Shawn Snobelen – Be Not Ashamed – Class 4 – Is There Justice

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Hey I got the news watch on Lake
Bible School 2024.

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This is our 4th class from our
brother Sean Snowblind on the

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theme Be not ashamed and this
class is titled Is there

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justice?
Brother Sean, please.

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Thank you, brother Jason.
Snowblinds are blessed with

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incredibly small bladders.
And is there justice?

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There is not.
It was a furnace in the teen

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classroom and so I asked the
lovely presider whether I could

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not wear my jacket and so bear
with me on that.

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I’m also in trouble with this
talk because as I found with the

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teens, I have 197,000% too much
information.

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And so Marty always says don’t
race through stuff, just skip

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stuff.
And I and it’s, it’s, it’s not

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because, oh, I have all this
information.

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It’s because this topic is so
huge.

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And it’s not the intent of this
topic to deal with every element

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of the social justice movement.
It’s not possible in 55 minutes,

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but it is to look at some of the
undertones of the movement and

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how they can affect us.
And so we’ll look at, God

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willing, three of those.
The reason why it took so long

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in the in the team class is
because we spent 20 minutes on

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the Free Palestine movement.
And so we won’t do that in this

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class because it just takes up
too much time.

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The reason why I went over it
with them is because when I

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asked them of any major social
justice movement, this was the

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one that they were most aware
of.

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And so you have to remember that
they’re not only getting that if

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they are in university, they’re
actually getting this

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information when they’re in high
school and when they’re in

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Intermediate School.
I would say 90% of the class

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knew about the Free Palestine
movement in one way or another.

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So I just wanted to put that
proviso right, right at the

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start.
So our theme verse from Micah

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Six and Eight, a sunny school
memorization verse from way

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back, kind of sets the tone for
this.

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Which is he has told you, O man,
what is good and what does the

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Lord require of you but to do
justice and to love kindness and

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to walk humbly before our God?
And at issue here is that the

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modern social justice movement
and the pre the the post

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modernism and humanism that that
underpins it is railing against

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God and his righteous word to
say that it is God’s fault that

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we have injustice in this world.
And we don’t have time to deal

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with the issue of why does God
allow suffering and evil in this

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world?
That’s related to the subject,

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but we have no time for that
either.

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And so that’s one of the
underlying issues that we have

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to get through.
And so we’ll we’ll try very

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quickly because I know you
understand all these things to.

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Say.
That God created social justice

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and not only did he create
social justice, He codified it

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in law.
And so these were the areas that

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the young people were writing
things down because when they

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run across people in the world
to say, oh, God is your God is a

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God of injustice.
In actual fact, it’s the

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opposite.
And we need to remember this.

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And of course we understand what
God wrote into the law of Moses.

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It was to create a godly, fair
and balanced social system.

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And God did all kinds of things.
We don’t have time to to cover

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all the things that God codified
into the law.

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There are hundreds of verses and
subtext that tells us what God

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did and why he did it.
For example, we know, of course,

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there was a broad system of
social welfare, but God’s social

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welfare was different.
Of course, it included the

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gleaning.
And what was really neat about

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the gleaning, of course, was if
you had a field or a vineyard,

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you, you were told, you were
told not to take all of it up,

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but to leave the corners and to
leave things in the vineyard.

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So that those who are
marginalized, those who were

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poor, the widow, the fatherless
could come and take it.

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And I asked the question, the
teens, what’s the difference

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between how we hand out social
welfare today and how God

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instituted social welfare in the
law?

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And this is fundamentally
important to understand.

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And they got it right away.
Today we give it for.

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Free with no expectations.
But what God did is He asked

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them to work for it.
And that is fundamentally great

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for the human character.
You don’t get something for

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free, you don’t appreciate it.
But if you go out and work for

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it, they had to still go cut it.
They had to take it home, they

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had to grind it, they had to
sift it and had to make their

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own bread.
Gave them a sense of self worth,

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help them understand how things
actually happen.

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In many cases, I’m sure, lifted
them out of the state that they

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were in.
There’s all kinds of beautiful

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remedy, spiritual remedy that
God included in the law to

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create a fair and balanced
society.

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There was the redistribution of
wealth.

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This is a this is a huge thing
in the social justice movement

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today.
The rich have all the money.

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It’s like 98% own 70% of the
world’s wealth and correct me

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and I’m.
I’ve been corrected many times

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this week.
That’s numbers quite off, but

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but you know, wealth disparity
is a huge is a huge thing.

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There’s all kinds of social
justice movements that deal with

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that.
God dealt with it wasn’t perfect

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because man wasn’t perfect.
The year of release from debt,

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the care of the poor, blessings
for good treatment in in

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Deuteronomy chapter 15 and verse
10, God actually implemented in

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the law of blessings for when
they did these things, fair

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treatment of workers and
servants, the redistribution of

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wealth in a broader sense, every
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All debt was all debts were
forgiven, all all slaves were

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freed, the land was returned to
its original owners.

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That’s in Leviticus 25.
And so the system that God

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implemented was to prevent the
over accumulation of wealth

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amongst the few, taking away
from the many.

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Again, it wasn’t perfect and
some people will always have

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more and some people will always
have less.

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And I think that’s that’s a
reality.

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And in some ways that, you know,
you can’t fix that.

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Some people are able to do more
and some some people are not

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able to do much.
But God tried to balance that

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and tried to implant with the
nation in the national

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conscience that this was.
Something they needed to watch

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out for.
Every seven-year the the land

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was to lie fallow.
All debts were cancelled, again

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allowing the land to rest and
providing relief for the

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debtors.
There was a just legal system in

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Deuteronomy 24 required fair
wages.

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And and timely payment to
laborers, which is also a social

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justice movement.
Protections for hired servants,

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Protections for slaves,
Protections for foreigners,

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Protections in legal matters,
emphasizing impartiality and

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fairness.
Commanding judges not to take

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bribes.
Ensuring justice for all,

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including the poor and the
foreigner.

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There were there were
protections specifically for

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marginalized groups.
Israelites reminded to treat the

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foreigner, the widow, the orphan
with justice and passion,

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recalling their own experience
as foreigners.

