Social Justice Train Cars of Economics and Racism

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September 22, 2021

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00:00: Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Justin Peters. I hope that this finds you and your family doing well
00:05: 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.
00:18: These are two Presentations that I recently put together for an online conference that was held
00:25: September 17th and 18th of 2021 Dealing with social justice and I was just one of several other speakers.
00:34: There was also Chris and Joshua Rosebro Phil Johnson and dr
00:40: Owen Strand and so we were the speakers and we we each did two
00:45: Presentations for this two -day online conference. And so I thought I would put my presentations up on my youtube channel
00:53: And so these two presentations, please don't think that they are a comprehensive
01:00: Treatment or critique of social justice because they're not it's just kind of a bird's -eye view of of what
01:06: 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
01:15: Bringing along some cars with it. And so it's just kind of a bird's -eye view of some of the more prominent
01:21: In troubling cars of the social justice train. So anyway, if you want to see the full conference
01:27: 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
01:37: YouTube channel Did God really say? Conference YouTube channel and so all the presentations you can find there
01:45: So I would commend those to you and I'm also going to put some links down below in the description of some
01:52: Good books that you can read That deal with social justice, so I would commend those to you as well
01:59: So, all right without any further ado as they say, here's my first presentation
02:05: 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
02:15: Entitled did God really say we are looking at the social justice movement what it teaches and some of the implications
02:23: For the Evangelical Church and as I begin my first presentation here. I want to give you an idea of Just how concerned
02:31: I am about this movement I believe that the social justice movement that has been in the works for many many many years
02:38: 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
02:58: Evangelical world like a hurricane and I believe it is without any hyperbole. I truly believe it is
03:05: One of if not the most insidious threats That I have ever seen to the church now
03:13: Granted we understand that the church belongs to Christ and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
03:20: So The church is secure. But nonetheless The Bible warns us repeatedly about false doctrine and or false teachers
03:30: 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
03:42: So these warnings are in Scripture for a reason we are to Note false teachers.
03:49: 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
04:06: Situation it is a both and and for those of you who are familiar with my ministry
04:12: You know that I am kind of known for engaging the word of faith movement new apostolic
04:17: 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
04:35: I see this as as such a threat and in many ways even more so than word faith new apostolic
04:42: Reformation in that in our Theological circles, or maybe
04:48: 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
05:03: We certainly have people scattered in our churches Here and there that to one degree or another may be affected by a
05:12: Joel Osteen or a Joyce Meyer or some like that Somebody like that maybe Bill Johnson and in some of these others.
05:19: 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
05:36: Soteriologically reformed circles doctrines of grace circles What we've never had is that we have never had any of the
05:47: Heavy hitters if you will some of the well -known names in our circles actually preaching
05:53: Word of faith or new apostolic Reformation or health and wealth prosperity gospel, you know
05:59: 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
06:09: We are seeing that With social justice. We are seeing some of the heavy hitters if you will who have to varying degrees
06:19: 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
06:31: I am of course trying to equip people in my theological circles, but much more broadly than that You know,
06:37: I'm by God's grace trying to get that message out to people that are not in my theological circles
06:43: But but with social justice this stuff is picking off some of our guys
06:49: 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.
07:03: 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
07:27: 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
07:37: Then you know something is amiss and something is very much amiss so what
07:43: 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
07:54: 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
08:12: 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.
08:25: 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
08:48: What's coming along with it? What they are saying and then biblically we will examine it
08:53: And we will refute those who are contradicting Sound doctrine.
09:00: 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
09:11: There is an economic philosophy of socialism undergirding this movement now
09:16: The movement has its roots in neo -marxism and neo -marxism is basically
09:22: 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
09:37: Socialism has been called communism in diapers. It is kind of the breeding ground
09:43: It is the gateway drug if you will to full -blown communism. So communism in diapers
09:50: The funny thing about babies though that babies in diapers is that babies grow up and babies don't stay babies
09:57: So socialism left unchecked does morph and grow into full -blown communism
10:03: And that's where we're headed. That's the path that we are on right now this wealth
10:09: Redistribution that we are seeing especially from the current administration the Biden administration
10:15: 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
10:24: 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
10:34: 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
10:45: 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
10:57: 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
11:06: To proof text to which they would appeal and so I want us to look at these and one of them is
11:12: Mark chapter 10 This is one of the passages that people advocating for social justice say that hey the
11:19: Bible really does teach socialism and they're trying to break the loyalty that the vast majority of evangelical voters have to the
11:30: Republican Party evangelicals vote in overwhelming numbers for The Republican Party as opposed to the
11:35: 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
11:50: 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
11:57: Bible really teaches it actually teaches socialism And so let's go to Mark chapter 10, you know the story.
