Ethnic Gnosticism and the Gospel

Question again. Sorry. How are you advocating for change and progress in the black community? What are some things you would encourage others to do to see change around him?

Abortion, Fatherlessness, and Adoption in the Black Community

Yeah, a couple of things. Me personally, over the last couple of decades, one of the things people have gotten tired of hearing me talk about, um, is abortion and black genocide. The number one killer of black people by far since 1973 has been abortion.

It has killed more black people than all of the other causes of death combined. Um, I don't stop talking about that. I haven't stopped talking about it for two decades. In fact, you know, my wife and I got so involved in this issue and so involved in the pro life movement.

Um, and so involved in the fact, you know, black women make up 12 of the population, but 36 of the abortions. Margaret Sanger's Negro Project. Um, you know, Malthusian eugenics and a desire to eliminate the unwanted races, you know, and especially black people that being carried on even today, her recruiting of black churches and black pastors and black doctors in order to encourage black people to have abortions.

Um, and now that being in common in our culture and, um, you know, it became so real to us, um, that we then realized that there was a need on the other side. And so the reality of adoption and trying to encourage black families to adopt, um, and then, you know, stepping up and getting real with it.

You know, we're telling other people about this. And so we've adopted seven black Children, um, because of our personal commitment to this particular issue. Um, that's why when I think about this and what's going on, um, anybody who knows me knows that the issue of fatherlessness in the black community and fatherlessness as it's growing in this country, um, you know, three of my last four books, you know, talking about family, family discipleship of you cut those books and they bleed my experience with and passion about turning the corner on this issue of fatherlessness.

Um, so adoption, um, fatherhood, encouraging fatherhood. Um, you know, these are things for us, um, that are real. These are ways that we're committed in this in this area and in this process. And, of course, this issue, this black genocide of abortion.

Um, I will not stop talking about this issue. You know, we can talk about perceived racism all day long. You know, we can talk about the things that we feel are unjust all day long. But Roe versus Wade is a law.

It's got a name. It's got a face. I know where it is. I can go right to it. My perception about what people feel about me, my perception about inequality that doesn't have a face. What is that? How do you deal with the perception?

I'm talking about something that's real, something that's a fact. And so for me, that's something that I'm passionate about. That's something that I ache over, and it's something that we're doing to our selves.

And so for me, those are things that I'm passionate about, that I'm involved in, that I'm engaged in, and have been engaged in more, want to do more, praying that God, you know, by His grace will allow us to help people see the connection between adoption and the gospel.

You know, that in the oral salutis, it's not just justification and sanctification and glorification, but it is justification. And there's adoption. It's adoption, adoption, adoption. That's the gospel.

And black families don't adopt. And so there are black children who are sitting there waiting for families to adopt them. And then black people have the audacity to get mad at white people for adopting the black children that they won't.

And so that's an area where I've got both boots on the ground.

The Negro Family, Fatherlessness, and Social Breakdown

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his famous 1965 report entitled, The Negro Family, The Case for National Action, close quote. Longish quotation, but it gets to something, I believe. Moynihan, the fundamental problem is that of family structure.

The Negro family in the urban ghettos is crumbling. A middle class has managed to save itself, but for vast numbers of the unskilled and poorly educated, the fabric of conventional social relationships has all but disintegrated.

So long as this situation persists, the cycle of poverty and disadvantage will continue to repeat itself, close quote. When Moynihan wrote those words, the illegitimacy rate among African Americans was 25%.

Today, the illegitimacy rate among white Americans is 36%. Among Hispanics, more than 50%. And among African Americans, more than 70%. Aside from throwing up your hands in despair,.

What is to be done? I start off with two videos, Dr. Votie Baucom speaking about fatherlessness and the Planned Parenthood genocide that is so amazing, given the fact that we recently had videos demonstrating what Planned Parenthood is all about, and yet we're now bringing charges against the people that made the videos and so on and so forth.

