gotta be patient. Study to show yourself approved when the plow with trouble lives. Study to show yourself approved when the devil in your ill.

Can't be comfortable where you at, you gotta get out that box. Don't let the devil knock you to the bottom like the rock. I girls tell me what it is. Man, I'm tryna make a change. Want some changes in your pocket, want victory, call his name.

What you talking, Carlo, who? My pockets on E to C's. I that's decent with the better than presidents. I'm fan, Carlo G's. I but who though, man, I ain't no different to you.

I'm just like you, though. Call upon the name of the Lord and see what he do, though. S and be my G, S and D, better view, though. Jesus is the truth, I got you to do right. Gotta do right.

God's in my life, man. God's in my life. Don't worry about me. Hey, baby, believe me, we gon' be alright. Man, we don't gave out like a price and he done changed.

I like to do right, we trying to do right. God's in my life, guys in my life. Don't worry about my right. Hey, baby, believe me, we're gonna be all right. But we don't gave our life to Christ and he done changed our life.

We're speaking the word and how it relates to you. This is Bridging the Gap. Every night in them demons down, knocking them demons down. Demons now. Knocking them demons down.

Yeah, we knocking them demons now. Please spirit feel it in me now.

So every demon that's up in the pad, try to come attack, finna get it now. Every night in them demons down, knocking them demons down. Knockin' them demons down. Knockin' them demons down. I'm knocking them down like hair harders.

Gotta stick to the plan, no, I can't fumble. But if Jason's the pilot, we flying the highest battle fast enough if you get humble. Gotta put every demon in. Got my phone in there, got a feeling a beer. I'm a really finna flip the switch, a hard time to watch me body mouth here a little more.

So who are my favorite? It's all in this time, yeah. See the world getting clearer, the fog and the smoke getting clearer. The devil and demons attackin' behind, so I'm breaking the mirror.

So I don't get salty, I know what's a lot of this. I'm putting on my mirror, and I'm rockin' ayy. Ayy, let's go, running and getting this shit just a float. Run with the Bible, it's sticking my pocket. Double tryna keep it, you know I ain't got it.

I don't get salty, a god is my heart. When the Bible is open, my hand is so small that it gets to the reading and feeling the heart kill insane. You'll never be supported. He spirit feel it in me now.

So every demon that step in the pad, try to cover tag, finna get it now. Every night in them demons now, ain't knockin' in demons now. Knockin' them demons down. Ain't knockin' them demons down. Every knockin' them demons down.

He spirit feel it in me now.

So every demon that step in the pad, try to cover tag, finna get it now. Every night in them demons now, ain't knockin' them demons down. Ain't knockin' them demons down, ain't knockin' them demons down. Knockin' them demons down. Stump on snakes, they might bites, you feel me?

Stump on the devil's playground. Tell every demon to lay down. You know, KG, he stay down. For the gospel, I don't play round. It's not about Jesus and none of you.

They run into Jesus whenever they run to you.

So whenever they come, you lead them back to Jesus. You ain't gotta worry, everybody need them if they hungry. You know that I gotta feed them, break every chain, introduce them all to freedom. I ain't about to let the devil kill him or steal, kill, and destroy him. I ain't bout to let them kill me.

Copy, feel me, DT, Pod D, KG, Ooh, we. You ain't bout to stop nothing silly, yeah, I know you hear me. Them demons now, you're kicking demons to the gutter. Yeah, I think you got you like no other. Demons slipping off me like it's butter.

They tryna keep on growing, gotta cut them. Do Jesus gotta show them, so I shut them. The negative, we throw it through the shutter. We praying cast demons as they coming. I got my father in me, keep it coming.

Dirty devil, he would treat us like nothing. That's until my father turned us to something. Knocking demons to the sound of the trumpet. If demons, they tremble, they know I ain't bluffing. Thank God, so I praise him.

Oh, won't switch for nothing. Like I will praise him. Oh, won't switch for nothing. Wait, I think you got you was there when I was dirty and dry. You gave me hope when I went down myself.

And I will keep it conscious, how worthy am I? You took control of the demons, man. They started leaving. And you kept me purity inside.

So that's why I'm knocking down demons. Cause you gave me power to make every legion deprive. Yeah, we knockin' them demons now. Holy Spirit, feel it in me now.

So every demon that step in the pad, try to come attack, finna get it now. Every night in them demons down, knocking them demons down. Knockin' them demons down. Knockin' them demons now. Yeah, we not getting them demons now.

Holy Spirit feel it in me now.

So every demon that step in the pad, try to come attack, finna get it now. Every night in demons. Yes, and amen. Hey, welcome to Bridging the Gap. We are in the house today.

Day. Amen. And I feel so honored to have one of my teachers here. This is John Mark. He's one of my Hebrew teachers.

Teachers, and you know, it's just a blessing. You see, I come from a different school. The school that I come from is, I I did so. Much joy in studying the Word of God. Like, like I said before, on many occasions, I didn't have the The altar call experience.

I didn't have a pastor prompting me to come up to the altar to get saved. I didn't have anybody walking me up to the altar. All I had. was me in a drug confessor department. Talking to God, someone that I didn't even know was real, me talking to him, trying to find out what's going on.

with this life. And he revealed himself to me, and I started that relationship with him.

Now, keep in mind, after I got saved two years later, three years later, I found me a church. See, so that's my relationship with God was me and him. But I got into a place where I just loved to study. His word because when I came to the knowledge of who he was, it's like, man, there's so much more to him. And I tell you, all the preachers and the pastors out there, God hasn't revealed everything to us.

We don't know it all, you know. But I'm in the house with my man, John Mark. And how are you today, sir? Good. I am blessed that you had the time to come see because I know that you are busy teaching, teaching, and teaching and teaching.

And so it's an honor to have you here. And I consider him to be my Hebrew scholar, y'all. I definitely, he speaks it, he studies it, he trains others to it, to know it. And I believe it's a great thing that you have to obtain.

Now, we all know. God has made the scriptures simplistic. Salvation is simplistic. We understand that. But there's so much more to know in him.

And that's where I'm at. That's where I'm at. And I just want to. Uh just share that with you. The Bible says study.

To show thyself approved, not to man. He said, to study to show thyself approved to me, to God, to show yourself approved to him. He wants us to learn more of him. You know, you know, the story, John, about, what's it, Martha and Mary, when one was serving and one was under the feet of Jesus. Mary was sitting at his feet.

Under the feet of Jesus, just learning. And Martha was like, hey, Jesus, because you know, Jesus, you know, a lot of people don't realize Jesus rode with a crew. You know, I mean, we hear about the 12, but he had some boys with him. He had his peoples with him. She was serving.

