EP - 174 - Drunk Off Entertainment

Yo, what's up people? I am your host Jay Will. This is Inspire Guys, people where we balance faith and business to guide you to your purpose. Thank you for rocking with me today.

This is Orton Knight. You know what I'm saying? This is episode 174, Drunk Off Entertainment. That's what we're talking about today.

We're gonna kick it about this overly entertained world. Some of the things that we gotta watch out for, especially as believers, but really for anybody, just some things to watch out for as the world has kind of adjusted to become all about entertainment all the time. And I believe that it's starting to interfere and like mess with our personal growth and development, you feel me? Thank you for anybody who has been rocking with the show, whether it be on Apple Podcast, YouTube or Facebook.

Definitely appreciate y'all man. I'm excited tonight to dive into this conversation. And there's about five key points that I'm gonna make. We gonna dig into some scripture.

We gonna have some good dialogue. Y'all know how we do. I keep trying to tell people your life is in shambles and just falling apart because you don't listen to this podcast. Listen, if you're rocking with me tonight, just get ready.

If you gotta pull out a notepad or something, we are about to grow. That's what this is all about, people we are about to grow. You feel me? So what I've been up to lately, been a little busy, I'm gonna keep it extra crispy, I'm gonna be getting a podcast as much as I want to.

But I will tell you this, but those of y'all who are subscribed on YouTube, which I would, you know what I'm saying? I would just suggest that you do. We do put out some daily inspirational shorts every day, just about. It's like an onad a little bit lately too.

And I tend to say stuff like we, what I really mean is me, chopping up internet, recording it, doing all that stuff. You know what I'm saying? So of course I get busy and I can't keep up. But it's been a crazy summer.

Like the summer is coming to an end. Y'all kids is going back to school. And I think some of the stuff we gonna talk about can refer to the kids as well. Like, so let's see, what up, Ty, how you feeling?

Say you figure your powers out because you haven't listened. So here you are. Look, look, you know what it is. Get that power back on, man.

What's up, Jen? How you feeling? How you feeling, man? Thank y'all for tuning in.

And we about to jump into some really great concerts. So y'all know how I do, man. I got slides today. Let me see.

Let me get to my slides, bro. Let me get to my slides, bro. Let me get to my listening. Y'all know how I do.

Drunk off entertainment is what we talking about today. So let me start with this. First things first, I want to say this. There's a difference between judgment, like a judgment call, final judgment and a warning.

Right? So what I want to lay out for y'all today is that today is not about judging people. It's not about judging you or you doing all this stuff wrong or da, da, da, da, da, da. But it is about a warning call.

And I think we need to understand the difference between those things. So as an example, the speed limit sign, like don't do 50 in this, you know, this is a 50 speed limit zone. That's a warning sign or a guide or some instructions that's telling you if you're going to be on this street, we've identified that the safe speed for you to go is 50 miles an hour. That's not a judgment.

That's a warning sign that's telling you something for your betterment that you should do and a way that you should go about your life or some decisions you should make that's better for you, right? So let's talk about when a police pull you over and give you a ticket for speeding or reckless driving in that 50 mile per hour zone you was doing 60, that's a judgment call, right? That's not a final judgment. Cause you don't pay the ticket right there.

Sometimes you can go to court, you can talk to the judge and you can get past some stuff. But that's a judgment call. That officer made a judgment call that it looks like you're going a little too fast or my little radar, my little technology told me that you were going too fast. So that officer made a judgment call.

You then have a court date, a date that you have to go and stand before the judge to give you a final judgment, final decision. Listen, y'all, if you just rock with me tonight, I'm not here to judge you, that ain't how I get down. But some of the things we gonna talk about, they just like speed limit signs, they're warning signs, they're things to say, yo, I've been chilling and I'm looking on this road, this road that we traveling down, I think we need to slow down. Cause if we don't, then somebody might have to make a judgment call, right?

Some authority or something could happen. All right, cool. So the judgment call comes, but what we're essentially trying to be ready for is the final judgment. When we stand before Christ, that's what it's all about is being able to stand before Christ, no matter what you've done before.

Like I said, sometimes you could beat the ticket. Ask, look, repenting from our sins following Christ, that's beating the ticket. You're going before the judge at the end of it, when it's all said and done, and you're able to say like, yo, listen, I spent a budget time. It was a bunch of times I was speeding, a bunch of times I had some infractions on the road, Father, but you forgave me because I, listen, might have messed up, but I'm like, you know what?

When you get that judgment call, you still got some time to go back. There are sometimes that things happen in our life that's like a little judgment call. It's not a final judgment. It's just like something to get you back, where you gotta go.

You feel what I'm saying? Jen say her kid is getting a full time job. You must listen. Is it because you listen to the podcast?

That must be it. That must be it. You say betterment. Is that a word or not?

You tell me, listen, I have no idea if it's a word or not, but you let me know. So we're gonna kick it today about some things that are like speed, limit, warning signs to keep us on the ride track. You feel what I'm saying? All right, so how can I do this?

Let's jump right into the slides. That's what I wanna do. I wanna jump into the slides, drunk off entertainment. First things first, we're gonna talk a little bit about left brain versus your right brain.

Now, there's a reason that this is important to me. You could do the research on this if you want. We're not gonna dig too deep in this, but I've read a few books that covers this topic and I think it's super interesting to think about. Your left brain.

All right, your left brain is split between two hemispheres. Your left brain is typically identified as the logic side of your brain. So if you look at the graphic that we got on here, if you're watching on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, logic, science, sense of time, language. So the left side of your brain, you feel me?

The left side of your brain is about that logic. And it kinda like, it keeps you, it's the academic side of you. You know what I'm saying? It's that side of you that critically thinks.

Let's call it that the left side of your brain is the critical thinking side of your brain. All right, you feel me? Now let's go to the right side of the brain. Right side of the brain is your creative or your emotional side of your brain.

