Session 12: Q&A with Darrell Harrison and Virgil Walker, Part 3

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Running With Endurance, Part 4 (Hebrews 12:1-3)

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All right, so this this last bit here is got to be some rapid -fire

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Q &A, okay so I'm gonna direct questions to Whichever guy

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I think is best gonna be more Dealing with this based upon what you guys presented how you split up the conference subject matter

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So if you need to defer you can just say hey, I'll pass to my brother. How are you? Yeah Morgan Freeman says the way to stop racism is to stop talking about racism wrong is this okay there we go that was

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I mean that was rapid -fire Rapid -fire yeah, it was a little less rapid -fire is this even is this even is that right rapid -fire enough for you?

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Yeah, is this even possible? It is a biblical concept to say that and how why is that wrong? It's wrong because there's a moralistic approach to it

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So the second question if it's even possible is a non -starter because in the beginning

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It's a moralistic approach to solving the issue What Morgan Freeman's approach doesn't recognize is to corrupt human nature

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We've been talking about this now for two days, so he doesn't factor in the biblical Anthropology of what's in the human heart so stop talking about it doesn't mean you stop thinking about it, and you stop

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That that the that the desire that that the hateful Desires of the heart aren't there.

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I mean Martin Luther tried the same thing when he went through all sort of methods of asceticism when he was a

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Catholic before the Lord opened his eyes to the truth of the scripture he tried to He you know he used a cat nine tails against himself he tried to You know put himself off into a monastery and hide away from the real world

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But he realized that his he couldn't run from his sinful nature He realized that that was impossible to do so to take a moralistic approach to racism

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Is it's a non -starter because it doesn't deal with the root cause of it in the beginning So they're not talking about it accomplishes absolutely nothing for that So if we were to be more biblical or accurate to say if we stopped inventing racial grievances out of whole cloth and stopped

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Reproblematizing everything for the sake of a narrative that much of the conflict that we deal with in our day -to -day

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America would cease to exist No It wouldn't because here's the thing

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I have to sort of exegete your question a little bit Jim Because again what I talked about earlier today when I tried to walk you through what the

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Bible says in terms of love hate love hate love hate versus isms phobias and the terms that the culture uses a born -again believer as we made clear as I was walking you through some of those passages in first John a

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Born -again believer isn't going to desire to republicanize these issues to begin with So you have to separate your question into two groups

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How do believers handle these issues and then how do unbelievers him so believers gonna handle the issue biblically?

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They're not gonna desire to rob republicanize the issue They're gonna take you to the scriptures number one as Virgil pointed out as we've said often on our podcast that the

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Bible is both a mirror and a window a Believer is gonna hold that mirror up to themselves First of all before they hold that flip it around and turn it to a window to see everybody else

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But a believer is not gonna go that route and I think it's ironic in that the culture will say

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Yeah, we want to solve these issues. We want to resolve these issues. So they see them as issues But that's the problem.

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They see them as issues. They don't see them as sins So until you see these issues as sins, you're gonna you're gonna it's like we caught it from JC You're gonna be content with wrong and imperfect remedies and this is what

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Morgan Freeman doesn't understand He's with all due respect. He's got a crazy voice one of the best narrators

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To ever live but he doesn't understand he's he's he's falling into that trap that JC Raul talked about He's he's applying a insufficient

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Imperfect moralistic remedy to what's a spiritual problem and as Virgil made clear today only the gospel is a solution to that All right, since he went too long

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I'm gonna give this one to you and let you speak up on his behalf All right This is an excerpt from October 2020 article written by John MacArthur quote today

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The evangelical swamp is chock -full of charlatans heretic socialist Marxist and race hustlers. Yes Please yes, there is nothing truly and biblical evangelical about it

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Should we abandon the term evangelical in favor of a more accurate term? You didn't know that was where that was going.

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No Yeah Okay So the the evangelical movement the evangelical swamp is chock -full of charlatans heretic socialist and Marxist and race hustlers

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Is the answer then to abandon the term evangelical or to reveal the charlatans heretic socialist

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Marxist race? No, I I mean one of the things that I love about MacArthur's mystery Which is why

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I was overjoyed was he's willing to say that the first step is to be able to identify

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To say and admit that there are you know sharks and evil people who are lurking about desiring to devour the flock of God That was kind of what

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I shared in the last part of my message We've got to be willing to say that to begin with and and then to examine what evangelicalism is or has become as a result

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I understand looking at evangelicalism seeing what's taken place and wanting to move away from The idea that's exactly what what what praise mill did regarding the

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SPC We saw the swamp that it is and we made a decision We were going to remove ourselves because it wasn't worth spending the time and energy

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We weren't commissioned for the purpose of saving the SPC, right? We're commissioned to go and share the gospel

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So we removed ourselves from that. I don't see anything pragmatically wrong with doing that But I wouldn't

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I wouldn't do one or the other I would do a both and if I were to move away from that term In favor of a different term

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I would although along the way tell you who the sharks were who the What the swamp was made up of and who was actually in it?

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So I'd have I wouldn't have a problem if we're doing both and all right What ripples affinity to CRT black lives matter except or have outside the

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United States Darrell? That's a good question, I think one of the things you need to understand about black lives matters is and you heard this if you

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Listen to our episode first of the two episodes that we did on black lives matter title black lives matter with a question mark their roots seem to be

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Primarily national meaning they're pretty much rooted here in the United States But even as far as that goes the black lives matters at a national level

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They are not and I think this is interesting for us to point out on the episode. They are not a non -profit organization

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They are not officially a 501c3 organization under the IRS and I think it's interesting how they've structured themselves

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And that what they've done is that they've got this this big umbrella of a national organization

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But what they've done is that they've taken an advantage of an IRS loophole that allows them to align themselves with Suborganizations that are 501c3s so that the donations that they take are funneled through these sub organizations not to them

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So you you really find it difficult to track where the money comes from and where the money's going

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I don't know what type of footprint black lives matters has internationally To whatever footprint that may have existed outside the

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United States I think that footprint is now crumbling based on recent news that's come out about how especially

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Patrice Colors Who's the the former leader now? She's resigned from black lives matters.

