03 Aug Are you living your own life? | Church 8/3/25
Stay in the light. Let people suffer! Thoughts are a setup! Forgive and forget. What does it mean to live your own life?
Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Sunday, August 3, 2025
|| See clips, links, and notes below.
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TIMESTAMPS
- (0:00:00) Pre-service small talk
- (0:04:00) Story of two towns: Conscious vs unconscious
- (0:15:30) Don’t cosign for anybody! Let them suffer. Stay in the light.
- (0:21:00) Worrying mother has excuses to stay in hell!
- (0:47:30) Who are you? What’s good about you? Nothing. “Should I leave?”
- (1:09:10) Took a break from Church, Women’s Forum: Setup of the thoughts
- (1:16:20) Does “praying” and reading the Bible help? Slow to speak?
- (1:23:45) Not praying. Burnt out. You love your misery, huh? Hake…
- (1:31:30) Biblical Question: Living your own life? What’s it mean?
- (1:36:45) BQ: Living a lie… What is forgiveness?
- (1:46:55) BQ: Living others’ life… 👨🏾⚖️
- (1:50:30) JLP on BQ: Not living our own life. Only His life. Feedback…
- (1:57:50) JLP: The Truth loves us. Closing…
CLIPS
Nobody’s living their own life (15-min) YouTube | Rumble
Human nature is wicked: A story of two towns (17-min) YouTube | Rumble
You don’t love your children (48-min) YouTube | Rumble
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CHURCH NOTES 8/3/25
📖 Biblical Question: Are you living your own life? And what does it mean to live your own life?
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0 Welcome
(0:00:00) Start (0:01:47) Welcome, happy Men’s History Month (0:02:21) First-timers
1 Human nature is wicked… story of two towns
(0:03:56) Human nature is evil… You cannot trust it in others or yourself.
(0:06:00) Story of one peaceful town with a sheriff versus chaos in another town. (0:08:20) A homeless guy crossed the line, and everything he was doing ended: Nothing but of love. Free. Then he crossed back into the hell town, y’all town. (0:09:25) When you go unconscious, you become that person. When you’re conscious, you’re not that person. Perfect peace. (0:10:04) Example: Man called show, had perfect peace, but fell into lust. Don’t worry about it: Come back to consciousness. Be present, and all is well.
Moral: Practice staying present. They’re just ideas. Pray (without ceasing) … So interesting… It’s all an illusion. I’m like, “What da!” It’s not real! …
(0:14:30) Let people suffer! You can’t save people!
2 Don’t cosign for anybody! Not even for your kids! Let them suffer. Stay in the light.
(0:15:31) JLP: Another thing, don’t cosign for anybody! (0:15:44) Father cosigned for his daughter, and wrote it off as a gift. He paid for it. They’re telling you, “I’m not responsible!” They’re definitely not gonna pay you back!
(0:16:42) Stay in the light, don’t cross into the darkness…
(0:17:01) What’s cosigning? Explained. JLP: Not even for your own children. Suffer! (Laughter) Really, if you love them, you will let them suffer. If you hate them, you will try to bail them out. Anytime you try to stop another person from suffering is because you hate that person. If you love them, you would let them suffer. But you save them from waking up, keep them in darkness, because you don’t love them. (0:18:41) You could put crypto on
(0:18:56) Asian MAN: About prayer without ceasing. … Seeing it without resisting… (0:20:24) Your inner nature. The pain in the stomach, the old nature. Feels like you but it’s not. Stay with it.
3 You don’t love your daughter. Excuses to stay in hell. Calls her son every day.
(0:20:56) LADY with a slight accent: What did I say? Let them suffer. Her children: How do you know you love them? Do you believe in God? Have you noticed God lets you suffer? Yes! (Laughter) Do you think you love your children more than God loves you, His daughter? …. (0:25:43) My daughter, the only time she realizes/remembers she has a mom, when she needs something! Thank you for waking me up! If you don’t have love, you have what? Hate? If you die…
(0:28:03) Why did you set them up so that if you die, you worry about your children?
(0:29:05) You’re stressing me out! … You recreated them — none of them like you! Stop doing anything for them. See what happens. They all hate you. Your husband did. Living together. Divorced with first child’s father, living with other child’s father — misery, stuck financially. Were supposed to get married. Two devils living together, fighting. Her friend told her! (0:32:04) She’s 18. She’s like why didn’t you leave while I was a child? She said I’m not your therapist. (0:32:54) You love the thrill of fighting with him, hating.
(0:33:46) “Financially I can’t do it.” You have a bucket of excuses to keep you in hell. Do you believe in God? “I do.” How is it possible to believe in God, and have a bucketload of excuses about living. What God do you believe in? In Him there is no fear. Zero.
3B: Her children hate her… Who are you?
(0:36:30) More… (0:37:50) She calls her son every day, more than once! He’s 25. What do you want? “Say hi, hear his voice.” Why do you hate your son? … And yet you impose! Her daughter won’t answer, but he does. (0:40:25) Why do you get mad at her? “Disappointed” is mad. “She’s the stronger character, he’s softer.” (0:43:19) I thought I’d gotten better.
(0:44:06) Are you surprised you became like your mother? (Her mother passed away.) I’m more there for my children, she says — my mother wasn’t. (0:45:56) Don’t want to be like my mother! (0:47:13) father was busy working, an alcoholic…
3C Who are you? What’s good about you? Nothing. ‘Should I leave?’
(0:47:29) Who are you? … (0:50:59) Stop calling this nature you. It’s not you. “Who am I?” When you overcome who you’re not, you will remember who you are. (0:53:42) Do you see how wicked and evil you are?
(0:54:18) What’s good about you? Loving, caring, nurturing — no that’s evil! (0:55:01) Should I leave? No, this is the place for no-good people. Evil person not gonna enter into perfect peace.