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One of the things we didn’t get
into was, does God condone

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slavery?
And that’s not something we have

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time to deal with because that
was another 10 minutes.

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And if you want information on
that, I’m happy to do it.

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To say this right now is that
this issue is simpler to

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address, I think, than many of
us may think biblically, right?

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The laws concerning slavery in
the Old Testament are radically

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different than the harsh,
dehumanizing systems that we

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often think of today.
And you know that unlike any

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other time in human history,
there are more slaves in the

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world today than ever before. 30
to 40 million people are

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enslaved in inhumane conditions,
including children.

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That’s something we can talk
about certainly later if needs

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be.
We don’t have time to cover that

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the profits when when things
went off the rails with the

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nation of Israel, the profits
came in and a lot of the

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judgments that they brought on
the mate on the nation was to

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try to correct the fact that
they stopped doing things that

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brought equity and fairness and
justice to society.

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And and prophets like Isaiah and
Jeremiah spent a lot of their

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time trying to get the nation of
Israel back on track.

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The other question is actually
what the start.

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Of this is.
Is that many people say that

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Christ was progressive and he
preached the form of modern

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social justice.
Well, that is just not true.

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In essence, Christ preached the
principles of God’s justice, but

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how we understood them in the
way things worked out was in

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fairness and imbalance.
The Sermon on the Mount in

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Matthew.
Chapters 5 to 7 where he teaches

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the values of the Kingdom of God
to be implement implemented now.

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Mercy, humility, peacemaking,
justice, He.

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He taught his followers to love
their enemies, to turn the other

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cheek, to care for the poor
needs.

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So all of those things were
embedded in the law as Christ

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preached the gospel message all
throughout his ministry, right?

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Christ challenged the oppressive
social, economic, and political

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structures of the day.
And he criticized the leaders

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for their hypocrisy and saying
that they did these things, but

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they actually neglected the
poor.

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And so the other, the other
claim is that while Christ went

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out and he spent time with the
marginalized, right, the

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prostitutes, the lepers, that
the tax collectors, he hung out

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with all of these disadvantaged
people, right?

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And that he condoned therefore
their behavior.

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Well, that’s.
Not true biblically.

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Christ did meet with him, He did
speak with them, but it was to

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elevate them up with the gospel
of Christ.

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Luke chapter 4 of the Lord Jesus
Christ declares this mission by

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saying, the Spirit of the Lord
is upon me because he has

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anointed me to proclaim good
news to the poor.

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He has sent me to proclaim
liberty to the captives

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recovery, recovery of the sight
to the blind to set at.

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Liberty, those who are oppressed
to proclaim the year of the

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Lord’s favor.
And so the amazing thing about

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what we see in the Old Testament
and what we see with the

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preaching of the Lord Jesus
Christ was a wonderful

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application of God’s justice on
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That we might be better people,
that we might be better humans,

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but with the intent to lead us
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And as we know, even after the
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Christ, his disciples, continued
the same thing.

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They continued to do the same
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In fact, they sold all things
and they shared and they

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distributed amongst the needs of
the Saints.

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And that’s kind of a beautiful
real world example of the way

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that they were able to take
their understanding of a

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biblical truth and justice and
apply it amongst their own

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community.
So I keep looking at Marne, and

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she’s like, slow down.
So with that as a backdrop, when

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we look at social justice today,
why does it seem so divisive and

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disruptive and even
counterintuitive?

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Because because I would admit
that a lot of the.

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Social justice movements of
today probably launched with

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some noble cause.
Maybe even a biblical ’cause

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maybe a righteous ’cause right
to help the marginalized and the

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disadvantaged is biblical.
And a lot of the reason why we

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kind of get drawn into these
these movements or think we need

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to be part of them is because we
conflate God’s justice with

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what’s happening today, that
somehow we need to help them

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promote it today.
But it’s very different today.

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We don’t have a.
Fairer, more balanced, more

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equitable, more just society.
Today it is less just it is less

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equitable I I submit than at any
other time, certainly in the

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last 100 or couple or 200.
Years.

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So why do we have outcomes today
that are that are at odds with

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the peace and unity and justice
that God brought to bear through

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his Word?
Well.

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We changed.
That’s what changed.

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How do we?
Go from a western society based

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loosely on divine law to what we
have today which is very very

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chaotic and violent.
We think about the civil rights

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movement in the 50s when that
started Martin Luther King was

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it was a was a Christian quoted
the Bible all the time.

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We move into the anti war
protests in the 1960’s.

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The gay rights movement started
in the 70s.

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The, the feminist movement
started shortly after that.

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The environmental movement
kicked in in the 80s after the

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oil crisis of the 70s.
And so, so those all had noble

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causes in a sense, and they
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But now what we see today is
this very radical group of

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movements that’s, that’s
radically changed how social

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justice is actually applied in
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So this postmodern philosophy
that we’ve already established

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over the last couple of classes
questioning absolute biblical

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truth.
And promoting this

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deconstructionist style of
aggressive tactics, tearing down

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institutions that’s.
Why we have what we have today.

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I mean, it’s fair to say that
modern social justice movements

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that that once operated in the
fringes of society have now

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mainstreamed.
These anti establishment, anti

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corporate, anti mainstream
movements are now everywhere.

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They are backed by major global
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They have the money.
The BLM movement has a couple of

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billion dollar budget every
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Those are big dollars, most of
political and corporate backing.

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When I say political backing, I
mean they’ve been able to codify

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their own set of policies in
law, in legislation.

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So there’s 11.
States in the United States, and

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now I think Connecticut is just
passing it through through in

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the next couple weeks where you
could be sued for misgendering

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somebody. 11 states.
Now, in Canada, that law will be

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federal and it’s already
partially in place.

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And when I say corporate
backing, I mean huge global

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corporations like Microsoft and
Coca-Cola are spending hundreds

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of millions of dollars
supporting these campaigns.

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So it is mainstream.
Not only that, but a lot of

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these organizations use fear to
motivate social change.

