In this episode TruthSeekah is joined by Christian Rapper Sevin of HogMob. Sevin talks about being blacklisted from many christian circles but still never turning his back on the purpose at hand. Over the years Sevin has built a wide following of believers who do not seem to fit into the typical church norm. Covered from head to toe in tattoos Sevins ministry often caters to those within the gang culture.
Sevin is the stage name of Marques Adams, a Christian gangsta rapper based in Sacramento, California. His songs deal with the trials and tribulations of street life, and aim to promote a positive, faith-driven lifestyle as an alternative to drugs, violence, and gang activity. Sevin is highly prolific, with well over a dozen albums and mixtapes to his name. He began rapping as a teenager, releasing his debut album All or None in 1999. In 2001, he founded an urban ministry titled HOG MOB (Hooked on God, Ministry Over Business). The organization has since spread to include chapters in 40 cities spanning three countries. Commissary (2013) was Sevin’s first album to hit the Billboard Gospel Albums chart. After signing with God Over Money Records in 2016, Sevin’s album Purple Heart was an even bigger success, hitting multiple Billboard charts.
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Sevin Of HOGmob - Being Blacklisted From Christian Rap YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YgXHDlpQo Transcript source: YouTube captions right for for for trying to set the Facebook live up too all right we live on YouTube I don't know how to do nothing of what you doing over there all right truth seeker and or its Affiliates are not responsible for any strange phenomena the may occur during or after listening to this podcast which may include the following heighten senses of awareness psychic abilities UFO sightings alien contact Time loss outof body experiences ringing in the Years ESP lucid dreaming increased synchronicities astral projection telepathy stronger intuition levitation miraculous healings and all remote viewing please be advised to listen at your own discretion won't you come come and take me away I just want to be with you won't you come come and take me away to a place to walk on trouble SE Faith to stand when I do believe I just want to be with you won't you 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that's where that's where it's at anywhere from a dollar a month to $1,000 a month whatever you can do every little bit helps so just a big shout out salute to everybody who's who's doing that holding me down over there so without further Ado we got an awesome show planned for you guys tonight been trying to make this show happen for a minute uh we've been you know what I'm saying just um I work crazy hours on my job so I have to get up at 1:30 in the morning to go into work and then I'm 2 hours ahead of Our Guest so even just at two hours man like my my sleep is few and far between so just to make it work and make the schedules line up we did what we had to do so you know what I'm saying I didn't really promote the show a lot so it's it's you know kind of spur the moment so thank you guys for holding us down but without further Ado my guest for this evening seven of hog mob what's going on seven was mobbing bro how you living baby oh man I'm blessed brother blessed and highly favored of the Lord how you man you already know man God is good bro just chilling chilling glad uh we could finally pull this thing off you know what I'm saying I know I've been in and out a lot too so uh yeah it's good to be here bro man you're a busy man dude you're working on a new album doing full-time Ministry full-time music you know you know what I'm saying you stay on the road so thank you for finding the time just to hang out with me for a little bit man means a lot oh yeah it's good it's good and and uh publicly you know I want to salute you bro for you know all the help given the ministry as far as like you know on the website stuff and everything man it's it's it's really uh helped us in an area where we was lacking for a long time you know what I'm saying because I'm not really into the computer thing so it's uh it's been dope bro so I appreciate you you know what I'm saying God says give honor where honors through so you know what I'm saying appreciate that bro yeah man I appreciate that dude that means a lot um speaking of not really knowing much about social media that's kind of a a a true statement like a lot of people get on there they check their numbers I I I pretty much get on every day and check my podcast numbers every day I look at them see what we're doing going up or down um a lot of your videos have gone viral and you said you didn't even know nothing about it because you don't get on there you don't get on YouTube and check the videos and stuff like that you know what I'm saying talk a little bit about that man man I mean I think it's a blend of a few things you know I really that's not really my personality you know I'm more in I guess they call you know I'm saying idea people that I this you know what I'm saying like or you know having access to me like all the time you know what I'm saying I think that's kind of weird personally um yeah so so I've never really got into it you know what I'm saying and I've seen what it's done like you know um to a lot of people that I've known for a while and and they were a certain way but then after exposing themselves to this thing so long you know it's changed their character and it's changed their priorities you know and I always I I want to make sure that I'm always doing this for the right reason you know what I'm saying that I'm I'm I'm that my heart is right before the Lord and that my heart is right towards people you feel me and I feel like it's very hard to do that if you get caught up in in the hype of what you might be for the moment because that's really all it's gonna be it's for the moment you know what I'm saying um and so and I'm not in love with myself I I know myself too well to fall in love with myself you know that's you know I'm saying I I love the Lord You Dig what I'm saying um I love myself but as far as you know not not enough to to be constantly checking my stats you dig um but yeah man it's been I think it's been healthy for me you know what I'm saying as just as a man and as an artist um especially as a minister I think it has been healthy for me and and it outside it keeps indry be Out Among the people as much as possible and so you know that's why hog mob kind of has the character and the face that it has and stuff but God he he has blessed a lot of things we released to do well you know what I'm saying and um I try not to look at comments really ever um not for the good or the bad you know I think it's dangerous if you constantly focus on the negative things people have to say about you and I also think it's equally dangerous to sit and and revel you know in uh the good things people say you know what I'm saying yeah definitely man um I mean that's one thing about you know what I'm saying keeping your hands clean and your heart pure and not doing it for the numbers even though you know what I'm saying the numbers are a part of it it's good that you kind of have other people you know what I'm saying delegated to to actually keep up with that stuff you know what I'm saying where it's not that you have to create the music see like on my end I have to create the music I have to um promote it myself make all the graphic art you know what I'm saying do the videos plan the shoot do the editing and stuff and I and I'm I'm I'm blessed and I'm gifted at it all but it would be awesome to just be able to work on the music and then have a team or people to actually push it out there man so that's awesome that you can actually just you know what I'm saying focus on that versus okay now we got to focus on the marketing and how are we going to you know you know what I'm saying we shot the best video ever that we've ever done and now how are people going to see it you know what I'm saying you don't have really have to worry about that you just put it out there the fans share it it kind of goes viral on its own you you've been putting been putting into work for years and it kind of just does what it does yeah I kind of I I only want what God has for me you know I I don't there's not a specific platform or there's not a specific level that I even really want to be at you know I just want to be where God wants me because I feel like wherever that is that's where I'm safe you know what I'm saying that's that's what I'll be able to responsibly handle um I think you can definitely hustle your way onto a platform that your shoulders are not broad enough to to to to Bear you feel me and I'm I'm here for a reason and it ain't my own name you know I'm here to represent a name that's greater than my own so it's very important for me to make sure that wherever I'm at it's something I can handle because I don't want to misrepresent you know I'm saying the name of Jesus Christ you feel what I'm saying so um I I I really try to like you said bro we we do our best to make good quality things and then we kind of just put it out there bro and wherever it goes that's where it goes you know we've had videos I mean do millions in a matter of a day or two and then we've had some that we thought would have done great that you know what I'm saying M might only did 100,000 you know what I'm saying and so I mean I just feel like God takes it where he wants it to go the people receive it however they receive it and it's our job to just keep it coming you feel me so with you know doing full-time Ministry man and kind of taking it day by day is is that like you know what I'm saying the model of how you live of of not thinking too far ahead and just kind of like seeing where you are today and not getting caught up on on like autopilot and okay I got all these shows lined up I got I I have to you know what I'm saying meet all these shows versus taking your Consciousness man your awareness and and and staying in the moment for that day and say okay I'm going to give all my energy all my attention to this day to serve who I can and to be there and just to be aware you know what I'm saying of of people and you know what I'm saying my situations around me is that is that kind of how you live yeah I try you know it's hard I ain't gonna lie bro I haven't mastered the art of balance you know what I'm saying I mean I I some I'm I'm I can become uh really obsessive sometimes when it comes to certain projects you know I can sometimes I can dive too deep into something and then neglect responsibilities that I have and I'm working on you know being more well-rounded when it comes to that you know what I'm saying um I don't know I think I lost you bro did you still there yeah yeah I'm here uhuh okay there you go um so you know um I know like even recently like right now I'm booking a 100 City missions trip I'm working on three albums you know all at the same time you feel me I I'm still do Outreach in my own personal neighborhood you know I'm still discipling um almost about 100 Guys across the country um and then at the same time trying not to you know run myself into the ground and even if I can't take a whole day off I try to take at least half a day off sometimes you know what I'm saying so um you know it's it's it's important to try to you know uh uh rest but then at the same time too much the Bible says you know a a little sleep a little Slumber and a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will overtake you like a lion so you know you got to have that balance where you don't want to work yourself into the grave but you also gotta you know pay your bills and make sure that whatever God's put you on this Earth to do is getting done so I'm I'm kind of learning right now bro how to like juggle everything a little bit better and to trusting people and and you that's why you got to have a good team around you you can't just have a team it has to be a good team and and you you know for those of you out there that are building a team you build it according to your weaknesses not your strengths you know where wherever you're not good at that's the areas you need to find people but you got to be humble enough to recognize your weaknesses you know what I'm saying because if you're the type of person who's too prideful to