Bad Company Ruins Good Character

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Unsealed - Bad Company Ruins Good Character. Christians are ruining their character and witness to the world by associating with bad - and worse - individuals, movements and organizations. If you truly care, SHARE this podcast.

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All right, everybody, what's going on? Christopher Mantei back here on the Unsealed Podcast, the official podcast of Wings of the Eagle. Please share this video or audio, however you're watching this, whether it be on YouTube, X, audio on Spotify or... wherever else please do share would be greatly appreciated thank you so much you can also become a member on youtube or x support uh monthly what we do here because we are one hundred percent supported by your goodwill and no other way unless you want to buy a book or a course That's pretty much it. So please do so. Much obliged. And by the way, it's the reason why sometimes we're a little late in coming on live is because I actually do it live. Most podcasts don't do it live. They prerecord. So they make it look like it's really live, but it's not. But I don't do that. If I ever do prerecord something, I'll tell you. Okay, good deal. So that's what's going on. And there's my brother checking in. Good evening to you because it is evening for you on your side of the world. Glad that you're here with me, my friend. Literally the other side of the planet. There wasn't any ETC service. That's correct. We're doing it every other week as we've been may be failing at announcing for several months now. Yes, starting two sessions ago. We're going to be doing every other week now because we want to, we kind of have to, number one, and encourage people to launch their home ministries and stuff like that. All right, what's up, Madam Rex? Yeah, fist bump. There we go. Booyah. All right, everybody. This is a really important topic and relevant right now. And it's not just a random quote. It's from the good old Bible. The Bible. First Corinthians chapter fifteen. Depending on your translation or version says something along the lines of bad company ruins good character. And verse thirty-three, don't be fooled. Bad company ruins good character. Come to your senses. Live righteously and stop sinning. There are some people who lack the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. Who's the audience? That's the Apostle Paul, one of the original Christian leaders. His audience are Christians in a church, not unbelievers. So when he says you have no knowledge of God, he's not talking to atheists. When he says don't be fooled, come to your senses and stop sinning, he's not talking to unsaved non-Christians. He's talking to Christians in a church, one of the first churches ever in Corinth, two thousand years ago. Clearly not a new issue. But the point is it's meant for us believers who fancy ourselves followers of Jesus Christ. And it's a severe problem because it's never stopped. It's never stopped. This is in the middle of a chapter that is really one of the most basic beliefs of Christianity, which is that there's a resurrection. Jesus rose from the dead, and anyone who follows him will also rise from the dead. And if you don't believe that, what's wrong with you? Right? But there's a real important principle in here, and we're seeing it play out in many quarters right now. Do you care about the Epstein files? Maybe you're one of these folks who supported Donald Trump for since twenty sixteen. And one of your main reasons why is because you want to drain the swamp and because there's a pedophile ring led by the with Jeffrey Epstein stuff. And you want to expose all that. And Trump's the one to do it. Doggone it. Remember that? And now he's telling you it doesn't exist. It's fake news. I don't want your support anymore if you're going to keep talking about it. My response is, what did you expect? From a guy who's literally has pictures with Mr. Epstein. Who's hung out with him. Aside from that, even if he never did, his life is not reflecting Christianity in any way. Regularly. denounces the life of Jesus in his words and his actions and his examples. I'm not trying to slam the man personally. I'm just saying, what do you expect? That is not good company to keep. And your character and your witness is going to suffer. You're going to become a worse person and a worse Christian and worse than that if you identify and support and support financially, support by getting other people to support, by dedicating yourselves, following, hitching your wagon to them. And I don't want to hear any crowing from the – on the Epstein issue, and I'm going to talk about other things too. But on that issue, I don't want to hear any crowing from the left, from the Democrats in the audience. Oh, yeah, I told you MAGA people that Trump wasn't going to help you. Well, you didn't help anything. You weren't on the Epstein train. It was only when it was hurting Trump that you were on the train. You really didn't care. That's the way our nation has become. It's descended into what can I do to win? How