That's tough.

We're in a very tough spot.

I think that what we're doing right now is a great benefit and virtue because it's an end around between this whole corrupt informational system, media system.

We claim to believe in a God who spoke the universe into existence and literally raised himself from the dead, and yet we are not going to believe that anything else exists in the spirit realm, even though His word tells us that they do.

Their bodies weren't permitted to go to sleep like humans do, and they weren't permitted to go to heaven, so they wander the earth.

You know, I've seen the eyes turn black to unknown tongues being spoken.

These giants would live way up in the highland.

The old Braves, the young men would hide up in the trees and wait for one of these 12 footers to come walking.

Down the bath and they would jump.

On them and kill them.

Drag them back to the village and the village would feast on the body.

Then people start to get weapons, they start to get armor, they start to build cities, they start to fortify their cities.

Now God looks down and there's violence everywhere.

The battle, this war that we are at, is not against each other.

It's against these principalities and these rulers and these archons in the high places.

It's really worthwhile to read the Bible yourself.

Fear.

Is one of the.

Primary drivers of mind control because we have to take.

Every thought.

Captive and resist fear.

You're going to have a testimony that is a justice case against the Kingdom of darkness.

Welcome back to the MMS guys.

This is my last interview slash conversation for the year.

In 2025, I do plan on releasing a bonus mini New Year's Eve special episode with Pete at the Days of Noah podcast.

So you guys can look forward to that right before we enter into 2026.

For this episode I'm joined by FLF Akandi Davis, Floodlight Forever and he was on almost 200 episodes ago.

I've been following his music for a couple years.

He is a Christian hip hop artist from the West Coast and when I came upon his music originally there was a plenty of songs that carried me through some really tough times of my life.

Not that things have gotten much easier.

My God, but there's ups and downs, right?

So I just got a lot of respect for him.

I was happy to have him come back and join me for a conversation.

We talk the temperature of what's going on in the world today.

We talk about ministry hermeneutics a little bit.

We have some disagreements that I don't put a lot of focus on, like Genesis 64, the angelic view, things like that.

But it's really cool to hear his perspective.

We talk about creativity, the growth of being an artist, how his music has changed, and we talk about encouragement, filling ourselves up with the Word of God, some of the distractions and difficulties, all that fun stuff.

It was a really great conversation with FLF.

You can find links in the details of the show notes to some of his music, his YouTube channel where he does breakdown the music industry, exposing the dark and satanic nature in lyrics through, you know, his video platform on YouTube.

Got some really great content there.

But I hope you guys have been enjoying taking this ride with me.

We've been working on various different projects.

I don't know what 2026 looks like.

I have some plans, but there's also a lot of things that I need to be working on personally.

So I'm going to try to keep creating content for you guys.

I have plenty of really good ideas.

Not enough time of the day.

There's collaborations on the horizon that are going to be amazing and cool stuff is planned for 2026.

Let's see what the Lord allows to happen, how He decides to direct my steps.

I really want to thank you guys who have planted seeds, who have prayed for me, encouraged me, everybody who sent emails, even though I didn't respond to all of you, I read all the emails.

There was a lot of heartfelt stories and stuff that you guys shared with me.

I really appreciate that none of them go unseen.

Bear with me, as time management is a bit of an issue right now.

There's a lot of things that I'm up against and a lot of projects that I'm working on.

So I really do appreciate when you guys step up and you keep me in prayer.

And for all of you who have donated to keep us alive this year, you are the lifeblood of this ministry.

And I want to challenge listeners out there who have not supported this ministry to step up and do so.

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I do have to say 2025 has been a wild year with a lot of ups and downs.

I am truly looking forward to a fresh start in this new year.

I think it's about time to jump into this episode.

I'm ready.

Are you guys ready?

Let's go.

Hey everyone, it's FLF here and you're now listening to the Millennial Must Receive podcast.

FLF as we were just talking off air, it's so good to catch up with you and to see you again.

And I think you were on close to 200 episodes ago.

Yeah, praise God, man.

It's been been a while.

It's been an amazing journey to witness for sure.

And very excited to be back to talk with you man.

And your music, there's a couple songs in particular.

You had American Hebrew run to you, right?

There's all these different songs that carried me through a really difficult personal journey and I got nothing but raw love for you.

So it's I'm really happy that you're back here on the podcast.

Praise God, man, thanks for having me, man.

I've been studying a few scriptures in particular, and one that I've been really meditating on is first Peter 5-6 and seven, which is humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and he'll exalt you in due time and cast your cares upon him because he cares for you.

And I think that's that's important to keep in mind, man, is that we're all just servants.

We're all just looking.

But I appreciate it, man, and I'm very blessed to know that what I'm doing is encouraging someone and meeting them where they're at in their walk.

Planting seeds, watering seeds, definitely.

So let me introduce you properly for the new listeners.

Akande Davis, you're also known professionally as FLF, that's floodlight forever.

You're a Christian hip hop artist and entrepreneur.

You're known for faith driven music.

You have a pretty interesting testimony.

You know you've rebranded in your earlier career.

Used to be Davis absolute.

You've been doing music for quite some time.

You know you can be found on all the different music platforms.

You have some testimonies and public appearances that have sparked growth, spiritual growth.

You include a lot of challenges and exposing in the work that you do on on YouTube, right.

Your music provokes faith.

It's very biblically driven, but then you also kind of expose the music industry a little bit and you have a diverse background with just speaking on different platforms and and the artistry.

So officially welcome once again to the MMS.

Let's talk about real quick just what what's going on in FL FS world recently.

Praise God, man, thank you for that.

And, and yeah, you know, one of the things that I've tried to be focused on is, excuse me, is there's a lot of things happening in the world.

And I think it's, it's important for Christians to kind of take stock of what's going on.

And for for many, many years, the, the pendulum has swung so far against, I think Christianity, you know, you saw a you see a world that's very immoral, very lawless, and it still is the case.

But one of the things that I've been talking about more and more frequently is this thing that we've been seeing happening across the United States and across the world where church and state are kind of coming back in, in alignment.

You know, world leaders are kind of coming back to a version of Christian faith.

And that's one of the things I've been focusing on more so lately, as well as I still like to, to make the videos calling out what's happening in the music industry.

Because a lot of times, I mean, we see it all the time, even with Taylor Swift's most recent album, I think it's called Tales of a Showgirl.

Something to that effect that that that is still in your face, still blatantly satanic, blatantly occultic.

We see it in media all the time.

