If you remember the Corbin Law, you know, the Pharisees would teach that instead of taking care of your mom and dad, you give that money to God, and it seems so holy, but God says that it, or Jesus says, Jesus is God, but Jesus says that it actually overturns the law of God that you should honor your father and mother, so you have to keep the law of God at every point, you can't break the law of God in order to try to keep the law of God, if that makes sense, so that was the problem with Corbin, and that's actually the problem with reparations as well, it actually overturns the law of God where it says that the sons shall not pay for the sins of the father, shall not die for the sins of the father, so reparations as they're talked about today overturns the law of God, that should be enough for every Christian to not support it, that should be enough, but there's more, I mean, there's absolutely more, I'm calling this video A Tale of Two Slaves, because the Bible has a lot to say about slaves and masters, and the relationships between the two, and it does not say that slavery just automatically is an evil institution, it does not say that slavery, if there's slavery going on, then there's obviously rampant sin, slavery needs to be overturned in every kind of way, in an unequivocal way, that's not what the Bible says, you know, the Bible doesn't present slavery in that way, now American slavery was fueled by man -stealing, right, and man -stealing was a penalty that was punishable by death, and so the man -stealers, who oftentimes, many of them were Africans, by the way, man -stealers should have been put to death for their crime, they weren't, and that was an injustice, of course, but the fact of owning a slave isn't necessarily automatically wrong, there's gotta be nuance in that conversation, because there is a way to own a slave, according to Scripture, that is not a sin automatically, there is a way to do that, and so that's the first thing, so we gotta read the Bible, and understanding that slavery automatically isn't automatically like the worst sin imaginable, that's like the worst sin that we can imagine in our modern context, but that's not how the Bible presents it, and the Bible has a lot to say about the master -slave relationship, I wanna read this to you from 1 Peter, so this is a tale of two slaves, okay, and I want you to hear how Peter talks about this, and I'm also gonna read something from Jesus as well, and it's talking about slavery, and again, I grant that it's not the same as Southern slavery, but there are some lessons here that apply across the board, even if you're not enslaved yourself, here's what Peter says about slavery, he says, servants, and that's the word doulos, that's slave, servants be subject to your masters with all respect, not only the good and gentle, but also to the unjust, for this is a gracious thing, when mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly, for what credit is it, if when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure, but when you do good, and suffer for it, you endure, this is a gracious thing, in the sight of God, and listen now where he connects this, this is Peter, he's connecting this right to the gospel, he's saying slaves, it doesn't matter if your master is unjust, and beats you for no reason, or if he's a good master, it doesn't matter, you need to obey and be subject to your masters with all respect, and listen to where he connects this, he says, for, to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow in his steps, he committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth, when he was reviled, he did not revile in return, when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly, now I want you to think about how Peter talks to a godly, Christ honoring slave, he says, look, respect your masters even if he's an unjust man, even if he takes from you, even if he beats you without cause, you know, especially if he's a just man, and he's your slave masters, definitely respect him, but also if he's an unjust man, definitely respect him, this doesn't mean you can't try to escape if you can, if you can't avail yourself of the opportunity to free yourself, it doesn't mean you can't do that, it doesn't mean that you couldn't take him to court if there was just cause to do that, it doesn't mean that, but he says, don't revile him, don't return reviling for reviling, I'm thinking in my mind of all of the reviling that happens against white people today, I'm done with white evangelicalism, and they weren't even the ones who enslaved you, you have actually not been enslaved, but yet, according to your own standard, that there's been hatred and racism thrown your way, and you're returning it with hatred and racism, this is not the godly way, this is not the example of Christ, this is not what Peter is telling you to do, let's just grant you everything, let's just say that there's systemic injustice and all of this stuff, why are you reviling in return for reviling as you see it?