can I get power? Who do I support to get power and keep power and to get money and prestige and fame? Maybe I can create a career out of creating fear, hatred, or support for this person or against this other party or belief system or on and on and on. Why do you think? I don't know. There's a thousand examples. You think your witness is made better by supporting abortions? You think God is glorified by that? You think Jesus is cool with it? He's not. For example, your witness is ruined. Now on the X platform especially, And there's a lot of overlap and overlay. But right now, for example, we're seeing, and I know so because unfortunately I'm tied into some of these folks or tangentially watching, there's a burgeoning crypto scandal unfolding where domains and wallets and things are being opened in people's names that are not giving their permission. And for nefarious reasons, obviously, full revelation has yet to come out. But the folks who are behind it are obviously not admitting it yet. And we're going to see what all comes of that. But again, It's distressing because we have Christian people, admitted Christian people, who are to some level involved. And my response is simple. What do we expect? When we associate and hype up and have mutually beneficial relationships exclusively with not legitimate believers, but with illegitimate believers who trash the Bible, who trash Jesus, who are supremacists of one type or another. This is the result. And I chose this version I read from the complete Jewish Bible, actually. It's one of the few ones that says ruins your character. Some Bibles say corrupts your morals. Same idea, but to ruin something is a good way to look at it. it's like mold has gotten into your building. You got to tear the whole thing down. And this is, again, this is no different. I'm just giving another example, but this is no different than the clergy sexual abuse scandal. This is no different than these major ministries who have, who have abusers and, um, you know, um, what do you call it? Uh, What do you call that when you're obsessed with power at the top? Anyways, those kind of dudes covering up for their crimes and you're basing your ministry from the beginning with corruption and evil, fake prophecies and sexual immorality and all of that junk. From the foundation, the whole thing has to come down. People don't like when I said that years ago about ministries that they like. Still to this day, they can't bring themselves to detach from the ones who were involved in those ministries, for example. It's going to ruin you. It's a promise. You're not being cursed by God. This is a simple cause and effect. It's a cause and effect. How is Jesus going to look at who you're associating with? Are you preaching the gospel to this person? Is it for a good reason? Or are you just hyping them and sharing their stuff and giving them a platform and sharing your platform that God gave you? You have to believe that as a Christian, that God gave you the platform that you have, no matter how small it is. And I'm telling you, mine is very small compared to most. But whatever God gives me, whoever I share it with, If I'm sharing it with them, if I'm promoting them, okay, I'm interviewing someone because I think what they're saying is interesting or maybe they wrote a book or whatever. Okay, then I'll just say that. Hey, this particular thing is interesting or whatever versus I support what this person does. I'm partnering with them. We're in ministry together. You know my work. You know when I say that and when I do that. Al Fadi, I partner with him. I do one thousand percent. I support what he does. Period. I'd gladly share in his work. No qualms about it. For example, Mark Davidson, no qualms about it. We talked to Jason Sands, who many of you don't know unless you're in the UFO world. This man has. had a very unique life. And to this point, he's just trying to tell people that he's a believer, you know, he's a Christian, and he's had these things happen to him and things that he knows that most people don't want to accept. You know, like, I support that. Just trying to get to the bottom of this stuff. Anyway, but if we're putting our name behind other people who are nefarious, who are cringy, who are slimy, who are maybe putting things out in the public domain, written or said things that are clearly wicked, why would I associate with? You don't, okay, don't, because you're going to get slimed. You're going to get ruined. Your mold is going to be in your walls, and it's never going to come out. If you ever have mold in your house, you know what it's like, right? You have to cut that wall right out. And then if it's really, really bad, you have to move out of your house. I mean, the whole thing has to come down. That's what happens to your character, to what you think is doing things the right way, your righteous character. It'll be totally for nothing. It's what God sees. And all of a sudden, what you think you're doing good things and getting your good message out, all of a sudden is for nothing. because your fruit is zilch for Christ. McCool, who is not an American, just