But there's been this pretty sharp stark swing, I believe from a far left, atheistic, I don't know, maybe even godless state that our country in the world has been in and starting to swing back the other way.

So been been spending a lot of time talking about that which has been a blessing.

There's a lot of public declarations of faith within Republicans, Democrats, Hollywood, entertainers of all sorts and kinds are making these staunch kind of pivot points of, you know, I'm a faith now.

Now, some of that I don't know if I can believe in personally, just from what I know.

Yeah, like, for sure.

Like sometimes people say that and then they want to keep their audience because Christianity is becoming popular.

But I, I really do believe some people are genuine.

I feel like what God is doing, his ways are so much higher than our ways.

Like are we really peeping into him starting to capture the hearts of our culture, not of the culture?

I don't know if I want to say it that way.

Let me back up.

Is he starting to capture individuals hearts who have influence?

Like, is that happening?

I'm no judge of it, but I'll, I'll tell you that I definitely believe some of it.

So how is this being incorporated within to like the YouTube channel, for example, like you're still exposing the music industry, but do you find yourself like finding credible information that that brings hope and faith in the most awkward places, like maybe you wouldn't have found 5 or 10 years ago, right?

Yeah, I think, I think it's, you know, a combination.

So, you know, to your point, I you're seeing like celebrities and folks talk about this at every level.

And in the same way, I have some reservations around is it genuine?

And then also some excitement around certain things.

Like I thought it was really cool when Forrest Frank came out and kind of drew the line in the sand and said he won't be attending award shows because of XYZ reasons.

So that that was exciting to me and and that still something I look forward to.

But you're still seeing it.

And even in that Forrest Frank example, exactly what we're talking about, where criticism was levied against him from another performer who, well, I would say professed Christ is on a very popular Christian song, Jelly Roll with with Brandon Lake called Heartfelt Hallelujah.

And it was it was interesting to see that Jelly Roll was loving criticism against Forrest Frank for that.

Now, like, I don't want to make a a big thing out of a small thing necessarily.

But with that in mind, you know, you kind of have to look at things from a different lens and say, OK, music is being released.

Is it a Christian tone?

What I would personally say is it's no, it's no different than Exodus 32 where Aaron and all of Israel started worshiping the gold calf, proclaiming it to be God.

I think we're we're seeing that in many ways right now where we think we're worshiping God.

We think that we're giving him glory and honor, but we're actually worshiping something that is not God and in fact committing idolatry.

So that was that was kind of like has been driving a lot of my conversation just because I think and not to go down like a deep theological view, but I definitely have I I don't have a a millennial reign of Christ on Earth, you know, from from an eschatology standpoint where as many believers do in the space.

So it kind of shapes my mindset when I see some of the stuff a little bit different than maybe some other folks as well.

So is that all millennialism or?

Well, you know, like pre post, I, I think pre post Trib, right, like that's kind of where a lot of that conversation starts is the, the prevailing theme, especially when you look at and, and again, man, we can get as deep as we want to this.

I don't want to derail, you know, your, your, your topics.

But if we look at, you know, Trump spiritual advisor Paula White, she's a part of a few folks that that believe in something called the Seven Mountain mandate, which is we need to bring the nations of the world into a harmony with Christ before he returns the second time.

And I, I just don't believe that narrative necessarily.

I don't think the scripture reveals that.

But I can understand why some people do.

And that's that's something that they call the Seven mountain mandates where Christianity has to be prevalent in the seven key areas of the world, culture, education, entertainment.

And yeah, I think I think the pendulum's swinging the other way.

So it's again exciting to see, but it's also very interesting to witness when you have a, a, a differing perspective than than what that is.

Yeah, it's, it's definitely wild.

I, I've always said if I love everybody has a little something wrong and a little something right.

I feel like the more I know, the more I actually don't know, you know, and it's like there's like you start to just recognize, like it's information overload, you know, there's just so many messages and signals.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I'm reminded, like John Calvin and Geneva, you know, he was attempting to create a, a place, a city that was fully in line, in harmony with God's ideals and his principles.

And, you know, I think we can acknowledge that John Calvin was a great man of God.

He did many wonderful things.

But Geneva ended up executing someone for blasphemy, right?

Bringing them at the stake, which was no different than what the Catholic Church was doing around Martin Luther's time and around, you know, even John Calvin's time or Jerome's time, these different martyrs that we see in the church history.

And it's, it's interesting that a, a strong Protestant wise man created an environment directly or indirectly that that resulted in the, the slaying of it of I, I wouldn't say an innocent person, but someone who committed blasphemy, right?

I think it's crazy, you know?

I think the more I look at it and I don't want to talk about the Amish per SE.

This is just an open conversation.

I didn't really, I don't have like questions written out, but I was looking at that and it's like there's something to marvel about the Amish community, like where they drew the line on the technology.

You know, you see, like the early 1900s, like when leather got as good as it could possibly get when, you know, like certain basic materials like wagons and and wooden wheels, like once, you know, yeah, they use the technology of a bearing, right, to make the axles work better.

But they drew the line.

And even the Amish community now, they do draw the line with technology not coming into the house.

So you have a lot of Mennonites and a lot of groups that are utilizing vehicles and cell phones and computers because they are great contractors.

They're great.

I've been on job sites with them, but when you start to look into that, I believe even that part, because this is a polar opposite of what we see happening with the, the right versus the left.

This is a group who's maintained a form of integrity that I, I think is honorable, right?

Like the, you know, they're not dressing provocative.

They're, they're simple.

They do community builds.

I read a article there was a, a barn that burnt.

I'm not far from Lancaster, like I grew up in southeastern PA right outside of Philly, so that, that Amish community has always been a 25 to, you know, hour drive, right?

And it's, it's crazy.

This barn burnt down dude.

And the whole entire community comes out and builds this, you know, like 75,000 square foot, 22 tier barn in like 5 days.

It's a, it's a community effort.

And then, you know, they're not, let's just face it, they're not taking the, the medical, the pharmakeia advice from the world.

And they don't have a lot of the issues that we have.

And this is the same thing in other other pockets around the world, right?

You can look at other cultures that have this, their protection is more or less integrated into a cultural and a very personal pocket of existence, not allowing the world to determine how they're like.

Are they different now because this is popular now versus five years ago?

We see these trends.

And I think that's what's really interesting about, like, what you do like through your music.

I remember your transition, dude, where you were like, I want more like, I want it to be like a Psalm, right?

Like, I want it to be more Bible verse.

