Welcome back to the secret place everyone my name is Ashton and as you know here at the secret place we are devoted to gaining intimacy with God our Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so if you have come to deepen your relationship with God if you’re
Looking to go deeper in the things of God we thank you for joining us today we are going to go deeper into the truth of God with the word of God today so as you can see today I have some guests with me the first guest on the secret place I
Got some brothers with me and we are going to talk today about our journeys of renouncing our affiliation with Kappa alasi Fraternity Incorporated we’re going to go deep into the truths of why this organization and even the other eight are not you know they are not in
Agreement with the word of God so I just want to make that clear before we even get started all nine of them are demonic all nine of them are against the word of God but for our purposes we’re going to focus on Kappa Alpha side today so
Before we get started I’m going to let my brothers go ahead and introduce themselves give us a brief testimony about about how they came to join Kappa and then what let them out of Kappa and after that we will go ahead and get started with these truths today so jiren
I’m gonna go ahead and turn it over to you appreciate it man it’s definitely a privilege to be here Ashton U thank you for platform and just your boldness um Coming forth um I actually uh reached out to you uh last year in the summer um
After I saw your video on La La’s Channel anouncing Kappa and um like I’m jumping right into my testimony but uh Jonathan is also a pleasure to meet you too brother um so you know with me um Kappa was a thing that uh my
Father was also a part of or is a part of still and when I was a youth I just would see him in his letters and and in the paraphernalia around the house but he never really told me much about it so when I got to college it was one of
Those things that you know especially in the HBCU campus um it’s a it’s a cultural phenomenon you get there you see all the Greek stuff going on and it looks like you know strong Brotherhood the step shows and and and everything is is alluring you know what I mean so um
Took it upon myself my sophomore year to go to an interest meeting and they were highly interested in me joining and um I didn’t do any re research I didn’t know anything about it like I said my pops never told me anything about it um but I
Just was like I’mma show up whatever happens happens and um ended up uh pledging on that line and um what’s interesting is is once I joined I became very active I was a a pollark of the president for those who don’t know what that is of the chapter at my University
I was a stepmaster and I’m highly dedicated to one te to you know Inspire other men young men at the at the University that was really my goal and um I thought in the name of capital that that was uh the ideal thing that they should join and they should do um
But what’s also interesting in that retrospect is I never really needed it I I was I I was dedicated in college but after college it was kind of like a thing that I was a part of that I never really tapped into um I might have kept
Up with some Line brothers at the time you know you know throughout the year but um never really felt connected to it more than my relationship with God um that was always my Foundation raised in the church um had a season when I questioned everything and swayed and
That time with which is a whole another story when I literally had to call on the name of Jesus to deliver me from um spiritual warfare that I had no Foundation scripturally or uh wisdom about um I had the touch of Jesus Christ um lift that burden in a moment took my
Breath away gave me peace and I no longer have that stronghold in my mind and that started the sanctification of My Life um getting to know Jesus um even further and and I’m so glad and and and feel free um because of that so going
Back to Kappa I know I got a long intro y’all but going back to Kappa um you know it was a time where uh I rededicated my life again uh 2022 in September got baptized and I asked the Lord I said you know um God reveal
Everything in my life that is not in accordance to your will prune me of all the things that all the people all the the habits the you know aspirations pruned me and pece by piece it began pruning my life and I came across that video Ashton and regular day still a cap
Didn’t cross my mind Y and not even halfway through I knew I was convicted to leave Capal in that moment I knew I was time to go and I believe that I was primed and and and postured in the right position to hear from the Lord that this
Was something that I needed to do um but it was a no-brainer so instantly threw away every single thing that I had wasn’t in a good place to burn it but but I threw away every single thing that I had that day the next day wrote my
Letter and got it uh notorized send off and and that was that and that was April of last year I connected with you over the summer we’ve been talking since and one thing I want to let everybody know that’s watching is that we’ve all been praying for this particular moment to do
This video um it wasn’t a fly by night thing we’ve gotten to know each other we’ve been able to uh share scriptures and and really do the homework behind the things that we were attached to in that organization um so believe it or not U for those who are believers I
Think this will highly enrich you on your journey with Christ to be able to leave and take up your cross the things of this world for those who are non-believers um it will ruffle your feathers at the end of the day and I I can’t put it in any other way um but
That’s okay you know um we have differences but I honestly believe that the word of God is truth and um that was my true foundation for being able to leave uh cap alasi amen amen we appreciate you glad to have you on here and uhan we want you to go ahead
And introduce yourself brother he man that was powerful so I’m Jonathan uh I crossed that I played at University of Louisville in Spring 20 um I was the TA in the Rock Club of that line uh man so how I really got in really was when I
Went to WKU I fell I didn’t know much about Greek till I got there like you said earlier like you just see everything uh and then out of knowwhere it’s like I was just drawn to it uh by the lust of the eye and see what was
Going on um then for the Brotherhood the false sense of the Brotherhood that I did see but not to have that I wanted that you know uh and then everyone that was around me over a period of time was literally was in a dine organization or
C like that was the main and then everyone that was around me on top of that that was non- Greek wanted to be Greek and then we was all talking you know what I’m saying so then I uh I was devoted to getting in and I already knew
About some of the things uh like going through a process and stuff like that but I was willing to do it like and it’s crazy to say that now but I was willing to do it because I knew on the other side for that Brotherhood that I felt
Like I needed uh and so that’s how I that’s how I like was drawn to it and then how I really came out was man the Lord convicted me one day and he said look up Pagan societies um of Egypt in Egypt and I knew about like the Israelites and how
They and then he had me read Jeremiah where they was bowed down C them prostitutes bowing down to the tree um bowing down to all these false guides and then he said told me look up Pagan societies and then there enough there it was um talking about all these things
About Greek life and stuff so I started looking into it and then I actually reached out to Aston too the Lord had me watched all these announce videos but I was like Lord there’s no body of C like you know and then he was like so he led
Me and then one day he told me to look and then the video with you and laa was on the first one on and so I clicked on it halfway through the video like a brother jiren said just conviction and I reached out to Ashton and he reached
Back out real quick and then I asked him because I asked the Lord I said Lord if I truly love you why does this seem so hard for me to be obedient when you ask me to do something where I don’t want to do it and I know you are God on Mighty
After I have my Supernatural encoun with him and then he used Ashton to break it down that how deeply and rooted the soul TI was between me and it and that he wanted that place in my heart and that it was hindering uh my walk with him
Where I where I was already making videos um stuff like that I was already evangelizing and then he said if you can’t be obedient to me right now with this you might as well stop everything you’re going to do everything you’re doing or you’re
And I sat back and I didn’t post you can look on my pages to I didn’t post for weeks because I was in a conflict between God and then uh I was like God you know what I’m G surrender it to you because I do love you and I feel
Fulfilled with you than not with you and so that’s how I end up getting pulled out and then I actually had to go through steps of Deliverance where I had to get those demonic spirits out of me uh that attached to me through the rituals I know which we’ll talk about
Later on but yeah so that’s how I came in and out amen well it’s a it’s just amazing how God has connected just connected the three of us and even just thinking about Brotherhood you know some of the conversations that the just the three of us have had in the months that we’ve
Known each other we’ve prayed together we’ve shared scripture with each other and we have a Brotherhood based on the foundation of Christ you know I can’t think of any time where being in the organization where I had conversations that were edifying the way that our conversations have been or or we really
Talked about what’s going on and been able to pray for each other the way that you know brothers are supposed to if we’re brothers in Christ I should be Waring for you the same way that you wore for me so even that just the depiction of just how our Brotherhood
Contrast between the Brotherhood that we experienced um at least the foundation of the Brotherhood that we have now compared to being in the organization so I just a brief a brief story of how I got into cap how it came out um I went to a pwi so I didn’t have
The the opportunity to pledge an undergrad so after college um you know my first job I met some people I started to meet people who were Greek and I just sparked an interest you know it seemed like this cool Social Club a way to meet other people of color you know
Especially in your career I grew up I always wanted Brotherhood you know that’s kind of the typical story that a lot of us have wanting Brotherhood um so Kappa was the one that I chose because my friend was in another org so honestly I just didn’t want to be in the same org
As him I wanted to kind of do something on my own so I just chose Kappa um so I came in through a gr chapter so you know I did the whole above process with the whole gr chapter and we’ll get into the rituals but then because I was still
Pretty young at the time still early 20s you know the chapter made it pretty clear like if you really want us to mess with you you know if you really want to be down and you and your line Brothers y’all need to really pledge so we ended