look in the mirror and recognize a flaw well then you'll never do anything you know what I'm saying to change that about yourself or your situation and so you know I've been really kind of closely examining myself and saying okay I'm great at this and I suck at this so let me find somebody who's great at this and then not be intimidated by their greatness in that area and just give them you know the the free reign to do what God's called them to do in that area and then trust that they'll get it done and it's been working better you know we're we're a much better machine than we used to be now yeah I I mean that I you know what I'm saying I think that that says a lot and it kind of ties in with where I wanted to go a little bit you're talking about that you know what I'm saying you're discipling around a 100 guys and many people out there you know what I'm saying professing Christians aren't part of a local body I think I think Church culture and all the cliches and stuff is really weird out there right now it it's just it's it's kind of nasty to me I've been I've been in it for so long and all of the the you know what I'm saying the the different hierarchies in the church that are built up in the platforms and the celebrity preachers and stuff like that you have to go into a lot of churches like that I I've been there too right um yeah yeah so you have that versus going into the heart of the streets and doing genuine Outreach and so you have all of these Christians these people who love God who aren't part of a body they see a movement like hog mob and they want to belong I think we all want to be a part of something greater than ourselves and and they see hog mob as a model of something that what the church is lacking in discipleship what the church is lacking in just being real and telling me about myself and just being real about issues um a lot of a lot of young people have found that in hogmob man talk a little little bit about the disconnect there because you still go to you you know what I'm saying a lot of churches a lot of big fancy youth groups and stuff but you're from the heart of the streets man and and that's where you're you're like trying to go the tour and and and you're you're getting people you know what I'm saying where they are and it's working man and and and there's dude I don't know how many people's a part of hog mob movement it's I'm sure it's thousands and thousands of people I see him every day um talk a little bit about that disconnect man and and like you know what I'm saying your vision and and where it fits into the local church you know well first of all I think the main issue that we're having bro is the term church needs to be clearly defined yeah you know I'm big on Words you know what I'm saying um the church is the name of the bride of Christ so first of all I'm not gonna say nothing about the church amen because that's I mean that's what Christ died for that's his wife that's what I'm a part of that you know what I'm saying um you have the true church and then you have what I call the [Â __Â ] who's in who wears a wedding dress and is trying to kind of stand in and and be an impostor in the wedding you know what I'm saying um and and and parade herself as the bride um and I think we need to as the body of Christ you know what I'm saying we need to do a better job at identifying the bride and identifying the [Â __Â ] when we see them and not give the [Â __Â ] the title of the Bride you know what I'm saying so if it's not the fellowship of Jesus Christ if it's not the fellowship of true followers of Jesus Christ you know what I'm saying true biblical followers of Jesus Christ not this madeup stuff that people are doing nowadays you know what I'm saying but according to the word of God you know what I'm saying then it doesn't even have the right to to be called the church and we are we are disrespecting the church by giving it that title you know what I'm saying so I think a lot of times we say oh the church ain't doing this and the church ain't doing that church it's not the church so we need because the true church is doing all of those things exactly you know what I'm saying it's just that's not the majority of what we see but the true church has never and will never be the majority of the population you know what I'm saying or even be the majority of those who are professing Christ unfortunately you know what I'm saying so I think that's the main thing first of all that has to happen is we just have a better um um process of defining Church you know what I'm saying um I know for me I got hurt you know um a a long time ago you know by people who were professing to be the church and um it caused me to shy away and have a hard heart and a cold shoulder to a lot of things that um you know I probably could have benefited from in terms of Christian Fellowship yeah you know what I'm saying I was like oh this is all fake so I might as well just stay in the street so for a long time I did that with a with a deep misunderstanding of what the true church really was and as the Lord started educating me and as I took the responsibility that I had to get in the word and actually study for my self some of these things then I started to realize like yo you know what God actually hates fakeness more than I do you know I'm saying like God has a problem with the same thing like you know what I'm saying this stuff that I can't stand he can't stand even more exactly you know what I'm saying which actually made me even Embrace his Fellowship even more so um you know I would encourage everybody man to to to fellowship with True Believers you know what I'm saying and if you want to know what a True Believer looks like um I would encourage you you know a great place to go find that is is the book of First John you know what I'm saying there's there's there's a whole bunch of information in there about the difference between somebody who's professing Christ and is authentic versus somebody who's professing Christ and truly hasn't made the commitment yet um but you know uh um get involved man and and don't just soak up resources like actually serve you know if if if you do go and attend a local church body man serve there you know what I'm saying don't just go and listen to a seminar once a week like you know get involved see what the needs are in the community and and challenge your church leadership to meet or or at least participate in meeting the needs of the local community you know what I'm saying a lot of times that's where you'll find out if it's real or if it's fake is are we doing the things that Christ said was true religion you know what I'm saying um and and you have a lot of that right now uh not happening you know what I'm saying we're having a lot of meetings we're doing a lot of preaching not too much teaching and then there's a whole lot of people who are saying they have a heart for something but when it comes down to it they really don't participate in it ever you know I'm saying and so um you know we just as a Ministry man we try to do what we see Jesus do we try to do it for the reason we see Jesus doing it for you know what I'm saying knowing that we're not perfect but he was perfect for us so we're able to move forward bro in boldness and in faith because of of of of of uh what the spirit is doing to us and through us and um we I'm definitely uh trying to provide people with a spiritual family that I didn't necessarily have when I first came in that's my biggest thing I want to be the brother I never had and the father you know what I'm saying that that um the spiritual father that um I wasn't really connected to you know what I'm saying for other people definitely man I agree with that 100% a th% Church isn't someplace that we go to it's not a building that we go to it's who we are you know what I'm saying whenever we come together we are part of the body we represent we are the manifestation of Christ on the face of the Earth whenever we come together as a as a people and and and that's where the power is understanding the body and it's it's huge man and I wanted to kind of talk also about um I seen an interview did um probably a year or two ago with the um during South by Southwest and I think it was one of your first times actually going out there and getting some type of media coverage and I don't mean any offense when I say this but now that the whole 116 and lrae thing is kind of died down a lot I see some of the I'm not going to name any names but like um people with blogs and and websites looking for the next big thing to kind of put out there um you guys were able to get some media coverage during that and for you dude you've been putting work for a very long time when I came in to doing gospel music years and years ago you were there you were there and established but your name had never been mentioned in these in these media outlets and now you're starting to get a little bit of coverage and you said that like almost your name was kind of like blacklisted from from some of these circles I don't know if if it's if because you were a little bit too Street a little bit to hood or or you know what I'm saying what it was or the tattoos what whatever the case was talk a little bit about that divide and how now instead of pushing you away some of these people are like asking you to come and do interviews and and you know they want to know your take on things you know well um I think I think it's a combination of a few things you know um I know myself as a man and as a man of God I've definitely matured over the years you I'm saying um I I I used to be probably a lot harder of a pill to swallow for most people than I am at this point you know and I'm going to just be honest I was involved in some things early on still caught up you know um in in in a lot of struggles you know that that um a lot of people were like yeah you know let let's be careful with this dude yeah because you know and and I respect that you know what I'm saying I do I respect that I actually think to a degree we need to have more of that you know as far as like let's not be so quick to give the new hot dude a platform yeah and let's actually spend some time to get to know him and pour into this brother and make sure that whatever Roots he has are deep in Christ you know what I'm saying because we're all going to make mistakes I mean the Bible even says we got to make room for each other's errors and room for each other's weaknesses so that's not you know um the the world and the church make mistakes the difference between them is is how they manage those mistakes and and how they respond to the conviction you know what I'm saying that comes or the that come when those mistakes are brought to the light you know what I'm saying whereas the world will run from God or or or hate God more you know what I'm saying because he's confronting things that he's not pleased with um the children of God you know we we embrace the Lord we embrace the correction and we desire you know what I'm saying to please our father so um I think also the the gospel rap community and culture has definitely become more mature itself in terms of having a greater understanding that look this carbon copy and and you know these these ideas that y'all had about what true Ministry looked like or true Christianity look like you know they're not really panning out the way y'all thought that they would you know what I'm saying so now you're starting to see and then some of the dudes that you have been you know not you personally but just you know the the the Christian Community for a long time was kind of treating bad for a while they're the ones that are been Faithful over the years and they're the that are still boldly professing Christ and all of these things so I think a lot of people are now turning around and and especially now that the streets are kind of spilling into the suburbs you know the issues in the streets are spilling into the suburbs you know a lot of the Church community were not from the streets you know what I'm saying so so now that these problems are are coming to where they dwell and where they're out and they're affecting their people now it's like yo we need to get somebody who can talk to the streets you know what I'm saying nobody really cared about Street Ministry until the streets started affecting everything I mean culture in and of itself you know what I'm saying