I, I want to start, stop looking at myself and start looking at the Scripture through music.

And I remember like watching that growth journey with you as you were releasing music and really being like, bro, there's so many different rabbit holes that fit into this grand scheme of yeah, I don't, I'm with you.

I don't believe on the whole 7 seventh day event.

It's like we need to seize and capture every single industry and submit, surrender it to the Lord before he can come back.

I think he comes back like he says, a thief in the night and you're not gonna know it.

That's what I think.

And I think just maintaining our faithfulness regardless of the outcome is the key here because the end of the world, listener, could be for you tomorrow.

If you're checking out tomorrow, Why does it have to be the whole world that goes in unison all of a sudden for you to take some theological hill you want to die on?

It's the end for us when we leave.

No, I, I and I and I agree.

And that's one of the things too, when it, when it comes to like end time eschatology or looking into it, there's a lot of things that are, are relevant and important.

And one of the main reasons that I like discussing it or, you know, talking with people about like, OK, well, what's the mark of the beast, for example, is, is usually because, and, and you know, God designed us in such a way where I think I, we have no excuse against his existence.

And the, the, the verse itself is slipping my mind, but the things that are made are witnesses of his creation.

So when we see the sky, the grass, when we see a bird, those are witnesses of God's creation.

And we have no excuse.

We're without excuse.

We all kind of inherently know that the end is coming.

Death is inevitable.

And what's going to happen after, you know, and if you can start talking to people and demonstrate like, well, the signs of his coming are XYZ and we're witnessing it right now, I think there's a level of conviction that will come along with it.

But to your point as well, you know, the end of, you know, the second coming could be tomorrow if you get hit by a bus, you know, and it's one of the conversations I, I usually have, like even with my family and whatnot, I forget who I was talking to, but they were like, you know, my, my mom has been saying that Jesus is coming back since I was a kid and he's still not here.

And I'm like, well, brother, you know, they, they were saying that during Paul's time, you know, they were saying that they said he's coming back and things have remained the same from ancestor to ancestor.

And it's like, OK, that was 2000 years ago.

Now we're here, He might come back tomorrow if things don't go well for you today, right?

Like God forbid anything happens to me, I'm very confident in my salvation.

I know I'll be seeing Christ, but I could, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus.

I could trip and break my neck.

Who knows?

But the reality is if we're not prepared in our hearts, if we haven't surrendered ourselves, then we miss out on the biggest opportunity we have to to have eternal life.

So that's usually why I like to get it 'cause people will get very excited and worked up and a discussion will happen.

If you say, well, you know, well, what do you think is the sign of his coming?

You know what, what do you think about the Third Temple being rebuilt in in Jerusalem?

Like those kinds of things I think get get people engaged at least in a dialogue.

And I, I definitely see that like I've made some public stances recently where I'm like, I'm going to get back to hermeneutical hygiene, like what the late the late Doctor Chuck Missley would say and eschatology.

What is my end time perspective?

But I mean, personally, I'm a pre millennialist.

I think the millennial reign's coming.

You know, I look at that and I'm just like, my God, like you are so good and pure, like you're, you're already set up here through your people.

But the Bible also says that the earth itself moans and groans for the identity of the sons of God to be made known.

And I and I think when the power source is like unveiled from that sense of he's cracking the sky and returning, I mean, the Bible says so much.

It's really hard to take a 1, you know, statement stance on it.

I think it's OK for the mysterion.

It says in the Greek, the mystery, which which really in the Greek means intervals, short little intervals of, of revealing over a long period of time.

It doesn't mean you're supposed to understand it right away.

Like it's OK if we don't get it all.

But the hope is the thing that we should be sparking in the believers, like encouragement and hope at, you know, we have like, the death of Charlie Kirk, which is funny because I was on a sabbatical for the month of September.

But the one time actually, there's so much that happened in September, I'm like, well, this is the only reason I'm coming back.

But what about all the people who got assassinated that nobody knows their name 100%?

People do want to talk about what's going on in Israel.

And I'm not trying to make this political, but what about what all the people that are dying and being raped and literally traumatized in Africa right now?

Like Ukraine was on the map and everybody talked about that.

Israel's on the map.

Everybody talks about that.

But so I think it's a little disingenuine because I think that a lot of the times the world systems want you to play the game in the constructs of what they've created.

I call it Hegelian dialectic.

Others would kind of agree with that, but there's always a little bit of room for some differences and and expanding ideas.

That's why I love having conversations with people such as yourself.

So I mean, where you see that we're at, Obviously you're you're continuing in the efforts of introducing faith music wise, right?

Are you still creating music and and the YouTube channel?

Tell us a little bit.

It's a two-part question.

Tell us a little bit about the the growth, right, of seeing how deep and dark it really is.

Where's the end of the rabbit hole if I can kinda ask?

Yeah, yeah, no, for sure.

And, and one thing too, we recently had another baby.

So baby #3 and that's, that's taken a lot of time for sure.

It's been exciting to make content.

I still love making content, making music.

Things have slowed down quite a bit.

I I think when I make music or I make content, you know, the point is there, there's kind of A2 fold thing.

I think, you know, coming to Christ can be.

I think it's, it's always in many respects a progressive thing.

I think usually, you know, it's just a slow burn and sometimes people have these experiences or these rock bottoms that just shake them from their sleep.

But often times when you hear a testimony, it's kind of like I met God here, I met him there, I met him here.

I gave my life, I gave my life to him and then I could see him throughout my entire life, right?

Like I could see his hand on me.

I think when I call out music or media or expose what's really happening in the agendas, I, for me, it's just a point to say like, like, are you cool with that?

Like, are you OK with that?

And usually people are not OK with it, right?

And, and even people who might be lukewarm in, in their faith or might just acknowledge there is a God, but doesn't know they don't know Christ.

They don't know the way they're gonna like, whoa, like this is weird.

You know, a good friend of mine, he's actually, he's not a Christian.

He is I, I don't want, he's Siki.

So he's from India.

He's Siki.

And he does tell me we'll, we'll have these conversations.

He's like, man, it seems like Christianity is always under assault in movies and film and TV and culture.

Why?

And I'm like, you know, man, that's a great question.

And we'll be able to open up a dialogue around it.

But that's kind of the intent is to at least acknowledge what's happening, get people aware of it.

And naturally, I think, you know, Christ often talked about the leaven of the Pharisees.

And for the Passover, you were, you were to leave with unleavened bread.

You know, you, you didn't keep any leaven.

And every year you clean it out.

