Social Justice Unredacted - Pre Game Thoughts

Well, tomorrow is the day we're going to do social justice unredacted. I hope that you are looking forward to it,

I sure am, and we're going to talk about a few things. But I wanted to sort of set the table a little bit today, just to give you a little bit of context for the conversation.

And actually tomorrow, I'm going to drop the, I did an interview with the whistleblower, so to speak, who actually sent me the screenshots that we're going to talk about on social justice unredacted.

So we'll see that tomorrow. But a couple of quick things here. So there's a good chance that some of you are doing sort of the same page summer thing that the brothers up in Moscow, Idaho put on.

So basically, it's like a summer Bible reading plan, so everyone's kind of on the same page. Pretty clever.

Anyway, probably some of you are doing that. So yesterday, we were doing the first, the second four chapters in the book of John.

And one of the things that I found interesting is the

Pharisees are confronting Jesus for breaking the Sabbath. They think he's broken the Sabbath because he healed somebody on the

Sabbath. And Jesus argues with them for a minute. And one of the things that he says is, don't judge by appearances, judge with right judgment.

I might be misquoting that slightly, but that's essentially what he says. Don't judge on appearances, but judge with right judgment.

Because the reality is that according to their bogus Sabbath laws, it might have appeared that he was breaking the

Sabbath, but he actually wasn't. Because if you look at the law of God, there was nothing in the law of God that says you could not heal a person on the

Sabbath. The Pharisees had made up this whole system that made it seem like you were keeping the

Sabbath, but really it had nothing to do with the Sabbath. And so that is something that is happening all the time in the social justice debate.

There are things that people are saying and doing that make it appear righteous. But if you actually look at the scriptures and you look at the law of God and you apply the moral law and you apply the general equity of the civil law, you can see that it only appears righteous, but it's not actually righteous.

We need to use correct judgment. We have to actually talk about these things. And so that's one of the things that we're probably going to discuss tomorrow, because there are going to be things that appear like they're righteous, but they're really not.

Two points before we get into tomorrow's event. The first thing is the definition of racism.

So we're going to talk about racism, obviously, because that's what this whole thing tends to be about.

And most people, they would say, well, what is the sin of racism? Because we don't have a scripture that says you shall not be racist, right?

We don't have a scripture like that. And a lot of people have offered a lot of different definitions of racism, but really what it boils down to is the sin of partiality.

The Old Testament and the New Testament, again and again and again, say do not show partiality.

God doesn't show partiality, therefore you should not show partiality. And racism is essentially treating someone differently, treating someone with partiality based on their skin color.

That's what essentially it is. It's a problem because it essentially denies the full status of someone having the image of God.

Because if you're saying, well, yeah, you have the image of God, but I'm going to treat you differently than these other image bearers because of your skin color, well, that's a problem.

That's a real issue. So the problem with racism is prejudice. It's partiality.

It's treating someone differently based on some kind of a factor like their skin color, like their ethnicity, like whether they're rich or poor, things like that.

And again and again and again, the Bible says don't show partiality to the rich, don't show partiality to the poor. We could interpret that, or I'm sorry, we could apply that.

Don't show partiality to whites, don't show partiality to blacks. So anyway, so that's what

I think most people who look at the Bible say that's the primary sin of racism. But that's not what the social justice movement defines racism as.

Here's a tweet from Jamar Tisby. He's asking, can black people be racist? And he says, well, it depends on how you define racism.

Of course, Jamar over here wants to define it in such a way that black people can't be racist. I don't know why he wants to do that, but this is the thing.

So here's how he defines it. Racism equals prejudice plus power. Now you could dispute that because the reality is that the problem with racism is the prejudice.

It's not the power because power isn't a sin. Having power isn't a sin. God gives power to people.

God decides who you were born to. God decides who your parents are. God decides what ethnicity you are, what time period you were born in.

God decides all these things. And so if you have power and you're a Christian, that's not a problem. There's no problem with having power as a

Christian. There's no problem with desiring power as a Christian, as long as you desire it in a God -honoring kind of way.

So in that definition, the problem is the prejudice. It's the partiality. It has nothing to do with the power.

You can be partial, whether you have a little bit of power or a lot of bit of power. It doesn't really matter.

So some people will dispute that definition, but I don't actually see a need to.

I don't see a need to because even though I think that definition is wrong, it's very useful to use this definition.

Number one, because the definition itself shows partiality, which is interesting. So the definition itself is sinful, but also we can use this definition and still demonstrate that people on Jamar Tisby's side are racist.

And we're going to do that tomorrow because power is a relative term because there are people that have a lot of power and we can look at that, but then there are people that have a little bit of power and a little bit of authority.

And that's what we're going to talk about tomorrow. In fact, we are going to be discussing about a Facebook group that is put on and run by Jamar Tisby and his friends and his little group.

And we can use that as an instructive example because that is an area where they are in power.

Now, it's a little bit of power. It's just a Facebook group and you might be saying, well, Adam, what's the point of exposing this?

This has nothing to do with anything. It's just a Facebook group. And in a lot of ways, you're right. A Facebook group is essentially meaningless, but we can use this little

Facebook group where they have a little bit of insignificant authority and say, okay, what are they doing when they have a little bit of power?

What are they doing when they have a little bit of authority? Are they being faithful? Are they following the law of God?

Are they showing partiality? Are they breaking the law of God? Are they sinning in the little bit of power that they have?

And there's a principle that we can use. If they are sinning with a little bit of power, the chances of them sinning if they ever had a lot of bit of power is very, very high.

In fact, that's a biblical principle. I talked about this on my most recent Fight, Laugh, Feast podcast.

Essentially there's a test that we can run. If you can manage yourself, if you can manage a little bit of authority, then you could be given more authority and that's an appropriate thing.

But if you can't even manage the little bit of power of being in authority in a Facebook group, if that little tiny bit of insignificant, pathetic power goes to your head and you're sinning instantly in that, there's no way you should be given any more power.

There's no way we should listen to you when it comes to this issue. We're going to demonstrate that tomorrow. We're going to show you how this little tiny bit of authority in a

Facebook group, I'm a moderator and admin of a Facebook group, has gone to their head to such a degree that we can sort of extrapolate what would happen if people from this social justice movement were given more authority.

What would happen? How would they act? What would they be doing? And it's not pretty, put it that way.

Those are the two principles that I wanted to talk about today. Look forward to talking with you. It's tomorrow. It's going to be on YouTube live at 9 p .m.

Eastern time on my YouTube channel, Social Justice Unredacted tomorrow, Thursday, June 6th at 9 p .m.