Proverbs 11:2: "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom"
Prideful people toxicate themselves with sinfulness.
Proverbs 16:18-19: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud"
Because pride loves their flesh and sin. Haughty attitude must want to change.
Proverbs 8:13: "To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech"
There is no reason why any person should be boasting or making anybody feel bad, because what you have is not worth boasting about unless it comes from the Lord. If I am going to boast I am boasting in the Lord in his salvation and his righteousness. I am realizing I am nothing without God. I am just a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Romans 2:11-13 says There are no special privileges, meaning there is no respect for persons with God.
For as many as have sinned without law, meaning (without the word of God) shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law, meaning (with the word God) shall be judged by the law; meaning the word of God. For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Meaning living in obedience to Abraham's faith.
So what are you boasting about? I am talking to individuals who like to boast. Your accomplishments and accolades, formality living in your power and control to make someone else feel lower than yourself in this world. This is wrong to do because love does not boast.
Envy leads to hatred and all kinds of wickedness. So there is no love in envy.
What is envy? A person feeling resentful. The word resentful means anger or displeasure.
While they desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else). Which is called coveting.
Some would say, I can’t desire to have what someone else has, what is wrong with that?
The problem with coveting its leads to wickedness and the feeling of resentfulness is not love and takes you out of the spirit of God, and God is love.
The Hebrew word for "covet" can also be translated as "lust",
What happens when a person lusts after something with a strong desire to have it? The Negative consequences of this lead to wickedness and disobedience. It does not matter who you have hurt as long as you have your desire. It goes right back to Adam and Eve in the Garden. Eve desires something she was not supposed to have and what happen? So now mankind lives in those consequences, Adam and Eve.
Love does not envy. Learn more in this episode of Truth & Knowledge.
Love is not sex and if you think love is sex then you have a serious problem. It is called lust. I used to be like this. I am telling you to repent and change. Sex before marriage is sinful. Do not continue to do this repent and change. So women do allow men in your bed unless you are married to them. Love is not sex.
It’s time for men to come away from lust. If you are masturbating, or watching porn you are ungodly and it is sinful, and these are ungodly acts. If you are going to a strip club look at strippers something is wrong with you, and you are living a sinful life. It's time for you to repent and change. Masturbation is not normal.
Do not touch a woman, do not sexually abuse women, so men get it together because this is a downfall for some men. Women are not slaves; women are not sex slaves so stop trying to boss women around. If you are selling women and lusting after women something is seriously wrong with you and you need to get help. Love is not Sex
Men you must have self-control, so control yourself, Women are not the problem. You are the problem. You must have self-control. If you are having sex with a woman and not married you are living in sin. It’s time to change that lifestyle and remove yourself from that life because it is sinful.
God has patience with me. So we must have patience with each other because God has patience with us. Not given up. I made mistakes God gave me grace and compassion. Not giving up on me.
God's patience is meant to lead us to repentance. Romans 2:4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:9
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death came to all people because all have sinned.
There is peace and there is hope.
Life and light have entered the world through another man and through this there is peace and hope for those who believe in him Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, which we are made righteous.
It is written in Romans 5:12-19, But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Nor can the gift of God be compared with the result of one man’s sin:
The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification. For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man, the many will be made righteous.
America you arrogant one, For God to bless thee, so we must walk in the blessing of the Lord. If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.
Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. America. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
I am not ashamed. I am confident in the gospel. I can proclaim with boldness the truths that God has revealed in His Word, with no fear that my confidence is not misplaced. There is no disgrace in declaring it.
God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity
Romans 1:18–32 It is written.
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities — his eternal power and divine nature — have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator — who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
I like to apologize for my video background in the video if anybody got the wrong interpretation of what my background image is saying. What I am trying to say is that I am sacrificing by denying myself, allowing the spirit of God to kill my flesh. Meaning, I allow the Spirit to kill my flesh.
“Pure or Impure” by Trey Knowles is a thought-provoking exploration. In the context of spirituality and self-reflection, it draws inspiration from 2 Corinthians 6:16, which questions the alignment between the temple of God and idols. The verse emphasizes that we are the living temple of God, and we must cast away all forms of impurity.
The dichotomy between purity and impurity resonates deeply. Just as substances can be classified as pure or impure, our hearts and intentions also fall along this spectrum. Let’s delve into the metaphor:
1.Pure Substances:
oIn chemistry, pure substances consist of a single element or compound. They exhibit homogeneity and specific properties. Examples include oxygen, water, and carbon dioxide.
oSimilarly, spiritual purity involves unwavering devotion, authenticity, and alignment with divine principles. It’s the absence of conflicting influences.
