Denounced AKA - Freedom From Bondage

Welcome to Discern in the Times. My name is Brian Thomas. It is a blessing to be with you once again this week. And I'm excited today as we are going to speak on the topic of fraternities and sororities and the bondage that comes with those organizations. But we're going to share some encouraging words with you that you can be free from that bondage.

So I'm going to be joined by a special guest who I'll bring in shortly. But before I do, I must remind you that your eternal state is far more important than your current state. If you have never received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, I encourage you to do so today. Otherwise, if you leave this out of life without having received him, you will spend eternity in the lake of fire separated from God. So will you please give your heart to Jesus Christ on today?

All right. So we're going to talk today about a guest who is going to share her testimony. She's a second time guest. As a matter of fact, we had her on probably about a year and a half ago to talk about her decision to come out of A.K.A.

and to be free from that bondage. And I am speaking of Brittany Boone. And I came across her video online and sharing the testimony. And I just want to share very quickly what she had to say is her introduction. She stated, I recently denounced from Alpha Kappa Alpha, and I am happy to share the truth with you that God shared with me. On March 13th, God revealed some truth with me. He showed me how real heaven and hell is, mostly how real demons are. As a saved Christian, I stood on the fact that God loved me and would never let anything harm me. But on March 13th, I learned that as a saved Christian filled with the Holy Spirit, I was bound.

The devil had some strongholds on my life. God showed me I needed to step away from the sorority and he backed it up with his word. So, Brittany Boone, I want to thank you for coming on to speak with us once again concerning your denouncement of sorority. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here.

All right. It is definitely a blessing. Your your testimony really moved me when I first learned of it. To get us started, share with us what sorority were you a member of and for how long? So I was a part of A.K.A., which is also known as not A.K.A., but not also known as but Alpha Kappa Alpha. And I I joined into 2011 and then I denounced 2023.

So in all about 12 years. OK. All right. And you mentioned that God showed you how real demons are. So are demons connected to fraternities and sororities? So I think it's important to understand what a demon is. And because I think that's a word that people can just say and not even understand what a demon is. So a demon is a spiritual being, a real spiritual being.

Just like you and I, we're spiritual beings in a body. A demon is a spiritual being looking for a body. And so it is an evil spiritual being that literally the only job they have is to deceive, to keep people in bondage and to oppose the kingdom of God. So they are always doing their job.

They've been doing their job since they've been following Satan and for forever. And so since they were fallen angels. So so that's what a demon is, right?

A spiritual being. And so looking at the root of that, you and you look at the root of fraternities and sororities. It's almost the same as if, you know, some people are like into ancestry, like learning like where they come from, like the root of where they are and everything. It's you have to do the same with fraternities and sororities, like looking at what is rooted in. Where did it come from?

How did they originate? And that's where you see and find what is what is rooted in, which is Freemasonry. And that all it comes from, again, ancient Roman, ancient Greek times, which it's a form of universalism and all of that is rooted in idolatry. So like when you keep on getting deeper and deeper, it's all rooted in things that are not of God. And so, yes. So fraternities and sororities being rooted from those things, which are while they say they're spiritual, while they say that it is they may even say God. But there's it's not just the one and only God, the father of Jesus Christ.

It is little g gods. And so, yes, that's where demons operate in those spiritual realms in the dark spiritual realm of heavenly authorities. Hmm.

Yeah. And I'm glad you pointed out that, you know, demons, how long they've been around and the fact that, yeah, their thing is to keep people in bondage. That is what they are out there doing, just deceiving and tricking people into going along with things that are not of God.

And one of the things that I've noticed, Brittany, is I've been talking with more people over the last few years concerning this topic of fraternities, sororities, Freemasonry, as you said, just all these different secret societies. One of the pushbacks I've heard from a lot of people, they'll say, no, I never made an oath to to any idol God. What do you say to those people who were coming back with that response?

