Father I thank you Lord for giving me the opportunity to share my story and I just pray that it will minister to at least one person um yeah so Lord thank you and I pray that you will speak today amen so as you can tell from the title of
This video this video will be on me sharing my story and my experience of being in a Greek letter organization um I just want to start well let me go I make I got notes uh but yeah I just want to start by saying that you know this is not
Something that I wanted to do um I actually did announced in 2019 um and I at the time I did make a video in 2019 but I never edited it I never released it um out of fear honestly so for these last four years I’ve been fearful of making a video fearful of
Releasing a video and fearful of publicly sharing that I denounce um I think the the thought of the backlash and negative commentary really just you know essentially it was holding me down and holding me back but earlier this week the Lord was speaking to me about strongholds and he
Let me know that this fear I have about sharing my testimony is a stronghold and it’s it’s weighing me down um and he told me that the time is now to share he’s homing to be courageous and to know that he is with me and he
Told me just to have no fear so here I am uh recording this video um and my prayer is that you know it touches at least one person um and yeah so let’s get to it if I’m looking at my phone it’s because I wrote down notes to
Kind of keep me on track so yeah I used to be a member of Sigma gamma rho sorority Incorporated and now I’m not and today I’m going to be sharing my story on how God called me out of the sorority so first I want to start just giving
Some background on my experience with Greek letter organizations um I first was introduced to Greek letter organizations when I was in elementary school I went to a school that had a step team and I tried out for the step team and I made it and I was on the step team I
Think I think it was just sixth grade and in this on the step team we were coached by people who were part of Greek letter organizations I don’t remember all of them but I know that one guy that was my coach he was a sigma um I don’t really remember seeing
Anybody else’s letters like it was so long ago but I definitely remember like there was this guy there was a sigma and he taught our step team so that was my first time seeing them so from there and on I just Associated like stepping with okay some type of Greek organization
So yeah I was on a step team in elementary school my middle school didn’t have a step team um in high school I didn’t really encounter any Greeks but then I went to college and so for college I initially wanted to go to Howard University but I
Didn’t get enough money so I ended up going to Johnson C Smith University in Charlotte North Carolina and um yeah before then I didn’t have any thoughts of joining a Greek organization it really wasn’t in my mind I remember I think I was in high school so before I
Got to college um when I was in high school I remember going to a cousin’s house and she was an AKA and I remember seeing her AKA stuff but that’s pretty much all I knew like the sigma then the AKA but I was never really interested I don’t think I ever
Googled it or anything but then my freshman year of college I remember moving move-in day um that the Greeks always helped so that’s when I started noticing them and then going to different like I don’t know what do you call it like the when you first get on campus they have
Different like clubs like sharing information about themselves and I remember seeing Greeks um I think there maybe have been like some type of performance definitely saw strolling on my freshman year even going to like we had gym parties so going to gym parties you would see them there but
I really wasn’t interested still I was just like okay like this is a thing and I knew that I knew that when they strolled I had to get out the way um also my freshman year the I remember the SG roles in particular they would they had an event
In my dorm I think it was like a slumber party theme so that was cool and I think the the first time the organization made an impact on me was um my freshman year I had a class with an sgro and so fun fact
When I went to college I was a I started off as a chemistry major and my first semester of college I took General General chemistry physics and calculus in one semester and my advisor at the time told me like you know no one does all these all three of these classes at
Once they’re hard classes but I told her that I could do it because my high school was a science and technology high school and so I felt like I was prepared and I remember in my physics class there was an SG role there and I just I remember
She was kind to me and like a lot of my classmates they would see that I was getting good grades and they kind of like was wondering like you know how is this girl a freshman is doing better than us and I just remember the SG road
Which is always nice to me I think we may have sat at the same table as well and yeah so from then it’s like I noticed like okay this this upperclass man is treating me very kindly and also I see these letters on her back right so
It kind of like in my mind it formulated that okay this organization they’re known to be nice so that was kind of I guess like something that started like intriguing me for SG Rose and so I remember I think fall and spring for my freshman year I can’t remember it so honestly
