20 Apr Fear is an illusion | Church 4/20/25

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Easter? The first temple? Being an adult with fear? Wait and see: Be single-minded, not double-minded.

Church with Jesse Lee Peterson, Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025

|| See clips, links, and notes below.

TIMESTAMPS

(0:00:00) Pre-service small talk
(0:01:42) What is Easter?
(0:10:38) BQ: First temple God made? Soccer star…
(0:16:35) Muslim temple debate / Do you treat your body as the temple of God?
(0:25:15) Adults have fear. What’s it like?
(0:40:22) JLP union work story; More people with fear
(0:49:25) Hard living as an adult with fear
(0:56:23) Childhood bullies, No grudges …
(1:05:20) Not taught to have fear. Not tolerated…
(1:11:50) Wait and see: Single-minded, not double-minded: Assignment
(1:19:21) JLP: Overcome fear. Car accident!
(1:26:17) Nothing bad ever happened to you!
(1:30:22) JLP: It’s not you.
(1:35:03) Stop trusting the old nature
(1:44:51) Take control… Story of Christ
(1:50:05) Feedback and closing

CLIPS

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Church Notes 4/20/25

Biblical Question: What was the first temple that God built?

New BQ idea…?

Welcome… What is Easter?

(0:00:00) Small talk about water again, and a young lady who’s now 14! (0:01:24) Welcome!

(0:01:42) What is Easter? (0:03:16) Another man answers. (0:05:01) The young man who doesn’t believe in Santa or the Easter bunny. (0:05:54) He died Friday while you were at school. He died on Friday, and he rose today, Easter.

(0:06:24) Story: Celebrating Easter? What is it? Uhh… idk…. Hake, to do what? “Stumped.” (0:07:53) Jesse interrupts as a man is on Google on his phone…

(0:08:49) To do what? A young Asian lady tells the story… (0:09:59) Egg hunting waste of time…

(0:10:14) What does Easter mean to you? God conquering death…

BQ: First temple God made? (Soccer player young man)

(0:10:38) BQ…? First-timer Andrew, from YoUTube and IG… Colin asks the BQ (0:11:25) with the help of “mama”… “the body?” First-timer says no idea. Heard of God?

(0:12:13) Lorena answers, I believe. (0:12:39) Kevin, another first-timer

(0:13:14) Zeke’s mom… (0:13:43) Zeke is back. Food is boring in Spain. Was it raining in Spain? May go back in August. Barcelona offer to play soccer. L.A. team tryout. (0:15:19) Donate to BOND…

(0:15:42) Raymond… Jesse to Omeed: Scratching your head with no hair? (0:16:16) First-timer says Adam as well.

1 Do you treat your body as the temple of God? Temple debate

(0:16:35) JLP: A Muslim guy was talking to me at the gym about the Jews and Muslims and temple(s). He said the first temple God made was man.

(0:17:18) Do you treat your body like it’s the temple of God? Sometimes. My urges, human decisions. Do you want to treat it as the temple of God? …

(0:19:02) Rochelle: I be throwing down on cookies and candy…

(0:19:39) Any Q’s? I googled the Q… Solomon built the first one to worship God. In Israel they fight over temple(s)… (0:20:24) JLP: The Jews and the white man stole it from the Muslims… Why white people so smart now? Nobody else doing anything? The white man stole everything, said this Muslim, starting wars everywhere. Oh yes, says the man.

(0:21:30) Colin reacts… confused. Catholic people stole it and took it to the Pope’s house… (0:22:56) Why are we talking about this on Easter? Maybe the white man call ‘em archives…. Treasures too. (0:24:14) It helped me stop thinking the white man’s smarter than everybody.

(0:24:38) Nick says it’s fringe. Is it true, Raymond? Unsubstantiated possibility.

2 Easter, Fear?

(0:25:15) Easter: What I realized… Those who have fear?

(0:26:01) Rachel recognizes Satan telling her to be afraid…? Have it? Alexis? Who doesn’t? (0:26:47) Why don’t you have it? Rochelle… Still have it?

(0:27:14) The Asian lady wanted to commit suicide in the past.

(0:28:06) JLP on fear: Grownups have fear. (0:29:52) I had a big head… I’d laugh about my cleft lip… (0:31:05) Punchie you’ll never have a girlfriend… We’ll see. I went after the pretty girls, to see if they’d get with an ugly guy. I always got the pretty girls, because I wasn’t afraid of them. Only when I was gonna break up, I was afraid to be honest.