So you typically have logic left side, right side is typically identified as emotion. That's the side of your brain. That's where art, creativity, intuition, imagination. That's where those type of things come from.

So here's what I want us to think about first things first. If you have two different sides of your brain, what ends up happening for some people is they become a left brain or a right brain dominant person. This ain't about right or wrong. You might be able to look at your personality yourself and like, I'm a musician, I like to dance and sing.

I ain't really into no reading no books. I really don't like math. I like to create and imagine and paint. Then you understand that you would be a right brain person if you're kinda in tune to that music and arts and creativity and all those things.

That's super dope. You know what I'm saying? That's a cool place to be. And then if you're a person that's like, you ever know somebody that's like, they the bookworm in school, they like studying.

Like they wanna read, like that's that left brain logical person. Sometimes left brain people are not super emotional. They don't really have or show that type of emotion. Right?

These are some of the things. Again, you can look up at that stuff on your own time if you wanna get deeper than that. But I'm trying to make just the overarching point here that at the end of the day, we are left brain or right brain people. So here's a couple of key facts.

And I've read this in several books. So I'm gonna repeat it. You know what I'm saying? I'm not a scientist.

This ain't me saying this. But one of the things that I have learned about a the right brain versus the left brain that's so crazy is that the left brain or the emotional side of your brain moves faster than the logical side of your brain. So what this means is that ultimately, we feel before we think, all right, I need you to, this is where I started slowing it down. We feel faster than we think, right?

So that's why a lot of times your first initial reaction of something, you ever been in a situation where you couldn't actually react in your first initial reaction and you had to like step aside and like sit down or go in the corner of breathe or go like go off to the side and countdown to one from 10. Sometimes somebody, if you react out of your first emotion, you already know it's not necessarily gonna be the best outcome because let's say if it's out of anger. You know what I'm saying? That happens a lot of times where something happens to you.

Someone literally legitimately makes you angry, but you know like, I can't respond out of this anger. You feel what I'm saying? But cure your bro, what up, man? Hit me up, bro.

Man, I ain't saying you flow no Facebook in a minute. If you listen to Apple podcast and stuff, talking to the folks on Facebook, my brother, what up? Doug, what's good bro? Good to see you on here, my brother.

So what ultimately happens is that if we allow ourselves to become a right brain dominant person, right? Let's go back to the slide. If you just jump in on, if you let yourself become a right brain dominant person, that means you are a person that caters to your emotional side. And we have to understand because our emotions develop and go faster than our thoughts or our logic to me.

I'm talking about me. Again, this is a one assign, this ain't a judgment. For me, I'm reading this book called Emotional Intelligence right now because I understand that for me, if I know that my emotions go faster than my logic, that when I find myself in a highly intense emotional state, I need to step back and I need to allow my logic to speed up. All right, now let me give you a real life example.

This happened to me yesterday. Literally yesterday, me and my wife in the car, I'm driving. And this is like semi rush hour traffic, something like that. We driving home, not far from our house.

And we get to a light and we stop him, but this truck, this pickup truck is coming behind me while we're all stopped. As if he's gonna hit me. Now here was the crazy thing. I could not understand why this man was like, he was like revving up behind me and like coming.

And I'm like, the thing is, I didn't cut him off or nothing because we were on like a one line street. And me and my wife is just kicking it. I know what he was on, but I know that it didn't have nothing to do with me. So I kind of like, you know, initially your emotions is high, right?

But because I've been reading this book about emotional intelligence, one of the things it called out in a book is that the person who responds offer their emotions is the weaker person. Whoo, now we about to get deep. Now we know we know we know we about to get deep. The person, see, we often think that's the tough guy.

Oh, you know, Jimmy don't play. Jimmy, I knock you out if you say two words to him. Jimmy is weak. That's really what's happening.

A person that cannot control their emotions is a weak person. You feel me? Chelsea, what's up? I'm running in and watching the show.

Appreciate you. So I'm in a car in a real life situation. And because there's been on my mind, emotional intelligence, I've been reading this book. It's a pretty long book.

So I just, you know, I've been reading this book forever. But there's been on my mind when I've been in a word it's been on my mind, like control your emotions, right? I found myself in that situation where I was like, you know what I did? I was like, all right, we were at the light and it was a way to turn right.

So this is what I let my logic speed up. I was like, I tell my wife I was like, I don't think whatever he doing is targeted at me. But I'm looking at him in a rear view and I'm looking at him in his eyes and he don't look right. Like homey looked like he in a trench.

He just didn't look right. But so I was like, all right, I'm gonna get in the right lane. If whatever he's doing is targeted at me, then he's gonna obviously get over too. Not only am I gonna get over on the right lane, even though I'm close to my house going straight, I'm gonna go right and go the longer way to get home to get away from him.

Cause I told my wife, my objective is to get the package home safely. She was like, what's the package? I was like you. My objective, look again, emotionally in that moment, oh trust me, my ego was like, it was like, I wanted to, you feel me?

Tell me, I'm not gonna lie. I wanted to act a fool because that's what my emotions was telling me to do in that moment. Like, who you think you are rolling up on me? Don't like, no, you know what I'm saying?

Don't get it twisted. You know what I'm saying? I'll let the smooth taste fool you. That's what my ego and my emotions was telling me.

And then I had to let my logic kick in and let my spiritual side kick in and say, mmm, holy spirit like, no, this ain't worth it. What you got to prove? You just driving your wife home, bro. Let him go through where he going through.

And I got out of the way and I made it home safely. And I didn't have to hurt him and he didn't have to hurt me. Nobody had to go to jail because I allowed my logic in the holy spirit to catch up to my emotions. So what's my point?

Today we talking about being drunk off entertainment. And what happens when a person is drunk is they not in their right mind. And this is what I believe, I'm just sharing this with y'all. When I look at the side, look, you got to rock with me.