I get the same thing. In fact, that was like one of the first things like when I told my story, they were like, what we there's preachers, preachers, wives that are all part of Greek organizations like they're like, no, they never did anything bad. And so what I say to that is to do exactly what I did. It is to pull out the ritual book. So I didn't have the ritual book. So thank God I found it on Google. I literally just Googled a ritual book and it came up.

I'm pretty sure any organization can do that. If you can't find if they can't find it online, then God, all you got to do is pray because he did the same thing for me. Like when I pulled out the ritual book, I honestly didn't even pray that he would show me anything because I was still like very naive to all of this. I just felt like I needed to remind myself what I did. And as I was reading through the ritual book, really, the Holy Spirit took me back to when I was doing those acts, when I was saying those things during the initiation process, it was almost like I was like right there, just like watching myself. And so while I forgot about it after all these years, and even while I was doing those things, I didn't really think too much about it. I was just like, I'm just trying to get in this organization.

I'm going to do whatever I got to do. I would just I would just say like, ask God, if you can't find the ritual book, and if you do find the ritual book, ask God to remind you what you did. And if you pull up the ritual book, like for example, aka, it literally says it says, let me see because I had I took a picture of and I'm like, it literally says oath right here in the aka ritual book. It says in I found it in the Delta's one as well.

I didn't go through all of them. But it says the oath of secrecy, the oath of allegiance for aka, and then Delta says, Delta oath. And so it's saying in plain sight, like you're, you're doing it. Oh, you're saying oaths.

Yeah. And as you were talking, I was thinking to myself, you know, Brittany, we when we get married, people go to the altar, they recite marital vows, or at least they agree typically is where the presiding minister will, will give the statements and you say I do right. A lot of times because of all the nervousness and all the things going through your mind, you can ask people later, what was the vow in your marriage, a lot of people don't really remember. But when you say I do you are agreeing to what was said you we do have a responsibility to know what it is that we are agreeing to. And that's the thing I think with a lot of people in these organizations, maybe because of the excitement, the thrill just wanting it so bad, they're not really thinking exactly what it is they're agreeing to. But that is how again, as you talked about the demons, that's how they deceive us, right? Get us to go along with things without even really realizing it's what we're doing.

And then those strongholds become a part of our lives without us really even realizing it. And, and just let me be clear, not in no way am I trying to say marriage vows, there anything wrong with that, when they're based on the Bible, but I'm just simply making the example that when you're agreeing to it, you can't come back later and said, Well, I don't remember saying that. So therefore, I'm not held responsible. No, you said I do. Then you were making that oath.

You're making that vow, right? Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

All right. So what about when it comes to these idol gods? So you mentioned idol, the little G gods, of course.

And let me just say for anyone who did not hear the first time we've had you on, I was never in a fraternity myself. So a lot of things were new to me. But as I've been hearing more and more testimonies of people over the years coming out with their their renouncements and announcements, I've started studying a lot myself to to learn and get an understanding. And one of the things that I learned is that there are a lot of in within the emblems within the symbols and logos of these Greek organizations. There are idol gods, the the imagery of idol gods within those emblems. Are any of those mentioned in the Bible?

Yes. So one that really stands out to me is Zeus in Hermes when Paul is in that foreign country or city. And I think he was with I don't remember who he was with, but they were there doing miracles. And it's in Acts.

I think Acts 14. But they were there doing miracles. And so there was a man that couldn't walk.

Right. And they could see that he had he wanted to be healed. So he thought they healed him. They just spoke.

And he he was able to walk. And so the people were amazed. They're like, oh, this is the gods sending us Zeus in Hermes on earth. And they were like, when Paul and maybe Silas, I'm sorry, I don't want to misquote the Bible, but does Paul and whoever he was with, they they're like immediately rebuke them. It was like, no, we are not.

That's not who we are. There's one God. And so that's one that is in. And honestly, I don't know. I'm not too educated on all of the symbols that are on the shield and everything. But I know just from like anyone that is familiar with Greek organizations, black Greek organizations, even other organizations, and a lot of people say, well, why is it just black Greek organizations know it's all Greek organizations actually know someone who's come out of a panhellenic and she is like on fire to like let people know this is all this is all fraternities and sororities. So anyways, it is. So that's when I know Minerva is like straight up on the Delta shield. And so they are everywhere.