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They are losing Leaders at the national and local level left and right now that these revelations have come to the fore about how they've actually been spending the tens of millions of dollars that they've been compiling over the years

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But we haven't really I'll say this for you. I don't know about you V I won't speak for you, but I haven't really studied black lives matter outside of the

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United States because the impact That they've been having have been primarily domestically in urban cities around the country

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So my attention has been here as it relates to BLM as opposed to somewhere else Nothing to add to that.

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I'm trying to be rapid -fire. Okay good So we had somebody to ask about why evangelical leaders have adopted

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CRT And been permissive on this Let's drop some bombs for a second.

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Let's name some names. This is a stage where a lot of names get named Because well, we have a cripple guy gets up here doesn't like names people's names all the time

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So, let's name some names drop some bombs don't be reserved tell us who the charlatans the

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Hucksters the race hustlers are Within the evangelical movement, it seems like we have evangelical leaders who wake up on Sunday morning with their

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David French under ruse and They sip their free trade coffee with soy milk in it and they wait for the latest

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David French Column to drop and then to see what Tim Keller says about it and they're just fanboying all the wrong people

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Yes, what's going on in evangelicalism with the gospel coalition with the together for the gospel?

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Who are the people who are leading the woke push in these once reliable evangelical institutions?

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Yeah, I think I think This is for both of you chime in. I'll start out by saying that the seminaries primarily are where we're seeing the biggest push in the problem

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SBC seminary presidents have have all jumped on the woke train I think that the

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Al Mohler is probably one of the one of the last that has at least lately remained silent on the issue

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I think I think he's picked places to say things that make sense to those who are conservative

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He's he's conservative enough so that he's not making big waves about the issue, but he's not taking clear stands naming specific names

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Getting the people who are who are in his seminary who are promoting these ideas out of the seminary by recognizing that they're doing great damage to the body of Christ you mentioned the

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Tim Kellers of the world have been compromised the the The Devers who have been

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I mentioned the Matt Chandler and and his ideas are around these issues all of those men have

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Involved themselves to some degree in a in a push around Social justice believing that it is the right thing for us to embrace that These are the kinds of ideas that that are important.

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I think when you mentioned The gospel coalition I mentioned yesterday that that's a whole rebranding

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They're rebranding themselves in such a way as to appear to be the the nice middle of the road

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She for DG is no more that's over. So all the push is toward the gospel coalition and what they offer but they're again a

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Compromised organization on this issue. I could go back whether whether it was the promotion of men like the BD on Mobile a whether it was the articles that that are written on there on their in their social media pages and they had a

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Massive massive audience all of those things are problematic and people don't understand that they're drinking down poison

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When they engage in and some of the content from those sites and so those are the people I think to be to watch out for TTCG is recognizing that when when soccer moms show up at You know at school board meetings

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To talk about CRT There's a recognition that something's wrong and it didn't take a guy like like Darrell or me who's studied this stuff

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They just know that they don't want their kids listening to it So if an organization is going to embrace it to the thing that Darrell has been saying for quite some time

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You can't walk in and say hey, I'm CRT You've got a we've got a restructure

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So what they've done now is it's been it's been it's been shrouded under the umbrella of of niceness well we've got people on this side who are good people and people on that side who are good people and what we need to do

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Is figure out a way to talk nicely about this and so that's the rebranding of it all is the dissolution together for the gospel

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Due to becoming woke is it a go woke go broke type of a thing? Are they losing followers for that reason? I would argue yes, but if you notice the last

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Their last meeting together They tried to they tried to stand like they you know Like they like they stood where we are standing now like at the end of it

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You know, you had people making statements and making proclamations and claims. They were really ready to to unpack and examine

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You know social justice in the social gospel But it was it was it was it was too little too late after the fact and so that's kind of where things land

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So a lot of these men that you've named I'm older for instance mark Dever. They would like to and they were known up until a couple of years ago as Keynote speakers at Shepherds conference.

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I was there a couple years ago when the whole Q &A broke up broke up These guys were platformed by some of our trusted evangelical leaders for years

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Yes And it seems as if they wanted to be known as standing with you guys on this issue with MacArthur on this issue

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They wanted to be seen as being included in that camp and yet would it be fair to say that? Men, like Albert Muller did not spend the political capital that they had in order to fight back against it

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They wanted to position themselves as yes, I agree with the conservative base on this

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They weren't willing to stand up and go to bat against it at a time when the church needed those men to stand up and To draw those lines and if those lines had been drawn prior to 2019

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You wouldn't have had a resolution in the SBC on on that issue of critical race theory You wouldn't have had people in the

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SBC pushing that Instead you would have had those lines being drawn and people falling out on both sides of that and this

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Healthy division which should come as a result of this would have already happened And it could have had an opportunity to push the wolves out before they got a hold of this the throat of the sheep

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I think this is an example of what I just discussed regarding a shepherd Protecting the sheep what you just stated is exactly what needed to be done

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What needed to be said and and has been said by all the people that that aren't you know?

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That aren't on the other side of that I think that the book fault lines did a fantastic job of laying out who was on which side of the ideological lines

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Regarding these issues all the things that you said are right true and correct had these men rather than being comfortable

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Sharing pulpits and platforms for the purpose of politics and their own and their own platform growth

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They would have stood on the issue saying the hard things when they were hard to say now they're willing to say some of the

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Hard things because it's easy to say it's obvious to everyone where these issues are and what what it where they should stand

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So they're doing so again from a pragmatic position. Hey, it's smart to say the right thing now So I'll step up and say those kinds of things

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I'll take a step further and say this in the days to come what you'll end up seeing Because of the silence from these men some of them that we've named what you'll begin to see over the course of time is groups organizations

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Platforms being being rebranded to bring them back into the fold You're gonna see the the our motors be brought back dusted off and pushed out as hey these these guys

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We need to bring these men in and they were with us all the time Yeah, they've been with us all the time. They had to they had to navigate their own cultural environment in specific ways they had to navigate their issues in a contextual way and now it's time for us to to bring them back in and Understand that they've been with us all along when my my stance on that on that position would simply be they made they made public

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Proclamations about these issues and they need to make they need to be publicly repenting with regard to those issues as well

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Yeah, we're gonna be gaslit into thinking that these men were taking new ones Absolutely in the moment and really they were with us even though we didn't it didn't seem like or look like they were with us

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We get some criticism sometimes that we are We admire John MacArthur way too much in our church.

