Session The Marxist Eschatology of CRT by Darrell Harrison - 2022 Equipping Conference

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Jesus, the Son of God descends
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Takes on the nature of a servant
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Jesus, obedient to death
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The Father willed to crush
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Him As a sacrifice for sin
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He satisfied God's justice
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And in victory He rose again
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You are highly exalted Name above all names
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Jesus, You're the
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King Exalted to the highest
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From this empty Christ is risen Jesus, the
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Lamb once crucified The angels never cease to worship
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Jesus, Heaven glorified
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You are Jesus, You're the
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King Over everything Exalted to, given the name
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Our tongues proclaim That You are Lord of all
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Our tongues proclaim That You are
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Lord of all You are highly exalted
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Name above all names Worthy of all praise
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You are Jesus, You're the
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King Over everything Shelter in the storm
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When troubles pour upon me Though fears are rising like a flood
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My soul can rest securely O Jesus, I will hide in You My place of peace and solace
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No trial is deeper than Your love
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That comforts all my sorrows I'll have a shelter in the storm
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When all my sins accuse me Though justice charges me with guilt
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Your grace will not refuse me O Jesus, I will hide in You Who bore me shame
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I find my refuge in Your Word I find salvation
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I'll have a shelter in the storm When constant winds would break me
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For in my weakness I have learned Your strength will not forsake me
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O Jesus, I will hide in You The One who bears my burden
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With faithful hands that cannot fail You'll bring me home to heaven
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O Jesus, I will hide in You With faithful hands
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You have Once was lost in darkest night
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Yet thought I knew the way The sin that promised joy in life
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Had led me to the grave I had hoped to know if You had mercy
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I would refuse You still As I referenced
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You Sunked upon my helpless state
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And led me to the cross God's love displayed
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You suffered in my place You observed for me
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Jesus is my life, Christ God, Jesus is my life
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Be Yours alone and live so all might see
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The strength to follow Your commands Could never come from me
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O Father, plant some life in the trees
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And let my song forever be
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The Church is what foundation
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Is Jesus Christ the Lord She is
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His new creation By water and the
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Word From heaven He came and sought her
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To be His holy bride With His own blood
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He bought her And for her life He died
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From every nation
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Yet one for all the earth Her charter of salvation
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One heart, one faith, one birth One holy name she blesses
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Partakes one holy food And to one hope she presses
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With every grace endued With toil and tribulation
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And tumult of her war She waits the consummation
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Of peace forevermore Till with a vision glorious Her longing eyes are blessed
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And the great church victorious Shall be the church at rest
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It's she on earth that union
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With God the three in one And mystic, sweet communion
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With those whose rest is won O happy ones and holy!
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Lord, give us grace that we Like them, the meek and holy
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On high may dwell with Thee Would love to remember
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No wrongs we have done Omniscient, all -knowing
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He counts not their sum Thrown into a sea
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With a boat on her shore Our sins, they are many
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His mercy is more Praise God, Lord His mercy is more
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Stronger than darkness Through every bore
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Our sins, they are many His mercy is more
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What patience could wait As we constantly roar
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What Father so tender Is calling us home
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He welcomes the weakest Love thy last abhor
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Our sins, they are many His mercy is more
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Praise God, Lord His mercy is more
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Stronger than darkness Through every bore
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Our sins, they are many His mercy is more
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What riches of kindness He lavished on us
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His blood was the payment His life was the cost
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Restoring the debt We could never afford
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Our sins, they are many His mercy is more
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Praise God, Lord His mercy is more
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Stronger than darkness Through every bore Our sins, they are many
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His mercy is more Praise God, Lord His mercy is more
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Stronger than darkness Through every bore
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Our sins, they are many His mercy is more
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Amen. You may be seated. All right, let's bow in prayer before we begin.
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Our Father, Your mercies are new to us each and every morning. Your faithfulness is so great and Your goodness to us is undeserved and we are aware each and every moment of Your great mercy and Your great faithfulness and we thank
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You for that. We thank You that we can rest in Your goodness and we pray that You may lavish Your goodness upon us today through Virgil and Daryl and all that they bring to us.
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Help them, we pray, to equip us and inform us and encourage us and make our hearts and our spines solid in You so that we may be men and women of courage and boldness in this culture and that You would use our time here to great benefit and blessing upon Your people, we pray in Christ's name.
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Amen. All right, a couple of administrative announcements before we do begin here.
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First of all, can we have Roger Smith stand up, please? No, we're not going to sing,
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Roger, but today is his 90th birthday, so happy birthday. Go ahead, sit down.
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Thank you. All right, lunch is provided today, and again,
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I just remind you there's some 3x5 index cards on the table or at least available out at one of the tables if you want to write down questions for the
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Q &A session, which is later. And then instead of tying this up at the end,
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I just wanted to make you aware you've already seen it, that our registration for next year's Conference 2023 is
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Kosti Hinn. We're going to be talking about being inside the Prosperity Gospel Movement, rescuing loved ones from the
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Prosperity Gospel Movement, kind of an overview of the Prosperity Gospel.