But oh, that's what I was getting at. So when you look at it, the Greek organizations, they do symbolize like the gods that they're rooted in, like, aka, for example, I keep using that because that's the one I'm most familiar with. But aka is very known for being like the pretty girl, the like very into herself. And a symbol that's used a lot with aka is the Ivy. And that is connected to the the Ivy symbol.

How to write this down. The Ivy symbol is rooted in Dionysus, which is the god of wine and excess. And it's known for seduction, vanity and worldly success without God. Same for Delta Minerva, the god of wisdom and war is deeply rooted in pride, intellectualism and self reliance apart from God. And so you can even look from the outside and look at the stigmas or the stereotypes of each fraternity of sorority and see the God that it is rooted in.

Wow. And let me share the scripture that you were referencing to concerning Paul. So it was Barnabas that he was with.

And you're right. It was in Acts chapter 14. And beginning at verse 11, it says, Now, when the people saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices saying in the Laconian language, the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men. And Barnabas, they call Zeus and Paul Hermes because he was the chief speaker. Then the priests of Zeus, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates intending to sacrifice with the multitudes. But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and ran among the multitude, crying out, saying me and why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you.

And then it continues on. So right there in the Bible, that's that's what we see. And the thing about it is people today with fraternities and sororities are making allegiance alliances and oaths to these exact same idol gods that Paul and Barnabas there were speaking against.

So that's the very thing that you were talking about. All right. So when when it comes to your renouncement, well, before the renouncement, what about in terms of when you were in the sorority, would you say that that had any negative impact on your life at all? When I was in it, I honestly could not tell anything was wrong or that, you know, that I was doing anything that wasn't of God, because I always I knew I got saved at 25.

I didn't renounce until I was 32. So I knew I was like, you know, doing things for God, calling, saying it was for God and all that. It wasn't until after the fact that like being on the other side that I can look back and see, oh, my goodness, I was dealing with a lot of stuff.

I was in a lot of bondage that just in it, I couldn't see it. And so when some of those things are pride, like deep in pride, lust, and not just sexual lust, but busting after the pleasures of life, like, especially with my generation, like trying to be like a baddie, like a boss babe, you know, all of that, just lusting after those things, a certain kind of lifestyle, anxiety, I was dealing with a lot of anxiety, and, and just idolizing things, mostly my business, I idolize my business, I idolize the person that I thought I wanted to be. Like, I would always say, like, I have this.

What is it called? Like, not a persona. But like, for like, I used to love Beyonce. And so she used to have like this stage presence called top Sasha, Sasha fears.

Yeah, Sasha fears. And so I always like said that I had like an alter, an alter ego. That's what it is an alter ego. When I ran my business, I was like, in real life, I'm like a really shy, quiet person.

But when I'm running my business, I'm this girl, like, I'm a boss, babe, all of this. And so I just like idolized all of those things. Hmm. Wow. And you know, you mentioned Beyonce, I actually did a podcast on her.

Wow, is probably like four or five years ago. And she was speaking to that very thing. And she said, because of her natural personality, she says she's a timid, shy kind of person that she couldn't get on stage and sing and dance in the way that she does. But what she does is she gets on stage and before she starts performing, she kind of thinks she said she raised her arms and her eyes and she allows something to come into her and she called it Sasha fears.

And when Sasha comes in and takes over, then she could go out there and do all her dancing and gyrating and all of that kind of stuff. She's admitting that she's welcoming in a spirit and is not a good spirit that's coming into her. So that's the very thing that you're speaking of.

So I find that very interesting. And along with that, Beyonce, you know, she had a song in which she was telling young girls to bow down to her. And so, you know, we don't bow to anyone, but God, that's, that's all. That's the only one we bow to, but she's saying it about her.

So I do think it was that spirit that Sasha fears that was emboldening her. And as you said, when you see all these, these demonic spirits, they're all working in unison. They're, they're trying to take us away from God, right?