has a... By the way, any comment that you have at this point is welcome. Go ahead and type it into YouTube or wherever. Yeah, I believe Trump, Clinton, and powerful men have all kept company with Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not surprised Epstein files were not made public. Again, this is not an American speaking, guys. He's not my age either. He's much younger. Um... on that point. I mean, we have pictures. It's not, it's not even, you're right. There was, there's really no debate about it. This, this dude, whoever Jeffrey Epstein, whatever his real deal really was, he claimed to be a billionaire financier, blah, blah, blah. And he made friends with all the multimillionaire and billionaires and powerful people that he could meet. And there was a lot of them. And he had a book full of who we met and their phone numbers and their addresses. And yet you're being told, you're being gaslit right now and saying there is no such thing. And then to the Christian ministry thing, I agree. Many of these non-denominational ministries and institutional churches have become extremely corrupt, immoral, power-hungry. Now I feel very demoralized at times. Well, I don't blame you, brother. That stinks. Obviously, we don't want that to happen. But again, it's a natural result, right? In the spirit, you should never feel demoralized because your family, we are the church, right? um christians are the the is not a church building so yeah your family is misbehaving uh but of course many of us are feeling the same way you are that's why we found it's one of the reasons why in time church exists which is a non-localized um non-centralized place an online church we We meet regularly, used to be every Monday, but now every other Monday, and we wanna encourage everyone in the audience who attends to meet, whether it be in their local communities or their local online groups or whatever, to foster that type of community with others who are experiencing the same type of frustration or demoralization from every background. Jesus is still alive, okay? Jesus is real. He's still at work. His Bible has not changed. I mean, his message has not changed. The same stuff that's been going on in the Corinthian church is going on in the Indian American church and the African church and the Middle Eastern church and the European church and everywhere. It's human nature. It's human fallen nature. It's sin. It's the flesh. We love to blame the devil and demons for everything, but most of the time it's not them. It's us. And so watch out who you associate with. And by the way, it's not too late. God forbid, it's not too late. Repentance is available today. It's available right now. No one will be refused forgiveness by Jesus for this. Nobody. Repent right now. Go to the cross. Go to the Lord right now in prayer. And maybe you have to recommit your life to Christ. So be it. He'll accept you. Just turn it all over. To repent is a real simple process. It might not be easy, but it is simple. To repent, teshuva, in the Hebrew language is to completely turn your back on something, to make a one-eighty turnaround. Not to just lay it down so you can pick it back up. to look back at it it's to turn your back so you never look at it again let god deal with it you just turn around and proceed that's to repent of something leave it alone forever so you can do that today if you want to if you're in a public position if you've associated publicly with a with a president, with a political organization, with a ministry organization, with a political group, with a Twitter personality, with a crypto scam, with a whatever. If you've publicly associated or pumped up something that falls under this bad company heading, then repent publicly. I'm guilty of associating with this person or group. I was wrong to do it. I ask God for forgiveness. I ask all of you who listen to me for forgiveness. I disassociate from them. I want you to disassociate from them. Maybe I was used in some way that maybe I understood. Maybe I didn't understand, but it affected others. By the way, it always affects others, friends. It always affects others. always a trickle down you're always going to affect someone else and again if there's some evil you know pyramid scheme or nefarious thing going on um it's going to affect others it just is and you'd be partly a fault whether you fully know it or not somewhere inside you know and you something's wrong and you know you know that so break that bond, right? Okay. Repent of that. Again, not unforgivable. Definitely forgiveness is free and available to you. Just repent of it. Get rid of it. Fully admit it. If you have to go to someone who you have hurt by that or affected negatively by that association, go to them directly. Go to them in private. Maybe go to them publicly. Whatever the case demands. There's no one solution, but repentance is always, always acceptable and recommended. It's always recommended for the Christian life, always. Like the Lord said, Peter said, how many times am I supposed to forgive my brother when he wrongs me? Seven times? Up to seven? That's a lot, man. Jesus, are