Martha was serving everybody. She was doing an awesome job. And she was like, Lord, Lord, can you get Mary to come help me? And the Lord said to her, Not minimizing what Martha was doing, but the Lord said to her, She chose the better part. She wants to sit under my feet.

and learn of me. And he said, she chose the better part. You know, I can go on with that about women preachers and all that stuff, but I ain't going to touch that. But the Bible says that she chose the better part just to sit there and learn, probably asking all kinds of questions. And that's where we are.

That's where I want to be. And that's where I continue to be. I love studying his things.

So tell us a little bit about the Hebrew language, some things that we need to know. Why should we study in Hebrew? Why should we study Hebrew? Yes. That's a loaded question.

I know it is. I know it is. I'm trying to give you the sound. You know, I can get deeper with it, but I'm trying to give you the simplistic. That's a broad, broad question.

So I'll give you a little story out of. When I first started actually learning Hebrew as a translator back in 1985, dating myself a little bit, had had done some other languages previously and So we're in an intense year and a half. all day, every day, learning Hebrew.

So I go I'm I get myself a Hebrew New Testament. And my, um Pastor's doing this thing on on the four colors of the horsemen. That sounds good. And in Revelation, he's got these things for each of them: the black, the white, the red. And then he g hits it with a pail.

Right. And I'm sitting there going. Following along my little Hebrew New Testament, and it doesn't say It doesn't say pale, it says Eurocroak, and Eurokroq literally means light green. Or you could say pale green, but it's a green. And so I immediately went and I actually raised my hand and said, Hey, hey, Larry.

What's going on here? You know, and he says, Yeah. That doesn't fit my scenario. Mm-hmm. Back off, leave me alone.

Okay. You don't, you don't know what it really, I mean, you really don't want to know what it says? Mm-hmm. You know, you've already got this preconceived idea. I love the guy, so I don't wanna I don't wanna beat him up, but You see that a lot within we we have our agendas, right?

So I went back and I'm looking at it, you know, going, okay, what's the Greek? And the the Greek is chlorosis, right?

So chlorophyll that turns the trees green. It's the same root. It's it's it's a light green. And so Then you go back and you go, well, what is it in the Tanakh? What is it in the Torah and the prophets and the writings?

And. It's associated with mildew and leprosy. Which gives you a whole different picture. Of what that horse, that pale horse, light green. Yeah, yeah, let me get right.

Yeah, so it gives you context. He was operating off of what that word would mean in English and trying to do some associations. But if you actually go back through it, and trace it back. To the first mentioned places in scripture, it gives you a much richer context.

So Um One thing we like to tell folks, you know, if you're satisfied with that old black and white pixelated TV, great. You can watch howdy duty on it or whatever, right? But if you really want to have a visual experience, you want full color. you know, 3D, 4K. Big ol'.

Thing. And Hebrew's like that. Hebrew, and when you tie Hebrew and Greek together, you get a much richer picture of what's there. And so a lot of people are threatened. by it, right?

Because it goes against what they've been taught for years. And well, yeah, are we are we teachable or not? And so with our groups, what we do is basically is we got to remain teachable. We learn things every day. And You know, I don't have a set of boxes that I got God fit into all my little boxes.

It kind of blows away the boxes, right? And so that's one of the things that. That Hebrew does for you. You know, that's one thing I started the broadcast out today. And I wanted to share that: God hasn't revealed everything to us.

You know, I mean, we have the scriptures, but he hasn't revealed everything to us.

Some things, you know, and when I got saved, I wanted, this is a prayer of mine. I was like, Lord, I want to know the hidden things. I don't want to just know the surface because I never was a surface Christian. I was the guy. In my church, pastor raising my hand.

You know, I was the guy questioning things, not to be irritating. But because I wanted to know. See, now I didn't know about the pair of horse, but I ran through so many scriptures. Or and I did word studies. I didn't do the whole, you know, like you do, the whole paragraph and whole, I did word studies.

So I would go through a word in the Hebrew into the Greek and I'll be like, wow. That's what it means. It doesn't mean what I thought it meant all these years, but that's what it means. And it gave me so much understanding and revelation. And it prompted me to even go further and deeper into it.

That's why I love Hebrew.

Now, I can say. That's the language of God. I can say that because that was what he, what, what Hebrew is what, uh, sound and numbers. It has a multitude of aspects to it.

So they didn't have numbers like we have, right? They didn't have the numerals one, two, three. They used the alpha, the bet, the gimel. et cetera, for that numerical, to picture that numerical value.

So, a very simple one is like we say alphabet, right? Aleph Bet in Hebrew is all the letters of the Aleph Bet. AB, but in Hebrew, Aleph is one, Bet is two, and Aleph Bet literally is father.

So, in one sense, here's one thing I saw several years ago, and it blew me away. studied Hebrew a long time ago and been been doing it. And seeing different things all along, but then I'm trying to explain the aliphat to little kids, and I realized all of a sudden that aliphet. Spells dad. How do you make a word flesh?

How do you make the word flesh? Through the father. And Aleph Bet literally means. is how you spell dad.

So the alphabet alphabet for us really That's how you spell daddy. Wow. You know, it blew me away. I'm sitting there, you know, teaching little kids going. Whoa, humbled, you know?

So if you look at it. You have alpha bet. One plus two. equals three. You can't have a father without three.

And that's the minuscule tip of the iceberg, right? You you dive in and there's all kinds of different aspects. to it that that Um constantly learning, but it puts you into a place of being humble Hebrew is very humbling, and Greek can be too. Greek's a different animal. But um It's humbling because You don't, you can't say, Hey, I got it.

I, I've, I've, you know, written the final thing and I, I got all my ducks in a row and stuff. It's it's very humbling. Wow, that's what's powerful to me is, you know, and I'm a studier. I love to study. I remember, you know, when I first got saved, I'd be sitting in my living room floor, man, and I had books and, you know, and concordias and, you know, this kind of breakdown, this language and this language.

I had it all. No one would touch it. Until I get back, you know, I mean, I would be all on my floor. I mean, and I would go from one piece to the other piece to this, and, and, I got so much energy through that. That's why I love studying.

I went to school and I got all my degrees in seminary school. I did all of that, I did all of that. But I found more pleasure in my Hebrew classes, my Hebrew classes and world history and world religion. Man, I got so, you know, because I thought, I wanted to know, I wanted to know what all this is about. And I think Today You just have people that just, you know, they stick with the fundamentals.

And I believe that the fundamentals can get you into heaven. I believe that. But there's so much richer, there's so much more to God. And I'm reminded of the BEMA seat, the BEMA judgment. If you guys don't look that up, BEMA judgment.

Well, BEMA means judgment, but look that up, BEMA, the BEMA seat of Christ. And This is a judgment for the saints. And he says that I'm going to reward you according to what you did down here on the earth in your flesh, what the things that you did. And I believe studying is a big part of that. I believe that when he sees us skipping the, how you say, the religious sport demon, it was skipping sports and skipping this and put some time into studying, God honors that.