They want us to worship the kingdom of darkness, not the kingdom of God. And so that's so important. And the other thing you mentioned anxiety, and I keep hearing reports out about how anxiety right now is at an all time high within the, within our nation, how many people are suffering from anxiety. And so it sounds like what you're saying for a lot of people, the root cause is probably involved in these type of activities, right?

Yes. And that's the thing. It's like things on the outside, it seems so normal or people like they do a good job of covering it up. Like that's a lot of things that I was dealing with. It's not like it wasn't like outward facing things. Like a lot of people like the deal with sicknesses or being barren or things that like are obvious to the outside is like a lot of internal things that I was dealing with.

And then some things would show up on the outside, but it's really just a coverup for, for a lot of, I used to deal with a lot of like inferiority and I had a lot of things that I was insecure about and I would try to cover those up. But like, just like the example that you used, it wasn't with God's spirit. It was like, I would do like the same things.

Like you talked about Beyonce doing like trying to evoke, invoke certain spirits. I didn't realize it, inviting them in, like everything outside of Jesus. And it just, they weren't right. Wow. So, okay. So that's what you're in. And as you said, once you on the other side, you, you look back and you realize that those things, so how did your life change after renouncing?

Oh my goodness. Everything changed like immediately. Like some things changed immediately and then some things have been a gradual change. Um, but I knew for sure, like immediately when I renounced, I felt like those first two weeks, it was like a grieving process. I literally felt like, I just remember feeling like I was at a funeral for two weeks. Why am I like, I just felt this grief grieving and God was just literally, literally I felt the scales are being removed from my eyes because I literally was looking at the world totally different. I would look at things that I was doing even days ago and I was like, why did I think that was okay? Why was I, why was I doing that?

Why was I saying that? So one thing was drinking. Like I never considered myself an alcoholic, but I always had to be drinking every weekend and throughout the week during, during the pandemic, it was all throughout the week, every day. But after the pandemic, it was just every weekend and I wouldn't drink just for casual drinking. Like I had to get drunk.

I had to be feeling something. So it was either a bottle of wine or taking shots, just like always, I don't know if I was like trying to numb myself or what, but I just always had to get drunk. But once I renounced, I never forget out of habit that weekend after I renounced out of habit, I grabbed myself a glass of wine. It was a Sunday and I sat it on the table and my son accidentally knocked it over and like accidentally, but now I know it's like, but in that moment I felt the Holy Spirit saying, you don't need that drink.

And yes I do. It's my Sunday evening. I need my drink. And so I poured another glass, but I couldn't even finish it. And I was like, this is weird. Like I had no problem drinking.

Like this is not normal. And so, but after like a week went by, I didn't have nothing. A couple of weeks and I went out somewhere and I got another glass of wine again. I couldn't finish it.

And so it was like a month or two after that, I was like, I just had no desire at all. And God kept telling me, let your yes be yes. Let your no be no, because I was like, I mean, I don't really drink like that anymore, but he was like, no, you need to say, let your yes be yes.

Let your no be no. So like drinking was removed, secular music. My friends, the circle of people that I was hanging around with literally just fell off. So much changed. Like those are the things that changed immediately. Um, but then gradually again, things have changed. It's just amazing to me.

Wow. That's an amazing testimony. You, you hear that when, when people come to God and they get saved, they become born again and they really receive what the Holy Spirit has for them. How, as you said, those desires can be immediately taken away and is, is God's prerogative. Sometimes there, there's a process, there's the sanctification.

So it may take some, some time, but then sometimes he'll just remove it immediately. Uh, either way, you're being freed from that bondage. And as we were talking just a minute ago too, you said the desires, you know, the, the lust of life, not just simply sexual lust, but the lust of life that so many go after. And a lot of people scratch their heads when they look at celebrities in Hollywood, these people that have all this money, all this fame, anything that you can think of from a worldly standpoint, they have it. But what often happens, Brittany, they, they often in their lives through, um, overdosing on drugs, alcohol, just tragic endings. And sometimes they're, they're not accidental.