This video like if I’m saying dates wrong I apologize it’s a long time ago but I do remember that um there were some probates and we went to the probate and I was like okay like this is kind of cool but it’s I still didn’t feel like 100 I’m going to join
You said that I asked her about it and she said that she told me that she um didn’t think I should do it but I don’t remember that conversation which is so funny also let me just answer here I skipped something when I was a senior in
High school I gave my life to Christ so I was a senior when I gave my life to Christ and then I went to college let me just kind of insert that but when I was in college I you know I wasn’t disciple I gave my life to Christ like towards
The end of my senior leader senior year I was not being discipled I didn’t really know what it like I guess like how to really grow in a relationship with God I would read my Bible I would pray I was given a gift of tongues but I
Still was kind of like I wish that I had a community so when I went to college um I found like you know I met a few Christians but I would say that a lot of them were lukewarm including myself so I was a lukewarm Christian at this time
So yes so then uh sophomore year I became more interested and one thing to point out is that the SG roads they were going to have a line my sophomore year and I remember like saying like Yeah I wanted to do it but it’s like every time there was an informational or an
Entrance meeting something like that I had to sit ra Duty so I became an RA in my sophomore year and I kind of felt that okay if they’re having these an interest meeting and I have already Duty I felt like that was God telling me that it wasn’t for me
So that’s kind of how I equated it and I I mean I could have asked somebody to sit Duty for me but I just felt like okay this must not be for me if I can’t go to these meetings because I had to sit on Ray Duty like I didn’t believe
That was a coincidence and then spring 2013 this is still sophomore year as she Rose had a line and I just remember going to the probate and I like I was upset okay though I remember the whole time at the probate I’m like whispering to my friend like
Bro I’m supposed to be down there with them and it got to the point I kept saying it that my friend was like listen Okay like she basically was like be about it like if you’re gonna talk about it be about it so I was like okay bad so
It was like from seeing that line I was like next year I’m on it so um the next year in my junior year I don’t know if I went to a lot of the sgro events but I do know that I think I may have went to one of that and then
They had an informational or interest meeting and I went to it and from there I got the application I did apply um and I remember um on my application I wrote that I said or I don’t know I think I was on my application or if I didn’t I found this
In my email it says I want to be a part of assistant hood that assists in the growth of my life mentally academically and spiritually and when I saw this email the other day I like I literally left because for one I’m saying I want to join this organization so it could
Help me grow mentally and that’s like that’s weird like I could have got a therapist I said I wanted to join to Help Me Grow academically I graduated college with 3.9 GPA this organization was not going to help me grow academically because I was already doing very well like one
Semester out of each year of college I had a 4.0 I was doing well and then I also said that I wanted to join The Sisterhood to grow spiritually and this is it’s so it’s so ironic that I said that because I don’t know why I thought that the Greek organization was
Going to help me grow spiritually if I desired to go spiritually I should have been in my word I should have been praying I should have been in church talking to leaders telling them hey like I need help in my walk help me why did I
Feel like I had to go to this sorority I don’t know I I just I I can’t answer that but it’s a thought that I’ve been having okay so then my application I guess was accepted because then I got invited to the interview process and I remember the
Only thing I remember about my interview process was I walk in I think it was the advisor the president and the vice president and I just remember them being stone-faced like it wasn’t like hey James um nice to meet you tell me about yourself it was like
Oh so you want to be a part of the organization tell us why like it was very stone-faced very intimidating very much mean and I mean I’ve I grew to learn that’s how they’re supposed to act but I think realistically like if I was to go into a
Job interview today and if the interviewer had that type of demeanor I wouldn’t want to work there so long story short I got accepted um so that was I think this is all this was happening in the fall at the end the interest meeting the interview I think
It was in the fall I went home for winter break and I came back and that’s when things start happening so um for SEO they call it torch process which is basically the new membership intake process and so for my line spring 2014 we started with six we ended with four
Um and the tourist process is basically you’ll learn you’re taking classes to learn more about the organization the chapter that you’re joining um so I guess like the the paper process is the classes you go to the class you learn you take tests you have to pass the test