And I tell you this: God is not a respecter of person, but I'm going to tell you, he is a respecter of faith. Amen. But hey, we're going to go to a break. We're going to come back. I love this conversation because I sit with this guy and I tell you, you know, the stuff that the studies that come through them is really eye-opening for me.

And I just appreciate the Lord for blessing me with this man in my life.

So, hey, we'll be right back on Bridging the Gap. This is WPOL. Seven eight meetings. NW273DH High Point. Repping for the kingdom in the city.

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I know I've been working on my patience. I know I can't be so complicated.

Now I'm brand while I'm waiting. I'll bother in having singing amen, amen. Full on the pavement, see to the rose, I'm feeling it so amazing. See it when it grows, it's unsure where it's radiant. Just smile, hard work, dedication, push patience.

Innovation, clear communication. We could do that math, I'ma add a new equation. A parable, a prophecy depending on the heart of me. When God is in my yard, departed with the pottery. Don't worry about me, I'll be doing just fine.

I know he watching my surveillance, but I've been working on my patience. They asking me if I'm okay now. Really, I've been feeling way down. Already know I'm gon' say. They don't try to work and that was far gold, babe.

Dealing with this pain, will it ever go away? Gotta trust your plan, you can have it your way. Come here, I don't go in, you show me. Not saying that you owe me, but you know me.

Sometimes I gotta be reminded. I don't wanna be reminded. Don't worry about me, I'll be doing just fine. Got sweet. Got time, don't worry about me.

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Got time. Don't worry about me, I'll be doing just one. Cast meets, got some Yes and amen. Hey, welcome back to Bridging the Gap. We in the house with my man, John Mari.

Amen. I appreciate him for being in the house, for stopping by. And all this good stuff. I think he got a lot of information for us, people. You know, we do have a phone call.

I can't screen the call, so I don't know what the call is going to say.

So, hopefully, they don't surprise us too much. Amen. Uh Carla, are you there? Very good. How are you?

Oh, wonderful, sir. How are you doing today? Good, good, good. You want to share something with us? You got a question?

He's from Dearborn, man. Dearborn? He says. Remote town. Maybe at one time.

Maybe at one time. Remote. But uh One of them no other than those. What's that?

So, my question kind of results, or it's kind of commented, but it revolves around. Hosea, what Hosea set told us through the Lord. That my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. Ooh, come on, somebody.

So, what is that knowledge about? Because there's no shortage of teaching out there. But as Spurgeon said, discernment is not about differentiating between right and wrong, but between right and Almost right. Mm.

So, how does the original language help us in that? And also, is there something to the parashat and haftarah? To find unity within the body and seeking His Word. Have at it, have at it. That's the question, brothers.

So Um The parashah for folks is in uh Nechemia 8 and Nehemiah 8. All the people gathered themselves together as one man. Right. And they're they're they talk to Ezra the scribe. And he brings the book of Torah of Moses.

Moses' Torah, which Yudha Vavhe had commanded Israel. And so. He brings the Torah before the congregation. Um Both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding. On the first day of the seventh month.

So they're leading into Sukkot. This is actually the. The very first day of Heast of Trumpets.

So you're suggesting there's a timing to this as well? Sure, that's the beginning of the reading. For that's why they start then. And so he reads before the street that's before the watergate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand. And all the ears of the people were attentive to the book of Torah.

And I say Torah because they're just if you look between the Greek and the English I mean the Greek and the Hebrew. There's a number of words that we translate as law. That all all aren't Torah. And so there's a mistake in conflating that it's called a logical fallacy when you conflate things. You say all these things are the same, right?

We we look at snow and go, Oh, it's snow and an Eskimo will go, No. There's this, this, you know, they got like what, 14 different concepts within that. And we conflate it so we're of little use to what they do. Yeah. It's like the word love.

Sure. Yeah. So Eros Agape, Philos, Storge, and the Greek. And all we have is love. Yep, I got you.

So he stands up there and he begins this thing. He opens the book and he reads it. And That is credited with starting this reading. Uh they call it the mikra. And What um Paul tells Timothy to do, it's not public reading.

If you look at the Greek word, it goes back to Mikra. And so it's what we call the parasha. It's these portions. that they read throughout the year. Paul's telling Timothy, don't forsake this.

Keep doing this. And so one of the things that I think our caller is asking is: why does this bring it? It orients everybody around the same reading. During each week. At the same time.

At the same time. So everybody's in the same passage. And so what we do, we do this. And um weekly. We read through the same reading together that actually You go to any Orthodox or Reform or conservative Jew, they're doing the same thing.

So it actually gives us an ability to. Um relate. to them. On what scripture is, but we also are going, okay, how did Yeshua translate this? How did Jesus.

Use this. And what he was saying.

So it gives us context for what Jesus is teaching at the same time to his students. And when he stood up and he read the thing in the prophets and said, Today this is fulfilled in your sight, he's actually reading from this 12. Torah and Haftorah reading. And what it does for us is it gives us this unity of being on the same page, if you will. That's one thing pastors do do.

Every Wednesday and Wednesday, all around the Darios, they're studying from the same passage of scripture. And whatever that is. Yeah, but it's not the same as.

Well, no, I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So Dan's question is about unity, right? And This helped to bring that group that's tasked with rebuilding. His kingdom, if you will, God's kingdom.

So they're all on the same, they get all on the same page, and they're following this through the year.

So they're doing this every year. They're doing a full reading of the Torah, and they begin to include the prophets and the writings, et cetera. I mean, from a churchgoer standpoint, to me, it's like you go to different churches, everybody is on a different sermon series. And how is that not just chaos at some point? I mean, God bless them if there's something inspired in that sermon series, but why not appeal to the greater unity of the body in something that's been established?

For hundreds. Of years.

Well, I agree with that now. Thousands of latest shiny objects thousands of years, Dan? Yeah, I agree with that wholeheartedly. I mean, you know, I wish that could be done. Like, and that's why I brought up Pastor Stu, because he does practice that.

It's not the same reading, but it's the same concept. But so, so when he says study the shot, you're going to turn them on to PowerShot?

Well, I mean, that's a whole different thing. I'm just talking about that. I'm just relating that. But yeah, so now this, when he says, study the sort of self-approved, he was referring to. doing this, everybody doing the same thing at the same time.

All over the place.

Okay, okay. That's a good note. I wish the churches all around could do that. That would be something that would be unique, you know? And then because what the scriptures call it, the public reading, right?

That they translate it as public reading. It's really the Hebrew is literally a reading. Yeah. But it's it's referring specifically to These portions that go throughout the year. And that's awesome to know.

It's just, you know, there's a lot. And this is why I say there's a lot. In the Hebrew language, in the concept that we need to grab. There's a cultural context.

So if I'm going to really learn a language, And I'm not doing it like, for example, in when I went through it, we had Israelis teach us. And we were tasked with actually understanding, being able to go over there and understand. Um I can't go into it. I'd have to, you know. But it was, it's a living language, and it's bigger than just.