And then the Wall Street Journal interviewing Thomas Sowell on the subject of the black family. This was a few years ago. And what did you hear there? You heard 70 illegitimacy rate. That was a few years ago.

You heard fatherlessness. You heard Planned Parenthood. And evidently, if you're Thomas Sowell or Votie Baucom, you can talk about these things. But if you're not, and you may have noticed that there's a similarity between Dr. Baucom and Dr. Sowell.

They share something. And evidently, that allows them to be passionate and to speak about it. We're doing this program today because last Friday, I was on my way home. I had noticed over the years that if you, well, some of you may recall, remember when a meteor hit in Russia a few years ago, exploded in midair, broke windows, all sorts of stuff.

I noticed that all the videos of it came from dash cams. And then I noticed that if you want to see a compilation of crazy accidents or near misses, they almost always come from Russia. And I started reading and found out that just simply for insurance laws, pretty much everybody in Russia has a dash cam.

And I thought, you know, that's not a bad idea. Not a bad idea. So I got one of these little Garmin 20 dash cams. And I just reach up there and turn it on when I get in the car and turn it off when I get where I'm going.

And, you know, I've seen a few things with it, but I was going home on Friday. And I pulled up to the corner of 35th Avenue and Glendale. And I happened to be, it was one of those situations where my lane was open.

So I was the first car in the, not the left-hand turn lane. It's one left-hand turn lane, three lanes going north. And as the, I guess there had been some left-hand turns. And as this traffic starts, I see a police vehicle.

It was a police SUV going from my left to my right. And right as he goes by, I see a young man. I would estimate he was about 15 years of age. He was a black young man. And he was dressed in such a fashion that the rear of his shorts is down under his butt.

So his derriere is out there. So you can see what underwear he's wearing. And I notice him, you know, the cops passed him. He didn't openly do it. So that sort of like, you know, like this, but he flipped them off.

He gave him the finger, the cop. And then he started, he finished off a, you know, like a Gatorade, Powerade, you know, some type of drink in a plastic bottle thing. I don't know what it was. As he got out of view, I eventually discovered of my camera.

And then he just tossed it. He didn't try to, he didn't, he didn't hide it. He was performing. He, he, he's right there in front of everybody. He wants everybody to see what he's doing. And I happened to look over at the ladies in the, there were two ladies in the car, in the, I was in the left and they were in the center.

So there, there'd be one more lane over to the right. And they're doing the same thing I'm doing. Like, you gotta be kidding me. Um, and one of them actually saw me looking over and they pulled up a little bit farther and sort of looked at me like, and I'm like, I know, I know.

Amazing. And the light turns and off we go. I started thinking about that young man. Now, what did not cross my mind at first at all was his race. I mean, I recognized it, but unlike the many lies, falsehoods, cavils that have been launched my direction over the past four or five days, race is not the first thing I think of.

I do not filter my worldview through racial categories or anything like it. What I started thinking about was when I was 15 years old and I started thinking about, well, what made me to differ? Why, why would it never crossed my mind to perform in public these acts of dishonoring authority, um, dishonoring other people.

I think walking around with your butt in the air is dishonoring to you and to the people around you. You're not showing respect for people around you. You don't, you are forcing them to see something they don't want to see.

Throwing trash. Oh, everybody does that. No, I, I, I didn't. Um, why not? I've been accused of being self-righteous for even observing this. I was not being self-righteous. I was recognizing that in all probability, and I said all probability, cause this, what I wrote was not about this young man.

It was about our culture. Most people miss that. But what I started thinking about was just how thankful I was for the restraints that I had in my family and even in my culture that were no longer there.

When I think of the music that I listened to as a young person, I didn't get into this in the, in the article, but I think even the music that I listened to back then, it didn't encourage me to engage in that kind of behavior, but I bet the music that young man probably listens to does encourage him to do that exact thing.