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And Kosti, as Benny Hinn's nephew, he had an inside look at that before the Lord saved him. So he's going to be here next year for probably just a
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Friday night and all -day Saturday and Sunday morning conference like we've done in the past. All right, our next session here, and by the way, it looks like somebody was clubbing last night.
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There's glitter all over the stage up here. All right, our next session is
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The Marxist Exegotology of CRT Part 1.
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Please welcome Darrell Harrison. Yeah, man, if this glitter wasn't here, somebody might think this was a dance floor, not a pulpit.
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Good morning. You guys good? You ready to go? I'm sorry,
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I'm a natural morning person, so I don't need caffeine in the morning. I wake up ready to go. So thanks for being back.
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We appreciate you guys hanging in there with us. I know I speak for Virgil when I say we know we hit you guys with some really deep stuff yesterday.
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So whether you're ready or not, you're about to get more of it. So I'm here this morning to talk to you on Part 1.
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This is Part 1 of a two -part message that I'm going to be doing today on The Marxist Exegotology of Critical Race Theory.
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So if you're taking notes, if you're eating your breakfast, feel free to go ahead and do that, but I would encourage you to take notes as well as you're able to.
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Okay, so if you're all set, we'll go ahead and get started. The Marxist Exegotology of Critical Race Theory Part 1.
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And in his classic book titled Christianity and Liberalism, by the way, if you don't have this book, I would recommend you get it.
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It's by J. Gresham Machen. That last name is M -A -C -H -E -N. It's titled Christianity and Liberalism.
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Machen was a 20th century Presbyterian theologian. He started out at Princeton Theological Seminary, and then as he saw
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Princeton going left, he left Princeton, and he founded Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
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But in his book Christianity and Liberalism, Machen said this, quoting, Modern liberalism in the church, whatever judgment may be passed upon it, is at any rate no longer merely an academic matter.
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It is no longer a matter merely of theological seminaries or universities. On the contrary, its attack upon the fundamentals of the
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Christian faith is being carried on vigorously by Sunday school lesson helps, by the pulpit, and by the religious press.
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If such an attack be unjustified, the remedy is not to be found, as some devout persons have suggested, in the abolition of theological seminaries or the abandonment of scientific theology, but rather in a more earnest search after truth and a more loyal devotion to it when it is found, unquote.
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Now you'll recall last night my reiterating something to you that I'm personally very dogmatic about, and that is that every professing
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Christian must not only be a reader of the Bible, but a student of it, a student of it.
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I'm going to say something here at the risk of maybe alienating some of you, but I don't mean to do that.
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But my wife Melissa knows that this is a little bit of a point of contention for me. I think the degree to which many of us rely on devotionals is hurting us in the church.
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In many ways it's serving as a crutch because the devotionals are, in many cases, looked at as having the same significance as Bible study time, as going to church and hearing an expository sermon read.
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I've got nothing against anyone who happens to be a fan of devotionals. All I'm saying is don't let the devotional be your substitute for personal
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Bible study between you and the Holy Spirit and digging into the Word of God and understanding what these terms and verses mean so that you can become a better apologist yourself because your devotional won't do that for you.
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This is what we're getting at here with what Machen is talking about when he talks about being engaged in a more earnest search after truth and a more loyal devotion to it when it is found.
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That's why we're all here. Now I find Machen's words to be germane to the topic of critical race theory because the question many professors and Christians are asking today is what exactly is critical race theory anyway?
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What is it? What is it? That's both a good and a necessary question to pose.
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It's a good question. You remember me yesterday mentioning to you a term called narratology and how in the culture, narratology is just a way of using narrative and storytelling to get you to buy into a certain agenda based on getting you emotionally involved and connected in it.
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Well, one trap of narratology is that a wokeist and critical race theorist will ask you sort of condescendingly, well, here you are criticizing critical race theory but can you even define it?
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What is it? What is critical race theory? Do you even know what it is? Now my advice to you is if you're ever asked that question by anyone, refuse to answer it because 99 .9
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% of the time they don't know what critical race theory is either which is why they're trying to put the onus on you.
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My motto is never do another person's homework for them. You let them go find out what it is.
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No, you don't answer that question. No, you tell me what critical race theory is since you know, you know.
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But you have to be looking out for these traps, these sort of dialectical traps where they try to get you involved in these conversations.
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There is nothing wrong with not answering the question. Matter of fact, if you go through the Gospels, you go through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, what you're going to find is more times than not when
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Jesus was asked a question, he never answered the question. He rarely, if ever, actually answered the question that was asked.
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And many times he would respond to that question with another question. And see, that's part of being a good apologist.
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You respond to questions with other questions. And there's nothing wrong with that. But what
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Machen is talking about here is really why all of us are here today. Because we're in search for the truth.
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We know where the truth is. We just want to become more equipped. That's why
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I think this conference has a perfect name, the Equipping Conference. That's why we're here. So yes, it's a good question to ask, what is critical race theory?
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I gave you a one -sentence definition of that yesterday. But I believe professing Christians everywhere, regardless of denominational affiliation or political persuasion, would do well to become better informed about what critical race theory is.
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Absolutely, you need to know what critical race theory is. You need to know what it looks like. We talked about that yesterday, how to identify it by its subtleties, by its camouflage, by its stealthy terms.