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People say oh you guys are just too hungry the second grace to you Employee that we've had here in a row one of the things that I've admired about John MacArthur and this is not just a fanboy out about John MacArthur is that When we have needed him to an evangelicalism has needed him to he has taken the public stand the right stand at the right time and has been unbending on it in the moment at the at the

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Vanguard at the front of When that is needed and at times as just as Justin has pointed out in recent interview that he did with John These stands that he has taken has cost him friendships of some of these men that you have named

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Absolutely, and yet John has stood unwavering on those issues and he has done So sometimes to the detriment of his own reputation in the larger evangelical community

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Absolutely, and yet he's been right every time that's on every fight that we've needed him to fight He's been there been the man fighting it in the moment.

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Absolutely and sometimes looking behind him and People say I'm behind you all the way and you look in the way behind you not even not even close

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All right define race. You said race is a myth right ethnicity is real, but I've always thought the two are synonyms

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No, how are they different? They're different as you heard me explain this morning and yesterday as well They're different in that race is a social construct.

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It's a mobile. It's a moving target It's a moving goalpost race is nothing really when you look at it race is nothing because it anything any term that can mean anything

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It means nothing If a term can mean anything it doesn't mean anything So when we speak of ethnicity you're when you say ethnicity you're talking about skin color.

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No, no No, it's just the opposite when the when the culture uses the word race. They're talking about skin color primarily

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Think about this think about this for a second Um when you want to go to you see a ancestry .com

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or 23andme commercial on television So yeah, I'm gonna go get a I want to get a get a trace on my ancestry and find out what's going on They don't ask you to send in a snippet of your skin

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Do they they don't do that do they no You have to either give a sample of your blood or a sample of your saliva

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That which lines up with what we know from Leviticus Where it says the life is in the blood

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Don't you don't go take a graft of your skin and send it in to ancestry .com They put under a microscope and say hmm.

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Yeah, your ethnicity is well It's zero because your ethnicity has nothing to do with your skin color

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That's how great that's how the culture defines race though primarily in terms of the color of your skin now

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That's where it starts, but as you heard me talk this afternoon and also yesterday Race and the culture can mean anything now anything

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Okay, whereas according to Acts 17 26 and then Genesis 11 as well

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Biblically your ethnicity is who you are in your blood in your blood. That's who you are matter of fact

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We just found out I'm gonna embarrass Melissa. I'm gonna put on a spot right here We just found out what was it last week just last week?

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Melissa got her results back from ancestry .com DNA Genealogy assessment and you know what she is 81 %

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African This is a stereotypical view of race and says wait a minute her skin is not dark enough to be a 81 %

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African Are you kidding? Yeah, 81 % Nigeria Let's see if you look at the culture's

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Construct of race you say absolutely not sure your skin is too light. You can't be your ancestors can't be from Nigeria.

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Well, it's 81 % So again This is why you have to reject that term that vernacular in the context of which the culture uses it because it doesn't mean anything

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Not only is it wrong as you heard me quote from dr. Gloria Gloria Lance Billings this this afternoon even she acknowledged

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That race has no scientific basis. So it's nothing Ethnicity is what we are.

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We are one human race. And by the way, the word race in Scripture is translated to mean a type Genus is the

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Latin word a genus a type. We are one type of Creation that God has created in his image.

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So when you see the word race in Scripture, that's the context of that It has nothing to do with how the culture uses that word today

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As CRT via force from the government continue to put pressure on the traditional Christian family Do you think that abortion agencies will now not only have to fight on faith issues?

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But also restrict child placement based on skin color regardless of the needs or merits or the fit for the children

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That's I mean, there's a lot there. Help me. That's a yes or no question. Oh It was a yes or no question,

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I was going yeah. Yeah. That's yes V. Okay There was a lot there and I was trying to parse it out as you went and I'm going what in yes, bro, okay

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So you think that that's that's gonna continue to be a thing CRT is gonna work its way into adoption agency.

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Oh, yes It will everywhere. Absolutely. There's no doubt about that. And you think that adoption agencies are gonna want of course diversity

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They're gonna want black children being raised by white homes white children being raised by black homes. No Not that kind of diversity not that kind of diversity.

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No, can you clarify? How SEL in schools is bringing

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CRT Marxism into the schools and discuss how a Christian teacher can address these issues with students

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Yes So SEL as it relates to Marxism again number one just a reminder that if you see

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SEL either abbreviated or social Emotional learning spelled out you need to have your own antenna up You need to have your antenna up because what it's doing is number one

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The term social emotional learning has nothing to do with social emotions or learning

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Has nothing to do with that what it is is a covert effort to indoctrinate your children's to hate

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America to hate as I said yesterday to hate you as their parents and to embrace

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Anti -authoritarianism Starting with rejecting your parental authority rejecting your Christian built

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Biblical worldview that you're trying to bring your children up in rejecting the Western Judeo Christian value

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Rejecting as I said earlier today all kind of even rudimentary tenants such as universal principles of math

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Universal principles of how to speak proper grammar. It's all of this thing. It's all of sort of a

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Marxian Dialectic to get your children indoctrinated into a hate filled worldview where everything that exists around them today

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They hate it They hate it has nothing to do with social emotional or learning it has nothing to do with any of that So as far as a

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Christian who is a teacher was a Christian teacher a Christian teacher Christian teacher in public schools

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You you how do you address it with children the children? Yeah, how do you address it with the children in the school?

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Yeah Yeah, that's that's tough that's tough because the thing with SEL is that you're so restricted

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And what you can say to the children? You can only follow whatever the lesson plan is that that the public school system has developed for you to teach so What out my counsel would be this because even in a broader sense

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Christians in any work environment right now you're gonna face decisions that you're gonna have to make that are very tough

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Because the goal is to ultimately Remove any

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Christian influence from any of these institutions. That's ultimately the goal But how a

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Christian teacher might respond to that? Is number one stand strong on your

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Christian beliefs? Do not waver further talked about this earlier about how you're gonna suffer you're gonna suffer, but how you address it with children

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That's a very fine line. You have to walk because in the classroom They're your students. You do not want to usurp the parental authority of the parents of those children.