(0:32:07) My grandparents didn’t allow me to have fear. Maima would whup me! It didn’t make sense to have fear. I would speak up to adults. Don’t worry what someone else think about you! Only when I cheated on her and was afraid to tell her!

(0:33:59) What is it like to be a grown man and have fear: Speaking to women, and to adults, people my age at 25, not fitting in. … Rochelle…

(0:36:06) Colin can’t believe people don’t have fear … public humiliation (0:37:15) Don’t even know what it means! When I think about it, I don’t care, but there’s a bodily response to it. (0:38:28) Hard to believe you can grow up with no fear?

(0:39:08) Asian man: As a kid, parents had bad fights. Mom: “I wanna leave, never coming back.”

2B JLP union story, no fear … More people with fear

(0:40:22) JLP became a union steward, representing the union while working the job. Good at it b/c had no fear. Stood up to the managers. Mexican lady hated me b/c she couldn’t control me, I was just being me, didn’t have fear. She got so sick of me, wrote up this report about me. If you’re a kid, and get yelled at for speaking up… So glad for that now…

(0:43:44) Do you have fear? “Not really,” says a young lady. (0:44:29) If you’re not afraid of your parents, that helps.

(0:44:48) Second young lady: Are you grown? Yes. I believe the thoughts. Why? I’ll think about what happens and be afraid… I was afraid of speaking up to my parents and having an honest conversation with them — they’d get angry. (0:46:09) Side note: I wish my son had fear now, so he’d shut up!

(0:46:37) A third young lady: When my mom passed away … of cancer

(0:47:48) Young man: Nervous around people, but usually take the bull by the horns. Married. Afraid of wife?

2C Hard living as an adult with fear

(0:49:25) Randy … (0:50:11) Is it hard living as an adult with fear? Would cry walking his dog(s), and not know why. Bliss. (0:50:57) It’s crazy to be living with fear, and see fear in people. (0:51:25) You cannot hide it!

(0:51:50) … Assignment for Women’s Forum? (0:52:27) Southern gal, full of restraint, can’t do what I know I need to do. What it feel like? Fear holds you back. (0:53:15) Working on herself, conditioned to respect my elders. I’m 25. (0:54:18) What’s it like breaking out the prison of fear?

(0:54:47) Block your sister? I was set up! Had a feeling it was a 3-way call. Convo was unusually short. Now you should block your other sister too!

2D Childhood bullies, Free of grudges …

(0:56:23) Anthony on his son… And his story of being forced to fight his bullies… (0:57:57) JLP: Parents didn’t even allow me to judge somebody. Parties, smoking pot, govt check, friends would be jealous and talk, but I didn’t care. Black people didn’t hate white people. No grudges against anyone. Always been free of grudges.

(1:00:47) Kat on fear… (1:02:40) In the moment, present… Randy’s wife… (1:03:54) Did you leave your mother over there?

(1:04:46) One man: Is it fear not to be able to give someone the finger?

2E Fear was not tolerated, Not taught to have fear

(1:05:20) Another: My stepdad was like how you grew up. (1:06:01) JLP: They just didn’t let me have it… They didn’t allow me even to think about fear. I got in a fight. Fear wasn’t tolerated. Granddad had no fear. My dad would get in tenants’ face! He wasn’t nice, he wasn’t mean.

(1:08:51) Randy: Absence of being present… Another man: How do you raise a child not to have fear? Mama intimidation, disrespecting me!

(1:10:24) Omeed: Anxious, worried… In engineering: “Failure mode.” Overwhelmingly no real reason, just a spirit whispering…

3 Wait-and-see mindset. Single-minded, not double-minded

(1:11:50) Women’s Forum assignment: Wait-and-see mindset, watch how the Devil wants you to be a double-minded person.

(1:13:21) Another lady: Caught myself becoming double-minded

(1:14:25) A third gal: Silent Prayer

(1:15:35) Assignment: Be a single-minded person, and not a double-minded person. Jesse explains to a young man… (1:18:10) Let’s say your girlfriend left … the Devil says: Call her up!

3B Overcome fear… Car accident…

(1:19:21) JLP: You can overcome fear just like that. Lied to all our lives about everything … Christ came that we may overcome all … (1:20:53) Christ did an amazing job. We shouldn’t be going through any of this stuff! (1:21:52) Prison of imagination, an illusion. The real you cannot feel hell. Welcome to hell. “Father, why have you forsaken me?” He felt everything we feel. (1:22:58) The real you already one with God, but you don’t know it!

