Hey what’s up everybody so for those who may not know me my name is Adrien Templeton many people know me as temp a temp um any variation of that and as you saw the title I am denouncing my Greek letters yes I know this is going to be a
Shock for a lot of people but hopefully you guys hear my heart and uh respect my decision so let’s start for those who don’t know me again Adrian Templeton uh I went to the University of Oklahoma OU boom soon and there I pledged I became a member of alpha alpha Fraternity
Incorporated um November the 9th 2001 so almost 22 years ago it be 22 years next month and yeah like your boys walking away so I initially came before I became Alpha I really didn’t know a whole lot about Greek life um I know I had a
Cousin that was a Kappa but I really didn’t again I didn’t know much about Greek life at all and I got to campus I saw the alphas and they seem pretty cool I never was one who felt like I needed to fit in per se um but you know they just seem pretty
Cool had some had I like the swag they had they were studious kind of about their business academically but also kicked it socially that’s kind of I I saw myself uh in that realm and so I’m like they seem pretty cool again I didn’t know a whole lot about um Greek
Life so I was really trying to learn about other organizations uh in general and at the time I was really looking for some Brotherhood uh if I’m honest so my uh only Blood Brother um he had been locked up he had been locked up for a period of time
Uh he had been locked up for some years at that point in time and so I kind of just felt that disconnect and really kind of longed for that Brotherhood yeah I had some close friends but they were quite the same necessarily um my do have
Had my god brother who I love um but again I was kind of looking for their Brotherhood my brother my god brother wasn’t at school with me um so yeah the alphas seemed pretty cool so long St short I end up pledging um Alpha and was
Like super crunked I was like super for Alpha I was the ace I was always on the scene I was loud uh fellow other Greeks y’all know was always one with the whistle at the front of the line the loudest um and all that good stuff right
But yeah uh so how do I even get here right um so first and foremost I I just believe these organizations first hear my heart everything I’m saying has nothing to do with the individuals right the people that I’ve met along the way in these organizations I truly genuinely
Love and respect have the utmost respect for them I afford some of the uh most sincere relationships um I’ve ever had I was 19 when I played um I’m almost 42 and you know some of these are some of the dearest people to me to this day and honestly I truly believe these
Organizations uh aren’t led by the spirit of God I believe that now back then and for years my um thought was like hey we these are built on Christian principles these are um organizations founded on on these uh Christian uh ideas ideologies and all that stuff um me someone who
Grew up in the church all my life that was important to me right but and people talk about doing your home work they do their research man my research was at the time I don’t think we had Google I’m that old um but searching whatever I
Could maybe we did have Google I don’t know just searching whatever I could um and Word of Mouth uh my best friend from high school uh end up pledging Alpha he was a year older than me he end up pledging Alpha uh in Lou Louisiana and
So I knew a little bit about very little bit about Alphas so I’m like okay but again uh I didn’t really understand the host spiritual connotations of Greek life Etc at the time and so like I said we always say these Christian these organizations are founded in Christian
Principles rooted in uh things of God but they are not at all and I’m going to talk about some of that all right uh even the community service that we do I’m a one of my love languages is act of service um acts of service and so I love
Community service I love serving people um in whatever capacity right uh but even when we do community service um as these organizations who’s being glorified right who’s really getting the credit um I mean who gets popularized uh you know on account of the community service it’s like oh the
Alphas are doing this oh look at the alphas doing this or look at the Delta doing this oh here come the AKA oh we thank the AKA for serving this and that but it’s always that identity is placed on the organization uh before this God right um
You know Matthew 5:16 uh says in the same way let your light so shine before men um that they may see your good works and glorify my father who’s in heaven all right and so it should be God that’s elevated and um celebrated and all these things but it ends up being the
Organizations right so when I first uh started this journey of getting to the point of wanting to denounce my uh letters it was interesting kind of something that’s happened over a period of time but then kind of escalated over a smaller period of time so I think for