2.Impure Substances:
oImpure substances are mixtures of multiple elements or compounds. Air, seawater, and paint exemplify this category. Their properties vary over a range.
oSpiritually, impurity arises from conflicting desires, attachments, and distractions. It blurs our connection to the divine.
Truth & Knowledge, as explored by Trey Knowles, guides us toward discernment. Just as we identify pure and impure substances, we must evaluate our thoughts, actions, and intentions. Shedding impurities allows us to embody the temple of the living God, walking in grace and truth.
It is written in 2 Corinthians 6:16, What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
In this episode of Truth & Knowledge, we will learn that we have to put off all kinds of wrongs. It is said in James 1:21. So put out of your life every evil thing and every kind of wrong. Then in gentleness accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts, which can save you.
In Matthew 8:28-34 Jesus Restores Two Demon-Possessed Men.
When he arrived at the other side in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from the tombs met him. They were so violent that no one could pass that way. “What do you want with us, Son of God?” they shouted. “Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?”
Some distance from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. The demons begged Jesus, “If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
He said to them, “Go!” So they came out and went into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and died in the water. Those tending the pigs ran off, went into the town and reported all this, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men. Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region.
I know that Jesus Christ loves me because He brought me out of sin and into light. He gave me salvation and gave me new life. Nothing can separate me from the love of Christ Jesus. His grace took my place of death and gave me his righteousness and spirit. I am telling you I will always walk in the ways of the Lord and He is my light and shield. I love the Lord with all my heart and my being and I will live in the house of the Lord forever. Thanks be to God the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ who brings life to us all.
For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.
The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. God did not call us impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Now about your love for one another, we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other. And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more, and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
When I did not know who I was, I was a slave under the elemental spiritual forces of the world. Abandoned from my true identity, I didn’t know who I was and could not, receive my inheritance because I was lost.
However this is no longer the case, because I have been adopted, redeemed, and reborn again, through Jesus Christ, His spirit enters my heart and calls out Abba Father, because I am his son and we are his sons and daughters. And this is who we are.
To adopt someone is to make that person a legal son or daughter. Adoption is one of the metaphors used in the word of God telling us that we are brought into the family of God. Jesus the Messiah came “that we might receive adoption to sonship” and He was successful:
I am no longer abandoned or lost.
Now that I have received God’s Spirit when he adopted me as his son”
Romans 8:15 says The Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him, we cry, “Abba, Father.”
I am going to talk to some of my elderly black folks, and anybody who faces persecution, based on the color of their skin or ethnicity.
I once said that people are not your enemy and I will stay with that statement because we are not created to respond with evil with evil.
We are built to love our enemies. People cannot be your enemy because you are designed in love. You are their enemy because they are designed in hatred. If you consider anybody an enemy that means there is hatred in you somewhere.
Matthew 5:43-44 Jesus tells us. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. People cannot be your enemy.
Ephesians 6:12 says. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
So when people do evil things, they are possessed and brainwashed, and most of them dont know what they do. They are controlled by the evil one or they are just evil. We call that the children of the devil.
We must forgive always because our heavenly Father forgives us. The light in you should always shine. Why? Because this is how the learning process begins for those who walk in darkness. Jesus came into the world shining that light and those who believe in that light will not perish. He paid the price for our sins. So our sins are forgiven and we are changed by following that light.
Love You’re Enemies, Love Covers a Multitude of Sins
We as black men will no longer live in fear. We will no longer be brainwashed. We will no longer be influenced by the works of the devil. I am here to uplift and edify. Anybody that is not for you is against you. Anybody driving you into darkness and not into light is not for you. Don’t be a naïve black man, because they allow you to make money.
Matthew 4:8-11 says Again, the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall and worship me.” “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.
It's time for you to stand up black men against the devil's schemes.
You are the first man, meaning that you are the black man that God has created.
God created Man in his image and likeness. So let me make myself clear, he didn’t make a nigga in his images in likeness. He created man in his image and likeness. God did not call you a nigga, so stop using that word towards each other.
Black Man God didn’t create us to be nothing, We are something to God. We were not created to be enslaved, in chains, to be whipped, to be killed, God gave us dominion on earth Genesis 1:28.
Anyone who puts up stumbling blocks to have you fall is sinful.
If they did that to you they will do it to the Lord. Anyone who treats you unkindly with no love does not come from God, black man, because God is love. So black men we are not murderers, we are not drug addicts, we do not steal, we are not made to do evil things or influence one another with evil. We will no longer be against one another we will uplift and edify each other. We are a child of God, we are husbands, and we are fathers
and it is time for us to start acting like one.
You have a choice to make. Don’t let the devil steal our identity.
