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Well, it's Friday and We're still talking about dr. Eric Mason, I'm sorry. No, I'm just kidding. I've had a good time this this TED talk has been exceptional. I think that it's just too perfect. I had to do the whole thing.
So thank you. If you've enjoyed watching them the comments the likes the shares all of it has been very helpful. I'll put this in a list in the future. So if you know somebody that has a soft spot in their their heart for dr. Eric Mason's preaching You can show them in a very easy-to-follow one after another kind of format.
Everything that was wrong with this exact TED talk, but we only have Four minutes left five minutes left something like that. So let's get to it and then let us never speak of it again. Oh Hold on. I did it again.
It wouldn't be it wouldn't be an 80 Robles episode if I didn't mess up with the audio here. Let's.
Dive right in but black people do that for the last two hundred and fifty years and I can go on and on and on.
And on and on and on going on and on and on and on in.
But that's why we need reparations. We need reparations to repair. We're not asking for a handout. This is stuff that black people have built this country from the beginning. Black people have made America America from the beginning and it's just time to begin compensating black people Comprehensively for what's been left out over time.
And so what so what have you built Eric? I mean, what have you built that you haven't been compensated for? And what was your agreement before you built it? I mean, these are the things that actually matter like what did you agree to do?
What did you agree to build that you didn't get the Agreed upon compensation for Eric. Because if you did if you had that I'd be right there with you. I'd be your strongest advocate. I'd say look, you know so-and-so you owe Eric Mason this money you agreed for this money.
And if you don't I mean, you know, the Lord's gonna see that if you don't give him what you agreed to give him. But of course, he's not talking about that. He's talking about the mystical sort of faceless group black people Should get something that black people were owed back in the day.
Even though we can't really prove who owes them what who's owed what and this and that. And it doesn't come from the Bible. That's what he's talking about. He's talking about making the the sons pay for the sins of the father which the Bible explicitly says is not the way to do it the beauty of.
All justice is ultimately. We're not just looking for the sweet buy-and-buy when I save you return. Yes, he died on the cross I got up on the grave and we're gonna spend eternity on heaven and earth With him and he's gonna set up a brand spanking new regime here.
Yeah, and that brand spanking new regime is going to is going to follow his law, right? So his brand spanking new regime. When we pray, you know your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
How do you think it is in heaven? Well things go according to his Word in heaven. That's how we should be praying for it to happen here on earth. And so, yeah, you know, I know you don't like this because you don't get your stacks if you follow God's law.
But if you follow God's law, that's what we that's what we have to look forward to in God's kingdom. God's kingdom is gonna run according to God's rules. And so I would suggest that we should run things according to God's rules now.
That's what I would suggest. What are you about to suggest here? Because I'm sure it's it's extremely wise. Listen. Listen, that sounds really great. I just said the same thing, but why don't you start acting like it?
Why don't you start doing it because all the laws you read today my friend all of them work against your case for reparations. So why don't you keep your mouth shut? This is me shutting your mouth with the Word of God.
Because the Word of God works against you here. You can't do this what you're suggesting the 200 years of free tuition tuition reimbursement 200 years of whatever. Making people pay you for your counseling sessions because you're all messed up making people pay you for you know I don't know work that you'd ever did that.
I guess somebody at one point did maybe they did maybe they didn't. Who knows. Making me pay you for something. I didn't do even though my own ancestors were enslaved just like your ancestors, by the way everyone's ancestors.
Participated in the slave trade at some point in their lineage every single one of them. So if we're gonna be consistent, then you need to start paying people go figure out who your ancestors enslaved go figure that one out.
But you see there's none of this is biblical. None of this is consistent. It's all just a power grab. It's all just a way to get stacks. So when he says on earth as it is in heaven your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
He doesn't actually mean it because the way to do that is to start doing it right now according to God's law. That's why God's law is so helpful and so important because if you want to have justice. You got to know what God's law says and you've read a bunch of laws here.
But it doesn't go with what you said it goes with. You're trying to overturn God's law and it doesn't work that way it doesn't work that way. Eric and I can't believe that you have the Audacity to get behind a pulpit and pretend to speak the Word of God in this way.
This is blasphemous. This is taking the Lord's name in vain. God's not gonna play with you, man. God's not playing with you. So you can get back behind you can go. You like like, you know, like you're like you're authoritative but God's not fooled by that and God's people aren't fooled by that.
God's people hear his voice and they know that this ain't it when you say, you know in when you say Verses that specifically reject what you're attempting to do and then pretend like they don't. We all heard that pause when you said the individual owes those who he wronged.
You pause because you realize that that verse does not make the point that you're attempting to make with it. God's not playing with you, man. God's not playing with you. He's not playing with me either.
So I would stop acting like he's playing with you. He's not playing this whole thing started with you saying that someone could get some orange juice or some kind of Other liquid for for communion. God's not playing with his with the sacraments man.
He's not playing.