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So yes, asking what critical race theory is, is an important question. And I'm going to address that again to some degree in this message.
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But first, I want to submit to you that the question, what is critical race theory, is really only a secondary matter.
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That's a secondary question. The primary and more important question we should be asking right now is the same question that Pontius Pilate posed in John 18, 38, when he asked, what is truth?
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That's the question. It is that question, what is truth, that is the most important question that any of us could ever ask.
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Parents, the reason you're trying to raise your children according to the scriptures is because there's such a thing as truth.
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There's such a thing as truth. Bottom line, as followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be people of truth.
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We are to be people of truth because we are people of the truth. In John 17, 17, before he was arrested and subsequently crucified,
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Jesus petitioned his heavenly father to sanctify them. That pronoun, them, refers to all who believed in Christ then and all who will believe in him going forward, in the future.
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Christ asked his father to sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.
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Your word is truth. In John 18, 37,
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Jesus said, everyone who is of the truth hears my voice. By definition,
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Christians are people who, by God's sovereign grace, have heard the voice, in air quotes, of Jesus, not audibly, of course.
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I got Justin Peters back there. Justin, don't think I said that I stood up here and said people can hear the voice of Jesus audibly.
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I didn't say that, I'm just metaphorically. I don't want to end up on one of Justin's videos.
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You don't want to do that. Christians are people who have heard the voice of God by means of having heard the truth of his word preached, that is, the gospel, and consequently having had that truth made effectual unto salvation by virtue of the spirit of God regenerating their sinful hearts and bringing them to faith in Jesus Christ.
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That's 1 Corinthians 1 .30 and Ephesians 2 .8 and 9. It is that same truth, that is, the gospel, that should serve as the compass or the north star, if you will, by which every professing believer in Christ should navigate this sinful world in which we live, a world which, according to 1
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John 5 .19, lies in the power of the evil one. By the way, in that verse, the prepositional phrase the world, in 1
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John 5 .19, refers to the ungodly systems, the practices, the mores, the principles by which this world functions and operates, and that includes every ideology, every philosophy, and yes, every theology that comes against God's word and against his church.
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We're going to talk about this morning and then later on this afternoon when I give you part 2 of this message, you're going to understand how critical race theory itself is a theology.
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It's a theology. It's like I reiterated yesterday. Critical race theory is not just an ideology, it's not some academic proposition that's being taught in schools.
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It's an entire worldview. Believers in Jesus Christ ought to have a gospel -oriented, meaning a truth -oriented, truth -saturated view of the world.
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Another way of saying that is that we ought to have a biblical worldview about everything that encompasses the world in which we live.
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Everything. The early 20th century Dutch reformed theologian Herman Bavington framed that idea in this way, quoting,
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Truth is objective. It exists independently of us. It does not direct itself toward us.
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We must direct ourselves toward it. But just as the wisdom of God became flesh in Christ, so should the truth also enter us.
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In the path of freedom, it must become our personal and spiritual property.
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Through a living and true faith, it must become constitutive of our thinking and doing.
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Constitutive of our thinking and doing. Bavington said it must become. Truth must become constitutive of our thinking and doing.
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And by asserting that the truth of the gospel will be constitutive of our thinking and doing, Bavington is exhorting you and me to develop and to consistently apply a biblical worldview.
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For a Christian to possess and employ a biblical worldview is to filter everything about this world through the lens of what scripture says about it.
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As the British theologian J .C. Rouse says in his classic book titled Holiness, quote, if a man does not realize the dangerous nature of his soul's disease, you cannot wonder if he is content with false and imperfect remedies.
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Among those false and imperfect remedies of which Rouse is speaking is critical race theory.
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Critical race theory is a false and imperfect remedy for what ails our society.
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No, you won't find the term critical race theory in your Bible. Nevertheless, a primary reason that particular ideology has become such a point of division and contention within the evangelical church today is that many professing believers have failed to allow the gospel, as Herman Bavington said, they failed to allow the gospel to become constitutive of their thinking and doing.
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And especially of their thinking. It's a failure which
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I would argue is largely attributable to a collective ignorance in the evangelical church of what the word of God has to say about such unbiblical philosophies.
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To put it another way, our churches are full of people who read God's word but who actually don't study it. As the late
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Dr. R .C. Sproul said, everyone's a theologian. Do you see yourself that way as a theologian?
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You realize that you don't have to be a seminary graduate to be a theologian. If you're a believer in Jesus Christ, you're a theologian.
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If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you are a theologian right now as you sit there.
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John MacArthur says it this way. He says, if we're going to study the Bible, we've got to be committed to the fact that the
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Bible needs to be studied. In the book titled
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The Derrick Bell Reader, so named after the late Harvard University law professor Derrick A. Bell who was mentioned yesterday as known as the father of critical race theory,
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Bell writes this, quoting, he says, critical race theory sprang up with the realization that the civil rights movement of the 1960s had stalled and needed new approaches to deal with the complex relationship among race, racism, and American law.
