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Let's take a look at 7 viral stories that have happened recently and comment on them from a Christian perspective.

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The last one is absolutely shocking. At number 7 is Jonah Hill's ex -girlfriend leaking texts that are dividing the internet, with some calling his texts abusive and others disagreeing.

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Alright folks, so I'm not a big fan of the actor Jonah Hill, but an ex -girlfriend of his is now coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of brutality and vicious evil.

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Why? Because he texted her some stuff that, you know, is kinda not, like, amazing, but also not that bad. So in one text, Brady posted from Jonah, she says he wrote that if she quote, needed, surfing with men, boundaryless inappropriate relationships with men, to model, to post pictures of yourself in a bathing suit, to post sexual pictures, friendships with women who are in unstable places, and from your wild recent past beyond getting a lunch or coffee or something respectful,

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I'm not the right partner for you. I have a question, why am I supposed to be, like, deeply offended by this? If you don't like it, he literally says,

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I might not be the right partner for you. And they weren't, so they broke up. My take on this situation is that the things

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Jonah is expecting from a partner are actually quite good. But if he was looking for these things in a partner, he should never have entered into a relationship with Sarah Brady, who is a surfer who clearly loves posting immodest pictures of herself on the internet.

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In general, there seems to be a lack of sacrificial love in romantic relationships, which is shown by the unloving language that Jonah Hill and Sarah Brady used with one another.

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If any relationship is going to last, people in relationships should not be using language that is sarcastic or mocking towards the other person.

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Biblical love is an act of the will accompanied by emotion that leads to action on behalf of its object.

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Let me give it to you again. Biblical love is an act of the will. It is first and foremost a choice. We do choose.

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It is an act of the will. It is accompanied by emotion, which means it's not void of emotion, but it's also not led by emotion.

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And it leads to action on behalf of its object. At number six is Stephen Furtick and Elevation Church leaving the

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Southern Baptist Convention. In a letter to the SBC's executive committee, Elevation Church said it was "...withdrawing

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its affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention effective immediately," and it continued with, "...we

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have no plans to make a public announcement on this decision. We have too much to do in reaching a world that needs the love of Jesus."

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Neither Stephen Furtick nor Elevation Church have revealed exactly why it is leaving the Southern Baptist Convention, but it seems the most likely reason is that the

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SBC recently removed Saddleback Church because of its endorsement of women pastors, which

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Elevation Church also endorses. Early this year, the Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC, expelling

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Saddleback Church for having women as pastors. Saddleback Church is the largest church in the state and one of the largest in the nation.

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The founding pastor of the church, Rick Warren, appealing the decision at the Baptist Convention's annual two -day meeting in New Orleans, which started today.

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Here's Holly Furtick, Stephen Furtick's wife, preaching at Elevation Church. And God is not looking for perfection.

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Because if he was, he wouldn't have picked us. He wouldn't have picked me and he wouldn't have picked you. He's looking for potential.

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He is perfectly okay with the space between who you are right now in this moment and who you're going to become.

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Because he sees the fighter in you. What are your thoughts about both Stephen Furtick's Elevation Church and Rick Warren's Saddleback Church leaving the

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SBC? All these women running around as preachers, supposedly teaching the Bible, are defying what the

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Bible says. And they're propagating some kind of Christianity that is whimsical about how it handles the word of God.

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Paul is saying, look, you've got to get a grip on yourself. At number five is at least four TikTokers dying because of a new trend that involves jumping off of boats, oftentimes while the boats are traveling at high speeds.

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It seems to be increasingly common for social media and clout chasing to lead to deaths, whether of the people themselves who are doing dangerous things for attention and clout, or of innocent victims, or the casualties of irresponsible content creators chasing clout.

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There is another tragic story about a Mr. Beast copycat doing something that led to the death of a five -year -old child.

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Today we're about to talk about an Italian Mr. Beast clone who recently just did a stunt that ended up killing a five -year -old child.

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What happened is the borderline crew went to overtake a car at high speeds and then had the head -on collision with this vehicle that had a mother and her children in it, which unfortunately led to the loss of the life of the five -year -old boy.

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There seems to be more and more young people who are destroying both their own lives and the lives of other people because of a desire to become famous on social media.

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This is why it is so important for parents to protect their children from the danger of social media.

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Our children don't have to walk with people who live in the gutter to know that they shouldn't live in the gutter. Our children don't have to be exposed to the most graphic and vile things of the world in order for them to recognize and be aware of the fact that there are graphic and vile things out there that they should flee from and, in fact, shouldn't even open their minds to.