Black people need to be compensated and paid reparations for what's happened here white siblings. I'm working with a group now that wants me to be in an advisory team for a small group of Christians that want to help invest in paying a micro form of reparations as the beginning of starting a reparations movement among Christians.
My prayer is is that this would explode. I.
Don't care if a bunch of white people feel like they're guilty and they need to pay you money. I don't care what people do with their own money. I don't care what the people do with their own money. What I don't want though is people to steal from others in order to pay your stacks to get you drip.
I don't. That's what I don't want. I don't want you see God says thou shalt not steal right? You shall not steal. Okay, and so you can't fix Stealing from the past with stealing from the present. God's law doesn't work that way.
I actually do mean it when I say Your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I mean it. I know you're just playing. I know you're just using it as a slogan. I know you're just using it to beat people over the head to get your stacks, but I don't.
I don't actually play like you. I actually mean it so I know you can't fix stealing from the past with stealing from the present. I know that doesn't work and every person with a brain on their heads.
That's not completely given over to covetousness knows. That's not how it works. I know you don't know how that works. Because you're given over to covetousness. This sermon is More than enough proof to know that.
And so yeah. If some white people want to put some money together to give it to you for some God only knows reason. I mean that in A technical sense only God would know the reason why people would want to do that.
I Don't care what people do with their own money. They could do whatever they want with their own money. Just don't steal it from me. That's all I'm asking. It's not too much to ask.
And that now I'm not saying that reparations is going to bring peace on earth. Jesus will bring peace on her.
Yeah, and he's also gonna come with wrath and he's also gonna come with a sword. And he's also gonna come with judgment and the people that that that that become Christians to get those stacks. The people that become Christians.
They used to be black Hebrew Israelites. Or they they used to be African spiritualists and they come to Christ because they get the stacks with Christ. Those people are gonna be part of that wrath because they didn't actually come to Christ.
They came to the stacks. They came to the stacks. And so you're just easing people's consciences, man on the way to to their their payment for their covetous heart.
However, while we're on earth We got to make the most of our time make the most of our minutes so that when the master returns He said what did you do with my manners that I gave you? And you don't want him to say depart from me cast him out in the out of darkness.
No No Given More more will be given to him. And so Let's move forward in this great act as we begin to seeing what it looks like to do what I call restorative justice.
Father, thank. Yeah, well, I'm not gonna listen to this prayer because the thing is like at the end of the day We're gonna we're gonna we're gonna stop here at the end of the day. This this TED talk was just Unbridled unadulterated Covetousness, you could even see it in the little gleam in his eye.
He's wearing sunglasses I know but you could see how he's got the ear-to-ear grin when he's talking about money when he's talking about all the stuff He wants and of course, he leaves it open-ended.
This is just the beginning. All my psychologists all my sociologists all my economicists. They're good. They can get a tell me more. You heard that part right yesterday where he's like all these that's actually where he's getting this stuff.
None of it comes from the Bible. It all comes from sociology. It all comes from psychology. It all comes from economists. It all comes from from from from people that have a Unchristian worldview. I'm not talking about Christian sociology.
I'm talking about pagans. That's where this stuff comes from and so he's gonna be Asking for stuff and coveting stuff and trying to twist your arm and trying to extort you and trying to get the government to steal.
From you to give to him until the day he dies unless the Lord of Glory comes and Changes his heart because there's only one thing that can change a covetous heart. I know this because I used to have a covetous heart.
I used to have a covetous heart I've told this story before but this is one of the very first sins that God, you know dealt with me with Was my covetousness. I used to work in a I worked on Wall Street.
I was a technical recruiter as I used to recruit for, you know, the banks and Financial services tech companies fintech all that kind of stuff and I did pretty well, you know, I did pretty well for myself.
I was a young man. My you know made some good money and I was one of the you know Top producers in the office in the area, you know and all that kind of stuff and I was doing really well. And then and then the the economy tanked you remember the the the big recession.
And so my income took a big hit overnight, you know overnight almost a 50 hit my income took. But I was still living the way that I was when I was making a lot of money. I just went into some debt, you know, I just started put it on the credit card, you know I mean I'd go to the bars and put on the credit card.
You know, I had I threw I threw money away with with a nice apartment. You know, I had an apartment with the view of the Empire State Building. I had a fireplace. Imagine that in New York City a view of the Empire State Building and a fireplace in the apartment.
I spent a lot of money on that apartment. I remember as the the bills were racking up I Grew this this this just this covetousness like I was doing okay still, you know what I mean? But the bills were racking up.
So I started feeling that pressure, right? But then there was this one woman I remember she was roughly she produced roughly the same as me. Sometimes she would have a better week than me or a better month.
Sometimes I would have a better month, but I remember no matter what no matter how good I was doing. Let's just say I had a great month right and I was doing better than her that month during this time in my life, I could have had a double the amount of Deals that she had and even even if that was the case.