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Now I mentioned to you yesterday as I took you through the chronology of how we got to critical race theory, we went from the critical theory, the
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Frankfurt School, the Institute of Social Research in Germany in the 1930s, and then to the 1970s, to the critical legal studies movement, and then in the late 1980s you get the critical race theory movement all undergirded by cultural
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Marxism. But what Bell is talking about here is something
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I mentioned to you yesterday. We got to critical race theory because the critical race theorists didn't think that the critical legal studies movement had gone far enough.
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Now when you look at the 1960s, especially in America, blacks gained significant victories during that one decade.
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Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Brown v. Board of Education, blacks in America gained significant victories, and if I can just take a detour here for one second,
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I think it's interesting when you look at the history of the struggle for black civil rights in America, which really encompassed more than 100 years to attain the rights that we have now as blacks in America, as opposed to the rights that LGBTQ liability has been able to gain in less than 10.
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What you'll find if you study the LGBTQ movement, they always hijack the black civil rights movement.
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It's like the black civil rights movement is the train with the engine and the LGBTQ movement comes on and attaches to the caboose.
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The LGBTQ movement has gained in less than 10 years what it took black people in this country more than 100 years, when you think about it.
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We go from the 1860s, coming out of the Civil War in 1865, you got
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Reconstruction, you got the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, you come out of that, then you've got you start with the
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Emancipation Proclamation, you go with the Jim Crow laws that had to be defeated, then you had the redlining that had to be dealt with, and then you're into the 50s and 60s where you get into education discrimination, housing discrimination, you get voting discrimination, things like that.
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You're looking at over 100 years to really get recognized as a person, but the
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LGBTQ agenda, which is a minute, statistically speaking, a minute portion of the population, look how much power they have.
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In less than 10 years, they're getting everything they want. So it's not people like me and Virgil that black people need to be angry at, they really should be angry at themselves for letting the
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LGBTQ lobby hijack the Civil Rights movement. That's what they should be angry at. In their book,
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Critical Race Theory and Introduction, co -authors Richard Delgado and Jesus Dufansic define the
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Critical Race Theory movement as follows, quoting, A collection of activists and scholars engaged in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power,
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Critical Race Theory questions the very foundations of liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.
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After the first decade, Critical Race Theory began to splinter and now includes a well -developed
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Asian American jurisprudence, a forceful Latino critical contingent, a feisty
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LGBTQ interest group, and now a Muslim and Arab caucus. Although the groups continue to maintain good relations under the umbrella of Critical Race Theory, each has developed its own body of literature and set of priorities.
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So what you just heard is precisely why Critical Race Theory is not only about race, it is an entire worldview.
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It's a worldview that also promotes and advances an idea known in Critical Race Theory circles as intersectionality.
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I mentioned that term yesterday and its founder, Kimberley Crenshaw. What you heard me quote just now from Richard Delgado and Jesus Dufansic, that gives you an idea of how intersectional
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Critical Race Theory is. It's not just about race. It's getting all these different interest groups and ideologies involved toward the goal of developing an entire worldview.
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And by the time I'm done here, you're going to understand why I titled this message The Marxist Eschatology of Critical Race Theory.
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Dr. Michael Dumas, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, describes
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Kimberley Crenshaw's intersectionality as follows. Quote, intersectionality has been advanced within CRT as a way to capture the dynamic relationship between race and other, quote unquote, differences, including gender, sexuality, sexual identity, disability, and of course, social class.
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Unquote. As a philosophical construct, Critical Race Theory has its origins in one of the most demonic and destructive ideologies ever to exist in human history, namely
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Marxism. You'll recall me mentioning that yesterday. Marxism is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
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Yet you heard me quote from Critical Race Theorists themselves yesterday that they credit Marxists for helping them develop that philosophy.
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Marxism, so -called because of its namesake, Karl Heinrich Marx, a German -Jewish -Argentine atheist and anti -Semite.
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Have you ever met or heard of a Jew who hates Jews? Well, that was Karl Marx. Karl Marx was one of the most racist individuals ever to live.
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He hated everyone. He didn't care what your ethnic background was. He hated everyone. He was very influential in the formation of the
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Critical Legal Studies Movement of the 1970s, as you heard me say yesterday. According to the book titled
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The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, matter of fact, let me pause here and say, if you're going to get one book on Critical Race Theory, get this book.
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The title is The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, First Edition. The Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education, First Edition.
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If you want a sort of holistic view of what the agenda, motives, and inspirations that drive
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Critical Race Theory are, it's in that book. I'm quoting from that book here.
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Composed predominantly of white neo -Marxist legal scholars and intellectuals who sought to expose and challenge the view that legal reasoning in America was neutral, values -free, and unaffected by social and economic relations, political forces, or cultural phenomena, for Critical Legal Studies proponents,
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American law and legal institutions tend to serve to legitimize an oppressive social order.
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Unquote. So the Critical Legal Studies Movement operated under the presupposition that American jurisprudence was racist, to put this in layman's terms.
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It was biased towards white people, biased against black people, people of color. Please note that the phrase oppressive social order is classic
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Marxist vernacular. You need to look out for certain buzzwords when you listen to these
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Critical Race Theorists. Words like radical, words like transformation, words like oppressive, oppression, all those are
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Marxist terms. The use of those terms really should come as no surprise to any of us because in Marxism, everything is oppressive.