And I was just thinking about how much has changed. And I've obviously, as I've said many times on the program, I think a lot more about the future today because I have grandchildren and I'm looking more at trends than I ever did before.

And I just had to think about, do I see anything on the horizon that's going to change these trends? Well, when I got home, I think on the way home, all of a sudden I made the connection. I said, wait a minute, I've got the dash cam.

I'm not used to having this. I wonder if, I wonder if I could find that, grab that. I had never actually bothered, you know, look for videos and stuff like that. So what I did when I got home, I found the video and you could very clearly see the young man flipping the cop off and so on and so forth.

I thought, you know, I've commented about this in so many different ways, the cultural trends, things like that. I just put a little thing on Facebook and it was a little thing. The article was 545 words, 545 words, a couple of paragraphs, just a few paragraphs.

It was not a thesis. It was not meant to be anything more than, you know, what's going to, what's going to change these trends? What's, and I put the video up, put it up, moved on to other things. Didn't really give it much thought.

On Saturday around noon, I realized that a volcano was erupting and sadly it was in the middle of, I was trying to have a conversation with a Muslim about some of the things he was saying. I'd like, I'd like to be able to pick that conversation up.

Hopefully we'll be able to do so after this. Had to drop it because people started coming out of the woodwork. It was unbelievable. The, the amount of vitriol and nastiness and reading into what I had said, stuff that has no basis in anything I've ever done.

I've written 24 books. I've done a hundred and fifty moderated debates. We have, I don't know how many thousands of dividing line programs out there. I mean, if you wanted to try to find some basis in my ministry or my life to say you're a racist, you've got plenty of stuff, but 545 words is all you can come up with?

Amazing. Absolutely amazing. So here's what I wrote. I'm gonna read the whole thing. 545 words. Here's what I wrote. Now this is what I actually wrote. An edited version with vile insertions written by a vile, noxious internet troll has been quoted by a number of people and we'll be talking about how social media has turned people into the greatest tailbearers and gossips on the planet.

Just willing to retweet, link to anything without even bothering to read it and go, oh, whoa, whoa, what's, oh, what's that? I hadn't seen that. We've all done it. We've all done it. We have all engaged in the sin of gossip, slandering others just by not checking your sources.

It's way too easy just to hit that little retweet thing. We've all done it. It's happened to me now many times over the course of the past couple of days. Here's what I wrote. I bought a dash cam recently.

Seems everyone in Russia has one and I thought it'd be pretty good to have to document some of the crazy things that happen while driving. I sort of figured people would probably go, so you moved to Russia?

And that's not really what I meant. I didn't bother even editing it. I mean, that's how, just, anyways. So I was coming home this evening and it happened to be the first car at Glendale and 35th Avenue in Phoenix.

And as you will see, a young black kid, looks to be about 15 years old or so, was crossing the street. Now if you watch, you will see a police SUV cross in front of me first going east. The kid then comes in the screen and though he sort of hit it under his elbow, he plainly flips off the police vehicle.

Then he is emptying the drink he is consuming as he walks out of the frame. What you can see is that he then simply tossed the bottle into the bush in the corner of the gas station. I happened to notice, I happened to notice, the two ladies in the car next to me had seen the same thing.

We just looked at each other, put up our hands in exasperation and shook our heads. As I drove away, I thought about that boy. There is a more than 70 chance he has never met his father. In all probabilities, he has no guidance, has no example.

He is filled with arrogance and disrespect for authority. He lives in a land where he is told lies every day. The lie that he cannot, through hard work and discipline, get ahead, get a good education, and succeed at life.

He has lied to and told the rest of the world owes him. The result is predictable. In his generation, that 70 number will only rise. He may well father a number of children, most of which will be murdered in the womb, padding the pockets of Planned Parenthood.

Those that survive will themselves be raised without a natural family, without the God-ordained structure that is so important for teaching respect and true manhood or womanhood. It never crossed my mind to flip off a police car as it passed me by when I was his age.

