Church or Consciousness: A Path to Spiritual Enlightenment

Speaker 1: 1:02

Welcome everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the Peck and Preacher podcast and another spiritual message. This week has been an exceptionally spirit-filled week and what I mean by that is the lessons. The lessons that have come have been intense, have been very deep rooted and and very filled with emotions on all sides. Most of this week has been in regards to the corporate church, people feeling that they need to leave the corporate church and how to deconstruct From the corporate church, from the four walled building the organization as a whole, the business slash church.

Speaker 1: 2:07

Now note I'm not speaking about Christianity itself. I'm speaking of the church as a corporate entity and Some of the things that they teach within those four walls, the things that they have done Not only in the past but even in the present, what they do to our country, what they're continuing me Continuantly doing to our country, that are negative when people, many people, feel that they are the positive source and the divine source in this country, when the evidence proves otherwise. Now I urge you if you have a very, if you were offended easily, you may not want to listen If you are someone who cannot open their mind and open their heart to truth If it goes outside the 66 books of the Bible, then you may not want to listen, because the truth Doesn't come from the book. It does not come from the 66 books that are in the Bible that we get in the stores. You know, in the New Testament alone. Are people aware that there has been over 30,000 alterations in the New Testament alone since its creation? Do people realize that the Bible we're not even quite sure for a fact, for positive evidence of who even wrote them. We assume we know we can probably get pretty close to how you know. I mean, we can get close, but you know we don't need close. Truth is not close. We have to understand just how many times the Bible has been Altered and changed over the course of the years to fit the narrative at the time, what they wanted to achieve, what they wanted to gain.

Speaker 1: 4:41

But it offends so many people, it makes people angry and you know it used to me too, because I have roots in the church, I have roots in ministry, you know, and people have asked me how can you turn your back on God, how can you turn your back on all these kind of things? And it's like I haven't turned my back on anything but the lies, the falsehoods, the misinterpretations. Truth doesn't belong to anyone. It's not about religion. I'm not a religion. People say well, what are you I'm? I'm everything and I'm nothing. I am neutral For everything but truth. Because I don't believe that truth is true, because I don't believe that truth is found in one practice, one theology, one Labeled description of what people believe, because it keeps you in that box, it keeps you limited to your growth.

Speaker 1: 5:58

Those 66 books that I hope you understand that were chosen by a council that would fit together the best, without contradictions. Because, you know, like the book of Enoch, it was removed from the book, even though it's still in, I think, ethiopian and a lot of Catholic Bibles. But it was removed from the Bible because they said it contradicted some of the other books in the Bible. But I believe if you read Bible also says that Enoch was a man that walked with God. Now, why wouldn't you want to read Letters written by a man that walked with God himself? Why would you remove that book if it contradicted the other books in the Bible? Because there's many, many mistranslations and I decided to say that many of those things were done on purpose. It's not by error that we are deceived on these kind of things.

Speaker 1: 7:12

Enlightenment scares many people of high places, high levels, the principalities, the principal. I could speak, I'm getting tongue-tied, but you know what I'm saying. They get scared because enlightened people can't be controlled. When people begin to understand the truth, understand who they are, understand where they come from, understand their capabilities and understand peace. How to achieve peace? You know, there's been things, there's been forces at play for centuries to keep us at each other's throat, keep us arguing, keep us fighting, keep us declaring one religion over another, even to the point of willing to kill and die for it.

Speaker 1: 8:15

But you know what, and I've questioned this so many times in my life these ultimate, powerful, all-knowing gods that can't seem to do anything unless you do it for them. Now, I mean no blasphemy and I mean no dishonor, but I question it. I question any praise or honor given to a God that does absolutely nothing for their children, their followers, those that honor them. And you're going to say, well, no, my God does. You just can't see all those things and you can't hear, you just don't know, because God works in mysterious ways. Well, you're right sometimes, because sometimes it's not seen at all, because when I look out in the world. I know just how easy it would be for an all-knowing, all-powerful God to make himself known to the world and to declare peace upon this earth, to make everything right, that it would be so easy for people to believe if you just showed up, how easy it would be. And I know, just like I said in the beginning, if you're easily offended, you may not want to listen, but what I'm talking about is the things that have happened this week, the people that have come to me.

Speaker 1: 9:48

Why is it that Christianity seems to be the only religion in this world that feels it necessary to deface and demean every other religion around it? You know, I look and I sat back all week just trying to, because I've never, unless provoked or attacked, I've never seen a pagan or a pagan-minded person go to a Christian page or a Christian website and just attack their belief. I've never seen a Hindu or a Buddhist or Muslim. Yes, I've seen where they are defending themselves with all those religions and that's something completely different. But you'll see Christians that will actually go to pagan sites, pagan posts, whether it be on the internet or whatever else, and you'll see them and they feel this need within themselves to proclaim their religion and to demean the post or the article or whatever it may be. They feel that they have to contradict that and tell the world that that is wrong and they are right and that their religion is the only religion and that we all need to either wake up or we're all just going to burn forever.

