 Hey, hey Tony gaskins here y'all give him a second here get this here camera, right? let me see Try to Get this here Set up make sure my internet y'all hold on one second. All right. Let me see. All right nah, I'm uh, I put a special chat on but this is not a Q&A today just wanting to pop in and and do my Sunday sermon live today just because you know that way it keeps me from having to shoot the video and then upload it and have it you know Rendering and me sitting here all day trying to do that got a little other work to do today Being that we still not all the way back live in action But want to pop in and just talk to you really to remind you to continue doing that work on Your heart's posture and as you sit with yourself today, and I woke up Or maybe it was late last night and I saw about The gentleman the young man in Atlanta that was shot and killed last night and it just Immediately it hit me, you know and it angered me and it upset me and I started think about how We keep in our life It may be a boyfriend or girlfriend a husband a wife a Balls it could be a friend It could be just the system at large the world at large when you really think about where your heart is at and How you feel in your life like if you ask yourself today on a scale of one to ten ten being the Absolute most amazing life in the world and one being the absolute worst Where would you rank your life? Like really think about where would you rank your peace on a scale of one to ten? Where would you rank your happiness on a scale of one to ten and then think about what you think about so? When you sit and you Listen to yourself like listen to yourself for an hour and hear what you say to yourself You know, are you saying to yourself? positive things that will push you forward that will push your life forward or Are you saying to yourself negative things that only demoralize you and infuriate you more? About whatever it is in life because sometimes we look and we see what's going on in the world And we assume that everybody cares we assume that everybody feels it But that's not the truth, you know, it's just not the truth because You can go on Twitter and scroll down your timeline and you'll see some people talking about You know the peanut butter and jelly sandwich that they they're getting ready to make and will tweet it as if it's important in the midst of Everything that's going on in the world and when you really think about this thing It's like do we really care for our neighbor? Do we really care for the person right next to us? See the thing about it is as As humans a lot of times we can be selfish and We can be greedy as humans a lot of times We can just focus on us and we can think about what we're going through and what we're feeling like you've seen You've gone to a funerals where people are in the funeral and know the person that's in the casket and they're not crying But then we will see situations where people are on the other side of the world and They appear to be outraged over a lost life here in America and the question is Are they really? Do they really care? About that person because we would have passed that person We would have passed that person on the street and not even said hello If that person needed a dollar and was holding a cup at the at the red light We would have looked at that person and judge that person and said Probably gonna use it for drugs and kept going so the question is is does your heart truly care for the person or Is your heart angry for your own problems and hurt and pain and injustice and you are Using the opportunity of somebody else to be angry. So you got to think about your heart's posture Because if you're doing that then your heart is in the wrong place It means that you're angry with your own life and what what you're going through but you are piggybacking on the pain of someone else to get your steam off and That still leaves you in the wrong place now if you genuinely feel This pain for this person or people who have been wrongfully taken from us If you genuinely can feel it if you really can be empathetic and you really can Process what if that was me? What if that was my brother? What if that was my sister? What if that was my son? What if that was my daughter when you truly do that? You will feel Some anger you will feel some pain you will really feel What maybe it may be an inkling of what that person's family may feel and you will feel it and then the question comes I was reading in the book of Ephesians today and And it was talking about it was the apostle Paul and he was talking about don't let the Sun go down on your anger and essentially he was saying be angry and sin not and You can interpret it a million ways just depends on who's reading it, but as I took it for me and I was looking at it and I said, you know How do I operate from my heart because if if I'm angry What am I going to do? Like how will I respond and I think about and I picture what I want to do when I'm angry and When I think about that that will be piling pain on top of pain It will be I for I to for to life for life And so I think about that and I say, okay That's not a space that I can operate from because if I internalize anger Then my two sons will lose me that they will be fatherless because I will put myself in a position to be Sentenced to life in prison or sentenced to death in the street So I realized for me that this anger anger will not serve me But determination will serve me Confidence will serve me commitment will serve me sacrifice will serve me and I think about it and I break it down Into the simplest of terms and I began to realize and and when I start to feel powerless I say well, what can I do and When you think about it, no one may be able to go and do one big act You may not be able to go stand on the