Um outside of that I had to get to know the other girls we had to um stay up late learning and studying and it’s the a funny thing about these late nights is that even though I still graduated with a high GPA there was this one class I just
Couldn’t make it to that whole semester and the wild part is I had this teacher like back to back I think like the first class was at 10 the second class is at 11. I would just show up at like 11 30. missed the whole first class and half of the second class
That’s terrible um and so I was just always tired I remember one time my friends took me out to a restaurant she knew I was online she was one of the people that I told to you know help support me she took me out to eat and I fell asleep at the table
That is just so embarrassing um and so I also want to point out how a lot of organizations especially black Greek letter organizations they claim to uh be non-hazing organizations that like that’s something everybody say oh secret camera roll is a non-hated organization blah blah blah is non-hazing but it’s a
Lot it’s all a lot and we’re all live like we’re all lying and telling everyone we’re not Haven when we were hazing and hazing it don’t have to be just paddling somebody there’s there’s all like all these different definitions for it and let me tell you the definition I
Found from the sgro website it says what is hazing hazing is defined as an activity which causes or threatens to cause emotional or physical injury or which causes emotional or physical discomfort embarrassment harassment or ridicule by way of example such prohibited activities and situations include but not are not limited to blindfolding
Hollering at or berating people personal servitude running errands or performing maid services activities likely to cause fatigue physical and psychological challenges treasure or scavenger hunts wearing with her wearing a pearl which is conspicuous and not normally in Good Taste engaging in stunts pranks degrading or humiliating gains and activities late work sessions
Physical or emotional assaults drinking games or the encourage suggested or Force consumption of alcohol or thoughts disorient oh shoot or other disordering this I can’t speak or other this orienting substances that’s the definition of hazing and we said we’re not hating organization but I can tell you most of
The stuff on this list I am dirt manipulation degrading buying food for the girl buying food for the profits which are the people that are already in the organization um doing things that were humiliating acting out things that were humiliating okay being broken down so one thing that they
Say is they they tell the girls you need to be whole to join this but then at the same time they say we breaking you down to Build You Up does that make sense no um we also couldn’t walk on grass because Sigma women don’t walk on grass
To like what they say you can’t walk on grass with your heels or something not eating salt Seafood sugary Foods if we were in a calf like we if we got caught eating certain things we weren’t supposed to eat like you get in trouble like all we like literally walking
Around like looking over our shoulder like trying to make sure we don’t see better the profits right couldn’t party couldn’t go through the club we could only go to social events if like it was requested of us so I do remember that semester we were allowed to go to the CIAA step show
And we all sat together which is like funny y’all had it sitting together and people from our school was there they knew what was up okay yeah so another thing is that when you’re pledging or joining an organization it’s in secret so like I said my I told my one friend who
Supported me I um told like my my family because they financially supported this um and yeah you have to keep it in secret now people a lot of the people who were already Greek they could tell that we were online but yeah we have to
Keep it you have to keep it in secret it was like Underground um you know we when we would meet or go to set which is like those late night sessions but we would meet we had to go like and be um like Incognito we have to go in our
Regular clothes meet in the bathroom of the building change our clothes to our set clothes and then go in the room stand in the line chant things recite things answer questions get yelled at on campus until we moved off campus but we’ll get there um just to bring up I know I’ve been
Talking a lot I haven’t shared any Scripture but it’s it’s coming it’s coming we had to go to people’s houses late we would go to our present the president’s house late um when it came time to prepare for the probate late at night we would meet up I
Don’t even know where this it was a random like area in the dark like it was like an industrial area I think we would meet up there come up with things to practice um yeah we have to be available via phone at any time sometimes I could be sitting
Already Duty and I would get a call and I would have to get up and go wherever they set to go I could there were times I was in class and I would get a call um um one thing that they do is they they engraved Sisterhood in your mind
Um in the sense of Sisterhood Sisterhood you know these are your sisters all for one you know all for one or none pretty much like if one person did it we all had to do it if none of them want it if none of us wanted to do it then that was
