Are you a tumbleweed? | Church 7/6/25

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— Are you a tumbleweed? | Church 7/6/25

A tumbleweed is a weak person. If you’re not getting worse, it’s not working! Neither agree nor disagree. Forgive. You’re not God.

Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, July 6, 2025

|| See clips, links, and notes below.

TIMESTAMPS

(0:00:00) Pre-service small talk… mad at them?
(0:02:33) Mimi on loving thrills
(0:08:34) BQ: Are you a tumbleweed? Not agreeing or disagreeing?
(0:14:55) If you’re not getting worse, it’s not working
(0:24:02) Is it ever gonna go away?
(0:32:21) Relationships: If you hurt, something’s wrong with YOU.
(0:43:04) Not agreeing or disagreeing: Shock the ego, and stop arguing
(0:55:02) … When you’re crying, you’re lying.
(0:59:39) Hassan! BQ, Not judging
(1:05:39) Why not drop the anger? Hassan didn’t help him!
(1:15:41) Have you been helped? … Confess you’re evil.
(1:24:02) First-timers forgave
(1:30:40) Break the cycle? You’re not God. What is the truth?
(1:45:32) Feedback: Guiding my daughter? Everyone the same problem
(1:52:31) JLP on BQ… Closing

CLIPS

Hassan and Ye… Why not drop anger? (16-min) YouTube | Rumble

You’re not God (15-min) YouTube | Rumble

See Recent and Archive clips on BOND YouTube, BitChute, Rumble, Odysee — BOND: Rebuilding the Man

LINKS

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CHURCH NOTES 7/6/25

📖 Biblical Question: Are you a tumbleweed?

📝 Assignment: Communicate with few words.

📖 New Biblical Question: Is it hard to say goodbye to the past, to people, or to a person?

1 Welcome / Mad at “them”…?

(0:00:00) Start: small talk… Are you mad at the Jews for killing Jesus? We will deal with it sometime… (0:01:28) Intro / Welcome (0:02:05) Fourth of July incident…

2 Mimi on loving thrills

(0:02:33) Mimi: Why is it the more we accept in society, the more anger we see?

(0:03:15) JLP asks Mimi a question … Loving being with the not-me.

(0:06:04) What did she just say? Ask her a question… A lady who’s been here sometimes over the many past years… (0:07:17) She loves her thrills. Why? (0:07:41) Mimi: Feelings and emotions…

BQ: Are you a tumbleweed?

(0:08:34) The lady: Are you a tumbleweed? She’s from the country, but escaped…

(0:09:19) James doesn’t like Abe Lincoln on Jesse’s shirt, because he fought to free the slaves…

(0:10:58) 30 years, she looks the same!

Communicate w/o agreeing or disagreeing (Ryan…)

(0:11:43) Ryan, did you communicate without agreeing or disagreeing?

(0:13:26) How’ve you been helped? Sometimes I’m more miserable… my awareness is stronger. 60-percent better, measuring percentiles?

3 If you’re not getting worse, it’s not working (Ryan, Mimi…)

(0:14:55) JLP: If you’re not getting worse, it’s not working. Come here to get worse. If you’re not getting worse inside/within, it’s not working.

(0:16:09) He’s stuck in a fence now… “tumbleweed” BQ … (0:16:45) He’s told in his mind not to come to Men’s Forum… Satan doesn’t want you here. He used to come to another megachurch… (0:18:00) You’re not supposed to ask the hypocrites questions.

(0:18:23) Mimi asks — and JLP elaborates: “If you’re not…”

(0:20:34) JLP: … go through hell… Completely surrender… Nothing or no one to hold onto … Men, wake up smiling to a suspicious wife… able to let go of the children… (0:22:54) You’ve never allowed yourself to get worse. Always reached out to something. You can do a whole bunch of things for a person, and they still treat you bad? My children still hate me!

4 Is it ever gonna go away?

(0:24:02) Is it ever gonna go away? If you go all the way through hell, you’ll get to heaven, and the pain will disappear. (0:24:59) JLP: If someone says, “I don’t care,” they’re lying. You can hurt their feelings.

Mimi asks a follow-up about LOUD thoughts. JLP: Can’t tell the Devil to shut up. You have no authority to do it. You’re not your thoughts, feelings (good/bad), body… When you were a kid, Mama was mean, then sorry, then did it again… you became angry, lost in thoughts. … God doesn’t hear your prayers, praying to the Devil.

(0:27:57) Set up for a horrible life… “Fight.” Go through life fighting, getting nowhere. Be aggressive, go for what you want. God said, don’t. I’ll add it all to you. If you have a wait-and-see about everything, nothing will get done. (0:29:36) How do you know it’s you… “I don’t wanna pick cotton.” Go to school to learn a trade. Living by thoughts, imagination, and emotions, where hell is. (0:31:25) … Getting you a job, a degree, is getting you nowhere. There’s nowhere to get. Not an identity.