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Who are your students? So what I would do I would try to network with the parents of those children outside the classroom

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Meet them at a restaurant for breakfast lunch or dinner get a network going on get them all together on a zoom call

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Or something like that so that you can educate those parents on what you're being required to teach their students

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So as to keep them abreast of what that content is Obviously I would

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Attend church regularly and dialogue with those parents. There's a lot you can do outside the classroom to to fight against that indoctrination

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But I would say as it relates to your Christian witness. You don't want to be an obnoxious sort of Purposely defiant person and making trouble on the on the on the school property

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But I think there's many things you can do outside of that classroom But that's all that's not to say

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That the Lord may convict you I say may I don't know that this is gonna be the case for you But the

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Lord may convict you that What you're being required to do is so in violation of your biblical principles that you may end up having to leave

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You may end up having to leave that Occupation and many teachers are having to do that today.

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My answer was gonna be much shorter. I was just gonna say get out That's what people have been saying about the

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SPC for a long time Bro this dude right here, man

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Virgil this one's for you. Okay, you change up your message or approach when you speak to a mostly black community No, you'd say the same thing in the same way that you did just today

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We're probably we're probably even more amped up if we're in front of a black audience I Would say the same words there may be a little more passionate about it than and otherwise, but yeah

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I wouldn't change anything that I've said in fact Darrell and I would would love more opportunities

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To be in front of predominantly black audiences if they would have us I'm not partial.

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They won't have us. They won't have us. That's the problem And I'm not I told you last night Neither of us are trying to build platforms for ourselves that we're asking to be on, you know on someone's platform

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We're available to whoever asks us to come but yeah, I mean I would I would probably

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I would probably Be probably more passionate about it because I because because I recognize that that there's so many who who don't get the kinds of things

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That we are sharing most of them many of them are in environments where they're there.

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They're They're exposed primarily to some form of black liberation theology whether they recognize it's called that or not most churches

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Predominantly black churches not and again don't hear me say that there are no good black churches I'm simply saying that the dominance of churches are either teaching some form of a prosperity gospel

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That's attached to it. It's some form of a social justice I'll give you a quick example and and and and and get back to the rapid -fire when when justice

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Katonji Brown Jackson was always was being Examined right when she was going through her process of examination and I was being asked by the

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Senate the different questions The question that she was asked was had everything to do with what a woman was or or or honest questions about about her judicial philosophy black churches on Sunday We're actually preaching about Katonji Brown Jackson and telling their congregants that what she was facing was simply white systemic oppression and racism

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That was their Sunday morning service Over and over and over again We saw video after video after video of of this is the diet the spiritual diet

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That is being fed to predominantly black churches in many instances Not all not all not all but in many and V if those of you who follow me on Twitter were following me and during the course of those examinations of Katonji Brown Jackson I told you two weeks in advance what was gonna have sure did

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I Said once she once she gets once she's done with her confirmation watch these black church pulpits sermonize those those hearings and make it all about her and and how her hearings are

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Symbolic of the struggle that black Americans have had in this country for 300 years Yeah we were at an airport on a on a trip back when we heard the news that She was nominated and but and I was sitting with Darrell as we had this very conversation

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About how all of the charges if you asked her a question it was going to be identified as racist

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All right, if the CRT movement proceeded unhindered, how would it ultimately end not spiritually which was in in hell

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But in the physical world, what does this physical world look like? What's the end result? What's the goal of CRT?

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Yeah, there's no end result The end result for CRT is to not end it The end result of CRT people ask us this question all the time what's the payout for CRT?

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Well, there's no payout It's to constantly get paid payout is to reproblematize the next problem.

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It's to is to find the next victim class on the next Identify the next problem for this to constantly go right on and on and on It's a perpetual cycle to nothingness to utopia a nowhere place.

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That is the whole point and purpose of it So it's designed for that purposes to deconstruct the

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Judeo -christian worldview that built the United States of America for the purpose of their own financial benefit

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And which they there won't be enough of it'll it'll be a constant monster This was I mean this was happening with the with the first civil rights leaders after after King right

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Jesse Jackson and Sharpton and the like did that stop? No, it morphed into what we're seeing now

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Which is worse than they were like the folks who are doing what they're doing now The others had nothing to do

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I mean, there's no comparison the hundreds of millions of dollars have poured into the to the coffers of Black Lives Matter it that that What what

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Jackson and others had were pennies? Compared to what's taking place now and you'll recall that when in my last message.

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I quoted from dr Elizabeth last Quinn from her book race experts where she made the point that coming out of the civil rights era in the 60s into The 60s going to the 70s one of the reasons that we got here is because you had woke critical race

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Marxist legal scholars who filled a void that was left after this after the 70s passed with the critical legal studies movement

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So what's going to happen is once this current generation of critical race theorists is gone.

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There's gonna be another wave We'll look in to fill that void so it's going to be sickle Well, it's not going to end if it ever gets into a foothold into American culture

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They're gonna do whatever it takes to retain that foothold so whatever is required right now to get rid of white people because that's the goal is to get rid of white people get rid of Their influence in such a game in every way

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Whatever way shape or form they can that's the goal and the goal is to keep it like that So there is no end to critical race theory

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So in CRT theology if you want to call it that there really is no room for actual forgiveness no room for actual atonement

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No, it's a perpetual grievance state And it's a perpetual pursuing this thing. That is a it's a it's a mist.

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It's a cloud. It's all right grass That's why I said, it's a stealth ideology. It's like what I quoted from Booker T. Washington yesterday in his book my larger education

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He says a group of race hustlers. This is exactly what these are race problem -solvers is what he called them They're race problem -solvers that re problem re problem with that So when they get what they want from one?

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Reproblematized issue they find another one to bring into the contemporary culture to get what they want from that Then they find another one to bring that in and this is what you're happening

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You're seeing happening right now with DEI where most of those positions are going to black females. You're seeing it happen with Ethnic studies where in a public school system one public school system after another you're seeing

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Black teachers and administrators being able to teach that America's racist that white people are racist that even your parents are racist

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Your parents don't want the best for you. Your parents are liars So they're getting everything they want and after they get one thing they reprioritize something else to get something else

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Yeah with with regard to CRT. The original sin is whiteness There's no there's no repentance.

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There's penance that you can pay the the works -based righteousness that that that that people are to engage in the

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Anti -racism that people are to engage in it's never for the for the purpose of making that that person

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Righteous or seeing them come into the fold they only have to continue to to pay that penalty in an effort to maintain their their their status as an

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Anti -racist not as a as a person who's now in the fold of those who are woke but no, but but but the person who needs to continue anti -racist works in an effort to maintain some form of Really servitude.