Up doing the underground you know we pledged with the undergraduate chapter so we ended up you know becoming a part of the under undergraduate chapter at the University of Connecticut um so that was how I got in 20 yeah summer 2016 um so 2018 I rededicated my life to Christ
And in that same summer our chapter had an incident where somebody ended up in the hospital and so you know our chapters suspended our chapters going through a lot of drama and stuff and just seeing at that time the way I was taking my walk with Christ seriously
Just seeing the way that the brothers were reacting the response to you know somebody being hurt there was no empathy there was no sympathy for this guy so I just started to remove myself and pull myself back from the chapter anyways um so this time 2018 moving on I’m growing
In Ministry um I end up becoming a youth leader I get ordained as a minister and then I really just become the feel really conflicted I’m like you know I don’t want to be in the pulpit and I’m getting introduced and people are talking about you know some Greek
Organization I don’t ever want to be one of those ministers that has on letters in the Pulpit so I just become really conflicted um and so last year yeah 2023 I was um just mind of my business and the Lord called me to go on a fast
20 no I didn’t I renounced in 2022 yeah 2022 um so the Lord asked me to go on a fast and you know during the fast he gave me the scripture Psalm 19 where David says how can I know all the sins lurking in my heart cleanse me from
These hidden faults keep your servant from Deliverance sins don’t let them control me then I will be free of guilt and innocent of great sin so I just started praying to the Lord you know reveal to me sins in my life that are hidden reveal to me sins that I’m even
Unaware of and Kappa was the first thing that came to the surface um so I wasn’t really that resistant to it I was just more so like God you know if you if you want me to do this do I really need to go public do I really need to be one of
Those people that you know get online and make a big fuss about it um so I was kind of going back and forth with the Lord about that um also at the time at the time my Lon brother at the time was about to get married so the last day of
My fast was also my Lon brother’s wedding so I was like Lord you know you know he’s asking us to practice strolls and all this stuff so I had to talk with my life Brothers I told them kind of where I was at and then one day during
The fast I open up my laptop and the first video that comes up on my YouTube is a video that says God is calling me out of my sorority and so I was Auto I was like this has to be the Lord I haven’t been watching anything Greek
Like this would not being my algorithm so I watched the video it was like 45 minutes long of this girl just kind of sharing her testimony and at that point I was like God I’m done I went into my closet started pray like doing this renouncing prayer breaking agreement ran
Around the house gathered everything that I could find put it in a big bag and I was just like you know this this got to go in the trash remove the plates off my car I’m s renounced and then after probably like a couple weeks later after my former L brother’s wedding I
Went public with it um it’s when I made a post on Instagram just kind of you know saying that I was leaving the organization I didn’t even really go into into too much detail at that point but that’s kind of how I um came out of
The organization so now that we have our you know intros I think it’s a good time to at least just kind so we want to first of all let’s just talk about people who say why do you have to you know why can’t you just leave the organization and just mind your business
And why can’t first so to renounce because there’s a difference between renouncing and denouncing renouncing is when we privately have the conversation with god when we come out of agreement with those spiritual ties we come out of agreement with you know the Oaths and the pledges that we have made but to
Denounce the word denounce literally means and I hold up online it says to publicly declare to be wrong or evil so words mean things and that’s what we’re that’s really what we’re talking about is words mean things these Oaths and these vows that we take words mean
Things so when we’re asked why can’t we just denounce and go about our business literally the word denounce means for us to publicly declare that this is wrong so it’s impossible for us to just denounce and mind our business so this is why you know we are being public with
It because in the same way that our you know us being public about it brought us to together there’s no telling you know by us continuing to share the testimony and not just our testimonies but the testim testimony of the truth of Jesus Christ how somebody else will come to
True Deliverance so I just I’m just gonna share one scripture and then we’ll get into it so Ezekiel Ezekiel chapter 3:16 and 19 Ezekiel was a prophet that was called to speak against a lot of wickedness in his time and the Lord told him this it
Says after seven days the Lord gave me a message said son of man I have appointed you as a Watchman for Israel whenever you receive a message from me warn people immediately if I warn the wicked saying you are under the penalty of death but you fail to deliver the
Warning they will die in their sins and I will hold you responsible for their deaths if you warn them and they refuse to repent and keep on sinning they will die in their sins but you will have saved yourself because you obeyed me and so as Believers you know we have a
Responsibility that when the Lord reveals truth truth to us when he reveals something to us as being Wicked against his word we have a responsibility to share with our brothers and sisters we have a responsibility to share with the world the message of the Lord now what you
Know what individuals choose to do with the truth that’s up to them we all work out you know we all work our Salvation we’re fear and trembling but we have a responsibility to at least share the truth for people to receive it man truly and I do want to touch real
Quick how you said while we come out publicly too is we was public with sinning with siming on women with uh publicly in public also drinking uh uh sinning you know against God public and we come in public to also declare our love for God as well in that sense to
Show like we are no longer who that was and we are who he says he is we are now and we are children of God now so we’re publicly coming out to also express our love and who got us out of that and and who took the veil off off our eyes to
Show us the truth in the first place because he so loved all of us and he so loves the world which is what John 3:16 talks about which is YouTube is all those who are also watching right now so that’s another thing while we go public as well that’s right that’s right even
The probate show you know we have these big coming out parties these big probate party celebrations everybody wants to post it on Facebook coming you know into the org so you know boldness as we come out of it so let’s just talk also real quick people people like you know reputation
And and people associate you your identity and you are a new identity in Christ you know so that’s the thing it’s like I’m rejoicing in the fact that man ain’t nothing better than waking up like I was telling you Ash ain’t nothing better than knowing what God’s peace is what
Being healthy in the spirit is what Clarity is you know seeing the Sanic if and being corrected and not running from it man it produces the fruit of the spirit man and so we have to be we got we have a real definition too about why
We denounce not just to the world but for the sake of our joy and our love in Christ you know what I’m saying so to add that piece right there man amen and I also want to hit real quick um how I want to hit something that I
Already know people going to say how we doing it for publicity and stuff but this has nothing for us to gain you know persecution has nothing for us to gain this is actually the opposite this is acting in love because at the end of the
Day if I love my neighbor as I love myself I’m want to tell them that hey you’re on the wrong road you know what I’m saying because everybody’s on two roads like Jesus says either you’re on the wide road that leads towards destruction which is Hell or you’re on
The narrow road that leads to eternal life which is God’s kingdom and it’s only through Jesus and so that’s why we’re here we’re here to to help people pick people up to feed people spiritually um to get off that wild road that road of deception that Satan has
Placed because he is the god of the air as Jesus even describes him and he’s out to steal kill and destroy he wants all of our souls and when we don’t follow Jesus we don’t we don’t walk in our purpose so that mean he stole our purpose he stole our identity and Jesus
Says we’re spiritually dead our soul and spirit is dead without him we don’t produce no fruit so like that’s why also while we’re here to spread the love of God not in a sense of like this tickle ear love but like in a sense of not this
Is reality type of Love there is a devil there are demons but there is a God a mighty God above all right yeah y Jonathan that’s a good point too when you talk about love because you know we just want to make very clear like we’re not here to bash anybody in these
Organizations bash abely absolutely we were we were all in these organizations um you know the point is to you know spiritual warfare is to go against you know the spirit behind this so yeah I I have no respect for Kappa I have no respect for Alpha Delta whatever it is
But the people in them I love and respect because they are our brothers and sisters at the end of the day and so you know a lot of times when we see these some you know sometimes these videos can’t come across as harsh some individuals do kind of you know focus
More on bashing the the people but our focus is to just show how the the principles because the big argument is that these organizations are founded on Christian principles or you know you could say the devil was he was created on Christian principles but look what happened when he allowed himself to be
Over with pride and perversion so you know when you really do research because they tell you during your interest process do your research but what they want you to research is just you know know all the lines that came before you know the colors they don’t
Want you to research and they don’t even know a lot of individuals don’t even know themselves because this is not taught to us but these organizations they’re founded on the principles of you know free masonry a lot of these Founders were actually Freemason so video you know we’re not coming against anyone we’re
Coming against the systems the principalities the Unseen forces that are driving these organizations because those are the things that need to be attacked and the scripture tells us in Ephesians 5: 8-13 it says to expose the wickedness of the enemy because we are children of the light so we are to take
The of Christ and expose the wickedness so some of the rituals let’s let’s really talk about the foundations and the principles of these organizations and also like you said from freemy Central log one.org the Freemason log like they literally have Kappa on their website because of Elder