mountaintop and share a message with the world But what hit me? I realized I say, you know what? I'm one person and in my short life. I have reached millions of people So if the if I see What I'm facing in the world is a problem with implicit bias systemic racism prejudice if I see that as a problem and if I have a conversation with every person that I can talk to one-on-one Regardless of their race people of my same race and people of other races that I can talk to if I can impact their life See, I may not be able to buy out a 30-minute section on NBC ABC Fox or what have you but if I can talk to my two sons and I can speak to them and They can grow up and they can raise their children if I can talk to My Collie who may be of another race Who may have some of the same implicit bias that some of the officers or The community vigilantes had when they took the lives of men and women who didn't look like them If I can talk to him or her and in that conversation He or she has a change of thought a change of heart and they Talk to their children that they are raising with and they have removed their implicit bias They have removed those thoughts and feelings that saw people who look like me as less than Then they raise a generation They raise they change their family lineage They change that heritage that that thought process and they shift from Generational curses to generational blessings from that conversation and his or her Son or daughter may become a voice that reaches millions just as my voice Has reached millions and so it makes me think about and realize what will I Do because if I can't make sure if I can't take 100 people or a thousand people to the voting booth or to do a mail-in vote Then where do I start and I realize I heard a saying don't really know what it means But it's a conversation rules the nation and I changed the meaning of it today because I don't know what it means But to me what it says is Dialogue That when you start to converse and you start to dialogue with other people and you start to share your heart That that can start to shift the way people think and the way people live the way people move and that In turn changes the world so I realized that We have to be very mindful of what our hearts position is our hearts posture is and how it is affecting our lives and I'm stuck on this because Everybody don't hear every message and so anybody I'm speaking to is who I'm speaking to in that moment and Everybody can affect change Even in your own life So when you get to the root To the root cause of your behavior and you really start to evaluate the root Then you start to understand better the fruit So when you look at your parents mindset the way they live the way they feel What they taught you and then you look at your mindset and then the way you feel and What you are teaching your child and I remember as I sat down and I start to look at it I start to realize that when My parents were operating from fear or anger or hate It then would make them feel inferior Unconfident and then That would be talked to me and then I would teach that to my children subconsciously you don't even realize that your Scarcity mindset think about this in every aspect. We're not I'm not just talking about race relations here Think about this in every aspect your relationship with money Your relationship with your hopes and your dreams the way you see your potential in the world Where do you sit on those issues in your personal life? Like do you believe that? The best for you is to work on someone else's job 40 to 60 hours a week or do you believe that you can create the jobs that you can hire yourself And never have to worry about firing yourself Do you believe that? You are more than a social security number and that you can add something valuable to the world Do you believe that or have you been set on this? Robotic path that says go to school get a high school diploma get a college degree and then go work for a Company that can end up bankrupt in a pandemic and you be furloughed or laid off With nothing more than a I'm sorry. We're sorry What are your beliefs on every aspect of your life? Do you believe that the world is against you that? Everything is set up for you to fail. Do you believe I've heard People like myself of color say hey the world is against me everything is set up for me to fail I've heard women say We are the bottom of the totem pole women are the lowest of the low I've heard black women say the black woman is the lowest of the low. So guess what? When you say that It becomes true for a fact for you When you say that it truly becomes your truth y'all got to give me one of my life just when our battery died So when that becomes your truth, no other reality can replace that When that becomes your truth Even if a raw a red carpet is rolled out for you and you are given the keys to the city You will give it to a man because you've told yourself as a woman. You are less than You will give it to someone of another race because you've told yourself that your race or your nationality is less than and Even though you may see examples that makes you feel that that is the truth and it is being reinforced your personal truth Supercedes every other truth because what you believe Will determine your ultimate reality Because guess what? there's room at the top there seats at the table, but You and yours have to be committed that you are Understanding that you are in the world, but not of the world that you don't have to have the same fate as Your neighbor or the people you grew up with because you made a different decision I think about some of the guys that I grew up playing football and basketball with and Some of them are doing life sentences and I remember riding in the car With some of those guys going to basketball practice Home