I am not so concerned about your many sins you committed against GOD, your faults, your iniquities, your shortcoming, your failures, or the mistakes you made in life!
For I am a repented chief-sinner like you are, and just like you sinned against GOD, I have also sinned against GOD, and just like you have faults, failures, shortcomings, and mistakes you made in life, so do I.
All I really care about is you knowing GOD for yourself through the revelation knowledge of JESUS CHRIST, for without the knowledge of GOD in CHRIST JESUS there will be no true repentance!~
For how can a man or woman truly repent from a lie when they have no knowledge of the truth?
For you must know the truth to turn away from a lie you thought was truth, and there are many people who are living lies they thought was the truth, simply because they have no knowledge of the truth themselves!~
When I was young I use to be a gangster disciples, a drug dealer, a 4 time felon, a whore monger, a man who been to the penitentiary 3 different times in my life, a man who been to jail for murder, a career criminal, and a product of my environment!~
Brothers and sisters, many people use the phrase being a product of my environment as an excuse, but I was really a product of my environment, and so were many of the people I grew up with!
For we all grew up in the projects of Chicago, the Robert Taylor homes, 49th St, and Vulture City!
And all we saw was gangs, drugs, murder, jail, prison, prostitution, robbery, fatherless homes, a life of crime, and we thought everything we saw was our truth, because that’s all we saw growing up in the projects of Chicago!
Brothers and sisters, how can you be anything greater than what you see and what you know, when all you know and see is a lie you made your truth?
How can you be successful in life when your mother, father, and many of your uncles are all drug dealers, gangbangers, thieves, felons, and career criminals?
Brothers and sisters, you cannot do better in life when you don’t know better, for how can you ever do better when you don’t know any better?”~
For knowledge is power!~
Brothers and sisters, there is a story in the bible about the life of Job, and many people think they know what the book of Job is about, but not many people have a clue what the book of Job is all about!~
In the book of Job GOD called Job righteous based off what Job knew about GOD from second hand knowledge, hearsay, and the second hand information he received from other men about GOD!
But GOD was about to teach Job who he Is through suffering and by revelation knowledge, and at the end of the book of Job, Job found himself repenting for only knowing GOD by the hearing of the ear!
And GOD exalted Job only after he repented from knowing GOD by the hearing of the ear!~
(Job 42:1-17) Then Job answered the LORD, and said, I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.
Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge?
Therefore have I uttered what I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and you declare unto me.
I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eyes have seen you.
WHEREFORE I ABHOR MYSELF, AND REPENT IN DUST AND ASHES.
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job. So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted Job. And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone an earring of gold.
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
He had also seven sons and three daughters. And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days.
Brothers and sisters, many of you will come to know GOD through the revelation knowledge of JESUS CHRIST, and many of you will also repent from only knowing GOD by hearsay, second hand knowledge, and second hand information, that you heard, learned or where taught by other religious men!~