Socrates and the Philosophers: Jesus Christ is the Logos! - History of the Full Bible Series 1

Alright, this is episode 3 of the podcast. This is for the real, real, real followers. A lot of people think they are real followers. But there's going to be probably something in your life between you and Christ. Whether you believe it or not. Whether you know it or not. It's usually money. And we don't even realize it. I'll give you an example. I have a family member. We go, you know, as a family you do vacation sometimes. My family never really takes vacations. So they're going. But one of the members of our family doesn't want to take off for work. To go. So that's choosing money over essentially family. In turn, which is God. Right? Because that's the only thing in life that's real. Because money won't buy you happiness. You know, I worked in TV for a long time. I met a lot of people. I met a lot of people that have a lot of money. Surface level, I'm sure. There's happiness there. But I do know deep down that money can just buy you things. So if you don't have God and if you don't know Christ, eventually you'll run out of things to do. And I say this because that's the reason why a lot of people go crazy working a regular job their whole lives. Because it never really pays off. Right? What do you get in the end? You know, you get retirement, maybe. So you get a handful of good years, maybe. But if you don't have a lot of money, you're going to take the vacations. Again, these are just filling holes. It's the same thing over and over. It's a repetitive cycle. You can do the same things over and over again. And we don't even realize it. Day in and day out. We're supposed to be creating and building relationships and helping our fellow people, our brothers and sisters. That's why I love doing that stuff. It's so much fun, guys. That's what you should do. Get out. Touch some grass, as they say. But just be part of the community. If you're not, it'll make you feel better. It'll gather your neighbors. Just do really positive things. Help others. So I was watching some movies, as I do. I've always been into film. Like I said, I worked in TV for a long time. I'm currently working on a documentary about a friend of mine who played in the NFL. His name is James Harris. The film is called Fields of Redemption. I'll put a trailer in here. I played with Chris Dorman, John Randall. Two of the best Divas of Lima ever to play in the NFL. But the difference between me and them, they didn't have a second life. You can't let them two lies, man. Because them two lies are going to come together and it's going to blow up in your damn face. Like it blew up in my face. So please don't go down my path. Because my path is full of s*** and bull. No witness could ever get up there and say they had ever had a conversation with James Harris about anything illegal. Man, you already made it. Why you still doing this? It's what I do. I don't know how much s*** money was sitting over here, but I'm looking at it. Mind you, I'm just a n***a from Chicago. I didn't have anything to lose. I'm grown up in the hood. I'm already poor and broke. What was life? Life wasn't worth much. Everybody in the hood got PTSD, man. Everybody. You can't take me down. You can't break me down. You can't take me down. But basically, he played in the NFL for almost 10 years for the Vikings, the Raiders, and partially with the Rams. But during his tenure with the Rams, he got caught up in a trafficking offense. And this all stemmed from childhood, because he grew up in East St. Louis in the 70s and the 80s in the crack epidemic era, where a lot of people, including themselves, including James himself, grew up without a father in the household. Now, he had a father figure. He had a stepfather as well. But a lot of these kids, when they don't have that father figure or God, they just mirror, again, the art that they watch or surround themselves with. So when they watch violent movies or listen to music that talks about these things, they end up doing these things. That's just how it works. Art doesn't actually imitate life. Life imitates art. And then we're told the other way. I'll give you an example. In Birth of a Nation, this goes all the way back to the 1910s. This is 1915, Birth of a Nation. D.W. Griffith. Now, this was like the epic movie of the time. It was the big blockbuster. And this movie made a resurgence for the KKK. The KKK had already been dead for 40 plus years. People think that the KKK had been around since the Civil War ended. Now, when the Civil War ended, the KKK came to be, but they were only around for a few years and then they were gone. So this movie literally brought the spirit back into people to go and rise up and create the KKK again. So the movie showed the people what to do and they did it. They literally mirrored the film. And then in doing that, they came out with a lot of movies at the time. There's another one called The Fool is There. Another one called The Cheat. And these movies did the same thing. They broke down the morals of society. So people watched the movies and they were like, the people in Hollywood, because they were making money and they were being idolized, they were in worse condition, obviously, than the people watching it at that point. The people watching it wanted to be stars and go to Hollywood and become idols themselves and make money and seek fortune and fame because they were starting to build that American dream for people. But in doing so, what happened was over the next handful of years, over the 1910s and early 1920s, is we had a lot of Hollywood scandals exactly like we have today. Exactly like we have today. Like with the Me Too movement. And