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Everything in Marxism is oppressive, but especially Christianity. Listen to what
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Karl Marx said in the Communist Manifesto, quoting him. The democratic concept of man is false because it is
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Christian. The democratic concept holds that each man is a sovereign being.
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This is the illusion, the dream, and the postulate of Christianity. Unquote.
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It's interesting that in Critical Race Theory, Christianity is the only faith -based worldview that's attacked. Critical Race Theorists don't go after Muslims, they don't go after Jews, they don't go after Buddhists, they don't go after any other religion other than Christianity.
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You know why? Because Marxism is so inherent to Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Theory has to operate in a way that attacks
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Christianity because Christianity was the target of Marxism. This has all just come full circle.
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Given the influence of the Marxism and Critical Legal Studies movement, which subsequently influenced the Critical Race Theory movement,
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I think it's both relevant and germane to our understanding of Critical Race Theory to have some idea of the very significant role that Marxism played and continues to play in shaping the
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Critical Race Theory worldview. And that understanding begins, I believe, with our gaining some insight into the kind of person that Karl Marx himself was.
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In his book titled A History of Western Philosophy and Theology, theologian John Frame, professor emeritus of systematic theology and philosophy at Reform Theological Seminary, writes this, quote,
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Marx was an admirer of Charles Darwin. Marx believed that the ultimate causes of events were material, not mental.
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Further, in his view, those ultimate causes were economic. The attempts of people to achieve material well -being are what motivate the events of history.
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In his analysis of the production of goods, Marx distinguished between factors of production, that is, food, clothing, shelter, work skills, and relations of production, master, slave, owner, worker, etc.
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It was the relations of production Marx thought to be the more important in understanding historical change.
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So in his understanding, all past history has been determined by class conflict.
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Where do you remember that from? We broke that down yesterday. But how everything in Marxism, just like critical race theory, is class antagonism.
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It's class conflict. There is always an upper class and a lower class.
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There are always haves and have -nots. In ancient times, the haves were the slave owners and the have -nots the slaves.
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The interests of these two groups were entirely opposed. Any increase in the prosperity of the owner is at the expense of the slave and vice versa.
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Now you'll recall what I'm reading here from John Frame in talking about Karl Marx, the term in critical race theory for that is interest convergence.
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So what you're hearing Frame articulate about the worldview of Karl Marx in that any increase in the prosperity of the owner is at the expense of the slave and interest convergent, any increase in the station of life of a white person is always at the expense of a black person.
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Marxism and critical race theory are like this. Just like this. It's a zero -sum relationship.
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So conflict is an unavoidable consequence. I'm still quoting John Frame. Christians were in the vanguard in abolishing the slave trade and slavery itself.
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Also in the care of orphans and widows, improving education, encouraging science and art. But Marx thought that religions and liberal social movements should not be encouraged.
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In his view, they were counterproductive because they were counterproductive because there was precious time and energy wasted and that time and energy does not get to the root of the real problem.
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The real problem he and later Marxists argued are structural.
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Now where do you hear that? You hear that all the time in critical race theory. We must tear down the structures.
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We must destroy these structures. We must destroy these institutions. Continuing to quote
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John Frame they cannot be solved until there is a radical change in the very nature of society.
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They cannot be solved until there is a radical change in the very nature of society. The means of production must be taken away from the rich capitalists and given to the representatives of the poor.
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Representatives of the poor. Let me give you a contemporary real time example of how that's working out right now.
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It's working out right now through Black Lives Matter. The representatives of the poor in this case are
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Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and April Garza. The three co -founders of Black Lives Matter who have been enriching themselves to the degree of tens of millions of dollars while the black people who many people thought black lives existed to help continue to languish in poverty.
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This is exactly what's happening right now with Black Lives Matter. Representatives of the poor.
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It's always the representatives of the poor that get wealthy. It's never the poor who get help. That money never gets down to the poor.
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Never. The representatives of the poor.
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So Marx described religion particularly Christianity as an opiate.
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A kind of drug given to the poor by the rich to persuade them that revolution is not needed.
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Under the influence of the opiate they come to think that they will get their due reward through normal social change and eventually a reward in the sky by and by.
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So Marxists regard religion especially Christianity as a barrier to revolution and therefore a barrier to truly radical social change, unquote.
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Again, that quote was from John Frame's book A History of Western Philosophy and Theology.
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Again, the phrase radical social change is really code for Marxism. Wherever you see that word radical it's either
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Marxist or communist that they're talking about. Cultural Marxism is that brand of Marxism that fuels the critical race theory movement today.
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We talked about that yesterday about how Antonio Gramsci is the father of cultural Marxism. In an article for, speaking of Gramsci, in an article for the
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Foundation for Economic Education or FEE, titled Antonio Gramsci, the
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Godfather of Cultural Marxism, author Bradley Thomas writes this, quote, there's little debate that modern day
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American universities, public education, mainstream media, Hollywood and political advocacy groups are dominated by leftists.