Watson digs and I want to say Ezra D Alexander was part of that Central Lodge like this is where achievement of Kappa came from so like you said the foundation so amen they’re not founded on Christ so we’re going to get into that um so so getting into the organization because
Another another argument that so we we want to refute every argument for these organizations so another or another argument is that well not everybody pledges you know not everybody has to go through the physical part of it but there is a part of it that every member
Whether or not your quote unquote paper paper is you know a term that people used for people who just paid and didn’t really pledge for go to to get into the organization and those who are quote unquote made the ones who you know got abused pretty much that’s all it was was
Abuse so whether paper or made you all everyone has to go through the rituals everyone has to recite the rituals um you know different regions and chapters call them different things like in the Northeast where I was from they called it a Cluster meeting so that’s where you
Know a lot of chapters in the region would come together and you literally do this ritual ceremony in our ceremony they literally had us put on white sheets to cover ourselves in white sheets and we were saying the rituals and then we we went to this it was an altar whether or not
It was a table you know that’s another thing people say it’s not an altar whether it was a table whether or not it was just a little board those are alters and we’ll get into that as well but if we think about why we had on a white
Sheet it was literally like a marriage because that’s what happens at a at a marriage when you go into Covenant you know the groom um you know the groom is waiting for his bride and the bride comes down in this white dress as she gives herself to the
Groom and that’s what we were doing we’re supposed to be the bride of Christ we give ourselves he says he’s coming back for his bride but when you go to these organizations you’re you’re you’re you know the the ceremony is literally you posing as a bride coming into
Covenant with this organization who is the groom it’s literally everything that God creates the enemy takes it and he perverts it and that’s exactly what this is it’s a it’s a perverted wedding it’s a perverted ceremony of us in Covenant to these organizations that all all nine
Of them have gods that are backed up you know in the rituals and mentioned and given reverence to in these rituals right absolutely so all right so let’s talk about uh so I’m just going to read some quotes from the Capa rituals so the first one of the lines in the
Capa ritual says initiates will be taken to the altar of Kappa alasi which is the sacred delic Shrine it says this altar shall be placed in the center of the room and covered with a crimson and cream coverlet initiates are to Bow and offer a barley white cake to the altar
Which is referenced to the God apoll so right there like this is a Christian organization why are we bowing at any altars why are we making reference or mention of any other God other than the god of Abraham ISAC when it says the altar of cap alasi
Is the sacred delic Shrine if you do re and that’s one thing that we really don’t research you know when we’re interest because we just want to know the brothers and stuff but the sacred delphic Shrine is literally where the Greeks would go and worship they would
Send up Praises they would send up worship they would make sacrifices to the god Apollo and if we look Bible know the Old Testament altars were for worship and altars were for sacrifice unto God unto God you know the god of creation but the rituals are telling us
Clearly that there’s an altar in Kappa an altar of Kappa alasi which is synonymous with the altar of a god Apollo so right there you know Kaa is stating that we give honor and reverence to the god Apollo yeah and also I want to touch real quick how people just can’t push by
These words and say ah it’s not real like no you’re speaking words and we have the power of life and death in our Tong that’s what Proverbs 18:21 says so when we speak these things when we when we speak these things and we do the action behind them we’re literally
Coming to a agreement with what we’re speaking that’s what makes it the perversion because Satan perverts everything Christ says and that’s why he says we to tame our tongue so when we speak these things and we do these action behinds these words we’re coming into a illegal binding
Agreement and we given Satan legal right and authority to attach himself to us at that moment because not only did we speak life into what we just did but now we’re also acting on it so now we just sin against God and now he has legal right and authority to attach himself to
Us that’s just on that one right there you know I’m saying we even got in the midst of it and even our chapter the nickname was the death chapter you know so you’re not only quoting this the rituals and and the the poems in everything you’re you’re pledging
Allegiance to a chapter with the name death attached to it you know what I mean so um these are words but words are meaningful you know what I’m saying they mean something um you know the sword of the spirit is the word of God it’s the
Sword you know what I’m saying and so Jesus said he didn’t come to bring peace he came to bring a sword you know um you have to understand uh the bottom lines between things is is it’s not it’s not for attention it’s not for um because somebody’s hurt or or or trauma it’s
It’s literally A Renewed mind um you know what I’m saying that begins to you know God can reveal to A Renewed mind um because it’s it’s a fresh pot of soil that he begins to plant these seeds in and so for us to bear this kind of fruit
For people um when it comes to these rituals like I said it’s it’s it’s what identity is is your identity attached to these rituals do everything in this in this ritual book with the wisdom that you have does it on line and if it doesn’t then who’s right or wrong and
That’s for God to reveal you know at that point but you have to also do the work if you are in these organizations you have to go back into these books and and look at what you pledge to know what I’m saying take the time yourself as
Well we can’t do it all for every organization we just came from Capital you know what I’m saying we found what we found in this um but just keeping it honest like you you also should reamin especially if you’re a Believer especially because you know by the time you doing these things for
These for these rituals you already been through some stuff you I’m saying so you just ready to push through it like come on let’s get it over with let’s go I was the C 18 years you know I’ve lived life as an adult since then and come into uh
Some of God’s wisdom just a little bit you know what I mean just a little bit you know but but what I do have has corrected me you know and it’s it can be friends it could be your career it could be a perspective a philosophy it can
Also be a thing that you’re part of that you didn’t know or were ignorant to when you were in college as a young black man a young black woman um you know just wanting to be a part of something wanting to be a part of something fun we
Overlook a lot of these things it’s just like we say love is blind um you know how much do you love your organization versus how much do you love God and know the love of God that he has for you right what’s more important to you like you guys just mentioned our
Words our words mean things and our words have the power of life and death and Jesus even said in Matthew 12:36 he said one day we will have to give an account for every Idol word that we have spoken and so it’s not enough for us to
Just say oh you know that didn’t count or you know it was just a little silly pledge or it was just you know going through a ritual these words meant something and you know if Believers really had an understanding of what goes on in the spiritual realm we would take
Our words so much more seriously we would be so much more careful with the things we come into agreement with because our words like Jonathan said you know we’re giving access for the we we gave access for spirits to come in and torment us for spirits to influence us
For spirits to oppress us because we came into agreement with these things you know this god Apollo he was he was supposed to be you know the God for the Greeks of Prophecy um you know of sexual persuasion he was supposed to be the most good-looking all these things we
Were given those Spirits access to come and influence us we know prophecy only comes from the spirit of God himself but this false god is supposed to be you know able to prophesy to the Greeks and all this other stuff it’s just our words mean so much our words hold weight in
The Ral the spirit and that’s just so important for us to educate ourselves to know better because you know like we said a lot of times when you’re doing these Oaths when you’re repeating these things you’re either in this ceremony where you know you just want to get it
Over with sometimes you’re in a garage you’re in a dark room you’re blindfolded um you know you’re holding like some burning candle you don’t even know what’s going on you’re just being told what to say and you repeat it because you just you just want really you just
Want the night to be over with you want set to be over with so you want your L Brothers can get out and you know just get through another day facts and I want to touch on what jiren said also about how you know philosophy and stuff like that
Especially with people that have these type of mindsets is the Lord says in Proverbs 9:10 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of the Holy One of and and knowledge of the Holy one is understanding so the fear of the Lord is the true beginning of true
Wisdom and knowledge and understanding so without the fear the lord inside of any philosophy even PA went up against philosophers and was trying to break that down to them so they can understand that that true wisdom comes from God Almighty not from what we create and
What we make as a culture and what’s to look good and sound good right yeah so so so so I’m going to read something else that comes from the rituals so this this is part of the rituals where the pmark or the president of the chapter he
Says he speaks into the room he says why do these men seek admittance into our sacred Noble Clan and then somebody else responds and it says these men seek admittance because they realize that only here can they fully receive the principles that are essential to success
And true happiness and so in the rituals Kappa is saying that only by becoming a member of Kappa can any man truly experience success and true happiness now as a as a believer that should there should be a righteous indignation in your spirit when you hear somebody say some mess like that like
The only way you can receive happiness and success is by so the only way I can experience happiness is by pledging my life to a demonic organization and we know the scripture says Philippians 4:19 that God shall supply all of my needs according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus um you
