Exposed: JD Greear's Manipulative Influence On SBC Convention - Law Amendment

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I have not done a video in a little over a week, maybe a week and a half. And you know, it's just a busy season.

You know what I mean? Business is getting a lot better, which is very good. This year has been very difficult, very difficult indeed.

But it's getting better. And also simultaneously, of course, it's Little League season. So, you know,

I've got a lot of my evenings are booked and completely booked. So anyway, it's been a lot of fun. Also been getting out there doing a little bit of fishing as well, which has been going okay.

So hey, life is good. That's all I can say. Life is good. On Sunday, I don't know what your pastor preached about, but my pastor, we're in the book of James, which is a very good book, of course.

And you know, we talked a lot about being doers of the word and not hearers only.

Let me just read it to you. I'm not a pastor, but I thought this was interesting because I think it really applies to a lot of the situations that we find ourselves in here.

Here's what it says. Therefore, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourself. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror.

For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the word, this one will be blessed in what he does.

This is so key. This is so key. You know, so many of the problems and the controversies that we have right now, in my opinion, have to do with this exact thing.

Well, there's a lot of factors at play, so I'm not going to say it's only this, but a lot of the tricks that people try to use to try to get you to go along with their program have to do with mistaking and misusing this exact principle.

You actually have to do things, right? You have to do things, and it's not enough to know things.

You've got to do things, right? And so if you know that drinking a quart of vodka a day is going to kill you at some point, you know, if you know that, but you don't act on that, you just continue to drink a quart of vodka a day, every day, you're going to die.

It's going to kill you. So, you know, again, you could know the right thing, but if you don't do anything about it, you're totally sunk.

I was thinking about this just the other day because I was listening to a Lynyrd Skynyrd song called God and Guns, and this is the kind of song, if you haven't heard it, definitely listen to it.

It's a good song, but it's the kind of song that liberals would, you know, start having a...they

break out in hives, and, you know, they freak out, and, you know, and I could just see, like, big

Eva, mid Eva types just shaking their heads, you know, in shame and disgust and all this kind of thing.

But it's actually a really good message because it kind of incorporates this. Now, I'm not saying that they were thinking too deeply about this.

Maybe they were, maybe they weren't. I mean, they are artists, so you got to give them some credit. But I was talking about how

God and guns, you know, keep the country strong, and that's a really good point because, you know,

God, of course, from a spiritual perspective, from a morality perspective,

God is the center, right? And so when we consider what's moral, what's the right thing to do, what should we do?

We have to consider what God teaches us, what God says. But it's not enough, though, just to pray.

You have to act on it. That's what this passage from James is talking about. You know, you hear the

Word of God, but you don't do it, that's complete...I

mean, that's worthless. That's worthless. It says you're deceiving yourself if you do that. And so God protects us, but also we use the tools and the gifts and the time and place that we're in, and we defend ourselves as well.

So we pray to God, you know, we pray to God, God defend me, but we do what we can that's within our power to defend ourselves.

And so there's a hearing there, but there's also a doing, you know what I mean? You have to do things.

And that's what gets us into so much trouble when you're actually doing things. People start to freak out.

And so you get, like, anti -Christian nationalists. I'm going to draw a parallel here between some of my friends who are anti -Christian nationalists, and I say friends very loosely because so many of these people

I consider friends, but they don't treat me like a friend. They treat me like an enemy to be destroyed.

And that's really just too bad. It doesn't have to be that way, but it's just that way too many times, and it's just a shame.

But in any case, you get guys like Owen Straychan, you know, you get guys that go out there and they say, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,

Christians should influence the culture. They should influence politics.

We don't disagree with that. Of course, they should influence the politics. But there's always an asterisk, right?

There's always an asterisk to that, because the minute you try to influence politics, that's when you get the sideways glances where it's like, well, well, hold on a second.

