They Are Going VIRAL But Something is Wrong... | Barbie, Tucker Carlson, Jason Aldean, NPC Trend

Some very disturbing things are happening in the world around us.

Let's take a look at 4 stories that are going viral and comment on them from a Christian perspective.

You're not going to want to miss the last one.

This first story is just a very odd story that points towards the disturbing effects that social media platforms like

TikTok are having upon countless children.

There is a very disturbing trend where TikTokers are now acting like NPCs, or non -player

characters, for many hours at a time, and countless people are watching these streams and giving money to them.

Here are some weird examples.

Yeah,

it's

only been a couple days since I talked about the NPC TikTok live streaming trend and it is completely

out of control now.

It's spreading faster than the bubonic plague, and it's significantly worse for your health.

It is tragic that this is the state of entertainment now.

I don't blame any of the streamers hopping on this trend because it's an infinite money cheat code right now.

This is a non -stop avalanche that's only gathering more and more steam, but instead of it being an avalanche with snow, it's an

avalanche with doubloons.

This is legitimately free money, because people, for some reason, are just throwing all

of their allowance, all the schmeckles from their pockets, at every single TikTok streamer that's doing this.

NPC trend.

This TikTok trend isn't particularly sinister or evil, but it is incredibly disturbing and sad that

countless young people consider this to be good entertainment, and will spend hours watching and giving money to

these streams.

We were created by God to live meaningful lives, and to do so much more with our lives than this kind of NPC

stuff.

There are young men here who probably wouldn't even...

There are young men here who possibly practice football two hours a day, or even worse, play

video games two hours a day, wasting your life playing with your thumbs.

If you are a Christian, you are a child of God.

God is calling you to do great things, and you take the early days of your life and you

waste them on nothing.

Some of you girls spend four hours a day in front of the mirror.

You're looking at your face in the mirror instead of looking at yourself in the mirror of God's Word.

Looking at yourself because you care a great deal about what others think of your appearance,

instead of being transformed by the Word of God, realizing that God cares about your heart.

We were given one life to live.

Are you living for eternity?

Are you living for the day when all men will stand before God?

Or are you living for the things that do not matter?

I want to know, what are your thoughts about this weird NPC TikTok trend?

Do you find it as disturbing as I do?

Share in the comments.

The new Barbie movie is finally out, and it's a lot more controversial than people thought it would be.

The original trailer had made it seem that the Barbie movie would be just a fun movie without a woke agenda.

Hey Barbie, can I come to your house tonight?

Sure.

I don't have anything big planned.

Just a giant blowout party with all the Barbies and planned choreography and a bespoke song.

You should stop by.

So cool.

It's the best day ever.

It is the best day ever.

So is yesterday, and so is tomorrow, and every day from now until forever.

Nobody's going to beat anyone off.

Guys, it looks so fun.

This looks like a great time.

I expected to watch this and be upset because every trailer I watch these days, I'm like,

oh my god, it's so dark.

It's so sad.

It's so depressing.

It's also like, I had a great time watching that.

And I love so many of the people that are involved in it.

You know, like I said, I never had Barbies as a kid, and I know that there are those animated movies.

So maybe I should say like, stop with the remakes.

But this one doesn't really feel like a remake.

It's not telling the exact same story.

It's an adult film rather than one that's for kids.

It's like musical.

It's just very, very different.

And it's colorful.

However, the hope for this movie being a simple, fun movie without a problematic agenda began to die when Margot Robbie and

Greta Gerwig were interviewed, and they revealed that they disagreed with Mattel saying that this was not going to be a feminist movie.

Clearly Mattel still talk about it in slightly different terms to U2.

But somehow, you know, they don't like to call it a feminist film.

The actors seem very comfortable with talking about it as a feminist film.

Somehow it doesn't matter that you talk about it differently.

Yeah, I mean, well, it most certainly is a feminist film.

And I think that the sort of.

Can you explain that?

Why?

How?

So I to me, it's like, that's like one slice of the pie.

Like it's so big.

It's a big slice.

But like, and now that people are able to watch the movie, the feminist agenda seems to be even worse than

anyone thought it would be.