It if one person didn’t want to do it then one person didn’t want to do it if one person’s stockings was ripped all of our stockings had to be ripped if one person forgot their stockings that said we all have to take them off like if one
Person forgot their pen if one person didn’t have earrings in like we we had to look the same um and Romans 12 5 says so in Christ we though many form one body and each member belongs to all the others in Christ not in stigma in Christ okay um
Another thing I want to talk about is the the day we were initiated um the official they were initiated we nailed them nailed down on the pillow okay disorders we’re around us in the circle we know down on a pillow with our hand on the Bible and recited the pledge
There were candles lit around us okay if this don’t sound demonic I don’t know what what does okay and I just remembered that that was the first time that I felt something was off that was the first time I felt so much off but I’ll tell you that I was the one
On the line that was like oh I’m doing whatever they say because I wanted it so bad I said I’m doing whatever they tell me I’m saying whatever they tell me because I want this all I want is the letters like that’s all I could see all I saw
Was the end I didn’t care what I had to do to get there okay so if it was kneeling down on a pillow and reciting a pledge to this organization I said I did it I’ll admit it I did it and I did feel something inside that was like oh this
Is a little weird but at that point I knew that if I said these things and if I did these things that I’m gonna have what I want um and yeah so I pledge my life to the story I pledged my life I pledged past tense I pledged my life to it um
So after Crossing I became more known so my campus was very small so everybody already kind of knew me like they knew me as an array they knew me if they worked in stem I was all uh worked if they knew me if they um were a
Stem major I worked in the stem buildings I was a tutor so I was already like kind of like known or at least a familiar face but I know that once I became my sgr it was like a bigger Spotlight on me one thing I tell you is
That when you once you cross that you’re no longer you so they would say you know you’re no longer you you would be known as chamaris eschiro the daughter of Christ but jamaris the sgro that became my new identity oh that’s Meredith the poodle that was my new identity and so stepping
Into that identity I started partying more and I’m not saying anyone forced me but this is kind of this is what comes with it there is Greek events you have to go there and socialize you go to parties you stroll you step all that um I my senior year I was the bachelor’s
Or the president of my chapter and as the president you are the spokesperson so I was speaking at meet the Greeks I was speaking at like mphc meetings um I led our chapter meetings like I did all these things in the name of Sigma okay um I I went to a club
I was so called my first the first week of freshman year and I didn’t like it and I never went back but then once I became an SQL I started going more to clubs um there was a time my senior year where I don’t know if it was my whole chapter
Or just a few of us but we were suspended due to hazing allegations um the the that ended up getting lifted but um yeah my life just became engulfed with sgro after I made that pledge I was jamarius the SQL and everything I did was sgro
Um I went to I started traveling a lot literally my senior year I should be thinking what I’m going to do no me and my former lion sisters we were traveling to like Norfolk State we were traveling to New York City going to step shows going to probate we were coming back to
At the time I was talking to someone who was um in a fraternity in Maryland so we were coming to Maryland all the time going to his fraternity stuff going to his school’s events like we were doing a lot okay to be a college student a broke college student at that so then
Um what’s something else also I’ll I’ll say that something crazy and I’m laughing because it’s amusing to me in the sense like I can’t believe I did this um I remember my senior year we were at parties so we used to stroll every gym party and I was drunk okay another thing
I was drunk and I remember my last sister told me that somebody I think it was like a guy with shimmy and one thing about it is like once you join you don’t want anybody doing what you do so if there was anybody not in the organization or even if they were they
Were in some other order if they were like shimmying we did not like that so like FC Rose are known to shimmy we did not like that I would approach them aggressively and apparently at this gym party I was fighting because people were shimmying and to be honest I don’t
Remember I blacked out I don’t remember it but that was just it’s it’s honestly embarrassing I said it was amazing but it’s embarrassing that I did that um I was fighting because somebody was shimmying and you know I’m like no like we’re estros like y’all don’t send me
Y’all need to chill I would be a lot I didn’t like that the cheerleaders at my school they would stroll I didn’t like that I would always say something like why are they stolen y’all are cheerleaders y’all didn’t pledge nothing so yeah those are just some other college things