12:03: This is the story that is widely known as the rich young ruler and rich young ruler
12:10: Runs up to Jesus and he kneels down before him and he says good teacher What must
12:15: I do to inherit eternal life and then Jesus looks at him? He says why do you call me good?
12:21: no one is good except God and then he says, you know the commandments and He cites a summary of the
12:30: Decalogue the Ten Commandments and Then of course, I'm summarizing all this but then the rich young ruler says teacher all these things
12:36: I have kept from my youth up It had a ring of familiarity with him He knew what the
12:42: Ten Commandments were and then Jesus said this in Mark chapter 10 verse 21 And so the social justice proponents say see
12:49: Jesus Engage this rich young ruler and told him to sell everything that he has
12:55: 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
13:08: Receives from selling everything then he gives it to the poor. And so this is a clear model for socialism
13:16: But no, that's not at all what Jesus is teaching here Not in the least for one thing
13:21: Jesus is not teaching the work salvation But also he was he was engaging one individual person.
13:28: He was this was not an address to all Christians Everywhere to sell everything that they possess and give it to the poor
13:38: That was not the point. Jesus was making for this man. His God was his wealth and Jesus was saying to this man
13:47: That thing that is the most important thing to you in his case his wealth
13:53: Get rid of it get rid of it because that is your God and anything that is before me is idolatry
13:59: So get rid of it sell it give it to the poor people who need it and then come follow me
14:05: This was a call. This was a call for him to Deny himself and take up the cross.
14:11: 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.
14:21: He left Jesus sorrowful because he was one who owned much property. So this is not a
14:26: Proof text for socialism at all. This was this was Jesus affirming lordship salvation now far and away the
14:36: 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
14:58: Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 4 beginning in Acts 2 verses 44 through 45
15:04: 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
15:18: 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
15:28: Of the sales and lay them at the Apostles feet and they would be distributed to each to the extent that any had need
15:37: Okay, and so these two passages are the go -to passages for those advocating social justice in the evangelical world
15:46: They say see this the New Testament teaches and it even models
15:52: Socialism well a Couple of points here. Number one. This is something that the
15:59: Christians decided to do voluntarily This was their own decision
16:04: This was not a mandate this was not coming down from the government they just decided to do it on their own
16:11: 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
16:24: 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
16:36: 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
16:46: Present tense. It says that they were selling The this is an imperfect tense in the
16:52: Greek and what that means is is that this selling of their possessions? Began at a certain point in time and it continued
17:00: It did not say the text does not say that they sold all of their possessions says that they were selling it
17:07: And so it continued now if they sold everything that they had right up front
17:13: Then they would have nothing else to sell the selling could not continue if they sold
17:20: 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.
17:31: So this was not mandated to them. Nobody was forcing them to do this They just took it upon themselves to do it.
17:38: 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
17:53: So this was this was this is not a model for socialism. Number one. It was not forced
17:59: 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
18:10: Their own private possessions. They still had some private possessions to sell as the need arose and by the way,
18:18: Ananias and Sapphira Acts chapter 5 who were Slain by the spirit charismatics talk about being slain in the spirit when
18:27: Ananias and Sapphira was were slain by the spirit But the Holy Spirit killed them
18:33: Not because they chose to keep some of the money for themselves That's not why the
18:40: Holy Spirit killed them. The Holy Spirit killed them because they lied about it
18:45: That was the sin not that they still retained Some possessions or some of their own money
18:52: No, he slew them in the spirit because they lied about it.
18:58: That was the sin And dear friends the Bible assumes Private ownership of property think about it.
19:05: What is the eighth commandment thou shalt not? steal okay, the eighth commandment would make no sense if God's people owned nothing themselves
19:19: The very fact that the eighth commandment is there Assumes that people own private property
19:27: 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
19:36: So the Bible absolutely assumes and does advocate for the private ownership of property
19:42: In fact, not only would the eighth commandment not make any sense, but neither would the tenth commandment make any sense
19:49: 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
19:59: Otherwise, there would be no opportunity there to covet in the first place so again, the the
20:05: 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.
20:21: Socialism is built upon the sin of Envy so either way you go it.
20:28: However, you look at socialism It is it is not only does it not work and it doesn't work anywhere.