I think that that application was practical, but also in a spiritual sense, going in and, and taking stock of what's in your life.

Usually when I show someone like, hey, the music that you're listening to is just full of profanity, full of curses, talks about these very negative things.

You might be struggling spiritually because you're exposing yourself to this every single day non-stop.

And that's usually like, wow, that's at least a step in the right direction.

And then the same thing is true for music as well, where for a long time, as you said, many years, I was really focused on like testimonial music.

It was the simplest music for me to make.

I don't want to say my relationship with Christ wasn't deep, but it definitely wasn't as deep as it is now.

And as I've kind of grown in my relationship with Christ, I've, I've found a, a very compelling conviction that I need to point people back to the word and not always my testimony.

I think a testimony could still be powerful, but I want to like, if you're going to remember lyrics to a song or play it over and over, if I can have you remembering Scripture, that's where I want to go.

You know that that's kind of the goal I want to have.

Yeah, that's so good.

I mean, that's a maturity thing really.

I see it in a sense where it like poetic.

The way I look at poetry, like the ancient Hebrew concept for poetry was it was rhythmic in cycles.

Like it was a rhythm of right, Like if the father's faithful, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, right?

The kids will be faithful.

It's like this rhythm of life.

And then we see some of these changes where we've seen it's rhythmic only in rhyming now words, right?

And so you see the the rap industry get consumed with using who knows what to try to make examples of to the culture, which just sound good.

It's like the the itching of an ear almost.

But yeah, I mean, when you're getting into these deeper, more profound things, when you can connect the 2 like you do, I think that that's super significant.

You know, I think that's, it's, it's beyond a pun.

It's, it's, it's intentional, whether we know it or not, because God is a God of justice and he's a God of order, right?

And he's prophetically spoken things beforehand, which means 1/3 of the Bible's prophetic stuff still needs to happen.

I personally believe we're in a generation right now that the Bible talks more about than any other generation.

That's my, my opinion.

There's never been a time where the gospel could travel as fast as it can now.

There's never right.

There's never been a time where deception can be done in 35 seconds on a a TikTok video that couldn't have been done 200 years ago would have took it taken, you know, generations to to integrate false beliefs and and system.

So I think that it's like this hyper vigilant time for Christians to not all things are lawful, right?

Not all things are good for us to do, but I think that there's definitely a, a bad stigma on things that we can utilize for the Kingdom.

And then each man make his own decision, right?

But as far as the music goes, the poetry, right?

What God's given you a gift, right?

I just started getting into the music.

So I'm like figuring out, I've been writing poetry since I was 14.

But now I'm like, wow, I'm actually expressing this and I just want to share something real quick with you and see what your thoughts are on it.

It's crazy.

I have a men's group, we call it the Men of Iron and it's a small core group of guys that actually get together with in person on at least a monthly basis.

And we were talking about the, the song that I released called Trauma Cycles featuring BHP.

And I'm explaining to them the the growth of it, right?

Like, wow, I got this stuff off my chest in a way that I didn't.

I never thought I'd do music or do like vocal poetry like that.

I'm just a podcasters.

I've been doing this for six years, but unique things happen where God changed that.

And there's literally a medical journal that says if you're being, if you know for people who have been amputated right in the old days specifically or even just pain now, it could be as simple as stubbing your toe right when you yell and scream it out.

It's actually finishes a connection where your body is able to express that pain and there's a proven faster healing rate.

So I started looking into this.

I'm like, Oh my gosh, that and there's testing.

It's called the silent scream.

It's been proven to release trauma that your body holds because there's certain muscles and just your central nervous system is looking for a release, right?

And God is saying, make a loud noise unto the Lord in comparison of not trauma, but even when we're declaring God is telling us there's power to our words, life and death in the tongue right there.

There's all of this.

And I think a lot of the times, at least for what happened with me, I sat quietly with trauma for years and years and years.

And I'd be like, why am I not healing from this?

Why do I feel like I need to write?

And then you start to kind of rip your shirt a little bit and yell and say, God forgive me, change the way I'm thinking, break my trauma cycle.

And then it's like healing starts to come.

And I'm like, there's something to this and just we could go on and on and on, but.

About this that that's interesting idea, but.

What are your thoughts there?

I I think that's really interesting.

I think, yeah, there's something, there's something powerful and profound about like a release.

And, you know, men often times like and, and that this isn't universal, right?

But I think we bottle up a lot of our emotions and you always, every once in a while you need a good cry, you know?

And I think I've gotten better as an adult on just.

A so true, you know, process just being.

Able to I need a good cry.

But but yeah, man, that's interesting about the about the screaming.

I never heard that before.

It's also kind of interesting to me as well.

Like I wonder, I wonder.

Yeah.

And this is like maybe a deeper conversation, but I wonder how much the opposite is true of like I could see music and songs that you reciting or shouting or you go to a concert and you're shouting.

How much of it are you?

Are you expressing trauma in an unhealthy way or adding I I don't know, you know what I mean like.

Someone else's trauma.

Exactly are you are you embodying it and bringing that on to yourself in in some kind of way by expressing it even though it didn't exist?

You know, like I love my my children are so amazing and so incredible and they're going to get exposed to things that I can't help.

And sometimes they're exposed to music.

And I heard my daughter like reciting some song about like something about a boyfriend or something like that.

And I'm like, what are you talking about?

And she and she got a little shy, you know, and was like, a little like nothing.

But I'm, I'm, I'm over here thinking, I'm like, you have no idea of what you're saying.

Like you, you just heard something that kind of rhymed and sounded good, but you're just saying it.

I I mean, I wonder how often on the on the flip side as well.

But that is interesting.

I had never heard about that.

And yeah, man, we just need to get it out sometimes.

Absolutely.

Well, why does God bottle up our tears?

He says, like tears typically mean that there's a wailing.

And then it reminds me also, Oh my gosh, thank you Holy Spirit.

The Scripture where it says we know not all how we are to pray at times that there's deep moanings and groanings within us and there's, there's definitely something to that.

I hate to use the scientific as if it's proof.

I don't need that proof.

Like I believed it already anyway.

But I do have kind of brainiacs who listen to my show.

Like I've gotten into nanoparticulates and we've gotten into like some of the crazy, you know, I've had, you know, renowned doctors on and, and holistic practitioners and we've kind of went down these rabbit trails.

But my whole thought is like, if God says it's important, it's important regardless if you can prove it or not.

Yeah, but sometimes there's the brain out there that kind of needs to hear it or deliver it a certain way because that's how they receive it.