Um Biblical Hebrew is a subset. of modern Hebrew.

So, a lot of people like to say, you know, guys graduating from seminary like to say, well, it's two different languages. It's actually not. You know, you 'cause i if you could liken it to IT. Right. In your world, in the radio world, you have terms That somebody like me, not coming from the broadcast world, You could lose me, right?

You got FCC things, directives that you might refer to in shorthand, acronyms. That's a Mike Calbones. Yeah. Yeah, but I hear you. Yeah, but it's a subset language, right?

Where you wouldn't say, I didn't understand English. You would just say, I didn't understand the vocabulary within that. And so there's different subsets.

So in the military, you have, we live by acronyms in the military. And You come out of the military and you have to readjust your how you talk to people. Because they're going, I don't understand that acronym.

So, it's sort of the same thing. Biblical Hebrew is a subset within the greater context of modern Hebrew.

So, when you learn to think it, breathe it, dream in it. I mean, you know, a month into this year and a half process, we're starting to dream it. Yeah. And that's the thing. I think that's what's missing because people get.

So caught up in, I don't know, I don't understand. Instead of, man, I'm gonna grab hold of this. I'm gonna get to know this. You know what I'm saying? Like me, I embrace it.

I embrace the unknown. Because even talking to you now about this, I'm following you. But then, and I understand exactly what you're saying, but then I can see how some people that don't have that same desire can get lost. And I'm just letting you know, the listeners, I'm letting you know it's so important to get a hold of that Hebrew content and when he was saying and what he was saying and who he was saying it to and the time period that he was saying. All of that stuff has so much meaning.

Hey, but we got to go to a break. Are you going to hold on for a little bit longer, Carla? I'm all good. I'll just keep listening. But blessed are those who seek and hunger after righteousness.

Amen. What you got to be careful what you're looking for, unity in.

So I think you're on the right track. But thank you for the show today. It's very untarget. Thank you. Thank you for calling.

Amen. Bless you, brother. Bless you. Amen. But we're going to take a break and we'll be right back with my man, John Mark.

He's my scholar. I tell y'all, he's my scholar because I can sit and learn from him all day long.

Now, it can get deep. Edu gets deep. But I tell you, it's worth the cause. It's worth the understanding of scripture. I think it's just so awesome.

Hey, but we'll be right back on Bridging the Gap. The ripping for the kingdom in the city. Speaking life into the youth, can you feel me? We're bridging the gap, yeah. We're bridging the gap, yeah.

We're bridging the gap, yeah. Man of them know that God goes first. We're bridging the gap, yeah. We're bridging the gap, yeah. We're bridging the gap, yeah.

Yes, and amen. Hey, welcome back to Bridging the Gap. I'm in the house with John Mark. My Hebrew scholar, amen, and he's gonna share some more stuff with us. You know, he has so many stories.

I mean, you know, he goes back and forth overseas, Israel, and much, many, many more places. He speaks it, he speaks Hebrew, he teaches Hebrew, you know, and he has a couple classes that he do that I'm a part of, and I just appreciate the revelation that comes through the Hebrew language. It just gives me a better understanding of Christ. It gives me a better understanding of God and what he wants and who he is. You know, it's just, it's full of, it's full of, it's, it's, it's, it's just, I mean, I can't explain how.

big our God is and how much this language Unfolds his presence to us is just getting. Hey, but Mark, can you give us a little bit more about Hebrew context and all of that stuff?

Okay. So part of Hebrew context is when you start thinking about what are The people of his day hearing. Mm-hmm. There is Unfortunately, we have folks in the world saying, unhitch yourself from those Jewish scriptures, right? Which is one of the biggest mistakes.

Um you're gonna f throw out the first two thirds of of The hole. You know, it's basically crippling yourself.

So. When we watch what Yeshua is saying, when we see what Jesus is saying, and we go, what is his audience hearing? Yeah. So Mm-hmm. I was on a on a Bible study with uh a group over in Jerusalem.

Uh couple of days rolled. two days ago and um This 85-year-old lady Really cool, feisty old lady, and she's she goes, she showed me something I'd never heard before. Actually, stone in a group. And she goes, you know when Jesus said he's the great shepherd? Mm-hmm.

And we all, yeah, I mean we can all relate to Jesus being the great shepherd. What is he literally telling? them, his audience. What are they going to relate it to?

So you go to Psalms 23. And it says, I mean, people translate it as the Lord is my shepherd, but literally it's Yudhe Vavhe is my shepherd. One of the biggest things we have coming against us today in a number of different things is saying, well, Jesus never claimed he was God. Right. We got both both the anti God, anti-man, blah blah blah blah, all these different weird things.

But he very clearly did in a very Hebraic way.

So when he's telling them he's the shepherd, They're here in Psalms 23, Yudhe Vavhe is my shepherd. And Now Yeshua is claiming to be Yudhe Vavhe. Very clearly, in a very I mean, to his audience.

So, um and John 10, right? Another place is we talk about the two greatest commandments. And You can tell what are the two greatest commandments. Love the LORD your God with all your heart, mind, and soul, and the others unto that. Love your neighbor as yourself.

Okay. So, in love your neighbor as yourself, where does it come from? I don't know. You can scroll me. Leviticus nineteen.

And It's so they're used to hearing this, right? The teachers of the law, the guys that. That that's the guy that's coming to him. is a is a legalist, if you will, if you really want to translate it. And He's asking, he's posing this question to Yeshua.

And so, what you have is you have. A guy who is very well schooled in what it says, but doesn't necessarily. have a heart understanding of it.

So What they would do is they would read it. I mean, they're there at the Torah and they're having the Torah read over and over and over again. And so they are very familiar with the Rifan when they hear things. And so when Yeshua says this, this guy's automatically back in Leviticus. 19, right?

And he hears, love your neighbor as yourself. And to finish that sentence off, it's, I am Yehovah.

So Yeshua leaves it hanging.

So it's sort of like, you know, we sing amazing grace. you go, how sweet the sound, right? You're you're even if I don't finish it for you, if I leave it hanging in your brain because you've heard that refrain over and over and over again, you're finishing the refrain.

So this guy is finishing the refrain in his head.

Okay. And so Yeshua is actually very clearly telling him who he is. Because the guy is Got the end of the sentence going on in his head. Oh, he just said. That's who he is.

Right? Yeah. So by inference.

So in other cases, we don't know because it's not fully, and so we just got these pieces. But we don't have the full concept of the meaning.

Well, and It doesn't mean everybody doesn't. I mean, if but I've asked lots and lots of people that same question. Where does that come from?

Okay. Right. I haven't had one person yet actually say, oh, yeah, Leviticus 19. You know, um So we're missing, I mean, you have gobs of people that will quote, Quote that. For their agenda, oh, all you got to do is love.

All you got to do is love. And he says, No, all the rest of these things hang on this.