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This is no accident but part of a deliberate strategy to pave the way for communist revolution developed more than eight decades ago by an
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Italian political theorist named Antonio Gramsci. Described as one of the world's most important and influential
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Marxist theorists since Marx himself, if you are not familiar with Gramsci, you should be.
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Gramsci wrote in the 1930s of a, quote, war of position, unquote, for socialists and communists to subvert
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Western culture from the inside. The Italian communists who lived from 1891 to 1937 is credited with the blueprint that has served as the foundation for the cultural
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Marxist movement in modern America. In his view, a new collective will is required to advance this war of position for the revolution.
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To him, that is to Gramsci, it is vital to evaluate what can stand in the way of his will, i .e.
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certain influential social groups with the prevailing capitalist ideologies that could impede this progress.
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Let me pause right here. One of those influential social groups that Gramsci is talking about here that could stand in the way or could impede the progress of this revolution moving forward is the church.
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In other words, you. This is exactly why critical race theory is coming after your schools, it's coming after your church, and it's coming after the place where you work.
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It's coming. It's coming. Continuing the quote from Bradley Thomas' article,
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Gramsci spoke of organizations including churches, charities, the media, schools, universities, and quote economic corporate unquote power as organizations that need to be invaded by socialist thinkers.
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Now you might understand how secular entities like universities, the media, corporate interests might be subject and more,
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I guess, more apt to fall for this kind of stuff.
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But it's churches that are buying into this stuff as well. Churches and denominations.
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Churches and denominations that are being invaded by socialist thinkers, and it's not even an invasion anymore. You've got evangelical seminaries that exist as I stand here right now that are teaching critical race theory.
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That are advocating liberation theology. Listen to our next episode,
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I'm going to name names. But when
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Bradley Thomas writes of Antonio Gramsci saying that these institutions need to be invaded from the inside by socialist thinkers, it's happening.
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It's happening. But it's like I said yesterday, don't think that your place of work is going to say yeah we're introducing this new
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Marxist program for HR. They're not going to say that.
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You're going to get an email asking you to fill out a survey from a consulting firm that helps develop diversity, equity, inclusion programs.
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That's going to be the Marxist invasion of your place of business through DEI. It's going to come into your school as ethnic studies, social and emotional learning,
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SEL. That's how it's coming in. That's how this invasion that Gramsci talks about is going to happen.
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It's happening right now. On August 17th of 2020, the website for Catholic World Report published a review of a
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Zen new book, and I quoted from this book yesterday, it was a book by Dr. Paul Kengor titled The Devil and Karl Marx.
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Catholic World Report published a review of that book back in August of 2020. And the following is an excerpt from that review.
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Quote, in the chapter titled My Soul is Chosen for Hell, Kengor provides excerpts from the demonic poetry and prose of Karl Marx written several years before his communist manifesto in 1848.
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In which he waxes poetic about quote the hellish vapors that rise and fill the brain till I go mad and my heart is utterly changed.
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See this sword? The prince of darkness sold it to me. For me he beats the time and gives the signs.
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Ever more boldly I play the dance of death unquote. Remarking on that poem entitled
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The Player, Dr. Kengor notes quote the blood violinist is not destroying the world because he hates it, but is doing so in order to spite
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God out of derision and mockery against the creator. He is a rebel like Satan, the ultimate rebel against God and heaven unquote.
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Marxism does the same by destroying the world as it exists creating a new world in which
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God is destroyed and man is elevated unquote. If you don't have the book
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The Devil and Karl Marx by Dr. Paul Kengor I encourage you to get it and read it.
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See it's dangerous to listen to me and Virgil. Because you're going to go broke listening to us.
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The books and the white papers and stuff that you hear us citing in our podcast episode, this is stuff we've read.
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These books are in my library right now. I've read them all. This is why I can recommend them to you because I've read them.
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So I'm not trying to get you to go out especially what gas here is almost $5, more than $5 in some cases.
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I'm not trying to get you guys to spend, I know stuff is expensive right now. But really if you want to be equipped, if you really want to be equipped you have to invest.
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You have to invest in expanding your library. So consider getting a copy of the book
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The Devil and Karl Marx by Dr. Paul Kengor. That last name is K -E -N -G -O -R.
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But what I want you to catch at the last part of that quote from that Catholic World Report review of Dr.
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Kengor's book is where Dr. Kengor says Marxism does the same by destroying the world as it exists creating a new world in which
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God is destroyed and man is elevated. Now those four words creating a new world is not only the goal of Marxism but it's also the goal of critical race theory.
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Creating a new world that's eschatological language. That's eschatological language.
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See what you have to understand about eschatology too often within the church you hear that word eschatology and it too often refers to something coming to an end.
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But eschatology isn't only about something coming to an end it's about something coming to an end and something else beginning.
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So it's not just the end it's the end and then starting something else. That vision is reflected by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefansic in their book which
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I cited earlier Critical Race Theory and Introduction where they say this quote although CRT began as a movement in law it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline.
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Today many scholars in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use
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CRT's ideas to understand issues of school discipline and hierarchy tracking, affirmative action, high stakes testing controversies over curriculum and history bilingual and multicultural education and alternative and charter schools.