then right now, you know, you have a lot of, you know, you have the P. Diddy stuff. You had Cosby a handful of years ago. I mean, this goes back to O.J. in the 90s. There's always scandals in Hollywood, right? And then what happens? Like, people idolize these people so they go down the same exact path. And you wonder why. It just keeps repeating itself. It just keeps repeating itself. So like, you know, O.J., O.J. is one of the first guys in professional sports to be, that I can remember to be up for the crime of murder. There's probably one further back. I just don't remember it. And then, you know, a handful of years later you have so many people in the NFL accused of horrible crimes, including up to Aaron Hernandez, who was accused of multiple murders. So it becomes normalized. And then we make documentaries on them. And I'm even doing so. But the thing is, what I'm doing with it is it's supposed to be a moral tale. Do not do this. You know, put scripture throughout. Show how that's what we're supposed to do as artists. Show how the thing either was broken down and don't go down that path. Or show a good story and where good triumphs over evil. Right? Because that way, society then mirrors that. Society then mirrors that. And then eventually, things will get better. But when we watch a 24-hour news cycle of horrible things happening, and then we watch movies like Sinners, and we watch, you know, shows like The Walking Dead, and these things, and we see apocalypse around us everywhere. The hit shows, Stranger Things, we have the demons from the other side winning. Constantly winning. Like, I don't know the latest season of the show, but, like, a lot of these things just break down society and people don't even realize it. And there's no way they can see it. It says so in the Bible. It says in the Bible. Like, you can't see these things. The blind cannot see. That's the problem with surface level stuff. People read that in the Bible and they literally think they're talking about a blind person. But he's also saying in a deeper level, it's like that's what majority of people are. They literally can't see what's in front of them. They're in the matrix. They like eating the steak. Life is good, right? Especially if you're well off. If you're well off in society, then life is better for you, so therefore it's easier for you to give in to the matrix, right? The lower in society you are, what that means is that you have to create meaning for yourself and when there's no meaning for yourself, we become depressed and we sin more. Right? And we go down these paths of darkness and we don't even realize it. We don't even realize it as a society. Everything's normalized. You go to the store and things are just locked up behind a cabinet. You see deodorant locked up behind a cabinet. Behind a little plexiglass. It's like deodorant. It's like we're at a point in society where that's more important than people. Like these things you don't even need anymore. These things are all man-made and I'm sure there's biblical things for these. All these items that man has made for our comfort have taken us away from God, for one. And in turn, has created our own slavery to it. Like we need more things to make us happy and so therefore we need to make more money for those things and then we end up worshipping the money and the things without even realizing it. And we think it's also giving our family good lives, our kids good lives. We think it's giving them good lives, but in turn it's just leading us down a path to our own demise. I'm reminded of a song by Sublime called We're Only Gonna Die For Our Own Arrogance. And that's the truth. Like our own arrogance is gonna kill us. Like it says we need to humble ourselves. Constantly we need to humble ourselves. I do it on a daily, yeah I have to do it on a daily basis. It's hard because when you live in society you have to be a part of society and you end up conforming to it unless you are very strong in your faith in which turn you can deflect it. But then you're a lot of times all crazy or like you're an outcast because you don't fit in. But Jesus Christ didn't fit in. So who do you want to be like? Do you want to be like society or do you want to be like Jesus? I say you either work for the devil or you work for God. I tell this to all my friends and family. So back to Birth of a Nation and these other films. In 1922 because of all the scandals just like there are today they had scandals like Fatty Arbuckle. Just like those scandals they hired this dude named William Hayes and he was a man of faith and he believed and he brought in this moral code and they called it the Hayes Code to Hollywood and they had to implement this into the films and they all had to have morals and they couldn't do certain things and I believe that this was a good thing but at the same time like when you really... God bless that person and peace be with them. I hope they slow down. So when they brought in this code I thought it was a good thing at first. But now I realize that all it does is extend it out in a way where they were able to make these things and push the boundaries and then make these art, make these films and push the boundaries in a way that it also they were also demonizing they were still demonizing other races. They're not even races man. It's just ethnicity. This is just melanin content. There's no other worthy human race. We're all God's children. Like that's crazy. Like we need to stop the hijack of language. Language is the most hijacked thing there is. People don't even know. Like love I was thinking about love the other day. I keep going off subject but love is an interesting word because in Hebrew it means