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The pressure to conform or be
labeled as intolerant is

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everywhere.
You know, if you said even, you

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know, a couple of years ago when
presented with Black Lives

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matter and many people did well,
all lives matter.

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I mean, you created huge
problems for yourself.

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Even when when the stop Asian
hate movement came in during

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COVID and people were saying
Asian lives matter, they were

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ostracized from society like so
these these movements.

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They don’t, really.
Care about making things better.

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They just care about their
movement.

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And so social justice is very
different from biblical justice.

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Here’s the first example.
When we look at DEI, everybody

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knows what DEI means.
And I asked the teens and they

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didn’t really know what
diversity, equity and inclusion

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means.
But let’s just kind of look at

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what these differences are.
Now.

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I I spent 21 years in corporate
business and I think I mentioned

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to some people the start of my
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HR All they did was hire.
People and fire people and

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create training programs but.
Right at the end, in the last

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four or five years, HR was then
tasked with cultural change

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within the organization.
For anybody who’s in a large

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organization, you know that,
that, that HR has changed

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dramatically to driving cultural
change within an organization.

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And so DEI, when I was in
business a long time ago, I, I

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was in sales.
I had 30 people and 28 of them

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were men and two of them were
women.

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It’s because there wasn’t that
many women who were in

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electronic sales.
If I put an ad or to get, I get

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100 responses and it would be 99
males and one female.

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And when you whittle that down
and get your top three, it was

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very difficult to hire when we
were looking for specific

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competencies.
Now that’s changed.

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Now when you hire, you have to
tick boxes off.

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You have to get people to fill
in to qualify for this issue of

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diversity.
And so these kind of solutions

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are now being forced upon us,
right?

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Social justice has replaced
God’s justice because we don’t

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want biblical truth to interfere
with the application of

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humanism.
So with so with social justice

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and DEI diversity.
From the social justice movement

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is about promoting everybody’s
differences, not putting

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everybody into the same.
Bucket.

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But emphasizing external and
other characteristics such as

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race and gender and sexual
orientation.

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And excluding other forms of
diversity in the process which

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just create conflict in society,
trying to apply equity is often

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implemented by disadvantaging
one group in order to advantage

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the other.
The other, and we probably see

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this quite often, just in normal
social circles, right before you

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can bring one up, you have to
because, because it’s all about

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the oppressor and the oppressed,
right?

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That’s fundamentally how it
works.

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We got to pull down the
oppressor in order to bring up

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the oppressed.
That creates conflict, that

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creates problems, but biblical
diversity Acts chapter 17 and he

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made from one man every nation
of mankind to live on all of the

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face of the earth, having
determined the allotted periods

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in the boundaries of their
dwelling place that they should.

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Seek God.
God’s diversity is to look at

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all of humanity and give
everyone the equal opportunity

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to approach Him now.
The Bible also recognizes

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different gifts and roles, but
all within the body of Christ.

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We are a.
Diverse group of people from all

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kinds of different places and
backgrounds.

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But we are called in to be 1 and
one body in Christ, and equality

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is similar.
Equality is not promoted by

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forcing equality on people, but
by trying to force equality of

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outcome on people, giving some
groups more and taking resources

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away from other groups.
But that’s not how God works for

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just as.
In the one body as one and as

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many members.
All the members are of one body

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and many through the Lord Jesus
Christ, right.

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James two and one says, my
brethren, show no partiality as

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you hold the faith of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

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So while some of the founding
tenants of social justice.

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Are right.
We should never discriminate.

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We should treat others with love
and with compassion.

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We should never.
Exclude anyone based on any

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criteria that they have from
seeking the grace of our Father

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in heaven.
We should look at everything on

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the basis of divine truth.
It’s the truth of God that will.

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Define the difference.
You know there’s a, there’s a

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logical.
Reality that basic morality and

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basic laws that govern them
can’t be subjective or relative.

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And if we wonder why there’s so
much division and conflict in

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society, it’s because of the
application of subjective truth

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and subjective morality that is
causing all these problems.

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God has one truth.
He is the baseline.

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And so we need to remember that
just when we think about that

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term, DEI.
The other problem with the

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social justice movement is it
justifies tolerance and

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acceptance.
And I ask the teens, I said, is

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tolerance A biblical principle?
And the answer I got was no.

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And I ask you, is tolerance A
biblical principle?

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Now, let me define tolerance
just from the Webster’s

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dictionary.
Actually, it’s up there, right?

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Tolerance is the willingness to
accept and endure someone else’s

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beliefs, behaviors, or practices
that differ from one’s own

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without interference and
judgement.

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Is that form of tolerance
biblical?

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Because correct. 100 points
because where that goes, when

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you have tolerance, what leads
very quickly after is

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acceptance.
And this is the problem with the

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social justice movement in
general and in specific.

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Some movements specifically
don’t say that five times fast.

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So there’s this
misinterpretation of virtues

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that somehow tolerance and
acceptance are biblical virtues.

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And this is one of the problems
that comes into our cliche that

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we need to tolerate, right?
Starting to hear more and more

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that we can’t.
You know, we shouldn’t judge.

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Christ said do not judge.
That’s not what he said, he

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said.
Judge righteously.

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Now, tolerance, there’s an
aspect of that which I would

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call patience.
And part of this definition is

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that we might endure for a time.
And so, yeah, you know, years

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and years and years ago, we had
a brother coming to the truth

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that smoked, and he wanted to
kick the habit.

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So we would endure for a time
and have patience with that

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brother, help him along until he
was able to get that through.

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We just wouldn’t tolerate it.
And then eventually accept it

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because what happens after that,
you start to justify it.

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If you’re tolerating everything
and then you’re accepting

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everything.
It’s like, wow, we’ll just, I

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guess it’s OK.
Then you start adjusting.

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Wow, This is why he does it.
It’s he has the shakes if he

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doesn’t, right, it calms them
down.

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Let’s just let them have it.
That’s just one example.

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We could apply that to pretty
much any other type of bad

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behavior.
Romans 1 and 32 says though they

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know God’s righteous decree,
those that practice such things

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deserve to die.
They not only do them, but they

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give approval to those that
practice them.