Sometimes it is intentional because they're in, they're in that bondage. Right. And we are, we as human beings were made to worship. And if we're not going to worship God, we're going to worship something. And what happens is people are trying to feel that void within them, that only Jesus Christ can feel. And so that is the great thing about it though, is if you will turn to Jesus Christ, he can cleanse you. He'll redeem you from all of that mess because all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Someone sin may be different from another, but we've all seen, but he can clean us up. So to close us out, if you will walk us through, you shared before in your testimony, there were 10 verses that God shared with you after the renouncement and they were so powerful.

Share with our audience those 10 verses that God shared with you. Yes, I will. Um, okay. Oh, I'm so sorry.

I need to pull them up. So there were, okay. So there were like in my, after I renounced and then I denounced, but after I renounced, I was, the enemy was like all in my head, like you're thinking too much, you're making too big of a deal about this. And I, while I was convinced because like that day that I was being, um, expo, like the, the light was shining on the darkness for me, I knew I needed to renounce and I did that same day. But then after the fact, the enemy was all up in my head, like, what did you just do? Like, no, this is too much.

So I was like, Lord, you're going to have to like make me fully convinced that this is it because I don't want to just be teeter tottering like, Oh, did I make the right decision? So, um, these are some verses that he, that he really highlighted for me. And what first was replaying in my mind is that my identity is found in Christ, not in, and then it was like, fill in the blank, not in Greek letters, not in my business, not in anything.

So right. My identity is in Christ. And there's a few verses about that. But, um, the next verse that he highlighted for me with Timothy one and seven, and that is basically saying that God has not given me a spirit of fear, right? You know, that popular verse, like God's not given us a spirit of fear. And that reminded me of like the timidity. I used to deal with like fearing inferior to people.

I always felt that way, though it wasn't showing up on the outside. I was dealing with a lot of fear in my life. Um, and another one was Exodus 20 and three, which says you must have no other gods before me. And, um, then it was Leviticus four, 13 through 14, which is saying if the entire Israelite community sins by violating one of God's commands, but the people don't realize it, they are still guilty.

And when they become aware of their sin, their people must bring a young bull as an offering. And so this was me not being aware of what I was a part of, but then becoming aware. And I was like, I could have said before that I didn't know no better, but now I know better. And so I just stood on that too. It was like, okay, no, now I've been revealed the truth.

Like I have to walk forward in that. Um, another one is Exodus 20 and five where it says you must not bow down to them or worship them for either Lord your God and my jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of their parents upon their children. The entire family is affected, even the children in the third and fourth generation. And this one shook me cause I have two kids and I was like, I don't want no blood on my hands.

Like I'm not trying to pass down anything from me on down to generation to generation. Like I need to be clean of all of this. Anything that's not like God right now. And second Corinthians six and 17, which is therefore come out among unbelievers and separate yourselves from them and don't touch their filthy things and I will welcome you. And so for me, this was of course is a lot of people know Greek organizations, they let it, they, they let it be known that they are spiritual organizations.

While some of them will say that they're Christian organizations, no, the fruit shows that it's just a spirit that it's not of God that that organization is. And so while out, I knew that that needed to come out from among the organization. It, it sounds like, like you're trying to like leave the people behind, but no, it was just the spirits. I was like, I want, I wanted to come out from among those spirits.

And that set out to the me. The seventh one was Deuteronomy 18, 10 through 12, where it says there should be, there shall be, there shall not be anyone who makes his son or daughter pass through the fire, who practices witchcraft or conjures up spells or a medium or spiritualist who calls upon the dead. And so a part of the initiation process is where we literally would call upon the spirit for AKA. It was Ethel, who's the founder of AKA. There was, there was an altar, but it was a table with a candle wrapped in IVs.