So then I graduated in 2015 I transferred to a graduate chapter here in Maryland um I remember shopping around for a graduate chapter like there’s a lot in the area but I chose the PG County chapter um and while I was there I became the secretary
And I became a social the social club or social committee chairperson and I also um became a roller club co-advisor and then eventually I also I joined the new membership committee so I was still serving Sigma like I was still giving service to Sigma by joining these committees and holding these positions
Um in The Graduate chapter and you know I I helped friends with their applications and to other organizations I’ve donated money to help um someone join my undergraduate chapter I was still like heavily um involved and I also like wrote people’s recommendations and so now we’re in 2015
So I still consider myself to be a lukewarm Christian Christian at this time um let me fast forward it wasn’t until summer 2018 or just 20 not even 2018 2017 where a lot of things started like going downhill for me um someone that I was talking to hurt me really badly and
Um I remember this was Summer’s 2017. I found out all this mess with that guy so I’m like depressed and down about that I also failed a class that summer so I just my I feel like my life was like in shambles and because I failed that
Class and I’m in grad school and I failed the class because I was out partying all the time I was out doing Greek stuff I have all these committees I just felt like okay graduate school is important to me and in order for me to
Pass I need to drop something so I was obsessed in my life and I said okay I’m not talking to this guy no more what else can I drop I thought oh I’m gonna have to I felt like I needed to drop some of the things I was doing
Um in the sgro chapter so then that summer I dropped my positions on the Committees and I dropped my position at secretary the only committee I was still on was new membership just because I knew that that was like the least amount of effort so um fast forward to 2018 summer 2018
I rededicated my life to Christ in July of 2018. and at this point like I’m you know still heavily in Sigma and I think that the Lord started like the Lord started like dropping little hints in me to leave but I didn’t realize it at the
Time so I remember I I we did we dedicated my life to Christ in July and then I joined the church that same month and when I think let’s say like October that’s when the church finally was like instated and we had every we had Sunday
Service like every week at that time and I had my car I had the sgr license plate I also had a sgr keychain at first like nothing was really going on with it no one ever said anything to me at the church but for some reason
Every time I would walk into the church I would hide my keychain I don’t know why but something Emmy was like girl put that away so I started hiding my keychain and then in November of 2018 my car died and I got a new car and I could have
Transferred my sgro license plate to that new car but for some reason I threw it away and I don’t think these were conscious like decisions like I don’t think I was thinking like should I keep this should I not it was just like throw it away and I just put it away
Like I didn’t think too much of it um and then early 2019 this is kind of like the Catalyst right early 2019 one a girl who was in The Graduate chapter I was in she kept asking to like hang out with me and I just was like ducking her for some
Reason or it was always something like I just wasn’t impressed to really hang out but since she kept like hitting me up I was like okay let me go hang out with her I think this made me like it may have been like April 2019 I don’t know
It was just sometime early right so we met a bit of Starbucks before my church service and I remember meeting up with her just like hey like how’s it going blah blah blah and then she said oh so the reason why I wanted to meet up
With you is I wanted to ask you um or she was like you know I noticed from your Facebook page that you had grown in your relationship with God do you feel like being in a sorority affects your relationship with God so at this point no one has asked me
This question before no one at my church has said anything nothing so I just remember looking at her and being like no like why would you think that being and the sgro would affect my relationship with God like I said they’re not even like touching like I
Was like No And she started telling me that it’s something she’s been thinking about and that she saw she’s been seeing people denounce and she was like yeah like she’s kind of conflicted and she wanted to know what I think and I remember telling her like oh well that’s
Those people’s stories like I don’t have nothing to do with me like I’m okay like I’m good and that was that like she didn’t press it she came to church with me later that day and that was it so what happened after that is a maybe
Like a week or so like in the next weeks I started seeing I had Instagram at the time I started seeing like all these denouncing videos okay and I was upset so before that like when I would see something like on Greek Shenanigans Instagram or just something online about people denouncing I would
Like be like I would laugh at them and I would be like oh they don’t know what they talking about like I would think the people were crazy okay so the week or two after I met with that girl and she was questioning me I saw a