Years my wife had mentioned different things she’s not she’s non- Greek didn’t quite understand things uh of the Greek life or whatnot and was question different things and quite frankly I was shut my wife down like hey you don’t understand you you didn’t didn’t experience this I get it you just don’t
Understand but just you know chill out and was shut her down like hey this is based on Christian principles there’s pastors that are Greek blah blah blah seeing all these things I was like you Ain never seen me bow down worshiping no Idol uh you tripping and she was try to
Send me videos I ain’t watching that I ain’t watching that hey this is those people’s experience that ain’t mine that was always my response right and and then uh fast forward to this year earlier this year I uh I recall walking into church one day and a good friend of
Ours at the church she had told my wife she just saw this Darkness on me um she don’t know what it was this darkness and my wife had mentioned it to me this is right before service I believe and kind of made me feel some kind of way like
She never she didn’t say nothing about uh anything in particular but it’s all she said and I don’t know she kind of just I was kind of offended not so much at her but what she said like if you know me I’m a very positive and outgoing
Um optimistic person and I’m like what she talking about and it was later on in the service she told us like hey I know what it is the Lord show me it’s a fraternity I never talked I’ve never talked to her about the fraternity at
All not directly at least she knew I was Alpha uh but again never had a direct conversation about the fraternity or anything Greek related per se and they just kind of man it kind of just did something in my spirit like I me that’s kind of weird why would she say that and
Whatever and then um fast forward um there’s other different things that just just start popping up right different people that I knew would start saying different things um and it wasn’t all directly related to the uh the organization or to my involvement in Greek life but it just
Kind of um spoke to it you know what I’m saying and again so it just kind of got the wheels turning my head and and it was around that same time that I was uh in a position or in a place of wanting to grow more spiritually and so I
Started doing um just more uh Deep dive into understanding monitoring spirits and understanding just spiritual warfare and those things right and so in doing so I started learning more about covenants and um the importance of those things and I actually want to go through some of that stuff real quick just so
You can have Fuller context right um and so as I’m learning about covenants and U why that’s important in the Bible First of all the Bible is full of especially in the Old Testament talking about how different uh altars are created and the covenants were made and Promises of God
Blah blah blah right and how these things um once they’re made you know they they extend throughout the bloodline and so I was like okay so let me just let’s just look at some of those things so you guys get full of context right so if we look at Genesis 15 um
Actually 1 Genesis 12 it talks about Abraham and um um God speaking speaking of Abraham visiting Abraham um excuse me and yeah Genesis 15 was about 20 to 25 years later Abraham um was kind of upset with God you know God repeats the promise that he had made to him in
Genesis 12 right and then if you go down to verse 8 and9 God is asking for a sacrifice because he wants to form a covenant with Abraham right just promise Covenant is like a promise right performing he’s forming this Covenant with Abraham vers 12 talks about how the
Sun’s going down now Abraham’s physical body um is in a deep sleep but God has a conversation with him and we see that in verse 13 uh and he said speaking to the spirit of Abraham your spirit May us forever uh awake even while we sleep so
That’s something we have to remember too we are Spirit beings so when God formed us he breathed his light his breath into us right so we are Spirit beings in a human form and so I think a lot of a lot of times we we miss a lot of things
Because we’re trying to just see it from through our natural eyes when we are Spirit beings right and there’s so many spiritual laws and things that we should be living by right and the Bible talks about how we have these monitoring spirits but we also have these W um uh
Ministering Spirits right and we Bible talks about giving charge to angels and things those are ministering Spirits um that work on our behalf um so this just show that we’re Spirit beings U but then God back to the verse so God is speaking to Abraham’s uh to the destiny of
Abraham seed which is Isaac we know that as Isaac uh but in verse 16 talks about how it’s going to extend into uh the third and fourth Generations okay uh Verse 18 the Covenant is made with Abraham in the real of the spirit just kind of just showing us that and so