20:34: It's been tried. It does not work economically But it's not taught in Scripture at all
20:41: The Bible assumes and advocates for the private ownership of property
20:46: Now, let me say this too. There is nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy
20:54: 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
21:07: The poor man Lazarus died and went to Abraham's bosom and some have read into that Oh the rich man
21:14: 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
21:19: Lazarus went to heaven That's not the point of that text There's nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy
21:26: If you have worked hard and God has been gracious to you and allowed you to keep
21:31: Keep some of the fruits of your labors Wonderful praise the Lord Be grateful for it and and use what
21:38: God has given you for his glory So there's nothing inherently wrong with being wealthy
21:43: Neither is there anything inherently honorable and being poor the rich man did not go to hell because He was wealthy
21:50: Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because he was poor each man went where he was spiritually prepared to go
21:59: Okay, the Bible does teach giving Read 2nd Corinthians chapters 8 and 9 the
22:06: Bible does teach giving we are to give to those who have need and we're but the the model that the
22:12: Bible provides for us in giving is not It is not
22:17: Obligatory. It is not something that is forced upon us. We are supposed to give out of the generosity of our hearts our
22:27: Regenerated hearts but the generosity of our hearts and what as an expression of gratitude and appreciation and thanks for what
22:35: God has given us and To as an expression of our love and concern for others who do not have what we do
22:43: 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
22:53: It is something that we are supposed to do to help our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
23:00: 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
23:14: Is that of reparations many in the social justice movement in the evangelical world have been advocating for?
23:22: reparations to black Americans because of the years that They are at least many of them spent in slavery
23:30: 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
23:40: Eric Mason Eric Mason is the pastor of Epiphany Fellowship Church in Philadelphia and In 2018
23:48: Eric Mason published a book entitled woke church and The foreword for that book was written by dr.
23:55: 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
24:13: He cites Exodus chapter 22 and Luke chapter 19 as biblical support for reparations
24:21: So let's look at these two texts and we'll see if that is in fact what these texts are teaching
24:26: Exodus 22 verse 1 says if someone steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it
24:33: He shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep
24:39: Okay, Luke chapter 19, this is the story of Zacchaeus Luke chapter 19 verse 8
24:46: 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
24:55: I am giving back Four times as much so upon first blush.
25:00: It might seem that these two texts do in fact support reparations, but except that they don't
25:07: 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
25:19: 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
25:35: 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
25:52: 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
26:03: Americans For the Slavery that existed in this country a hundred and fifty plus years ago.
26:12: 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.
26:19: 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.
26:28: 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
26:45: Concept of reparations violates what we see in Exodus chapter 22
26:50: It's the one who steals who is obligated to repay and with Luke chapter 19
26:55: 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
27:05: 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
27:17: 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
27:26: Zacchaeus his house Zacchaeus was saved and when he was saved an expression of the fruit of his regeneration
27:39: Was that he said Lord? Anything that I have stolen That I'm going to give it to the poor half of my possessions
27:46: I will give to the board if I've defrauded anybody anything I will return it fourfold
27:52: 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
28:02: Taking things from people stealing from them and he wanted to make it right emphasis on he
28:09: Wanted to make it right. He himself. He was the one who had done the stealing and he was going to make it, right?
28:16: 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
28:32: Abundance of your heart an abundance of the gratitude of your heart that God is regenerated
28:39: You're gonna realize hey You know before my conversion. I stole from people and I need to make that right
28:46: 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
29:00: Bible that deals with reparations as It directly relates to slavery.
29:06: There is a text to which you can go and that is found in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 15
29:12: 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
29:21: Referring to the slave owner when you set the slave free you shall not send him away empty -handed
29:28: You shall give generously to him from your flock your threshing floor and from your wine vat
29:34: And you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you So there it is
29:43: There's a text dealing with slavery and Reparations who is the one who is to pay the reparations?
29:50: 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.
30:07: 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
30:20: 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
30:38: Obligated to make it right If you have sinned against someone you are obligated to make it right
30:45: 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
30:54: Not responsible for the sins committed by our great great great whatever grandfathers over 150 years ago
31:04: 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
31:25: 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
31:45: Statement that someone makes is somehow perceived as racist. It makes huge headlines
31:52: 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
32:03: 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
32:22: It was a black gentleman Could not find his seat or rather someone was sitting in his assigned seat.
32:29: 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
32:43: 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.