That's not really the mission. That's not the Great Commission. What are you doing? You know what

I mean? So yeah, Christians should influence politics, you know, sort of on the periphery, but if you do it overtly and you do it for Christ and you say, hey,

I'm doing Christian politics here, that's when all of a sudden, when you're actually doing things, when you're actually advocating for things, all of a sudden there comes a lot of suspicion and people start to say, well, that's not the mission of the—that's not the point of the church.

That's not the mission of the church. That's not, you know, and it's like, well, I mean, I'm not a pastor, you know what I mean?

Maybe I'm just a governor. Maybe I'm just a politician. Maybe I'm just a voter, you know what I mean? Well, you know, what's the problem?

But you get all these sideways glances when you start doing things. So they're cool with hearing, but they're not as cool with doing.

And I can kind of understand why to some degree, because when you're doing things, you could do things wrong.

You could make mistakes. You potentially could. But the thing is, the only way to actually do anything is to actually do it.

And so when I get out there and I make a cold call to a new customer, I might screw up that cold call.

I might do it wrong, you know what I mean? I won't get any business from this particular company. And every time

I pick up the phone, there's a chance that I'm going to do it wrong. I'm going to mess it up. I'm going to call the wrong person. I'm going to say the wrong thing.

I'm going to do something to mess it up, right? But the only way I'm ever going to get business is to pick up the phone and do it.

So I've got to risk doing it wrong, but I'm actually trying to do something good.

In my case, trying to get business or something like that. And so that's the thing.

You've got to actually do stuff, you know what I mean? Someone in the comments just today actually was commenting on a previous video that I had done about anger, right?

And he said that his pastor once said, and I don't think he agreed with this.

I couldn't tell from the comment. But he had said that his pastor once said, you know, Jesus displayed anger, but it was righteous anger.

So Jesus does display anger, but it's always righteous anger. On that,

I completely agree. Because obviously Jesus was sinless, is sinless. But he says, but Christians should never display anger because Christians can't be sure that it's righteous anger.

So the safe thing to do is just to never be angry because you don't know if your anger is righteous.

And even if it is to some degree righteous, there always could be kind of a twist of sin in there. And so to be safe,

Christians should never be angry. And I don't, I completely disagree with that.

That's the kind of thing where it's like, okay, you're comfortable hearing what's right. There are times when right, righteous anger is appropriate.

You know, there are times for war. There are times for peace. We get that. But because I might make a mistake,

I don't do it. The Bible says you are deceiving yourself. The Bible says you are deceiving yourself if you hear the word, but you don't do the word.

You hear that there's a time for war and a time for peace. You hear that there is a time to break down and a time to build up, but you're too scared to not break down the right way or the right situation at the right time.

So you never break down. You say, I know the Bible says there's a time to break down, but I can't do it.

It's too risky. It's too risky. You are deceiving yourself.

That's what the Bible says. You're deceiving yourself. We've got to do things.

We cannot just hear the word, but then be too scared to actually do the word.

We cannot do that. And this fear, I think, in my opinion, this fear paralyzes so many more of us than it should.

This is something that is rampant in evangelical circles. It's absolutely rampant.

Look, the Bible says that we need to have genuine love, right? Let your love be genuine.

That's a passage from the scripture. Does anybody know what the next words are? Let your love be genuine.

Does anybody know what the next words are? I think in my audience, the majority of us do, but you don't see it plastered on a coffee mug.

Let your love be genuine. How do you do that? The very next words, hate what is evil, abhor what is evil.

So if you don't hate, you do not have genuine love. Hate's risky though. Hate's risky.

And I could just see people with their idiotic brain dead take say, oh no, no, no, no, no.

You see, hate is not a Christian virtue. No, no, no. Even the world hates.

It's easy to hate. Didn't Shen V say something stupid like that? Even the world hates.

You're acting like the world. Well, the Bible says you actually don't have a genuine love.

If you do not hate what is evil, it's worth practicing hate because the

Bible says your love must be genuine. And even though you might screw up hate, it's worth practicing.

It's worth asking the Lord to help you to abhor, to hate what is evil.