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That's the intent. It's never to bring one in So while they talk about racial reconciliation, really there's there's they're not aiming for racial reconciliation

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Racial reconciliation can never actually happen No That's to use to make that that those words are used to pull the strings of white guilt

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For the purpose of fueling the next thing that they want to push forward and pulling those strings has worked So effectively matter of fact is for pulling up those emotional strings that made black lives matter power as powerful as they are

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You know who you can blame for black lives matters be having an influence that they have you can bring white white liberals

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Because it's white liberals who caved It's white liberal liberals individually and corporate corporate executives who caved to the pressure of the emotional narratology of black lives matters

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They caved and then they started donating one after another just lining up like they're at a fast -food drive -thru Donating ten millions of dollars eight million dollars twenty million dollars.

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I could name some companies B of a McDonald's Amazon you could go on and on I think by the time we dropped our to black black lives matters episode

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I think we had totaled up close to 200 million dollars that BLM had been committed just from corporate donors

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Not just individual donors But if you want to blame BLM you want to blame one group for enriching

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BLM and making them so influential in society today It's for white liberals those white liberals that did it reconciliation can never actually happen because They can never admit that the races are finally reconciled.

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Here's a problem. No Jim. That's a presuppositional Presuppositional statement That's a pretty listen verge here.

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We are two black guys in a room with what couple hundred white people Am I am

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I at a place of discordant relationship with any of you? Totally debunks the idea of racial reconciliation right there

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So it's presuppositional. It's pretty so it's put to you as if it's a fact. It's a figure out.

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It's a collective reality So you guys are white and I'm black and by virtue of you being white and I'm black then there must be some kind of record reconciliation that needs to happen

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I Have a stolen single white person's wallet in this room. I haven't I haven't

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I haven't cursed anyone. I haven't cursed anyone I haven't offered any sort of ethnic epithet towards anyone. There's nothing to be reconciled between me and you

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So you have if there's no if there's no disruption of conciliation what need is there for reconciliation?

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So you so you need to reject that presupposition because it's presuppositional and what

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I want to encourage you to do There's something I alluded to yesterday. Don't be afraid to reject that mess

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Don't be afraid to reject that mess. Don't be afraid to respond to questions with other questions Put the onus put the heat back on them this whole idea of record racial reconciliation.

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It's just it's just dumb. It's stupid It's nothing. It's condescending.

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I mean, it's real I mean, there's a whole lot more I can say about it. Okay, can I say one more thing? Yeah, see as you deconstruct this idea of racial reconciliation

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Further what the narrative is is that record racial reconciliation the very concept of it Only has relevance as it relates to two people who are two of two different ethnicities

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But when you look at the idea organically racial reconciliation also should apply to two people who are the same ethnicity

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If you're really talking racial reconciliation in a pure form It also applies to me and Virgil Why should racial reconciliation only apply when it when you're talking about people of different ethnicities

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So again, you have to think these things through and the more you think about them the more you realize man That's pretty stupid.

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That's pretty dumb So but but it's really easy to deconstruct when you really take the time to think logically through it

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So racial reconciliation doesn't apply to two people of the same ethnicity what it should So you should ask the question, well, why doesn't it apply to you two?

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And then you get them in the in the again the presuppositional assumptions again. Well, you you two are both black What problem do you have with one another?

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You see how stupid that is. So they rule us out because we're the same ethnicity They impart to each of our hearts that we don't have issues with one another now we don't

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But that's the that's the kind of assumptions that they make subjectively Because this doesn't fit the narrative, but this does

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It doesn't fit this fits the agenda. This doesn't right? Another question is kind of related to that.

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What is the Marxist CRT LGBTQ? Eschatological and state look like according to their views and what who's in charge?

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What does that utopia? Eschatological vision look like and I think we kind of talked about that that there is no we did it.

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It's nebulous It's it's it's for the arbitrary convenience of the person positing the idea Whoever wakes up and thinks that they've got an advantage in a certain circumstances situation.

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I'm There's there's no cabal where where where they're meeting to figure out whose form of utopia is going to be advanced

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That's not what's happening. What's happening is I'm black I'm in a situation at work that I can see an advantage where if I cry racism or I cry, you know

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The systemic oppression I can have something advantage to me and so I leverage it in that situation

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That's more of what's taking place than anything else So so it's not this it's not it's not as organized as you might think it is in some ways in other ways

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It's very organized. There's a very real effort at a foot to To circumvent society and culture in major ways

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But for us to pay attention to that big -picture stuff, it's a waste of your time I mean it may serve your own emotional, you know thought process

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I wonder what this I I think I could strategize I figure out what they're gonna do you can do that But it's a waste of your time what

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I would encourage you to spend time doing It's spent time in the Word of God spent time on on identifying how you can proclaim the truth of the gospel

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I'll give you this one example. I I'll say this for those who love evangelism.

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I would spend more of my time waking up Trying to figure out how over the course of a 24 -hour period

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I could effectively share the gospel with at least one person Your time will be better spent there

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Than trying to figure out what the cabal of the utopia of the eschatological Marcy and So my challenge you would be this week right as we as we turn the page the

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Lord's Day tomorrow Think about who you're going to encounter that week and and how many ways in which you could figure out a way to insert into the conversation a natural proclamation of the gospel

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That's what I would spend my time doing. Have you guys seen the latest iteration of the gay pride flag? You know how many stripes there are in that thing now like 65 stripes in that in that in that flag now

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I'm serious. If you if you if you've been on social media, I forget who tweeted it, you know So June 1st is pride month.

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Well, matter of fact version I have both we have sort of taken over pride month ourselves So for the entire month of June what we're doing and I encourage you to do this as well

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If you're on social media tweet Bible verses that have to deal with pride. That's all I've been

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A tweet out Bible verses that have to deal with pride and use the hashtag pride month 2022 because they'll see it because they'll see it.

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They'll see it. They'll see it I've been doing that every day since been doing that every day started at June 1st Boom, so I'm I'm tweeting out

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Bible verses that have to do with real sinful pride Which ironically is pointing to them because your pride is incredibly sinful here that you you shove your fist at God and then boasting your

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Sinfulness, but but yeah the gay pride flag now It's not just a gay pride for a flag anymore It's got like 60 stripes in that thing and it just represents everything now so but and what's gonna happen is it's gonna end up being a cannibalistic ideology because there's no way that all the

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All the platforms all the agendas that are represented in that gay pride flag will ever come to fruition.