Every time she closed the deal she put it on the board, you know. Didn't matter if I was doing better than her worse than her didn't matter in my heart, I hated her. I Hated her because I wanted those deals.
I wanted them. I Was I was I was coveting it was a covetousness just unbridled covetousness. It didn't matter what our positions were didn't matter that I was getting promoted and she wasn't it didn't matter any of that stuff.
It didn't matter. I didn't want her to have anything. I had enough, but I didn't want her to have anything. And there's just no reason for it, there's just no reason for I coveted. I coveted all kinds of stuff.
That wasn't mine. And so I know how this heart works. I know how this mindset works because I that's how I used to be. And I'll never forget when I became a Christian that was what that was one of the first things that I begged God to take away from me just this this covetousness that I just I just can't Abide that someone would get something that I didn't get you know what I mean?
That someone would have something that I didn't get and the way to covet just heart works. It's like everything's an injustice like I'll never forget like there was one deal in particular where she she found so some software engineer or something like that for it for one of my customers and one of our customers and it was a candidate that I had spoken with in the past and Because of that I felt like it was an injustice like she almost stole him from me.
But I didn't own the person. I didn't own the candidate. She didn't do anything wrong. But I could easily justify my heart hating what she had done because that I was owed that I did the work. I was the one who put that candidate in our database.
I'm the one who spoke with him. I'm the one who established a relationship. It should have been my deal. Everything's an injustice when you're a covetous person. You're owed the world you're owed everything.
It's never enough. It's never Enough. God was gracious to me. He still Allowed me to be somewhat successful in this job. But it was never enough. It was never enough, but the thing is that Over time, I don't I didn't have some kind of miracle, you know.
The experience that some people will say well, you know, I I came to Christ and I never turned to drugs again. You know, that's not how it happened for me. You know what I mean? That's not how it happened for me but over time.
You know praying to God take this away from me. Take this away from me. Over time my taste for Covetousness just I just lost it. I just didn't have the taste for it anymore. I didn't it just did nothing for me.
When I hated that part about me and I just I wanted to stop altogether. It was the same thing with me and you know my drug use. I used to use drugs all the time I was living the the New York lifestyle, man.
I would snort cocaine. I would do. I would do it all, you know. And over time I just lost interest. And that's a miracle man, that's God changing my heart, you know what I mean, it didn't happen like that.
But it wouldn't have happened without God. So I know how a covetous heart works because that's that's the kind of heart that I had. And so there's hope for for people like Eric Mason. There's definitely hope but he's someone's gonna need to someone who loves him, right?
He's not gonna listen to me. This is this is this is clear. He won't listen to me, but he might listen to Paul Tripp. You might listen to Matt Chandler. He might listen to someone from the gospel coalition of the ERLC.
So if you if you're if you're hearing this I Beg you if you love Eric Mason, I know you see how His covetousness has been displayed in this sermon in this TED talk. Unbridled there's nothing that can satisfy.
Dr. Eric Mason nothing. He even said he admitted it in this sermon. He has a of an insane list of demands. Like this is a list that would cost trillions of dollars trillions and trillions of dollars this list.
Trillions of dollars on his list. He says it with no shame in his face. He says it with a gleam in his eye. But yet he admits it that this is just scratching the surface. There's more. There's more and he admits the source of where the more comes from.
It does not come from Scripture. He admits this in the TED talk. He says the Bible only talks about monetary compensation for the individuals that did the wrong for the individuals that wrong he admits that and then he says but we need to do it in a Complete, you know full-orbed, you know multifaceted kind of way and the sociologists and psychologists and economic economists and all this.
They're gonna tell us more. It's gonna be more. It's always more. This is unbridled Coppice and so if you love Eric Mason I'm not saying you have to love me. I'm not saying you have to agree with me on everything I said here, but if if you love Eric Mason, you saw that in that sermon you must reach out to him man.
He needs help. Eric Mason does need help, but he doesn't need counseling. What he needs is a friend. Willing to wound him. Willing to wound him and say Eric you've got to stop this. You've got to put to death The the the works of the flesh you've got to put this covetousness to death.
It will kill you. And it will lead people astray. That's that's the worst part. And it dishonors Christ this living back this sermon. Dishonored Christ from start to finish and so I beg you if you if you if you love Eric Mason, he won't listen to me.
He won't listen. I admit I don't like Eric Mason very much. I don't like his style. I don't like his attitude. I don't like much about the man. But I do love him. I do want the best for him and I do want him to repent.
And the reality is I if I would have met me back in the day when I was Suffering From unbridled covetousness. I wouldn't have liked myself Back in the day, I wouldn't have so if you love Eric Mason, I I beg you to you.
You have to come to him about this. You have to go to him about this. The Word of God requires you to do it. Snatch him from the fire snatch him from the fire because if this is who he is if this sermon is Exposing his heart he's in trouble.
He's in serious trouble anyway, I hope you found this video helpful hope you found this series helpful and We will probably not talk about Eric Mason again for a long time. Anyway.