is being affected by the negative aspect of of of the street life so um I think now a lot of people are beginning to appreciate Brothers like myself you know what I'm saying who who specifically Target places where most people don't want to go because they're actually seeing like yo somebody's got to do it and if I'm not willing to personally go I certainly should support those that are you know so I appreciate that I think we have a long way to go you know what I'm saying um but we've come a long way I mean I've been doing this 17 years man and and and it's it's come a long way so you know I'm grateful to God for what where it's at right now um I had another artist on here several months back and I'm assuming it's just you know maybe he was a baby Christian or whatever but he does a lot of Street Ministry um and we were talking about testimonies and what God was doing and so I kind of set up a question um for for him to give a testimony and this is what I said I going to ask you so I I pretty much asked him like has he seen the power of God um out in the streets has he seen people come to repentance and um what I've seen personally and this is I I when I asked this question I thought I was going to you know have somebody just bear witness with me um I I asked him has he seen people who were demon-possessed filled with evil spirits on on drugs I've been around people who can't look you in the face face they can't have a conversation with you because there's voices in there there's stuff going around their their mind is fuzzy they've been up for days they get filled with the power of God filled with the Holy Ghost God touches them changes their life they give their life to Christ he touches them and they're completely transformed in an instant like I've seen that happen at churches I've seen it happen in the streets when I asked this brother that he had no idea he didn't even believe in that it blew my mind he didn't believe in it and he's doing Ministry I want to ask you the same question have you seen this fruit absolutely um I think I think sometimes what happens is um because it happened to me when I first came in I was I was very um uneducated you know if you will ignorant you know ignorant doesn't mean stupid it just means you lack information you know what I'm saying I was I was ignorant towards certain things of the spirit um and so I actually early on had seen things that I didn't know that that's what I was seeing at the time so if you had asked me this maybe you know when I first got started I would have been like H you know maybe not too much even though it was happening but I was I didn't recognize what I was seeing when it was happening yeah you feel what I'm saying um I also am a firm believer that you know uh uh the more time you spend in the spirit and and and and walking with the spirit of God you know what I'm saying and the more mature you get in your relationship with the spirit the more uh you will kind of almost see those manifestations of opposition you know what I'm saying I really believe that because you're more of a threat to the spiritual world you know what I'm saying so there will be more spiritual opposition uh that comes from that I've seen all kinds of stuff man I mean you know demon possessed people bro um you know what I'm saying I mean we've seen even healings like miraculous healings you know what I'm saying blind people deaf people can hear uh lame people walking like we've actually seen that with our own eyes you know what I'm saying um uh even me I got changed in an instant yeah so the first time I ever saw it happen was in my own life yeah you know I'm saying I had a miraculous transformation you know W with with the Lord um and obviously you know more more change over time but but in the moment bro I was never the same you know what saying um so yeah we we we do see a lot of that those are the things that I look forward to encountering when I go out you know what I'm saying it's not the stages it's not the lights it's I look forward to seeing I get excited like dang Lord I wonder what you gonna do this time yeah because I know it's gonna be wild and it's always something new because the Situation's always different you know what I'm saying I and and we're not out here trying to produce any specific result you know the Bible says one man plants one man Waters but it's God who brings the increase so I don't even feel like that part of the game is my responsibility my responsibility is be obedient to the voice of the Lord when he speaks you know what I'm saying um and also to live a life that um accurately reflects the gospel that I preach you know so anything after that bro that's really between the individual their faith and God you feel me yeah I think I think the scriptures are plain man when it says that you know these signs shall follow them that believe that if you believe and and you know what I'm saying you're walking in that that these signs these manifestations that happened to the disciples to Jesus like they're going to they're going to follow you too if you if you believe that gospel and you're walking in it and you just go go into all the world that's what he said go and and you know I'm saying you're doing that and you know what I'm saying hats off to the people even the people who aren't you know what I'm saying real deep or like well trained in the scriptures or even an experience you know you got to get your you know what I'm saying feet wet sometime but I think one of the big problems is and it kind of goes back to what you said a while ago about you know getting in a situation or being a part of a Ministry or dealing with principalities in the spirit realm and you don't know what you're dealing with right um which I I I'm I don't really want to go that deep right now but for this question um we have um people who get born again and they have giftings they're a good rapper they play the keyboard well they're a great singer and then the churches will grab them and throw them up on a platform instantly okay you can sing okay we need you you're gonna lead worship they don't know nothing about worship you know I need you to learn these songs sing them Sunday morning and go and they don't know if this person is dealing with some type of you know um spirits in their own life addiction you know what I'm saying they don't know what's going on talk a little bit about that because when you see those people fall or their faults come out in into the wash the churches will like just drop them oh you sinned you're done get off the platform it's like what and like it it it sets up a lot of people to fall man you know what it is man I I consider it child abuse yeah definitely you know it's a form of child abuse man here you have a spiritual child um it's no different you know I don't know if you you know if you're a father or not but um you know I'm a I'm a father bro like if I were to give my son who's 5 years old keys to my car yeah you know what I'm saying and then when he crashes my car whoop him and dis not even just whoop him but disown him for it if if the world if the world were to see me do that the world would say I was a terrible father you know I'm saying even even the wicked would say that was wrong of me to ever put him uh you know in that situation to fail and then to treat him so heartlessly once he does it you see what I'm saying and and even the word of God in the book of First Timothy it's very specific about the fact that you do not put a platform under a new convert because it will destroy him you know what I'm saying it will it's not a matter of of if it's just a matter of when yeah you see what I'm saying um I mean come on bro even we've seen what this has done to even seasoned people in the faith yeah yeah I mean all men has Pride which is why all men commit sin you know what I'm saying from sin is pride is at the root of every sin you see what I'm saying because we're exalting our own desire above the will of the father in any given moment so um Pride so for you to think spend a large which is what these platforms do which is what in your social media stats that's all you're doing you're constantly feeding your pride if you think that whatever you're feeding is not at some point going to grow stronger than whatever it is you're not feeding which is your humility you know what I'm saying you're a fool you feel me so I think you know for for for us we have to do a better job as as the body of Christ with holding people accountable to discipling people as they're coming into this I mean and and to be real bro I don't know what that process necessarily would look like I don't have all the answers I made a commitment to do my part in my personal life with when I meet young brothers and sisters especially ones with Talent who I I know are on their way they're going to be here regardless you know whether they rock with me or not this is the space that they're in I definitely try to make sure that I pour into these brothers and pour into these sisters and make sure man that they doing this for the right reasons take them on missions trips in instead of just music tools and and make sure that their mind is on Ministry so making sure that theying of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because first of all have you even truly received it if you don't know it how you know how how is that possible um but also you sure can't go around teaching something that you yourself H haven't received you know I love how Paul said it like yo we're not out here preaching cleverly devised myths you know what I'm saying we we we we preach to you something that we ourselves have already received and then you see these brothers go on to not just live for it but actually die for it as well you know what I'm saying so I feel like we um like what you're doing right now you know is a part of that process what I'm doing is a part of that process we just need more of this you know what I'm saying taking this next Generation under our wing and being the father to the fatherless you know what I'm saying yeah I think it has something to do with what Paul said um Power and demonstration not with enticing words or these you know what I'm saying the wisdom of words or elegant words but with power and and demonstration I like the phrase I can show you better than I can tell you you know what I'm saying right up um so we do have a lot of people in Ministry and and different theologies are different man and and I I personally think it it kind of It kind of hinders people's Ministry but you have you have these people who are just like um they just want a decision who wants to follow Jesus raise your hand if you'll follow Jesus and that's it okay we got a convert you're convert okay we're going to start studying our Bible and learning it I believe in the baptism of fire man I believe that Christ you know what I'm saying talked about this other baptism you know I'm saying the baptism into our death or you know I'm saying the baptism of water but this other baptism of of of the Holy Spirit and Fire Man and I think that for us to see true true Ministry whether we're a part of a local Body of Christ or we're in in the in the streets doing it whatever I think we need that baptism of fire man are you are you seeing that in your ministry as well well is there like like you know what I'm saying these these people who are who are doing that as well who are coming to Faith and then having an encounter with the Living God versus a decision I think I think it it it it over yeah it happens over a process of time you know what I'm saying I mean the before the apostles experienced that baptism they they were they had been walking with Jesus sitting under the teachings of Christ they they they were me so um sometime because that really changed everything for me and even there was certain addictions and struggles that I had my whole life that didn't even stop and or I'd never really gained any any ground with until I I I got baptized with the Holy Spirit you feel what I'm saying um but even before that like you know I was pursuing God and and I I was seeking you know what I'm saying um to follow the teachings of Christ and stuff and I think that we just have to be careful that we um we don't put like a cookie cutter mold on everybody and say oh well because it happened for me in two weeks if it doesn't happen for you in two weeks your conversion