And we would say like, you know, Ethel, like we invite you in and all that. We were literally conjuring up her spirit. And and then also as a part of the underground process, you literally had to cross the burning sands. You don't do that on the above ground then and take process. But I went through the underground process as well. And the very last thing we had to do was cross the burning sands. And that's why you hear like people refer to their line sister, line brother of sands. And so yeah, so don't make them pass through the fire or any of that or conjure up spirits.

I was like, Oh, I did that. And Deuteronomy 13, two through three says, if, if they say, come let us worship other gods, God, you have not known before. Do not listen to, to them. The Lord is testing your heart and soul. And so for me, this was again, like something AKA Greek letter organizations wasn't something that I was familiar with growing up.

It wasn't until college that I was introduced to them. And so I knew like those gods that was associated with, I was like, Oh, this, this ain't what I was raised. I was raised in a Christian household and this stuff is not that. And then I'm getting, this is the last two. The ninth one was Matthew five and 33, which is for now I am seeking the, for now am I seeking the approval of man or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ. And so this was me like having the enemy in my mind, like saying like, Oh man, I'm making people, I'm going to make people upset by saying this organization is not of God. I was like, what are people going to think of me? Like, I was like, no, like anytime that thought came to me, this scripture, I'd be reminded of this scripture.

Cause it's like, no, I'm not doing this for a man. I'm doing this for God. It's like, all I want to do is please God. I'm I'm like, yeah, I don't want to necessarily hurt man, but it's like, if, if people get insulted by this and I'm pleased in God, then I can't, I can't be worried about that.

Like that's my main concern is pleasing God. And then the last one was Matthew five and 33, but you shall perform unto the Lord your oaths. And again, we touched on that earlier, the oath that we do.

Wow. Brittany, your testimony is so beautiful. Uh, because what I see in you is the willingness to submit the w the willingness to confess the wrongdoing in that, that you were in something that was wrong, but you were willing to confess that and then submit to the Lord and the guidance of the Holy spirit. I, I talked to so many people out there though, that you see that resistance, that rebellion, where you share these things with them. As I said earlier, people who say, well, no, I didn't make any oath to any idol God. And people, we often give examples. You mentioned earlier preachers, because there are a lot of churches where the person in the pulpit, uh, is a part of a fraternity or sorority.

A lot of people will try to use that as a leg to stand on, uh, to say, well, how can it be wrong? Look at all these, these preachers and churches that are celebrating it. So in the final moment, can you just give any words at all, anything that's on your heart to anyone out there that maybe they're wrestling, or maybe they just flat out denying any, any thoughts that you can give them to, to, to show them as to why they really need to come out of these organizations? Yes, I'll, I'll definitely, I agree with you there. There, um, that spirit of rebellion does come up a lot. And I, I'd say like, if you're feeling that, like if you're feeling, um, kind of like insulted or bothered by the thought of denouncing and renouncing, like lay that at Jesus's feet, like, why am I bothered by this?

Like, even if you're like, you don't have to be on either side right now, just lay it at Jesus to be like, why does this bother me? And then seek his wisdom. The Bible says, if we ask for wisdom, he will give it to us. So ask him to reveal things to you that you may have not thought of before. Like you just have to literally lay your own thoughts and opinions aside and be open to the Holy spirit and what he's going to reveal to you.

So it's definitely, it's there. And it's like this too. It's like, there's things in life that we kind of have to go searching for. Like a lot, I think a lot of times Christians were like, well, if God, if God was a part of this, I wanted me to know something he would have told me by now he would have showed me by now. But sometimes you do like, just like being in the Bible, you can't just read it at a surface level. You really have to dig deep and like really ask for revelation and truth in what you're reading. And when you do that, you get new revelations every time you can read the same scripture over and over, but without revelation, it can mean nothing to you.

So just ask that the Lord will reveal things and give you new revelation and he will. Amen. Amen.

Well, Brittany is always a blessing to speak with you. And I just praise God for what you were doing, your voice, and just how you are standing boldly on this topic that, again, I know it's not always easy to do because you're going to face some resistance, but you're, you're standing right there, standing boldly, flat-footed. So I praise God for you and may God continue to order your steps and blessings upon you and your family.

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