So everything we do hangs on, I mean, is dependent on those being the primary things. Jesus says, if you love me, you will guard my commandments. You know, are we guarding his commandments? It's a heavy-duty question. Right, so there's context to that.

By the way, context is an interesting word. They talk about context being king and You go, okay, well, where does the word come from? What's the etymological root of context? And text in this case. literally comes from the Latin to weave.

So it's woven together.

So, context is really something that's woven together, and what we're trying to do is follow the threads all the way through. That's that's some good stuff right there.

So, yeah, yeah.

So, and that's that's what Hebrew is. Hebrew is the threads, right? Mm-hmm. From beginning to the all the way to the end. That's right.

Like you said, uh the first two letters is is bookmarks.

So, when you tie some of these concepts together and you realize, so You like Revelation, the Revelation to John, and you talk about the abyss. And We were starting over again in Genesis 1, and if you look at it in Hebrew, it's to home, the deep. And darkness was over the face of the deep. And that He's gonna get deep with y'all. He's gonna get deep with y'all.

And the Elex Acts and the Greek writing or the Greek translations, and I put that in plural because they were, there's several of them. Which you have from the Hebrew into the Greek, they use the word abyss. All of a sudden You have in Revelation this whole abyss thing. and what's going on and you realize that God has prepared from from verse two of Genesis. God has prepared a place to put the enemy.

He's not surprised by anything. He knows what's going to happen.

So it builds up your faith when you start seeing these threads go all the way through scripture. But it also helps you realize that Wow. You know, had a guy in our study that's fluent in Hebrew and Arabic and knows his Greek and stuff. He said, you know, I've been reading this for 40 years and this is the first time I saw this. And I mean the guy the guy preaches in Arabic and Hebrew and knows some Russian and blah blah blah, you know.

Been in the land for over 30 years.

So it's really an amazing. a dynamic when you when you're When you Submit yourself to be taught. And you seek it and you keep reading it and you deep dive in, and he opens up. Because if you think about it, what got us off in the first place? What got us off in the first place is, did God really say?

Yeah. And so what we're asking is the other side of that. What are you saying? And so with how this milieu of of uh morphing English words so It's true. English is so fluid.

You can't. I mean, I give lots of examples of English words that don't mean what they meant 10 years ago, right? Yeah. Um, So we got a real problem with trying to understand even what other people are saying. And Forget between the genders.

We got issues just simply trying to communicate a lot of times in English. And so. going back and looking at the the original Going through the Greek, for example, in the New Testament, and going, okay, how does the Septuagint What's this word in the Septuagint and how was it used? in the original Hebrew. Gives you a huge amount of context and understanding and helps you understand the word a lot better.

Amen. We need that. We need to grow into it, grow our faith. Increase your faith count. Amen.

So getting into that word definitely is a must. But I would also say, you know, learning, just take some Hebrew classes. You know, and there's lots of really YouTube gives g Great. beginner stuff. And I remember when you sent me, I was just like amazed by it.

Yeah, it's some powerful stuff. And you know, that's really for the people that just really don't want to be surface Christians.

Now, like I said, you don't have to do it, but your desire to learn more about God. is beneficial for you. He says, study to show thyself approved to me. God honors that. God, when God see you studying, I know for a fact.

When he sees you studying and he sees you not going out with everybody else because you want to put some time into prayer and to studying and to, man, God honors that people. If you want to get closer to God, these are some steps for you to get closer to Him, for Him to reveal. I love the scripture that says. A scripture that says, because he seen them keeping his commandments. He revealed himself to them.

Mm-hmm. And I'm just like, wow, so. If they weren't keeping his commandments, he probably wouldn't have revealed this self to them. You know? Choose you this day.

Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know. All I know, I want to get everything that I can get. from the Lord in this life.

and the next. See, so I'm not just what you would call a Sunday saint. I have never been a Sunday saint. I believe in the Sunday service. I believe in worship.

I believe in keeping the Sabbath. I believe in those things. But then I also understand that I have to apply myself into everything that I believe in.

So, hey, but we got to take a break. You know, I can talk to Mark all day long, and, you know, he's, you know, there's very few men that I can call on the phone and be on the phone for hours and then realize, man, it's been hours. There's very few. He's one of them. Hey, but hey, we'll be right back on Bridging the Gap.

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But it's an honor having you here today.

So, can you give us some contents on biblicals Translation? Yeah, translations are, you know, 'cause you know, we you can go. I talked to you about so much stuff. We can go all over the place. You can go, yeah, a lot of rabbit trails.

Some of the things that. Because your initial thing you were asking is about why learn Hebrew?

So how much of the Bible is not translated into English? I'd rather hear what you got to say for me to answer the question. I can't answer the question, but I'll give you an example.

Okay. So when Jacob. came to Bethel. It says it was formerly called Blues. There's three words right there for you.

What does Jacob mean? What does Bethel mean? What does Luz mean? I heard a great study on what Jacob means, but wow, that's the Yaknov.

So Yaakov literally means to catch the heel, right? He will it has this concept of Jacob. Ekev is a heel.

Okay. So he caught his brother's heel.

So it's to follow in, they use it in modern Hebrew, like the trackers, somebody who's tracking or a detective or following. In the footsteps of, it's a picture of following at somebody's heel.

So, in one way, you can think of Yaakov as. You know, initially he's grasping at his brother's heel. But in the end, Yaakov is following God. He's following on the footsteps of God because the one who's really going to crush uses heel to crush the serpent's head.

Okay. Right? Cool, huh?

So so then Bethel. And I, I mean, uh, Beth Ellen And uh lose.

So they say B Beit El is house of God. Lose is almond tree.

So, if you look at the house of God, if you look at the tabernacle, the menorah, the candlestick inside, is is a picture of an almond tree.

So, literally, in the tabernacle, they have this thing traveling around with them that's a picture of an almond tree inside the house of God. And so the very first place Yaakov comes, whose name is changed to Israel, So then Israel is traveling around. Right, with this place that is, I mean, this menorah. That's a picture of an almond tree inside the house of God. But since it's not necessarily the names aren't translated, gobs of Moshe, for exam Moses, for example.

All these different names we lose context. You know, um So it gives you what does Dwayne mean?

Well, I can get I I don't know. You didn't look it up in the baby book. I love teasing your brother. But no, I I did look it up a couple of places, but uh so if you go to Wikipedia and look it up, right, it tells you it's Irish for black, which is like cool. It literally is Ir I Irish for black.

Okay, yeah. Thanks, Dad. You know, Leroy got it right.

So. The the um I love your dad. I love your pops. Um When we start looking at translation. I get this question all the time.

What translation is the best? I can't learn Hebrew, so what translation is the best? How do you even begin? That would mean you'd have to essentially be almost omniscient. I can tell you gobs are translations that aren't very good.

I mean, we have this one spectrum between literal and between an analogy, right?