Of course, it never crossed my mind to walk around with my butt hanging out of my pants either, as if the entire world needed to see what kind of underwear I was sporting that day. I know I would have been mighty guilty had I tossed my drink bottle into a bush, and I never would have dreamed of doing that in front of everyone like this young man did.

But I had a father and a mother, and I was taught to respect others and myself. And if I had not had those things, I still would not have acted as he, simply because times have changed, and not for the better.

There was simply more restraint in my day. It surely makes me wonder what the future holds. Oh, I know, this is nothing. There are videos online of kids like this shooting guns in the air, robbing people, and doing car jackings.

I know, but you need to understand those folks didn't get there without first finding it fun to strut, flip, toss, and live an attitude of disrespect. 545 words. I think it's actually, yeah, it looks like it was exactly two paragraphs.

Clarifying the Post, Fatherhood, and Cultural Restraint

Now let me comment on what has gotten everybody angry. I said there's more than 70 chance he has never met his father. That that number was probably exaggerated. I know, Wall Street Journal said 70%, and it's a little higher than that now.

But saying never met his father, somebody goes, oh, you don't know that. Just because you might be illegitimate, he might know who his father was. Funny thing is that yesterday I was listening to Voti talk about his own situation.

He knew who his father was. He saw him once in a while. But even Voti said, since he was not in the home, since he was not active, he was absent. He was not, if you're not a part of that life on a regular basis, it's amazing how many articles I found online where people were saying, oh, if even once a week, well, wow, if it's, if once a week, how about every day?

Which is what I was talking about. In other words, I even mentioned, what's this? God-ordained structure that is so important for teaching respect and true manhood or womanhood. That's not something you teach on visitation days only.

One of the greatest examples that any father can give his son of being a man is how you treat that young man's mother every day. Every day. One of the best examples of womanhood to give to a daughter or to a son to know what kind of woman he should marry is the joy with which the mother engages in her motherly duties in the home every day.

It's the little things. It's the everyday things. It's the God-ordained structure of the family. The greatest gift that you can give to your kids and to your grandkids is to have them at your 50th anniversary because of what that means you've done.

Because of what that means you've given them. That's what I was talking about. And so, I don't know this kid. People are, you know, you're judging him. I was using him as an example of what's going on in our society.

And the fact that not on the one end you've got the attack upon the very definition of family. But then on the other, you have such rampant fornication. Such rampant sexuality. I'm not the one that made up the phrase baby daddy.

I'm not the one who watches on television as so many women have children by multiple men. There was a day when that was considered shameful because our society still had a somewhat agreed upon set of moral principles.

And when those moral principles have been abandoned, well, the family has fallen apart as well. But notice, I talked about probabilities. And people were posting HuffPo articles. Please don't post HuffPo articles for me.

HuffPo articles and everything else. Well, maybe it's not that bad. And I just sat back going, why are these people trying to defend this behavior? I had people actually say, I've done that. Done that plenty of times.

I've flipped cops plenty of times. And these are people call themselves Christians. And I want to go, have you repented of that? When did you start repenting of that? This is, is someone going to make a biblical argument here that what this young man was doing was good for him?

And good for anyone else? Good for his family? Let's say, theoretically, that he has a mom and a dad at home that work hard. And he's just a, an Absalom. He's just, he's just in, in, in rampant rebellion.

That's a possibility. I realized that. But is it not far more likely that he's acting out on the examples that have been given to him in the place of what God intended us to have in the family unit? So he's looking to these, I'm not gonna name names, but big name artists who live and behave in, in these ways?

Maybe? You think that's, you think, which is more likely? That he's acting out on that? Or that he is an Absalom type rebel against a really good solid family structure? Which do you think is more probable?

It's pretty obvious. I've, I talked about the lies that he's told. And touching a little bit on political things here, but I'm just going to be straightforward. The people who have the seemingly the biggest impact in what would be probably his community, assuming once again, certain things that, well, might be different.