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And that’s why Paul says that in
the 1st chapter of Romans,

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right?
We’re not, we’re not to give

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active approval, you know, tacit
approval to something or, or, or

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to show tolerance that leads to
acceptance.

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And this is what we’re taught
through the social justice

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movement.
One conservative writer said

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this and then this.
This really resonated with me.

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He says we cannot be accepted by
God until we fundamentally try

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to abandon those parts of
ourselves that are fundamentally

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unacceptable.
And I think that is true in

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society.
That is true.

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Living under God is God does
call us while we’re under sin.

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But then he calls us to
righteousness.

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He requires that we change, that
we move from the state.

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That we were in.
To the state.

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That God needs us to be in.
And when you think about this,

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this is a meme that’s been going
around the Internet.

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It started, actually,
apparently, around the Kennedy

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era.
If you can’t accept me at my

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worst, you don’t deserve.
Me at my best.

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And you know what?
That sounds right.

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It’s like, you know, because
some people are going to have a

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bad day, right?
Some people have some nasty

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habits.
You know, if you can’t accept me

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at my worst, you don’t deserve
me at my best.

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But but really think about that
scripturally.

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Think about that.
Just in a marriage relationship

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that I’m supposed to accept
things that are fundamentally

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unacceptable about somebody’s
character, otherwise I don’t

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deserve them when they’re at
their.

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Best.
Aren’t we all trying to improve

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each other?
It’s this form of non judgmental

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compassion and tolerance that is
seeping in.

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This is postmodernist thought
that’s seeping into our

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community.
We need to call things out.

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You know, we need to stand
people up in the things that we

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do.
We need to do it with patients

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and we need to do it with love.
We need to build relationships

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with them so they under, we
understand, you know, what’s

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going on in their lives.
It’s like giving morphine to a

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patient.
There’s a mortal disease, so

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they can’t feel the pain and
sometimes we need to feel the

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pain to seek treatment and be
and be healed.

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Tolerating sin and accepting
evil behavior to make to make us

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more acceptable to God in our
ecclesias is not right.

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And so we can’t shirk our
responsibilities, our duties as

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shepherds to exhort and rebuke
and to help others bring them to

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repentance.
And So what the the gospel

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message is, is about calling
people out of the world.

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To bring them into the
acceptance of the Lord Jesus

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Christ through the transition to
righteousness, through his his

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00:23:49,720 –> 00:23:53,520
death and his resurrection.
That is the message, not

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00:23:53,520 –> 00:23:56,600
tolerance and not acceptance.
We can’t change.

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00:23:56,600 –> 00:24:01,000
God’s laws to reduce the weight
of sin and to excuse our

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00:24:01,000 –> 00:24:04,440
actions.
Taking up the cross of Christ

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00:24:04,440 –> 00:24:07,480
means defying the social order
of the day, the power of

447
00:24:07,480 –> 00:24:11,000
darkness, and marching every day
towards the Kingdom of God.

448
00:24:14,600 –> 00:24:15,880
This really resonated with the
teens.

449
00:24:15,880 –> 00:24:17,680
As well, I think everybody
understands this.

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00:24:17,680 –> 00:24:24,360
Social justice is about the
victim, and at first blush.

451
00:24:24,360 –> 00:24:24,880
You think?
Well.

452
00:24:24,880 –> 00:24:29,200
Yeah, everybody’s a victim of
something, right?

453
00:24:29,920 –> 00:24:32,760
But they emphasize this dynamic,
as I mentioned, between the

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00:24:32,760 –> 00:24:35,600
oppressors and the oppressed.
And the outcome is you have this

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00:24:35,600 –> 00:24:38,440
victim.
Right, that that this victim

456
00:24:38,440 –> 00:24:42,160
mentality, this mindset that
that is consistently perceiving

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00:24:42,160 –> 00:24:45,800
oneself as a victim of every
circumstance.

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00:24:46,640 –> 00:24:49,880
It’s not my fault, it’s the
society’s fault.

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00:24:49,920 –> 00:24:52,240
My parents raised me this way,
right?

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00:24:52,520 –> 00:24:54,800
This happened to me at school,
all these different things.

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00:24:54,800 –> 00:24:58,560
And I’m not saying that that
those aren’t real elements that

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00:24:58,560 –> 00:25:00,800
can cause.
Real problems for people.

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00:25:02,000 –> 00:25:05,160
The issue is if we get.
Stuck in the victim mentality,

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00:25:05,200 –> 00:25:08,120
we will never get out.
God.

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00:25:08,120 –> 00:25:10,880
Doesn’t preach the victim
mentality.

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00:25:13,960 –> 00:25:17,320
What social justice, what
biblical justice preaches to us

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00:25:17,600 –> 00:25:20,440
is that we bear our own burdens,
that there is personal

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00:25:20,440 –> 00:25:22,560
accountability and
responsibility to the things

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00:25:22,560 –> 00:25:24,640
that we do.
Galatians 6 and five says for

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00:25:24,640 –> 00:25:26,240
each one should carry our own
load.

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00:25:26,520 –> 00:25:29,400
Romans 14 and 12.
Each of us will give account of

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ourselves to God.
Yes, we’re a victim of sin.

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We’re a victim of our nature,
and often times we’re a victim

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of the circumstances of our own
behavior and actions.

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00:25:41,840 –> 00:25:48,160
But we should never have a
victim mentality because we have

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00:25:48,160 –> 00:25:52,000
forgiveness and when we have
forgiveness, we can let go of

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00:25:52,000 –> 00:25:56,080
that.
Sin and we need to forgive

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00:25:56,080 –> 00:25:59,840
others because the victim
mentality is about retribution.

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00:26:00,840 –> 00:26:03,960
So if I was a victim, then
therefore you need to pay to

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00:26:03,960 –> 00:26:07,240
compensate me.
For all the injustice you’ve

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00:26:07,240 –> 00:26:12,080
perpetrated on me, I’m sure
you’ve all heard about what’s

482
00:26:12,080 –> 00:26:16,920
happening in the California
legislature about slave

483
00:26:16,920 –> 00:26:21,440
reparations in a state that
never had or condone slavery,

484
00:26:22,360 –> 00:26:26,000
never had slave owners going to
force people that never had

485
00:26:26,000 –> 00:26:29,120
slaves to pay for those people
who were never slaves.