So literal is a problem. If I say to you, let's get the ball rolling. Or you say to me, let's get the ball rolling. And I go, yeah, okay, let's get the ball rolling. Let's get ready, right?

It's an idiom. But if we go tell Kaleem Spuddy, who only speaks Arabic, Let's get the ball rolling. We translate it literally. He's going to look around for a ball to roll. Mm-hmm.

So there's idiomatic idiomatic expressions. That Don't necessarily make sense.

So if you say, hey, hand me the monkey wrench. You know, in Hebrew today, They they say Give me the Swedish key. the Miftach um uh s uh Svedi, right? Swedish key. If we translated Swedish key from Hebrew into English, You and I both are going, what?

Yeah. You know, so there's literal translation can be an issue.

So you really have to understand context. And so, one of the incentives to really learn Hebrew is to not be at the mercy of people who. have agendas when they're translating it. You know, I don't want to be at the mercy of anybody's agenda. and much less than the most important thing.

that I have, which is the Word of God.

So that's a huge incentive for me. Yeah, you know, you know, this is one thing that I learned, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, it's like a Hebrew phrase. Um what they say forty days and forty nights. It's actually a Hebrew phrase. It it doesn't necessarily mean it's forty days and forty nights, and it doesn't mean that it's not forty days and forty nights, you know?

And it's just some things like that that that popped out.

So I you know, it's Translation, like you said, it depends on who's translating it, right? Big time. Yeah. So, wow, wow. You know, and this stuff is so rich, and there's so much in it.

You know, we can go on and on and on with this stuff. But that's why I like sitting under you. to get a better understanding in general. I don't get as deep as you guys get. But just having the basic concepts of certain things, like you explained the candlesticks, and that was, can you do that for the audience?

Explain, because. I was looking at it totally different.

So, how we typically look at it, right? The. Most English translations, I haven't seen one that if you look at the Greek word that they translate in that Yeshua, when he's talking in Revelation to John, and he says, This, what these seven are. Is the seven assemblies. And what's really powerful is when you take that Greek word, It's not a single candlestick.

Mm.

Each he's saying there are seven. Menorahs. That means there's 49 lights, which is a picture of what they're doing in Sukkot in the Feast of Weeks. And the fiftieth day or the fiftieth year is liberty and Yeshua is that light. Wow.

Because that's what John is seeing, right? He's seeing Yeshua as that light here.

So you got a whole picture of liberty in the body of Messiah, the seven assemblies, of complete. Body of Messiah is supposed to be a picture of Of that, so 50 is Christ.

Well, 50 is a picture of liberty, okay? Yeah. The year of Jubilee.

Okay. Everything gets set free. But he's the one that does that.

So it's a it's it gives us um it gives us patterns. We've been thinking that it's just been seven, but it's 49. Yeah. Each one of them, each of these is so the menorah has how many? How many candlesticks in it?

A menorah has seven lights on it.

Okay. So there's if you look at it, it's actually seven menorahs.

So it's so you got 49. Yeah. I mean, I've always seen as a kid. And and fifty is the the the time of Jubilee. Yep.

Everything getting set free.

So the Feast of Weeks is a picture of that. There's other pictures of it that he gives us, you know, in between the Passover and when he ascended. Yeah. So he sended the father on the 50th day, right, on Sukkot. I'm gonna tell you something.

I'm sorry, 50 days from. 50 days from the Passover. This stuff is real important. Maybe, yeah. This stuff is real important.

It's important to know. But I tell you, reading some of the, and you know, the class, the last class I'll be back up.

Okay. Pentecost is 50 days. But they're counting. They're counting right at the they start the count right at the end of the Feast of Passover and then start the count on the Sabbath after.

So it's actually the 50 days of Sukkot come at the tail end of The Feast of Unlivened Bread. Yeah. And that's one thing I want to start doing in my future: start practicing the holidays. That the Lord set up and start honoring those and start living in those. I mean, God, God is awesome.

He said, Listen, have a feast in my name. You know what I'm saying? I mean, he's like, you know, no, no, go get down with your family and have a nice feast in my name. Enjoy your life. Enjoy your time here on earth.

And I think that's what the problem is. We get into a place where we are enjoying the things instead of the things that the Creator gave us. You know what I mean? Or worshiping him in what we have. It gets deep, man.

But listen, we ain't trying to make things complicated for you. What I am trying to do, what I'm trying to do is to get you to enlighten you to say, listen, go and study this stuff for yourself. Because first of all, God honors seeing you study him. He honors that. And he blesses you through those things.

And it's a blessing for you.

So if you think about it. What was the very first thing that Yeshua quoted? When he's fighting the enemy. When he's fighting the enemy, he quotes Deuteronomy 8:3 and he goes, Man does not live by bread alone, but by every. thing that comes out of the mouth of God.

Mm.

Right. So everything that comes out of the mouth of God, every word that comes out of the mouth of God. His breath. This is how we live.

So if we aren't into. His word from the very beginning Genesis 1.1 and on. all the way through to the end of Revelation. That g all of that gives us life. It gives us the ability to Fight the enemy.

And that's what that's essentially what he was modeling. during those forty days and and then he deals with the enemy. Mm-hmm. Anyway Boom, here you go. Man, I tell you, I wish I had a full broadcast today because I love to, I want to talk to you about some more.

But we have a short broadcast. We had a basketball game before us, and we have Ant before us. We have Wake Fars after us.

So we're going to short, short day today, but we're going to get down some more. Mark ain't leaving. John Mark is not leaving yet, but I'm going to get into some of this good gospel music. We're going to take a break and we're going to play some songs and then we'll be right back with John Mark. This is my Hebrew scholar.

I tell you, I love talking to her. I love inquiring more about the Lord. You know, it just opened up my door to understanding. And that's what I want to do. I want to understand more.

And one of my prayers, and I don't know how it got into my spirit, but one of my prayers, when I got saved, I was like, Lord, I want to know the hidden things. I want to know the deep things. I want to know the things that you just didn't, you know, just anybody just don't get. And all of that stuff comes through studying. It comes through a relationship with the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost, amen, working inside of you through you. Yeah, all that stuff coming together, coming to play. But hey, we're going to be right back on Bridging the Gap. We're repping for the kingdom in the city. Speaking life until the youth, can you feel me?

We're bridging the gap. The ending mysteries to the church. Let them know that God comes first. We're bridging the gap. We're speaking the word.

how it relates to you. This is Bridging the Gap. Devil's a liar, he prays like a choir. Take this a higher, hold a messiah, let him know, let him know. We come to rock the show, rock the show.

Rep Christ, we gon' let him glow, let him glow. Peace Christ, so the souls can grow, souls can grow. A little praise, but we need some more, need some more. Yeah, and I'm about to go wild. Praise you, the roof, get it swagged out and so style.

My God is so mild, his ways are so foul. And his promise gets passed from your child to your child. Turn this one up from your hood to your hood. See, my God is so good. Don't know him, then you could.