Know the scripture says that he seated Us in Heavenly places he’s given us access to every spiritual you know everything we need is found in Christ Jesus but is saying in their rituals the rituals these These are the principles of which this organization is founded on saying that men can only find essential
Success and Happiness by becoming a member of Kappa like how how can we as Blood Bought Believers Holy Ghost fill Believers is still say that this is okay that this is uh this is do you think Jesus would do you think Jesus would hop online with you and pledge um and become
Like yeah and then to say that that bro we could also look into okay to get this knowledge that Kappa has we have to go through that pledge process because if you don’t PL you’re chasti out all they paper we can’t mess with them but then
You look out salvation is free and it’s through Jesus he gave it completely free there’s no strings ATT tax all he says is pick up your deny yourself and follow me that’s it put your faith in me that’s it so there’s no strings attached to this Godly wisdom it’s just reverence
That I don’t want to do nothing without you that’s true fear of the Lord then to say okay I need to go pledge my body as a Living Sacrifice to now be able to part be a part of this or like come on now Y and
You have to think um if I could touch on this part a little bit um just to speak to to those on a kind of like a a social level um because a lot of people why people join the reason why a lot of people join too you know and
You know that was one of the things that I remember having to evaluate when we were bringing in new lines was like you know why does this guy I want to join and and and you would start to kind of build this empathy for certain people because you realize that hey they come
From a fatherless home or they and I’m not saying that that’s the only reason you know but I’m just saying that was a reason for one of them and I could tell that he looked up to us for just the guidance he likeed being around us
Um and so you know we just so happen to be cers but at the end of the day I’m sure I probably could have still been the same had the same influence without it um it’s just again the Sy there’s symbolism there’s ritual even on campus
The stroll in there’s there’s um so many things that allowes people to these organizations to want to be a part of them whereas it’s not you really don’t have to you know what I mean I I have really close friends who never joined and had their reasons of why um and they
Were had nothing to do with uh with their you know walk with Christ or spiritual it was nothing spiritual about it it was just truly about how they saw themselves in the light of organizations do I need to even be a part of this and
Join this thing and be picked and so I get it you know what I mean we have our reasons of why but at the end of the day to those who did join for whatever reason my question to you is what are your governing principles for your life
For your soul for your eternal spirit what are your governing principles is it in this organization is it in your your reputation and your status at your at your in your career is it in your home and who you are to your family you know we have to remember that there’s a a
True chain of command a true order that God established and ordained for man to exist God the Father you know you know and so it’s at the end of the day that’s that’s just my main thing is I just like to touch on the fact that I we
Understand where people are coming from when you’re wrestling with this thing or why you joined it we’re not coming down on you but we have to be honest and reveal about um reveal what the word says what the word actually says about deities um you know and Etc we we we can
Go on for days with scripture but but talking to you person to person please examine that for yourself man and also I would like to touch with that too bro because a lot of times they’ll be like ah you just didn’t make sure you know yourself before you
Join so you don’t change and y y y but if you don’t have Christ in your life you don’t even know yourself from the get-go because he says I’m the True Vine and you are the branches and you we can’t do anything without him um we can’t be fruitful with without him and
We only produce the fruit of the spirit that’s what makes us fruitful and that goes back again without him where’re spiritually and our soul and spirit is dead you know our conscience is blinded because Satan comes to Blind the spiritual eyes he has that power especially when God gives over to that
Deprived mindset so I think it’s important that we also touch Bas and and expose that lie where they say ah you just don’t know your you make sure you know yourself or they just denounce because they didn’t know their identity they didn’t know who they were no none
Of us knows who we are until we come into the light of Christ that’s like a false lie that many people that the enemy uses through people to stop people either from coming out because of the persecution or to say hey like you can’t leave da d da because
You know make sure you know yourself and then they try to grow inside of that but yet instead officially stepping inside the light because the light has already Ed to the world and his name is Jesus right that’s right well said and Jonathan you mentioned the scripture you
Know you started to mention the scripture present yourselves a Living Sacrifice let’s talk about that because you know another argument is well you know I’m not worshiping the or you know I still have my walk with God and I’m in the org or you know I don’t bow down to
These Gods I don’t worship this org but a lot of people you know a lot of times we have a a skewed perception of what worship actually is so the RT says present your bodies a Living Sacrifice holy and acceptable unto the Lord for this is your reasonable act of worship
This is your service of worship so worship is more than than just a singing songs and we can touch on that because there are songs of worship in these organizations so the definition of a of a hymn according to the Webster dictionary A Hymn is a religious song or
Poem of praise to God with a capital G and then it also says or a god with a lowercase G so the the dictionary that we use in America is saying that anything that anything that is classified as a hymn is a religious song
Of worship to God or a God and so all these organizations we all have hymns so if we have a hymn that means we’re singing praises to somebody so let’s read some of the lyrics of the Kappa hymn it says oh Noble Kappa Alphas saai the pride of all our hearts true
Manliness Fidelity thou ever Dost impart the source of our Delights in joy and happiness Thou Art o Kappa Alphas saai from thee will never part and then it skips down and it says still we honor love and sing thy Praises over and over Kappa alasi we will live for thee we
Will strive for thee will all thy ways Adore we will long for thee and toil until we reach the Golden Shore like if you are singing anything like that other than to God that is like what you’re first of all who if you’re not singing this to God you’re singing
This song to a deity you’re singing to something that is not God and you’re talking about you’re the pride of all my heart you’re the source of our Delights joy and happiness like and you see you know when you go to the probates when lions are walking in you hear them
Singing that song all my love my peace and happiness I’m going to give it to Kappa Alpha Delta whatever organ is it’s we’re saying these things out of our mouth it’s literally worship it’s worship that is that is a form of worship facts look at the LIE the golden
Sword there is no Golden Shore it’s either Heaven or Hell Land Alpha land Omega land none of these lands are real and again it goes back to the words what you come in agreement with you know what I’m saying because a definition the Lord had me
Look up also worship um and that means to honor or show reverence for what are you honoring because we give praise and we we honor and worship every time we speak it’s just what are we magnifying when we speak are we speaking with the love and the fruit of the spirit you
Know what I’m saying because we’re not supposed to transform to this world because it’s greater he the holy spirit that lives through us like you said the Living Sacrifice you know so amen even in pledging we’re literally we offer up our bodies as a sacrifice to
Cap and when you get in the cut and you take those however many you know paddles or how many K you’re offering up your body as a Living Sacrifice every single night um you know they used to say you got to pay the price to be a noop you
Know what what price are we Jesus Paid It All so why am I paying a price to be a part of anything why am I paying a a price to have some type of identity um you know you you’re literally putting your body on the line you’re leaving set
At like three: or 4 in the morning tired you know offering up your body as a sacrifice you could potentially get into a car ex that leaving set um how many people have died literally died from pledging practices from initiation practices but these are supposed to be organizations that glorify God man to
Pledge is to sacrifice anyway you what I’m saying because you can’t pledge without sacrificing your body so I want to cover that as well like you can’t pledge without sacrificing your body your body’s going to go through some type of torment and pain just to get through and that may not be with
Paddling they may be hit you on your ribs with their hands their back your chest you know I’m saying we had this thing called crucifixion uh which is crazy the symbolism um where you in the cut you paddle you got want somebody over your back they they hit you on your back then
You stand up in your chest and you write back down like it’s so much symbolism and think about the process as a whole like we had 10 Gods on the line and it was to all make all of us as one think of the perversion of the Father Son and
The Holy Spirit all as one see what I’m saying like there’s so much symbolism and just the pledging process in general more than just Living Sacrifice but yeah your body is going to go through some type of Torment some type of pain some type of suffering just to wear those
Letters on your chest just to throw up that symbol you know just to you know what I’m saying like man it’s pretty it’s pretty crazy now when I sit back and just think I did that or I did that to people like I to know that I used to
Think that that was okay that was the problem you know what I’m saying that’s what I had to really meditate with myself hold on that’s real it’s chaos chaos rooms bro and and no nothing Godly about it at all not at all anybody that comes to me and say that these
Organizations are founded on Christian principles go read your Bible man like you will not find any of these organizations in the Bible number one all right you ain’t gonna find these these deities in there either yeah it’s like like for me it’s like again to to I can’t speak for the non-believer what
Can I say to you but it doesn’t even really matter it’s like from for for God’s sake you know for his for reverencing him um it’s important that they know like well it’s important that we all know including myself you what I’m saying that uh sanctification like