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You can't You can't satisfy everybody they're gonna find that out and then you end up cannibalizing one another and then it's just gonna poof and Disappear, but then another movement is gonna spring up It's gonna spring up in his place

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Recently Congress passed and Joe Biden signed anti -lynching legislation. Do you guys feel safer? Every time

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I see that silliness or the reinvention of of the conversation or some committee

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Congressional committee that's going to look at reparations. I just shake my head It's just a it's just a another false flag for to stir up Emotional black folks so that they can get to the voting booth.

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That's the whole reason it's done Yeah, every every four years before it's a two -year cycle for you know for the midterms

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But they'll find some issue some situation to stand on the latest was the the shooter

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The Boston shooter right where it was a Boston was Buffalo the Buffalo shooter, right?

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He's white. He goes into place Well, what do they do? They fly there for the purpose of shining a light on the situation as they see this white supremacy is awful

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Now the tragedy is real the horrific events that took the lives of the people In the in the store that that happened was real that we should mourn that loss based upon the fact of their image bearers of God but to believe that that there's this white supremacist thing that I'm worried about that causes me not to be able to go out

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To work or to the store. That's not real And and I would I would argue to say that the vast majority of black people if there's at they're halfway

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Sane are gonna tell you that they don't fear those things They're not afraid of those things but Politicians leverage those things to stir up those who are in their emotions because they recognize if they don't have the black vote

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They can't win so they must stir it up and the way that they do that Unfortunately is time and time again.

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They look for some anti -lynching law. That means absolutely nothing to Not to anyone anywhere really and and cause senators to have to vote for because you don't want to be the guy the white guy in particular

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That says oh, I didn't vote in favor of the anti -lynching law Not that it's affected anybody, but but but but you don't want to be that guy

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So you vote in favor of it everybody votes in favor of it And so they could say see I'm for black people. I voted for the end like get out of here with that nonsense

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Here's an additional hypocrisy to what I was talking about The hypocrisy of President Biden signing an anti -lynching law is that it was

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Democrats who were lynching black people. That's exactly right So, why don't you guys sign this law back in 1961?

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62 63 64 Listen every not a political. I'm not I'm not elevating the Republican Party in some sort of virtuous entity either

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What I'm saying is I'm just presenting to you historical objective facts the the the every single hurdle

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That black Americans have had to overcome in this country has been because of white supremacist

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Democrats Slavery Democrats wanted to keep slavery legal after slavery was outlawed they

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Invented what's called the peonage system in the south. It was Democrats that were behind Jim Crow It was

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Democrats that were behind the black codes It was Democrats behind not supporting the civil rights law

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Democrats did not support the Voting Rights Act Democrats did not want To support

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Brown versus Board of Education. I can go back even further the Dred Scott case in the 1850s

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Where you had Supreme Court Justice Roger B Taney who told who in his ruling in his decision said that Black people were not equal to white people that there was no government that a black person that a white person or black person rather would would

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Would submit in obedience to a black person and recognizing the personhood of that black to black person

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That was a Democrat justice of the Supreme Court I could go on and on so the irony here is that you have

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Joe Biden boasting that he signed an anti -lynching law when It's irrelevant today, but even when it mattered when it mattered

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Democrats were lynching black people left and right in the south You see but see this goes back to your question about The point version

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I were making earlier about how we don't get invited into black churches Because they don't want to hear stuff like this now, they don't want to hear facts like this

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And an additional irony is this You have today in 2022 more than 90 % of black voters vote for the

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Democrat parties It's stunning and what's what's what's sad about this

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Virgil just said it correctly without the black vote Democrats cannot win But Democrats know that they have at least nine listen to this.

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This is a stunning number nine out of every ten black voters

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Predictably is gonna vote for Democrats the Democrats know that they've got nine out of every ten black voters in their back pocket already

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And yet it's Virgil is people like Virgil and me who make up the 1 % who aren't locked into that sort of Tribalist political mindset that we get ridiculed.

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So what they want what black liberals want They don't want the Democrats to just have 90 % of black voters.

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They want one party to have 100 % And that they call that power They call that influence

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The Democrat Party has made beggars out of black people Yes, they've made political beggars out of them and they've been doing it now for almost 70 years

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When you study American history coming out of the Civil War coming out of Reconstruction there was a reason that the vast majority of black people voted

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Republicans Yes, because they were the ones who were they were the ones who freed them Democrats didn't want to free black people if it were up the

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Democrats black people still be slaves right now And the reason I get so animated about this is because I'm sick of people believing the lies

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It's Totally irrelevant. Nobody's being lynched in America today. What in the world? What serve? What purpose is that law serve?

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Nobody's being lynched today Well, the last black person who was lynched was lynched by Democrats He's done so add to that Lynching would resulting in someone's death as a charge of murder

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So what's the need for right? What's the need for it's redundant. It's redundant. It's like a hate crime. It's like hate crime

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As we just read in this book if you're stealing from me, you hate me Why do

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I have to add hate crime? It's the crime is the hatred. Hey, I'm gonna add extra five years because it was done in Hate, okay

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I'm at extra five years to your sentence because you hated him as you murdered him All right, you you lamented one of your sessions

47:38

Darrell that emojis have become a language in themselves that this is bad Does that apply to clowns?

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See I have to use clowns because there's a character limit on Twitter You only have 240 characters to say what you have to say.

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So sometimes I have to use clowns so You said

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I think it was you as well said Obama's the most racist person that you think is ever is alive today that you know of Talk to me about Colin Kaepernick Well Kaepernick runs a close second.

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I mean if you want to put it put it like that It's amazing how when you follow when you follow when you follow

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I follow I follow a lot of college football So I remember when Kaepernick was playing at Kansas State Totally totally different persona and presentation of himself while he was at Kansas State even as he got drafted into the

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NFL By the 49ers, you know, he paid he put himself I'm sorry.

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Was that was I was I wrong about that? Okay Okay So he gets drafted right but then he doesn't make it in the

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NFL because he had put himself matter of fact, he's kind of like this, uh, it's kind of like the parable of the

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Labors in the vineyard in Luke chapter 20 Kaepernick thought that he deserved a place in the

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NFL But now that he's out of the league all of a sudden he's taking that personal He's got up in his feelings and his emotions emotions.