from basketball practice going out You know to the club and I remember riding with some of the the guys and hanging with some of the guys that I grew up with but and believing that I had one of three options that I could be a drug dealer I could be overworked and underpaid on somebody else's job like my parents or that I could be a pro athlete I Remember those being my only three options and telling myself that that's my only option and I remember going down each one of those paths and Hating each path Trying to do all three of those things But then I changed my thought process and I remember and I tell you the truth I remember telling myself a one day I want to make six figures in a year and I had no clue How I could do it. I had no clue, but I had a belief That I could do it and that's what I wanted and before the age of 30. I did it and Then I said to myself I want to earn six figures in a month and I had no clue how I would do it but I had a belief and Then I did it. I said I want to be an international speaker and Didn't even really know how to speak and I had no clue how I would do it and then I did it and I spoke On two other continents Johannesburg, South Africa was my first international speaking engagement at 29 years old. I remember sitting at 23 as a self-published author and Saying I want to go on Oprah and I had no clue How I would get there to tell my story and at 25 I was sitting on Oprah telling my story with no manager With no publicist with no assistant with no team with no money telling my story on National television the Oprah Winfrey show the Tyra Bank show and then CBN 700 Club as my own publicist You see what I'm saying. So what I have experience is That the people that I call racist now work for me The people that I called racist that I thought would always be better than than me When I changed my mindset Those very people need a job from me people that I didn't think I could pass So I say that to say in your life Be it your gender that's Holding you back in your mind your race your nationality your age Your your dialect your tone your accent your education level Your friends your family your upbringing where you come from Whatever it is that you have allowed to take root in your life and Produce fruit in your life that you don't like That you are not Thriving but you're barely surviving. They have a study that says 60 percent of Americans cannot touch $1,000 right now today in the case of emergency 60 percent So you have to ask yourself is this life okay for me? Is this what I want and Then you have to make a decision and see when you make the decision the first thing is to Say it to yourself to believe it and when you make the decision and then you relax your heart You relax your spirit and you are not in contention with the world You are not Wrestling in flesh and blood When you are truly dealing with spiritual and psychological warfare because I was watching you know I Was watching CNN and I and I and I was looking at CNN and I used and I watch Fox News sometimes too and I watch MSNBC and I watch all of them because they all got a different voice Now on Fox, it's a lot Fox News a lot of people over there racist A lot of you just could feel all the racial undertone. It's like my goodness y'all really on TV Talking like this like you could feel all kinds of racism CNN. I was watching the other day and they they pander a lot and They started showing CNN keep showing these clips of black people being brutalized in the streets and Anderson Cooper or Jake Tapper or Como or Don Lemon. They all will say the same thing now This is going to be tough to see So please brace yourself But we believe you should see it and I'm like why why do you believe I need to keep seeing this over and over and over Why do you believe but see at large? There's an agenda Because guess what if I can show you If I can show you over and over and over That you don't matter Even though I may screen that you do matter If I can show you over and over that you don't matter What's coming out of my mouth will not matter so therefore I can scream Black Lives Matter, but if I show you visually over and over and over Through clips that you don't matter which truly are you going to believe? My words that I've written on a piece of cardboard and walking down the street with or the Visuals that I'm showing you over and over and over What is your mind going to believe? What is your heart going to believe and see that's where the issue lies? so that then if you internalize and You accept that truly you don't matter Then guess what you will be silenced You will be ineffective You will walk with your head down Instead of with your head up and your chest poked out You won't even want to engage in a conversation with someone who doesn't look like you to help change their life and Speaking to their life and give them your unique perspective that can change the lineage of their family You won't even care to engage because you would rather Just hate them because it will feel better You will rather hold on to that anger because it will make you feel like you are serving yourself By being angry So when Apostle Paul in Ephesians said do not let the Sun go down on your anger See what he was saying is that you're gonna have to get motivated Get driven. You're gonna have to be intelligent. You're gonna have to be wise as a serpent Harmless as a dove But you're gonna have to elevate from the level that the problem was created as Albert Einstein said you're going to have to outthink but guess what if you are demobilized Which is to be removed from war when you when you take the troops out of war as demobilized What you have to understand is that when you are under spiritual attack when you are in spiritual warfare your anger and your frustration and your Demoralization