🚨;Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross of Jesus Christ was an African man from present day Libya 🇱🇾.Augustine of Hippo in modern day Algeria 🇩🇿 influenced doctrines still taught today.The only thing that is foreign to Africa is Islam ☪️ and not Christianity #Africarejectsislam
Three years ago, I was the smartest Christian in the room.
Or so I thought.
I'd discovered this teacher, won't name him, but if you're in the "hidden Bible knowledge" corners of X, you know the type. He had charts. Timelines. Greek word studies that made seminary professors look like Sunday school dropouts.
And he had a hook:
"What the modern church won't tell you about [insert doctrine]."
I was hooked.
It started innocently. A YouTube video. Then a book. Then a private Discord where the "serious students" gathered.
Within six months, I couldn't listen to my own pastor anymore.
His sermons felt... basic. Shallow. Like he was feeding us milk while I was feasting on meat.
I'd sit in the pew mentally correcting him. "If he only understood the original Greek here..."
I wasn't being sanctified.
I was being isolated.
And I didn't see it because I felt smarter than I'd ever felt in my Christian life.
My wife asked me a simple question:
"Has all this studying made you love Jesus more, or just made you love being right?"
I got defensive. Angry, even.
Because deep down, I knew the answer.
I could chart the seventy weeks of Daniel. I could debate the Nephilim.
But I hadn't prayed—really prayed—in months.
I'd become a theological collector instead of a disciple.
THE FIVE SYMPTOMS I MISSED (That You're Missing Too)
Looking back, the red flags were neon. If you're in the early stages of what I went through, here's what you're experiencing right now:
1. You're Chasing the "Secret"
The content you consume always promises "What they won't tell you." Hidden knowledge. Lost books.
The trap: God doesn't hide truth from the humble. He hides it from the proud. (Matthew 11:25)
2. You Need Extra Books to Prop It Up
My teacher loved the Book of Enoch. Not as historical context—as required reading.
The trap: "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." (Isaiah 8:20, KJV)
3. You Feel Superior to "Average Christians"
This was the most intoxicating part. I'd scroll through Christian X and think, "These people have no idea."
The trap: "Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth." (1 Corinthians 8:1, KJV)
4. You're Poisoned Against Plain Preaching
I couldn't sit under normal teaching anymore. Expository sermons felt boring.
The trap: The gospel that saves is simple enough for a child. If you need a PhD to understand your teacher's "real" message, you're learning gnosticism.
5. It Produces Charts, Not Holiness
Here's the test I failed: I could draw you a timeline of the end times. But I couldn't tell you the last time I'd wept over my sin.
The trap: "By their fruits ye shall know them." (Matthew 7:20, KJV)
THE WAY OUT
I didn't leave because I got smarter.
I left because I got desperate.
One night, after another argument with my wife about my "studies," I broke.
I prayed the most honest prayer of my life:
"God, if I'm wrong, show me. Even if it humiliates me. I don't want to be right. I want to be Yours."
Within a week, the scales fell.
I deleted the Discord. Unsubscribed from the channels. Threw out the books.
And I went back to my church and wept through an entire sermon on the prodigal son.
If you're reading this and feeling defensive, you're where I was.
Run this test: Fail two of the symptoms above, and walk away before you lose three years like I did.
I'm not writing this from a high horse. I'm writing this from the ditch.
Here's what I came back to:
Jesus. Crucified. Risen. Coming again.
Repent. Believe. Be baptized. Make disciples.
Love God. Love neighbor. Die to self.
That's it.
No secret knowledge required. No hidden books. No elite club.
Just a bloody cross and an empty tomb.
And if that feels too simple, you're already in the trap
Some of y’all are acting like it’s 2016 and we didn’t learn a dang thing about public discourse and the successes and failures of social media to persuade in culture wars. I’ve had quite an education in the last 8 years and I’m not playing games with people who love to hate and bait.
Here’s how this is gonna go: you bait/I block. I spoke loudly eight years ago because I was in a state of total shock. I’m no longer shocked.
Here’s what I mainly want to do on here. I want to encourage people in their faith in Christ and love for the Scriptures — that’s my calling — and remind myself and them that the goal of all discipleship is Christlikeness.
I want to enjoy all sorts of people, show those who don’t know Jesus a little love in his name and maybe bring a little joy and hope to them.
I also want to have fun on here and laugh because some of the funniest people on earth are here. I want to learn from people. I want to talk basketball. I want book recommendations. Recipes. And pictures of dogs.
Those are the main reasons I’m here. I’m not your liberal. I’m not your conservative. And if you think I am, you do not know me from a roly-poly. I am Christ’s. My identity is in him alone. My challenge is to view important decisions through the lens of what seems most like Christ. I get that right sometimes and wrong sometimes. We all do.
I’m very likely going to disappoint some of you this election season because you were counting on a big row. As a loved one of mine often says, I just don’t hate myself enough for that right now.
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@TeamYouTube my channel on YouTube (@thesetfreeradioshow) was deleted last week for “repeated or severe” violations of community guidelines but it doesn’t specify how or what violated. It was never my intention to upload anything of that sort. Is there any way to talk to someone?
A Texas Pastor got the flu and it left his windpipe so damaged he could no longer preach so he had to resign from the pastorate.
Doctors said he would never recover.
Despite his weak raspy voice his Sunday school class asked him to preach.
Then this happened:
This has to be one of the wittiest double entendres from Kendrick Lamar's Drake diss song 'Euphoria.
"Yeah, my first one, like my last one, it's a classic; you don't have one. Let your core audience stomach that. Then tell them where you get your abs from. V12, it's a fast one, bow-bow-bow, last one."
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Read the Bible with your children. Do not think you can outsource biblical lessons to your church sunday school. You need to teach your kids what it is to be a Christian and what the Bible says. Every night I read the Bible with my daughter for 15 minutes. I read a section then she reads a section, then we discuss what it means and what we should learn from it. You need to be the primary Bible teacher for your children.
Outsourcing this precious time to Sunday school is not the best way to teach your kids to grow in the Lord. They need to see you are committed and willing to lead them. So read the Bible with them and you will train them up in the Lord.
@Ameen_HGA Didn’t realize all the Biblical symbolism when I watched it as an unbeliever but after coming to Christ and being born again I thought how much of a perfect illustration it was for how I saw the world before & after and then was blew away by all the Biblical references
🗣️ #SetFreeFam have y’all seen Episode 73 yet? We may get pushback for this one but we tried to have a thoughtful discussion on why it’s not wise 🙅♂️ as a follower of Christ to consume marijuana 🚭! We also play some dope #CHH (no pun intended 😜)
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Can we all agree on this prayer? "God, we ask you to give us presidential candidates who are mentally, emotionally, and morally capable of leading this nation."
@jeredsanders And don’t hear me wrong, I’m not saying I would rather hear him rap about having underage girls I’m just saying either meaning he’s outta line either way
@jeredsanders I see what you’re saying and I fully understand what he means but… why is it better to be talking about selling drugs that ruin so many lives and communities rather than rapping about having underage girls?