Those individuals are, they make their living out of convincing people they're all victims. And that they're never gonna get ahead because of this, because of that, because of the other thing, because of something that happened 200 years ago.

And let me tell you one of the reasons why you're not going to hear me apologize for having posted this. Let me tell you why. For me to apologize, those are demanding this of me, would be for me to throw under the bus, to show direct disrespect to a legion of black men and women that I have come to know over the years who live lives of godliness, husbands committed to their wives, wives committed to their husbands, committed to raising godly children who have endured their own people telling them, you're not black enough, you're acting white.

And they've put it aside. Why? Because they know that the gospel is colorblind. They know that there's nothing in the Bible that talks about different standards for races. And they've put up with it and they live godly lives and I honor them and I will not dishonor them by apologizing for pointing out that that behavior that I observed is self-destructive, destructive to family, destructive to society and eternally destructive because it's sinful.

I will not do it. I will not bow the knee to the ethnic Gnostics that demand that we read the certain social studies and engage the narrative. Not interested. Not interested. I'm thinking of particular Christian men I know right now, particular Christian women, and I will not dishonor them by buying into a racist Christianity.

Not going to do it. Now, I then, and it's funny, my critics have been almost silent about this. Silent about this. I then mentioned the warfare against the black child in the womb. How can you criticize me for what I wrote without even mentioning that?

How can you be silent about that? Now, look, I understand. I think a very large proportion, I don't know what percentage, I haven't even bothered. I mean, there's been three or four webcasts posted today, just today, that I'm not going to listen to them.

Some are on my side, some are against me, whatever. I mean, it's the first time I even had a chance to talk about it since it happened. It's an amazing number of people that have just condemned me and put me away even before I even have a chance to talk about it.

Such is life. But I recognize that the motivations behind some of these people, very, very, very different. Very different. Some people are just piling on. Some people are doing this because they really think it's important.

Some people are doing it out of sheer ignorance. They just heard there's a controversy and let's, you know, they just run to whatever the, you know, the current thing is. I understand there are different motivations, but how can you be silent about that issue?

I raised the issue of fatherlessness, the God-ordained family, and the plague of abortion, and the disrespectful attitude toward authority as well. It's all, it's all of a, of a thing. Now, I'm not watching much of this, but one of my, one of the nastiest critics, a man who has called me names, condemned me out of ignorance, has asked a question on Twitter.

I'm going to go ahead and answer it. Please explain. He lives in a land where he's told lies every day. What lies are black people told and who's telling them? The black leadership, the people that are telling you you're a victim, that you're held down by something that happened 200 years ago.

That's who I'm talking about. The Jesse Jacksons of the world. They're the ones I'm talking about. And the crazed white liberals in the university. The, the yahoos that took over Mizzou a while back. It's all part and parcel of the same leftist, wacko stuff that is just repeated over and over and over again until it becomes a mantra.

And I get the feeling that young man has probably heard those lies over and over and over again. And unless he has a father and mother in his life that can correct those things, he's probably going to believe it.

And it may be that his father and mother believe him too. Anyway. Um, so I talked about the natural family, the God ordained structure, the teaching of respect. We have to teach respect. It's not something that just happens.

It's something that has to be illustrated and taught and even discipline brought to bear. I happen to believe in something called, Oh, let me see. Total depravity and total depravity knows no race. How much melanin you have in your skin.

Irrelevant. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter at all. Has to be taught, has to be inculcated. I listened to the music of the younger generation. Doesn't matter what the race is here, but especially what you find in hip hop.

And what do you find the objectification of women, rampant vulgarity and profanity, discussion of rape, treating women like mere animals, total disrespect for any form of authority whatsoever. I mean, it is as ungodly as ungodly can be.