We have to be doers of the word, not just hearers. Because if we're just hearers, then we're deceiving ourselves.

You got to have guns, our God, but you got to have guns too. And I mean, guns metaphorically speaking, but maybe you should have some real guns too.

You got to pray to God for protection. You got to thank him every night that you've got a house, that you've got, you know, a shelter that you, you know, you've got spiritual protection.

God is looking out for you. Thank him every night, but you also thank him for that peacemaker in your dresser drawer.

And you have to be ready to use it as well. That's a line from the song, by the way. So you got to have

God, but you got to have guns too. You got to have God, but you got to have guns. You've got to know what's right, but you also have to have the will to do it, the ability, the will, the power to do it.

You've got to use the tools at your disposal to do what is right. And when we're talking about politics, we're talking about simple things.

You know, if you're a politician, maybe it's a little less simple, but for regular people like me, the power that you have, a lot of times it's your vote.

A lot of times it's your money. A lot of times it's your time, your effort, your promotion, your things like that.

You know, phone calls. I got a tweet from New Hampshire that was very worried because there's some anti -LGBT plus legislation that's going to be on the governor's desk.

And it wanted me to call to support the LGBT members. And it's like, well, no, I'm not going to call the governor to support you.

I'm going to call the governor to sign that bill. I'm sure it's not that great of a bill, but it's probably decent.

It's not actually anti -LGBT, I'm sure, because our governor is not that great.

But no, I mean, you do what you can. You do what you can. And this whole idea of whenever people start doing things in line with what they're hearing, that's when the people that seek to subvert our religion, that's when they get out of bed.

That's when they break out in the highs. That's when they start trying to manipulate people.

And there's no better example of a manipulator than J .D. Greer. J .D. Greer is a manipulative man. He's a manipulative man.

He's a liberal. And he wants to soften a lot of what makes conservative

Christianity great. And of course, he'll start off just like Owen will start off, well, I'm a stalwart conservative.

I believe all the right things. Owen, I believe all. I'm a stalwart conservative. Nobody's more or less woke than I am.

And J .D. Greer, this is how he manipulates you. This is the way he does it. So this is an article he wrote about the

Southern Baptist Convention. They're debating the law amendment. The law amendment is basically just a way to sort of empower the credentialing committee.

I don't know the exact machinations of this, but basically a way to kick out liberal churches that have female pastors.

You know what I mean? Like, this is basic level stuff. We're not talking about very difficult theology. We're talking about base level stuff.

If you've got female pastors, then you're out of step with what the SBC is all about.

And you have to leave now. You have to leave now. This is a way to actually do what you say you believe.

So you hear the right thing, you say the right thing, but now this is a step to actually do something about it.

So we're not hearers of the word anymore. We're actually hearers, but we're also doers. We're not self -deceived.

This is an attempt to follow what James is saying. I want to be a doer of the word, not just a hearer.

And so we're going to do something about this. And J .D. Greer gets his panties in a bunch. He gets his panties in a bunch.

And there's numerous reasons why he doesn't want this to happen. Because one of them is like, you know, there's a lot of black and Latino churches in the

SBC that have female pastors. It's part of their culture. So, I mean, we can't lay down the law here, because that would look really racist.

You know what I mean? And by the way, how are we going to reach them for the gospel if they're kicked out of the SBC? I mean, you know, they've got female pastors.

They're going to kick them out. Look, everyone's going to think we're racist. The world is watching. And now how are we going to reach them? How can we reach them?

This is ridiculous. I mean, that's not a bug of this bill, by the way. That's a feature. That's a feature.

If there are lots of black and Latino churches that are liberal churches, then they cannot be in the conservative

SBC. It's as simple as that. They can go do their own thing. But they can't be in a conservative denomination, because that's the standard here.

That's the standard. You actually have to do what the Bible says. You can't be a hearer only and deceive yourself. You've got to actually be a doer of the word as well.

And J .D. Greer will pull out all the stops to manipulate you. This is what manipulators do. They'll say anything.

