Social Justice Train Cars of Economics and Racism

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that this finds you and your family doing well

I want to thank you very much for joining me. This is just giving a little brief introduction here because I'm putting up two videos on my youtube channel this being the first one and then one other one.

These are two Presentations that I recently put together for an online conference that was held

September 17th and 18th of 2021 Dealing with social justice and I was just one of several other speakers.

There was also Chris and Joshua Rosebro Phil Johnson and dr

Owen Strand and so we were the speakers and we we each did two

Presentations for this two -day online conference. And so I thought I would put my presentations up on my youtube channel

And so these two presentations, please don't think that they are a comprehensive

Treatment or critique of social justice because they're not it's just kind of a bird's -eye view of of what

I've what I've deemed as some of the some of the cars that come along the social justice train the engine of social justice is

Bringing along some cars with it. And so it's just kind of a bird's -eye view of some of the more prominent

In troubling cars of the social justice train. So anyway, if you want to see the full conference

I would I would really commend that to you because there's a lot of good Material there. So I'm going to put a link down below there in the description to the

YouTube channel Did God really say? Conference YouTube channel and so all the presentations you can find there

So I would commend those to you and I'm also going to put some links down below in the description of some

Good books that you can read That deal with social justice, so I would commend those to you as well

So, all right without any further ado as they say, here's my first presentation

Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that you and your family are doing well today I want to thank you very much for joining us for this online conference

Entitled did God really say we are looking at the social justice movement what it teaches and some of the implications

For the Evangelical Church and as I begin my first presentation here. I want to give you an idea of Just how concerned

I am about this movement I believe that the social justice movement that has been in the works for many many many years

But just in the last three or four years or so has really come to fruition the players behind the scenes in the last several years have really begun to lay their cards out on the table and and play their hand and this the social justice winds have blown through the

Evangelical world like a hurricane and I believe it is without any hyperbole. I truly believe it is

One of if not the most insidious threats That I have ever seen to the church now

Granted we understand that the church belongs to Christ and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

So The church is secure. But nonetheless The Bible warns us repeatedly about false doctrine and or false teachers

In fact 26 of the 27 books in the New Testament directly Warned about these things only the book of Philemon has nothing at least nothing directly to say about false doctrine or false teachers

So these warnings are in Scripture for a reason we are to Note false teachers.

They are to be marked and avoided Paul said in his letter to Titus Teach sound doctrine and refute those who contradict so we are to both teach sound doctrine and refute those who contradicted it's not an either -or

Situation it is a both and and for those of you who are familiar with my ministry

You know that I am kind of known for engaging the word of faith movement new apostolic

Reformation charismatic movement and all of those Aberrant doctrines and excesses and lying signs and wonders and all of that kind of stuff and my concern about that has not ebbed at all not in the least but Social justice is different and let me tell you why

I see this as as such a threat and in many ways even more so than word faith new apostolic

Reformation in that in our Theological circles, or maybe

I should say in my theological circles, which would be the conservative Soteriologically reformed doctrines of grace high view of the sovereignty of God in in my circles

We certainly have people scattered in our churches Here and there that to one degree or another may be affected by a

Joel Osteen or a Joyce Meyer or some like that Somebody like that maybe Bill Johnson and in some of these others.

We have some people sitting in our pews Here and there that have been affected by of course all of us have family members friends and family members who have to much greater degrees but but in our churches in in our churches and in my theological circles in the

Soteriologically reformed circles doctrines of grace circles What we've never had is that we have never had any of the

Heavy hitters if you will some of the well -known names in our circles actually preaching

Word of faith or new apostolic Reformation or health and wealth prosperity gospel, you know

None of our none of the preachers the known preachers in our circle head circles have ever preached this from the pulpit but with social justice

We are seeing that With social justice. We are seeing some of the heavy hitters if you will who have to varying degrees

Been blown about by these winds of social justice and that is unique as it relates to my ministry of Word of faith and all that other stuff, you know

I am of course trying to equip people in my theological circles, but much more broadly than that You know,

I'm by God's grace trying to get that message out to people that are not in my theological circles

But but with social justice this stuff is picking off some of our guys

Okay, and it is it is alarming. I have just been amazed at the effectiveness of this aberrant movement, so It's a very serious thing and I know there's a lot of confusion about it.

What is social justice? What does it mean? What is it? What is it? Not what what are we dealing with and you've probably noticed that if you watch the national news you've been hearing things about intersectionality and critical race theory and being woke and all of this stuff and It should be a real red flag when you're hearing the same kind of lingo in the church

That's what you're hearing out in the political realm When you're hearing the same thing in the church that you're hearing in the in the political realm

Then you know something is amiss and something is very much amiss so what

I want to do in my two presentations, I want to Examine some of the the different cars that come along the social justice train when you hear social justice

You need to you need to keep in mind that it's not just about Issues dealing with race or economics and I'm going to talk about those but there's a lot of other different cars that come along this train and When you let the engine of the train in all of these cars

Eventually are coming along with it. Okay. These cars are not going to be uncoupled they're coming along with the engine of the train and so These next two presentations are it's not gonna be a deep dive.