wasn't genuine yeah you know what I'm saying but I definitely do agree with you in terms of that at some point it will happen if You' TR truly um you know what I'm saying receive Christ um and and I believe that's what why discipleship the discipleship process is so important is because it's within that discipleship process that we see a person kind of receive that you know what I'm saying so I do agree with you that certain people's uh theologies might hinder them in these areas and stuff like that and I believe that God is he's a master homie at laying to waste bad theology you know what I'm saying um and he's also the one that permits it at times you know to exist you know people have certain ideas about certain things because there are certain things that God has chosen to keep hidden for a time and a season that are yet to be revealed you know what I'm saying so I believe that like you said bro and I try to do the same thing we're out here to demonstrate God we ain't here just to talk about him you know what I'm saying we're out here to demonstr him not not just in in teaching of the word but also in power yeah you know what I'm saying also also in conviction um but also in love in the power of love you know what I'm saying because love is is so miscommunicated and it's been so perverted as far as the image of what you think when you when you think of love it's this soft timid kind of punk thing when really bro true love is one of the most aggressive and and and masculine you know what I'm saying things that you can walk in and um I believe that the Lord that's one thing that the Lord is really bringing back um to the Forefront right now especially in the body of Christ is the the um the war mentality that comes with a man who's walking in love you know what I'm saying the Warrior's mind yeah I I I've seen that time and time again with the difference between and and there was a term that came to my um mind earlier I was just thinking about this I don't know if I'm going to do a video on it or not but a term between um my church brothers and my brothers in Christ you know how like when you go to you go to you go to a church everybody's your brother hey I love you brother shake hands you dap it up whatever and you know you go to the same church and you always shake that same person's hand it's like part of the routine but then like as a baby Christian you kind of think that that's that's your church family you know what I'm saying like those are my brothers in Christ but there are people there who will stick with you closer than a brother um because there there's this whole dichotomy of like if I was to tell some of those people people or the even the pastor you know what I'm saying tell them some stuff that goes on in my head thoughts that I've I've had struggles I've had a lot of them they'll cut the cord look we got to get rid of this dude this dude is shot out this dude is crazy right um but there's that fake you know and then and then you know whenever you show that vulnerable side of you then they drop you and they cut you loose and or your theologies or you know what I'm saying even the theology oh you believe in that oh we can't deal with you whatever the case is I've seen it many of times um but then on the other side when you find the true brothers in Christ those dudes who were down to get into the nitty-gritty with you and they don't give a damn what you tell them they're your they're your family like I don't man I've had phone calls with dudes and I've told I've told people stuff thinking that this would be the last phone call I've had with them and they're down with me and they're like you know what man we're going to pray together I got you whatever the case is and man it's it's totally it's a night and day thing versus like the the the cookie cutter fake family which but when you're in it you kind of think that those are your your your people um yeah man but there's so much more there for anybody who's listening man who you feel alone in in in these situations man just know that there's people out there who care about you who won't disown you because you're different because you believe something different or or you've experienced something man just know that love yeah and that needs to be said man for anybody out there let me tell you something and this is coming from somebody who looked for fellowship and Community I mean I mean you know I'm I was a California gang member you know what I'm saying and and active one that and and I've I've laid my life on the line you know what I'm saying many times I I was willing to give my life and take life you know what I'm saying for the fellowship uhuh that I was involved in the perer the perversion of Fellowship you know what I'm saying that these street gangs you know offer and um let me tell you guys something man as as somebody who's over here on this side and has been transformed by the love and the blood of Christ man and and is now actively involved in not just um being a a member of the of the true church the True Body of Christ but actually actively involved in in seeing its expansion yo what you looking for in terms of True Fellowship is here you know I'm saying in the true version of the church you feel me it's here you know um it don't get no real the love don't get no real than over here like you said bro I got I got brothers that I know that that um go to church and then I got my brothers in Christ and my brothers in Christ homie you know we ride with each other to the death and we you know we have this I have this thing with my brothers as long as you down with Christ I'm down with you you feel me there there that's the only thing that will cause me to break fellowship with a person because Christ is my first love you know what I'm saying so at the end of the day if you stand against him you stand you know I got to stand against you but as long as you rocking with him it doesn't matter what you've done because we've all done something you know what I'm saying um so that's what sin is what we have in you know what I'm saying so so is it in the areas of your mistakes you know I might not be able to mistakes bro because I've messed up too you feel me so um you know we're here to help each um pursue Christ together you know I need the accountability I need the fellowship just as much as my brothers do and we really love each other from that place man and we try to help each other we we get involved you know your wife is my sister you know y your kids is my nieces and my nephews man you know what I'm saying and so we really hold each other accountable to that level imagine where our culture and our society would be you know what I'm saying if we really had that out here you know what I'm saying if it wasn't oh I'm rocking with you whe you're right or whether you're wrong it's like no bro I'm rocking with what's right and if you're wrong then I'm going to challenge you on that and that needs to stop if you're going to remain in fellowship with us you know what I'm saying like that that's necessary homie and that's what you see in the original church but a lot of that's being lost now and and you have it to where love has become so perverted that because people love men more than they love God and the Bible says that you know people will become lovers of themselves you know what I'm saying and so now it's like if you challenge somebody um to to to to walk more Godly somehow I'm not loving this person like no bro it's because I love you homie I got to challenge you in this area because I don't want to see you destroyed and I sure don't want to see you um doing any harm to the body of Christ as well because of your Reckless or selfish actions you know what I'm saying but I also um you know have to hold myself to the same standard so you know um man I I encourage people man you know tasting see that the Lord is good and taste and see that the church is good you know what I'm saying but don't come into this thing like I did don't come into this thing expecting Perfection you know what I'm saying Christ is perfect god is perfect but his people be messing up sometimes you feel me um but I mean let's keep it real bro we we didn't like a gang of stuff was fake and and or or we experienced a lot of people making a lot of mistakes in a lot of areas of our life that we still run to you know what I'm saying like I tell my homies in the street all the time like they like oh I ain't trying to go to church it's it's fake there like what you mean bro you in the street all the time and half these dudes just telling you know what I'm saying so you ain't got no problem with fake you got a problem with God you know I'm say like so um you know um you know I just and a lot of it is is is to it's it's from uh um a lot of prejudices and and things it's kind of like people are told that it's a certain way over here but they haven't really ever experienced this for themselves you know what I'm saying um and and I think especially with our fellowship a lot of brothers come into it and they're like yo bro I never knew there was nothing like this you know what I'm saying like I if I had known this I'd have came along time ago and that's the thing we just trying to let people know man is is when you meet a True Fellowship of Believers man it's nothing like it it's going to challenge you but but we here for you you know what I'm saying and God does the work man he he he'll produce in you changes that he wants to see our job is just to pursue him you feel me yeah I totally agree 100% man this like the camaraderie is is there and it may not be a big group of people it may not be the big hog mob numbers hundreds and thousands of people who are down the ride it may just be two or three people man who you br we don't we don't got we don't got thousands of people down the ride let me tell you m it's it's like you know it's I'm going to keep it realing this is no disrespect to anybody who supports Ministry but but this is the reality right even Christ he had three to 5 thousand people following him around everywhere he went at times you know but at the end of the day okay he had his 12 yeah and then he had his three but at the end of the day bro it was only one dude that was with him when he was hanging on that cross yeah you know what I'm saying and it was nobody in that tomb with him you feel me like so uh you know you it's kind of I look I liken it to like a sports team you know you got the owners you got the players and then you got fans you know and the fans are just as important to the to the organization because they're the ones that that support it and they get out there and and and and they they they they they financially support the movement you feel me they spread the word and they do all of these things so they're a part of the organization but then you got people who actually bleed you know what I'm saying for it every Sunday every Thursday night you know what I'm saying and and those are the brothers that you might see me rocking with more is the brother because we really out here in the field but then when it comes time to make executive decisions all the players don't get to come into that office you know what I'm saying yeah so your your numbers the numbers don't matter because at the end of the day God In the Flesh Jesus Christ at the end of his life he only had 120 people rock with him so even by worldly standards the world and even by most Church standards they would look at Christ numbers and say he was a failure in Ministry but those 120 people who like you said went on to be baptized in fire because of the work they put in brought the Roman Empire to its knees yeah for a se you feel me so it's not about how many people you got rocking with you it's about the authenticity of the people you got rocking with you the spirit of the people that you got rocking with you you know what I'm saying and and um that's what God can can use you know so I'm not that's why I'm not one for the numbers bro I'll take quality over quantity any day bro especially when it come Fellowship you know definitely definitely um let's talk a little bit about the the whole system that's built upon at you know that we call church it's not church so I think we discussed that at the beginning but there's a system in place right and it's a it's a business as well and and and most of them are ran as a business and I've seen in in my own life and in