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00:26:29,120 –> 00:26:32,920
It’s going to be hundreds of
billions of dollars.

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00:26:33,080 –> 00:26:35,120
The math they’ve already done
said it’s going to bankrupt the

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00:26:35,120 –> 00:26:39,280
state if it ever comes to be.
We have empowerment through the

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00:26:39,280 –> 00:26:40,840
Lord Jesus Christ.
Christians are called to

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00:26:40,840 –> 00:26:44,320
overcome challenges through the
strength that’s provided us in

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00:26:44,320 –> 00:26:47,400
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Philippians 4 and 13 says I can

492
00:26:47,400 –> 00:26:49,560
do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.

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00:26:51,080 –> 00:26:53,680
And so it’s not about the victim
mentality, it’s about reaching

494
00:26:53,680 –> 00:26:57,360
out to God for support, for
help, for encouragement, for

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00:26:57,360 –> 00:27:02,240
strength, and for forgiveness.
Which is what the word of God is

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00:27:02,240 –> 00:27:07,160
about, that if we’ve had issues
in our lives, if we’ve been

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00:27:07,160 –> 00:27:10,440
marginalized, if there has been
problems, if we’ve been unjustly

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00:27:10,440 –> 00:27:13,720
treated, that there is
forgiveness and reconciliation.

499
00:27:14,560 –> 00:27:17,840
So instead of the social justice
movement focusing on grievance,

500
00:27:19,440 –> 00:27:21,440
we need to focus on
reconciliation.

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00:27:21,800 –> 00:27:24,960
Matthew 6 and 14 For if you
forgive other people when they

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00:27:24,960 –> 00:27:27,920
sin against you, your heavenly
Father will also forgive you.

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00:27:29,360 –> 00:27:32,080
And one of my daughter’s
favorite verses, and I quote it

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00:27:32,080 –> 00:27:34,680
all the time and I say it all
the time, is that God then gives

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00:27:34,680 –> 00:27:36,360
us the hope of a positive
future.

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00:27:36,360 –> 00:27:39,400
Jeremiah 29 and 11 For I know
the plans that I have for you.

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00:27:39,400 –> 00:27:41,920
Plans.
To prosper you and not to harm

508
00:27:41,920 –> 00:27:43,920
you plans to give you hope in
the future.

509
00:27:43,920 –> 00:27:48,440
And unfortunately, the victim
mentality focuses us to to to

510
00:27:48,480 –> 00:27:51,680
dwell on the past and the past
heard and the the negative

511
00:27:51,680 –> 00:27:56,040
expectations contrary to the
amazing hope that God has given

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00:27:56,040 –> 00:27:59,120
us in the future.
And so, while addressing

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00:27:59,120 –> 00:28:02,280
injustices are important, as
believers, we need to be very

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00:28:02,280 –> 00:28:05,840
careful that we don’t adopt this
particular mindset, certainly

515
00:28:05,840 –> 00:28:08,960
not within our ecclesia.
God’s solutions are to have

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00:28:08,960 –> 00:28:13,520
personal accountability and
trust in his solution for the

517
00:28:13,520 –> 00:28:16,480
future, and to rely on God’s
outcomes for our lives.

518
00:28:19,600 –> 00:28:22,160
Now, social justice is also
cultural and political, and we

519
00:28:22,160 –> 00:28:25,760
don’t need to spend a lot of
time on this because I think we

520
00:28:25,760 –> 00:28:30,360
all understand it.
Now when I say social justice is

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00:28:30,360 –> 00:28:33,600
cultural, what I mean is that
today’s social justice movement

522
00:28:33,600 –> 00:28:36,800
is not the individual going out
and doing right by their

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00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:40,000
neighbor.
Social justice movement today

524
00:28:40,280 –> 00:28:43,680
has invaded our culture and
they’re changing our culture.

525
00:28:44,600 –> 00:28:48,000
And these movements, as I said,
are backed by substantial

526
00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:52,920
resource advertising campaigns,
support of high profile CE OS

527
00:28:53,040 –> 00:28:55,080
Global.
Influencers off of YouTube or

528
00:28:55,080 –> 00:28:58,240
Instagram or TikTok.
And so they become very, very

529
00:28:58,280 –> 00:29:00,680
powerful.
Not only do they shut down

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00:29:00,680 –> 00:29:05,120
highways or they storm schools
or they take over campuses, but

531
00:29:05,120 –> 00:29:08,280
they’ve incited riots.
They’ve wielded considerable

532
00:29:08,280 –> 00:29:11,000
influence, and they’ve shouted
down the traditional

533
00:29:11,000 –> 00:29:15,160
conservative voice in order of
this, this liberal progressive

534
00:29:15,160 –> 00:29:18,920
agenda can come to play.
They’re trying to change

535
00:29:18,920 –> 00:29:23,000
culture, to be active their
image.

536
00:29:23,520 –> 00:29:25,720
And that’s a problem.
We’re not supposed to be

537
00:29:25,720 –> 00:29:27,560
invested in the social culture
of the day.

538
00:29:27,840 –> 00:29:29,560
We’re supposed to stand in
opposition to it.

539
00:29:29,560 –> 00:29:33,280
And of course, these new
movements have deep political

540
00:29:33,280 –> 00:29:35,320
engagement.
We’ve already talked about some

541
00:29:35,320 –> 00:29:37,840
of these things that they’re
codifying in law.

542
00:29:38,720 –> 00:29:42,640
Canada’s Bill C-16 is, is going
to be very problematic for us

543
00:29:43,600 –> 00:29:46,920
with fundamental changes, not
only in how we can or cannot

544
00:29:46,920 –> 00:29:50,680
interact in society, but then
what will be taught about that

545
00:29:50,680 –> 00:29:53,360
in school.
And these movements harbor

546
00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:56,400
violent political agendas
because they are intent on

547
00:29:56,400 –> 00:30:00,400
tearing down the social
structures of the day, the

548
00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:04,320
government’s institutions, laws,
anything that stands in the way.