The emotional, the left side of your brain versus the right side of your brain. So I want to specifically talk about entertainment now. You tell me which side of your brain do you think entertainment actually caters to? That right side that's creative, artistic, intuition, imaginative, and it moves fast, or the logical science, sense of time and language side.

We know what it is. Entertainment caters to our emotional right side of our brain. Entertainment caters to the side of our brain that moves the fastest. That's why when people are on the date, they listen to love music.

That's why when we in church, we listen to church music. And that's why that emotionalism, whether you be in church, whether you be in a relationship, too much emotionalism is not a good thing. We should be doing all things in moderation, right? But there's a couple of deeper stuff that we about to get into, trust me.

There's some deeper points that I want to make about this idea that I think we drunk off entertainment. Now, when I look at the world that we live in today, let me take a step back. Look at the world that we live in today and how much entertainment is such a huge part of it, right? And I'm asking myself, is this healthy or unhealthy?

Is it healthy that our brains and our minds are just consuming a million hours of 15 second videos, kids dancing, people jumping, somebody fell off the porch. Ha, ha, ha, he, he, like, okay, cool. Everything is cool, maybe in moderation. But we are actually consuming so much of that stuff that when it comes time, like, mmm, this is the, I ain't want to say it, it's starting to dilute our ability to critically think.

Because the critical thinking side of your brain, the critical thinking side of your brain is the side of your brain that is logical. You feel me? Got the package home safely, y'all. What's up, Katrina?

How you doing? Thank you, thank you. Love when we cut the music in church. Listen, you feel me, tell ya?

So here's what happens. We get in, because we are so drunk off entertainment, all right, I told somebody, imagine you have two cups, right? And this ain't, look, you probably heard this a million times. Some other preacher probably did this on Instagram or something, it's just an example.

If you got two cups, and one of them represents your logic, your spirit, and another one represents your emotions and entertainment. And you only keep filling the cup of entertainment and emotions every single day you feel that cup, everything you watch, everything you partake in, nothing is self-development, nothing is spiritual, nothing is about the Bible, nothing is about what God wants you to do. So what you're doing is you're over-filling this cup, and this one is empty, and what's happening is like, you unbalance, you lean it because it's like, yo, this cup over here is heavy and it's full, but there's nothing in this one to balance you out. So when a situation's for logic or critical thinking, or anything about common sense comes into play, I'm not talking about you, I'm not dogging nobody out, but what I'm telling you, dog, is like, we get into the point where simple things, like people through entertainment, I need you to follow this.

All of this stuff is being delivered through entertainment, where I'm watching videos, I'm watching interviews, where people are trying to defy logic, right? They're trying to introduce concepts, introduce ideologies, introduce philosophies and things that go so far against everything that we've ever known, but because it's coming by way of your favorite entertainer, but because it's coming by way on your favorite TV show, where your favorite artist or rapper did it at their concert, where they put it in their song, it's actually starting to make us drunk. And you know that when you're drunk, you're not in your right mind. So we so drunk off entertainment, we can't even have a critically thought out logical conversation that makes sense sometimes, because we're allowing ourselves, and again, in the church, I gotta say this, the issue about entertainment in the church, again, keep him, you know what, no, let me go back, let me go to the slides, bro.

Let's just do this real quick, let me jump into the slides real quick and then I'll talk some more about it. So first Corinthians chapter six, this is the new living translation, all right? Now, contextually, with this section of scripture is specifically talking about is avoiding sexual scenes. So I would actually advise you to go and read the rest of that chapter before verse 12 and 13, and I'm about to read, so understand that contextually, they are specifically calling out some things about sexual scenes.

But this part right here in verse 12, I thought it was super important. It says, you say, I am allowed to do anything, right? This is the scripture, if you're reading the King James, all things are lawful, but not all things are permissible. Like I know sometimes we remember scriptures based on the King James version, but this says, you say, I'm allowed to do anything, but not everything is good for you.

All right, hold on, hold on, right there. I'm gonna just pause right there. You say that I'm allowed to do everything. What we say, I'm grown.

Ain't nothing wrong with that. No, no, no, I hear people. You get what I'm saying, I'm the kind of person I listen to people like, oh, ain't nothing wrong with that. That's what's wrong with your church people.

Y'all don't not have a lot of that. And so it's like, okay, you say I'm allowed to do everything. This is what the Bible say, but not everything is good for you. Podcast over, I'm done.

You've had enough cash app, subscribe. I should be done with y'all right there. You say I'm allowed to do anything, but the Bible says, but not everything is good for you. So you might be allowed to do it.

There's no law, ain't nothing stopping me right now. I got my phone right here. Like I can go on Instagram and scroll for the next three hours if I want to. I can type in whatever I want to search for in my search if I want to, but the question is not or you allowed to do it.

See, sometimes we ask the wrong question. Is this a sin? I just, can I be real with y'all? Some of the conversations that we have are so immature that it could be frustrating at times.

Because it's like, yo, are we gonna graduate from the, I just wanna prove Christians get out of fun? I tell y'all a lot of time, if you rock with the podcast, if you knew I apologize, you know what I'm saying? I talk like this. I tell people all the time, I'm not here to prove to you that Christians can have fun, that's ridiculous.

That's literally like me saying, hey, I'm just here to prove to you that black people can have fun. Hey, I got Hispanic in me. So when I'm about to say any racist, I'm just here to prove to you that Mexican people can have fun. What?

I don't play those kind of games. I'm sorry, I understand that emotionally, it might sound rude because we're so drunk off entertainment that we can't handle any logic or critical thinking people. I am not here to prove to you that Christians can have fun. I'm not here to prove to you that a Christian marriage can be with, listen man, I don't, huh?