Okay we don't have time to do a deep dive into the origins and the minutia of the various machinations of all of the social justice movement all the moving parts so I want to kind of give you a broad overview kind of a bird's -eye view of The the main cars that are attached to this engine of the social justice train and letting you know

What's coming along with it? What they are saying and then biblically we will examine it

And we will refute those who are contradicting Sound doctrine.

Okay. All right so the first car that I want us to look at on the social justice train is indeed the economic car and As you might suspect from the name social justice

There is an economic philosophy of socialism undergirding this movement now

The movement has its roots in neo -marxism and neo -marxism is basically

Communism relabeled believes in state ownership of the means of production and Socialism which is the direction that this country is headed to right now economically speaking

Socialism has been called communism in diapers. It is kind of the breeding ground

It is the gateway drug if you will to full -blown communism. So communism in diapers

The funny thing about babies though that babies in diapers is that babies grow up and babies don't stay babies

So socialism left unchecked does morph and grow into full -blown communism

And that's where we're headed. That's the path that we are on right now this wealth

Redistribution that we are seeing especially from the current administration the Biden administration

Soak the rich tax the rich. Well, you need to know that with the social justice movement that is being adopted by so many evangelicals

There is this is a political movement That is being disguised as a theological movement again same kind of lingo you hear on the nightly news

You're hearing in your churches. So understand that this is a movement that is Socialistic in nature that does not value the ownership of private property

All right, so I don't want to go a full -blown economics lesson here But I want to deal with a theology of this is socialism biblical and the social

Justicians to use that term are Arguing that it is many of these folks are saying that socialism is biblical and they have a few

To proof text to which they would appeal and so I want us to look at these and one of them is

Mark chapter 10 This is one of the passages that people advocating for social justice say that hey the

Bible really does teach socialism and they're trying to break the loyalty that the vast majority of evangelical voters have to the

Republican Party evangelicals vote in overwhelming numbers for The Republican Party as opposed to the

Democratic Party, which today is now basically a socialistic party evangelical voters the overwhelming majority of them favor capitalism and private enterprise and low taxes and low spending and so these

Social justicians are trying to come in and say now wait a minute We've had this wrong all along when you look at what the

Bible really teaches it actually teaches socialism And so let's go to Mark chapter 10, you know the story.

This is the story that is widely known as the rich young ruler and rich young ruler

Runs up to Jesus and he kneels down before him and he says good teacher What must

I do to inherit eternal life and then Jesus looks at him? He says why do you call me good?

no one is good except God and then he says, you know the commandments and He cites a summary of the

Decalogue the Ten Commandments and Then of course, I'm summarizing all this but then the rich young ruler says teacher all these things

I have kept from my youth up It had a ring of familiarity with him He knew what the

Ten Commandments were and then Jesus said this in Mark chapter 10 verse 21 And so the social justice proponents say see

Jesus Engage this rich young ruler and told him to sell everything that he has

So that he no longer owns anything anymore. And so it's it's just kind of Community property now and just sell everything so he's not doesn't own anything doesn't have any private possessions and the money that he

Receives from selling everything then he gives it to the poor. And so this is a clear model for socialism

But no, that's not at all what Jesus is teaching here Not in the least for one thing

Jesus is not teaching the work salvation But also he was he was engaging one individual person.

He was this was not an address to all Christians Everywhere to sell everything that they possess and give it to the poor

That was not the point. Jesus was making for this man. His God was his wealth and Jesus was saying to this man

That thing that is the most important thing to you in his case his wealth

Get rid of it get rid of it because that is your God and anything that is before me is idolatry

So get rid of it sell it give it to the poor people who need it and then come follow me

This was a call. This was a call for him to Deny himself and take up the cross.

This was a call for him to bend his knee to the absolute lordship of Jesus Christ and he was not willing to do that He left away there.

He left Jesus sorrowful because he was one who owned much property. So this is not a

Proof text for socialism at all. This was this was Jesus affirming lordship salvation now far and away the

Favorite passages for social justice proponents are found in the book of Acts There's two of them in Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 4 the rich young ruler you hear it every once in a while But it's kind of an outlier, but the social justice proponents love what they read in the book of Acts So let's look at these two texts together and we'll talk about them

Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 4 beginning in Acts 2 verses 44 through 45

It says that all the believers were together and had all things in common and they would sell their property and possessions and share them with all to the extent that anyone had need and then

Acts 4 34 through 35 For there was not a needy person among them for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds

Of the sales and lay them at the Apostles feet and they would be distributed to each to the extent that any had need