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And let me pause in this quote right here. What you are hearing Delgado and Stefansic articulate is exactly why in public schools especially as it relates to black children the bar, the academic bar is not only being lowered it's being eliminated.
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SAT's are no longer necessary. ACT's you don't have that. LSAT's you don't have to have
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LSAT's to even get into law school anymore. I was just reading just last week somewhere in California in a public school system out there somewhere teachers are now being required to factor in the child's ethnicity in grading them where they're automatically imparting to that child if it's a black child if it's an ethnic minority especially a black child a victimhood mentality whereby they're already assuming that that child is incapable of learning so we have to offset that by factoring that into the grades that we give them.
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So what's problematic about that many things that are problematic about that but one of which is when they come when those young children who are now 7, 8 years old when they get to be 17 and 18 and they're going to be graduated from high school totally illiterate they won't know how to read they won't know how to add but they're going to be graduated out of high school.
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They're going to be pushed out into society incapable of fending for themselves because of critical race theory.
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I'm going to read this section again because I want you to get what they're saying here although CRT began as a movement in the law it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline.
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Today many scholars in the field of education that's why you need to get that book I referenced earlier Critical Race Theory in Education. That's where it starts it's in the schools the schools are the entry port but then it goes from the schools into the homes and into the homes into society.
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Many scholars in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT's ideas to understand issues of school discipline.
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Again black children aren't disciplined anymore. Matter of fact what
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I recall about that article V you may be familiar with this as well of what's going on in California along with that the teachers cannot even report black children who are disruptive in class who even make threats.
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You can't report them to the officials anymore. That's this that's the result of this right here discipline is racist having them take a test is racist so when
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Delgado's defense they say well CRT helps us understand issues no no what did
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I say yesterday critical race theory fundamentally is looking at the entire world and finding something to criticize about it that's this right here issues of school discipline and hierarchy tracking affirmative action high stakes testing what's high stakes testing you mean testing that prepares them to live out in the world that high stakes testing testing that makes sure they can fill out a job application listen
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I'm director of social media so I'm a tech guy but what's killing this generation right now is what's killing subsequent generations is that you can apply for a job by just holding up your phone you realize that emojis is a language now emojis is a language children don't know how to write they don't know how to form a sentence because all
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I have to do is text a shortcut on my phone I think it was a conference we would add up in Minnesota earlier this year and I think it was
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February and the green room that they had set up for us was a classroom on the church campus and I remember walking in there and just kind of looking around getting a lay of the place and I see a behind me to my left a chalkboard up on the wall with actual penmanship letters you guys remember those you know what penmanship is
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I'm like man look at that we are pushing our children out of school who can't write a sentence they can't they cannot form a cognitive sentence because everything is done through this little box this is what critical race theory is doing high stakes testing controversies over curriculum and history what that means is well you guys are teaching too much white
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European western history in your classroom you need more W .E .B. DuBois you need more
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Malcolm X you need more Louis Farrakhan that's what you need you have to learn to read between these words and these terms and see what these folks are really saying history, bilingual and multicultural education and alternative charter schools that's next matter of fact those of you who homeschool don't think you're out of the woods you're next the
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Biden administration has already announced tighter regulations for charter schools why because they're married to the teachers unions they want to make it as hard as possible for you to educate your children outside of the public schools they're going to make it absolutely as hard as possible for you to homeschool your children so don't think you're out of the woods this is coming for you too this is coming please don't be naive about this continuing to quote
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Delgado and Stefancic political scientists ponder voting strategies coined by critical race theorists while women's studies professors teach about intersectionality ethnic studies see they're saying the quiet part out loud they're telling you what their goal is ethnic studies courses often include a unit on critical race theory and American studies departments teach material on critical white studies developed by critical race theory writers sociologists, theologians and healthcare specialists use critical race theory and its ideas see
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I have to pause here again this is why I love working with Virgil because I was telling Jim here just a second ago see what
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Virgil and I do we're really myth busters we get to come to conferences like this and just bust myths we bust narratives
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I'm reading to you directly from a critical race theory resource they are telling you in their own words what their goal is
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I don't have to give you my opinion, Virgil doesn't have to give you his opinion we cite original sources and tell you from their own mouths we've read these books philosophers incorporate critical race ideas and analyzing issues such as viewpoint discrimination and whether western philosophy is inherently white in its orientation, values and method of reasoning see you guys are the enemies
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I told you this yesterday if you're white, you're done you're the target of critical race theorists white people, when they say things like western philosophy, translate white people unlike some academic disciplines, critical race theory contains an activist dimension don't forget that critical race theory contains an activist dimension it tries not only to understand our social situation but to change it that's more eschatological language right there setting out not only to ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies but to transform them that's why this message is titled the
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Marxist eschatology of critical race theory they want to change the world they want to destroy as Dr.