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That's the way we should act towards sin. That's the way we should treat sin. So don't you ever apologize for sheltering your children.

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I believe we're commanded to shelter our children. Amen? Don't you ever apologize. At number four is the popular

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Christian duo Shane and Shane facing backlash for essentially partnering with Bethel Music because Bethel is a church that promotes many different heresies.

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And I want to show you this post right here. Air One's Worship Now Live at the Red Rocks featuring

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Phil Wickham, Brandon Lake, Brian and Jen Johnson, Shane and Shane, John Reddick. Now Brian and Jen Johnson, they are

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Bethel. Here's something that Jen Johnson said at a Bethel event about the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit to me is like the genie from Aladdin.

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That's who he is to me. And he's funny. He's sneaky. He's silly. He's wonderful. The head of Bethel Church is

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Bill Johnson whose teachings are filled with heresies. Here's Johnson teaching that it's always God's will to heal people, which is a classic prosperity gospel and word of faith teaching.

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Question number two. Does God ever choose not to heal? No. God chose 2 ,000 years ago to make a purchase.

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And here's Johnson teaching something heretical about the nature of Jesus Christ himself. Do you know that Jesus so restricted his function on earth that he actually couldn't heal anyone?

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He couldn't multiply food. He couldn't cast out devils. He couldn't do any of that stuff because he had restricted himself to the life of a human being.

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If you have any question in your mind as to whether or not Bethel is a false church or maybe just a church with some charismatic excesses, but still, by and large, still, you know, still a real church.

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They're real believers. They really love the Lord. They preach the right Jesus and the right gospel, like some people who have escaped from Bethel and initially criticized it, but now saying, oh, well, our criticism was too harsh.

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Yeah, we don't agree with them on everything, but they still they love Jesus. They have the right Jesus. They have the right gospel. They're our brothers and sisters in Christ.

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I want this video to put to rest any any doubt that you may have as to whether or not

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Bethel is a false church. Bethel, of course, Reading, California, Bethel, that's what I'm talking about, pastored by Bill Johnson.

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This should put any of those questions to rest. And there's a number of things I could go to to put those questions to rest.

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I could talk about their canonic Jesus. I could talk about all kinds of false prophecies, occultic practices.

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I think it's good that people are calling out Shane and Shane for exhibiting a serious lack of discernment and partnering with Bethel Music, and my prayer is that this will lead them to disassociate from false teaching and remember that at the heart of true worship is solid biblical theology, not an emotional experience.

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Because now I even think differently about the songs that I sing. If I'm just here for the experience,

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I can sing songs that completely contradict the truth of God's word and I'm okay.

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I mean, if the beat is right and the band is hot, I can sing all kind of lies and feel like I've met with God.

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But if I understand worship within this context and I rooted and grounded within these theological truths, then there's certain things that I just can't say.

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At number three is the movie Sound of Freedom, which is about the evils of the trafficking industry unexpectedly going viral.

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But then along comes a little low -budget movie like Sound of Freedom that I can honestly say I knew precisely nothing about until a few days ago, which seems to have ignited some kind of firestorm in the public consciousness and capitalised on the gaping hole left by Dial of Destiny's implosion, resulting in massive over -performance at the box office and a flood of emails practically demanding that I watch it

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NOW. Well, never let it be said that the drinker backs down from a challenge. And guess what?

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Sound of Freedom is really f***ing good. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that it deserves the hype and praise that it's been getting, managing to tackle some pretty brutal subject matter in a sensitive and restrained way that never feels exploitative.

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I have not watched the movie yet, but I am glad that this kind of a movie is getting this kind of attention and has made its way into the public discourse.

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Well, we are joined on the line by Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard. They have a new movie coming out called Sound of Freedom. Tim, of course, spent more than a decade working as a special agent for the

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DHS, where he was deployed as an undercover operative for the U .S. Child Sex Tourism Jump Team, and then after he left his job, he started

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Operation Underground Railroad to continue rescuing kids around the world. Interestingly, there are many who are criticizing the movie for what seems like political reasons.

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This movie and the serious topic it addresses simply should not be political. This is the Washington Post. Washington Post.

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Sound of Freedom, the low -budget film about, I can't say that word, almost topped the box office on Fourth of July, but its star,

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Jim Caviezel, has linked to the, you know, the letter I can't say on stream movement. I'm sure some people look at this and be like, right wing, whatever.

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No, but I felt it did a really good job at keeping that out of it. It's not about that. It's not about the right versus the left.

