Random Thoughts From a Free Man...

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Let me let you in on a little secret here, um, you know, I And I consider myself in in a lot of ways a free man

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I'm a free man and that doesn't mean that I'm free from like any fetters at all Like I'm free from any rules at all.

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I'm just like a wild man. Just crazy. No, no, no No, that's not what real freedom is because when you're when you think you're free in that way

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You're actually just a slave to your own sin nature. You're a slave to sin see see

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Those of us like myself that that that are free like truly free like we fear

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God and we follow his rules and we Seek to honor him in everything that we do.

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We fear God, right? So we we're not trying to break the shackles of God's oppression on us.

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He doesn't oppress us, right? We know that his rules and his statutes are holy and good and for our good

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We understand that right? But but what we're free from is Fear of man, right?

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We're free from from the fear of like, oh, can I provide for myself? My family and stuff like that.

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No, the answer is no so newsflash The answer is absolutely no God will provide for us.

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You know, the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want you see what I'm saying. So here's a little bit of a piece of advice for you from those of us who are free men, okay

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The worst that the enemy has is Actually, not that big a deal. Let me take it for me.

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I've been I've been called all kinds of names Racist white supremacist.

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You're just a big meanie Misogynist all this kind of stuff. I've been taught I've been called every name in the book, right?

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I've been called every name in the book. I my life has the people have attempted to destroy my life, right?

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They've attempted to they've they've attempted to ruin me now I've never gotten the phone call and and and a lot of you guys out here know about this phone call

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I've never gotten this because I've never gone this route, right? But the phone call that says if you continue to do

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X, you'll never get another book deal again You'll give it never get another job in a seminary again

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I've never been on the receiving end of that phone call But guess what when you are a free man and you don't fear that and you know that the

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Lord is your shepherd He'll provide for you When you don't fear that and you're a free man It becomes not that big a deal almost instantly

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So if you're worried about getting another book deal you're worried about am I gonna be platform? I'm gonna be promoted is is so -and -so gonna write the forward to my book like this is small potatoes, man

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It's not that big a deal. What's the worst they can do? They can call you racist been there done that I've been called a racist a million times.

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Guess what? Doesn't hurt me Oh, yeah, yeah, you know, they might they might make it so you can't work again.

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Yeah, okay fine So if they whoever they is makes it so that you can't get another job again is the

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Lord still your shepherd Will you want? See when you're a free man, you realize that the worst that the enemy has for you

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It's nothing compared to what you deserve When you're a free man people that want you to fear them and their power they wield power over you

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You know, they send you text messages. They tell you to kill yourself They tell you they tell you that you'll never get another job in this town again

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You know that kind of stuff the Mafia stuff Mafia tactics. Listen, the reality is In Big Eva, there are people like that and evangelicalism a lot of your heroes have fallen

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Because because they're scared of people like that like the mafioso type, you know what I mean? There's a month there's like a mafia style group in big a big evil evangelicalism

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When you're a free man you realize that all of their threats all of the worst they could do It's no big deal

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Because the Lord is your shepherd and you shall not want It's good to be free.

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It's really good to be free And I'm not saying that again It's not like a total like libertine type freedom where you just do whatever you want.

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No, no, no I I have to do what God Requires of me like I have Constraints I can't just do whatever

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I want and then trust me if I did whatever I wanted on my youtube channel My channel would look a lot different than it does right now

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But the reality is When you're a free man and you fear God more than anything

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It's awesome It's great You truly are free

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So all you guys out there I'm telling you I'm encouraging me There's a lot of you that are on our side in this issue our side of this war

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But you're still kind of fearing what man can do to you Don't it seems like a big deal

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But I'm here to tell you from someone who's bared the brunt of some of it. Not all of it, but some of it

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It's not that bad It's not a big deal. I promise you Anyway, I hope this is helpful.