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Paul King wrote and I quoted him yesterday they want to destroy the western Judeo -Christian foundation of this country and replace it with a
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Marxist utopia and I told you this yesterday they want to invert the hierarchy you're hearing it in their own words that critical race theorists seek to change and transform western society again, it's what makes that ideology eschatological
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Delgado and Stefancic acknowledge in their own words quote, critical race theory contains an activist dimension unquote, toward that very end toward that very eschatological end but they're not the only ones self -described trans -queer activist
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Latinx scholar and public theologian Robin Henderson Espinosa shares that eschatological vision as well in her book titled
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Activist Theology she writes this quote now, let me pause here you're about to hear some of the most unintelligible gibberish that you've ever heard but this is what critical race theorists do the more of their materials that you read the more you're going to find that these are doctoral, post -doctoral some of them and their books are written for their peers they're written for one another so what they do is they thrive on integrating multisyllabic terms and creating new multisyllabic terms that no one but them knows what they mean but they try to impress one another is what they do so don't blame me if you don't understand what
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I'm about to say quote, this is not me this is Robin Henderson Espinosa you may be familiar with the name if you've listened to our episode titled
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Activist Theology, we quote from this book Robin Henderson Espinosa says this again, don't blame me but this is what she says,
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I'm quoting activist theology is normative in this sense because it enfleshes an eschatological horizon one that is always about collective liberation when we lean into rupture and likewise into the political subjectivity of becoming, we see the possibility of radical social change emerge in the entanglement of protest and revolution radical social change materializes with a commitment to militant peace in the practice of bridging radical differences creating threshold spaces that another world is possible so that another world is possible more eschatological language right there while militant peace is embodied in the discipline of dismantling systems of oppression, militancy is productive because it demands a deep commitment to midwifing shalom in the world in order for the beloved kingdom to materialize, unquote
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I mean, it took everything within me not to burst out laughing while I'm midwifing shalom what the, militant peace but this is what they do, they write gibberish like this in their books to impress one another but see, again, listen,
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I'm not bragging I'm not putting myself on a pedestal or something like that but this is how we get down this is why it takes us so long to prepare for an episode of Just Thinking Podcast because we're reading stuff like this it took me one week, wait, wait, midwifing shalom
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I'm spending a whole week just trying to understand what those two words are saying but seriously, that's what they do when you read these books that I'm referring you to that are written by critical race theorists they're extremely highly academic, but that's by design they're not written for the layperson they're written to the people who are going to be the soldiers in their critical race theory military that's going to be executing this agenda at the ground level they're not written for you and me but don't worry, virtually, we got you covered we're reading this stuff in biblical theology, eschatology, taken from the
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Greek noun eschaton is a study of what the Bible has to say about the end times more specifically, biblical eschatology has to do with God destroying this present world and replacing it with an altogether new one
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I would venture to say, however that the overwhelming majority of Christians when they think about eschatology to whatever degree they do think about it and what it entails they tend to think about it apocalyptically and consequently, they immediately turn to the book of Revelation to have their curiosity assuaged indeed, the book of Revelation does have much to say concerning how this present world is destined to end, but not all eschatological language is found in the book of Revelation in fact, one of my most reassuring eschatological verses of scripture is found in 2
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Peter 3, verses 10 -13 in the New American Standard Translation, that passage reads this way let me pause here this verse is a one verse apologetic against Christian nihilism we are not nihilists we're not like the critical race theorists and the
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Marxists who think you're just here in this world trying to make your way through and then after you die, there's nothing since all these things ought to be destroyed in this way what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness looking for and hastening the coming of the day of the
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Lord because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning and the elements will melt with intense heat and here's the really encouraging part, verse 13 of 2
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Peter 3 but according to his promise we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness dwells see, the critical race theorist thinks you can create that here the words of 2
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Peter 3, verse 13 serve as an excellent example of the distinction between biblical eschatology and the temporal eschatology that is proffered within critical race theory biblical eschatology teaches that the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men in 2
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Peter 3, verse 7 and that there will one day be a completely new heaven and a completely new earth which
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God himself will bring to reality that's Revelation 21, verse 1 now you contrast that with the man -centered eschatology of critical race theory which proffers the idea that humanity innately possesses the ability and capacity to bring about a new world in the here and now not physically of course but societally and culturally this view was expressed by Ibram X.
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Kendi founding director of the Boston University Center for Anti -Racist Research, matter of fact
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Jamar Tisby is part of that organization now Ibram X. Kendi said this in an interview in 2021 you can find this interview on YouTube he was at a church, a liberal church in New York and he was being interviewed at that church and he said this in response to a question he was asked
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I'm quoting Ibram X. Kendi Jesus was a revolutionary and the job of the
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Christian is to revolutionize society the job of the Christian is to liberate society from the powers on earth that are oppressing humanity the powers on earth that are oppressing humanity is white people, that's how you can translate that needless to say the theology of Ibram X.
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Kendi the theology that he's proffering is not the biblical gospel the job of the
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Christian is not to liberate society from the powers on earth that are oppressing humanity that's not our job as I said yesterday,
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Christ came to save sinners he did not come to save society I have more to say on this in part 2 later this afternoon, thank you very much got a 10 minute break coming up, alright, see you guys in 10 minutes
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Jesus, give us eyes to see your glory you are our hope, you are our joy you are our overcoming king so we sing hallelujah
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Jesus is alive risen from death, ascended on high glorious by the father's eye so we sing hallelujah
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Jesus is alive hallelujah