Listen bro, I'm just being real with you. If you and my age group and you need somebody to prove to you, prove to you that Christians can have fun, like you know, you might need to change what your definition of fun is, right? That's a start. Hey, imagine is, I'm like, hey, it used to just be really fun for me to just walk around and hit somebody on the body part.

Hey buddy, you're saved and sanctified now, you're married, but you might wanna change that one. Sometimes we ever think about like, we need to change what's fun to us, what up, Liz? How you doing, sister? You feel me, tell ya?

All right, so let me move on. I'm not here to prove to you that Christians can have fun. I'm not here to prove all this weird stuff to you. At the end of the day, you might be allowed to do something, but is it really healthy for me?

Is it good for me right now to get on Instagram for the next three hours and go and look at, you know, I don't even, I say crazy stuff, I'm not gonna say it. Don't say what you think and son. I'm telling ya, I just thought something crazy and I almost said it. Let's get back to the Bible before I get banned or something.

You say I'm allowed to do anything, but everything is not good for you. And even though I'm allowed to do anything, ooh, this is fine to be good. You feel me? Even though I'm allowed to do anything, I must not become a slave to anything.

All right, y'all, follow me on this, my right brain people. I know you got your favorite artists, right? But here's the thing, you listened to all the last albums yesterday while you was cleaning up, you woke up and watched all the motivational videos on Instagram and all the gossip on, you know, whatever way I wanna call nobody out, all these weird websites, but you know who's dating who and how many kids this one got and where they going and what they said and what they doing on vacation. And it's like, ain't open to word, not once.

Dang, Jay. Dagger. I'm always hit y'all with a dagger, just know it's gonna always be a dagger. We know how many kids Nick Cannon got, but we don't know how many, oh man, we don't know how many, how many, how many kids Isaac had though, like who are the children of Israel?

Like who are these guys? Who, what, what you say, who's Justin? Justin what, who, what, who's Moses, Moses, who came after Moses? Josh, what generation, what is this?

What is this accent I'm doing by the way? Like what am I doing right now? What's actually happening guys? What's leading you is feeding you, I like that.

So what's my point? My point is we over feel one cup because everybody's telling us it's okay. The Bible, it's not the Bible ain't telling us that because this is what the Bible says. The Bible says you say I am allowed to do anything, but not everything is good for you.

And even though I'm allowed to do anything, I must not become a slave to anything. Don't become a slave to your phone. Don't become a slave to that website. Don't become a slave to that album.

Don't let something overwhelm it, overtake so much of your life that you have nothing left to give God. Nothing left to give self-development. Nothing left to give education. I made a post today and I said poverty is buying every iPhone, every year and never buying one share of Apple.

Right? That's what we do. I know people that stand in line for the iPhone, they got all of them, they had all of them, and they don't own one share of Apple. And I'm sitting back and I'm thinking like, I mean, like, I get the entertainment, I get that you wanna be the first one, you wanna prove the people, you want the status symbol, but you don't have the status.

Like we are so into status symbols. Like symbols are just, it just represents something. You realize if I showed you right now, if I drew out the Apple sign and put it on a piece of paper, that's a symbol of the Apple, like, but that's not a MacBook. Like you don't actually have a MacBook, sorry, you just have the symbol.

Some of us want the status of successful wealthy thriving ambitious people. Like we have all the status, we got the phone, we went and bought the car, but we have the symbols, but we're not actually that. Cause what they don't know is I'm barely paying this car note and I spent my rent money on this person. Like, ooh, they don't know that behind the scenes, you don't really have the status.

We're just trying to change our minds, you feel me? So listen up Liz, like, so to this point, right? I'm gonna make this point and keep it moving. When I think about church, what's happening is we become so emotional that the only way we know God is through the music.

And I love music. Who knows me? I got over 75 songs right now on Apple music and Spotify. Just search J-wheel music, okay?

Matter of fact, check out my music. Listen to my portfolio. I make a lot of music. But one of my songs is called music can't save the world.

I made that song back in I think 2011 or 2012. Music can't save the world. Because back then, even as an artist, I was trying to communicate to people that this thing that I'm doing right now, although I'm praising God, I'm seeing it praises the God, this music, if you don't stop and read your word, if the Bible says in Romans that God requires us to be a living sacrifice, right? That means your life is a sacrifice unto him.

That's how we worship. This is in Romans, it literally says that. Like that's how we worship God as a living sacrifice. And so many of us literally think that we worship God with the drums and, and okay, that's cool, you dance, you celebrate it.

I'm entertained, I'm with it. But if I leave out of here and slap somebody, like that's not a lifestyle of worship, bro. That's just an act, a ritual, just something I did out of my emotion because it felt good in a moment. It got people to say hallelujah.

It got people to give to the offering. It got people to clap their hands. I made some people excited. But did anybody give their life to Christ?

Did anybody change their lifestyle? No, because we are so right brain driven. All we want church to be is, Hey, y'all, listen, I gotta tell y'all this. All this stuff we did in the church, oh, we gotta do this to reach the youth.

It didn't work. We didn't reach them. For the most part, all the little antics and things that we did in the church to try to reach people, those same people are adults right now and they left the church. I'm just keeping it real, go.

Maybe if I sing it, they'll believe me. Keeping it real, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I agree. I agree on that.

And Romans has a lot of good advice. Hey, man, what up, lessons, profit, what up, what up. Listen, Stephanie, it didn't work. The antics didn't work.

Somebody got to say it. Somebody got to say all the stuff, all the proof to the kids, we can have fun. Let's do this. Let's, no, I mean, I got to be careful what I say.

And I used to, okay, I'm just be, y'all know me. I don't know, I don't know who's, I'm just keeping extra crispy with you. People used to book me for youth events. I used to tell them.