many other young people who who are raised up too I've seen many young people uh give their life to the Lord God changed them in an instant fill them with his fire and they have an encounter with God and then they start going to a church and people are coming to them for prayer because when they pray things happen um bondages are broken people are are are filled with that same fire and that same presence it just radiates off of that person cuz they spend time with the father and you can tell you'll go to these different churches and and there's those people who you know spend intimate time with Jesus and a lot of times these are young people and I've seen many cases that you know these people end up being a threat to that system where we have this system built that the pastor has the answers that the pastor is the one who lays on the hands or or you know we may give you permission at the to call to lay on hands or whatever but it starts like deviating the the the power starts being taken away from the the pastor a little bit or something right and that person becomes a threat to that system or to that business um and and that person begins to have a Target on their back that young person who would just come to the Lord filled with the fire of God and they don't know anything they're just they just love Jesus man and they have a Target on their back simply because they now possess what the pastor used to have man what what kind and there's tons of people like that t i get messages and I'm sure you do too where these these people are out there and then you know they don't know what to do they they're shunned they're they you know there's a new term that I that I found out um I called it excommunication but we don't really you know practice that term too much anymore right oh yeah he was excommunicated we the Christian Church really don't deal with that but there's a new term a Blog I found they call it ghosting where you just they just break Fellowship they don't even tell you they just quit calling you they quit talking to you they talk behind your back and there's a term called ghosting and that's what they're calling it now talk a little bit about that man like have you seen I'm sure you've seen that in your own life going into these these structures man um yeah I mean I've and you know I'm I'm I'm all about being fair you know I I've seen it uh I've seen it happen and I've also been embraced and I've had people pour into me and want to see that gift um you know what I'm saying even matured so you know and by church people in churches in leadership I mean you know I've had I've had great experiences um dealing with people who profess Christ and I've had terrible experiences you know what I'm saying so I just want to be fair to the other side of things too but absolutely homie I've I've been shunned excommunicated and ghosted um you know what man I think at this point um how could I like how do I expect to look like Christ yet not get treated how he get treated you know what I'm saying like really bro what's helped me deal with a lot of these things is studying the life of christen because when I'm able to study the Life of Christ and see what he went through and then also study a lot of the New Testament where it's talks about yo what he went through is guaranteed to you yeah like you're to suffer these things you're going to go through these things if you're truly following him if you because the world's relationship with Jesus has never changed yeah you know what I'm saying so it's not like they're cool with him now you feel me so as much what they did to him before they gonna do to anything that reminds him now you know I I have like a little joke thing that I say but it's like you know the world is like a a ratchet baby mama you feel me she's gonna um she's gonna abuse us because we look like our father oh man you know what I'm saying yeah she has a bad relationship with our father and she's gonna abuse his children because they remind her of him you feel me um and so these are things I think I think what needs to happen more is there needs to be a greater level of Education to new converts about what to expect in terms of the persecution that is not only guaranteed to you but God actually said that it is his will that we suffer these things because these things perfect us into the image of Christ you see what I'm saying we're supposed to look like Christ how do you look like Christ if you've never been persecuted and had to love your enemies and pray for those who despitefully use you how can you ever exemplify that if nobody's ever persecuted you or despitefully used you yeah you feel me so I think that when you have a a mature understanding of the purpose of these things it helps you to be able to go through them in a righteous fashion and not become Church hurt and bitter and angry and F the church and I'm not dealing with that no more it's like no bro yeah you you definitely probably need to find you a more healthy Fellowship you know what I'm saying but you don't allow this to affect your heart because ultimately that's what the enemy is after he's after your heart because if he can Harden your heart he's already destroyed your witness and your ministry is soon to follow yeah you know what I'm saying I wish that when we're baby Christians even now maybe maybe we need to you know create this but I I wish that uh those Bible promis books that we used to get I used to have I used to keep them in my back pocket and I pull it out and you just go to the situation of what you're dealing with and there's scriptures on it and there's Promises of God you know what I'm saying that that you know what I'm saying you're going to be more than a conqueror that you're the head and not the tail all these different situations but I wish there was a a portion that would tell you about the promises of persecution like that is promise those are the Promises of God you will you know scripture like look look even a scripture like okay you're more than a conqueror you you know what it reminds me of is when when a brother gets married and they say you know for better or worse for rich or for poor you know know what I'm saying in sickness or health well all you hear as a as a carnal man you know we here for better for Rich and in health yeah like we don't hear the it's almost like those things don't even really register to us and we agree to it like yeah yeah yeah for sure but we not thinking about the worst we not thinking about the poor we're not thinking about the moments of sickness that we're going to have to endure with this person we're just thinking about the benefits so when you hear a scripture that says yo you're more than a conqueror we only hear the good side of that scripture but what we're not realizing is why would God have to feel the need to tell us that yeah and remind us of the fact that we're more than conquerors unless we were going to be in a war yeah you feel what I'm saying those are scriptures about war Warfare you know you're the head and not the tail well why would God need to tell me that unless I got a bunch of people who are out here probably going to be trying to convince me that I'm the tail yeah you see what I'm saying so that's what I mean when I say I don't I don't think that it's that there's not a lot of scriptures dealing with it because there's plenty I think that there is definitely a lack of education but I think even in our own perspective when we look at scripture we have a tendency not to see it for what it's really trying to say because we came into this with our own misconception about what Christianity was supposed to look like I know I did you know what I'm saying I didn't know necessarily that I was signing up for war you know what I'm saying and yes the battle in eternity has already been won but I have been given a call to duty and an assignment and a deployment that I have to be faithful to and and and walk out and I still have to fulfill you know what I'm saying the mission that God has put me on um in this space and in time you know saying so um definitely bro I think that would be a great topic even for your show you know I see you obviously have a passion for these things you know what I'm saying um might want to put together a whole study on just how all the scriptures you know what I'm saying that promis the the believer not only persecution but also the the greater promises that God will see us through it you know I'm saying and that's what we got to hold on to yeah I mean that's I mean that's the whole thing too man but like whenever you're going through the persecution or you're going through the doubt and the um Dark Knight of the soul and all of these questions and stuff and you've been being treated like uh you know I'm saying a second class Citizen and you don't belong and nothing's lining up like when we're going through it we get upset we we're asking God to take us out of it but it's in all of those those moments man those those dark places that we've been through um whether we're you know we're we're spiritually being attacked by principalities and demons and stuff it's in those moments that we're taught man we're taught about the darkness and and and unless we've been through those those dark times we don't have a contrast for the glory of God and for Christ's uh work in our lives like we don't have nothing to contrast it against so now I'm thankful and I wouldn't take back none of it and when it happens now that I'm more seasoned I can see the hand of God and what he's doing in my life and I know how to respond to the testing and I see what he's trying to put in me and and it's and and that's where a character is built in in the life of every believer that's scriptural uh you know what I'm saying testing perseverance and I I've even heard it being said on on some other podcast and stuff they're talking about how people who were just kind of like giving life on a Golden Spoon or you know what I'm saying um silver spoon and they've got everything handed to them and and they're they're kind of jerks man they don't really you know what I'm saying value anything everything's given to them they never had to work for anything but the interesting people people the the people who are are funny the people who have a story to tell the the people um who who are just you know what I'm saying more fun to be around are the people who who have had a shitty upbringing who've had the dysfunctional home the parents fighting yeah they ran away like all they have these stories it it it it produces in them something that makes them seem like better friends somebody who's just there man and this is even coming from the secular world where where they're talking about so the the um resistance applies in every aspect of Our Lives when you when you find that resistance you look at everybody in the Bible what happened to them is going to happen to you but it's a beautiful thing because from that resistance they were able once once it broke they were able to Spring forth and go into the calling that God had for their life to go into the promised land to Def to defeat their Giants and and all of this man so the resistance is is is beautiful it really is the darkness that we that we go through I'm telling you man see what God is trying to teach you in in these Seasons man we got to learn the lessons yeah know the the the type of people who don't appreciate resistance are the type of people who are looking for Comfort true um but the people who appreciate resistance are the people who are looking for growth um I'll use an example like me right I'm I'm on my way soon as we get off here I'm going to go meet the homies at the gym now all I'm going to meet when I get to the gym is a bunch of resistance exactly you know what I'm saying but I'm looking forward to it my day around yeah you know what I'm saying because I understand the purpose of this resistance and I'm looking forward to the to there's a greater um Glory that comes from after I persevere through the resistance is that I get stronger you dig what I'm saying and so that's the thing even spiritually homie like more so like the Bible says you know okay it's it does a little profit for you to you know EX exerc your body but how much more to exercise your spirit you feel what I'm saying and so I um I feel like the problem is is that most of us are complacent in where we're at in Christ so we