I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the hard work and genius PR campaign of the Warner Brothers marketing

department.

You guys really pulled off a miracle with this one, successfully duping all of us, including me,

into believing that Barbie was going to be just another colourful, light -hearted, easygoing family comedy

with some cheeky self -aware humour, ironic meta -gags and probably capped off with a blandly inoffensive

female empowerment message about girls learning the value of their own potential.

What none of us expected was 114 minutes of spiteful, bitter, mean

-spirited, borderline unhinged hatred of men and everything.

Even vaguely associated with them.

The basic sort of premise of the film, politically speaking, is that men and women are on two sides of the divide and they hate each other.

And literally the only way you can have a happy world is if the women ignore the men and the men ignore the women.

That seems to be the final outcome of this film.

The real world is not like Barbieland.

In the real world, all women are victims.

They are deep and abiding victims of the system.

As we'll learn by the use of the word patriarchy no less than 10 times in this film.

She gets arrested like twice for various crimes.

Even the police officers are rabid, raging sexists.

The police officers are hitting on Barbie.

They're making observations about her appearance.

Ken, meanwhile, is getting super happy because Ken, who's been sort of an underling in Barbieland, now he's realising he's part of the

patriarchy and the patriarchy is awesome.

Ken is loving the patriarchy.

There are a number of Barbie characters in the movie, right?

One plays President Barbie, one plays Dr. Barbie, one plays a Barbie with a Nobel Prize in physics,

one is a mermaid Barbie.

However, all the male characters in Barbie world are simply called Ken.

So it's pretty clear where this movie is going.

This is an assault on not just Ken, but all men.

What's interesting is reviews are coming out now for the Barbie movie that are referring

to all men in the film are either bigots or idiots.

Is anybody out there at all surprised

by this?

Now, I didn't put firecrackers on them.

I never did that.

G .I. Joe's, after I went upstairs at night, they did that.

I didn't.

Monday evening, 6 .15, Barbie Review with Sarah Vine, the mother and daughter verdict that every man in this film

is a bigot or a loser.

My daughter totally loved it.

You have an article over at Movie Guide, the organization, you have an article there that it's titled Warning,

Don't Take Your Daughter to Barbie.

And so what was it that led to that determination?

Well, frankly, we saw the movie.

On Sunday night, and the movie is worse than you could possibly expect.

It's hardcore propaganda.

In Barbie land, men are the problem with all of society.

It's hardcore feminism.

So they banished men so they have a better life.

In fact, you know, Ken is the villain in the movie and Barbie has to leave

because she's not adapting to this hate of the patriarchal society,.

Although she hates Ken.

Lauren Chen tweeted, the Barbie movie literally has Ken try to bring the patriarchy, explicitly called the

patriarchy, to Barbie land and amend the Barbie land constitution to remove Barbies from positions of power.

The lengths the studios went to hide how unsufferably woke this movie is are astounding.

Although none of this is surprising at all, considering the direction that our culture is going, it's still very sad that Hollywood chose

to communicate this kind of message in a movie and even tried to hide this message to avoid backlash.

The movie isn't even subtle at all about this message.

It's completely in your face.

And it's extremely destructive.

When women take over a culture, men become weak.

When men become weak, they can be conquered.

They can be conquered.

You're watching that happen in this country.

As more and more and more and more women ascend to power, more and more men

become weaker and weaker, and the level of vulnerability just keeps escalating.

Your men will fall by the sword because they become weak.

You've literally lived out the curse of Genesis 3.

You've desired to dominate them, and you've done it, and your mighty ones are going to

fall in battle, and her gates will lament

and mourn, meaning the city, and deserted she will sit on the ground.

Guess what?

When all the men have been slaughtered, you can sit there with all your jewelry and junk.

You've been conquered because you've overpowered your protectors.

I want to know, do you have any thoughts about this new Barbie movie?

Share in the comments below.

Country music star Jason Aldean recently became the center of a lot of controversy over his new song titled, Try

That in a Small Town, where he addresses the riots that have been occurring across the nation.