I'm like, yeah, but you know, like, I'm not really, I don't really come to play games. Like, so, you know, like, because what we do in church is we call something youth when we went to Dumb and Dumb, but I read in the Bible in Josiah was eight years old and he was a king. And the problem is we send our kids in the world, ah, I got to say this. Where I got, there are kids that I know that sing the songs in the world, that they mamas and daddy sing.

So I'm like, how come when they was in the car with their mommy and daddy, y'all didn't give them the youth version? No, they singing Drake, they singing Beyonce. I'm singing five and six year olds, singing songs about love and all, they know the adult songs. But then we take those kids who are fully capable of something beyond what we do.

And we bring them in church and we limit them because our emotion says, you gotta do something to reach them. The problem is when you connect with people emotionally, but it doesn't have any logic or any real substance behind it, it's not a real connection. Have you ever heard of a one night stand people? How do you think people, ha, people being one night stands, how do you think people get pregnant?

Like it's sometimes your emotions are so high that emotions are real, but it ain't always a real connection when the emotions die down. We need something left to hang on to. And in church and as it relates to the word of God, we've allowed ourselves to base our relationship with Christ strictly on things that are emotional and we haven't held on to the word of God or the substance or the logic or the philosophy or the doctrine. So we know what God feels like, but we don't know how he thinks.

You get what I'm saying? And the problem with that is, if I don't know how you think, the Bible says that David said, I worry about he didn't my heart, that I might not sin against you. David hid in his heart how God thinks, so that he can try to stay on the right track. You feel what I'm saying?

I'm always, I'm always keeping crispy. You feel me? Yes, we need real substance, Stephanie. 100%.

Livia, what up, sister? How you feeling? All right, so let's jump back into this. 13 says, you say food was made for the stomach and the stomach for food, this is true, though someday God will do away with them both, but you can't say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality.

They were made for the Lord and the Lord cares about our bodies. Now there's a reason that I'm saying this, y'all. Our bodies weren't made for sexual immorality. Remember, if you watch this from the beginning or listen from the beginning, I laid it out and said, this is not a judgment, this is more of a warning sign.

The reason I'm calling it a warning sign is because what I'm seeing is through entertainment, the world is starting to change the mind of the believer. I'm gonna give you some real simple. Let's say you got a favorite artist, right? Or a favorite actor.

They're in a movie, they're a handsome or a beautiful person, so you become a fan of them. Always tell people, be cautious who you allow yourself to become a fan of, because when you become a fan of someone, you start to feel emotionally attached to them or you have what is called a pair of social relationship, which is a one-sided relationship. You know them, you know where they grew up, you know their favorite color, you know their family's name, their husband, wife, kids name, all those things, but they don't know you. They don't even know you exist on Earth.

Here's what's crazy. I use Beyonce a lot because she's like one of the biggest stars in the world. Nothing personal gets Beyonce. But there are people who literally argue, spend time in their real life, like their actual life, arguing on behalf of Beyonce.

And Beyonce doesn't know that this person exists on a planet Earth. You know how crazy that is? That's a pair of social relationships. So what happens is we allow ourselves to be in these situations where we are adoring and becoming fans of people.

And through the years, right, you become a fan of someone, they were a child actor, or they were your age, and they were in a movie and then they go do an album, you gotta get their album. And then they start hosting a TV show, and then you gotta do that. And what happens is as this person gets integrated into Hollywood lifestyle, maybe they did start off as a Christian, maybe they started off just like you, you feel like there was a connection, because they grew up in church and all these things. But what happens is they can get integrated in a world where they become further and further away from what Christ called them to be.

But because we are so emotional, we don't know how to separate fame from purpose. So we start thinking that anybody who's famous, or anybody who's quote unquote successful, they are in the will of God. And that this means that they are walking in purpose, and that this means that they are somewhat preaching the gospel, right? So as this person, you've been a fan of for 20 years or 15 years or 10 years, they go in their life, now they have podcasts and they're doing interviews.

And I'm seeing through entertainment, by attaching themselves to you emotionally, that the hearts of the believer are being changed on the topics of the Bible and of faith and biblical doctrine. We drunk off entertainment. We are so intoxicated by entertainment that we can't even feel our spirit. You know when people, man, when people drunk, you've been around somebody drunk or have you ever been drunk, right?

Like you around drunk people, I can instantly tell when somebody not in a right mind. Like I can instantly tell when it's like, oh, this person doesn't have access to all of their cognitive ability, right? So when we become so drunk off entertainment, we're so drunk off of that emotion that now we don't have the ability to tap into the spiritual side because it ain't in us. Can't nothing come out of you that ain't in you, right?

So it is definitely dangerous. Let's see, Olivia says, is just album fan, but I have a boundary as how far I'm out. Exactly, listen, that's all it's about. I'm not here to tell nobody, they can't be a fan of someone or whatever, exactly.

But it's about doing things in moderation and having boundaries and limits. I feel that if you study, a sexual scene and God does give us many warnings about it. And actually, I think I got another scripture about it. This is, let's see, does the ear not put words to the test, just as the palate tastes, this food distinguishing between the desirable and the undesirable, that's Job 1211 and Amplify.

I really like that distinguishing. Like we need to be able to distinguish what's good, what's bad, but we're so drunk, we're taking it all. And we're taking it all as if it's the word of God and it's good. Always thought of warnings as a good way to look at God commands rather than rules.

I like that, Jean, too. That's exactly how I am. Thank you, Tonya. Appreciate it trying to make it plain, man.

All right, let's jump back into this. What we got? We got another one. This verse 18 and 19, these are the last two scriptures and then we go into another section.

Run from sexual scene. No other scene clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. Now I'm gonna just be a hunter with y'all.

I wasn't even gonna like, had that scripture in here, but I literally like, I literally felt led to leave that in there for somebody. I was listening to some stuff today, because it's like so interesting, man. I was sharing some stuff, me and my boy, meach was talking back and forth. And, all right, I'm gonna just say, look, sometimes, you know, I don't really like to get into like, specific celebrities and naming people and stuff, because that's just not what I do.