We talked about earlier Ashton is a process and if you are convicted cuz I forg to speak to those people if you are feeling that conviction right now um you’re not alone you know what I mean like like conviction is correction you know don’t run from that correction it’s
An opportunity to hear from God it’s an opportunity to see God begin to move in your life and to begin to do away and prun you and um you know and so but God always uh sustains what’s fruitful and he will reveal what’s fruitful in your
Life and for me you know was no longer a fruitful thing you know the you know I never did it for networking or um you know like I said I just did it just to have something to share with my pops honestly you know what I mean but but
Other than that it’s it’s it’s a thing that other people join for other reasons so I can understand that that process is taking you longer than some others or or if that top you’re just wrestling with it you’ve been questioning and you haven’t decided Well take a chance
Today decide today that you will follow up and do more research you know re read the things that youed over the years you know and let God move move you into renouncing denouncing as well yeah you know don’t be afraid of that like what can people really say and do if God
Is at your back trally and I and I want to touch what you said bro because in John 146 Jesus literally says I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me that’s right say that I am the way that means
There is no other way to say that I am the truth that means there is no other truth it’s not your truth my truth as his truth it’s his truth like that’s why we we’re stressing to like pick up your Bible or go get a Bible you know and see
What he says because he is the Living God he’s not like all these other religion guys where they just supposedly listen but don’t answer no he’s a God that answers his people and for us to all come out that mean he spoke to each and every one of us because he’s alive
Alive and active according to Hebrews 4:12 and his word is alive and he is that he is the word so like really like like taking that consideration that Jesus says I am the only way I am the only truth I am the only life the only
Way to life to Eternal Kingdom so like really open up the Bible and open up your ritual books um and and really like dig in and compare them two to see how how this is supposed to be goly based on Christian principles and see what God really says about it because a question
God asked me y’all was what does underground process have to do with what they’re supposed to stand for which is the five objectives and I sat back and I really like thought about it because and I didn’t have no answer for him and and I said well it doesn’t really correlate
You know um which kind of touch based back on what you said earlier Jaren was about like people was looking up like you got to get that where man maybe they did come from a father’s home and they’re telling you you know but that’s why the world is
Waiting for the children of God to stand up because we should be those leaders without being in these organizations in general yeah you know what I’m saying but yeah bro I just think it’s important that we really just lean on that and just compare the two because you know it
Has nothing to do with what’s above ground what we’re supposed what they was supposed to stand for and then he said okay so what happens when you don’t go through it and I was like well I used to treat people like man they paper I can’t rock with them you know because it
Messes your own reputation too that’s a whole another conversation that’s a whole another conversation but I want to touch on it at the same time he said he said okay so what do you gain when you go through and I was like respect right and then he
Was like okay so you getting that respect so you’re you’re getting a sense of Pride he said who’s the father of Pride I was like Satan he was like that’s been your father this whole time you been prideful where you cast where you Chast these people that didn’t go through what you went
Through it can’t be that simple brother it can’t make it can’t be that simple it can’t make that much sense but it’s it’s the truth and that’s that’s that’s the reality it’s a it’s a fork in the road now you know yeah go ahead I know you got to
Speak man it’s so much pride in it Jonathan the way you were just talking and there’s so much pride even when you talk about you know paper verse maid you know I remember you could walk into a room and uh if you don’t because because that’s the thing people in these
Organizations don’t if you’re from the outside you don’t even understand that like kappas and noops there’s a difference between the two when you’re in organization Kapp has only learn so much information as opposed to noops noops are the people um you know who who who actually pledge or who are made
Noops you know noops have a whole SE separate handshake than Kappa so you can walk into the room if you don’t know how to grit me the right way or if you don’t know how to answer you know they used to call them charges if you don’t know how
To answer some of these ridiculous dumb questions then you know oh well he don’t know how to answer this question he’s not made and then all of a sudden you’re less of a brother when the scripture says how sweet and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity
Even in these organizations there’s there’s no Unity this this um you know pretend of Greek unity and that there’s so much Unity these these organizations are not United there’s Pride there’s division there’s separation um you know even you think about some of the dis strolls some of the disch chance like
Why are we saying we saying some of this just perverted stuff about each other we’re supposed to be unified if we’re supposed to be you know working towards a common goal but it’s just so much pride there’s so much pride when you’re on the yard you know you want to wear
Your you feel so much more Pride when you put on that jacket when you have your letters or when you um you know you can say I was I was the rock or I was the ace or I was a tail what it’s just all so much pride in these organizations
And even the script tells us that to let your light so shine so that people will see your good works and glorify the father when we do anything good Jesus is supposed to be glorified yeah when in these organizations whenever whenever a brother of Kappa alpas side does
Anything good Kappa wants to take credit for it you on you know Kappa social media whenever a brother gets elected into any type of political office or an athlete that’s a part of this organization reaches a milestone Kappa is so quick and all the other organizations to you know take pride oh
Look what a member of Kaa Alphas side did this there’s no glorifying God even the community service let’s talk about that because the all the community service is done in vain it’s not by God I remember when we used to do community service we would ask for letters from
The organization so that they can say you know this you know Kappa did this amount of um of community service just so that we could submit it to the regional board to get elected for chapter of the year just to get recognition for cap but it was never
Let’s just go do this out of the goodness like let’s go present a check a check in the name of God it’s no on behalf of Kappa and if we’re not glorifying God then scripture says no flesh should glory in his presence nobody should dare to exalt themselves
To a place of getting that type of recognition and honor and yet that’s all that these organizations are about yeah yeah and that’s that’s the that’s the kingdom part of it it’s like if we’re if we’re not we’re engulfed in culture you know we’re separated from the kingdom man and engulfed in culture
And not adding to the kingdom now I get it when you work and you have things and you’re part of uh you’re part of something that does resonate and influence the cultures of the world you know if you’re athlete or whatever it is that you do too you know but um but you
Have to understand like where the principles are coming from like it’s at the end of the day if we’re not being you know if we’re not being aware of like you know especially as Believers that the kingdom is a place of citizenship with laws and order it’s
It’s where God is it’s his his home that he made for himself that we get the privilege of going to by believing accepting Jesus you know and doing his will and so it’s like that’s it’s an order of conduct you know what I’m saying it’s there’s a there’s a true there’s a
Kingdom culture if that makes sense and then there’s a world facts and so like I said earlier about being on campus and and coming to that HBCU and and the ratio is 33 to1 women the guys and you 18 years old you’re gonna fall right into all of that
And um and have your time you know but like I said you know the word talks about putting away childish things and I think it becomes childish once you arrive to certain levels of wisdom certain things are childish in that uh you know in reference to that you
Know and in galatian 5 bro it talks about literally how the the spirit and flesh battle and when we are sinning when we’re drinking smoking partying and we are moving these are all obvious acts of the Flesh and that’s exactly what happens when you come into these ores
What we doing we throwing party you know I’m saying we we’re party hard but then we’re turn around try to do community service to cover it up well we do good you know I’m saying but we’re not Justified on our Good Deeds you know because it’s only through the blood of
Jesus it’s through his works and now our faith works because our faith in him right so but to go back to like the acts of the Flesh in Galatians 5 like when we moving according to the acts of the Flesh and then we’re pulling people into that as well we’re leading them astray
And the word says if we’re not Gathering we’re Gathering and we was just like those Shepherds um we just we was in a sense of that role as a Shepherd when we was in the organizations pulling people in because we wasn’t leading them to the light you know and again it goes right
Back on that what road are you on what kingdom are you serving because to be with God and to walk in the spirit you’re walking in the spirit led by the spirit which is a part of Galatians 5 and but when you’re walking in the flesh you’re automatically walking in your
Sinful nature and that’s the problem you know because because of sin we was pulled into the Flesh and so now the flesh it’s like who’s ruling who’s controlling who and Paul said I make I make my body a slave to me because Paul understood that he was a spirit that’s
What I’m saying so we got to really make sure we can’t say that we serve God but yet we’re moving in the acts of the flesh because we’re serving one or two kingdoms at all times it’s it’s or outward expression is what’s going on inside who has who has to Thorn over our
Hearts yeah yeah so let’s let’s address you know because there are believers who have there are believers who are in these orgs and you know a lot of Believers truly are in these orgs and they don’t think anything’s wrong with it you know they’re not intentionally trying to obey God they just haven’t
Come into the understanding or you know there’s an argument or you know well God if that’s what God telling you to do that’s fine but he’s not asking me to come out of it and a lot of us don’t receive the re the revelation of why these organizations are so wicked