They don't care. They don't care. They'll say literally anything. They're using whatever power they have to get their way.

That's what they do. And so J .D. Greer says this. My fear is that one day we're going to wake up realizing we never talk about the

Great Commission anymore. We never talk about the Great Commission anymore. All we're talking about is this fundamentalist stuff, and we're going to kick out the liberal churches?

I mean, what about the Great Commission? What about the Great Commission? I believe in the

Great Commission. I'm a Great Commission Baptist. And he's a hearer of the word.

He knows the Great Commission is important. He heard that. He heard it. And so he's signaling that the

Great Commission is important. He's manipulating you. He's manipulating you. And he knows that a lot of his audience are also deceiving themselves.

Hearers of the word, but not doers. Hearers of the word, but the minute someone tries to do it, they get all antsy and they're pantsy.

J .D. Greer is a manipulator. He's deceived. He's self -deceived. He's the exact kind of person that James was writing about.

Hearers of the word, but not doers. Think about it. Think about it. He knows the Great Commission is a buzzword, and it's going to get people all emotional because people love the

Great Commission. So do I. Rightfully so. This is an important passage. But does anyone stop to think what the

Great Commission says? He's worried that if we pass the law amendment that, you know, ensuring that, you know, if you're going to be in the

SBC, you're going to do what the Bible says when it comes to pastors. But does anyone think about this for just one moment?

What does the Great Commission say? We know what the Great Commission says. Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the

Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything

I have commanded. I am with you to the end of the age. Teaching them to observe everything

I commanded. I am with you to the end of the age. Teaching them to observe everything

I've commanded, including the things that Black and Latino cultures don't want to do.

What are the tools at our disposal to teach Black and Latino churches, and white ones too, there's a lot of white churches with female pastors.

What are the tools at our disposal to teach them to observe everything Christ commands? Well, one tool is, here's our standards.

The Bible teaches that female pastors are not legitimate, and so in the SBC, we heard the

Word, we believe the right things, we believe the Word, and now we're gonna do something about it.

And so here's the thing. As long as you're a hearer of the Word, J .D. Greer is not worried that you're never talking about the

Great Commission anymore. But the minute you say, I'm not gonna deceive myself anymore,

I heard the Word, now I'm gonna do it. I'm going to teach them to observe the disciples that we've made.

They're in our denomination. I'm going to teach them to do what Christ commanded when it comes to female pastors.

We all agree we believe this, and now I'm going to teach them to do it. The minute you decide that you're not going to be self -deceived, being a hearer only, not a doer.

The minute you decide to do something, to pick up whatever authority or power you have and actually do what you have to do, what you can do to actually accomplish the

Great Commission, the minute you do that, J .D. Greer is now worried that you never talk about the

Great Commission anymore, even though this is part and parcel of the Great Commission. So he's okay, he's cool with it as long as you're a hearer of the

Word, but the minute you pick up a tool and start to do something, you start to do that Word, he's now worried that you're leaving the

Gospel behind, you're leaving the Great Commission behind. The truth is that guys like J .D.

Greer are completely comfortable. In fact, it's what they want. They want you to be hearers of the

Word only, and the second you pick up anything to do anything, as long as it's something they're against, of course.

Now all of a sudden, they're worried. They don't want that. They're worried about that, and I think a lot of the same things are at play when it comes to Christian nationalism.

You know, God, oh and strong, He's heard that, yes, Christians should have an influence on the culture. He's cool with that, but the minute you start to do it, that's when

He's got problems. Be hearers of the Word and also doers of the

Word. You can't be hearers only, because if you are, you're deceiving yourself, and J .D.

Greer has deceived himself, and he's deceived quite a few others as well, and he wants you to be just as deceived as he is.

He wants you to be so twisted up and confused and upside down and freaking out of your mind that somehow trying to accomplish the

Great Commission, the whole thing, even the stuff about teaching them to observe, he wants you to think that actually trying to do that is walking away from the

Great Commission. Well, I mean, what more needs to be said?