And it distracts people and if you offend them, you get mad. So this ain't the point, but I'm gonna just use a real example. Because my boy, meach, we was talking about Nick Cannon. And I'm like, I don't follow, I really don't follow entertainment news and stuff.

I'm just not into that. So it's like, I've been hearing about Nick Cannon and having all these kids and I've been seeing different memes. I'm like, he got like nine or 10 kids or something. And somebody was telling me like, oh, it's because I think he's sick or something.

Like again, I don't get your news from me, because I don't know. But here's something I did for myself. I just went and looked for a clip from Nick Cannon and he was talking about something. And what was crazy to me is he was talking about polygamy and monogamy.

And he was saying that basically, I'm paraphrasing, that he doesn't believe that we men were created to be monogamous. Paul's right there, right? So he's like saying that a man should be polygamous, that a man should go around and be with multiple women and dada, okay, look, again, this is not a judgment but a warning. I'm not judging you.

If you've been there, done that, whatever we all can repent, you can repent as God for forgiveness and change your life. We've all have our sins, we've all fallen short, including me, I'm not no better than you. But here's where the entertainment and us being drunk off entertainment concerns me. Nick Cannon is obviously an entertainer.

He's obviously all over TV and very popular. And what he got to show, I don't be, I don't be watch, I'm sorry, I'll be reading books since I barely, what's the show to show y'all watch it? They like, wilding out, he got wilding out and he got the mass singer, he's again, from a business or worldly perspective or monetary, very successful guy. But here's the problem.

He is using that entertainment, whether he knows it or not, he might not be aware, right? Cause we so drunk, even the entertainers themselves are drunk. He's using that entertainment to subtly usher in a very anti-vivocal mindset, right? And because emotionally some of us are so connected to people and Nick Cannon is just an example, look, if you see this, if it's out there bro, hit me up, you know what I'm saying?

Donate to the podcast, whatever you got to do. I interview you and ask you these questions in real life. So it ain't no judgment and no hard feelings. But here's what I noticed is that, and the reason I also use him is cause Nick Cannon does do gospel stuff, he kind of dibbles and dabbles, he'll do a gospel song here.

And so what does that create? And this is why I say y'all follow me on this, this is why it's important to be able to separate the fact that music itself, doesn't like music itself ain't enough for us to be connected to God. Because what we'll do is a person will be out here living any kind of way. And again, not to judge them, just a warning sign of their lifestyle.

And they will do a gospel song and we will make that a stamp of approval. We'll give them a stellar award, a double award. And now all of a sudden this person is perceived to be a Christian. And what happens when we give that stamp is every interview and when they're out talking, now they're talking as a Christian in our minds.

Because emotionally that feels like a right thing to do. It feels rude or bad. So actually call out something that or challenge somebody for doing like something bad. But I know how to critically think.

So I can call out something somebody's doing wrong without judging them or without feeling like I hate them and I can never talk to them or something. This is simply about, hey, I just want to call something out that this is dangerous what we're doing, right? So one of the things we're doing in church, we've attached music and entertainment so much to the word of God that what we've said is you don't really need the word of God. You don't really need to know what it says.

Now the songs are the scriptures, the rappers and the athletes are the preachers. Like their concerts and their TV shows are the sanctuary. And this is where we go to get our dot truss. So when you have like a favorite celebrity and somebody that is good looking and charming and successful and they come out and say, you know, hey, I don't think me and we're made to be this and that, and then they popping out all these kids.

Then some of us start to change our minds too. And I know it's sound crazy, but over time I've seen it happen. Over time I've seen people be so against something so strong on the word, but when you become drunk off that entertainment, you know, when people get drunk, they don't always think clearly, right? Confusion, you feel me?

Thank you, Nick. Thank you, Nick. While they're not like, thank you so much because I couldn't think of it brother. Miracles on 25th Street, he definitely died.

Where Christian has messed with them, that's facts. Idols, I like that Stephanie. So what happens is these things become idols that we place above the word of God. We place above what God says.

So we have these celebrities that we love, they're talented, they're attractive, they're successful. We want to be like them. And they also have presented themselves as quasi-Christians at different times, but through their entertainment, they sprinkle in very worldly things because here's what's happening. Their logic is not coming from the word of God, it's coming from the right side of their brain, which is their emotion, their creativity and their imagination.

The Bible says, cast down all imaginations. I'ma tell y'all something, if we based this podcast based on what I feel, like we'll be all over the place because I feel, hey, that's not right. I don't feel like that's right. And so what I've seen people even do is elevate their feelings above the word of God because what the word of God doesn't feel right to them.

Drunk off entertainment, fam. You definitely gonna be blessed because you listen to this tonight, Lydia. Faith come by the word, Bible and not listen. All right, let's jump back into this, y'all.

Verse 19, don't you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, for God bought you at a high price, so you must honor God with your body. I just want to say to anybody out there who might be seeing your favorite celebrities because I really believe polygamy is like, that's one of the next things that, again, what happens is in the beginning it sounds so, you're like, no, we're not about to be doing that. But I noticed that by the time they do it, you love them so much, you write with them.

I've watched people, entertainers, usher in so much ignorance in the church, especially. I've watched people through entertainment, like miscremon screw into file the word of God. They, with the songs they put out, they put out these messages. And I gotta tell y'all this, man, like, it's not just entertainment.

And I know we want to tell ourselves, it's just entertainment, it's just entertainment, but it's not just entertainment because through entertainment, they are changing the world. Through entertainment, they're preaching the gospel to you, the gospel of the world, not the gospel of God, not the gospel of Jesus Christ. And so all I'm saying, just I'm throwing it out there as a warning sign, I ain't judging you, do what you do, hopefully you do what God wants you to do. But what I am telling you is I think we should step back, I'm talking to the church, you get what I'm saying?