Punch somebody on a sidewalk, carjack an old lady at a red light, pull a

gun on the owner of a liquor store, well try that in a small town,

see how far you make it down the road.

However, people are accusing the song of being racist, and Jason Aldean's performance was cancelled by country music

television.

The video is controversial,.

So controversial that it was removed by actually country music tv.

It was removed because it essentially showed various riots, and then it said like try that in a small town

and see how it goes for you.

The accusation is that this was racist, which is weird because there are a lot of black people who live in small towns, and turns out black people

also not super fond of rioting.

But apparently the take of the media is that if you oppose riots and you think that in a small town that sort of thing doesn't go, that means that you actually want to

kill black people just randomly.

That of course is not what the song is even remotely about.

I'm encouraged that Jason.

Aldean has decided to stand firm and refuse to bow to the mob that is trying to cancel him.

Here is a statement that he put out on twitter.

And then he put out a statement saying,.

When you grow up in a small town it's that unspoken rule of we all have each other's backs and we look out for each other.

It feels like somewhere along the way that sense of community and respect has gotten lost.

Deep down we're all ready to get back to that.

I hope my new music video helps you all know that you are not alone in feeling that way.

Go check it out.

It should.

Be obvious that rioting should be something that every single person of this country should be standing against and speaking out

against.

But the reality is that for many, this kind of destruction is actually a good and moral thing to do because it is opposition

against what is viewed as privilege and oppression from people of a particular skin color, which is a perspective that is

itself.

Very biased and unfair.

Cultural hegemony.

That's the power.

By the way, this idea of cultural hegemony explains something.

Have you ever wondered why women who make up

more than 50 of the population are considered a minority?

You ever wondered why?

Because women are not seen as part of the cultural hegemony.

The cultural hegemony is patriarchal.

The cultural hegemony, for example, in our society is white,

male, heterosexual, cis -gendered,

able -bodied, native -born Americans.

You know who you are.

And everybody who's not that is a minority.

And everybody who's not that is a victim of the cultural

hegemony established by those individuals.

Which means that everybody who's not that is at war with that.

And everybody who is that is privileged.

And the more of those boxes you tick off, the more privileged you are.

I want to know if you've been following this controversy with Jason Aldean, and what you think about it.

Share in the comments.

There was an event called the Family Leadership Summit recently, where Tucker Carlson interviewed many of the Republican

presidential candidates.

But before he did that, Tucker had a conversation that was extremely interesting, where he talked about reading the Bible for the first

time, despite professing to be an.

Episcopalian Christian for a very long time.

I'm just going to read the Bible.

And no, I'm not going to do a Bible study.

I'm a Protestant, so I feel like I have a right to kind of read it myself.

No, I'm sorry.

I feel that way.

And so I've been reading it since February, and I'm like about halfway done.

And I haven't talked to anyone about it.

And I haven't just been myself reading it.

And it's like the most interesting thing I think I've ever done.

It's unbelievable.

The amount of drama in those books that has been hidden for me as a regular churchgoer

in the Episcopal church.

It's like, wait, why didn't you ever mention this?

This is like unbelievable.

It is indeed pretty unbelievable that there are so many people who call themselves Christians, who have never truly read the Bible,

nor have any idea what the Bible really teaches.

I'm very glad Tucker is finally reading the Bible.

But the real question is, how can someone go so long professing to be a Christian, yet be reading the Bible for the first time just

now?

My prayer is that Tucker would encounter the true gospel of Jesus Christ in his Bible reading and come to a saving knowledge

of the gospel.

What?

But the two things I have come away with after reading the entire New Testament, and I'm up to Deuteronomy and the Old

Testament, is with the exception of Jesus, every figure

is like really flawed.

Like flawed in a way where you'd be like, I don't know if I could be friends with that person.

You know what I mean?

Abraham enters Egypt and he's like, oh, it's my sister actually, take her.

What?

I was saying to my wife, who was a religion teacher, I was like, why didn't anyone, what is that?

And she's like, maybe the point is that God takes people who are not perfect people, not only not perfect people, like they're so imperfect

again, I don't think I could have dinner with them, and uses them for these grander purposes.