Don't share him, then you should. See, I was just asking, not just trying to cash. And I'm repping the God that is filled with compassion. No matter the season, he still beat in fashion. I do this right here, cause it is impassioned.

Everywhere we go, everybody, everybody wanna know. We're doing kingdom business. Everywhere we go, we're doing kingdom business. We're doing kingdom business. Everywhere we go, we're doing kingdom business.

We're doing kingdom business. City to city, show after show. I've seen your glory, but I want some more. May not be angels, but just below. Am I turning back?

The answer's no, the rooster's crow. It's still the show. I've seen my God. Destroy the foe, may not be major, may not be pro But still his love. It's for me though.

Can take the silver, can take the dough. I'll still be here to the trumpet. No, we pretty much. the kingdom the blessings flow He canceled out. The deck meo.

Everywhere we go, everybody, everybody wanna know. We're doing kingdom business, we're doing kingdom business. Everywhere we go, we're doing kingdom finish. We're doing kingdom business. Everywhere we go, we're doing kingdom finance.

We're doing kingdom business. T-Rock Kingdom Venus. S-T-L to A-T-L. It's how we get down. Kingdom Venus.

Yeah. Father. I know that your words say. that the steps of a good man are Order by the Lord. And I know that the good in me is the Christ in me.

Because Christ is my righteousness. Yeah, yeah. But father, even though it seems like trouble is all around. Just like Daniel and the lion stands, you shut the lion's mouth. And I'm asking you in my time to deliver me from the mouth of the lion.

Lord, I need you to stand with me in the heat of the fire. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. The enemy hasn't closed all around me, but I gotta keep fighting. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. See, your word is truth.

And with you, Father, I know I will triumph. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. I got a work to do, and in you I can face my Goliath. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. Spiritual warfare is where I'm at now.

And my heart and mind is the place of the battleground. Satan will use things in your past to try to weigh you down. But I'ma stand if it take my life, ain't backing down. Cause I'm an overcomer by the blood of the Son of God who's living. Inside of me by the spirit of promise.

See, I'm a firm believer, a young man who yearns to be a vessel. God can use the desire, just be burning me up. But I'ma follow this lead, cause greater receipt. Only through Jesus can I succeed. Learn and achieve.

See, I've been tried in my way long enough.

Now that I take a look back at the past, I recognize that I'm growing up. And it's showing up through the test and rise that I'm going through. I'm so glad my mentor found someone he can pour into. See, the father-son relationship is the way to grow, grow. And I thank God for it, cause we fight a powerful foe.

And he ain't playing with you. Lord, I need you to stand with me in the heat of the fire. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. The enemy hasn't closed all around me, but I got it in lighting. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion.

See, your word is truth and with you, Father. I know I will triumph. Deliver me. From the mouth of the lion, I got a work to do. And in you, I can face my Goliath.

Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. I can't accept defeat, no, but it's hard to stay on my feet, though. And God, I'm grateful for your power, but I believe I need more. Pressure built into the ceiling, dealing with situations. My concentration is not as strong as it has been lately.

Everything I'm facing is trying to break me, but I'ma make it. And I'ma go through with a smile for this joy. I got the work and take it. But face it, I realize that this is just part of the process. Middle of the wanna open that closed entrance inside may be the lock nest.

But I gotta progress, I can't benefit from no profit. I'm searching for the key to my destiny. I guess I'ma need up a locksmith. Feeling like sometimes I've been dropkicked, but throwing in the towel is nonsense. Too many years in it, too much time spent.

I'm just telling you how my mind gets. Yeah, I'm leaning on you. And I'm in need of your annoying. I heard somebody say that trouble don't last always. And joy comes in the morning.

That's why God, I'm leaning on you. And I'm in need of your anointing. I know these troubles won't last always. And my joy is coming in the morning. I'm waiting.

Stand with me in the heat of the fire right here. I'm not gonna move, Lord. I'm waiting right here. Stand with me in the heat of the fire right here. Yeah.

See your word is truth. And with you, Father, I know I will try it. Deliver me from the mouth of the lion. I got a word to do, and in you, I can face my desire. Deliver me, Lord.

Man, it felt like the struggle is realer than it ever been. I'm still in it, though. I just wanna spend time with him. I not pray like I'm waiting to get up. I just Wanna get it in one time with out of mind, drift might flip like a light switch.

Uh, I wanna pray through the crisis, uh, next button breaks into violence. Get away, figure out I could pray in the quiet. My mind just goes hate when it's silence. Uh, I just wouldn't do right, but I slip more than a few times. I can't, I was hoping you might help me get it righteous in due time.

I don't wanna live how the blind do walk right by you into the by you. Lie like I try to find you, but let me hit a quick click. And if I don't get rich, I'll try you. We owe you more than a player. You close till we know that we gon' get away.

With the bag you wrote, I know you going astray. But it's sad, it's only when you broke and you pray. Knowing it's true, I'd rather be broken than two if that'd get me closer to you. In front, like I'm hoeing, I know it's a hole in my soul. You the only one know what to do with it, holy and true.

So you be the glory, I study you like a historian dude. I'm a warrior with a sword that could turn an enemy of yours into freaking warrior fool. God over money, the movement, you black ball who. I smack your black ball with a pool stick. We too sick, we already know the truth, bitch.

We can't fold to the dark side, we too lit. I submit it. I've been in my mind all day, all day. Couldn't go to sleep last night, last night, yeah. I just need to see your face.

Maybe I can get back to you. I so need all of you. I simply feel like it or feel like it or feel the ice and get all of you. I'ma keep on praying, whole truth, nothing but the truth. I'ma keep on saying finna ride the beat like Deborah and it bite the squeak though and the prayer ignited.

It's like a cheat code, ain't it? No petrol, just beat so bang. You would think number three four plan west coast to the east coast, beast mode on the beast, east flow, make the king more famous. Speak to the mountain, watch obstacles moving. If you give your life to God, watch what he do with it.

Christ is the ruler, now why you're a shooter. Shoot prayer through the roof like two, through, through, through with it. Go ahead, make your request known, whatever your dress code is. You're wearing the best coat, you're covered in the blood of the one who bledfoed The skins of the world voted the most left on We're ready for heaven, you ready to let's go Yes, and we're better than whatever you won't let go Devil trying to tell us how whatever we bless though And if I fail, it'll be for telling them heck no struggle, I might dope But I stay tight to the light bulb The body with me, I don't Don't play ice, so I might fall But I ain't bold, cause I know the Christ rose, so I'm righteous in the sight though I just submitted all to you I've been in my mind all day Couldn't go sleep last night We're taking the word to the streets, bridging the gap. Ain't nobody greater, ain't no, ain't nobody greater.

Ain't nobody greater, ain't no, ain't nobody greater. I'm an ex-dope boy, I used to move that there. In the hood so much, I thought I'd move back there. But it's IDJ, I brought the crew back there. You met the love when we did, so why are you back there?