more than just like the love that we talk about. Like we can say I love pizza but I can also say I love my dad I love my mom. Like those are the same... that's not the same thing Like love was a covenant between us and God in the Hebrew So like it meant more. Like it was an actual you know, this was a relationship, right? It's a relationship. Like love is not a loose term. Love today is an emotion like I love you immediately, like falling, like this is another thing they hijacked. They showed it in movies to think and going all the way back to Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, they showed us love for sight and these things to make us believe that it's just an emotion. Where as love does not seek itself. Love is one of those things that it has to be unconditional. That's what God wants. That's why he gives us free will so that we choose him, right? So that means love is so deep. Like it's so deep. Love is letting go. Love means like no matter what that person does, you still love them You know, when you see a mother or a father, when they love their child so much, when they've done something wrong, right? I love my kids even if they did something wrong. Now everyone else might not like what they did, but that love is true unconditional love, you see what I'm saying? So that's why that's another hijack of the modern world today, is they don't want us having children so that we cannot relate to what God feels for us as easily right? Because when we have our own children, we feel that unconditional love to them and it makes it easier to understand it whereas before you have kids a lot of times it's hard to understand unconditional love, like real unconditional love and that real word love. So we use that term really loosely Sorry, that was off tangent, so off subject, but we're going back so when Hayes implemented this code for years, like they made all these cool movies man, like these really good movies that they made The Wizard of Oz in this time, they made Gone with the Wind they made Casablanca The Maltese Falcon I was just thinking about that movie the other day again another idol, those are so good and the movies just keep getting remade today, that's why the movies are terrible today because they keep just remaking these movies and then they're on the 10th remake of these movies today, so they're just like they don't even realize they've seen the movie before, that's why they don't enjoy it as much and that's why it's not memorable because you've already seen it when you go to film school or when you learn literature when you learn about storytelling, you realize that there's only a handful of storytelling models, like God vs. Man, Man vs. Man there's only like 7 stories, you can break everything down into like 7 stories, then you have different genres for the same stories, you have the same stories told in different genres so good storytelling is just an artist being able to tell one of those stories well in the genre in their own way, right and then hopefully it is a good moral story that in turn, society reflects back in a good way, that's the goal then there's the moral tales to tell, so that we don't go down those dark paths that's the point of putting those out, like right now, learn by example don't do what I did that's what my friend James says all the time don't do what I did now everybody has their demons, right everybody has their own road to redemption with God, I did, we all do so, all of those movies during these years until 1968 when the MPAA were established and the rating system established, and at that point, they were just telling you we're just going to put out whatever, and we'll put a rating on it and then those are the ages that should watch it but, I mean, come on, let's be honest, once you get to be a certain age you know, these days the kids these days can access anything, if they really wanted to so, of course society is going to break down because we're a reflection of the art and the news, and everything and all we got to do is be positive these things are the lessons on how to overcome that mental slavery and break free from that and start living for your family, friends, and community rather than taking in all of society's negative, and internalizing that, and having an opinion on it because our opinions don't matter to society they just don't, you just end up arguing with people and that just creates negative, so what's the point, that's what I'm saying that's why we don't follow ourselves, we follow God because our opinions will always end up just arguing with each other because somebody's going to know more about a subject than another person, and then the argument will eventually just end up with, like I said, that's why people get hurt, people end up in fights so, I mean look at this, both Socrates and Plato believed that a study of philosophy should encourage a student to think of himself right? that's the point guys look within, look within we know right from wrong, if we just start doing right, and doing really really good in everything and strive to be really good the way to do this is to pray and to follow Jesus, like you follow his words, like read a little bit of the New Testament, or like I said, flip open to his teachings, and just read a few passages every day like a couple sentences, it'll just, it'll make, it'll, you take those and you internalize them, and it'll help you fill your cup every day and it'll help you just be a better person, and it'll make you want to start doing better every day, it will that's the honest truth that's the honest truth, so we'll end this episode by going over the end of the Hays Code so, there was this movie called The Miracle and this