1 Peter 2:9-10 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
So God loves us. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. I don’t want you to think that you are not in the word of God because of the color our skin, based on the false images that you see. In Exodus 20:4 “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. So what they have done is not right in the eyes of God.
Truth & Knowledge series is a transformation podcast show, produced by Life Coaching Speaker Trey Knowles. This series is based on Transformation, Recognition, Salvation, and Substance, living life through the Spirit is what this show is about.
My Lord My Lord My Lord – Which means my ruler, my master, my life.
How did that come about?
Well, my God, my Lord created me and gave life to me.
I recognize in all creation that there is only one God who created all things and I am one of those things.
Parents give birth to their children.
Parents must train their children in the way they should go; even when the child is old the child will not depart from it.
Why is this?
Reason: Parents are the instruction manual for their children.
My God, My Lord who is one, created me. God created us with an instruction manual. God's word is life which is the instruction manual. God embedded us in the way we should go.
My Lord My Lord My Lord – Which means my ruler, my master, my life.
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ Matthew 4:4.
At the beginning of our creation, God's Spirit testifies to our spirit that we are born of God.
When disobedience entered it created sin and made everything go in a different direction.
Disobedience- is the failure or refusal to obey rules or someone in authority.
My Lord My Lord My Lord – Which means my ruler, my master, my life.
Adam and Eve were created first they failed by disobedience.
Your parents give you instructions, if you disobey it leads to sin.
Why? Reason: Parents are the instruction manual for their children.
God is my instruction manual for me and you.
My Lord My Lord My Lord – Which means my ruler, my master, my life.
When I say my Lord, my Lord, my Lord. I am asking for my Lord’s authority.
When a child says Mom, Dad they are asking for their parent's authority.
Responding to Authority. How do we respond?
We respond by hearing, trusting, acting, and surrendering to our authority.
Obey Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad say that’s my child. God says in Romans 8:14 For those who are led by the spirit of God are the children of God.
Being born of God means that I can carry out his will.
My Lord My Lord My Lord – Which means my ruler, my master, my life. The word Born means- having a natural ability to do a particular job or task. Having the natural ability means we are led by the spirit of God.
We are born into the kingdom of God, we are also adopted, and we can cry Abba Father. Read Romans 8:15.
My Lord My Lord My Lord – Which means my ruler, my master, my life.
Mom and Dad.
I can respond by hearing, trusting, acting, and surrendering to your authority.
Having the natural ability which means I am led by the spirit of God.
So then faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God
We are blessed with insurance, but you must keep these qualities.
It is written in 2 Peter 1:5-9
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins.
Perseverance- is the persistence in doing something despite the difficulty. When you are not persevering you are giving up or giving in. Perseverance gives me proof of what I believe in.
Life is hard. We would all like life to be easy. Easy income, an easy life from worries and problems, easy just sounds so good.
The problem with easy sometimes is you are achieving without great effort or discomfort. I use the word sometimes because easy can be the result of mastering the circumstance.
When difficulties come you are going to either quit or compromise. Why do I say that?
When we compromise we are accepting standards that are lower than desirable. Difficulties sometimes create fear that causes us not to Persevere.
There is no love in fear. Fear should never drive out your Will. Love always perseveres.
Why do I say Love always perseveres? The reason why is because love always performs. Love doesn’t quit or give up. Love lasts forever. There is a persistence to love, even in tough times.
In 1 Corinthians 13:7, the word of God teaches us that Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
In the wedding vows, a husband and wife take each other “for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.” The basis of this pledge is the fact that love perseveres.
Being steady and never weaving is the way we should be. Persevere to the end. Jesus is the master of persevering. He loved us who were in the world. He loved us to the end, despite all the difficulties.
What does it mean to be steadfast? To be steadfast is to remain faithful even when difficulties come against us. If you allow difficulties and fear to come against your faithfulness you are no longer persevering and walking in love. You are also losing tolerance.
Why do I say you are also losing tolerance? Anyone who can give up their core beliefs because of difficulty has no patience. Patience is part of love. Love Is Patient.
You cannot persevere without trust. Why am I saying that? Think about this. Can a person persevere without believing in something? You must believe to persevere throw the circumstance.
Once a person stops believing they are breaking the trust persevering is no longer the issue. Love always Trust.
Perseverance gives me proof of what I believe in.
Why do I say perseverance gives me proof?
Because it is the evidence of the substance in which I have faith.
How do we always persevere through difficulties?
The answer is to always hope and live with patience.
Tolerate temporary problems and never assume the worst. Always believe and always hope for the best.
Never give up no matter what. This is how we persevere.
The word of God says in Romans 5:3-4 And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope.