Video of this girl she was denouncing AKA and I remember being so upset that she shared that on Instagram that I blocked her I don’t even know this girl but I blocked her we weren’t even following each other it was other people I followed with sharing her video like
Every time I click on somebody’s story they’re sharing this girl’s video and I’m like bro I don’t want to see this so I blocked the girl okay because I was like she’s talking crazy like no there’s no way that God could tell someone to leave like no
So I remember that happened one week the next week I see someone on Facebook sharing a video of someone I think they the girls talking about like denouncing Zeta and I’m like oh my gosh why do I keep seeing videos of people denouncing like it was upsetting me
And then maybe the week later that same video came up and I think it was now a group of people in one video talking about denouncement and I remember being at work and I just played it like I played it and I I started playing it
Within like the first five minutes I was bawling at my desk okay I was bawling in my office crying listening to these people tell their story and I don’t know if it was tears of like oh I’m understanding I don’t know if it was tears of conviction but I will say
It was tears of like this like I think I thought like wow like what they’re saying could possibly true could possibly be true and if it’s true that means that I’m going to have to denounce and I think that was that was where the tears were coming from
Because at this point like I’m growing in Christ I’m growing the Lord I’m serving in my church but I’m also serving as Shiro and I just felt like wow like I have to I have to I have to pick one and so from there I remember going home
And I opened up the sgro Sops and I started just reading it I was like let me they talking about you know it’s some crazy demonic stuff going on like let me read this so I remember like scrolling like reading through the Sops like I literally read it from like front to back
And I was like at the end of reading it I was like I have to leave um I don’t have the book anymore obviously but I remember reading like certain things like rituals the some some of the rituals they were like personifying Sigma in place of the word
God and I think that was something I was like oh this ain’t right and then like it was as if like the Holy Spirit started downloading other things to me like I started remembering stuff um on what I did and realizing how it completely negates the word of God
Um one example for that is um how when you cross right you’ll say like oh y’all may know me as jamarius but to my sisters to my Silvers they know me as blah blah blah and I realized like wait why am I getting a new name in the sorority like
Christ assigns people new names all throughout the Bible that God has the power to give us a new name not the sorority huh also um how we would say like oh we’re looking up to the stigma light so like when we were at set like we have to look
Up to the cinema like we couldn’t look at anyone we had to look up to her life right and then I thought about it like hold up hold up hold it we said that Sigma was the light when the word of God says Jesus is the light
Jesus is the light and darkness not Sigma not Alpha not none of that stuff Jesus okay not these sororities and fraternities and just like I think those were the the few things that first day when I was like let me research this those few things had me again in tears because I
Could not fathom would I signed myself up for I remember calling the girl that I met with I think at this point it’s maybe like a month before I remember calling her like crying like bruh you were so right the things you were saying to me
Were so right and I started just telling her stuff that I realized like that I felt like the scales were removed from my eyes okay and so she started telling you some other things that she brought and I was just like I couldn’t believe it I couldn’t believe it at all um
So that was early 2019 my dog so then um at this point I’m kind of like on a journey of figuring out what to do I’m praying I told my close friends what happened and I I said y’all like please pray for me because I don’t know what to do and the
Only way that I can leave if it’s the Holy Spirit if God himself says generic like you have to go like there’s no way you can serve two masters okay so I went through a period of Prayer I reached out to other people who had denounced um I went to an event
Um by an organization called out from among the Ministries I remember going to the event and basically there were people of all um I think it was all women I don’t remember if there were men there but definitely there were people that were females that were in sororities they were sharing their story
Um and how they denounced and I remember after it going up to a girl who had denounced as Shiro and I remember going up to her like yeah I’m still in it and I’m ready like how do I get out of this how do I get out of it
Like that that was it for me um that was it so that summer like I got some resources on how to denounce spiritually and how to denounce formally um I remember when I denounced spiritually it was like it was a whole Deliverance process I was at home I