We get the word to the chicks in the blue black half. In the thugs with the straps and the two-rat wear. The bandanas, no manners, and the whole wear. We made it out, so we not leaving you back there. After checks, thinking you like that.

Introduce you to the No matter who might step, he the judge, I'm the prince. Welcome through Batla. Educate you on the crosshairs. You might Oh, he don't change cause your status. Ain't the hardest, but the Lord, he the baddest.

We far from a fraud, it's a habit.

So the goal to get it steaming at the top like an addict. Boy, it's automatic. Guard in the hood, welcome to our dreams. Plug the streets with him like New Orleans. He ain't worried about the baggage that you might bring.

But he ain't with the bull like New Adams. Not tryna get stripes like Kuzlot.

Well, I'm all up in your kitchen like a hot sticker. Everything that you need, they the new guy. Scandy kid with the rim, that's my guy. And I be like, hey. I'ma tell a whole world about him.

Even if you try, you can never drive it. You can never tell. Ten toes deep. I'm sure about it. I'm sure about it.

I'm sure about it. To the top of my lungs, I'ma start it. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater.

Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't nobody. Ain't nobody greater.

Who you know greater? You probably thinking other people with them most papers.

So now you're trying to stack it green like a skyscraper. Anybody tell you different, you like I hate her. But don't forget about his favor. These accolades go to your brain, inflate your danger.

Now you thinking you're major. Even one in the one and major. Pull up on the scene like you got in the flesh. Sister player don't play yourself. That money funny, don't love it, but get it.

Remember to say itself. Cause nowadays you gotta save yourself. Cause you can go to church every Sunday and not even be saved yourself. I'm saying get it right before you leave. Our hearers, no doers, that's bad for your help You say that you love them, your actions don't show it should be said Apart from this world, but see nobody know there's no fruit on your fig tree.

I know how to look, cause they used to beat me. Holy Spirit was grieving, situation deceiving. Cause I knew that the Lord would forgive me.

So now I said, God know my heart. I don't mean no harm. Like I found me, a loophole. I had to stop playing with God. I'm too grown.

Proclaiming His greatness until I'm in my true home. Ain't nobody rapping. I'ma tell a whole world about him. Even if you try, you can never drought it. You can never doubt it.

Ten toes deep. I'm sure about it. I'm sure about it. I'm sure about it. To the top of my lungs, I'ma short it.

Ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Body, ain't nobody greater.

Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater.

Body, ain't nobody greater. Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Ain't nobody greater, ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Ain't nobody greater, ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Ten toes deep, I'm sure ain't nobody greater.

Ain't no, ain't nobody greater. Ain't nobody greater, ain't no, ain't nobody greater. We're bridging again, yeah. We're bridging again, yeah. The ending mysteries to the church.

Men and them know that God comes first. Yes, and amen. Hey, welcome, welcome back to Bridget Game. Yeah. It's been a blessing for me to have my man John Markey on the broadcast today sharing.

His studies, and uh, uh, it's a lot of them. I gotta have him back again because you know, we haven't even touched the surface. Uh, but next next time, we'll have a little bit more focus on some stuff uh figured out. But, uh, yeah, I just appreciate you coming in today, sir. You're welcome.

It was good hanging out with you. Amen. Well, Well, I look forward to being there Monday, Lord, say the same. Uh for class and uh we go from there and And just let the Lord have his way. Uh so is it any um information that you can give the people or any shout outs you'd like to make?

Any shout outs. Um I know your class is listening. Yeah, there's a lot of guys. We got a guy over in Israel right now that just got over there and. He's it's middle of the night over there, so He's digging in.

He's getting ready to get slam-dunked with. three months of solid Hebrew.

So he could use some prayer. Amen. Because it's. Like, cut your brain open, pour the words in, and regurgitate them. There you go.

But he's been doing good, getting prepped for it. And. It's really cool to see that the paradigm shift, you know, and digging in and really being a student of Yeshua. Yeah. We got to have you back, man.

Share some of your world travels and all of that good stuff, man, and some of the experiences you have. You know, a lot of this stuff, it helps others increase their faith and help increase their desires. That's why I love the scripture. The scripture says through the foolishness of preaching, through the foolishness of us just sharing the gospel. He uses that to bring others into him.

Through that foolishness. You know, to define the scholars and all of that stuff just by us sharing the gospel. Look it up, Saints. Look that scripture up. But just by us sharing the gospel, he uses that.

to bring others unto him. You know, you hear the word and you get encouraged by the word, and the word directs you. And so, yeah, he uses that.

So, you might want to say, like. Because people talk about it, right? You can ever learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth.

So there's a lot of folks out there that speak Hebrew. But they don't really know Jesus. Yeah. And There's a lot of scholars that study, study, study, and don't know the Lord.

So the reality is How do we bridge that gap? Segue for you, right? How do we bridge that gap between being ignorant? And really understanding his word and coming into the knowledge of his truth. It all really is predicated on seeking him.

And he says, if you seek me, you will find me.

So it's really attitude. And not in the Western church, there's been a lot of. from an attitude perspective of cutting off our right leg to, you know, cutting off the first two-thirds of scripture. And what God really wants us to do is take him seriously.

So I'll leave you with this one. He confronted the religious leaders of the day. And he said, If you understood Moses, And the pro and the prophets, you would understand me. And that's just as true today. He hits them with that, with the Torah and the prophets, right?

And then what does he do on the road to Emmaus? Cloophis literally means parchment. The guy he's walking with that doesn't recognize him at first. And what's he doing on the living parchment? He's writing about himself.

from Moses and the prophets.

Some So Understanding Moses and the prophets, understanding the the Torah, the prophets, the writings, is really critical. for understanding what he's here doing. What he came to do. Yeah, that's some good stuff, people. That's rich with revelation and You know, like I said.

Things like this should provoke you to study and learn more and inquire more. That's why I like sitting under certain people, you know, that I can learn from. And like I said, this is one of my scholars, my Hebrew scholar. Amen. So I just appreciate you.

Thanks for your time. I'd like to give a shout out to Pastor Stu Epperson. Amen. The owner of the station. He's a man of God.

And I just love it. I've been missing the Wednesday and the Word, but God is good, you know. And give a shout out to Mike Calbone, amen, the everything man here. I mean, you know, he does it all.

So it's just a blessing to be in there, you know. And these guys, they sit up here, they have a. uh prayer meeting on uh on every morning at discuss things about you. You, you, the listeners, you are in the prayer meeting. Amen.

They're praying for you and the salvation for you. And that's what this is about. It's all about bringing people closer to Christ.

So again, I give my hats off for you coming in and we appreciate you. Amen. So we get to roll out of here. We got an early end today. We got a basketball games coming up.

Wait for us. I hope they do their due diligence and see them on the other side. Amen. But we're going to take off and we appreciate you tuning in and listening. Here go my man, St.

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