But I thought that was interesting because life and death's in the power of the tongue, right?

We're supposed to make declarations.

We're supposed to, you know, literally speak, speak things out.

And then I started thinking, well, music, you're reciting other people's music.

This is what you've been pointing out for years on your show.

I know the first time you're on, we talked about like ear gates, ears being a sacred gate, and now eyes being a sacred gate too.

And yes, we're all exposed to something.

My God, I mean, you can't go shopping without hearing secular music, the billboards, the flashing lights.

I mean, I'm driving around right on the the peripherals of New York City on a weekly basis in Philadelphia.

I see the skyline, the people, the the go, go, go, the hustle and bustle.

There's a whole different vibe, you know, and there's pressures that I'm sensitive to, but I think I'm kind of overly supernatural and sensitive anyway.

Like I'm always like, no, like something's happening.

Like it's important.

But all right, so let's talk a little bit about this season, right?

So, so third kids, you slowed down a little bit, but do you feel like the times that we're living in, like as God kind of spoke anything to you, like I'm reserving you for for a little bit, Is the is it a reprieve for you or do you plan on kicking the doors in again with more projects?

You know, I think, I think I'll never stop creating.

I think that's one thing for sure.

I think, and I don't think anybody should, by the way, I think no matter where you're at, what you're doing, I think God has called us to be creative, has made us to be creative.

And creativity can look like a lot of things for a lot of different people.

And, you know, being at your local church, volunteering, helping out with audio ministry, serving as a Deacon, welcoming people, those are areas where you get to be creative and be able to flush that out.

So I don't think I'll ever stop creating.

I think that's going to be something for life.

But honestly, man, it's, it's hard to reclaim time.

And I think there's a, a component of balancing I, I, I, we are living in some very important times and God has put a tremendous weight on my heart.

So I have full intention on doing that.

I just have been praying for God to open up more opportunity for time and allow me to get out of my own way, right?

So if there is time available that I'm able to take advantage of.

But I think, I think there's growth with every kid.

I think there's growth with every life event.

And I think I, I heard, and and this is totally secular, I'm going to apply it in a simple way, but I heard an actor, Bryan Cranston one time who did like Walter White and Breaking Bad, a few other notable roles.

He had done so many movies in the interview was like, well, like you've done so many movies.

Are you going to are you going to stop?

And he's like, I need to actually go and draw from something, right?

So one thing that I have been doing is just in my word, drawing close to Christ, understanding His, understanding what he reveals in Scripture better.

And then I know the more that I take that in, when the time is right, God is going to allow me to be able to hopefully, if I submit to Him, express that in the correct way.

That's such a good answer.

For some reason what you just said to me is reminding me of the House of David.

I don't know if you've seen that.

I don't think I've I've seen the clips of it.

That's the like live action David show.

Yeah, dude, it's so worth it.

Oh, my goodness.

And so they're in season 2 right now.

And I literally had my podcast community kick me in the butt when they came out with Season 1.

Like, Rod, you got to watch this.

Like, you talk about Genesis 64, you talk about Goliath being that tall.

Like it's not.

It means what it says.

And I never did.

I'd literally just in the last couple days put it on and went through a few episodes.

So out of curiosity, in the show, what what, what do they do they frame the Genesis 6 for?

Do they frame it?

Like how do they frame that?

Yeah, they actually started doing they frame it.

I mean, the Benihah Elohim came to the banath Adam, right.

So Genesis 6 for the sons of God came to the daughters of Adam and seen that they were fair, right?

Took them and and you know, the Nephilim are born and most translations say giants because it comes from Gigantis and it's means earth born, not born from above, right.

And so we get Gigantis and and this is a funny word because Ghia is is you know, Ghia in the the Roman pantheon or the Greek pantheon.

It's it's an earth goddess.

Yeah, but it just so happens to be that they're tall in stature also.

So people associate the word giants and its literal usage as meaning only tall, but that's just a characteristic, a duality of the characteristics where it's earth born, not born from above.

For example, like Jesus says, he must be born from the spirit above when he's speaking with Nicodemus.

Anyway, that's a whole sidebar.

But they don't.

They did.

Justice to angels.

What is it they're not showing?

They're not saying angels are the.

Yeah yeah, they show angels, okay, yeah, yeah listen, I like it, all right, For me, I'm just.

Gonna say that's the thing.

See, when I see that, because I spent so many years with the belief set very similar to that and then I got into the deep Bible study demonstrating why was the sons of Seth and not the sons, not the sons of Cain or not angels essentially.

But like that's an interesting thing to me.

I I need to watch that and maybe just go through it one time.

It's.

Definitely has everything has a little something wrong and a little something in my experience.

But but the reason I'm bringing this up all right is because you were talking about just kind of back to the basics of the process.

What are we drawing from with God for sure and what they've really depict well that I that I've been picking up on just a few episodes into to the first season.

The second season's released at this point in time.

But what I've been drawing from it is is close to my heart as well.

So you said I need something to draw from, right?

Like, like life's experience, like sometimes we are being wounded by life's pen.

It's marking us, right?

We're experiential to what we consider to be things that nobody sees.

There's these quiet spaces where God is allowing things to happen to us.

He's not wishing it, but my God, I mean, oh, use good and say, hey, they intended it for evil.

I'll use it for good.

And so they depict David that way where it's like this process where he's like not known and just kind of thrown to the wayside.

And you can see they do a decent job.

I'm not going to say it's like biblical to a team, but when you read through the Psalms, you really do see this up and this down.

And David's prayers are not cute Christianity prayers.

They're like, hey, my enemies are surrounding me.

I feel like my life's going to end.

Have you left me?

Like, can you please catch them in the trap they set for me?

And then a chapter later, it's like, my God, you did it again.

You captured them in the very right.

And and there's some like raw realness to it.

So when you said that, it triggered for me because that's a lot of my poetry, a lot of my works outside of the podcaster.

Let's let's get into the nitty and gritty like what's what about transparency?

Just like a lyric in that song, I'm like, I'm perplexed how people fake it.

And so you triggered me to bring that up.

Sorry if I was long winded, but you're right that creativity is drawn from that place.

You're 100% right.

Yeah, when your cup is, you know, out of the abundance of the mouth, the heart will speak.

And that that applies, I think in many in every respect, right.

I know for me in particular, when I'm creating art, whatever, whatever comes to mind to pen down, whatever the Holy Spirit leads me to write or, you know, leads me to perform or record, it's going to come out of the out of what I've been exposing myself to.