That's the first thing I noticed.

The second thing I noticed is that people, while they have free will, of course, and they can make

decisions and they live with the consequences of those decisions, they're not really in charge of the arc of history at all.

They are being acted upon a lot.

Okay.

And I never really appreciated that because I'm American.

And so I grew up with this feeling that we're the sum total of our choices.

Well, that's not what I'm reading at all.

It's really encouraging to hear Tucker talk about God being in control of history.

And again, my prayer is that God would lead Tucker fully towards Jesus Christ and the gospel.

And that Tucker would not just be a news commentator, but also an evangelist who proclaims the gospel of.

Jesus Christ.

Yeah, people's choices matter.

You need to do certain things and not do other things.

On the other hand, you are not in charge.

You are being acted upon by a world you can't see.

And that, by the way, is consistent with my life experience.

Like I've seen that I've lived that I'm 54.

And so I feel like it's really important to approach politics with that in mind.

Like a lot of these issues are symbols of this much larger battle.

And final thing I will say is I do think we should approach these questions with humility.

Amen.

You know, we don't always know.

I was at dinner last night at 801, which I strongly recommend.

Surprisingly good lobster, kind of weird for Iowa.

I'm like, is this from the coast of Iowa?

No, but it was good.

Anyway, we were talking about candidates and I was eating with someone

who's a Christian.

And I said, I can't honestly, I can't tell if this person is a tool of light or darkness.

You know what I mean?

Tucker is absolutely right that many people who call themselves Christians are actually enemies of the gospel because they proclaim

a false gospel that does not save anyone.

So we don't.

Always know, actually, at all.

And we should always admit that.

You know, I've got very strong feelings about all kinds of issues, but it's so important to be open to the possibility that I'm completely wrong

and that what I'm espousing is actually destructive, not constructive.

So just to approach it with with humility, like we're all about 100 times more ignorant

than we.

Admit.

Yes.

Amen.

Paul would say I'm the worst of the worst, right?

Yeah.

So I would say that's a good place to start.

It is.

I would suggest keep reading the Bible and I want to finish here.

I can't wait to find out how it ends.

I'll tell you how it is.

We win.

We win.

I was encouraged to hear Tucker say all of these things.

Let's be in prayer that God would save.

Tucker and use him for his kingdom and glory.

Are you a Christian?

This is a question that I've asked many people on a number of occasions,

some of them informal, some of them formal.

We had student interviews at ACU last couple of weeks.

It's a question that we ask.

Are you a Christian?

It's amazing the kind of answers you get from people when you ask that question.

Are you a Christian?

In a place like this, very few people will answer no.

Very few people you run into in Zambia and ask, are you a Christian?

And they say no.

If they do say no, it's because they have another religion.

So they would be a Hindu or they would be a Muslim and they would say no, I'm not a Christian, I'm a this.

But other than that, no matter what, it's yes.

But then it gets real serious when you ask the next question.

Why?

Now everything gets complicated and people will look at you with anything from

shock that you would ask such a question to utter despair because

they have no idea what to say next.

If you can't say amen, you ought to say ouch.

We just don't know.

And oftentimes when we begin to answer the question, we give answers

that are anything but the truth concerning the

doctrine of salvation.

What are your thoughts about the things Tucker said about the Bible here?

Share in the comments.

As I've said in other videos, there is a lot of news in our culture that can be pretty discouraging.

However, as we already heard Tucker say earlier, we as Christians should have confidence that God is in complete control of

history.

And we know that God not only has already won the victory, but he will continue to have victory throughout everything that

happens now and in the future.

Now I will tell you one simple answer, and it needs to be explicated in more detail, but

it is simply this.

Your anxiety is in proportion to your lack of understanding of the sovereignty of God.

That's the first thing.

If you are panicked, if you are anxious just in general, if you're a

person who worries about everything, then you need your theology

strengthened.

You need to understand the sovereign purposes of God that he is working out in his

providence on behalf of every believer.

So to relieve yourself of fears and anxieties, deal with the sin in your life

and get to know the fullness of your God, your sovereign God, who is working all things for your good in

his glory.

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