Speaker 1: 11:27

You know this religion of fear. God is not about fear. Where do we look? Where do people get this idea that God is some being in the sky somewhere or in another world somewhere and is going to come back one day in this physical form? Have they ever read the Bible? What did Jesus himself say? The kingdom of God is within you. Where else would a king reside? But the kingdom, if you're looking for God, looking to mirror it, also says God is Spirit. In order to find God, you've got to be spiritual. You've got to look within the kingdom, look within yourself, know thyself, know thy spirit. We have to communicate in spirit because God is Spirit.

Speaker 1: 12:43

No matter what religion that you follow, those same aspects apply. You may label them different, you may title them different, you may even describe things differently, but in essence, the truth is the truth, power, magic, manifestation. It all comes from within. It comes from spirit within us. Spirit goes way beyond the boundaries of the physical when we understand ourself and our capabilities and we speak not simply with our mouth, but we speak from spirit, as spirit gives the utterance. We speak, we proclaim, we demand, we change, because we understand the power that is within us. You're never going to find God if you're looking everywhere else but not within.

Speaker 1: 13:45

Jesus was talking to the Pharisees when he was saying these things, because the Pharisees, they were earnest about following the laws, they were dedicated to following the religion, they had good intentions, they were striving to be the best at their quote religion and Jesus was trying to tell them that you follow all these things and you know all these things, like a parrot would recite, but you don't understand the meaning, you don't understand the heart of it, you don't understand the spiritual aspects of it, the metaphoric symbolism. You just don't understand, and many people don't understand today when you start to try to teach the same things that he taught. Even the Bible has altered and changed the words of Jesus because remember, they put Jesus on the cross, remember, and they still try to do that to anybody today that preaches or ministers or empowers in the same way, and they also put a book out there that would limit and control those that would ever achieve it, because the Bible tells us to be humble and never reaching out beyond anything else. Now, humility is great, but false humility is an abomination. Are we good people because we're good people or are we good because we're afraid of being punished? There's a big difference.

Speaker 1: 15:37

You know, the church, christianity as a whole, has an abundance of wonderful and great aspects to its religion. Jesus, or the man we call Jesus today in English, taught many great and wonderful things, but most of the Bible isn't of Jesus. It's of disciples and older prophets. That comes from the Torah, the Jewish religion. Half of the Bible is technically Jewish and we just simply don't understand that. We understand that the Jewish people don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but yet half the Bible is their religion. I could go on and on about different contradictions and misinterpretations, and someday maybe I will, but right now it's just the earnest.

Speaker 1: 16:40

The spirit is, if you're out there and you're trying to deconstruct the Christian corporate religion, if you're in this place where you just don't quite know what to expect or quite know what to do next, maybe your family's been in church your whole life. Maybe you've been in church for years and you're just not feeling it no more and you just don't quite understand what to do next. You want to follow this path that calls from within. You believe in magic and miracles, you believe in intention and manifestation, but the church has told you that those things are sinful and you can't practice those things because they're witchcraft and they're all kinds of. But even that, you know even the terminologies, the definitions and the labels that we give. Don't worry about those things. Follow the calling that's within you.

Speaker 1: 17:49

People label certain words because that's what they were taught. They perceive certain things according to what they were taught and how they learned and where they learned, and we can't let those things get us down. We can't let those things offend us. We can't let those things. We have to believe in the calling within ourselves. Someone says you can't do that because it's witchcraft.

Speaker 1: 18:22

No, not everything is what the Bible will consider witchcraft. We have to also understand that the word witch has nothing to do with what it is today the word witch. When someone described the word witch in the Bible in the olden days, it was a person that consorted with demons that poisoned people. They were the poisoner. They did a lot of negative and a lot of you know. But that's not what you were talking about. We're not talking about the person that believes in using herbs to heal, the person that believes in manifestation and making a better life for themselves and their family. Those are kingdom magic. Those are the things that come from divinity. Those are the things that people are afraid when you start talking about power and they want to label everything. Oh, we can't do that. Just like a soul, we can't go to a psychic, we can't go to anybody that feels that they know things that not everybody knows, because that's a sin.

Speaker 1: 19:36

But we will pay this prophet $100 to come speak in our church, not understanding that the gift is the same. The label, the title makes no difference. You're going to say, well, one person is of God and the other one is not. But if God is within us, then both walk in with God. It's who we are as a people. The gift itself is never evil, but it's the person who holds the gift that is either evil or good, and what they do with their intention, what they do with the words, the knowledge and the wisdom that they have, determines whether the output is good or evil.

Speaker 1: 20:30

The corporate church is lost. It's strayed so far from the truth and it grieves my spirit because some of my best friends still go three times a week or more, give most of their money to the church, would die for their church and never truly understand divinity or God. Period. They don't understand. They're looking all over the place. They're reading this book that was given to them, thinking that that's all there is and if we do anything, if we go with anything outside of that 66 books, then we're going to be deceived.