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First thing he does. What does he do? He grows an afro That's the first sign of a problem first on a problem right there

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You see a black person with an afro cross the street or do whatever you can Just just he's got an afro.

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He grows the afro then he changes his personal logo to this To this which is a communist symbol, by the way, this is not black power.

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This is communism So so so yeah, you've got people like him But the irony is is that Kaepernick right now is trying to get back into the slave plantation

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He's trying to get back on the plantation. He's got a say on the NFL, but he's called the NFL the slave He's trying to get back on he's trying to get back on him

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He's having tryouts with teams now and everything trying to get back on the plantation now I don't know any slave who wants off the plantation ever want it back on but Kaepernick his visage of slavery is so capitalistic right

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That he's chasing the money absolutely now that he would be the first slave that I've ever known to exist who got paid

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To be on the plantation tens of millions of dollars by the way to work to be on them to come back

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I'm a slavery. I'd love to be involved You want to pay me tens of millions of dollars we can talk about we can talk

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So ridiculous, but it's just it's just an example of how in the case of Obama Kaepernick How your environment can shape your worldview?

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Yes Here you have a guy like Obama who grew up poor

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But was mentored by a guy like Saul Alinsky who shaped his entire worldview of things and he's never let go of this in his

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DNA now Kaepernick the people has that are around him Have influenced his worldview so that he has now a totally different perspective on America on white people than he had when he was playing in front of crowds at Kansas State and then and at the

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NFL with the 49ers Just relevant. Yeah. Yeah, my bad Add to that the family that raised him was a white family right who adopted him loved him cared for him

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I brought him up, right right right So it's it's you know

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Booker T Washington talked about how you need to be careful who you associate with I mean Proverbs talks about that as well

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But here are two examples of people who have grown up and done incredibly well I tell you it's amazing how much they hate

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America, but how much they've benefited from it You can you cannot go to any put put Barack Obama over in Zimbabwe And see how materially well -off he would be put him back over there put put

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Kaepernick over in Africa while you're With the Afro with the Afro take your Afro over to Africa take your

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Afro over to Nigeria or Kenya And we'll see how well you do All right,

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I think this is our last question The institutions and I'm not just talking about the SBC Seem to be you breathe a sigh relief there

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The institutions in our country seem to be entirely given over so you have addressed

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The I mean we've got we've got We've got police departments who are doing sensitivity training and racial sensitivity training and Adopting pronouns and every corporation every major corporation in America every institution that we used to trust the firefighters the police officers the sheriff's departments

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We used to defend corporations. I remember going to bat and defending Bill Gates at Microsoft and and Steve Jobs and Apple and all of these years ago gone the

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CIA the FBI government state local Everybody seems to have adopted this you've made the comment that you see how widespread all of this is

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Yes, it has infiltrated it into everything. It truly is the spirit of the age Everything and I do mean everything is given over to it and they have adopted it

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There seems to be no no end in sight. There seems to be no turning away from this

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Can you change it, how does this end? Well, I I mean, can you stop it is

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I don't know that I don't know that Stopping it is necessary. And and here's here's what here's what I would say

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If you think all of those organizations all of a sudden woke up and and now Felt like they hated black people and today now they love black people

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You're fooling yourself Right a lot of them have they they recognize what's happening in culture and they're jumping on a bandwagon

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So they're they're checking the box why because they're fearful of the of what would come if they didn't

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There's not a there's not some deeper First of all, there's not a problem with black people that they need to address so that they need to have these

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Organizations and other programs within the within the corporations. It's not necessary There's not more care or more concern or more compassion now than there was

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On on May 19th the day before George Floyd was killed, right? There's there's nothing different what they've seen is if they're to continue to make the majority of people happy in their mind

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They check this box now There are some companies that are recognizing that that that the pendulum is swinging backwards for example

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Netflix realized just recently that that that catering to the woke skulls of their of their other company in the corporation

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It's not gonna be beneficial to them So they've stood up to the woke stirs and the pendulum is swinging back other companies and corporations are gonna are gonna come online

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But this is just an ebb and flow of what they believe is beneficial for them in a financial for their financial long -term

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Secondarily you mentioned police officers and and an organization organizations that we that we know love and and have a tendency to trust

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I was in the military at the time at which toward the end of late 99 2000 when when when there was sensitivity type training that was happening

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There was diversity type training that was happening and I knew it was garbage and everybody who sat through it knew it was garbage

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They just sat there checked the box and went back to doing what they were doing to begin with So they weren't necessarily buying what was being sold

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But they knew they had to check the box in order to get by and many of them did things that way

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Will there be people who will be influenced by? The the the the philosophy of the age.

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Absolutely. We're seeing that at record numbers and record pace In fact in the area of this this gender revolution, we're seeing that in big ways

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We're seeing young women children who are making decisions early on to involve themselves in Surgeries that are going to have an impact on their their anatomy their physical well -being for the rest of their lives

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That's that's really that kind of stuff is is really scary And those are issues that I think we need to confront in bigger and more vocal ways

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But I would simply say that that I see what the companies are doing. I see what the corporations are doing It doesn't frighten me in the least

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They're riding this ideological wave They see it has a financial advantage for them and they're taking advantage of that for the season when the pendulum swings back

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They'll be the ones when it's when it's when it's a welcoming environment for them to to stand up to to wokeness

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They'll they'll do the exact same thing. And so I think we'll see an ebb and flow I don't think things are over in that regard.

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But for the Christian again, I think it's imperative that we're we know what's happening We're wise about it and we stand strong with with the

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Word of God in our faith Yeah, I like what Virgil said there at the end Remember Jesus said that he's sending us out into the world to be as wise as serpents, but as harmless as does

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Okay, so I think it is be a holding upon us to be as Informed and as educated on these issues as we possibly can be

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But just understand that we what we've been reiterating the past couple days Christ came to save sinners.

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He didn't come to save society So do not expect this world to change because it's not gonna change

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I think we need to remember What Jesus Jesus himself said he said don't think that I came to bring peace.