(1:23:23) Everything happening to you is happening in you, remember? A bad week, says a young lady. Car accident. Mind busy. Just a car accident! (1:25:03) The thoughts tell you: Stress time! …

3C Nothing bad ever happened to you

(1:26:17) JLP: Nothing bad has ever happened to us! “I didn’t mean to make a face! … He was giving me a backscratch and it felt REALLY good… ” (1:27:17) Dealt with a lot in life? You haven’t dealt with anything! (1:27:47) Man reacts, was homeless… (1:28:35) Mom kicked me out, thinking I was on drugs, but I was playing basketball late at night. I was only homeless one night! My friends helped me out. (1:29:26) Colin agrees… (1:30:12) Another man does…

(1:30:22) JLP reiterates: Everything you thought was happening to you was not happening to you, but in your mind. … Every fear and rage… You’ve associated yourself with your mind. (1:31:24) Impossible for you to have fear, doubt… even if you tried! Only the false you, the imagination you call you. … Even if you lived in Nicaragua… The real you is free.

… Staying with a person that beats you (1:34:23) The voice tells you to give the person another chance. Why would anyone stay with anyone who’d be violent to them? You listen to thoughts.

3D Stop trusting the old nature

(1:35:03) AGAIN: Practice being single-minded, not double-minded. Don’t do what the thoughts say about any situation. Stay with the present, the opportunity. God gives us opportunities all the time. There’s no such things s a victim. You’re double-minded. Stop listening to the thoughts.

… No problems (1:37:11) Creating your own problems. This world descending into hell. Govt fighting for criminals. Give it a chance! (1:38:38) Be present, not playing with the Devil… The real you one with the Father, and don’t know it. Perfect love, freedom, want for nothing … Stop trusting the old nature… It cannot fail when you do it! It will have a fit. Give it a good try. It’ll work. Fear is an illusion! “Nightmare” — just an illusion. Why take a pill for spiritual things?

(1:40:55) No reason to be shy. That’s in the head! People ain’t thinkin’ about you! (1:42:01) Christ is not in favor of emotions… Dispassionate God. Satan is passionate. No reason to be shy, afraid… family is your enemy!

3E Questions, Freedom

(1:42:38) Lorena: Parents supposed to protect their children and be the light, to show how to overcome.

(1:43:56) When do we reciprocate behavior? Conscious, won’t overreact.

3F Take control… Story of Christ

(1:44:51) Take control of your life by… practice staying away from thoughts. Nobody care about you! Dealing with evil people… Pretending you’re not angry is not the same thing… Don’t call it you. It’s an it. You’ll start to remember you again. You’ll be stunned how free you are.

(1:46:19) They made Christ God, and now people are afraid to approach Christ in the right way. Nobody had sense. God said, OK, lemme make a Son. Looked all over for people with sense, couldn’t find one in Florida in conservative states! And not one good woman! Sorry, ladies. Satan doesn’t own us anymore.

(1:49:42) Man asks about restaurants.

Closing Feedback

(1:50:05) Why do you believe the thoughts … glimpses …

(1:52:11) Jesse mocks Mexican mothers who lie and blame their husbands…

(1:54:38) Any Q’s disagreement? Forgave? Doing the prayer? (1:54:53) Amazing how people don’t do the Silent Prayer! They don’t listen! Silent Prayer https://rebuildingtheman.com/silentprayer/

(1:55:40) Lorena stopped doing the Silent Prayer… did less and less time… More ladies respond (1:57:28) Fear is real — it’s not real… Overcoming is being present. You’ll see it’s an illusion. What’d you get from today ….

(1:59:36) There is a real you… Christ came so you can do it. Watch the not-you

REMINDERS…

2025 theme/assignment: Practice being present.
2024 theme: Want for nothing.
2024 assignment: Don’t let the thoughts bully you.
10/13/24 Daily Assignment: 24hrs: Don’t judge with words, looks, emotions, or thoughts.
8/25/24 Assignment: For one week, let the only evil you think of be your own.
8/25/24 try this: Never argue — with anyone.
9/1/24 Assignment: Completely surrender to thoughts. Feel it. Take the pain.
9/1/24 Assignment for Southern gal: For one week, don’t argue with anyone.
9-8-24 and 9-15-24 assignment: Don’t trust the thought. Let it overwhelm you.
March 10-17, 2024 assignment: Get rid of your heroes. Trust no one.
May 19-26, 2024 assignment: If you feel anything, remember: It’s just a thought! No meaning.
Jun 2-9, 2024 assignment/discussion: Watch the different demons inside you.
Assignment from JLP show (Thu 6/20/24) Practice staying present.
Late 2023 assignment: Notice the mind repeats itself, and that it’s all about self.
Late 2023 assignment: Sit four minutes in your room in silence.

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