Because one we haven’t put in the work to go look for it we haven’t opened those ritual books so I would advise every believer get your get your Bible get the word of God open up your ritual book read them side by side and see if
The two go hand in hand I’ll tell you right now they don’t but do it for yourself just so that you could see you know that these two things light and darkness do not blend but a lot of is also is you know the Lord knows when we’re ready to receive certain
Revelations so a lot of us we haven’t gone that deep with God yet so we’re not able to receive those deep Revelations because we haven’t we haven’t pressed in for more truth we haven’t pressed in for more wisdom you know a lot of us are
Just so okay with you know I’m in the organization so God didn’t pull me God didn’t destroy the organization so it must be okay but scripture in Hebrews where Hebrews is talking about spiritual growth spir spiritual maturity in Hebrews chapter 5 verse 12 it says you
Have been Believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others in instead you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word you are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food for someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how
To do what is right and so there are you know there’s so many Believers that are still still trying to process the milk of God’s word that you can’t receive this you know this is meat right here you got to be able to really go deep with God and understand why this is
Spiritually you know the Deliverance aspect of coming into agreement with these Oaths and with these covenants so ask God to take you deeper ask God to prepare you so that you can be ready to receive meat and it’s a heart posture as well all of us had to come to a place
Where we were like and similar to our testimonies we all were at a place where we were like God no matter what it takes I just want you more than I want me and that’s a part you know we have to whatever it takes you need to consecrate
Yourself you need to fast you have to get to a place where you’re willing to you know be snatched out of this because the Lord can we can make these videos to we’re blue in the face but until you open up your heart until you open up
Your spirit for the Lord’s truth to penetrate it you know you’ll always find a reason to just say it’s not that deep or it’s not that serious and if you’ve been on social media you will see this is not just you know there is like a a
Frenzy right now of people who are coming out of these organizations you see renouncing denouncing all over the place this is not a coincidence this is not a Chase for clout this is a really this is a claron call where God is is sounding the alarm God is warning his
Children to come out from among them exit out of these organizations because God wants to move and that’s another thing that happens in these organizations is that because I was a minister I was a minister while I was in this organization I was still ministering I was preaching powerfully
But there was only so much that God could do through me there are so many Ministries that are being hindered right now because there are people in positions of influence and power where God can only move so far because there are literally idols on the altar in
God’s house God wants to remove the idols from the altar he wants to flow you know there’s Deliverance can’t the scriptures talks about how be abub can’t cast out be abub if you’re filled with demons you can’t cast demons out and so that’s why there’s so many Ministries
That are powerless that you know they have a form of godliness but there’s power there’s no oil flowing because there are idols on the altar so we have to you know take heed to the word of God God is not just sending a warning for nothing he and he wants his children to
Be set free I can speak for myself Brothers but when I renounced I felt a weight lift off me that I didn’t even know was there and that just shows you know this deep spiritual connection that these orgs you know that we get drawn into when we
Pledge our allegiance to these orgs yeah facts and in Mark 9: 34-36 Jesus says whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself and take up their cross and follow me for whoever wants to save their life will lose it and whoever wants to lose lose the life
For me and for my gospel was save it what good is it for someone to gain the whole world yet forfeit their soul am that’s heat boy that that take a breath out man it’s crazy to think about God you know you being face
To face with God a holy God and he says you couldn’t give up this for me imagine think imagine you get a sneak peek into heaven you see all these Mansions everything that Jesus said I’m going to prepare a place for you and I’m coming back for you but you standing at the
Gate and you can’t go to where Jesus was preparing because you know you weren’t willing to let go of something for him God want there’s so much love in God and God wants us to be free and also when I think about us as Believers that are in
It we have to be we have to be concerned about our influence and our witness because when you become a child of God you have influence um so I was a youth leader and one of of the things that happened to me was the lord gave me a vision of the
Faces of some of my students literally like the exact students that I was teaching they were in a garage in this vision and they were pledging and they looked at each other and said well Minister Ashton did this so it must be okay so we have to think about there are
Children watching us there are other young men and women that are watching us and if we as Believers are co-signing this we’re telling other people that it’s okay we’re telling other people that it’s okay to be luke War or that it’s okay to be you know one
Foot in the world and one foot out there’s a scripture um I believe it’s Matthew 18 where Jesus is talking about and he there’s a scripture that pretty much says it’s better for you to tie like a heavy rock around your neck and and for you to lead the children of God astray
Right man and I like you know Revelations 3:15 he talks about you know he read the he knows your deeds and he rather for you to be you are neither hot nor I mean you neither hot nor cold but yet you will lukewarm so because of that
I’m gonna spit you out of my mouth he wants you either all the way on fire or noted or far because even a person like an atheist he could work with because when he takes the veil out their eyes and softens up their heart they’ll be
Radically on fire for him but a person that knows the truth but don’t walk in that truth is real scary you know a matter of fact in Matthew 722-24 he says many will say to me on that day Lord Lord did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out
Demons and in your name perform many miracles then I will tell them plainly I never knew you away from me you evildoers that’s the other one that’s the one man that’s the one you know so it doesn’t matter if you’re trying to profess his name that’s that’s that’s what Isaiah prophesied
Didn’t Isaiah prophesy about you y’all worship me with your mouth but your hearts are far from me your worships in vain you know you could say oh I’m a Believer you could say I’m a Christian y y y but does your life represent it is the gospel your gospel is Jesus truly
Your lord and savior are you really walking behind him following him walk Walking in the spirit and yes we’re human right so of course we’re all going to fall short matter of fact and uh and Paul talked about all has fell short of the glory of God but that’s why we need
A savior because it’s not about the things of the world because if we love the things of the world we don’t have the love of the father in us first of all second it’s about your soul where is it going and so many people are focus on
Gaining the world just this much of the world that they already they forfeit their soul and Satan has stole it you know because Paul says Paul says we’re on a battlefield if you’re not battling are you really a Believer did you really surrender you know what I’m saying
Because he gave us Warfare or weapons are not carnal the spiritual right right man amen and the worst part is hanging on to the world hanging on what you gained not not not putting it through the fire what God is is is gifting you in wisdom and knowledge and increase in
Understanding those are the gifts that keep on giving real gifts that’s that’s the real gift is wisdom that’s the most precious thing that we can carry through everything in life as we go from season to season and so we may just be in that season you may just be in that season
Where you’re still hanging on to it um because of it’s tied to your relationships it could have a lot of meaning to you in life and what you went through when you were going through that process enjoying it could be it you you can have a whole family full of whatever
Organization um but it’s not just about being bold for yourself you know again you know being a Christian and rece receiving salvation is to a literal Place God’s kingdom and there’s life in the Kingdom so that means we’ll be there and we’ll be living there not just sitting on a
Cloud I’m sure he’ll have things for us to do while we so in conduct of how we should be there he says uh my kingdom come you know on Earth as it is in heaven we’re here to do his will as it is in the kingdom and so it’s time for
Us to really Step Up spiritually in our generation to be uh steadfast with what God is is is pruning out of our Lives to do so yeah it may be a tough decision uh for you folks man I get it I get it um but pray about that spend time with God with
This because I really feel like that’s who really needs to hear it I think a lot of people are coming into that realization Ashton too so many more more CS uh other than me have seen you speak and not reached out so um the same with you Jonathan I
Know they’re reaching out to you now they might be reaching out to me so I I I encourage you to reach out and I encourage you to have even if you haven’t made a decision yet it’s I get it you know so I’m on the understanding
Side of what it means to be in your season about it let’s but let’s step up let’s step up I got a question for y’all real quick you know because I I even had a uh a red uh reach out to me we had a whole
Dialogue and she was man the only thing and at the end of the conversation she said I commend you for doing something that I couldn’t do and that I can’t do even though she’s acknowledging uh the things that we’re talking about how it doesn’t line with guy what would
Be what would be your advice especially when it came to you guys denouncing especially publicly of how Satan attacked you guys and how to overcome those attacks because I had them personally as well um emotionally and just in my life in general um how would you help someone navigate through that
Part what they’re right at the line but then it’s like it’s like Satan’s trying to keep them from stepping over where their heart is open they see it but it’s like they’re scared yeah so I would say you know it’s a stronghold so a stronghold is you know a
A stronghold is really a fortified lie a lie that the enemy has told you that’s become so strong in your life and the only way to tear down the stronghold is with the word of God know this is a spiritual thing so you’re not going to