32:51: 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
33:01: Well, apparently the any mini mini mo Rhyme or whatever did he?
33:08: Apparently has some kind of racial overtones who knew right? But he reported her and she got into all kinds of trouble for something.
33:16: That was completely innocent on Her part. I mean anything racial with us was the furthest thing from her mind
33:25: Just the other day I saw where a Stu a teacher somewhere in some school said that if you try to maintain discipline
33:34: Amongst your students and having them sit in their seats and be quiet not talk and do their work
33:40: That is an evidence of white supremacy So if you simply try to keep order in your classroom
33:49: 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
34:00: 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
34:06: I heard It but I sure enough it is true that some social justice proponent
34:12: 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
34:34: 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
34:42: 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
34:52: 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
34:59: Bible has to say about it because After all if we are Christians it is the
35:05: 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
35:14: Svante Pabbo I believe I'm pronouncing that right Pabbo is the director of the
35:20: Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Germany and states this says quote
35:27: What the study of complete genomes from different parts of the world has shown is that even between Africa and Europe for example?
35:35: There is not a single absolute genetic difference Meaning no single variant where all
35:41: Africans have one variant and all Europeans another one even when recent migration is
35:48: Discarded so race is a social construct not a biological construct even secular people
35:58: Anthropologists even evolutionary biologists, which I don't believe in evolution macro evolution anyway But even these people
36:06: If they're intellectually honest they will tell you that race is not biological race is
36:15: Sociological it is a social construct not a biological one there is practically zero genetic difference between a black person and a white person
36:28: The only difference is a is a varying level of melanin in our skin, but there there's no genetic difference
36:36: Practically zero we are not different Races it is it is it is man who looks at the outward appearance
36:45: God looks at the heart first Samuel chapter 16 and when they entered he looked at Eliab and thought surely the
36:52: 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
37:05: 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
37:22: Someone's outward appearance is over things that they cannot help, you know
37:28: 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
37:39: Fallen sinful state in which we live God looks at the heart. It is sinful man that looks at the outward appearance
37:48: 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
37:58: One race. Okay. There's only one race Votie Balcombe is the same race as I Daryl Harrison Virgil Walker Samuel say
38:11: 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.
38:24: Let's look at a few texts Genesis chapter 3 verse 20 says that Eve became the mother of all living
38:32: So if you trace the generations back and you go back far enough about 6 ,000 years ago or so You're gonna find
38:40: Adam and Eve and Eve was the mother of all living I can trace my ancestry all the way back to Eve so can
38:48: Votie Balcombe He traces his ancestry all the way back to Eve. So does everyone on the face of the planet?
38:57: Okay, race is a social construct not a biological construct now
39:02: Different ethnicities came in they began in the book of Genesis chapter 11
39:08: 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
39:20: Genesis chapter 11 verse 8 So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth
39:28: Not yet convinced and I do by the way Apologize for the way my shirt is glowing night has fallen here
39:35: 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
39:42: Too annoying. So anyway, let's go to the New Testament Acts chapter 17 verse 26 and he
39:50: 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
40:08: Contrary to what some of the social justice folks would have us believe God is apparently a
40:14: Pro border, but I digress So dear friends the Bible could not be more clear all of us.
40:22: 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.
40:29: We are all one Race we are all one race watch this clip
40:35: I love this clip from Votie Balcombe and a sermon that he preached a couple years ago at Shepherd's Conference.
40:41: 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
40:56: 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
41:07: Actually a social construct the concept of race is not a biblical concept
41:14: It's not a biblical idea. It is a Constructed idea
41:22: 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
41:49: In fact, we're not even different colors Amen technically from a genetic perspective
42:00: From a biochemistry perspective We're all actually the same color.
42:05: Our color comes from our melanin We've all got melanin just to differing degrees
42:12: 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
42:20: Some of us just have more melanin than others and I want you to listen to me on this listen to me
42:27: 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.
42:42: 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
42:57: There is just one race. The Bible is very clear about that We just have different levels of melanin in our skin
43:05: And as he pointed out, we're all the same color and just different levels of melanin
43:10: Some people have a little bit more melanin than others. So this this whole idea of race
43:16: That is a social construct not a biological one certainly not a biblical construct there is one race
43:24: But there are different ethnicities okay, and that's what Acts 17 26 says
43:30: God made from One man all of mankind all nations all ethnos.
43:37: So there are many different Ethnicities there are Russians. There are
43:42: Chinese. There are Filipinos. There's Swedish there's Italians They're Indians, you know
43:51: Hispanics many different ethnicities But only one race.