Speaker 1: 21:24

Do we honestly think that your God is that weak, that you're going to earnestly be seeking but you're going to get lost? I don't believe that and I think that's where I've gotten to the point where myself is. I understood. There was a time when I had to take that leap of faith and get out of just the book. You know, the Bible can be a blueprint, it can be a beginning, but truth goes way past that book. There is so much more out there, so much more truth out there. You got to be brave, you got to have courage, you got to believe and you got to have faith in yourself and in the divine connection with all things, that when you are seeking that truth, that you will find it, you will understand it and it will be confirmed within yourself. Are you going to make mistakes? Yes. Are you going to fall down a few times? Of course you will. You may even get on a couple paths you shouldn't have, but I guarantee you on that path you're going to learn something that you needed to learn and someday you're going to keep somebody else from falling on that path.

Speaker 1: 22:58

Understand that even the mistakes in our lives are for a reason. If we can take the lesson from that incident and that mistake on that path, I urge you, if you don't know where to start, start in that quiet time, start finding a place, wherever it may be, just 10, 15 minutes a day. Put on some good background music, meditation, music, something without words and just listen. Focus your mind on the questions that you have and just dive deeper and deeper into yourself. Focus on that breathing, understand and learn how to communicate with spirit and the truth will be revealed to you. Doors will begin to open, understanding things that no one else can seem to understand and it'll be so clear to you that you'll be almost aggravated that they can't understand it because it's so easy and so clear. But it's not clear unless spirit reveals it.

Speaker 1: 24:44

We have to teach even when people don't want to be taught. We don't believe in going against someone's will, so we never try to manifest forced conversion. It's like I tell people in the church do not pray against someone's will, do not pray to break someone so they come into your faith and your religion, because that is some of the darkest arts there is. But instead we try to teach in love, we try to lead by example and we try to show them and using their own information because I've done even this when we talk about the fruits of the spirit, when Christians come at me or come at other teachers and they want to throw scriptures and they want to throw all kinds of hate, because I bet in this week alone I've been called stupid and I've been called an idiot and I've been called a heretic and I've been called so many different things and it's all spoken in a very vain, arrogant way and I try to explain to them.

Speaker 1: 26:06

It's like you understand that the way you're coming across, the way you are trying to trying to express yourself and to teach what you believe, is not as your God would have it. And in fact, if I judge your spirit by the words and the actions you speak, your own Bible tells me you are not of God, that you know nothing of the divine, because the divine says to try to do everything in love. Remember respect, remember to respect people and to honor people and if someone asks for your opinion, if they ask for your advice, then give it, but give it with a measure of respect that you understand their heart and you understand where they come from. You don't have to know why they're on that particular path. You don't have to understand anything. You know this world is.

Speaker 1: 27:23

We are a mess and I'm going to tell you that religion, organized religion, is the worst, evilest thing I've ever seen in my 55 years of existence in this vessel, because mankind can take something that should be good and they can tarnish it and make it so evil and use it to control and to hurt and manipulate. But spirit will set you free. Get out of the book, get into other books, research, investigate other things, go to other religions. And I'm not telling you to convert to all these different, you know. I'm telling you to open your mind and open your heart to new knowledge, to real wisdom and to understand the power that's within you, by just believing that you won't fail in that the divine won't fail you on your mission of truth, deconstructing from corporate legend.

Speaker 1: 28:51

Leaving the church it's happening More and more and more each day. Leave the church and people are saying that we're all people are walking away from God. No, my friend, they're finding God, they're finding the truth about God, and the deceptions and the lies of control are being brought out in the open. A new time, an awakening is coming. A new empowerment of the people, a new level of enlightenment and knowledge for those people that inherit this earth later can be so I don't want to say so much better, but so much more in tune with reality and truth. Today we're slaves to debt. We've just destroyed so much on this planet already. We don't understand the balance and we destroy and we kill everything around us that we don't understand.

Speaker 1: 30:19

It's time for change. It's time for something new, my friends. It's time to get out of those four walls. Say your respect and do what you know that you need to do for yourself and for your family. Trust that leading. Thank everybody for taking the time to listen.

Speaker 1: 30:49

Remember, take that 10, 15 minutes and go to that quiet room. What are that quiet time? It could be even in the bathroom, anywhere that you can find that time, breathe it, look within yourself, ask those questions and I guarantee you, in time they will come. But until they come, until you hear from Spirit, I'm here. I'm here and I will guide anyone that will walk with me on this path. I can't tell you where Spirit has for you to go, but I'll gladly walk with you so much on that path until it's time for you to go to somewhere else and maybe we can walk together for a short ways, maybe we can walk together forever. But let's walk together for a while. Ask your family, ask your friends, join this awakening. Let's get out of those four walls, let's get out of just this book, let's get into Spirit. Be blessed everybody and bless it be.