5 Why relationships don’t work… If you hurt, something’s wrong with YOU.

(0:32:21) Cheyenne on husband and wife fighting. Sit in the pain… (0:33:30) “Lazy, slut!” One’s calling the other all kinds of names. Take it. Don’t argue about it at all. Feel the pain. Then it won’t move you at all. (0:34:48) That’s why relationships don’t work. They put effort into them. You have to fight with them, you shouldn’t be with them. It’s not from God. Everything God gives us is perfect, it’s done. Angry husband/father wants to leave. Instead of crying: See ya!

(0:35:56) JLP: If you hurt, it’s something wrong with you! You’re not supposed to be hurting.

(0:37:00) Follow-up question on the wife… Christ is the Light. Bring your darkness, evil spirits, unto the Light; the Light will destroy the darkness, and you will be free. Evil has nothing to do with the Light.

Forgive your mothers; Travel the journey by yourself

(0:38:24) Forgive your mothers. Sorry for hating. Every angry person, anyone who has anger is just like their mothers. You become like what you hate. Why do you think men act like women? … You turn the children from the fathers, you turn them away from God. (0:40:02) Every mother turns the children away from God, and you live in hell of your imagination. Your thoughts are not Mine, your ways not Mine. Suffer through it.

(0:41:02) Travel this journey by yourself. Women, men are not responsible for your misery. You were already screwed up when he met you! He was screwed up when you met him! Two Devils got together and fight. Perfect peace right here. I suggest you don’t wait until you die.

(0:42:03) Assignments? BQ… Cheyenne … instinct is to run…

6 Not agreeing or disagreeing: Shock the ego, and stop arguing

(0:43:04) Randy’s wife… Have you been living a life without judging in thoughts, eyes, words, gestures…? Live without judging period, with thoughts, eyes, words, gestures… No. It’s hard.

Prior Assignment 📝 Don’t judge with words, looks/eyes, gestures, emotions, or thoughts. (Oct 2024)

(0:45:56) My feelings get triggered… agreeing/disagreeing… I did really good on 4th of July. It was gonna get political. (0:47:04) JLP: If you’re about to argue, and you catch yourself — just stop. You’ll shock the ego by just stopping. It’ll scream at you, saying you look stupid, need to say something. Learn to shock the ego. You don’t have to respond.

(0:47:58) Have you been giving your husband Hell? Maybe. Proud? … (0:48:40) Yeah, I have. I feel like I’ve gotten better. Not what I asked.

(0:49:00) Randy: Not responding. She gets worse, then worse, then better. (0:49:21) How’ve you been helped? (0:50:29) JLP: Satan has no power… People marry 10, 8, 3, 2 times. Satan has them going back to their mind, and getting advice from the Devil! They don’t know all thoughts are all lies. Consulting with the Devil, with the lie.

Randy on Christ being alone to pray… (0:52:15) JLP: All you need is to stay away from thoughts… Stay present.

(0:52:42) Back to Randy’s wife: Zeke with his dad… by force. (0:53:52) He’s old enough at 14 to decide for himself. She says his dad makes him feel bad, so he goes with him.

7 … When you’re crying, you’re lying.

(0:55:02) Kat: Women destroying their children, turning them from their fathers. You can only do it in the darkness. (0:56:23) BQ… (0:57:26) You used to cry a lot! When she’s crying, she’s lying! (0:58:10) I don’t feel like I’m lying… You’re trying to get get it to go your way. Applies to men too!

8 Hassan! BQ… Why not drop anger?

(0:59:39) The young man with the hood… Hassan! BQ: Yes, I am a tumbleweed. I don’t know where I wanna go. God knows what we need. How do you feel not knowing what you want or need. If you have freewill why not will yourself to be free? Have you dropped all of your anger? (1:01:46) … Yes. (1:02:14) How have you been helped? (1:03:14) Idols… Luke Skywalker having to go to his dad Darth Vader. Really we’re both sons, brothers.

Don’t judge with thoughts, eyes, words, or gestures. (1:04:19) … Awareness. Stuff slows down like Michael Jordan says. JLP: Power in stillness (1:05:19) you don’t know it b/c you’re one with the Devil.

9 Why not drop the anger? … Clarity … Who are you?

(1:05:39) Young man: Yes, he has anger. Why not drop it? What would happen to you if you had no anger? “I could be used by God more.” For sure. Do you know where your anger came from? How did you become angry? Stuff didn’t add up. They just shrugged their shoulders.

(1:07:45) JLP: You’ll never be free until you forgive your mother, become what you hate. Go to her: Sorry for resenting you. Admit you’re wrong for judging. Playing God. And father for not protecting: He didn’t know how to deal with the hell in her. (1:09:21) Digesting it… Likes the stern black-and-white approach. Clarity. God allowing you to see, if you want to see it.