43:57: 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
44:04: I don't know 15 or so years ago and I had a few different South Africans who were black
44:13: Tell me the same thing I Had two or three different people tell me that they take offense that the blacks in the
44:22: United States Call themselves African American That really surprised me
44:27: 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
44:38: Africans Who were born and live in Africa it offends them that the blacks in the
44:46: United States Call themselves African American because the vast majority of us here in the
44:51: United States black white or whatever We've never been to Africa. And so they actually take offense at that.
44:58: I found that Fascinating and also why do we use the term African American in the first place?
45:04: Why does it only apply to? black people Why doesn't it apply to people who live in northern
45:12: African countries like Sudan or Libya or Egypt, you know, they're not really they're not black.
45:20: They're just kind of brown They're kind of you know Arab looking if you will so we don't call them
45:26: African Americans and yet Libya and Egypt are in Africa. I Have a friend who pastors their church
45:35: 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
45:50: Rhodesia is now Zimbabwe but when he was he was born in Rhodesia served in the
45:57: 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
46:07: 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
46:15: I mean he looks his skin tone is exactly the same as mine now
46:21: 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
46:33: African American who? Has the same skin tone and I do So we just need to do away with this whole hyphenated stuff.
46:41: If you were born in America live in America. You're an American regardless of your skin tone
46:47: You see the social justice movement and its emphasis on race is designed to create
46:55: Distrust it is designed to foment envy and anger and distrust between People groups of varying levels of melanin in their skin.
47:06: 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.
47:26: We've seen a lot of this here in the last few months that parents of Children in school have had enough of it.
47:33: 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.
47:58: But but at any rate The point is it's designed to create division and what it's doing in the secular world
48:05: It unfortunately is doing the very same thing in the church. It is creating division
48:12: It is dividing us on things that do not matter. It is creating distrust
48:19: Some of you have probably heard of a man named Kyle J. Howard and I have actually preached at the church that Kyle J.
48:27: Howard used to attend Kyle James Howard is a guy who is now he is now fully woke
48:34: I mean he is all into social justice and he is I mean you go through his his
48:39: Twitter feed and social media and Honestly some of the most racist stuff
48:44: 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
48:53: We don't understand what has happened to Kyle because he is not the same guy That he was when he was here
49:00: In fact, they told me that many years ago that he was he was the opposite of the way he is now
49:06: 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
49:14: 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
49:27: Everything is about race Everything is about race with him He obviously does not trust white people.
49:35: 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
49:42: 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
49:55: Caucasian he said he would be afraid to be in the same room with James White literally afraid for his physical safety
50:04: Friends, let me tell you something that is evil That is wicked
50:09: It is it is Satan who sows discord among the brethren. That is the activity of the enemy
50:16: But this is the kind of bad fruit that comes from the social justice movement in that kind of a secular godless philosophy
50:27: Okay, I want to show you now a video clip from Ligon Duncan Ligon Duncan is the
50:33: Chancellor of Reform Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi And this is this is a truly troubling video.
50:40: Watch what he has to say here. This was recorded in 2021 Can you imagine the gospel impact if Bible -believing?
50:49: Protestants Methodists Baptists Presbyterians Had said of their
50:55: 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.
51:06: You're not going to wrongfully imprison our brothers and sisters in Christ You're not going to mistreat our brothers and sisters.
51:13: 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
51:31: 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
51:42: 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
51:48: 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
51:59: 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
52:17: In order for it to exist in an order for the people who are promoting it to to acquire and retain power
52:25: They have got to create division. They have got to create a system in which there is no
52:32: Forgiveness ever, you know, I tell people my very best
52:37: Black friends have trouble trusting me for really good reasons because people like me
52:47: Have been doing awful things to them and to their families for four centuries You know, it's gonna take a while Dear friends.
52:55: It is hard for me to put into words Just how profoundly unbiblical that statement from Ligon Duncan is
53:03: He says that his best black friends have problems trusting him and for good reason
53:10: What good reason? Ligon Duncan is not a slave owner. His father was not a slave owner.
53:17: His grandfather was not a slave What good reason on what basis do his? Christian black friends have a problem in trusting him
53:28: Doesn't the Bible says say something about love keeps no record of wrong suffered and we're talking about wrong suffered
53:38: Generations ago. I Mean how unbiblical can you be if that is the case?
53:45: 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
53:53: There's a problem. You know, I have black friends. I have black friends. They don't have any problems trusting me.