These are important things to know all right and so all this is tied to Exodus um Exodus 20 and 24 and that um and that’s really talking about uh how they start creating uh altars of the Earth right and the spirit of God is Not Just accompanying Abraham um but where
Everybody comes in his lineage right so when we talk about how we the importance of covenants and how those promises and those things that are formed will extend throughout the bloodline all right so you talk about you’ve heard generational curses so generational curses because of some type of Covenant or thing that was
Formed at some sometime before it could be from your parents your grandparents great-grandparents whomever right if there was a covenant made and their um good or bad that will extend throughout your bloodline and so it may or may not affect you and if it doesn’t affect you it could affect your
Children all right okay so let’s keep going Genesis 26 uh 26 and 24 and the Lord appeared to him again this time he’s talking to Isaac uh he’s speaking to Isaac and he says the spirit of the altar now shows up um in the life of
Isaac um who is the promised child of Abraham now so the same blessing that was applied to Abraham has been extended to Isaac years later so it’s important to understand the biblical laws and the principles associated with covenants right but just as uh there are biblical uh things good things there’s also evil
Seeds right and evil seeds will still speak to the destiny of your children and so these are things we need to recognize and understand let’s keep going Genesis 28:13 um you know the story of Jacob right Jacob um he deceived his father um and end up stilling the birthright of
His brother Esau and Jacob was the son of um Isaac who was the son of Abraham right and so but verse 10 is uh Jacob is running away from Esau and like I said Jacob’s the grandson of Abraham uh but in he has a dream and this dream it
Reiterates the promise of God um as the spirit of the Covenant um that was established way back then so I’m saying all this to show that covenants are important covenants are real and when we make covenants they will extend throughout our bloodline right and so you know God asked he God asked people
To make covenants and sacrifices uh to him right now the enemy um I believe the enemy has manipulated things he is full of lies and trickery right um he has manipulated things and honestly I feel like he’s manipulated all of the divine nine all the black Greeks uh to making
Covenants and taking Oaths um and we think it’s for um Brotherhood Sisterhood and stuff man but it’s so much deeper you know I’m thinking about one day I was in my uh my flower bed in front and there was a little weed Weeds about this
Big I was I need to get those weeds out um before they start growing everywhere and so I went to pull the little weed out and I know sometimes weeds have little Roots um so I expect a little Roots I pull this little weed out and I
Just kept pulling kept pulling when I got through the roots were like this long all I could see was this much of it but what was not exposed were the roots now the now I could take away the um the top part of that um but then all those
Roots were still there and because those roots were still there it can form again right and so it’s never going to go away until the root of the thing is severed all right so just everything the devil I mean the God does the devil tries to
Mimic and emulate all right and so it’s important that we we have the sermon so that reminds me of the parable of the wheat and tears this is found in Matthew 13:2 24-29 I want to read that real quick it says and Jesus told them another Parable the Kingdom of Heaven Is
Like a Man Who Sold good seed in the field but while everyone was sleeping his enemy came and soow weeds among the wheat and and went away when the wheat sprouted and formed heads then the weeds also appeared um the owner servant came to him and said sir didn’t you so good
Seed in your field where then did the weeds come from an enemy did this he replied the servants asked him do you want us to go and pull them up no he answered because while you’re pulling the weeds you may uproot the wheat with them let both grow together until they
Harvest at that time I’ll tell you the Harvesters I’ll tell the Harvesters first collect the weeds and tie them in bundles and be burned then gather the Wheats and bring them to my born all that to say it’s important to understand the sermon we have to have the sermon on what we do
And what we see um and in that Parable I think it’s showing us that everything that God does the devil’s going to come and try to build a copy and try to um sway us to his side to his to his way and you know Joshua 23:16 tells us if you violate the
Covenant of your lord your God which he commanded you and go and serve other gods and bow down to them the Lord’s anger will burn against you and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you all right so I mean we make a