549
00:30:05,000 –> 00:30:07,480
And we saw what happened in
Seattle over a couple of years

550
00:30:07,480 –> 00:30:09,520
ago was, was unbelievable.
It was dramatic.

551
00:30:09,520 –> 00:30:12,560
And in fact, pretty much every
major city in the US and many

552
00:30:12,560 –> 00:30:15,120
major cities in Canada came
under the same problem.

553
00:30:16,360 –> 00:30:18,000
And so from a biblical
perspective.

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00:30:18,480 –> 00:30:21,320
You know, when we look at our
individual investment in these

555
00:30:21,320 –> 00:30:25,000
things, we can’t have any part
of it because these are embedded

556
00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:27,560
into the cultural fabric of
society that we’re not citizens

557
00:30:27,560 –> 00:30:29,480
of.
It’s legally entrenched into the

558
00:30:29,480 –> 00:30:31,360
political movement that we can’t
be part of.

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00:30:31,920 –> 00:30:33,880
And lastly, it’s a human
ideology.

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00:30:33,880 –> 00:30:37,840
It’s something that we cannot,
we cannot be involved in because

561
00:30:37,840 –> 00:30:42,040
it is not.
Directed by God, we are citizens

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00:30:42,040 –> 00:30:45,200
of this world in the sense that
we live here and we have to

563
00:30:45,200 –> 00:30:48,040
abide here, but we need to
promote our values and our

564
00:30:48,040 –> 00:30:50,480
beliefs and show kindness and
love and all those things are

565
00:30:50,480 –> 00:30:52,920
right and good.
But ultimately we are citizens

566
00:30:52,920 –> 00:30:56,040
of, of God’s future.
Philippians 3 and 20 but our

567
00:30:56,040 –> 00:30:59,400
citizenship is in heaven and we
eagerly await a Savior from

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00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:02,600
there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And John says, the Lord Jesus

569
00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:05,840
Christ says in John 17, I have
given them your word, and the

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00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:08,960
world has hated them, for
they’re not of the world any

571
00:31:08,960 –> 00:31:10,040
more.
Than I am of the world.

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00:31:10,040 –> 00:31:12,640
My prayer is not that you will
take them out of the world, but

573
00:31:12,640 –> 00:31:14,440
that you will protect them from
the evil 1.

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00:31:15,720 –> 00:31:17,520
And that’s the position that we
are in.

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00:31:19,160 –> 00:31:23,200
And so we have to address the
core tenets of social justice

576
00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:27,720
within our immediate space by
doing right and seeking justice

577
00:31:28,080 –> 00:31:30,760
with our fellow man.
But it must be grounded in

578
00:31:30,880 –> 00:31:33,840
biblical principles, must be
carried out with compassion and

579
00:31:33,840 –> 00:31:38,720
with humility.
You know, sadly, a number of

580
00:31:38,720 –> 00:31:41,800
years ago there were there were
ecclesial emails that were going

581
00:31:41,800 –> 00:31:45,280
around for official events that
had hashtag Black lives Matter

582
00:31:45,280 –> 00:31:49,040
in the official e-mail tag like.
And that’s just that’s just a

583
00:31:49,040 –> 00:31:51,800
tiny part of it.
There are brethren and sisters

584
00:31:51,800 –> 00:31:55,160
that March in protest movements.
They belong to these movements.

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00:31:56,120 –> 00:32:00,480
If if you are a member of Black
Lives Matter, the movement,

586
00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:04,200
you’re also anti Israel because
you support Palestine.

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00:32:06,680 –> 00:32:10,760
Anyway, there’s so many things
and so many places we could go.

588
00:32:17,290 –> 00:32:19,730
We might have time just to talk
about this for just a minute.

589
00:32:21,410 –> 00:32:26,250
The the Free Palestine movement,
the Free Gaza movement is is

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00:32:26,250 –> 00:32:31,250
right now probably the social
justice event of the globe.

591
00:32:33,210 –> 00:32:36,970
Do you know how many?
University campuses in the US

592
00:32:36,970 –> 00:32:43,200
and Canada that they took over
this spring, just Canada and the

593
00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:50,840
US, over 250 campuses were taken
over by violent mobs.

594
00:32:51,240 –> 00:32:53,200
It happened in Canada as well,
happened in the UK.

595
00:32:53,200 –> 00:32:55,840
It happened in Australia to a
lesser degree.

596
00:32:57,640 –> 00:33:01,240
And the problem is with this,
and I think we all understand,

597
00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:05,200
is that although we all agree.
That.

598
00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:08,640
Horrifying things are happening
within the nation of Israel.

599
00:33:09,880 –> 00:33:13,520
Violent conflict is never
something that we should support

600
00:33:13,520 –> 00:33:16,320
or approve.
And people dying and children

601
00:33:16,320 –> 00:33:17,720
dying is.
It’s horrific.

602
00:33:17,720 –> 00:33:20,680
And so there’s a there’s a
sympathy that we have.

603
00:33:20,680 –> 00:33:25,240
Obviously it’s heartbreaking to
see what’s happening, but Israel

604
00:33:25,240 –> 00:33:26,720
has a right to defend their
borders.

605
00:33:27,640 –> 00:33:30,920
And what happened on October 7th
was horrifying.

606
00:33:31,480 –> 00:33:34,000
It was a terrorist act and all
those.

607
00:33:34,000 –> 00:33:37,920
Things are being whitewashed
over for the sake of the victim

608
00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:41,320
in Palestine.
I’m just going to read through

609
00:33:41,320 –> 00:33:42,560
this.
I do have a slide on this, but

610
00:33:42,560 –> 00:33:47,920
it’s so small you can’t see it.
Because the Palestinian movement

611
00:33:48,520 –> 00:33:53,880
is revising history in order to
support their cause #1

612
00:33:53,880 –> 00:33:56,600
supporters of the Palestinian
cause, whether you like it or

613
00:33:56,600 –> 00:33:58,840
not.
Or by extension, supporting

614
00:33:58,840 –> 00:34:00,760
Hamas, which is a terrorist
organization.