will demobilize you and you will be removed From the battle from the front line in your own life and you will be rendered In effective so therefore your anger and your pain That you want to justify that could be rightfully justified Your anger and your pain will be passed down to your children That do not know how to process it because your lack of emotional intelligence Allowed you to be broken and to wither before their very eyes and all they saw is a shell of you They no longer know you They see anger. They see frustration. They see pain They see hate and they see it producing poverty lack scarcity They see lights being cut off water being cut off. They hear you on the phone begging for money They hear you asking for a handout for help But they do not see you motivated Driven and determined to utilize your God-given gifts To pull yourself up by your bootstraps and do what it takes to use your voice and your gifts To get ahead in life with the help of God But instead they see you lie down Wave a white flag and surrender and say I am less than I am not enough I am Barricaded and blocked in and success does not know me and I will never know it That peace does not know me and I will never know it that Prosperity does not know me and I will never know it. That is what they see So guess what the spiritual warfare Put on by the adversary who comes to steal to kill and to destroy becomes effective even Without the laws that once made it effective Let me let me help you understand what I'm saying is there was once laws that someone Of one race could put another race in slavery There was once laws So the people said This is not right. Let's revolt now. Let's go vote They voted the laws away But they did not vote the heart They did not change the heart of man. So the laws went from okay You cannot be a slave But guess what? We can get free labor in the prison system so now we will enact our police officers to wrongfully arrest and Brutalize the people that we have freed from slavery and 60 percent Although this race the black race makes up 13 percent of America 60 percent of the prison population is African-American So so we voted we went to the booth. We fought for voting rights. We got voting rights We went to vote the laws were changed But see this is spiritual warfare We wrestled not in flesh and blood This spiritual So therefore as you are praying for strength You have to pray for wisdom and as you pray for wisdom You have to pray for knowledge and as you pray for wisdom and knowledge in All of your getting you need to get understanding So guess what? If the system says we will take the black man free him from slavery and her from slavery But we will put a system in place that will wrongfully convict them. I have a uncle. I have a uncle who just turned 60 I think and He is sentenced to 30 years in prison And you know why? For $10 worth of cocaine and $10 worth of marijuana He sold $10 of cocaine and $10 of marijuana to a undercover agent They offered him one year and a day He said he was innocent and that it was another man who did it But when the other arresting officer came around the corner that man ran and he was in the street And he got caught he said he was innocent. He went to trial He went to trial and from one year and a day He was sentenced to 30 years. He's been in prison 14 years for $10 worth of cocaine and $10 worth of weed I Read the whole case transcript. I read every word that was testified by the police officers and The no witnesses that his public defender called I read it all So what the system said? Look, we're gonna free you from slavery But we're going to arrest you give you a crazy insane amount of time put you in prison and we're gonna work you there That is will be your new slavery and we're going to arrest you for selling the drugs that we put in your community and Then we're going to work you and then for the women You are Elevating and becoming educated You're elevating and becoming educated and you're growing and you're building your net worth But what we will do is we will attack your man. We will attack your man We will attack him spiritually Psychologically and we will trap him We will strip him of his dignity. We will strip him of his self-worth. We will break him Because no matter what news he turns on or what Television he turns on he will see five six seven eight other men who look just like him Be brutalized be murdered in the street by those who are supposed to protect and serve and he will be in rage He will be angry and he cannot afford therapy And he will not go get therapy because he's been raised to shut up to suck it up To deal with it because men don't cry men don't express themselves And he will go out and he will spread his seed Amongst several women that he cannot take care of all four five of these baby mothers and all five six seven Ten of these children and you ma'am will be stressed out. You will be overworked You will be burdened. You will be broken and even if you get a master's degree It's gonna be hard for you to get a job because you will have such an attitude because of what you have Experienced that you will have a righteous indignation, but you will be seen as a angry woman and You will be judged by that in the interview room You will get a job But you won't get a promotion because we're gonna take this person over here Karen and we're gonna uplift her We're gonna put her on the commercials We're gonna give her the roles so that she looks smarter than you and so you Keisha will be working for Karen and you will be twice as smart as Karen But Karen will get the bonuses and the raises and guess what your children will be lost and they will be confused and We don't have to have a plantation with whips Congratulations You're free. You see what I'm saying You have to understand spiritual