Lot of Oaths um we meaning Greeks um even I went and back and looked at our ritual U because during this process uh got kind of revealing things to me I was really trying to disprove it to myself to be honest I’m like nah this can’t be
N not me n not my organization we different nah bro and so I went I pulled up our ritual actually um hey it’s online y’all y’all can Google it Al Alpha ritual I don’t care um pulled up the ritual and I read line by line I think it’s section 15 and
It talks about um there’s an altar and I remember the Lord brought to my remember my remembrance uh going through the ritual almost 22 years ago being blindfolded um having to take these impressions and then then removing the blindfold and there’s an altar established there and
It’s uh AI is lit up and um we had to say something like Alpha Light of the World Pride in my heart something of that nature um and this is all in the ritual it all says to build an altar or or talks about this uh uh doing this
Saying this before the Altar and so this is a covenant that’s being made that’s been forged between myself and in the organization um and yes there’s some scripture read uh doing the ritual process but it’s not it ain’t all line line by line you know what I’m saying
And hey yeah the enemy knows scripture too you know and so think about the Oaths and things that we took there’s an oath that we read uh or repeated and so Matthew 5:33 tells us again you have heard that it that it was said to the
People long ago do not break your oath but fulfill the Lord I’m sorry but fulfill to the Lord your vows you have made now some people I’ve heard people a few people that I’ve talked to regarding um no longer being the organization or walking away from the organization you
Know was say like you doing too much you ain’t got to do all that you got to do no denouncement you can just not be active you can just pull away but just like the little rot that I was talking about I can I could have took that
Little uh not the root the little weed I could took the little top of that weed off and just walked away made that top top of that part of that weat and active but guess what them Roots were still there so even being active you still
Have a covenant um with the evil spirits and I’m saying evil spirits because every single Denine organization is tied to some type of Greek god um think back for a second Greek civilization was um full of like Greek mythology and all this stuff right and so they sered so
Many different gods why you have the God of this you have the GU of that um I think uh aka’s um it’s the goddess not AKA uh Del’s I think it’s the goddess manura AKA I think it’s Atlas uh from somebody else’s Apollo um for Alphas is
A sphinx all right no we’re not sitting here worshiping these things um day in day out directly but when we are making these oath and Allegiance and we saying these prayers and these songs these hyms uh to the name of the entity name of Delta name of alpha name of Sigma all
These things like that’s what’s represented by right you think of alpha you think of the Sphinx all right and so that’s the deity or um the thing that we are worshiping essentially and right and um so I think about even the prayer that we will always say whenever we uh did
The hym we sing the alpha hym there was a prayer associated with it the prayer says oh Lord May the true Spirit of the fraternity rule our hearts guide our thoughts and control our lives so that we may become through the Servants of all that’s crazy I went back start
Thinking about that and all the other chants and things uh I like it’s crazy man my allegiance got to be to the Lord and we can’t serve two Gods right Exodus 20 and3 uh said says uh God will have no false gods uh before him right and yeah we we may not be
Doing things directly to those Gods but having them Gods uh still in the mix is just like uh doing so man God he don’t he don’t want any other gods even Associated anywhere near him right um so again also Deuteronomy uh Deuteronomy 33 and16 from the Amplified version says
They provoked him the jealousy with strange Gods by denying him the honor and loyalty that is rightfully and uniquely his um and so I was just thinking back so even before coming into Alpha um I guess the prefledging process um there are different rules and expectations um we had to gain favor
With these uh the big brothers or uh the the AL us you know we were seeking the approval of them so that we can make make line and so we can get picked um essentially and that’s just crazy you know the Lord was showing me that uh we
Doing all this to seek the approval of man right but the only one we need to be seeking approval of is our heavenly father you know so from jump you know we are excuse me out of water and I mean it’s the same thing from undergrad and grad I’ve been on both
Sides um and that just was cool even pledging pledging I pretty much led a double life I mean I mean cuz you got to be full and discerned right it’s pledging is illegal so you had to be under the radar with a bunch of things and ain’t going to go into details of