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I Didn't come to bring peace He said I'm so glad Jesus said this and I wanted the disciples because it would be easy in this age of You know milquetoast evangelicalism to just dismiss those disciples, but Jesus said this himself

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He said I came to pit a mother against her daughter a father against his son and he was very explicit

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In mentioning those relationships. So my point here is that the truth divides people

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The truth divides the idea of unity with the church and the world is a myth

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It's a myth we talked about this in our episode on the church and cult we talked about The reason

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Christ left us in the world was so that we would be not of the world It's totally antithetical to what he prayed in John 17 for the church to try to make friends with the world

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The scriptures clear to be a friend with the world is to be God's enemy and I don't think you want to be God's enemy I don't think we want that So the question is can it be stopped?

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Can it be changed? I would I would I would say this to that question No, but our desire should not to be to stop it or change it our our goal

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Our objective should be to be faithful to Christ as we serve him where he has us

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Absolutely, you be faithful to Christ in your home be faithful to Christ in your job

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Be faithful to Christ as you raise your children be faithful to Christ as you serve your wife husband be faithful to Christ as you respect your

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Husband wife be faithful where God has you using your gifts to serve him where he has you and then trust this world as Virgil pointed out that God is sovereign over Trust the rest of the world to him you serve him where you are

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Okay, you serve him where you are and let God handle everything else, which he has done since the dawn of time

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So that that would be my comment on that That's it do you have anything else you want to say to wrap up to these folks that are here

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I don't wanna be Pastor oh man, don't do that Just thank you.

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I had a great time with all of you I think we're gonna be out with books or whatever out in the four -year

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We're just grateful for the time that we've had to spend with each and every one of you. It's been a joy to be here

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We're grateful for the opportunity. I hope it's not the last time that you have us out this way.

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We'd love to come back I just encourage you in the gospel Encourage you in the in the peace and the grace that is

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Christ To continue to serve him continue to honor him continue to love him and proclaim his truth

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There's a verse Bible verse first of all, I echo everything that Virgil said. I mean listen, I say this with all sincerity

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Kootenai has just absolutely spoiled us You guys have spoiled us here over this weekend and you can tell when a congregation generally loves one another you can tell you guys love one another and what

01:00:13

Virgil and I and Melissa have experienced is that that the Love that you have for one another first of all that that love has been extended to us.

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Absolutely So we're already talking about when we can come back here This place is

01:00:30

You You all you all have a very special church here At Kootenai Community Church, and I don't expect you guys to say stay this size for long at all

01:00:40

Word of mouth is gonna get out about who you guys are and people are gonna start coming here from all over the place

01:00:46

I would just encourage you to continue to love one another Continue to love one another and continue to love your pastor and support him pray for him

01:00:55

He is unique Jim Osmond is unique he is unique and a courageous bold pastor when those adjectives are being

01:01:06

Increasingly Said of fewer and fewer men in the pulpit today now having said that I would leave you with this

01:01:14

There's a Bible verse that Melissa and I use frequently in our biblical counseling is Luke chapter 4 verse 13

01:01:20

This is where Jesus has come out of the wilderness after having been tempted by the devil Jesus obviously has withstood those temptations and in Luke 4 13

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It says that after the devil had finished those temptations that he left Jesus alone until an opportune time

01:01:40

Until an opportune time So I want to just encourage you to highlight that verse and in your own individual walk with the

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Lord Just remember that Satan is always looking for an opportune time He's always looking for opportune time

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Do not let your guard down in your marriage. Do not let your guard down in your parenting. Do not let your guard down in servicing

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One another here at the church. Do not let your guard down in your prayer life Do not let your guard down and representing

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Christ on your job. However, the Lord has you serving him? Remember that the devil is real and that he is always looking for an opportune time to trip you up So I want to encourage you with that in your own

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Sanctification and walk with the Lord. All right, just a couple of announcements as we wrap up First of all tomorrow

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Darrell is teaching an adult Sunday school class which starts at 930 Virgil is going to be taking the message in the worship service at 1045

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Can I mention what I'm going to be teaching? Yeah, go ahead, please So the title of my message is the danger of discontentment the danger of discontentment

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So if you're unhappy right now, you need to be in Sunday school And you are preaching on Ephesians Texas Ephesians chapter 2 verses 11 through 22.

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It's a dusting over Dusting over of that text and we're gonna we're gonna talk about true biblical reconciliation

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Good. All right. Now if you are here from another church in our area We those are going to be live streamed and recorded so you can pick those up later

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We would never encourage somebody to leave their church and and come here for that because we like to have other churches that are involved

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In the conference. It's not necessarily going to be on the subject that we our conferences on so though yours is kind of Related to it.

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You're not gonna miss anything if you stay with your home church, so I'm gonna encourage you that way But if you have traveled here and you're staying here for the weekend

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And of course, we welcome you to join us tomorrow morning for our worship service Darrell and as soon as as soon as I close in prayer

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Darrell and Virgil are gonna go out in the foyer and Stand out there by the table to sign books to take pictures anything else that you want to do with them

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Well, we clean up in here and I would just ask Kootenai folk if you don't mind helping us stack the chairs.

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There are two types of chairs There's the light gray chairs with the dark frames and the dark gray chairs with the light frames if you are shade blind

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You got black and white chairs here. Jim. What's that? You got black and white chairs? Is that what? Is that what

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I just heard yeah, we're very in the interest of diversity inclusion So we want to keep those separate because they go in separate parts of the sanctuary

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So please just stack them and leave them apart of the sanctuary Jim you're going downhill

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We must keep the chairs segregated So we're gonna do that we're gonna wrap up the tables and just leave the chair stack where they're at we're not going to set them up tonight, we'll get some folks to do that tomorrow morning and Lastly there is some food on the table at the back leftover food if you want to take some of that some bags of cheese and there's some meat and lettuce and some things like that that Leftover and a little donation can if you want to give to the cost of that you can back there as well

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Let's give a thank you to these two men All right, let's let's close in prayer our father

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We are very grateful for the time we've had this weekend for all that We have learned the ways that our souls and our spirits and our minds have been refreshed and educated equipped and encouraged together we're thankful for the love that we share in Christ for the

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Reconciliation that Christ has done on the cross and bringing us to you and us to each other Thank you for these blessings the richness of the gospel and we pray that you would strengthen us and encourage us to stand

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In every place that you have placed us and to be faithful in all that we do For the sake and for the glory of Christ our