615
00:34:00,760 –> 00:34:05,400
I think that’s pretty easy.
Now Hamas constitutionally wants

616
00:34:05,400 –> 00:34:08,040
to wipe Israel off the map.
We can just set that aside.

617
00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:11,000
Whenever somebody says.
From the river to the sea, if

618
00:34:11,000 –> 00:34:13,560
they know which river in which
sea they’re talking about, which

619
00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:17,000
is sad reality of many of these
people, including what was

620
00:34:17,000 –> 00:34:19,560
happening at U Victoria in
Victoria.

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00:34:21,040 –> 00:34:26,320
In order to get space from the
river to the sea, you have to

622
00:34:26,320 –> 00:34:31,400
push Israel out, as one of the
students in the class today

623
00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:34,920
said, which means genocide for
the Jews.

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00:34:35,760 –> 00:34:40,800
So although they decry genocide
being perpetrated on them, their

625
00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:45,280
response is wipe out Israel.
Listen some of their songs, I

626
00:34:45,280 –> 00:34:46,360
just can’t remember them right
now.

627
00:34:47,600 –> 00:34:51,199
The protesters intentionally or
unintentionally or ignorantly

628
00:34:51,199 –> 00:34:56,199
just revised historical facts.
Number one, they deny the Jews

629
00:34:56,199 –> 00:34:58,880
historical right to the land.
You.

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00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:00,480
Don’t even need the.
Bible to prove it.

631
00:35:00,840 –> 00:35:03,480
You can prove it through
history, but they deny that

632
00:35:03,480 –> 00:35:07,200
number one.
Even though their legal claim

633
00:35:07,200 –> 00:35:10,560
was codified in 1948 through the
UN, they deny that.

634
00:35:10,680 –> 00:35:13,240
They say that was false.
They say that was done by, you

635
00:35:13,240 –> 00:35:17,120
know, white power or something.
Their denials, as far as that

636
00:35:17,120 –> 00:35:19,640
goes, contradict reality.
And there are many of those.

637
00:35:19,640 –> 00:35:20,960
I don’t have time to go through
all of them.

638
00:35:21,240 –> 00:35:23,600
Another one of the claims, of
course, is that Israel is a

639
00:35:23,600 –> 00:35:27,440
colonial power that is
perpetrating injustice on a

640
00:35:27,440 –> 00:35:31,000
marginalized group.
Now that is literally laughable

641
00:35:31,560 –> 00:35:34,360
when you think of the history of
the nation of Israel that has

642
00:35:34,360 –> 00:35:38,880
been colonized by no less than
10 major countries in the last

643
00:35:38,880 –> 00:35:41,280
2000 years.
Oh let’s see, Egypt, Assyria,

644
00:35:41,280 –> 00:35:45,520
Babylon, Persia, Greece.
The Romans kicked Israel out of

645
00:35:45,520 –> 00:35:52,000
the land.
They deny that oppression, you

646
00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:54,000
know, governmental political
oppression.

647
00:35:55,520 –> 00:35:58,120
Israel’s the only liberal
democracy in the entire Middle

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00:35:58,120 –> 00:36:01,240
East.
They allow rights and freedoms

649
00:36:01,280 –> 00:36:04,160
that most other Arab nations do
not.

650
00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:09,800
I find that very hard to
rationalize that they don’t

651
00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:13,640
understand that.
Also Israel is the only country

652
00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:16,240
that’s really allowed them some
form of self governance.

653
00:36:18,360 –> 00:36:19,720
Egypt doesn’t open their
borders.

654
00:36:20,960 –> 00:36:22,680
Maybe they talk about the
oppressive borders.

655
00:36:22,680 –> 00:36:24,600
They never mentioned Egypt.
Very interesting.

656
00:36:25,280 –> 00:36:27,760
Jordan doesn’t want them.
Why isn’t, why isn’t Egypt just

657
00:36:27,760 –> 00:36:30,880
opening up their their gates at
the wrath of border and just

658
00:36:30,880 –> 00:36:34,000
letting refugees in?
They’re letting food trucks in.

659
00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:36,080
They’re not letting people in.
You know why they’re not letting

660
00:36:36,080 –> 00:36:37,240
them in?
Because they don’t want the same

661
00:36:37,240 –> 00:36:39,480
problems that the Jews have to
deal with in their land.

662
00:36:41,480 –> 00:36:45,240
Why isn’t Saudi Arabia, why
isn’t Iran just taking in

663
00:36:45,240 –> 00:36:47,440
hundreds of thousands of
Palestinian refugees?

664
00:36:47,440 –> 00:36:51,640
They don’t want the problem.
History proves that the

665
00:36:51,640 –> 00:36:54,480
Palestinians have declined
statehood or partial statehood

666
00:36:54,760 –> 00:36:58,160
at least three times.
I’ll probably be corrected.

667
00:36:58,160 –> 00:37:01,200
After that it’s more.
And of course, we know that Gaza

668
00:37:01,200 –> 00:37:04,000
was given over to the
Palestinians in 2005.

669
00:37:05,040 –> 00:37:08,000
Israel said, OK, we’ll give you
a sense of autonomy.

670
00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,080
We’ll give you the place.
It’s a beautiful place.

671
00:37:10,600 –> 00:37:12,560
Yeah, I’ve never been there, but
I’ve seen pictures.

672
00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:15,760
And as we know, they gave them
industry, they gave them

673
00:37:15,760 –> 00:37:17,560
greenhouses, they gave them
agriculture industry.

674
00:37:17,680 –> 00:37:20,600
They gave them a going concern,
like a multi billion dollar

675
00:37:20,640 –> 00:37:22,960
industry.
Within months it was all

676
00:37:22,960 –> 00:37:24,520
trashed.
It was looted, it was burned, it

677
00:37:24,520 –> 00:37:27,880
was destroyed.
And in 2007, the Palestinians

678
00:37:27,880 –> 00:37:31,120
voted in Hamas and the Rockets
started coming over.

679
00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,280
And, and, and if, and somebody
has done this accounting and I

680
00:37:34,280 –> 00:37:35,840
just don’t have time to put it
up on the screen.

