1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,000 If this doesn't make you smile, I don't know, what will the 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,600 rapper Ice Cube recently? Got a real grilling on Twitter 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,400 about why Chris Tucker wasn't in his latest Friday film. 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,800 One man. Even wrote this I thought I 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:16,200 heard Chris Tucker, quits over money. 6 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:19,900 This is what Ice Cube replied. We were ready to pay Chris 7 00:00:19,900 --> 00:00:24,800 Tucker. 10 to 12 million dollars to do next Friday but he turned 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,000 us down for religious reasons. He didn't want to cause or smoke 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,200 weed on Murrah anymore in a moment's time were going to hear 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,200 Chris Tucker's side of the story. 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:39,000 But before that, let me tell you why this bless me so much right 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,200 now. We are having many celebrities 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:44,200 step up and name Christ, but I want to say this, just because 14 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,100 they're naming Christ, doesn't mean that they know Christ. 15 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:51,000 Jesus Christ said by their fruits, you shall know them. 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,000 And when it really comes down to the hard decision of whether 17 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:58,100 they will choose their clouds or their Christianity, many of them 18 00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:01,300 often do choose their clouds. They Make decisions that a true 19 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:04,099 Christian would not make. They say things that are true 20 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:07,500 Christian would not say and they live like an unbeliever, and 21 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:10,400 they think if they just say, I love Jesus Christ, the Christian 22 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:13,200 Community will be fooled. But the truth is this, just 23 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,900 because we're born again, does it mean that we were born 24 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,300 yesterday? But here is a world-famous 25 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,500 actor, Chris Tucker. And he saying, I am not prepared 26 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:24,500 to smudge the name of Christ for money. 27 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:26,800 You see? 12 million dollars is a lot of 28 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,800 money and imagine if you were in Chris Tucker shoes, What would 29 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:32,000 You do imagine what you could do with that money. 30 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,600 Imagine all the fame. All of the success that would 31 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,000 come with taking this role. And yet Chris Tucker said, no, 32 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,500 and not only has he said no to the Friday film. 33 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:45,100 He's also said, now when I do my stand-up comedy, I need to try 34 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:47,400 and be cleaner. I can't use the same jokes that 35 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,700 I used when I was young because right now, I want to live like a 36 00:01:50,708 --> 00:01:53,100 true Christian. I've never told anyone this 37 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:55,300 story before but what Chris Tucker's. 38 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:58,800 Just done hits home more than I'd like to admit growing up. 39 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:00,400 I had one goal. Life. 40 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,300 I wanted to be a professional actor, is all I thought about 41 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:07,700 how is obsessed with this idea of being in Hollywood being 42 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:10,100 famous. But there came a time where I 43 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:12,800 really did get a heavy conviction of sin. 44 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,600 I knew that if I died, I was condemned. 45 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,200 I knew that if I stood before a holy God, I would be cast into 46 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:22,700 hell forever, but I still did not come to Christ. 47 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:24,400 The answer. The remedy to my sin. 48 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,400 The one who died on the cross. I refuse to come to Christ 49 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,200 because I loved acting too much. I knew I wouldn't be able to do 50 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:33,600 the Blasphemous Parts. I won't be able to swear. 51 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,100 I won't be able to do rude scenes or violent scenes, 52 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:39,000 because as a Christian were called to be holy and I knew 53 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,900 that was not the life of a Christian for me personally. 54 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,800 But then my pasta challenged me one day and he said, Joe, I 55 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,100 don't really think you've got an excuse there. 56 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:51,600 We need more Christians in the media and I thought, wow, that's 57 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,700 a real weight off my shoulders and so that day, I committed my 58 00:02:54,700 --> 00:02:57,800 life to the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's fast forward, two years 59 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:59,800 on. And I was at an audition it 60 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,800 Cheer recall for one of the most prestigious drama schools in all 61 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:05,700 of the world. It was called Lambda. 62 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:08,900 It's where Benedict Cumberbatch has been where Donald Sutherland 63 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:12,000 has been where Kim Cattrall David suchet all the finest 64 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,600 actors in Britain. Went to that drama school and 65 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,000 here I was I'd been whittled down from thousands and I had 66 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,100 got a recall and at the end of the day as the audition have 67 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:24,800 gone really quite well they asked me to do one thing. 68 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,900 They said I want you now to kiss this woman in a dramatic scene 69 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,400 and all of the man before Before they had kissed her, and all the 70 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,400 girls before they had kissed, a male actor. 71 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,000 So it was my job. Now, to kiss this female actor 72 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:38,800 in a dramatic scene. What do you think I did? 73 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:43,500 Well, I was engaged to my wife at the time and I knew that it 74 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:45,600 was wrong for me to kiss this woman. 