So often times, especially early in my walk, I think that's quite the case, right.

We live a very testimonial driven life.

And as we get older, I think things kind of shift.

We see things differently.

We look at the world differently, look at the scripture differently.

And that that's kind of where I'm at right now.

Just just filling up that, filling up that bucket, filling up my, my, my cup so that when it runs over, it'll be of God.

And funny enough, actually I was talking with my wife yesterday.

They're they're releasing this David animated movie that we've been excited.

About Oh my gosh, yeah, I'm excited about that too.

Angel Studios, right?

Yeah, Angel Studios, it looks good.

And, you know, Angel Studios is usually producing pretty quality content, so I am excited about that.

But yeah, and, and again, you know, not everything is going to be perfect.

Kids love the Prince of Egypt.

You know, I don't tell them that most didn't actually speak to Pharaoh.

I don't tell them that in part in one second.

It took all night.

Moses had a stutter.

He didn't even really speak that well.

You know, like when he really started getting into hermeneutics.

He was 80, not, you know, not 38 or whatever.

He was in the movie.

You know, I don't tell them that stuff.

I'm like look.

Yeah, I understand.

Yeah, no.

No, you're right.

I mean, we're, we're living in a time where there's so much going on, like, I guess you could say guarding what we're allowing in.

And then what?

What do we bring into the Lord out of that?

You're so right.

Yeah.

I mean, if we're just Netflixing all day and we're just, you know, munching and geeking out, not taking care of our mind in our temple.

And we're not, you know, putting on the mind of Christ, as the Bible says, washing our minds in the word, renewing and being transformed.

The, the world is so easy to snatch us up.

So I love these kind of like, I call it the fundamental back to the basics.

Cause some people will say, well, why do you talk about Genesis 64?

Why do you talk about the second Samuel 21, David, It says that the, the, you know, this giant has 6 fingers, 24 digits, double rows of teeth.

He's a cannibal.

This is, this is something not normal.

And people say, why do you bring that up?

Why do you bring that up?

And I have to steal my buddy Pete's line from over the days, no podcast because it's the least talked about within Christianity.

Like when you go to the building, like all the word of God is important.

All of it's there for correction, for proof, for edification, for teaching, for doctrine, right.

And so a lot of the times creating that balance I find to be important.

But I love the basics because in my everyday life, I'm not walking around arguing and thinking about Second Samuel 21 giants for sure.

But there's a time in a season where it's like, God, what do you want me to know about this?

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, like, so I love these kind of like reintroducing like the sacred time with the Lord and, and really putting on that mind, not just for show, but in our creativity.

And I think really, I mean, that's where we could kind of spend a little bit time in this creativity idea, because I feel like obviously you're, you have more to say about that because we do have a higher a higher threshold when we're Christians and we're we're creating because it's, it's the word never returns void.

So we have a presence to leave with, with other believers.

Anything to speak to on that?

Well, yeah, I think yeah.

And one of the, you know, just like fun anecdote, FLF Floodlight forever was really built on that principle of flood light forever.

So flood from the beginning of the Bible, light when Christ came and forever, which we're going to experience eternity.

That was kind of the idea behind it, this whole journey through Scripture.

And I, I appreciate the old Jesus.

When Jesus was on earth, the Old Testament was the Bible, right?

So no new doctrine about salvation was created.

It was pulled from the Old Testament, right?

And I think that's an important thing.

And even when we see like scriptures that Jesus quoted all from the Old Testament, whether it was Deuteronomy or even referencing Leviticus, it was all from what was already established.

So I think that's an important part too, that as a Christian, you have to be well-rounded to know what happened at the beginning, what's going to happen at the end.

But yeah, I saw a TikTok the other day, a buddy of mine, like shared it with me and it was a guy and he pretty much said that, you know, secular music does a better job at honoring God than Christian music because it captures the, the raw emotion of the human story better.

And I couldn't disagree more, right?

You know, I mean genuinely like Yep, there there's a a small case to be made to say there are songs in secular music that highlight a God-given emotion, moment and journey that is experiential that humans share naturally because of how God designed us in the sinful condition that we're in.

Right.

I could agree with that, but he won't probably won't respond to my comment.

But I was like, how can someone who doesn't know the Lord honor the Lord?

And that was kind of like my big take away and and you might get some part of the way there, but to say all the time, I don't think that's I don't think that's going to be the case at all.

I I genuinely Christian music, it's some of the most profound, most powerful, most impactful, even when you look at, and I was just talking about this with another another podcast.

Even when you look at the transition from the early days of the church from Catholicism to the Reformation, the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther actually re evaluated music entirely to move away from language that people didn't understand and maybe pointless or meaningless chants to songs that actually had in your own tongue with lyrics that you could understand, that you could glorify God with.

And often times based on the scriptures, of course.

So when you think about like the role of music, the Christian's role in music, we are held to a high standard.

And I think the high standard isn't self-imposed, right?

It's imposed by the Lord.

And if it's a standard that's imposed by the Lord, then it's a standard that we can't meet on our own and the Holy Spirit has to get us there.

So if the Holy Spirit is bridging the gap between my lack of and carrying me all the way in the exact same way that I can't save myself, only Christ can save me.

I, I think we have to acknowledge the importance and impact.

And if you ever have a Christian, I'll just say this, I think this is a fair statement.

If you ever have a Christian who doesn't like Christian music, it's because their taste buds for the world have been over saturated, right?

If, if you know if, if, if you don't have a taste for something, it's because you haven't been eating and chewing on it, right.

I heard this doctor say one time that a baby is born, the baby has only the taste for breast milk.

Every other taste is acquired, which he was pretty much getting at that what you present your child to feed them is what they're going to enjoy.

The same thing is true for the believer in the world.

So if you have a disdain for Christian music and hymns and Psalms, and I mean, some music's really bad, right?

Like some, some is not high quality, but we have an abundance, we have a an embarrassment of riches when it comes to Christian music and Christian creativity.

If it if you don't like it, I think the the the problem is probably in your heart a little bit, right.

There's some things that you need to some leaven you have to clean out would be would be my take on that in love, you know?

It's a annual thing to clean out the leaven.

It's maintenance.

It's it's rechecking ourselves.

I mean, the Bible even tells us that check your faith.

And I don't think we could say one time when I was nine years old, I gave my life to Christ or something.

Like when I hear people say that, I'm just like, like, well, OK, I'm not mad at that.

That's beautiful.