Okay, and so these two passages are the go -to passages for those advocating social justice in the evangelical world

They say see this the New Testament teaches and it even models

Socialism well a Couple of points here. Number one. This is something that the

Christians decided to do voluntarily This was their own decision

This was not a mandate this was not coming down from the government they just decided to do it on their own

So socialism as a political and economic system is not that Socialism is forced upon the people oftentimes at the end of a gun, but it is forced upon people

This was nothing. This was not forced upon the Christians. They chose to do it It was a voluntary choice on their own and they they sold their possessions some of their possessions

There's no indication in the text by the way that they sold everything that they had in fact a careful reading of this shows that this is in the

Present tense. It says that they were selling The this is an imperfect tense in the

Greek and what that means is is that this selling of their possessions? Began at a certain point in time and it continued

It did not say the text does not say that they sold all of their possessions says that they were selling it

And so it continued now if they sold everything that they had right up front

Then they would have nothing else to sell the selling could not continue if they sold

Everything that they had right up front. So the very tense here in the Greek suggests that this was kind of an ongoing process as Needs arose.

So this was not mandated to them. Nobody was forcing them to do this They just took it upon themselves to do it.

And this was a process that continued which suggests Obviously very strongly that if the process continued then these individual believers still had personal possessions to sell and help each other out

So this was this was this is not a model for socialism. Number one. It was not forced

They chose to do it on their own number two It was a process that continued as the need arose which suggests that they still maintained

Their own private possessions. They still had some private possessions to sell as the need arose and by the way,

Ananias and Sapphira Acts chapter 5 who were Slain by the spirit charismatics talk about being slain in the spirit when

Ananias and Sapphira was were slain by the spirit But the Holy Spirit killed them

Not because they chose to keep some of the money for themselves That's not why the

Holy Spirit killed them. The Holy Spirit killed them because they lied about it

That was the sin not that they still retained Some possessions or some of their own money

No, he slew them in the spirit because they lied about it.

That was the sin And dear friends the Bible assumes Private ownership of property think about it.

What is the eighth commandment thou shalt not? steal okay, the eighth commandment would make no sense if God's people owned nothing themselves

The very fact that the eighth commandment is there Assumes that people own private property

If everybody if all of us just had everything in common And we didn't own anything then there would be nothing to steal because it would just be communal property

So the Bible absolutely assumes and does advocate for the private ownership of property

In fact, not only would the eighth commandment not make any sense, but neither would the tenth commandment make any sense

Thou shalt not covet You shall not covet what somebody else has. Well, that means that somebody else owns something that you don't own

Otherwise, there would be no opportunity there to covet in the first place so again, the the

Bible assumes private ownership of Property and the entire premise of socialism is that someone else has too much and I don't have enough and that is the sin of Envy, okay.

Socialism is built upon the sin of Envy so either way you go it.

However, you look at socialism It is it is not only does it not work and it doesn't work anywhere.

It's been tried. It does not work economically But it's not taught in Scripture at all

The Bible assumes and advocates for the private ownership of property

Now, let me say this too. There is nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy

There's nothing inherently honorable in being poor Luke chapter 16 the rich man and Lazarus This is another text by the way that some people use the rich man died went to the lake of fire

The poor man Lazarus died and went to Abraham's bosom and some have read into that Oh the rich man

That's rich being rich is bad And so the rich man went to the lake of fire the rich man went to hell the poor man

Lazarus went to heaven That's not the point of that text There's nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy

If you have worked hard and God has been gracious to you and allowed you to keep

Keep some of the fruits of your labors Wonderful praise the Lord Be grateful for it and and use what

God has given you for his glory So there's nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy

Neither is there anything inherently honorable and being poor the rich man did not go to hell because He was wealthy

Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because he was poor each man went where he was spiritually prepared to go

Okay, the Bible does teach giving Read 2nd Corinthians chapters 8 and 9 the

Bible does teach giving we are to give to those who have need and we're but the the model that the

Bible provides for us in giving is not It is not

Obligatory. It is not something that is forced upon us. We are supposed to give out of the generosity of our hearts our

Regenerated hearts but the generosity of our hearts and what as an expression of gratitude and appreciation and thanks for what

God has given us and To as an expression of our love and concern for others who do not have what we do

So giving is a command Yes, we are to give but it's not something that is to be forced upon us by the government

It is something that we are supposed to do to help our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

And by the way, that's another New Testament principles that we are to be generous. Yes to all people, but especially to the household of God Okay, dear ones another aspect of this economic car of social justice

Is that of reparations many in the social justice movement in the evangelical world have been advocating for?

reparations to black Americans because of the years that They are at least many of them spent in slavery

Regrettably in this country to be the annual bail way whose real name is Ron Burns, but to be the annual bail way has argued for reparations as has

Eric Mason Eric Mason is the pastor of Epiphany Fellowship Church in Philadelphia and In 2018

Eric Mason published a book entitled woke church and The foreword for that book was written by dr.