now we look at it as if we not supposed to go through nothing else like we like okay look man already already went through I've ared yeah I've arrived at what I have deemed from myself to be a good level yeah but the Bible says that even if you're producing good fruit God himself is going to prune you so that you can produce more yeah so even though you've grown comfortable where you're at God is not satisfied with where you're at you feel what I'm saying and so and and if and if doing the will of your father is your true priority which for every True Believer that's what it should be then homie you're going to look forward to these opportunities that you have to walk in the gospel that you have that you claim you really about you feel me because an offense ain't really nothing to a person who's already got forgiveness on their heart you know the the word forgiveness means to forgive it's to give beforehand so I'm I'm that's supposed to already be there just like what Christ has for me he died 2,000 years ago for things that I'm still yet to do you feel me so when I do them it's not that God has to find it in his heart to forgive me no I fall into the arms I fall into the arms of forgiveness that were already laid before me before I ever even made that mistake and that's what we have to have for one another bro you know what I'm saying it's not that I got to find forgiveness for you know I already had it in place you're just creating a scenario in which I get to activate the Forgiveness that I already had for you you feel what I'm saying so I feel like that's where we need to just get but it takes you know you we you only get these things things from the spirit of God man so we just got to keep pursuing the spirit bro I I do have to go here pretty soon bro so um I don't know you know how yeah yeah man yeah yeah we'll definitely go and wrap it up man but Ju Just just to kind of tea off on that um that's why the scripture says that there's no condemnation for those who were in Christ Jesus who walk not according to the flesh but after the spirit so you know what I'm saying when you know I'm saying whenever you were wward you had nothing to fall upon when whenever you need when you needed forgiveness or you had you had a rough day or a hard time and didn't know how you were going to get through now as a child of God we're already forgiven and we fall upon the grace and we fall upon the rock and we're not Crush man so that that that that's that goes a long way man as far as helping us make it through it but um yeah brother I I thank you for coming on the show hanging out with me man and we you know what I'm saying we finally able to make this happen um yes sir before we go man I'm going to ask you just to say a prayer for those people that we've mentioned man those people who are looking for um a church body you know what I'm saying they're they're they're looking for accountability like true accountability discipleship cuz I believe that people who truly desire discipleship that they're going to find it um and and for those people who were in in those churches and and and and they just feel uncomfortable man just give them some hope man say a prayer for those people man just you know what I'm saying just some hope brother de Heavenly Father Lord God in Jesus mighty name first of all Lord I lift up um the non-believers Lord out there um who have yet to be had their faith awakened father God lord I ask that you move upon them right now father God they might have questions Lord and and and they might have fears Lord God I pray Lord that you be the answer to that question right now father I pray that you that their Spirit become awakened Lord and and they be touched right now where they're at in Jesus mighty name father God lord I pray that they would recognize that that they are sinners and and and with without Christ they are hopeless in judgment they will have to pay for their own sins father God and who can stand before a righteous judge and have hope when he is guilty so father God first of all Lord I just ask that they would humble themselves Lord before you and recognize that that they have committed sin against you father and the penalty of that sin is eternal death Lord as it should be because you are holy and who are we to to deny you the right the right Lord God that you have to get from our lives what you deserve who are we to tell you that we're going to do whatever we want to do with the life that you gave us the wickedness involved in that thought process father God it blows my mind and and I didn't realize it when I was in it father God and I'm sure there are people listening to this they don't realize it so I pray that you wake them up right now and they would humble themselves and they would repent not just apologize but they would make a conscious decision Lord God to turn from their wickedness and to follow you because you love them enough Lord to come and die on the cross for their sins you shed blood the Forgiveness that you have for us Lord it it wasn't sheep it came at at such a cost Lord God it cost you suffering it it cost you a reputation Lord God you you were you were humiliated for us you let your own Creations humiliate you Lord we will never understand the level of love that it took to do what you did Lord God but father just pray that that we blind their IDE be removed because you didn't stay dead Lord you demonstrated that you were everything that you said that you were when three days lat later you came out of that grave and that tomb is empty to this day and they can formulate whatever conspiracy theories they want father God but it takes more faith to believe that nonsense than it does to really understand that you came out of that tomb with all power and you Reign and you are God and your name has power and it does change and me and my brother sitting right here having this conversation we are just a couple of the evidences father God of what you can do so we lift them up to you Lord I also lift up my brothers and sisters who are out there Lord um kind of like a ship with no sale right now father God they they do believe in you and they do desire to go deeper but they just don't know where to go maybe they've been hurt maybe they've been lied to maybe they've been taught wrong and and by listening to this interview they're realizing yo I'm not being taught right father I pray that they would reach out I pray that they'd reach out to my brother that they would reach out to me they can go to our website hog mop.com and send us an email Lord God and we will do our best to try to help them but Lord I pray that they really truly want what they're asking for because True Discipleship comes with a cost true to be a true disciple Lord your word says we have to be willing to give up everything everything and the first thing we have to be willing to give up is our way of doing things and our way of thinking of what's right and wrong we have to be willing to surrender that before you Lord God and and and acknowledge you as Lord and and and Sovereign authority over our life father God God and that's the hard part everybody loves the savior they hated him when he said he was Lord so Lord God I just I lift my brothers and sisters up to you right now father God and I pray that in these last days you would encourage them you would send a spirit to minister to them Lord send them brothers and sisters just like you did me I was out here alone Lord God and I began to pray father God send me some brothers and you did and you gave me the boldness to start discipling Brothers around me and now I have this family of Fellowship Lord God but I had to work for it and I had to labor for it and I had to be willing to pour into people Lord in order to build this Fellowship father God it didn't come cheap nothing worth having does Father God so Lord I just lift these brothers and sisters up to you father um and and and I just pray Lord that that if anybody out there needs healing of their mind of of their body of their Broken Heart Lord I know all these things too well Lord but I also know what you can do in the heart of a person who truly stands before you broken and just ready to surrender father and I pray that somebody right here and right now is doing that Lord I lift my brothers show up to you father God I just pray that he would continue to just keep it authentic to the gospel um and that he would um accurately reflect you you father God with this platform that he has and he would be a good Steward of it Lord and as he does that Lord I pray that you would Advance it and and and give him the things that he needs father God and I pray the same for our ministry Lord protect us as we go out on this missions trip Lord bring in the resources that we need father God so we can do your will once again in Jesus mighty name we pray amen Amen brother I thank you man you guys have you know what I'm saying you guys have have a strong team brother with you um just before you go really quick there's people who have no idea who you are um tell them a little bit about what hog mob means hogmob is a acronym it stands for being hooked on God and keeping Ministry over business H OGG m be you can get a lot more information about us um go to hogmob.com um we got all kinds of information about the ministry um the different Brothers involved um certain parts of the website my boy is actually helping us with right now they under construction but um we definitely have a lot of information on there we do right now um I started a movement called pray for my hood where we actually go out and we target dangerous neighborhoods to receive the Gospel and just to um you know there's a lot of pain and a lot of hurting that needs to be healed and so we go out and try to assist with that all over the country so we're in the process right now of hitting about a hundred Urban neighborhoods pretty soon so you know we're obviously looking for support when it comes to that and stuff but yeah man look us up my name's s SCV i n you know what I'm saying like I said man a former loow life you know what I'm saying from California man that that that Jesus Christ has changed and delivered man and and and I'm just here to bang Christ until the day I die man and U you know I don't know y'all but I love y'all God loves y you feel me and he put that love for you in me man so you know if y'all need anything you know whatever we can do we will do and if we can't do nothing you know we we'll try to direct you to somebody who can help you better than we can but we try not to turn nobody away you know unless they on some nonsense and you know and this God bless you you know what I'm saying straight up all right brother thanks so much for hanging out with me man we'll get up soon for sure much love bro brother peace peace seven of hog mob Ministries guys he's a good dude man um I built this website actually I built all the the underground Christian rappers the guys who are kind of taking the range now Pyrex seven um illuminate um hope be.net which is a big Christian marketing website for Christian hip hop and also um Dante's website and these are all guys who are all affiliated with with hog mob um and I'll say this man um I still do have a bad taste in my mouth for Christian rap for gospel rap I don't really listen to too much of it anymore I used to do gospel rap and that's pretty much why cuz I used to do it and I've seen The Good the Bad and the Ugly and I've seen the cliches and I've seen um I've seen way too much uh in these churches and stuff like that so when it comes to the Christian rap a lot of it's corny a lot of it's unoriginal they try to repeat rappers that they hear on the radio so if Little Wayne's popular you're going to hear these rappers coming out sounded like little Wayne Drake comes out with these little dances where he puts his hand on his hip and does these little dances and so now all the Christian rappers are doing it dancing up in the churches on stage and it's just GH it's nasty man I I've seen that I've seen it hand first but when it comes to seven and it comes to hog mob these dudes are legit like this dude does it with a passion does it full-time um he's a real dude real dude um you know what I'm saying he'll tell you like it is I've dealt with too many Christians in general but definitely Christian rappers who um they have to be politically correct even not not in the the social mainstream