Are you condemning that my dear critics, are you consistent in saying this stuff is mind rot and soul rot? Then how come those people are some of the richest people on the planet? Good question. Um, then for the self-righteousness charge again, it's one thing if you don't know who I am, if you've never watched me stand in front of an audience in a mosque in South Africa and tell those people that I have no right to stand before them in and of myself because myself, because I have no righteousness outside of Jesus Christ.

If you don't know me, that's one thing. But those of you who do know me and know what I've said about that, how dare you? How dare you? I mean, I can understand 545 words, man. If that's all you ever know about me, if that's all you ever know about me, then you could, you could ignore all the rest of my life.

What I was doing was recognizing how God's grace had been manifested in my having a stable family and the restraint. I wouldn't have talked about that if I hadn't recognized that I could have done the exact same things.

I talked about the restraint upon me and one of the signs, and I've been talking about this forever. One of the signs of God's judgment upon our culture is what the lifting of the hand of restraint, the lifting of the hand of restraint.

It doesn't just happen over here, one big thing, and over there, one big thing. It is a cultural thing, and that's what we're seeing happen. So as I said at the end, you know, I had seen, uh, was it Oakland?

Um, I had seen a video just, uh, recently with the people shooting the guns and yeah, and I think they were Hispanic. If I recall correctly, I mean, again, that's not the first thing I think of. I'm having to think back to it and go, I think they may have been Hispanic.

There may have been some blacks and some Hispanics. I don't remember, but they were, they were shooting their guns. They were throwing stuff at cop cars. I mean, social order breaking down. And that's what I had in mind when I said, yeah, I know this is it.

Most people say this is nothing. What I was observing as a grandfather was how different normative behavior in public is today than it was 40 years ago. Why would that be? Well, I think I've laid a foundation for explaining that.

Ethnic Gnosticism and the Primacy of the Gospel

Now, for those of you who are ethnic Gnostics, now what's an ethnic Gnostic? Well, the ethnic Gnostic, Gnostic, the Gnostic in general believe that salvation came by taking in secret knowledge through, you know, various ceremonies and so on and so forth.

And so you had to have experience that would put you on a higher plane than just the hoi polloi down here, just the regular old people. So an ethnic Gnostic is a person who basically says, that you cannot address the experience of an ethnic group without walking in their shoes.

In other words, outsiders need not comment. You have to have a certain melanin count in your skin. Melanin is the, what gives us our, the tone of our, of our skin. It's actually a really, really cool God designed sunscreen is what it is.

I'm not getting into intelligent design, but it's part of intelligent design. Anyway, which is why the pasty white skin people of Scandinavia or Northern Ireland don't have a lot of it because they rarely see that ball in the sky.

And the people who live at the equator have got a lot of it because they see it every day, all day long. It's, it's part of how God designed us. And it has absolutely positively nothing to do with the commandments of God.

Nothing, nothing. Show me somewhere in the Bible when Paul wrote to slaves and he said, slaves, be obedient to your masters. This is, this glorifies God. There are no textual variants in any manuscripts that have a little asterisks.

Down at the bottom was a little note that said, well, unless your particular ethnic group has experienced this kind of mistreatment, and then you don't have to do this. And there's no chart that says how bad this has to have been.

And so if you're in this ethnic group that, and then this ethnic group and this ethnic group, none of that. There's nothing in scripture when it talks about duties of husbands to wives, our duties toward God, our duties toward government and authority, nowhere, anywhere does race come in.

It's not a biblical construct. It's not a biblical construct. The ethnic Gnostic is in grave theological danger if they claim to be a Christian. Now, there are a lot of ethnic Gnostics that are not Christians, obviously, but when they claim to be a Christian, here's the danger.

And I saw this over and over and over again, Twitter, Facebook, blog posts. The great danger is when your ethnicity, your race, your culturalism becomes the first primary lens through which you view everything else.

And some people would say, there's no way to escape that. Yes, there is. Yes, there is. The first primary lens must be the scriptures, the gospel, your relationship to God, who you are as his creature.