you sure? Seven times? He's seventy times seven. Never ending. Okay? Every single time. So use that. Jesus went to an extreme level for you. So for you to get forgiveness from him is not a problem. So you can extend it and ask of another. Okay? That's the solution. But to continue in it, is like Paul would say, don't be fooled. Come to your senses. Stop sinning. It's a sin. It's not just a mistake. It's not just a whoopsie or, well, it's not a choice. I'm choosing to do this thing. I'm choosing to associate with this even though I know they're a Nazi or I know they're involved in a scam or I know that they're a counter sermon on the mount every day of their life or I know that they're a terrible example to my children or to whatever. They treat women horribly or they're false prophets. Yeah, I know that, but I'm going to stick with them anyway and pump them up. No, you're sinning and you're a fool. Stop acting foolishly. Come to your senses. That's not righteous. You're not being righteous. You're killing your righteousness. You're ruining yourself. You don't even know God. That's what Paul would say in verse thirty-four. There are some people who lack knowledge of God. I say this to your shame. You should be ashamed. You call yourself a Christian in a church. You don't even know the God you're worshiping. How could you? You're being ruined by associating with wicked people, evil movements, evil activities, sinful stuff on purpose. You should know better. Stop it. Come to your senses, friends. Come to your senses. Please, please, please. It might hurt. Hey, and guess what? I'm here to tell you. I'm here to attest. For sure. It may cause you followers. Yes. If you're talking social media or stuff like that, it will cause you followers. It cost me a lot. It will cost you money if you are accepting people's support or anywhere in there, some kind of monetization. You will lose some or a lot or all. So what? That's called good character. God sees. God keeps perfect records, perfect records. He knows. To this day, I'll see people who I know are guilty of X, Y, and Z, who are part of this bad company, who have sinned against me, who owe me an apology, who've cost me a lot over the years, have never made restitution. and claims that everything is fine and they're good to go and they have the support of thousands and thousands of people, including my friends. No one's cutting bait with them, but I know the truth and God knows. And that's all that matters. God knows. You have to be okay with that. Justice is coming. One hundred percent. So make it right. For yourself. Affect what you can affect. Control what you can control. Make it right. Break the chains with the bad company that you're keeping. Repent to God. Repent to those who you've hurt. Make it right. As much as you can. Every single one. And let God take care of the rest. Maybe it won't be in this world. It might be not until you're dead. It might be until the millennium itself, when Jesus returns to the earth. And if you're a Christian, you're going to be alive then. You're going to be resurrected, like First Corinthians says, where we get this scripture today. You're going to be alive. And everything will be known. Everything will be known. Everything will be known. I'm convinced. Everything. Nothing that is hidden will not be revealed. That's a promise from Jesus. You will know everything that has been hidden. So, it's only temporary. Might as well get it done now. Okay. Mr. Mokul is making all the statements. Come on, guys. Get in the questions. Let's go. In India, the mainline Protestant churches are selling off land... Belonging to the churches without consulting their congregations and the church leaders are pocketing the proceeds. Well, obviously that doesn't sound righteous. Thanks, Pastor. We should be more forgiving each other in the body of Christ. Yeah, we should. Our ultimate hope is in the resurrection at the start. Yeah, that's right. Our joyful hope, the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Even the stodgy old denominations use words like that. Even if they don't know what it means or don't teach what it means or forgotten what it means, words are still true. Our blessed hope is the return of Jesus to the earth and that millennial thousand-year kingdom when all Christians will be alive from all time. So let's act like it. All right? All right. Bad company ruins. Good character. So if you're in that state, if you are involved in that with the Epstein stuff, with the MAGA stuff, with the clergy abuse stuff, with the false prophecy in the church stuff, with the, who knows, with the crypto scam stuff, with the UFO Twitter scandals going on and lies and slander and all kinds. Can I just get, again, I'm not going to name names. Thank you, sister. I'm not going to name names because there's too many names. I've forgotten all of them. But every time you see one scroll by, I'm like, oh, yeah, that guy or that person. It's such a fertile field. out there of the harvest is ripe, as we like to say, as Jesus said. The harvest is ripe. It's ready for harvest. It's white. It's ready to go. It just needs