Ligon Duncan But Eric Mason argues for reparations. In fact, he says that reparations should be paid to blacks for what he described as quote 256 years of free labor with nothing but poor eating and poor places to stay and so he

He cites Exodus chapter 22 and Luke chapter 19 as biblical support for reparations

So let's look at these two texts and we'll see if that is in fact what these texts are teaching

Exodus 22 verse 1 says if someone steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it

He shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep

Okay, Luke chapter 19, this is the story of Zacchaeus Luke chapter 19 verse 8

But Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord Behold Lord half of my possessions I am giving to the poor and if I have extorted anything from anyone

I am giving back Four times as much so upon first blush.

It might seem that these two texts do in fact support reparations, but except that they don't

Notice in both of these texts it is the one who has done The stealing it is the one who has stolen who is obligated to pay reparations

Though in Exodus 22, it is the one who steals it's that guy the fellow who stole the thief himself is obligated to pay the reparations with the ox and the sheep and In Luke chapter 19 it is

Zacchaeus himself So a couple of points here When we're talking about reparations today, we're talking about the government taking money from us through taxes and Paying it to a group of people

Who have never experienced slavery, okay so when the when the government takes part of my money as a taxpayer and Gives it to a group of people black

Americans For the Slavery that existed in this country a hundred and fifty plus years ago.

They're taking money from I had nothing to do with slavery Friends there is no one alive today who has ever been a slave.

No one's father has ever been a slave No one's grandfather has ever been a slave Probably not anyone's great -grandfather has ever been a slave.

You probably have to go back to like at least a great -great, but No one alive has ever been a slave owned a slave or known a slave owner or known a slave himself so This actually violates the whole

Concept of reparations violates what we see in Exodus chapter 22

It's the one who steals who is obligated to repay and with Luke chapter 19

Well, you're missing this text all around because this is the story of Zacchaeus and Jesus went to Zacchaeus and you know the story

Zacchaeus was a wee little man we little man was he was up in the sycamore tree and all that and Zacchaeus was a tax collector tax collectors were known for Stealing from people defrauding people stealing from them and when

Jesus confronted him There was a conversion that took place in Zacchaeus his life You read that Jesus said today salvation has come to this house referring is out

Zacchaeus his house Zacchaeus was saved and when he was saved an expression of the fruit of his regeneration

Was that he said Lord? Anything that I have stolen That I'm going to give it to the poor half of my possessions

I will give to the board if I've defrauded anybody anything I will return it fourfold

This was not something that Jesus commanded him to do. This is something that Zacchaeus Wanted to do he he was convicted of his sin of his sinful lifestyle of taking

Taking things from people stealing from them and he wanted to make it right emphasis on he

Wanted to make it right. He himself. He was the one who had done the stealing and he was going to make it, right?

So this is a direct one -to -one correlation the one who steals should make it right and if if you have stolen from someone and God saves you then as a as just a

Abundance of your heart an abundance of the gratitude of your heart that God is regenerated

You're gonna realize hey You know before my conversion. I stole from people and I need to make that right

And that's what that's what the regenerate heart wants to do and does too so you cannot take these texts as biblical support for reparations now if you want to find a passage in the

Bible that deals with reparations as It directly relates to slavery.

There is a text to which you can go and that is found in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 15

Let's look at that Deuteronomy 15 13 through 14 When a master freed a slave says this and quote and when you set him free

Referring to the slave owner when you set the slave free you shall not send him away empty -handed

You shall give generously to him from your flock your threshing floor and from your wine vat

And you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you So there it is

There's a text dealing with slavery and Reparations who is the one who is to pay the reparations?

the slave owner He and he alone is to do that Okay, not corporately and it's certainly not supposed to be forced on Anyone who has never had anything to do with slavery and that is our case here.

Let's look at Ezekiel chapter 18 It's Ezekiel 18 verse 20 The person who sins will die a son will not suffer the punishment for the father's guilt

Nor will a father suffer the punishment for the son's guilt The righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself a direct one -to -one correlation the one who is sinned is

Obligated to make it right If you have sinned against someone you are obligated to make it right

I am NOT responsible for your sin against someone else You are not responsible for my sin against someone else and you and I are

Not responsible for the sins committed by our great great great whatever grandfathers over 150 years ago

The whole concept of reparations as it's being promoted by the social justice proponents in the evangelical world is without Biblical merit the social justice movement in the evangelical world is anything but biblical justice

Okay, dear ones We now turn our attention to the racial car on the social justice train and boy there are a few things today that are as touchy as The issue of racism few things that will garner headlines more quickly than some act of racism even if an act is just perceived or a

Statement that someone makes is somehow perceived as racist. It makes huge headlines

At least when it comes from someone who is conservative or a Christian if a liberal does it no big deal but if it comes from a white conservative boy, you are

Automatically a racist. I remember 20 years ago. I was in seminary and I remember this story because it was just so bizarre to me but there was a an airline and a lady that one of the stewardesses was trying to get everybody settled and There was one of the passengers

It was a black gentleman Could not find his seat or rather someone was sitting in his assigned seat.