Be able to just to do this any your flesh but a verse that always helps me is Philippians 213 and it says for God is working in you giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him so God is God is not going to ask you to do
Anything for him that he won’t Empower you to do and you know recently the Holy Spirit just been speaking to me about boldness and the thing about boldness is sometimes we think we have to feel like so hyped up and feel so strong to do a bold thing but sometimes you just have
To do that thing and the Lord is going to give you the boldness after after you do the hard thing you will now you feel bold now you feel confident because after I renounced I was like okay God if I can do that like there you know there’s nothing that
I won’t speak out for you like let’s you know I’m ready for the next battle because um you know if God before me who can be against me so really I would say really really get into your word because this is a spiritual battle the word is
It’s literally a weapon of warfare the scripture says you know the Lord is my light and my salvation Whom Shall I Fear Whom Shall I be afraid of you know my enemies when they came to eat up my flesh it says your enemies and your foes
They are the ones who stumble and fall so really get into the word um consecrate yourself really really consecrate Yourself fast ask the Lord the Lord will help you you know have a heart that’s turned toward him you don’t have to do anything for yourself so
Really get into your word and pray pray about everything pray for the Lord to remove the fear of man and to give you a fear of the Lord um ask the Lord to break the soul ties that you have to these organizations ask the Lord and I
Think sometimes we get to a place where we think it’s bad to ask the Lord to to give us confirmation but ask the Lord to confirm it to you Gideon is a man that he asked the Lord to give him specific confirmation the lord gave it to him
Because the call on Gideon’s life was so important there’s a call on all of our lives and the Lord will do what it takes for that to be confirmed and for you to walk so dig into your word um get into prayer and if you’re watching this feel
Free to reach out to any one of us like I think I speak for myself and I think I speak for all of us like we we want to see other people free you know it’s for us to hop on the phone or to message you back and forth and to have a
Conversation without judgment and just to pray you through this thing because that’s what we’re supposed to do at the end of the day when we you know when we get pulled out of sin I’m supposed to reach back and help pull you out of it too right that’s well said man um I’ll
Just say um in addition to add to yours uh Proverbs 3 5-6 trust in the Lord with all your heart lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He Shall direct your paths uh you know sometimes it just can’t seem that simple for people it
Can’t be that simple in this world full of um so many rocks to turn over and and and seek of how to do something and not only that like you said Ashen with the strongholds um strongholds can come from what other people have said to us and so
We live our lives with a lack mentality you know the Lord is Our Shepherd we lack nothing we shall not want right understanding that God is our provider why I keep harping on the on the kingdom thing is because it’s a mentality it’s a frame of mind it’s a framework of how we
Look at our lives and the way that God uh sees us as well and so if you can if if you are a Believer you believe believe what do you believe you believe that God loves you you believe that God is a provider you believe that God has
Hedged your life especially when you call on them and so in these verses especially with leaning not on our own understanding um we are limited in wisdom and knowledge and understanding we’re limited you know we’re finite we have to go to the Creator to the one that’s infinite in wisdom and generous
If you ask knock at the door and we shall be given so um let’s be like I said it’s it’s okay to feel how you feel for a short time but be resourceful and don’t wallow with don’t wrestle by yourself you have you can reach out to us you
Know you can uh and like like you say ashon get into your word ask the Lord to guide you and to direct you he will direct your past and I’ll just add one more scripture because jiren keeps harping on this this Kingdom mindset and I think that’s so important because we desire to
Get into the kingdom of God and these organizations they are false kingdoms you know we talk about even that what is it called greekdom there’s all this like greekdom picnics and kaalan aalan deltal land all this other stuff Hebrews 12 25-29 talks about the unshakable kingdom
And um it says when God spoke from Mount Si his voice shook the Earth but now he makes another promise once again I will shake Shake not only the Earth but the heavens also this means that all of creation will be shaken and removed so that only unshakable things will remain
Since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakable let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear in allwe for our God is a devouring fire so the scripture talks about how all these false kingdoms when God shakes up the Earth everything that can’t be remaining
Every false kingdom is going to be shaken to the ground it’s going to be dismantled and only the king om of God is going to be um left remaining and when when that shaking happens you want to be sure that you are in the kingdom
Of God you want to be sure that you’re in a foundation that is built to last you want to make sure that you’re that you are in the truth not your own truth not the world’s truth um not Black Culture truth because that’s a that’s a whole another thing that we could talk
About for hours just because something is Black Culture does not mean that it’s right for black people and we have to make sure that we are in the truth of God and not the truth of our ancestors and uh just uh this is also for someone that’s out there that’s just they’re
Listening to us and they they understand what we saying you know they’re starting to grasp it uh you know um John 8: 39-43 it talks about how they were claiming that they were children of Abraham but Jesus basically rebuked them saying you are doing The Works of your father
So look at the works that people are doing to get into these same organizations that you’re a part of is it is it the works of Satan right because that’s what they that they thought they were serving God but yet Jesus the son of God rebuked them and
Said you’re doing the works of your father he’s called them children of of Satan Satan’s Children so really analyze okay what are the works that we’re making people do to join these organizations because at the end of that’s the foundation to get into the organization and then you start to see
How it doesn’t line up because you could think you’re serving God over here but yet you’re doing that over there again everything we do outward is what’s on the inside of the heart so we have to really analyze our own Hearts um as this is for everybody watching this is for
Myself included I still analyze my heart today you know I want to make sure that hey like I don’t want to I don’t want to miss it you know what I’m saying and that’s just the fear of the Lord in me but we have to really sit back and
Analyze their heart our own Hearts because everybody has a free will that’s why we all went into the organization in the first place we had a free will to do it and we chose to do it nobody put a gun to our head that told us we had to
Do it so we have to understand that we have a free will and that Satan can’t still can’t force us but yet he comes to deceive us to lie to to put us in a trap and God won’t enforce himself on you either it has to be your choice all it’s
All about your heart it’s your will is your choice so if if you really want to understand more of what we’re talking about ask the Holy Spirit ask Jesus say Jesus is what they’re talking about really true you know what I’m saying and allow him to guide you and be sensitive
And and and humble it’s all about humility when you’re in humility that’s when you’re in a place of truly hear from him yeah not Pride not arrogance they uh the ch I was part of was the Arrogant AO you know what I’m saying who’s arrogant who’s the father of Pride
Satan you know and we took on that title like you was talking about the title of the chapters we have to really look at these titles because these are words that actually have an actual meaning behind it and I don’t know I just feel to really stress on that which road are
You on and it’s by your choice which road that you want to be on is it the wide road that leads towards destruction which is following the patterns of this world or is it the narrow road that follows behind Jesus like you have the choice and everybody’s watching this
Video is going to have to cast the vote at the end of the day when they see this video and those people watching you have to cast a vote because now what we’re presenting to you which is the word of God now you have a decision to
Make you have a decision to make are you going to follow God are you going to follow Jesus are you gonna okay Jesus I need you to show me you know or are you gonna be ignorant to it and brush it off because at the end of the day now at
That point it becomes you know like you talked about in the beginning Ash in the blood it’s it’s like wiping out the feet as a testimony yeah we all go say bro we all have a choice I think we have covered at least we we’ve given people enough to think
About enough to process um and again we know this we know this is a heavy to topic we know this is not an easy decision these organizations have been around for a lot of them a hundred years more now so we we know you know the
Depths of how this isn’t rooted in our culture we know we were in these ORS we enjoyed our time in these ORS but you know I I’m looking forward to enjoying the time in the kingdom of God a lot more than you know wearing three letters on my trust that don’t really mean
Anything so we are continuing to pray for everyone in these ORS the scripture says that their eyes would know the eyes of their understanding be enlightened to the hope that is within Christ Jesus so we’re praying that you that your hearts are open to receive truth and that the
Holy Spirit he is the spirit of Truth so if you open up your heart to him he will reveal to you the truth he desires that none of us be deceived he desires that none of us be led astray so before we close out I definitely want to close out
In prayer Brothers but I want to give you all an opportunity any closing Last Words advice that you would give to those watching um you know that are in these orgs that are even for those who are thinking about becoming part of these orgs any advice any wisdom that
You would want to give you know if you had one last shot to try and pull somebody out yeah man I I would just say you know um especially if you’re if you if you’re not in one and you’re thinking about joining um you know always do your