but in the church realm and so there's things that you say and there's things that you do in any click that's that that gets you received and you know you're cool as long as you you have the lingo and we call it Christian e they speak with Christian e and most people who are outside of church culture will have no idea what the hell people are talking about speaking Christian e you know what I'm saying um and Seven's a real dude you're not you're not really going to get that from him him even though we're talking about Ministry we're talking about the The Good the Bad and the Ugly for what it is I think people need to hear that people need to be encouraged you know what I'm saying not to give up and not to feel like they're alone in the end um but seven his music um they don't they don't get a lot of love um from the the Christian Community I think they're starting to now more like I said earlier on cuz some people have kind of moved off the way some of the big mainstreamer Christian rappers lrae and those guys are kind of moved out the way so now hog mob Bizzle you know these guys are now kind of getting more of the Limelight and so they're you know their their name um you know brings numbers so these these other people are wanting to have them on so that's one thing that's going on but seven illuminate Pyrex um these are all genuine dudes Briant t uh I do enjoy listening to their music um it it is original it hasn't changed with the times like they they don't do trap rap they don't do uh Mumble rap you know what I'm saying they haven't changed because Mumble rap's popular now they do the old school '90s influenced old school but yet with the like the beats and stuff are still current in up to date so I do like their music um but more since I know him as a person it makes it gives me the story behind the music you know um and just because I've seen that in the in the Christian realm like I've seen the good the bad the ugly and it's kind of put a bad taste in my mouth same thing has happened in in my Arena now with with like the spiritual hip hop um you know I still I still take uh Christian terms and and uh Christian um you know what I'm saying ideologies and and I put them in my music and and use metaphors and change the names and stuff like that but it is hidden deep within my music as well but in in the spiritual Arena it's kind of been the same thing I I've met some of the people that I've looked up to um and had had interactions with these people and it put a bad taste in my mouth as well there's people whose music man was like phenomenal and still is as far as the music goes but I met the people behind it and their life does not reflect the music at all like their life does not reflect that music about meditation prayer elevation um Ascension you know what I'm saying like that's the stuff they they rap about in their music cuz they've studied it but they don't live it and they're they're just regular Street dudes and that's put a bad taste in my mouth um from the spiritual hip-hop community and you know I think they tell you like that you shouldn't want to meet the uh the people that you look up to your Idols you shouldn't meet your Idols cuz a lot of times you're let down cuz you look up to these people you're like oh man and you're looking for this this experience with them when when whenever you meet them and you hold these guys on on these pedestals and you're like man these are just regular dudes from the hood that's what I found out with with uh the spiritual hip-hop Community as well and I think that's what was key about what seven said at the beginning is like he don't want to have you know he CU he he knows his flaws and he knows that he's he's a um you know what I'm saying he's still under construction right and we tend to look up to people and put them on these platforms and we think that they're more spiritual than you know what I'm saying than they really are I I get that and when people meet me um you know they're you know they expect me to only talk about spiritual stuff and I don't even talk about this stuff in public anymore with people for real I only do this stuff on podcasting and music I don't go to places and and try to engage people about spirituality like um but if people want to talk about it I'm totally down totally down when it comes to that but people put you on a pedestal and they um you know they they've created an idol in their mind of of of who you are and it's not real it's an image that's what that's what Idols are idolatry and so I've had to I've had to feel the uh the good bad and the the ugly and all the the push back from that you know with showing you know what I'm saying some showing who I am and not being afraid of that cuz I We Are Spiritual Beings I'm into spirituality I'm also into a lot of other stuff too um so that whole dichotomy for me was really big and trying and just trying to get over that of just being okay with the public seeing me and that's why you know this podcast was called the myth's podcast it was called encountering God podcast but essentially I didn't want I didn't want to call it the true s of podcast cuz I didn't want to put too much of who I was out there but I was like you know what I need I'm not going to try to keep branding all kind of of their names and stuff what you see is what you get and just like we were saying you have those friends who are just down the rod man those fans who were just like like yeah we like the music but we like you as a person you know what I'm saying we we're fans of the music um and even Grim's in the chat room and I'm going to hip Grim up when I get off of here to get into some gaming man me and my wife you know what I'm saying and my daughter we all we we all are big into gaming and I remember showing that side and doing some live streaming gaming and guys man the hatred I got from some of my fans when I was live streaming gaming they're like turn the games off and work on music we're ready for new music truth Seeker turn the damn games off and it's was like oh wow and it was a lot of people oh these games aren't spiritual they rot your brain all the games are put here by the Illuminati to keep you and just all this crazy stuff I'm like man you guys had this crazy uh picture of me of something like I'm meditating all day and stuff um which I I do I do meditate I need that stuff so all of that's a part of me and uh and I'm not I'm not afraid to you know what I'm saying to be myself and just finally be comfortable in my own skin and just to be public with that you know what I'm saying so that's uh that's a whole lot of I'm reading the comments now you guys are awesome hey Chanel Grim I and I what's up brother oh man so that yeah that's it oh man I'm glad I seen your comment so he says huge hog mob so I have a confession to make man about seven and about about you James um and a lot of other people who are fans of of Tru seeka now for some reason and fans of hog mob and for some of you guys there's a reason and James this is definitely My Confession and I think I might even told you this I I don't know may maybe you never heard this but okay so I had a page I had on on uh Facebook I had my tra fan page right it's where people who like my music they go like the fan page and I had about 8,000 likes at the time and then I had I had 5,000 likes on my I mean 5,000 friends on my regular page and on my regular page I was friends with seven I was friends with all these uh rappers and and band and uh you know people who are in bands and stuff I was uh Tommy Green from um Sleeping Giant Sunny Sand Deval from pod Maddy Montgomery these were some of the bigger names of people who early on on fa when they first got on Facebook I became friends with them and we'd have conversations and they they answer me back and we kind of built relationships like that well I was friends with seven as well and so I wanted to get rid of my page because it was like a straight Christian following because I was doing gospel rap and once I started to to kind of stray away from that I was like you know what let me delete this page but instead of deleting it Facebook has a feature where you can take your regular page and merge it to your fan page so I went through that process and I did that so it combined all of my regular friends 5,000 friends and and it showed that they liked TR seeka and it gave me 5,000 uh more likes on the TR seeka page and when I did that if you was to go to Maddy Montgomery Sunny sandal 7 if you go to their page in the bottom left corner where it says bands that they like or or artists that they like it all said that they liked true seea so instead of them being a fan a friend of me they turned into being a fan on on Facebook and I got a lot of messages and James you're in the chat um you messaged me because of that you told me that you seen me I didn't know who you were you was a huge seven fan and you seen that seven like Tru Seeker seven listen to Tru seeker and so you hit me up you check me out and then I'm spitting all this esoteric stuff all of this spiritual stuff and essentially I seen you start to get into it like you would you would call me and we'd have conversations and You' pick my brain about geometry about vibration about the Bible and and where the stuff is in the Bible and things like that and we'd have phone conversations and I've seen you morph into where like you're very well studied on your spirituality now and how it pertains to your life and it it uh helps you man so that was one thing about the seven stuff I had a bunch of seven fans hit me up because they're like oh seven listens to this guy let me check him out and so I guess that's a confession I should have told seven I wanted to but we we kind of went in a different direction so maybe he'll go back and listen to this or I'll get the chance to talk to him again but I thought that was funny man there was a lot of people who hit me up fans of pod and they're like yeah man I see I see pod listens to truth Seeker let me check this guy out so people who actually had a chance to listen to my music and they became became fans but that's how because they found out that their favorite rapper or their favorite band listened to tr seeka which they really didn't right because I combined the pages and it showed that I did I thought that's a funny little story and and James Harkness that's why you're here man you know and I thought that's just a funny story man um every everything works together for a reason though man God knows what he's doing I didn't know that was going to happen when I when I did that but it's pretty funny so now um we're going to wrap the show up all of you guys who have been listening I I thank all of you make sure that you guys cuz everybody right now we got a bunch of people listening on on on YouTube right now make sure you go to iTunes or your uh Android podcasting app and um download the the app and And subscribe to the TR secet podcast that way um that's the like the real way that we're trying to push it is through the podcasting apps and um and so do that for me make sure you subscribe there if you're listening on YouTube or whatever and also if you found this episode valuable and you think that somebody can benefit from it whether it was the prayer at the end or some of the stuff we're just talking about church culture and some of the the different enigmas that go on there and some of the stuff we don't understand and just really what church is like in general like we've got a crazy misconception of what church is man for real um make sure you share it man just sh just share it out with with people who uh who you think can actually benefit from this episode and so I've been staying busy with this stuff man putting out a lot of episodes I think I may I think I may do another episode tomorrow just doing another uh solo episode doing a breakdown on song lyrics and just going into um the meaning behind some of the cryptic messages that is throughout true Stick Of Music so if you guys have a song that you want to hear me break down like some lyrics that that intrigue you the most send me a message send me an email uh you can get in contact with me on all social media Outlets um let me know what song you want me to break down because I got a bunch of them and uh I may move it to the front of the list so I'm going to do that um I just I did that for the first time I was kind of nervous