And so he was asking her if he could get if she could get that person out, but there were other empty seats and she was encouraging him just to to Choose one of the other empty seats and he said well

Which one and the plane was trying to get off they were a little bit late and she was kind of rushed And she just said any mini mini mo pick a seat.

We got to go I remember that any mini mini mo pick a seat. We got to go In other words, it didn't matter to her which empty seat he chose just you'll find one and let's get going

Well, apparently the any mini mini mo Rhyme or whatever did he?

Apparently has some kind of racial overtones who knew right? But he reported her and she got into all kinds of trouble for something.

That was completely innocent on Her part. I mean anything racial with us was the furthest thing from her mind

Just the other day I saw where a Stu a teacher somewhere in some school said that if you try to maintain discipline

Amongst your students and having them sit in their seats and be quiet not talk and do their work

That is an evidence of white supremacy So if you simply try to keep order in your classroom

That is that is you trying to superimpose your white supremacist culture on to minority students and you are oppressing them that is just That's crazy a few weeks ago

I heard a story And I actually had to look it up to see if this was true because I thought it was so looney tunes when

I heard It but I sure enough it is true that some social justice proponent

Secular one said that our roads are racist Roads are racist you see because they're black or Gray, I suppose but they're dark and so when we when we drive on our dark roads that is symbolic of The white man trying to oppress and tread down darker skinned people

Never mind that darker skinned people drive on the same roads that us pale faces drive on so I mean it's just looney tunes

Absolutely crazy, but that is the world in which we live I mean everything everything now is racist everything is racist, and I'm tired of it

So I want us to look at race and look at what race is what it isn't and we're going to look at what the

Bible has to say about it because After all if we are Christians it is the

Bible that is our authority the Bible's authority for everyone But Christians recognize it as the authority all right, so I want to give you a quote from someone named

Svante Pabbo I believe I'm pronouncing that right Pabbo is the director of the

Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Germany and states this says quote

What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe for example?

There is not a single absolute genetic difference Meaning no single variant where all

Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one even when recent migration is

Discarded so race is a social construct not a biological construct even secular people

Anthropologists even evolutionary biologists, which I don't believe in evolution macro evolution anyway But even these people

If they're intellectually honest they will tell you that race is not biological race is

Sociological it is a social construct not a biological one there is practically zero genetic difference between a black person and a white person

The only difference is a is a varying level of melanin in our skin, but there there's no genetic difference

Practically zero we are not different Races it is it is it is man who looks at the outward appearance

God looks at the heart first Samuel chapter 16 and when they entered he looked at Eliab and thought surely the

Lord's anointed is standing before him But the Lord said to Samuel do not look at his appearance or the height of his stature because I have rejected him for God Does not see as man sees since man looks at the outward appearance, but the

Lord looks at the heart The Lord looks at people's hearts we are to look at the heart at the inward man not the outward man not what someone looks like and putting an emphasis on what

Someone's outward appearance is over things that they cannot help, you know

Their stature the color of their skin the color of their eyes or whatever it is that is that is something that man does that is something that is a fruit of the

Fallen sinful state in which we live God looks at the heart. It is sinful man that looks at the outward appearance

Again race is a social construct not a biological construct So when we talk about race, we know that we need to understand that there is only

One race. Okay. There's only one race Votie Balcombe is the same race as I Daryl Harrison Virgil Walker Samuel say

I'm just naming some black men that I know and I'm friends with They are the same race as I The Bible is very clear about this and in fact could not be more clear about this.

Let's look at a few texts Genesis chapter 3 verse 20 says that Eve became the mother of all living

So if you trace the generations back and you go back far enough about 6 ,000 years ago or so You're gonna find

Adam and Eve and Eve was the mother of all living I can trace my ancestry all the way back to Eve so can

Votie Balcombe He traces his ancestry all the way back to Eve. So does everyone on the face of the planet?

Okay, race is a social construct not a biological construct now

Different ethnicities came in they began in the book of Genesis chapter 11

You remember the tower of Babel or Babel as some say and they were trying to build this tower up to God and God Confused their language and scattered them right

Genesis chapter 11 verse 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth

Not yet convinced and I do by the way Apologize for the way my shirt is glowing night has fallen here

And this is just the best I can do with the lights I have so this is not a Hollywood quality So I hope that my shirt is not

Too annoying. So anyway, let's go to the New Testament Acts chapter 17 verse 26 and he

God made from one man every nation ethnos of mankind to live on all the face of the earth having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation

Contrary to what some of the social justice folks would have us believe God is apparently a

Pro border, but I digress So dear friends the Bible could not be more clear all of us.