Research at your own discretion you know I know that we make mistakes in life I know that every decision we make won’t always be the most sound and the most wisest decision so if you end up in these organizations based on you know a feeling or a prompt by somebody else uh
Or or just your own intrigued you know interest or whatever um listen at the end of the day you know we not promised tomorrow and so we need to set the tone for our life after this life which is only through Jesus he’s the way the
Truth and the life and if you’re a Believer you know that the word of God is the truth and if you are in these organizations and you’re wrestling um just like Jonathan M mentioned about um seeking the Lord and the Holy Spirit uh a ask the Holy Spirit about this video that
We’re doing um you know test uh what we’ve said uh for the truth as well you know what I mean so I would take it upon yourself I would say take it upon yourselves to give yourself um the time necessary give uh the space necessary and if you have
To do it by yourself for a while that’s okay but you can also reach out um if you have questions we’re still human beings we’re still people um we’re God’s children um you know and that’s the most important thing is way more important than any Greek letter or or neilia that
You put on you know what I’m saying so um but again I I just want to say man yeah I think that uh we are definitely uh um in a world where lukewarmness is is running rampant and so ask the Holy Spirit to begin revealing what’s
Lukewarm in your life and if this comes up um best believe you can continue to seek the Holy Spirit on what to do after that and he’ll direct your path amen and uh I want to add on to that the importance of while we’re talking about what we’re talking about is because
We’re all have been a spiritual debt to God to remind each and every person that we all have sinned we all fell short of his glory we all broken his commands we all broken his Divine laws in the world that we live in today a when we have
Laws when you break when you run a red light you get consequences right and it’s the same thing with God we’re supposed to be a part of his uh citizenship we’re supposed to be a part of his kingdom but because of sin we was we was kicked out and now he’s given us
A way back in um that’s just from the beginning with Adam and Eve and then he gave us the law the mosaic laws but now it’s the New Covenant the new blood Covenant with Christ Jesus the one he sent to take the atonement we all fell
Short we all Sinn and this is just bigger than Greek life this is everyone’s spirituality everyone’s Soul you know because at the end of the day like uh brother jiren said you don’t know when you’re going to die like you don’t know you just don’t know you never
Know and it’s important that you settle that debt with God because sin equals Death and the thing is there is a second death and that is the Lake of Fire that that was design for Satan and the Fallen Angels but that’s why we’re talking about this because we want to pull
People out of that deception and again we all saying we all feel short to glory and that’s why this is the good news the gospel the Gospel of Jesus Christ God sent him with a purpose to take on your transgressions He sent Jesus with a purpose to to reconcile you back to the
Father where you have a citizenship in the Kingdom of Heaven in the Kingdom of God’s that that he designed specifically for you since the beginning because he called you by name he knew you since the beginning like David said he seen the substance of your unformed body in the
Days was already ordained that he has for you but now it’s by your to follow him so he can walk you through those days that he has already ordained for you because you have a purpose you’re not here by accident you know and I know people may just you know pop up with
Kids through sin you know whatever the case may be but God knew and the thing is he designed you with a purpose so the good news is this Jesus came he took and and and the thing is he didn’t have problems with the Romans he had problems with the religious people people that
Thought that they serve God you know and and I when I read the Scripture it really hurt my heart because on his grand entrance to Jerusalem on the donkey right to fulfill the pro the fulfill the prophecy written about him that the King was their King was coming
In Scripture it says everyone ask who is this do you know Jesus do you know who he is because do you know when he enters to the room and if not that’s the problem that’s what he wants to fix because it’s about the relationship when you love each other you’re not going to
Want to hurt somebody you’re not going to want to steal from somebody you’re not going want to put him through no process no none of that and and that’s the unconditional love that God has for you and he he expressed it through Jesus and Jesus Took 39 whips for you he got a
Crown of thorns put in his head for you you know he got nailed to a cross he got beat on spit on mock you know they gambled over his garments they did everything and no one survived the crucifixion in those time periods you know and if you survive longer than they
Wanted they broke your legs so you suffocated it was already hard for you to breathe you had to push up from your feet to your hands just to ex inhale and then you slid back down to Exhale and and he said father it is finished and
When he was on the cross he also said father forgive them for they not know what they do because he understood who is the god of the air and his name is Satan he’s the devil he comes to steal kill and destroy and that’s the good
News is that Jesus really came to die for you to take on the transgressions of your sins of my sins that I once rightfully deserved and that I’m Justified because of his blood and he and he so God so loved the world that he sent his one and only son that those who
Believe in him to believe is to follow for those who believe in him will not perish but have eternal life and this is what it’s about everything we’re doing is about the gospel the love of God the blood of Jesus to show that you don’t have to go to these occults these secret
Societies you don’t have to go to these parties you don’t have to go to women you don’t have to go to men you don’t have to go to none of the things in the world because the world is full of lust and one day it will be swallowed up and
It will be thrown in the Lake of Fire the question is will you be thrown in it with it or will you be the one who created you and that’s what God wants he wants you to be with him who created you he wants you to be with him because he
So loves you and that’s that’s just my last thing I really wanted to express because it’s so much deeper Bros than than Greek but I know we’re directing to the Greek because this is part of our testimony and we want the and we want the veil to come off their eyes you know
So amen thank you Jesus amen amen well I will just add you know I just ask the Lord to help you look at this through a sober mind and I don’t mean sober just from alcohol substances ask the Lord to really sober you up to give you sobriety
In the Holy Spirit to think about this outside of of you know whether you’re a legacy um you know whether this is just something that you know you dreamt about from a j ask the Lord to help you to think about this from a sober mind to
Think about this from his point of view ask him to reveal the truth and then whatever that truth he reveals ask him to give you the boldness to follow it and he will do just that just that all right so we are going to we want to
Close out in prayer I’m G pray us out um before we close out this video I just want to say again thank you to my brothers for coming up on here joining me scripture says you know two are better than one so there’s power and unity um you know just thank you guys
For sacrificing your time sharing your boldness and for your obedience I know as as many as you know the first video reach I have full faith that this video is going to reach many more just because the power of unity through the holy spirit so thank you Brothers for your
Boldness for your obedience for stepping up to the plate and for those watching I’m going to put our Instagram bios in the comments of this video so feel free to reach out to e any one of us um you know love to have a conversation with
You and just to help you see the truth that the Holy Spirit revealed to us all right brothers let’s just go ahead and close this thing out with prayer father in Jesus name Lord we just thank you we thank you for who you are we thank you for being true we thank you
For being holy we thank you for being righteous and we thank you for being just we thank you for being a God who loves us we thank you for your mercy towards us father we thank you for pulling us out of sin we thank you for forgiving us Lord for your word says
That you are faithful and just to forgive us our sins if we would just confess so father we confess our sins and we thank you for watching us father we pray for those who are watching in right now Lord we pray for their hearts and for their minds or we pray that you
Would speak to them through the power of the Holy Spirit we pray that their hearts would be softened to you Lord for those who are watching for those who have already made up in their mind Lord that they want to renounce Lord we pray that you give them the boldness we pray
That you give them the courage we pray that you give them the L language oh God to do what you’re calling them to do Lord for those who are watching who have been interested who are thinking about joining these organizations father we pray that you grab them Father we pray
That you convict them by the power of the Holy Spirit and Lord we pray that you would just touch their hearts reveal to them your truth Lord you said where your spirit is there is liberty and there is truth so father we pray that you reveal to them truth that they would
Experience true Liberty or we pray for those who have been in these ORS for years and for decades Lord for those who feel like they’re just too deep in Father we thank you that you said that your arm is not too short to save or deliver so father we thank you that your
Hand is mighty enough to break every yoke to destroy chains father we pray in Jesus name that strongholds would would be demolished father we bind the spirit of deception and we lose the truth of god father for their truth will set them free so Lord we just pray that you touch
Your daughters touch your sons with wisdom truth Lord humility humble their hearts that they would hear what you’re saying Lord that they would receive it that they would walk in truth so father we just thank you for this opportunity Lord we pray that your children will be
Blessed father we pray that many will come to Salvation Lord we pray that your children grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ we pray that they know and grow in the knowledge of who you are and that they would come to know the love the height the width the depth the love that
You have for them so God have your way in your children’s lives and Lord you get the glory for the fruit that comes from this video in Jesus name amen amen amen bro appreciate again as the opportunity bro hey appreciate y’all brothers I’ll be in touch with you guys
For those who are watching we thank you for tuning in and we will see you next time on the secret place
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