54:02: I Mean this friends. This is just so profoundly unbiblical on so many levels. I am shocked that a pastor and he is the
54:11: CEO and Chancellor of Reformed Theological Seminary This is just unbelievable to me
54:17: If that is the case with his black friends that they have a problem. They have trouble trusting him because of something that happened
54:25: 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
54:39: I mean, this is this is just so profoundly unbiblical. You know, I've heard it said that there is a
54:47: Social justice translation of Romans 8 verse 1
54:52: 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
55:06: Bible renders Romans 8 1 this way Therefore there is now much
55:12: Condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus New translation just come out.
55:18: 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.
55:30: 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
55:41: 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
56:00: So I'm probably not gonna be able to check Antarctica for my bucket list I don't think
56:05: 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
56:13: 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
56:18: Of these are within the last five years of some of the precious precious people that I've met
56:24: 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.
56:35: 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
56:45: And there's Conrad in Bayway and Zambia Ricky's a pastor in Texas But he's
56:50: Hispanic and back to Zambia and that's dear brother that I met in Met well,
56:56: 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.
57:11: How many races do you see? one one race How many ethnicities do you see?
57:19: a lot a lot of different ethnicities one race and Dear friends.
57:26: Do you know that it does not matter where in the world I go? It does not matter what country
57:33: I'm in does not matter what culture I am in it does not matter
57:38: How little they have or how much they have doesn't matter about, you know varying levels of?
57:47: socioeconomic status Let me tell I've been in some of the poorest Parts of the world
57:53: 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
58:00: You can't you can't even imagine The kind of poverty that exists in many other places in the world
58:08: You cannot even imagine you can't you have to see it for yourself to believe it So it doesn't matter what
58:14: Economic status people have it doesn't even matter what language is spoken when
58:19: I am with like -minded believers There is an instant bond there.
58:26: There is an instant Fellowship there. There is an instant love there
58:33: I Love these people and they love me I can be
58:40: Halfway around the world in some in some country with a completely different culture completely different language but when
58:48: I'm with like -minded believers, I Love these people and they love me why?
58:56: Because we're family We're family We have been adopted into the family of God through the merits of his son
59:06: Jesus Christ Read Matthew chapter 10 read
59:11: Matthew chapter 12 if you want to know who your true family is our family as Christians is
59:20: 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?
59:29: 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
59:38: I can meet someone in the first five minutes I love that person and I would and I would
59:43: I would give my life for them and they would do it for me There's no mistrust
59:51: You know, I when I meet somebody in the world Who is not a
59:56: Christian? I don't have I don't I don't have a reason to To trust that person if they're not regenerate
01:00:05: I mean that But when it comes to the body of Christ When I know
01:00:11: I'm dealing with a Christian a truly regenerate person my My assumption is is that that's my brother.
01:00:21: 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.
01:00:31: 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
01:01:04: One race Spiritually speaking as Peter says in 1st
01:01:10: Peter chapter 2 verse 9 spiritually speaking. We are a chosen race spiritually speaking we are in Christ and there is a
01:01:19: 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
01:01:28: Lord Jesus Christ Jesus in John chapter 17 the high priestly prayer
01:01:33: He prayed for his disciples and he prayed father the glory which you have given me
01:01:39: I also have given to them so that they may be one just as we are one
01:01:45: 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
01:01:57: Dear friends the unity that we are to have as brothers and sisters in Christ is one of the
01:02:06: 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
01:02:21: 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
01:02:30: To the watching world and I ask you this question. I ask you this question.
01:02:35: Do you believe that? the Evangelical whatever that word means anymore, but for lack of a better term
01:02:42: Do you believe that the evangelical world is more unified today than it was?
01:02:49: 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
01:02:59: Do you think we are more unified now or? five years ago Much more unified five years ago
01:03:07: 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
01:03:17: Than we were before Social justice became so popular began to blow about our circles
01:03:24: Not even close. I mean as I've said at the beginning of this video, I Have been shocked.
01:03:31: 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
01:03:49: Now than we were five years ago. So I hope that this conference is going to be of help to you
01:03:55: 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
01:04:05: That is wreaking such havoc may we reject it in the name of Christ may we reject it
01:04:13: Okay, dear ones. Thank you very much for watching this again. My videos my presentation there
01:04:18: 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
01:04:30: Egalitarian car and we're going to look at the homosexual car. All right, that's coming up in my next presentation
01:04:38: 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