I don't care where in the world you live I don't care what color your skin is. All of us were made from one man.

We are all one Race we are all one race watch this clip

I love this clip from Votie Balcombe and a sermon that he preached a couple years ago at Shepherd's Conference.

Watch this Does two things here that are incredibly important? one is it identifies the distinctions that matter and Secondly, it identifies the division that exists

Now these distinctions that matter are important because oftentimes we talk about Distinctions and we talk about being distinct from one another in terms of our race race is

Actually a social construct the concept of race is not a biblical concept

It's not a biblical idea. It is a Constructed idea

You won't find the idea of races in the Bible Unless you find it in the proper historical context where we see number one that we are all the race of Adam Amen, what one race one blood we are all the race of Adam There is less than a zero point two percent genetic difference between any of us in this regard

In fact, we're not even different colors Amen technically from a genetic perspective

From a biochemistry perspective We're all actually the same color.

Our color comes from our melanin We've all got melanin just to differing degrees

So it's not that some of us are you know, this color some of us are that color somewhat? No, we're just different shades of the same color

Some of us just have more melanin than others and I want you to listen to me on this listen to me

Just because you don't have as much melanin as I do Don't you dare think God doesn't love you as much as he loves me because he gave me more.

I Just love that clip from Bodhi. I mean that was just that was one of those mic drop moments and it was done with Such humor and really drove the point home, but Bodhi Balcombe is absolutely right

There is just one race. The Bible is very clear about that We just have different levels of melanin in our skin

And as he pointed out, we're all the same color and just different levels of melanin

Some people have a little bit more melanin than others. So this this whole idea of race

That is a social construct not a biological one certainly not a biblical construct there is one race

But there are different ethnicities okay, and that's what Acts 17 26 says

God made from One man all of mankind all nations all ethnos.

So there are many different Ethnicities there are Russians. There are

Chinese. There are Filipinos. There's Swedish there's Italians They're Indians, you know

Hispanics many different ethnicities But only one race.

I want to share something with you that you might find a bit surprising the very first trip that I made to South Africa was

I don't know 15 or so years ago and I had a few different South Africans who were black

Tell me the same thing I Had two or three different people tell me that they take offense that the blacks in the

United States Call themselves African American That really surprised me

But they said what what they said was that they said the blacks in your country know nothing of Africa They've never been to Africa and so it actually offends

Africans Who were born and live in Africa it offends them that the blacks in the

United States Call themselves African American because the vast majority of us here in the

United States black white or whatever We've never been to Africa. And so they actually take offense at that.

I found that Fascinating and also why do we use the term African American in the first place?

Why does it only apply to? black people Why doesn't it apply to people who live in northern

African countries like Sudan or Libya or Egypt, you know, they're not really they're not black.

They're just kind of brown They're kind of you know Arab looking if you will so we don't call them

African Americans and yet Libya and Egypt are in Africa. I Have a friend who pastors their church

Here in the United States He's in Florida and I'm not gonna give his name because I did that one time and he kind of got some hate mail from It but a wonderful wonderful guy pastors a good solid church in Florida And he was born in what at the time was

Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe but when he was he was born in Rhodesia served in the

Rhodesian army and then the country became Zimbabwe. I don't remember what year that was but at any rate served in their army and At some point he left

Zimbabwe and came here to the United States. He now lives in Florida pastors a church in Florida and He's as white as I am

I mean he looks his skin tone is exactly the same as mine now

Why don't we call him an African American but you actually could say that about him because he was born and reared in Africa and now lives in America an

African American who? Has the same skin tone and I do So we just need to do away with this whole hyphenated stuff.

If you were born in America live in America. You're an American regardless of your skin tone

You see the social justice movement and its emphasis on race is designed to create

Distrust it is designed to foment envy and anger and distrust between People groups of varying levels of melanin in their skin.

That's what it's designed to do critical race theory Intersectionality, this is a secular godless philosophy that is designed to create strife within a country amongst people of different Ethnicities and we see that right in the news.

We've seen a lot of this here in the last few months that parents of Children in school have had enough of it.

Their kids are being taught Intersectionality critical race theory and they can see the division that it's causing their kids are coming home and they're they're at odds with their classmates simply because of the color of their skin and they've had enough and they're they're standing up against it good for them, but Anyway, that homeschooling could do a homeschooling plug there.

But but at any rate The point is it's designed to create division and what it's doing in the secular world

It unfortunately is doing the very same thing in the church. It is creating division

It is dividing us on things that do not matter. It is creating distrust

Some of you have probably heard of a man named Kyle J. Howard and I have actually preached at the church that Kyle J.