warfare Psychological warfare That is where you will understand and realize that your anger if it is not channeled Correctly, it will not serve you. It will break you your frustration your demoralization It will not serve you it will break you so you have to sit and Resolve within yourself what you will do for Your household for your immediate circle what Conversations will be had to shift the narrative to shift the mindset to outsmart and to Overcome the trick of the enemy because the adversary comes to steal to kill and to destroy So if I can trip you up and make you focus on The rioting and the looting if I can distract you by showing you all of that and if I as your oppressor can make you Empathize with me because my business who did nothing to you was burned to the ground Now your distraction has caused you To change your mission your movement and to change your narrative even when speaking to your children so therefore You are still rendered ineffective and powerless But if you understand what really matters and if you understand what is really being said in life To you which may say you are less than you are Unworthy you will always be in poverty You will always have lack and you will never get ahead and you will always be paycheck to paycheck and If that becomes your self-talk and you embody that and you believe that and you continue to let that come out of your Mouth and you say oh times are hard times are hard. Oh money is hard Oh, it's hard to do this is hard to do that. Guess what that will remain your reality and You will still be a slave without shackles Physical shackles, but you will have spiritual and emotional shackles. So understand me today In every aspect because you may not struggle With one aspect over another you may not struggle with finances You may not struggle with race relations. You may not struggle with Gender bias you may not struggle in one area or another, but the area that you struggle in It has to be addressed because we all struggle in one area or another and One may be greater than the other, but you have to be very Intentional with addressing the root The root of What is limiting you and you have to understand that with God on your side Who can be against you man cannot stop you because with every temptation there will be a way of escape With every temptation there will be a way of escape So you will be given the opportunity To outthink the situation that you're facing To be above the situation that you're facing to be wiser than to have wisdom that is crying Allowed in the streets asking you to accept her into your heart in your mind wisdom is crying and asking you to hear me and Operate with me and I will give you the plan to move forward and to Overcome and to break the shackles that's been placed on your life that has hindered you and Your family and your family lineage from generation to generation that change can come with you and through you See wisdom is crying out Saying that if you accept me And you add knowledge and understanding You will get the lesson the message So that you can take and change Your family's life. I remember being in an area and Being raised and everybody has the same mindset and there would be There would be one family There would be one family out of the entire community That somehow those children go to college and Get an education and go get good jobs and it's like hey, you're in the same community You look like everybody else in this in this neighborhood how did you Make it out There was an address of the root There was a intentionality To change the narrative to shift the heart to shift the mind and to say okay I see what obstacles have been placed in front of me But today obstacle becomes opportunity Today Temptation becomes a test a Test becomes a lesson a lesson becomes leverage Hey You may not have The mountaintop to speak from but you got your living room from a living room from a garage Millions of lives have been instructed and changed So when you feel powerless talk to your people right in your circle Because if you can change your mind and you can change their mind Those minds can change the world Because each one reaches one each one teaches one and that's how that's how The world has changed Conversation rules a nation so create a new dialogue first within yourself Create a new dialogue in your heart in your mind Stop lying to yourself Stop pandering to yourself Stop pampering yourself stop coddling yourself and push yourself to a new level of Intellect a new level of understanding a new level of motivation and determination see You got to outsmart the system that was created to make sure you fail and if you can do that You change not only your life but you change the lives of those who will come after you and large acts of change really Come from small actions all put together so You matter your voice matters What you have to say to your co-worker matters Because you may speak into the life of your co-worker and your co-worker may raise the future mayor governor senator president and You may not live to see The ripple effect of your action But just by that conversation Just by that shift of dialogue Everything changes Hey, this Tony gas and God bless you. I can't go past 45 minutes today on my Sunday service. I try to keep them 45 minutes I saw some messages pop up some some Blessings that you all sent. Thank you Debbie and Stephanie and Latina and Dance to unite and The weaver the the new members. Thank you Alicia bless you Elise or Alice Lenina, thank y'all to new members trash a bless you Arielle zeal a thank all of y'all for those blessings you sent I couldn't really pay attention to it in a moment because I ain't want the spirit to leave me but on God bless you and Wish you the best. I gotta I gotta get back to work today, but we'll talk soon