(1:10:04) Who are YOU? A lot of answers. A son, father, king, student, teacher, husband, leader… Those things you do… “Can I cheat off his test?” Did you know you didn’t know who you really are? (1:11:55) Looking for something, why I pulled up to church.

(1:12:36) What is it like living not knowing who you are? My navigation keeps rerouting. (1:12:56) … Where’d you get that shirt?

Hassan didn’t help him!

(1:13:33) Silent Prayer? Hassan didn’t tell him! … Making excuses!

10 How have you been helped?

(1:15:41) Donyale: How have you been helped? The “peasant food” issue… Stop right there, shock the Devil. (1:18:15)

(1:19:37) Colin… have you been helped? (1:20:07) JLP: All human beings are wicked. No love. Confess: I am an evil person. You don’t have any love. … Anyone with anger has fear. …

More from Colin — (1:22:06) JLP: All evil people have the emotion called love. When you tell someone, “I love you,” you’re saying, “I hate you.” Test it: Don’t call mama for a week. Or say no to her. …

Not praying… (1:23:44) Human beings love thrills. Suffer!

11 First-timers forgave

(1:24:02) Emil (sp), first-timer, via YouTube … Forgiven? Afraid to face mama! … If she fall out and die … I became patient … from Sweden!

(1:26:06) Bianca (sp) heard via Emil (sp) forgave her mother. It was hard at first. I had to die to myself, realize I was evil. Was hard. I grew up with Christ, with the Lord (1:27:09) Delores? Oh, in Church! … (1:28:43) Didn’t realize I was so angry with my mom. All mothers hate the father of the children.

(1:29:16) Impression of Jesus now? (1:30:04) Still have anger, road rage. Don’t know the Lord! See it; don’t try to change it.

12 Can we break the cycle? Thinking you’re God

(1:30:40) Alexander joins us with Ye. Can they break that cycle? All people love evil… Engaged. Oh, God! 3-months… Forgave mother, multiple times. (1:33:24) Why so many? Only once is required. She’s living in hell on earth. I’ve tried to help her. (1:34:30) Leave them in their hell… She loves her misery! Don’t try to save her. She’ll destroy you! “I feel guilty.” Who are you? (1:35:20) “I feel like I’m God.” You do think you’re God. “I think we all are God.”

(1:36:47) All thoughts are all lies. Stay away. God’s thoughts are not yours. Truth is not found in thoughts. Nothing but lies in thoughts. (1:37:23) Ye: What is the truth? God, the Present. You’re not God. There’s only One God.

(1:39:07) Ye… Do you know God? “I’m not sure.” If you knew Him, would you have doubt, or would you know that you know Him? “He has me here now.” … “I’m not sure.” Questions about how Christianity was made, astrology, Earth, Sun, etc.

(1:41:33) Do you want to know God? Alexander… Give up all ideas about God. Everything you’ve learned, heard, every belief. Let it all go. Beliefs and knowledge, you’ll never find him. God is not in belief, thoughts, emotions, knowledge… My children shall know me by my voice. … Silent Prayer…. You’re not your thoughts, job, children. Become nothing.

13 Feedback: Guiding my daughter? Same problem

(1:45:32) Another first timer, who joined us for the Men’s Forum… His little daughter, he made errors as a father.

(1:47:22) A young woman next to him… looking crazy? Honest responses… (1:47:55) JLP: Every human being on earth has the same problem. Living in emotions, same excuses.

(1:48:13) She pushed her mama in the wheelchair. You hate your mother, and stuck with her! I passed by the building where she lived. Feelings came back, memories, I boohooed for 30-sec … Felt like it never happened. “Is she haunting me?” JLP: It was just a thought. Satan reminding you of the past which doesn’t exist.

(1:50:26) What’s going through you now? Green shirt… Practice being aware of what’s going through you.

(1:51:18) Anchor Baby …

14 JLP on BQ

(1:52:31) JLP… Never a reason to be angry… On BQ: A tumbleweed, a weak person… Dead weeds in the greenhouse … Christ said you don’t have to be you any longer. (1:56:09) The real you are not guilty of anything, never done anything wrong. Neither guilty nor innocent, right nor wrong, sinner nor saint … identifying with the false self.

(1:57:53) Nigerian gal, Drop the anger. Seeing it, but not identifying with it. To Hell with the world! … Forgive. Prayer

REMINDERS / Assignments…

2025 theme/assignment: Practice being present.
Communicate with few words. (June 29, 2025)
Don’t agree or disagree with anyone. And see what happens. (June 2025)
Quietly live with the hell in you (May/June 2025)
Write down all the stabs you get (May 11-18, 2025)
Be a single-minded person, not a double-minded person. (BQ/Women’s Forum Apr 13-27, 2025)
Don’t judge with words, looks/eyes, gestures, emotions, or thoughts. (Oct 2024)

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