So people forget this man and this is whether you become a Christian or not but you want to change your decision making and your actions you got to change your environment

Absolutely you know so it's like I see people who okay they give their life to Christ

and then they still are hanging around in the wrong places and you're like bro like

it is gonna be really hard for you to fight. I'm not saying you haven't changed, but

bro, you put yourself in temptation or harm's way. What do you think's going to happen?

Yeah, absolutely. Like God doesn't ever say hey just go run towards

temptation. Yeah he's like flea right turn from it. Yeah I agree for you as a

guy who had already failed once that you know, I'm out and now I'm back.

Yeah. It's like, man, dude, I mean, obviously we know that God ordained it all to happen the way it

happened, but like at the end of the day, you know, this pastor definitely, man, it's just like when I hear the wisdom and then I hear like you speaking now many years later, it makes me think about how important it is as a Christian

like with sanctification to continue to grow because man how well you

speak and how well you can start to like see what people need and you know hone in your

spiritual gifts. It's important. Yeah, absolutely. Because if he wasn't as good as he was and being able to be as bold as he was and saying,

hey Johnny dude, you know, come get some noodles man, let's have a chat.

Yeah.

And then said, you know, he's, like, in his mind, he's probably got one shot to make an impression

on a young kid.

And if he blows it, you know, he blows it

blows it yeah definitely yeah he had foresight for sure you know and I felt I

noticed now he was treating me in such a like a very loving way and yeah the

wisdom that he had I mean he's read the Bible a lot and I always asked him like what like how do you read people you know how did you know that I was empty and he's like oh I don't know you you know obviously he said but the Bible does right and I was like, oh, I don't know you, you know, obviously, he said, but the Bible does, right?

And I was like, dang, he's like, that's why.

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