75 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:48,500 When I had vowed that I was going to marry this lady. 76 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:53,000 And so I refused to kiss her needless to say, I didn't get 77 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,000 into the drama school and pretty much from that day on, I 78 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,400 realized I had to lay down this Idol in my life. 79 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:02,300 I Be an actor and a Christian at the same time. 80 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,400 I'm not saying that other people can't do that, but for me, that 81 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:08,700 was the wrong decision. And every single one of us has 82 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:10,600 an idol. That's in our hearts, every 83 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:12,400 single one of us has a cross to bear. 84 00:04:12,408 --> 00:04:15,400 And we know, there is a sacrifice that we have to make. 85 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,000 If we come to the Lord Jesus Christ and I want to know, what 86 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,100 is the sacrifice? What is the thing that is 87 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:24,400 standing in your way from committing fully to the Lord? 88 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,800 Jesus Christ? Because whatever it is, you 89 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:28,600 know, you've got to slay that thing. 90 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,200 Repent of your Ins and comes the cross and give All to Jesus. 91 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:35,300 You see? Many people know that Jesus 92 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:37,600 Christ died on a cross for your sins. 93 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,800 They know that he was punished. He took all of your rubbish, all 94 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:43,700 of your sin. And there he was crucified so 95 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:47,000 that you could be forgiven, many, many people know that 96 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,300 Jesus Christ on the third day. He rose from the dead meaning 97 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:53,300 that any person who will come to him and put their trust in him, 98 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,600 they will have eternal life. Many people know these things, 99 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:01,300 but very few know this that we are called To count the cost. 100 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,500 Jesus Christ himself said how many of you would set out to 101 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:09,400 build a tower without counting the number of bricks you need to 102 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,600 finish it? I mean how foolish you would 103 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,700 look if you started to build that Tower but they're never 104 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:17,600 finished it. How many of you would go to war 105 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,400 with just 10,000 soldiers but 20,000 came to fire, you know, 106 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,700 we need to count the cost of being a disciple of the Lord 107 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:29,700 Jesus Christ because the reality is many start this race. 108 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:33,600 Yes, but very few finish it because once the trials and 109 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,400 tribulations of this world, calm, they fall away. 110 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,200 Once things start to get difficult, they think this 111 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,400 Christianity isn't what I signed up for as Leonard Ravenhill 112 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,500 wants, said many people go to the Cross but they don't get on 113 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:49,300 the cross, they don't realize that every single day we have to 114 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:51,500 lay down our life and say no mice. 115 00:05:51,500 --> 00:05:55,600 In might as eyes, they are nothing compared to knowing the 116 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,700 Holy One of Israel following Jesus Christ and loving him. 117 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:03,400 And him alone even this month. I received a very upsetting 118 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,600 letter from a lady. She said, I prayed and prayed to 119 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,800 God that he would save my dog and the dog died. 120 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,900 And many times people say I prayed that my grandma would 121 00:06:12,900 --> 00:06:15,900 live, I prayed that I would have healing and it never came. 122 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,400 So this Christianity doesn't work out, but the truth is this. 123 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:23,700 You will suffer in this life and when those hard decisions come, 124 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,600 when there comes a point where we have to say, no, I'm going to 125 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:28,900 deny myself. I'm going to deny my flesh, My 126 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:32,300 Flesh every Part of me wants to go back to that sin that I want 127 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:35,600 to Cherished, but I'm going to say no, because knowing Jesus 128 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,600 Christ is more precious and really, that's the question. 129 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:44,200 I want to ask you right now, today is Jesus Christ. 130 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:48,700 Precious is he worth it? And I would like to shout with 131 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:52,100 every fiber in my being. Yes, he is. 132 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,000 He is totally worth it to be friends with the savior of the 133 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,300 world, is more precious than gold is more precious than 134 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:01,800 rubies. And it's certainly more precious 135 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:05,900 than Twelve million dollars. Chris Tucker over to you. 136 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,600 Correct me if I'm wrong. That reason why you wasn't going 137 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,800 to do another priority was because they didn't pay you man. 138 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,300 Oh no, that's not you. That's that you back then I 139 00:07:17,300 --> 00:07:19,600 gotta tell you one of the reasons why I didn't do the 140 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,300 second one because of the weed because I said, man that movie 141 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:25,100 became a phenomenal, I want everybody. 142 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:26,500 I don't want everybody smoking weed. 143 00:07:26,500 --> 00:07:29,700 I never really told people this because I kind of forgot about 144 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,200 Out but it was one of the reasons why I didn't do it. 145 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,400 Cause I said I don't want to represent you know everybody 146 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,700 smoking weed. I kind of made it more personal 147 00:07:36,700 --> 00:07:40,100 than a movie and that's one reason I said now they want to 148 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:43,700 keep doing that character. Crystal Kodak Black Will Smith 149 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:47,500 Megan Fox and Travis Scott, a just a few celebrities that are 150 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:49,700 covered on this channel. If you'd like to watch one of 151 00:07:49,707 --> 00:07:52,600 those videos please click here and if you haven't yet 152 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,800 subscribed, please do, I'd love to see you again. 153 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 God bless you all. And thank you for watching.