Howard used to attend Kyle James Howard is a guy who is now he is now fully woke

I mean he is all into social justice and he is I mean you go through his his

Twitter feed and social media and Honestly some of the most racist stuff

I've ever heard Comes from this guy But I've been to the church that he used to attend years ago and people at this church told me they said

We don't understand what has happened to Kyle because he is not the same guy That he was when he was here

In fact, they told me that many years ago that he was he was the opposite of the way he is now

In fact, he would make comments from time to time saying things like why does everything have to be about race? but then the the social justice wins

Several years ago really began to blow and he was tossed to and fro carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery men and he and he bought into this social justice stuff and now

Everything is about race Everything is about race with him He obviously does not trust white people.

He thinks white people are out to get him or at least he says they are Some of the most racist things that I have ever seen

Have come from this guy to the point where he actually said that he would be afraid to be in the same room with James White who is a if you're not familiar with him a theologian and apologist who is

Caucasian he said he would be afraid to be in the same room with James White literally afraid for his physical safety

Friends, let me tell you something that is evil That is wicked

It is it is Satan who sows discord among the brethren. That is the activity of the enemy

But this is the kind of bad fruit that comes from the social justice movement in that kind of a secular godless philosophy

Okay, I want to show you now a video clip from Ligon Duncan Ligon Duncan is the

Chancellor of Reform Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi And this is this is a truly troubling video.

Watch what he has to say here. This was recorded in 2021 Can you imagine the gospel impact if Bible -believing?

Protestants Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Had said of their

Bible -believing Christian brothers and sisters in Baptist churches and elsewhere You're not gonna kill our brothers and sisters in Christ You're not going to defraud our brothers and sisters in Christ.

You're not going to wrongfully imprison our brothers and sisters in Christ You're not going to mistreat our brothers and sisters.

Can you imagine the gospel impact of that? And you know, it's gonna take us a hundred years to overcome the trust issues that have come out of that Do you know why it's gonna take a hundred years because the social justice proponents keep dredging up past sins

They keep dredging up past wrongdoings They do not seem to grasp the biblical truth that we just looked at in Ezekiel chapter 18 verse 20

So yeah, it's gonna take a hundred years In fact, I would submit to you It's gonna take a lot more than a hundred years if the

Lord tarries because dear friends understand this about the social justice movement Understand this point the end game is that there is no end game

Okay, that's very important to understand the end game is that there is no end game it feeds upon a perpetual state of victimhood a perpetual lack of forgiveness it it feeds upon itself and it is

In order for it to exist in an order for the people who are promoting it to to acquire and retain power

They have got to create division. They have got to create a system in which there is no

Forgiveness ever, you know, I tell people my very best

Black friends have trouble trusting me for really good reasons because people like me

Have been doing awful things to them and to their families for four centuries You know, it's gonna take a while Dear friends.

It is hard for me to put into words Just how profoundly unbiblical that statement from Ligon Duncan is

He says that his best black friends have problems trusting him and for good reason

What good reason? Ligon Duncan is not a slave owner. His father was not a slave owner.

His grandfather was not a slave What good reason on what basis do his? Christian black friends have a problem in trusting him

Doesn't the Bible says say something about love keeps no record of wrong suffered and we're talking about wrong suffered

Generations ago. I Mean how unbiblical can you be if that is the case?

Whoever his best black friends are if that is the case, then I would submit to you that that there's an issue on their part

There's a problem. You know, I have black friends. I have black friends. They don't have any problems trusting me.

I Mean this friends. This is just so profoundly unbiblical on so many levels. I am shocked that a pastor and he is the

CEO and Chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary This is just unbelievable to me

If that is the case with his black friends that they have a problem. They have trouble trusting him because of something that happened

Nearly two centuries ago. Then he needs to go in love and confront his black friends in their sin of Unforgiveness and it's not even really a matter of forgiveness because he's never done any of those things

I mean, this is this is just so profoundly unbiblical. You know, I've heard it said that there is a

Social justice translation of Romans 8 verse 1

Romans 8 1 in the New American Standard Bible says therefore there is now no Condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus However, the new social justice standard

Bible renders Romans 8 1 this way Therefore there is now much

Condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus New translation just come out.

This is just so egregious to me that Men who have been looked up to for so long have been blown about To this degree by the winds of social justice.

It's just unreal On a happier note One of the great privileges and blessings that has been mine as an evangelist is that by God's grace

I have had opportunities to preach all around the world I've preached in 28 think 28 different countries some of them multiple times, but 28 different countries representing every continent except Antarctica No immediate plans to go and preach to the penguin

So I'm probably not gonna be able to check Antarctica for my bucket list I don't think

I'll be going there anytime soon, but I've been I've been all over the world and I want to show you a picture

This is just a few a few pictures that I have taken from a few of the more recent trips just and I think all

Of these are within the last five years of some of the precious precious people that I've met

So starting at the top left here, that's a picture I took about five five six years ago in India And then the next one those are some brothers in Fiji at a seminary that I taught at next one.