But like for sure tell me more like or don't tell me nothing at all.

Like, you know, 100%, you know.

We're living in a war, it's like.

Yeah, there's a spiritual war, literally.

Amen, priest.

And they're soldiers.

And when you don't sharpen your sword, right, like all, all all these amazing analogies.

But essentially, if you're always ready, you don't have to get ready like that kind of that kind of thought.

Process that should be a chorus that.

Should be exactly if you're always ready, you don't got to get ready.

Simple as that.

But yeah, praise God for that.

I mean, I think the journey of a Christian and especially when it comes to art, we should be, we should be called to something higher and we should be tapped into something higher.

We should be aiming to glorify something higher.

And it should be less about like, I just want to replace what I'm listening to in the world and more So what do I want to take people?

You know, I, I, I was talking about music on another podcast and one of the things that I, I shared was like a Christian rap.

I'm a Christian rap.

I think Christian rap is amazing.

I think it's really good.

But if I was to look at Christian rap from the standpoint, I would look at it and make it, maybe make it more akin to like if I wanted to stop eating meat, then I would have like an impossible burger, right?

So I'm getting some of the enjoyment, some of the satisfaction.

It's not the same thing, but I am able to do it.

But if all of my diet, physically or spiritually is just this one thing, you're going to be malnourished, right?

It shouldn't be sustenance.

It should be a substitute.

And I think there's a lot of value and a lot of beautiful things that we can experience through other forms of music, through just diving into the word of God by itself, listening to sermons, audiobooks.

If we kind of just isolate ourselves to like this one thing, I think that's a problem also.

So I think it's 1 like, you know, going to what you're going to go to, but also being receptive to what the Holy Spirit's going to lead you to.

And, and to your point, if all you ever read was you can get saved with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, you can get saved.

You can, I mean even one line, you know what I mean?

Like even John 316 can bring you to salvation if you surrender your heart and and give it all to Christ realistically.

Well, won't you be missing out on so many awesome things?

Won't you be missing out on on all these beautiful other books, the the letters of the apostle, the Acts of the Apostles, the Genesis first, second Samuel, Chronicles, kings?

You're missing out on so many amazing things.

And I think that's kind of the same way there as well, if that makes any sense.

I hope I didn't go on too much of A tangent.

It, it once again, it kind of goes to this idea you were mentioning prior.

When Jesus arrives, there's no New Testament.

The New Testament is based on him and his experience and what he did.

And he's always saying as it's written.

And then you look at Paul's letters and he's saying as it was written, as it was written.

And, and there's so much beauty in that.

And, and I think the transparency there is we assume there's some sacred secular divide right in, in gap period, this 400 years of silence.

God just changed his character.

Now all of a sudden.

No, I think it's it's it's absolutely not that.

I think the two of them are beautiful.

Actually had doctor Max Botner on again recently and he's like the head, you know, guy at Jessup University.

He's Jewish, but he's a Christian theologian and he specializes in Christophanies, Christologies, right?

Which are these alluding to Christ in the Old Testament, you know, and like things that Christ did like when he passed them by on the boat and shows them like his shoulder and back like when the storm's happening like it's a head nod to this verse over here.

Those things that I heard him say I'm like this is beautiful dude.

Like this is Christ in the Old Testament like he's not a brand new Christ it the New Testament says he was crucified before the foundations of the earth like.

Before the foundations of the earth, John 11 everything that was made was through him, and by him, and by.

Hand and for him.

I mean, so that means beautiful.

He formed it in the beginning.

He spoke to Moses, he spoke to Joshua.

He he fellowship with Abraham.

Like all of these, I love Christophers as well.

But all of these little moments throughout time that you're able to go back and to witness and say, you know, like how he wrestled with Jacob, which everyone, you know, accepts, right?

These are just awesome moments that we can look back and see that not only was his.

And again, to your point, yeah.

Like, why do you focus on Genesis 64?

Well, Christ was there.

Christ was in Genesis, Christ was in the flood.

He was in there.

Was only a couple chapters after he was walking in the cool of the day with them.

Of course he was there.

100% and, and when you, when you notice that and when you realize, wow, like Christ has been there this whole time, I think it gives an appreciation and a deep level of like awe and amazement at he, he did not just pop up right now to take care of this little thing.

It's like, no, he was with us from the beginning.

You know, he, he prophesied in the garden.

Like he, you know, you, you will bruise his heel.

He will crush your head.

The the the the seed of the woman you know, like from the beginning.

It was the serpent and the seed of the woman would be at enmity, at war with each other.

It's the first prophecy.

It's it's so phenomenal and so OK, the way that this connects in my mind, right.

So we're talking, you know, you mentioned about sometimes people that are Christians or even secular people will say I can't do Christian music as I don't vibe with the transparency, right?

Because even when Brian Godawi, he's been on a couple times over the year, he's been a Hollywood screenwriter for 25 years.

He did the end all wars like a bunch of different films.

But we talked about what was called the Hollywood worldview.

He actually wrote a Christian college curriculum book called the Hollywood world View and it talks about the fundamentals of storytelling and engagement that are not exclusive to Christianity, but that God of course, got it right.

Like God's obviously he's the it's the most beautiful love story, the most poetic war.

Like it's everything is is dry jiving with the Bible.

It's typically just discrediting the God of it.

You know, he's the creator of all these things.

And but so the the way it connected for me and tell me if this makes sense.

Christianity a lot of the times people that are in that heart posture of declaration and praise, their lifestyle of worship measures up.

They're loving to worship God communally, privately.

And a lot of the times you have people that are hurt, they're injured, they're they're traumatized from very dark things that have happened in their short time here.

And they haven't an experiential with the love of Christ in a vessel.

They understand concept cognitively.

They're like, is it real?

They're trying to adjusted in their heart.

And so I see the disconnect as well.

They're relating to people expressing trauma and pain because they're in a trauma cycle.

Yeah, yeah, right.

And so because not everybody's mean who's just like, Oh, you fake Christians, I'm not going to worship with you.

Not everybody says that.

If you really get to the nitty and gritty and talk with people, they're just like, I don't understand it.

Like everybody there is like woo and their hands float up and they're saying they feel the presence of God and I'm there being like, I feel pressure And I and this there could be a lot of spiritual conditions here too.

Ear gates, eye gates.

What are you practicing?

What are you running through your cycling through your mind?

But I think there's a a level of sensitivity within the five gifts that, as Paul says, right, pastors, evangelist, prophets, apostles, right to eat, they're shepherds.