Recited a prayer to denounce denounce all of the Oaths all of the pledges all the things I said all the things I did um I denounced it I casted it down I said I don’t want it no more you know what I’m saying like I casted it out of me
Um I remember like I started doing the like SGL call I just started saying it like it felt like it was leaving my body for the last time I I that’s the only way I can explain it it left my body for the last time okay
Um yeah and I was delivered um but one thing I’ll say about Deliverance is that you know you can be delivering from something but still like have a stronghold related to it and so I feel like although I was delivered from this in 2019 um the fear I had from sharing my story
Like it kind of felt like um it’s still like being at St Rose still had to hold over me until recently like it’s done it’s over like I have no parts to I have no ties to it I have no ties yeah no I’m out
Um I formally I got my formal letter in 2021 um basically I sent an email after I denounced that day I sent an email I believe this is now literally July 31st 2019 I sent the email to the membership director saying like I desire to renounce and denounce the sorority I’ve
Already threw out all of my paraphernalia threw it away um I got rid of everything I deleted all the photos that I had of myself um and yeah that was a 2019 I didn’t get my formal letters to 2021. I had to send them multiple emails okay
Um and then I finally got when I had my exit interview basically they’re asking why do you want to leave I told them why they said they asked like is there anything they could have done better um that’s basically asking are you sure you want to do this yeah I’m sure goodbye
Yeah and that was it um life after denouncing it’s been amazing it’s been amazing because I can truly serve the Lord and no one else um I’m not serving anyone else um I’m not putting Sigma over God um I’m not doing that like hustle like I felt like when when the Lord was
Revealing things to me about it I felt like I was in limbo what do I do what do I do and I chose them I chose them again and I’ll keep just choosing the Lord every day um life after denouncing though I remember I ran into someone
A sgro and she thought I was I just she thought I was not Financial and that wasn’t the case it wasn’t that was not Financial that I mean I left um I now have confidence to you know even last year I was at an event and it
Was full of sgos and the one came up to me and was like oh we’re about to take a photo and I told her I said oh I’m not in a sorority anymore I can confidently say that and this is how I you know one thing is that when you’ve been delivered
From something when you know you’re truly set free when you can confidently share it and here I am sharing that I’ve been set free um and so just some main points also I want to oh let me jump back um I just want to talk about like
My another thing about my life after like before I left like all my friends were Greek now I’m I I could say I don’t I don’t have any friends that are Greek now like the Lord really took I mean he separated me like I literally came came out from among them
Um where before I was constantly going to Greek events like every week I don’t anymore I remember like for a brief period of time I was going to a church where the pastor was a cap up I don’t go there anymore um I lost a lot of friends I’ll say but
I’ve gained way more friends in the kingdom of God so yeah it worked out for me um some main points that God wants me to share um about why why he called me out um the oath and the pledge oh the pledge um and I’ll post it because I don’t want
To say it again but the pledge some of the words that just don’t it’s not right to the only I pledge my life Within Me I I will I I will I find the inspiration for the making of financial character the Bible says um I believe this is Matthew 5 33 I’ll
Correct it on the screen if I’m wrong again you have heard that it is what’s that it was said to the people long ago do not break your oath but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made but I tell you do not swear an oath at all
Either by heaven for it is God’s Throne or by Earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem for it is the city of the great queen king and do not swear by your head for you cannot make even one hair white or black why are we seeing oath why are we
Pledging our life pledging our life to these sororities no the Bible says in Romans 6 16 Romans 6 16. don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves you are slaves of the one you obey whether you are slaves to sin which leads to death or to obedience which
Leads to righteousness don’t she know that when you offer yourself to someone as obedient slaves you are slaves to them okay Luke 10 27 love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind
And love your neighbor as yourself love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul okay but the pledge says I give my I pin in thee I pin my faith hope and trust you know some some sororities have this song that says all of my love
And all of my peace all of my happiness I give to you now the chapter I was in we didn’t sing that but I know other sgos have just even sung that no I give my love and all my life to the Lord Jesus not to the sorority 0.2 idolatry
I when I was in my organization I had a shrine in my house with all and she wrote stuff a lot of people they have a lot of people in Greek words they have this a shrine essentially an altar to the god of that organization