(0:56:42) Do you have anger? “Yes. A lot of anger.” … Forgive. Never a reason to be angry. Even if you’re raped a lot of times. (0:59:33) Forgive AND forget. She has thoughts that she can’t forget. God doesn’t even remember the things you’ve done. (1:01:49) Thoughts? Grow up spiritually, without thoughts. Drowning in thoughts. They’re haunting me. Especially as I’m older. (1:03:23) JLP: All your life you’ve been praying in vain. Do the Silent Prayer.
(1:06:31) He doesn’t need you to be brave. Come as you are. Come weak. The Light knows you want it. (1:08:11) Your friend loves you.
(1:08:45) Only help those who ask — not with money! … Amazin’!
4 Took a break from Church, Women’s Forum: Setup of the thoughts
(1:09:07) Where you been? Out living life. “I don’t wanna be a parrot. Don’t wanna speak the truth without understanding.” Growing a lot. Swedish (or something) lady. Going through more hell? Yes. I can tell. Why did you think you needed to? Just wanted to?
(1:11:47) … (1:12:16) JLP: it’s a setup… You can help others, and learn from others… Watch those thoughts. “I might move to another country…” Don’t be double-minded.
(1:15:04) You gotta go through hell to get to heaven. (1:15:50) Her friend had a baby, Nanghiti.
5 Catching up… Does praying and reading the Bible help?
(1:16:18) What have you realized about yourself? “Mind’s always running. Need to do the prayer more for sure.” Doing Catholic prayer. Reading the Bible… (1:18:42) Ain’t gonna help you! (1:20:42) Haven’t forgiven my mother.
6 Question… Not saying too much?
(1:21:28) Lucas Q: My dad told me… “The more you say the less you know.” Be slow to speak. How you feelin’? You look better? You don’t look like a drug dealer. HE WAS NEVER A DRUG DEALER!
7 Not praying. Burnt out. You love your misery, huh?
(1:23:41) Catching up with the mother’s daughter. Not doing the Silent Prayer but…. No excuse. Love your misery? “That’s your answer… I get lazy, just don’t wanna do it. No energy. Burnt out.” Welcome to Hell. Not enough to let go and let the Father take care of you!
(1:26:10) The mother with whom Jesse spoke at length pipes up again: You haven’t seen how evil you are! Back to the mother’s daughter. “I feel like things are pretty good, not that bad.” (1:27:31) Being consistent with almost anything is one thing I struggle with — other than working a job. It gets on my nerves.
(1:28:20) Don’t be ambitious about things though, Jesse says.
(1:29:22) Hake… Judging ourselves as “getting better.” I feel like we’re figuring out ways to be more comfortable with our darkness. JLP: No thinking in God. No thinking.
8 Biblical Question: Living your own life? What’s it mean?
(1:31:29) JLP: the BQ… 📖 Biblical Question: Are you living your own life? And what does it mean to live your own life? … “The Jesse answer vs my answer.”
(1:33:22) Rachel… Wanna barf… (1:34:54) Barf, throw up…
(1:35:30) The black father who spoke toward the beginning woke up five years ago, forgave his grandmother, trying to please her, attracted to older women… She died before he could forgive her. He divorced his older wife.
9 BQ: Living a lie… What is forgiveness?
(1:36:41) Another man doesn’t think he’s been living it — but a lie, a front of what he thought he had to be… Forgiven your mother? What is that? Immigrant from third world rape, abuse… What is forgiveness?
(1:39:08) Another man forgave, he says. Just like my mama when I’m judging her I’m judging myself. Any angry man is a mama, a woman. It’s abnormal. Incident with his sisters. Caught myself. Arguing with them.
(1:40:33) A third man on allowing kids to suffer: We let our daughter run wild. She’s more independent. … My brother, 28, “mentally unaccute (sic).” Parents destroyed him. Black sheep? Mexican sheep.
(1:43:03) Southern gal: Anything change? Manager’s been away. Dealing with people: in the right way?
(1:46:00) Your words clicking. Lily, when I slow down… realize the hell I was living in…
10 Living others’ life… hits the gavel
(1:46:55) Living your own life? SOmetimes. But mainly a mixture of everybody else’s: Siblings, dad’s. I don’t really wanna help or talk to my siblings. Weak. Scared to say no.
(1:49:00) He hits the gavel… Another black guy…
(1:50:03) Derrick … sorry I asked!
11 JLP: We don’t have a life. All an illusion
(1:50:29) JLP on BQ … Illusion. Only His life, not ours. (1:52:24) Let people go to hell! Can’t save anyone — just an ego trip! God lets you suffer, cry, mourn… (1:54:13) You don’t have a right to be angry at someone who wants to suffer and doesn’t want your help! Ain’t your business if they’re a slut! Wish her well. You’d understand. Not judge or have an opinion.
12 Feedback
(1:55:09) Nitin (sp) Keep eyes on you. Self-reflection.
(1:55:57) Women who brought the mother friend: People don’t like the word evil. If she can see it. If you tell people they’re good, they love you.
13 Closing: The Truth loves us.
(1:57:50) JLP: Invite the truth. 24 hours a day. The Truth loves us! God loves us. The depths… (1:58:16) He doesn’t hold anything against you at all. (1:59:51) There’s a right way for men and women to make a baby. You do it like animals. Animal nature. It’s not you. (Gotta end.)
(2:00:31) Work on yourself. Men’s Forum! Fundraising…
REMINDERS / Assignments…
- 2025 theme/assignment: Practice being present.
- Be nothing for three days. And on the third day, see if you rise. (Fri, July 25, 2025)
- Communicate with few words. (June 29, 2025, didn’t mention)
- 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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