to see if I can hold attention for you know a full song I didn't know how long it was going to take I talked for an hour and 45 minutes by myself and I was so parched at the end end of that episode and uh but I think it went really well man there's a cuz I was talking to a guy today A friend of mine and he he said yeah man we get I get messages from people and they said yeah man I I love your music but Tru Seeker man I I I love his his flow I love his rhyme scheme and stuff but I have no idea what the hell he's talking about what is he what does he mean when he's talking about the Kundalini and uh you know what I'm saying the spiritual ecstatic experiences and um you know what I'm saying vibration from the force feeling my mind and my body divorce you know what I'm saying what does he mean by that stuff and so people even Jamie Ruckman he's commenting right now in in the chat room Jamie rutan's like dude I have no idea what you're talking about Jamie's like dude I love your music it's awesome you're rap fast I really love the rhyming schemes but I have no idea what you're talking about so that's what's cool about doing the the the actual breakdowns so that I can uh I can kind of give you the meanings of of some of the things and kind of turn it into a teaching because some of those phrases and stuff are brand new for a lot of people they've never heard of some of that stuff I mentioned the Book of Enoch something that is very um Elementary to me like in in in my Awakening like that book came with it um so I'll go into detail about the Book of Enoch and maybe it'll uh pique your interest to actually pick that book up and read or uh secret teachings of all ages Manley P hall and and and just tell you what the song titles the phrases what they mean to me how I came up with them and my meanings behind them like I said it's also beautiful that people listen and they come up with their own um ideas about what I'm talking about or what the song means to them that's beautiful as well but for me to actually sit down and break the lyrics down man it just paints a whole new picture and basically turns into a freaking sermon or something right just breaking down all of this cuz I cram so much in into the music and like bar bar for bar line for line I may be talking about meeting an Angel um that was made of golden light in the next bar I'm talking about uh mystical experiences like Joe Rogan you know who is Joe Rogan you know how does he have mystical experiences and how does it relate to truth Seeker right so I kind of go into detail about all that stuff so if there is a song you want to hear me break down let me know I'll push it to the the front of the list Jamie Ran's commenting in the in the chat room he says he's laughing he says mushrooms LOL that's a scary thought in my head it hey man this should be a healthy fear of mushrooms man it should be a healthy fear of mushrooms and and respect them for anybody I I do not recommend doing mushrooms as a as a party drug or at a party uh I I respect them it's a Sacrament and uh very special to me very near and dear to me and uh that's what the golden teachers the song golden teachers essentially is about and um actually speaking of golden teachers I just released my t-shirts again I found somebody who can print t-shirts up for a decent price and you can go to tr.com and I just put the golden teachers up before that we went live so I got a a t-shirt with a an Angelic being that I think depicts the the golden teachers man and it says golden teachers so uh check it out okay Grim says he has a giant one right here you have a giant golden teacher right there in front of you that's what's up man get in there man see what the uh Universe has to teach you man I believe those I believe those golden teachers man are Angelic beings dude I really do and uh it's a when you go into those Realms with the golden teachers with the the the psilocybin Sacrament man you're you're being led by a Consciousness um an Angelic force that that communicates with you and uh it's beautiful it is Beau it's not demonic it's not it is scary because it's a new place right you go to a new place you don't really know how things operate and the laws change there the laws of physics actually changed there too and what you know what is real and stuff but there there's a Consciousness there communicating with you letting you know that everything's okay I got you and I got a couple of things I want to show you and uh that's when things changed for me that's when all my music became real to me like man and I've talked about it before and I'll probably talk about it when I break down this golden teacher song and I may do that tomorrow but that's when that stuff became real to me is like because I've wrapped about seeing heaven and I I like wrapped about all of my spiritual encounters up to having sosyan um sacrament and they're all beautiful they're about traveling to heaven looking gazing into heaven uh the gates of Orion look peering into eternity things like this and these are these are things that I've done man beautiful encounters that I've had that I've tried to uh poetically recreate them for the listener right and to kind of almost set it like a monument you know in in in the scriptures when the Israelites uh achieved the victory or something happened something Monumental happened happened they made a monument they took rocks and and built a little structure out of rocks and so every time that they came to that place they would be reminded of that Victory or that promise of from God every time they seen that monument and they would have them everywhere man and so um the siloc cybin was Monumental for me in in my my my music and um it's just it's it's it's living in my music like those encounters are living in my music now so when I listen to it I'm taking back there are songs that I will not listen to unless I'm ready to be taken back right now and I've talked about this on Kelly and the r he El's listening um you know the song Good For Me by um um above and beyond like that song triggers we like that word now right triggered but listening to that song man man and and all my friends who've been with me when they hear that song they just immediately taken back to that realm and taken back to that that that point in time where where we encountered the golden teachers so I'll probably be talking about this tomorrow and try to go into more detail about those lyrics and and my encounters and looking it's about that time that's all I'm going to say it's about that time for another one so it's time for a reset button you know it's awesome that that we have that button I'm just reading the comments here I know it's not good for audio but um I want to thank you guys for hanging out with me listening hope you guys enjoyed it I'm going to try to edit this out a little bit for the the podcast version because there was some internet uh blips there on his end but thank you guys and if you want to support what I'm doing and you want to get new music I'm telling you guys I got new music on the patreon and a lot of you guys who are in the chat room right now you guys are members over there and you guys are helping me support uh my my music addiction and so creating new music and um I got like three other new songs that I'm about to put up they're in the works we're trying to finish them up um those and so what's going on over there is that as soon as I finish a song I'm I'm steadily working on music as soon as I finish a song that it's like you know what okay that's going to go on the album I'll upload it to patreon and that's only for the hardcore supporters like I say hardcore it's like you know what I'm saying anywhere from a dollar to like $10 $25 a month um but you guys get first dibs over there and and there's stuff that's uploaded there that's going to be there months before it's going to appear on the album so for those you guys who are inboxing me and begging me for new music and you want to hear new music patreon.com truer there's like seven songs up there I'm about to put three more up there's some some of watchman's Music leaked over there that we're about to get ready to release um so yeah that helps me so much with paying these bills and keeping uh the internet on at my house and paying for all this beautiful equipment this microphone uh the storage on Lipson to actually be on iTunes and things like that it cost money to do that stuff and uh patreon is the perfect model for you guys to help support Independent Artists and independent podcasters man there's um you know there's a lot of work ahead that that we want to do and we're working hard man a lot of sleepless nights go into this stuff so I thank each and every one of you guys for U supporting me over there so go to patreon.com truer sign up to support for any amount that you want to give per month and you will get perks and rewards and get EX exclusive content so with that I'm G say peace and shalom shalom I really enjoyed this episode um and I'll be doing it again tomorrow we got some awesome shows if you guys haven't looked through the back catalog you got to go look man I just interviewed Mar Margaret perin the god Warrior from ABC's trading spouses like come on man you guys got to go back and listen to some of these shows man Mary Rodwell and it's an Eclectic group of people here guys and it's so awesome that you guys rock with me because I do get those messages man even on patreon I get those messages where people and you're probably listen now I'm not going to say your name but I I get messages from people who say you know what I can't support this anymore uh that lady who you had on um talking about aliens and all this I can't support it I'm gonna I'm done I can only support Christian stuff it's like well we're about to interview seven from hog mob so it's a it's an Eclectic uh eclectic group of people that we have on here and part of it is just being me I'm a little bit of all of it you're going to get a little bit of you're going to get the aliens you're going to get Jesus you're going to get um ascended masters you're going to get Kundalini Awakening you're going to get spirituality you're going to get music you're going to get all of it on here man so if you guys are still listening at this point there I think I think I think I hit a nerve there's something there that you guys like and so we have a common interest here and and even if it's just even like for you Chanel just wanting to get to the bottom of spirituality and who's telling the truth and who's making this [Â __Â ] up as they go along right who's making this [Â __Â ] up and and and they're doing it and in every single uh facet there's people in the Christian circles who are in in the spiritual Christian circles who are making it up as they go in the New Age circles and the in the UFO euphology circles there's people making it up and um that that's one thing that I want I want to be true to that everything I put in my music everything that I talk about uh whether it sounds more poetic or it sounds more interesting than it really was there's a lot of that you know some of that stuff sounds way more interesting I take something as simple as prayer and make it sound so deep and esoteric and and spiritual when it really is it's powerful prayer is powerful meditation sitting in silence is super powerful but I'll take something so simple and make it sound so beautiful and so intricate and then I'll take something so intricate and something so far out there and make it sound so nonchalant like just every day we do it every day you know and that's part of the art form in the music and what I've kind of built my albums around my ecstatic experiences and just making it plain so I love each and every one of you guys and um we're all part of a family and um I know you guys see yourself in my story and just as I see myself in you guys um even the guests I interview like I I truly believe that what I've taken to biblically is uh the Apostle Paul says that I have come I've become all things to all men so that I might win some and I'll rock with anybody man and I get I get judged I get I get um persecuted it's it's nothing the joy is so much more um worth it than the the persecution or the the backlash so um thanks for rocking with me guys just G to let you guys know what it means to me so you guys are awesome cheer up love y'all see you next time peace