worker to harvest it. It needs somebody willing to go in and not compromise their character, not go in and ruin yourself and comport with Nazis and scammers and people who don't know the flipping Bible from their ear. And there's so much of that, it's unbelievable. People with the, you know, they're senior citizens who are blabbering on like they know the scriptures. They don't. They don't know a thing about it. And folks who sound all important and have written books and have super long, you know, great ideas and mile long posts about all this stuff about ancient history and hidden knowledge and blah, blah, blah, blah. And all of a sudden are making claims about the ancient Egypt and Moses and all this. And it's garbage. They don't know anything about it, but no one bothers to correct them. And so all their followers are like, oh, yeah, yeah, I didn't know that about Moses Mount Sinai being a UFO. Oh, yeah, wow. For example. Many, many examples, unfortunately. It's very lonely out there, okay? There are not enough workers, right? Okay, but please support what we're doing in this. It's not opposition at all. I don't want to hate on anybody. I'm not trying to change anybody other than bring them to the Lord, show them the gospel, show them what the Bible actually says so they can decide for themselves with a real open... Can I read something to you? This is not planned, but I'm going to leave out almost all the details here because this is very private. But I want to read to you the words of three people who are former Muslims. in countries that persecute Christians. So the religion of Islam, it's official as part of the religion to kill you if you leave Islam. That's true. So these people know this, number one. And the country that they live in is a greatly majority Muslim country. It's a place where they will enforce that rule. Or the community that they're in or the family that they're in will enforce that rule. Your life at least will be a living hell if not you're dead if you follow Jesus. But listen to these three people who now follow Jesus but left Islam. Listen to this. I'm not going to tell you who they are or where they're from, but listen. Before my heart was dirty, but the word, the Bible, cleaned me out. I've left my past behind and belong to Christ now. Another said, I thought Christianity was false, but now I know Jesus is the truth. And the Bible is life. And the third new brother. Sister. I'm scared of my family's reaction. But I know I've made the right decision. That's reality. Out of all the silliness. All this junk. All this stuff. What Mokul is talking about. And all that we've talked about today. This past half hour. And all that we get ourselves into. And all that we allow ourselves to be corrupted with. And ruined by. Listen to those pure. Root. Statements of the faith. That's real. Come back to that. And most of us don't have any cost associated with our faith. Do we? Other than losing followers because we stick up for righteousness or something like that. Maybe lose a little money. Some friends. Yeah, that's happened to me. Maybe it's happened to you. But it's not to that level. No way. Not even Brother Mokul here. In India, it's far more dangerous to be Christian than in my country. Far more. So, think about all of that. Pray, meditate on all of that. If you're involved in political, social, financial, social media movements, any of this stuff, promoting stuff that you know is ruining you, you are in bad company. Get away. today maybe you're not sure maybe something seems a little off or you were maybe you've been told by another associate or a friend or some other christian like you're involved in something bad you've got to get out of this and you don't believe them at first you're saying I'm I don't know what you're talking about I'm I'm fine maybe re-examine ask the holy spirit to clarify he will He will convict you. And then make it right with him first and then everyone who you may have hurt. And then from that point on, leave it in the dust. Become a new creature. No more bad company. No more bad associations. Everything good about me because of jesus so everything good in you make sure you give him the credit everything good that you know as a christian everything good that you know you know this to be true everything decent about you everything good everything that is wise every fact that's worth knowing is because of god because of the father not because of you you can't take any credit All this stuff about, as I wind this up here, all this stuff about bad company, people run to it for the same old doggone reasons. Pride, greed, power. The same, what? The pride of life, the lust of the eyes and lust of the flesh. Same stuff over and over and over again. This is the reason why we Christians are told in our own book to stay away from it, to watch out, to beware, to not fall for it. Don't be fooled. Come to your senses. Stop sinning. Because it can happen to you. Make it right. If it is you, it's not too late. All right, my friends, you can reach out to me on the X platform at MantiFour. 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