There's Singapore Next picture actually Singapore as well But that's Rodney and Feva Chand over on the left and they are from American Samoa there

And there's Conrad in Bayway and Zambia Ricky's a pastor in Texas But he's

Hispanic and back to Zambia and that's dear brother that I met in Met well,

I met him in Ukraine, but he's from Tajikistan and then that last picture there's of me preaching at a seminary teaching in a seminary in Honduras This is just a small sampling but look at those pictures there.

How many races do you see? one one race How many ethnicities do you see?

a lot a lot of different ethnicities one race and Dear friends.

Do you know that it does not matter where in the world I go? It does not matter what country

I'm in does not matter what culture I am in it does not matter

How little they have or how much they have doesn't matter about, you know varying levels of?

socioeconomic status Let me tell I've been in some of the poorest Parts of the world

Uganda I've seen poverty that if you have not been out of the United States of America unless you've been to one of these places

You can't you can't even imagine The kind of poverty that exists in many other places in the world

You cannot even imagine you can't you have to see it for yourself to believe it So it doesn't matter what

Economic status people have it doesn't even matter what language is spoken when

I am with like -minded believers There is an instant bond there.

There is an instant Fellowship there. There is an instant love there

I Love these people and they love me I can be

Halfway around the world in some in some country with a completely different culture completely different language but when

I'm with like -minded believers, I Love these people and they love me why?

Because we're family We're family We have been adopted into the family of God through the merits of his son

Jesus Christ Read Matthew chapter 10 read

Matthew chapter 12 if you want to know who your true family is our family as Christians is

Our brothers and sisters in Christ and it does not matter where in the world They are does not matter what culture what economic status what language is spoken?

You know, what else doesn't matter You know, what else doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how much melanin you have in your skin

I can meet someone in the first five minutes I love that person and I would and I would

I would give my life for them and they would do it for me There's no mistrust

You know, I when I meet somebody in the world Who is not a

Christian? I don't have I don't I don't have a reason to To trust that person if they're not regenerate

I mean that But when it comes to the body of Christ When I know

I'm dealing with a Christian a truly regenerate person my My assumption is is that that's my brother.

That's my sister and My assumption is is that they have My best interest at heart and I have their best interest at heart.

There should not be mistrust There should not be division there should not be suspicion not when it comes to the family of God and So what the social justice is is doing it is is incorporating worldly godless leftist political philosophy and trying to trying to To I suggested in if you will into the body of Christ and it is causing division where there need not be any division

One race Spiritually speaking as Peter says in 1st

Peter chapter 2 verse 9 spiritually speaking. We are a chosen race spiritually speaking we are in Christ and there is a

Spiritual race if you will if you are a Christian you are in Christ We have been adopted into the family of God through the merits of the

Lord Jesus Christ Jesus in John chapter 17 the high priestly prayer

He prayed for his disciples and he prayed father the glory which you have given me

I also have given to them so that they may be one just as we are one

I End them and you and me that they may be perfected in unity So that the world may know that you sent me and you love them just as you loved me

Dear friends the unity that we are to have as brothers and sisters in Christ is one of the

Testimonies God has designed our unity to be a testimony To the watching world to be a testimony to the world that that Jesus is someone different Jesus is not just another religious leader that Jesus is

God there should be something So otherworldly about the unity that we as Christians have with one another that it is to be a testimony

To the watching world and I ask you this question. I ask you this question.

Do you believe that? the Evangelical whatever that word means anymore, but for lack of a better term

Do you believe that the evangelical world is more unified today than it was?

five years ago before the social justice Really began to ramp up and not that it wasn't going on it was but it just became home to everybody's radar

Do you think we are more unified now or? five years ago Much more unified five years ago

I mean not perfectly obviously But who in their right mind would look at the state of the evangelical church today and say oh, yeah more unified now

Than we were before Social justice became so popular began to blow about our circles

Not even close. I mean as I've said at the beginning of this video, I Have been shocked.

So many of us have been shocked at men that we many of us have looked up to for many years and we have been shocked and dismayed and Saddened by how some of these men have been blown about by these winds of social justice and we are far less unified

Now than we were five years ago. So I hope that this conference is going to be of help to you

I hope it'll be a good resource That we can plant our flag in the ground and we can stand against this worldly godless philosophy

That is wreaking such havoc may we reject it in the name of Christ may we reject it

Okay, dear ones. Thank you very much for watching this again. My videos my presentation there

It's not intended to be a super deep dive I just want you to be aware of the cars that are coming along this social justice train in my next presentation we're going to look at the

Egalitarian car and we're going to look at the homosexual car. All right, that's coming up in my next presentation

All right Thank you very much for watching Until our next time together may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God in the fellowship of his