That must be the first lens. You must look at everything else, including race, secondarily, only through the gospel. If you don't do that, you're not doing it as a Christian. And if you have your culturalism, your racism as your primary lens, looking at everything else, you will end up perverting the truth.

And so let's just be absolutely positively honest here. For a certain portion of you, I could not have, I should not have written that because I'm MC, melanin challenged. I'm primarily Scottish, British, and German.

That's an interesting mixture. Could cause all sorts of internal conflicts if I lived in light of what happened to my ancestors, but I don't. I don't know how they did it. And this is relevant, by the way.

But my parents somehow instilled in me long time ago, you stand before God on your own two feet. I don't blame my parents. No one's ever had perfect parents. Nobody. Jesus didn't even have perfect parents for crying out loud.

Despite what the Roman Catholics say about Mary, they haven't made Joseph sinless. So anyway, no one's ever had perfect parents. I didn't have perfect parents. I was not a perfect parent to my children, but I was taught somehow very early on.

And I believe it with all my heart that I stand before God responsible for my own decisions. I don't blame my parents. And you know what? I can look back at each one of my racial groups. Man, the Scots were treated like garbage.

They were enslaved. I'm not going to demand reparations. I don't think it has something to do with me today. Why does anyone think that? I don't understand it. It seems absolutely, abjectly absurd to me to go, hey, well, you know, this happened 150 years ago, so I can live this way or you owe me that.

It's not a way to live life. And it's not biblical. There's nothing in the Bible that tells you, well, you know, you should look back at what happened and live in light of that. You know what it does say to the Jewish people?

Look back at God's faithfulness and live faithfully to his covenant. That's all it says. Nothing about race, nothing about living as a lifelong victim. In fact, if we're new creatures in Christ, how could that be anyways?

Does that make any sense? Anyway, so the ethnic Gnostics, I just should never have even talked about this. I doubt if that young man had been a different race, I wonder how different this would have been.

I really do. Some of you are saying, yeah, well, if you've been white, you wouldn't have said anything. Oh, yes, I would have. I would have said the exact same things. I sort of used different numbers.

That's all. I would have been just as offended. It had nothing to do with that. People completely miss that. Mainly because a lot of people think today with their emotions rather than their minds. Well, I didn't like how it made me feel.

Well, okay. So let's get something straight. There are times when we have to make a decision as to whether we're going to honor the gospel or bow to our culture. And this is one of those situations. Now, I have no interest.

I have this much interest. I've got a bunch of people on Twitter, even now, inviting themselves onto the dividing line. We need to have them on. They're experts. I have no interest. None. I wasn't trying to get into any kind of World War III.

That's not what I've been called to do. We're trying to get to South Africa. We're trying to get to London. We're trying to do stuff with Islam. I need to get back to doing that stuff. I haven't done any of that stuff over this weekend.

I have no interest in the never ending diatribes of the ethnic Gnostics. No interest. Sorry, you're going to find somebody else. But I've learned some other things. But wait a minute before I go there.

But make sure that this is clearly understood. There is grave danger when you place as your primary interpretive grid something other than that, which is provided by the Word of God and the Spirit of God, first and foremost.

And I am so thankful for the men and women that I have met in all sorts of racial minorities, but especially black men and women that I have met who go against the flow and live lives that are honoring to God and who do not demand that, well, because of our racial background, we get to change things.

No, they read the Word of God. The Word of God says be subject to the ruling authorities. So they are. So they are. Do they get criticized for it? Do people talk down to them about it? Sure do. They don't care.

They want to honor Christ first. And I want to honor you. I wasn't intending to get into this on Friday, but here it is. I have not had a single person present a single theological or biblical foundation for saying that what that young man did was excusable.

Wasn't that bad? Because you can't and you know you can't. And you know in your heart of hearts, if he continues down that road, he's probably not even going to have a long life, is he? Not unless God brings repentance to him.