I think we should take a step back, reassess our approach. We've been throwing so much entertainment at people and here's why we do it. It's actually an insult when you completely try to entertain people. I'm gonna tell you, I've been doing this show for four and a half years now.

I think it'll be five years, October 10, 10, 10, 10, or is that four years? Don't quote, maybe that's four years, I'm sorry, I don't really know. Maybe we started in 2018 in this four years. I don't know though.

But I tell pretentas today, but I've made a conscious effort and I'm just being real, it ain't always been easy because educational content doesn't go viral. So that can't be my purpose to do this. I can't be doing this to go viral because what people want is really quick information, keep it surface, y'all wanna see what kind of car I drive, y'all wanna see where I live, how much money do I make? Am I broke or do I got money?

I talk about success, I gotta show them this or that I don't know, so my whole thing is just like I told you, I'm not living to try to prove stuff to people. I'm not here to prove to you that Christians can have fun or eat tacos or do the limbo. That's up to you, read your word, figure it out for yourself. I'm not the poster child for everything that is acceptable within Christianity.

And what happens is when we allow ourselves to be so driven by entertainment, I want you to hear me out. Entertainment puts everything into the hands of the entertainer. I just said something people, yes I did. Motherhood is a journey of constant change, but you can always count on little bellies.

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Learn more at littlebellies.com today. Little bellies, do what's natural. When you are drunk off entertainment, you are at the mercy of the entertainer. And what's sad about that is that we're so emotionally driven out and we're so drunk off entertainment that when it comes time for something logical, we saw this with the pandemic.

Nobody could think for themselves. People want it the government to tell you what to do. Force them with the do what they body. Force them who to vote for.

And that's what happens when we live in a world as driven off of emotions. Logic doesn't matter anymore. It just matters what I feel like. And I don't feel like I like this person.

I don't feel like they should do that. I don't feel, and so now we're driven by somebody else's feelings. And what do they do to spread these messages? Entertainers, that's why they go on commercials and have endorsement deals, entertainment.

We are so drunk off entertainment. All we do is entertain ourselves all day long. The moment that somebody, look man, I talk to people, it's like, people could get on their phone for three hours or watch TikTok videos. If I try to talk to you for 30 minutes about investing in people's sleep, I got a rule.

When I talk to people about investing, when I've done probably five or six private sessions in the last year where I've walked people through how to invest, how to get started, whatever it may be. And you know what, I got a rule. Because this what happens, everybody reach out to you. Everybody interested.

I want to learn about investing, this and this. I tell people, give me two and a half hours of your time. Minimum. If you can't commit two and a half hours to me, and I'm not even charging you, it's not worth my time, I can't deal with you.

Because here's what we want. What people want is they want you to just tell them how to get somewhere in life real quick. They want to copy and paste it and be successful overnight. But what if I told you, whatever level of success I am right now, and I'm not saying I'm super successful or something, there's levels of success, I'm still climbing and I'm out.

But what I'm telling you is wherever I'm at right now, this is 12 years of work, 12 solid years, I'm talking 12 solid years of work, reading books, like learning, studying, barely watch TV, don't end a card, don't listen to music, listen to interviews about finance, what I'm telling you is like, God, I didn't put in 10, 12 years just to get to where I'm at, and I ain't even know where yet. So when people come to me looking for that emotional, hey, just tell me what to do, get successful tomorrow, I was like, bro, if you ain't committed, I can't help you. We want people to live our lives for us, man. One of the definition of entertainment is to admit to the, into the, whoo, the preacher himself has come on with up, LaVille.

The preacher has come on here and gave us a word. Five years, 10, 10, thank you so much. Listen, it pays to have people who support the podcast. So it would be five years this year on 10, 10.

Started on Periscope, man, Lydia, I appreciate the people like Lydia, Sky, Judith, there's some people I remember, we started on Periscope, I used to do these videos on Periscope was popping, and you know, it was dope. I'm gonna talk, my talk, I'm going to sleep at the one hour, but I get it, listen y'all, let me jump back into these last couple slides so I can get out of here myself. Here's what I wanna talk to you about right now is, well, I wanna make one other point. Another reason we have to be worried about and concerned about being drunk off entertainment is because when entertainment is your source of news and all information, the other problem is entertainment is censored.

Right now, I'm on an algorithm. I probably got 5,000 Facebook friends, but it don't matter because they can decide that only 100 people can watch this, only 100 people can see it. I got over 9,000 Instagram friends, and if I post something right now, it might get 10 likes, why? Because there's algorithms and sensor is controlled.

And so we've put so much power into the hands of entertainers that if you don't have a real way and a real source to get news and information and education, you are at the mercy of the world, and you can only go where the devil in the world said you can go. You can only go as far as the powers that be said you can go. You don't have your own freedom. And now, because we're so right brain oriented, emotionally driven, remember that right brain moves faster.

So when are things I often tell people, I'm gonna give you an example. I had conversations with people during 2020 when there was a lot of racial tension going on. But black people and white people came to me and we had positive and good conversations. And one of the most amazing things to me is that a lot of times the conversations would start somewhere where someone approached me with something very emotional.

But because I'm aware of the fact that this is very emotional, this is explosive, what I did is I basically, what do you call it? What do they call it when the person diffused the bomb? Like when you have balance, you're able to see something explosive and pick it apart and turn it down. But what a lot of us do out of emotion is we meet fire with fire.

So my point with this is during 2020, I was able to actually have very positive conversations with white people that I met. I can't even say that was my friends. I actually have white people that I'm cooler with now after 2020 because we engaged in some difficult conversations, but we did it in the right way through wisdom, faith and logic and not our emotion that people were walking away and we were able to learn some things about each other. And I feel like there were strip-in relationships through that while the rest of the world was explosively living through their emotions and I understand why, but it doesn't mean it's right just because I understand it.