Everything we did um just for the sake of sake of time I might do another video I don’t know U but yeah I live a double life I lied I stole um a lot I stole a lot I lied a ton every day I was lying um and I was
Hazed uh verbally and physically Haze beats all the above right and hazing was made to be like make it seem like um it was a notable thing right if you had a process if you were pledged if you were hazed like like you were that top uh
Esent of Greek them right I recall um there was this one girl she really wanted to be uh she wanted to be AKA uh like she actually came to us and was like Hey will y’all will y’all ha us it’s like what she wanted to be Hast
Because she wanted to have that that notoriety of um of having the process right and it’s just crazy man the things that we think about man um I mean look after being AB abused all those months um you know it’s like we earned the right to have the pride so um alphas and
Um Greeks we are cocky we were cocky like the pride was elevated to an ungodly level like if you know me you known me over the years you know when it came to Alpha hey I’m Mr Alpha like I’m all of them seeing every time you hear
The music you you see me strolling in church anywhere I am I can be in Walmart wherever my wife be like oh my God will you stop it you know what I’m saying and don’t let me get with some of my uh former lbs uh especially a couple of them
Primarily one of them he know who he is um me and him hey we’ll start strolling or stepping in a heartbeat anywhere you know and I’ve done it all I’ve stepped on the national level um Regional local National all that stuff man but anyways I’m going to sum all this up Man 2
Corinthians 5:10 says for we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ so that each one of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body whether good or bad the word also says that each man uh must work out his own salvation so for
Me um yeah once I decided that uh I couldn’t really just dwell in that in the space of saying I’m I’m a Believer and understanding the things of God and understanding the spirit of God and how that um lives in me and dwells in me I
Can’t say that I’m rocking with this and still be connected with uh the fraternity that just didn’t sit well with me like I struggled with that for weeks and weeks and weeks and finally I had to say man this is it I got to go um
And ain’t going to lie man um Le up to that decision I was terrified most of my friends um are ind9 organizations and honestly I didn’t really know how to not be an alpha uh it’s something I’m learning now but I will tell you this I
Am in the happiest place of my life I um I mean I’ve been in the position uh really learning to surrender to the Lord just all areas of my life um um and I have not been the best husband at all in fact me and my wife we’ve had
Some uh we’ve had some issues over the years um and there be this is not for this video but I was unfaithful from up to my wife um at different times and I was just not a great husband at all man but the Lord has brought me out of this
Place even before this realization uh kicked in uh but the Lord has had me on this journey and through through this journey I have just um embarked upon the new level uh of maturity spiritually and it has blessed me has blessed my wife and we are just in the best place we’ve
Been married um 14 over 14 years now and um we’ve been the H this is the happiest we’ve been ever you know I I love my wife I love uh what God has blessed me with and I’m just trying to honor him uh with everything and so hey this may not
Be for you you may feel some kind of way I respect it you know what I’m saying I just ask you respect me too and if you want more information um regarding some of the other things there was so much more that I could have gone into um that
Kind of led me to this that I just for the second time I didn’t but I thank you guys for watching I thank you guys for tuning in um I know you going to have some comments I know some of yall going to try to drag me whatever hey you do
What you got to do what you feel you got to do you know what I’m saying uh I’m a stand M and like I told um my former Lon brothers and some other people close to me hey man this is kind of where I’m at
And if um I would love to maintain a relationship with you outside of the Greek world but if you ain’t feeling it cool do you I’mma do me at the end of the day I love you and I just want the best what’s best for you um as I want
What’s best for me right as for me in my house right we going to serve the Lord uh and know the false gods so I just pray that something was said to um resonate with you and I hope and pray that we can stay connected and that you
Got something out of this and hey at the end of the day to God be the glory y’all be blessed be easy God loves you and so do I peace
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