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It's about saving children. I want to know if you've seen the movie and what you think about it. At number two is the competition between Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in more than one way.

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First, Mark Zuckerberg released an app called Threads that is a direct competitor to Elon Musk's Twitter.

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10 million users in the first seven hours. Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, has just declared war on Twitter with their new app,

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Threads. And this is the most fascinating, exciting, terrifying thing happening in social media right now.

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And interestingly, it looks like Elon Musk is accusing Threads of stealing trade secrets from Twitter and is threatening legal action against it.

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And now there's word. Twitter CEO Elon Musk is threatening to sue the rival platform,

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Musk tweeting, competition is fine. Cheating is not. Meta denying any wrongdoing.

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The potential legal move showcasing a longstanding rivalry between the company's billionaire owners.

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Before we move on to the second fascinating story that involves Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, I'm wondering what you think about this battle between Twitter and Threads.

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Personally, I think Elon Musk's view of free speech is much more preferable to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, and Meta, so I'm still hoping

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Twitter will succeed. And the second crazy story about Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is that there is serious talk about them actually fighting one another physically.

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Both Musk and Zuckerberg have expressed interest publicly in doing this, and UFC President Dana White says he has spoken to both men about this.

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On June 20th, Elon tweeted, I'm sure Earth can't wait to be exclusively under Zuck's thumb with no other options.

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Meta is the parent company of both Facebook and Instagram. This prompted one user to warn, better be careful

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Elon Musk, I heard he does Jiu Jitsu now. Striking back, the 51 -year -old then replied,

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I'm up for a cage match, if he is. As shared on Instagram last month, Mark, a Jiu Jitsu enthusiast, recently earned medals in his first competitions, and it looks like he's ready for his next match.

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Taking to his Instagram stories on June 21st, the 39 -year -old responds to Elon's challenge, simply writing, send me location.

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I know this sounds like a ridiculous story, but these are two of the richest and most powerful men in the world talking about fighting each other in a cage, which makes it a relatively big and interesting story.

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What do you think about all of this? At number one is a

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TikToker named Mizzy, who is arguably the worst and most hated TikToker in the world, although there is very strong competition for that title.

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Mizzy became infamous for his video where he just walks into someone else's home, scaring the children who are also present, and then he casually lounges in their house.

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James? James? Hi. You my homie? Hello James. We need to speak to James. James! Hi. Is this where the study group is?

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No. What door number is this? Study group. But this is not where the study group is.

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We've got kids, man. Oh, you've got kids? I'm sorry. I thought this was the study group. I actually thought... Ain't this the study group? It is extremely disturbing that people like Mizzy are happy to behave in such an atrocious manner simply for the sake of gaining clout.

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No, it's like psychotic behavior. It's people that are so corrupted by this desire for fame, for this moment of controversy and attention, whether it's good or bad, that they're willing to do anything.

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In another incident, Mizzy simply ran away with an elderly lady's doll. So this guy walks up to this woman in a park and he compliments her doll.

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Hello. Hi. You got a nice doll. Sorry? You got a nice doll. But this guy ain't no decent guy.

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This guy is a YouTube prankster. Oh no. And he thinks it would be a funny prank to steal her doll. We ain't got a whole lot of guys.

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We all side. We all side every single time.

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Because this guy has never once shown any amount of humanity in any of his content.

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Everything he does, he does in the most malicious way possible, treating people like props to either scare or steal from or invade the privacy of.

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He is the most unlikable prankster on the internet. And that is a prestigious accolade. That is not something, not a title

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I bestow lightly. Thankfully, it seems that the local authorities seem to be aware of the menace that Mizzy is to society and have arrested him at least once.

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TikToker Mizzy has been arrested on suspicion of breaching a court order that he was only issued two days ago. The 18 -year -old was issued a criminal behavior order and fined over 300 pounds for this video, where he strolled straight into a random house, causing the family distress.

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However, it seems that Mizzy has not stayed in jail and continues to make videos where he disrupts the lives of everyday people trying to live normal lives.

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The story of Mizzy reminds us just how depraved humans can be apart from the grace of God. But if we are tempted to feel superior to Mizzy, let's be reminded that apart from faith in Jesus Christ, we deserve

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God's wrath just as much as a person like Mizzy. You see, if you truly do love that which is right, that which is perfect, that which is good, there is also an animosity, an enmity against all that contradicts that standard.

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God loves all that is right, all that is true, all that is good, all that is virtuous.

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But scripture after scripture after scripture in the Bible tells us that his hatred is manifest against wickedness.

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