producer brought it over the same producer brought over The Bicycle Thief, which is another like a film of the time that was very it was renowned, right, so this guy was known for these like good films, and so he brought this movie over called The Miracle and it challenged the code very very much so, in a sense where it's complete blasphemy so, this lady falls in love with this guy and he gets her drunk and he has his way with her and she believes that she's pregnant with the Messiah right, it's called The Miracle, I haven't seen the movie I just read the synopsis, and this movie won free speech first amendment, right, and this is the breakdown of the code, so over the next 16 years artists like Hitchcock, Billy Wilder some like it hot, like these movies push the code until it profoundly broke it in 68, completely and then you have the era of all, of the classics, The Godfather The Graduate, all these movies that just totally push the boundaries, and what did that do? Society started reflecting that, you had the disco era and everybody doing drugs, and it's not like people didn't do drugs before that I'm not trying to deny the fact that people did drugs before that, but the idea is that it just gets worse and worse and worse because the moral breakdown happens, right and those artists of the 40s were doing heroin, and doing hard drugs, and then eventually the people that idolized them did those things that's why we follow our idols down the same path, you know when I was a kid I watched Chris Farley, I loved his movies, I loved him on SNL, right and you realize that he died and he idolized John Belushi before, you know, so it's just a generational thing so he literally ended up exactly like his idol right, we follow man, we end up like man these are literal examples people, right we end up who, we end up exactly who we idolize, like, that's why if we, if our dads, or our fathers or our father figures, right, don't have God, whatever they do in life, we idolize that, we become that, we literally, the apple does not fall far from the tree, that's why the tree needs to be from God so that the apple doesn't fall far from God so yeah, so then you had movies like I said like Psycho and 60, Hitchcock pushed the boundaries, and then by the end of his career he was making made Frenzy, which is like literally a serial killer movie you know, 8 years later you have, or a few years later after Frenzy, around the same time you have The Exorcist you have like these really scary movies that were scaring people, and it was scaring society and literally making people believe in demons or not really believe in demons I guess, they believed in bad but they didn't believe in the good as much anymore because these movies pushed the boundaries of like what good was right, they pushed the boundaries of what evil can do to good when the light shines in the dark, the dark goes away so the good always defeats the bad, so you have to start making better art again, and put better art online, and put more positive instead of negative, and then society will start to reflect that back more, because the power is in the people now it always has been there's some good movies out there that came close here, Philo on Creation wait for the ice machine but Moses, who had early reached the very summits of philosophy and who had learned from the oracles of God, the most numerous and important of principles of nature, was well aware that it is indispensable that in all existing things there must be an active cause and a passive subject, and that the active cause is the intellect of the universe, thoroughly unadulterated and thoroughly unmixed, superior to virtue and superior to science, superior even to abstract good or abstract beauty they all knew the truth they just didn't know how to they didn't know Jesus Christ yet Philo lived during the time of Jesus I think he died the next book is basically John in philosophy and so then we had to wrap around, because the truth was told, everyone knew the truth after that, because we become we as a people become Israel, we are reborn of the spirit, we become Israel, we are Israel as the people, because it says so in Galatians 3.2.8 and 3.2.9 it says that when we are reborn of the spirit we become Christ we are no longer a man or a woman or a slave or a freeman we are no longer anything because we are a spirit and we are one in Christ, and he says we are heir to the promise of Abraham, because we are now of his seed, which means we are Israel as Jesus would say, Shalom Aleichem peace be upon you, God bless I pray for everyone, I love everyone watch some of those old movies that I was talking about, like Birth of a Nation I mean these are hard movies to get through, I get it, old movies are hard to watch kind of have to, they are an acquired taste, I get it, but at the same time you know, I get, these are probably harder to read like these books are harder to read, so just watch the podcast I guess, I don't listen to the podcast you only got to listen, you don't got to watch I will shoot some b-roll of this stuff a little bit more but I'm kind of a one man band here right now, so it just takes some time to do these things but yeah, it's interesting, watch those movies watch Birth of a Nation, it's an interesting one man, because it's like yeah it's the birth of the clan, and they want us to believe that we would have just done these things without being shown that again, like, if we had never been shown that if we would have been shown something positive, right like about unity, about coming together as a people like that's what we would have been doing at the time, but that's not what the devil wants so anyway, God bless, see you next episode