Exodus 20 30 to 6 says you shall have no other gods before me you should not make for yourself a carved image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the Earth You shall
Not bow down to them nor serve them we bowed down to them when we got inducted okay for for I the Lord your God am a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me
But showing Mercy to thousands to those who love me and keep my Commandments a lot of people in these oils like to say oh I’m not idealizing I used to say that I’m not idolizing Sigma what he’s talking about put you hard the fact that you’re saying
You’re not idolizing it is shows that you are if Jesus came down today and told these people to leave they won’t that used to be me Lord forgive me that used to be me okay changing words um from the Bible and putting the word Sigma in it to personify it and twisting the
Scripture it goes against the word of God and Deuteronomy 4 2 it says do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you why are we saying two D Sigma it doesn’t
Make sense another point that I want to talk about is pride you get so much pride when you join these organizations okay it’s like once you join and go through your process and you feel like you know you’ve worked so hard you’ve done so much work to get here and you
Got these letters it’s like you feel like you’re better than everyone else and even um on campus like there was kind of like a hierarchy um of like sororities you know like we felt like we worked harder to get our letters than other sororities so we had
This Pride even to the point like you know like when people were interested it was like oh why do you want to join why do you feel like you’re good enough like you don’t have what I used to say like this person doesn’t have like Star character there’s nothing special about
Them like why should they be able to join my organization that’s how I was acting but the Bible says in Proverbs 8 13 to fear the lord is to hate evil I hate pride and arrogance evil behavior and perverse speech God hates pride and I was prideful God hates arrogance and
People in these organizations are full of arrogance and pride he hates it he hates it okay we should hate it too and the last point and the biggest one of all for me and a reason why God wanted me to leave is that my identity was in the organization
Although I was created in the image of God although I gave my life to Christ although I be dedicated to him I still saw myself as jimenezuela I did not see myself as jamaris the daughter of God jamaris The Marvelous work of the Lord jamaris you know the princess of
The king of kings I did not see myself as that I saw myself as an SG road because that what was instilled in me that that is what was instilled in me she wrote and that is what I needed to represent to the best of my ability at
All times okay Genesis 1 27 it says so God created Mankind in his own image in the image of God he created them male and female created them I was created in the image of God not in the image of Sigma okay my identity was in this sorority so much it consumed my
Mind it consumed my thoughts it consumed my life and God wanted me to leave so that I could give my all to him so that I could give him my love so that I could give him my life 100 percent so why did I do this video I did this
Video literally because God wanted me to um he wanted me to share my story he wanted me to share my testimony so that I could reach others who are saved who are born-again believers and who are still stuck in the bondage of a Greek letter organization that they have
Pledged their life to God wants us to be out he wants us to be free and he wants us to be living for him and only him okay so if you’re in an organization and you consider yourself to be a believer of Jesus I encourage you to ask God what he
Thinks about this I encourage you to truly and really assess why did you join what made you join and what are what are you doing now okay what are you doing now that could possibly be harming your relationship with God and I just want you to ask him just ask him
About it and see what he says and then for the person who may be thinking about joining I again encourage you to ask yourself why what are you aiming to get from it and and really figure out does this even align with the word of God this if you
Believe in God if you believe in his word and you want to live by his word does joining the organization align with it and are you seeking something that God has already freely given you are you seeking something out of these words that God has given you will give you and
Is trying to give you but you’re not asking him you’re wanting to join an organization to get it this is what you know my charge is for you all um because people are still joining daily I’m seeing all these probates and my heart hurts for the people who have
You know signed their life over to these organizations um if you want to talk to me more if you have any questions comments positive comments you can definitely comment on this video um if you want to have a private conversation I’ll put my email in the description box um I don’t have Instagram
So yeah I put my email I mean yeah I hope this is I hope that this blesses someone um and I just look forward to the kingdom of God growing um yeah
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