I think when we work as a body, the person who who has that sensitivity, who highlights it, there should be an effectual nurture.

And so I look at the disconnect and and I'm like the Holy Spirit if I see it this way doesn't mean everybody needs to agree with Rod, but that's the way I see it because I was that person 12 years ago before I took a serious walk with Christ.

I like DMXI liked, you know, 57 Eminem, you know, I like these because they were talking about not necessarily a lot of the times things I can relate to, but I've been beaten to death.

I've ran around with illegal guns and drugs.

Like I've been in jail.

Like there was things where I'm like, I can relate to that.

I can rock out with that.

You know, you're reliving that trauma loop and then the the connection was I was broken in love over a long period of time until I wanted to go into the ekklesia and and worship with people.

It took like six years on a transition.

And so I just say that for the listener's sake to kind of like broaden our spectrum, like how do we work as a unit elbow to elbow to maybe see it a certain way and then give access and shameless plug.

But my new song trauma cycles, that was the idea.

I told you behind it was this poetic revealing of just, well, I've experienced it and I'm definitely not alone.

I've learned that through this podcast that there's hundreds of thousands of people around the world over the years just like me that are like, yeah, I asked that question too.

Yeah, I suppose that too.

I'm trying to figure that out.

And so once I realized that God was pushing me to release identifying scars and trauma cycles, I'm like, well, is this a place where now people are supposed to come around it and help the healing process?

Are we supposed to be the body here?

It was just a fall.

I mean, I know I said a lot, but no, Yeah.

Well, I mean, absolutely.

And it reminded me of I had a buddy of mine and you know, could not care less about Christianity, Christian and he was a friend of a friend and he knew that I made Christian music.

And one time I had him come to a music video that I was shooting.

He thought I was the, the dorkiest person ever thought I was a loser, whatever it was, you know, which is fine.

I, I didn't care, you know, I, I didn't hold that against him, but we were, you know, we were acquaintances for a while.

And then one day he hit me up and he's like, hey, man, like I know the Lord.

And I'm like, what?

Hold up, what's going on?

And he breaks the story.

He gives me this testimony and he's like, boom, boom, boom, this what happens?

What happens, what happens?

It's like, he's like, man, in that music video.

I listen to that song again, bro, that was about me.

And like, he had this profound moment of like, like it, his perspective on things totally changed after he encountered the Lord.

So I think that's it's worthwhile to acknowledge that as well as that for myself, I, I had, I have profound experiences, songs that I loved because they, they gave me access to something.

They shared a common thing that I had with this, this artist or this performer.

I admire them.

I idolize them, of course.

And then when I left that behind and listened to new music with a, with a mindset that was postured towards Christ, the new music that was God glorifying, I looked at the old stuff.

I'm like, how could I have ever, you know, embraced that?

You know, it's, it's, it's, it's quite a shift.

And, and obviously as well, I had a lot of loving people around me, a lot of patient people around me.

And even when I was sometimes like passively criticized, some of the worship music that I would hear as being like sounds phony or it's kind of goofy, they were patient and enduring with me.

And then eventually I was like, Oh, I get it now.

Like I get what this worship experience feels like because now I'm experiencing what worshiping God in a communal setting feels like, you know, and I, I can connect that emotion or those song lyrics or that feeling that it's giving me to the feeling that I now understand and know.

But it's hard, you know, if, if you can't relate to being in a church setting and feeling welcomed and loved and being thankful to God, then it's not going to make any sense.

You're going to be like, these people are weird.

You know, which maybe we are a little bit.

That's OK too.

We're a peculiar people.

That's important.

Thing Oh my gosh, I love that.

Thank you for reminding that and the definition of peculiar is definitely worth the listeners time.

Go look that up and not just exclusive to the the English cadence, but but check out that that word.

Look at the roots of it, hermeneutical hygiene.

Go back and see what God was conveying there because it's, it's actually quite beautiful.

There's a legal application and then there's literally characteristic and expression application to that word.

That's just, it messed me up when I when I first looked at, but OK, so FLF, so speak a little bit encouragement to this generation, to the millennial generation, to every generation listening.

I think the first and foremost is that the word of God is your sword and your shield.

I think if you want to go in prepared with the armor of God, it starts by understanding the word of God.

I think every Christian believer, and this is to myself as well, 'cause I was not this person, but I think you should make an earnest effort to find verses in Scripture promises that you can claim and write them down on a daily basis and repeat and memorize them, commit them to memory.

Because when we look at Christ battling Satan in the wilderness, he quoted scripture and he didn't pull out a Bible to do so.

He did it from from his mind and it was written on his heart.

We know that the the laws of God, the love of God is written on our hearts from from tables of stone and fleshly tablets to the heart.

So if we can commit those things to the heart and to our mind, I think that would be an incredible tool set When when challenges come, I'd also encourage the believer that it's not going to be easy.

It is not a straight light up.

You know, I heard a really profound quote that God has called to spare us from sin, but he has not called to spare us from agony.

And wherever there's a temptation, God will provide a way out.

But that is not the same, true, that is not the same for suffering.

Christians will suffer.

It is Christ like to suffer because he suffered.

And if if we can embrace it with those mindsets, commit our ourselves to the the the word of God, committing it to memory and acknowledging that we're going to suffer and also be strengthened by the fact that eternity waits for us.

I think that's very easy to lose sight of.

And when circumstances are pressing down on you, when things feel chaotic, when you feel like you're barely coming up for breath, you know you're drowning.

It's easy to lose sight that eternities on the horizon, but it very much is.

And now is the most important time And and you know, to our our point earlier in the conversation, Christ's coming back soon.

I do believe that, but he could come back soon for you tomorrow for anyone, right, if if their time is up.

So those are the things I would probably say, man, I think it's been a huge blessing for me and my responses might change in a new season of life, but where I'm at right now, I think that's the most important thing we could do.

Ephesians 28 through 9.

God saved you by his grace when you believed, and you can't take credit for this.

It is a gift of God.

Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so no one can boast about it.

Amen.

FLF love light forever.

Your music can be found on all major platforms type in FLF.

There are good letters there you also have a YouTube channel.

I'm going to put some links in the details of the show notes for you guys out there listening.

So man I just bless you.

I ask that God his light was shine upon you.

His favor would be on your family and that he would continue to stir that creativity because he's the ultimate creator.

And we're we're like a glimmer of him.

We're like a little tiny speck of him.

So we should be bringing that creativity as you have been, man.

So I just honour you.

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God bless and goodbye.

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