Like at the end of the day, people were tearing themselves apart, upset and angry because they were driven by emotion. And yet today the same people, the emotion went away, you don't even hear half of this stuff no more, right? But because we were like, I had a conversation with one white person that approached me and we talked through some things. I can remember they were talking, and this happened with several people.

So if you white and you watching or listening to this, it don't mean it was you, I had some of the same conversations with multiple people, okay? So it's not you, where it's one, you might be one of many. But there were some people that came to me and like, I remember they didn't know that after slaves were free, there were ever any laws against black people. There were laws that said black people wasn't a fool person, right?

That's why we didn't have things like a right to vote. There were also, there were the Freedmen's Bureau's and the black codes. And one of the things I remember I read before was, like when it talked about when the black slaves were free that the whole idea why you had to have laws was because now that they're free, we don't know what they gonna do. So we need to keep them in bondage even in their freedom because we can't trust them to think for themselves what if they turn on us or anything?

So we need to have laws and they empower white people to be able to have citizens arrest. This is where some of these ideologies come from, things like citizens arrest. So a white person could see a black person for instance. And if they were acting out of order, they could police them, a citizen could police them.

Now I personally believe there are residue of that mentality because we're only like four or five generations out of slavery right now. Like we not that, we not as far as people think, your grandmother's grandfather could have been a slave. So ultimately what I'm saying is we see the residue of those type of things today where it's like, you'll see we're like, sometimes inherently people who are not black and think that is their job to police black people, right? Those are some of the conversations I'll have.

That doesn't mean that black people are right about everything that we're walking around arguing about either. And we had some of those conversations as well. And my point is that when you can diffuse a situation like that and talk on both sides and be able to understand like, yo, we are all human, we are guys, children and we are united by faith and we can talk about facts. And it don't even mean we have to agree.

My point is at the end of the day, this is where you are not just driven by your emotion and you can progress past things, but if you are just driven by your emotions, you're gonna fight fire with fire, but I've never seen a building on fire and firefighters show up with fire. They always come with water. They always come to diffuse the situation and to tame the fire, to tame that, because if you put gasoline on that, you put more fire on that, it's gonna become more explosive. So we live in the world where everybody wants to be right, everybody wanna hate each other about every little thing.

We all Christians, but I gotta hate you because you culturally don't understand me. I culturally don't understand you. Why not let's just try to culturally understand each other? Why not let's get to know each other and be willing to be wrong about some things and to be willing to not understand some things and to be willing to say, I ain't know, I guess I ain't really know why people went through that, whatever, I have those tough conversations with people and I have the same conversations with my black friends and we don't always agree that just because we black and we arguing debate about stuff, about all type of stuff, about this meanness or this, this, and that's life.

And my point is that if your emotions have you so wrapped up that you no longer have the ability to have a complex, layered, critical, critically thought conversation with somebody, then you're the weaker person. Just like the person that reacts emotionally, listening to this book about emotional intelligence. One of the things they said that was so interesting to me in this book is that most people who are spending their life in prison is based on the decision they made in minutes or seconds. And I'm like, whoa, that's the power of emotionally and being emotionally intelligent.

Imagine spending your life in a situation because of something that overtook you for 30 seconds. There are people literally on death row or spending their life in prison. They murdered somebody because they became emotionally overwhelmed for 30 seconds and did something without thinking. And that's how we act when we're drunk.

Some of us are so drunk off entertainment that we can't process the word of God. Like I watch people who were believers, like literally just go do what the world say, do it, follow the word. I'm just being real with y'all. I watched the world become the leader in 2020.

I saw with my own eyes, y'all can't tell me I didn't see it. I watched the world become the leaders. I watched the church look to the world on what to do. When it opened, when the clothes wish to be do, I watched it with my own eyes.

Not everybody, not every church, but I'm telling you I saw with my own eyes, y'all can't tell me I didn't see it. I watched the world decide what was essential, what was not essential, what should be open, what shouldn't be open. I'm just being real, I ain't looked at a comment in 10 minutes flat. I don't know what y'all saying.

I ain't looked at nothing that nobody said. Diversity is a blessing. Look at me and you. I'm saved.

You're not. All the veil got issues, man. What is wrong with me? Y'all gonna mess around and get me in trouble on this podcast.

Just the last thing and I'm gonna get out of here. This is an article from the Washington Post in 2017. A lot of times I like to go back to older articles because I feel like sometimes in the moment people don't tell the truth. It's like again in the moment when things are going on, people are emotionally or they have agendas and things like that.

I'm like, what do people say about entertainment? This is Sunny Bunch. Is that his name? Sunny Bunch.

What a name. That's a cool name right there. What up, Nick? Sunny Bunch.

This is what he says. This is an op-ed piece. This is just a snippet. You can go Google this if you want to read this article.

I thought this was cool. Pop culture is going to entertain us to death and we'll be too distracted to care. I'm gonna read the excerpt just a clip. Just a headline got me.

Pop culture is going to entertain us to death but we'll be too distracted to care. What y'all understand about entertainment? Entertainment is fun. It's great.

It's all of that. Too much of it can be a distraction for your life. Just like anything else. You get what I'm saying?

I like Reese Cuffs. If I eat 100 of them, I'll get sick. If I don't balance that out with some fruit and vegetables and some real food. What I'm saying is that some of us are inundating ourselves daily with entertainment to the point that we're not even reading the word no more.

We're just getting it from whatever our favorite actor is that did a podcast. I'm not trying to hear me. I'm trying to hear you. I'm about to be quiet.

I'm about to be quiet. I'm about to. This was Sunny Burt said in 2017 in the Washington Post. It's not particularly hard to imagine the ease and rapidity with which the advent of technology will fundamentally alter human society.