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Thank you Gina. 
Thank you praise and worship 

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team. 
Every every Sunday I just I walk

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out of here more encouraged and 
thanks to you guys. 

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So thank you. 
So it's my last day here in the 

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United States for a little bit. 
Tomorrow morning I head back 

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overseas to Ireland for my 4th, 
3rd, 3rd year playing. 

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Well third full year playing 
professional basketball 

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overseas. 
Obviously, you know all the 

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glory goes to my Lord Savior, 
Jesus Christ. 

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I mean three years. 
I mean it's it's been it's been 

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a journey, but he's been with me
every step of the way in the 

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good times and in the bad times.
And there's been, there's been 

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some rough times being away from
my parents, obviously being away

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from you guys, it's hard. 
But he, he keeps me encouraged 

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and he keeps me grounded in him,
so definitely makes it easier. 

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So today I wanted to do a rap 
from my new album that I dropped

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in July, which again, all thanks
to glory and to Jesus Christ for

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that, because I did not think I 
would ever drop one. 

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It's I've been rapping since I 
was in 9th grade and I just 

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thought it'll just be something 
I can just do on the side, like 

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something that I can just send 
out to people like whatever. 

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And God blessed me to meet a 
beat maker that actually trained

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for basketball. 
I didn't even know he did beats 

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until like this past year and he
helped me, you know, make this 

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album. 
So the song that I'm doing today

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is called Real Love. 
And what the song talks about 

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primarily is just not chasing 
after acceptance or chasing 

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after love from the world and 
looking for acceptance and 

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satisfaction from people. 
That's something I've had to 

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learn a lot over the last year. 
Lot of ups and downs with that. 

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Just finding myself struggling 
with, you know, not having a lot

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of friends, you know, not being 
in a relationship, just like 

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always. 
Just like God. 

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Like, why? 
Like, why? 

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You know, why not. 
And basically the what he told 

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me was because you're making 
that your priority instead of 

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me. 
And that's something that hit me

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really hard is like, Dang, like 
I really been putting all this 

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stuff before my relationship 
with Christ. 

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And when you do that, you never 
get full satisfaction. 

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You never get full happiness. 
And to be honest, there's no 

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greater sign of love than what 
he did for us. 

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I mean, he died for us. 
And I'll have a decent amount of

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friends. 
None of them can ever say that 

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they did that for me. 
A lot of people that I know, 

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none of them can say they can do
that for me. 

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Jesus died for me, to save me in
my mess and my struggles. 

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And not just me, but everyone in
here, everyone in the world. 

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And that's love. 
So why would I waste my time 

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trying to please other people 
who haven't even done anything 

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close to that, you know? 
So this song pretty much just 

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tells me pretty much just says 
like, I'm done chasing after the

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world's acceptance, I'm done 
chasing after the world's love, 

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because real love was already 
shown to me 2000 years ago. 

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So that's that's this song and I
hope you guys are blessed by it.

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They say they love you when they
always down, but when your backs

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against the wall tell me how 
come they don't come around. 

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Say they always going to be a 
friend, but when you reach out 

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when you hurt and all your 
messages get left on red only 

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hit you when they ask a favor 
and only care about you if it 

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means that cater, they call me 
friend while I call a fake. 

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And they say that I'm a dog with
everyone a snake. 

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Hard to trust anyone because 
people play with hearts who's 

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real and who's fake. 
It's hard to tell apart. 

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So you can miss me with the 
lies. 

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Keep that world love cuz real 
love was shown to me from my God

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above. 
Check it. 

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Who won't? 
You know what sin is only son to

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die in place of a bunch of 
sinners to be spitting in his 

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face die on a cross and rise up 
in three days And not for 

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salvation. 
Cuz he knows we need grace die 

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for the ones who chose to kill 
him. 

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Tell me when the? 
Last time a hero died for a 

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villain, huh? 
Wasn't forced to, but he was 

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willing so that I could be free 
and can be forgiven. 

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That's a real love. 
No one can talk. 

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That chasing love from the 
world. 

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Yeah, I'm off that because that 
left me broken. 

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But in Christ, I made whole. 
Even in the land of the Snakes. 

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Jay Cole. 
The world takes souls, But Jesus

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saves souls. 
The world abandoned. 

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Jesus brings you to his table. 
The world to break your heart. 

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Jesus, he can mend it. 
The world of fake friends. 

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That shows you what a true 
friend is. 

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Proverbs 1824 shows us how God 
is always going to be there for 

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sure. 
You can have a lot of friends 

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that's fake under the covers, 
but got a friend of 6 closer to 

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was then a brother. 
So be careful. 

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Love the people you let call 
your friend because 99% of them 

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and nothing but pretend. 
And don't be chasing after no 

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one. 
God is calling you. 

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He got a real love he wants to 
share with all of you. 

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A slave to the world. 
Acceptance. 

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I was shackled without was 
chained. 

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I was chasing enough to fame one
of. 

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And know my name till I felt the
love of Christ. 

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Now with Jesus that I claimed 
call me weird, call me lame, to 

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live is Christ and to die his 
game. 

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Don't you wish we did more of 
that while he was here? 

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Yeah, Pretty cool stuff. 
So we're grateful. 

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What's that? 
What's that? 

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Yeah, yeah, whatever that means.
I don't know. 

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Be careful what you. 
Yeah, yeah, right. 

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I got to watch that. 
But anyway, you know, Kason has 

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shared his testimony, his life, 
he's, he's been a huge impact in

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this place and in our own lives 
personally. 

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And I know Louis and Terry are 
excited, but they're also heavy 

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hearted because hey, that's that
could be a wrap. 

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I know they're excited, but they
are heavy hearted. 

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I got a future. 
Put me on your next album, 

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Carlon to say no way, No way. 
But anyway, we want to pray for 

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Case, and Lewis asked me to pray
because it's too, too tough for 

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too emotional for him right now.
But but anyway, come on over to 

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Lou, Father God, we're just so 
grateful. 

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For how we've been blessed by 
this young man, his life, how 

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he's impacted all of us and 
continually impacts us. 

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And father, I thought of that 
verse this morning. 

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For Cason and to him who was 
able to do exceedingly 

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abundantly above all that he 
could ask or think according to 

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the power that works in him. 
Oh Lord, you have such a 

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wonderful journey ahead for this
young man. 

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Not any on the courts, but Lord 
in the city of Dublin. 

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As he meets and interacts with 
the community, the public, the 

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coaches, the players, I know his
real vision is to play well and 

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excel, but also Lord, to be able
to reach into people's hearts 

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and share the gospel where 
people could come to know you 

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and be born again and get saved.
So Lord, we just commit him to 

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you. 
Lord safe travels as he goes, 

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Good health, an excellent year. 
We'll be following him, Lord, 

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and watching him and. 
Participating in his journey and

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Lord, we pray one day you bring 
them back safely to us again. 

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The ministry here strengthen 
Terry and Louis. 

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In this time let them just sense
your presence in such a powerful

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way that they'll feel like he's 
not even gone, but that that all

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three of them are still together
by the power of your Holy 

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Spirit. 
And so Lord, again we just thank

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you for the blessing today and 
we pray all these things in 

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Jesus name and all God's people 
said Amen.