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Grace mercy and peace from God the Father and The Lord Jesus Christ! I’m your brother, Israel Benjamin and this is a bonus clip of Things Your Pastor Won’t Tell You. This bonus feature is in reference to the episode about ghetto names.   Back in my early 20’s I was impressed by the deepness of Muslim names. Particularly from brothers who were converting to the Nation Of Islam. I felt like those names always carried a sense of depth or strength. I, however am not nor was I a muslim. My name itself, carries pretty good weight to it, but when it’s yours you may not think of it that way. I was rapping at the time so I came up with a myriad of names.   Icy Iz after the legendary west coast emcee Ice Cube. Big Iz as a sort of nod to the east coast great Biggie. sixplusONE was the last name I arrived at, which meant 6 as the number of man, the plus sign was a connector, very like the cross, to the ONE who is GOD. But just before sixplusONE, I was Saarel Obed Jakim. I grabbed the Strongs’ Exhaustive concordance and went through a bunch of Hebrew words before I arrived at this name. Saarel Obed Jakim was my deep Muslim sounding name, even though it is completely Hebrew. Let me break it down for you.   Sarah which means prince was combined with the word El which means God. This is a break down and reorganization of my name Israel. Obed means slave, as in a slave of Messiah and the Gospel message. Jakim means to rise. Then the announcement of my identity as a son of God was thrown in there by calling myself Bar Da Realest. Being real or keeping it real was a big thing in my early 20’s so I said who is realer than God. Oh, and Bar simply means son or son of like ben or ibn.   But anyway, I have a song for you which was produced by the LAX TSA legend Traxx.