681
00:37:35,840 –> 00:37:40,640
But of the, the, the billions
and billions and billions of

682
00:37:40,640 –> 00:37:45,200
dollars that have been given to
these organizations in in Gaza

683
00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:48,680
and in the West Bank.
So much of it is been diverted

684
00:37:48,680 –> 00:37:51,760
into weapons and concrete and
tunnels and enriched their

685
00:37:51,760 –> 00:37:55,520
leaders who are worth hundreds
and some say billions of

686
00:37:55,520 –> 00:38:01,000
dollars.
Now that’s the reality of the

687
00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:06,600
free Palestine movement of a
people who are in the land of

688
00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:12,280
God’s people.
And there’s there’s probably 100

689
00:38:12,280 –> 00:38:13,960
other things that we could talk
about.

690
00:38:13,960 –> 00:38:18,040
So while we are sympathetic to
the cause of the plight of

691
00:38:18,040 –> 00:38:23,640
suffering as we should be
advocating for, this type of

692
00:38:23,640 –> 00:38:28,120
Palestinian cause goes against
everything we know about

693
00:38:28,120 –> 00:38:32,280
biblical truth about the
integrity of God’s word.

694
00:38:34,440 –> 00:38:36,560
And one of the teens came up to
me and said, you know, so how do

695
00:38:36,560 –> 00:38:39,480
we talk to somebody about this?
I think the first problem is we

696
00:38:39,480 –> 00:38:42,320
can’t just start spouting facts
and saying where they’re wrong.

697
00:38:42,320 –> 00:38:43,600
I think we have to ask them
questions.

698
00:38:44,400 –> 00:38:48,080
You have to question them.
When, when did the Palestinian

699
00:38:48,080 –> 00:38:50,520
people come to be?
Weren’t Jews called

700
00:38:50,520 –> 00:38:53,720
Palestinians, you know, prior to
to the Balfour Declaration?

701
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:56,600
What was the land like?
Why did nobody want the land?

702
00:38:56,600 –> 00:38:58,720
You know, for hundreds of years
it was a wasteland.

703
00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:01,600
Nobody wanted it.
Right now somebody, now

704
00:39:01,680 –> 00:39:03,960
everybody wants it.
Like I think we can ask these

705
00:39:03,960 –> 00:39:05,880
kind of questions.
What are the Arab nations doing?

706
00:39:06,280 –> 00:39:09,000
Are they taking in refugees?
And I think we can start to

707
00:39:09,000 –> 00:39:12,960
change the narrative.
As the young Lords boy said the

708
00:39:12,960 –> 00:39:15,320
other day, you got to change.
You got to change the narrative

709
00:39:15,320 –> 00:39:20,520
and bring it back to God.
Anyway, I thought we had time to

710
00:39:20,520 –> 00:39:22,520
cover it.
And now I’m, I realize I’m

711
00:39:22,520 –> 00:39:26,640
wrong.
I think the important part to

712
00:39:26,640 –> 00:39:31,720
understand about social justice
and, and comparing that to even

713
00:39:31,720 –> 00:39:35,120
traditional justice that, that
we might even agree with at a

714
00:39:35,120 –> 00:39:38,120
social level, right?
The kind of traditional justice

715
00:39:38,120 –> 00:39:41,040
that we would get involved in
and just giving a hand up to our

716
00:39:41,040 –> 00:39:43,680
neighbor and and making sure
that we do the right things

717
00:39:44,240 –> 00:39:48,640
within our society.
That God’s justice is not only

718
00:39:48,640 –> 00:39:51,360
different fundamentally, but
God’s justice.

719
00:39:51,880 –> 00:39:57,640
Is his righteousness.
In fact, in the Old Testament,

720
00:39:57,640 –> 00:40:00,720
those two words are really
interchangeable, right?

721
00:40:00,720 –> 00:40:04,360
The word for mishpat and sadek
can sometimes either be

722
00:40:04,360 –> 00:40:06,040
translated as righteous or
justice.

723
00:40:06,040 –> 00:40:08,120
And I think this is important
for us to understand because

724
00:40:08,120 –> 00:40:12,680
when God talks about justice,
he’s talked about, he talks

725
00:40:12,680 –> 00:40:17,520
about being made right by him to
be being made right by God.

726
00:40:19,160 –> 00:40:21,680
And so.
Bound up in this word for

727
00:40:21,680 –> 00:40:25,520
justice is actually our
salvation.

728
00:40:29,160 –> 00:40:33,360
Proverbs 8 and 20 says the Lord
works righteousness and justice

729
00:40:33,360 –> 00:40:38,560
for all the oppressed.
Sorry, that was.

730
00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:42,200
Psalm One O 3, Proverbs 8 and 20
says I walk in the way of

731
00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:44,880
righteousness along the path of
justice.

732
00:40:45,560 –> 00:40:51,000
God is not just trying to
rectify a wrong, He’s trying to

733
00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:56,240
bring us to salvation.
Justice is tied in with God’s

734
00:40:56,240 –> 00:40:57,840
righteousness.
The New Testament is no

735
00:40:57,840 –> 00:40:59,800
different.
In the Greek New Testament and I

736
00:40:59,800 –> 00:41:02,880
can’t pronounce these two terms.
When we see justice, it often.

737
00:41:03,120 –> 00:41:07,800
Is translated as righteousness,
and the verb to be made

738
00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:12,120
righteous is to declare or to
justify the righteous.

739
00:41:12,960 –> 00:41:16,160
And so when we see justice and
righteous in the New Testament

740
00:41:16,160 –> 00:41:19,960
is also the same concept.
First John three and seven, dear

741
00:41:19,960 –> 00:41:22,240
children, let not anyone lead
you astray.

742
00:41:22,240 –> 00:41:26,960
The one who does what is right
is righteous, just as he is

743
00:41:26,960 –> 00:41:29,840
righteous.
Matthew 6 and 33 the Lord says,

744
00:41:29,840 –> 00:41:34,160
But seek ye first His Kingdom
and his righteousness, and all

745
00:41:34,160 –> 00:41:36,000
these things will be given unto
you.

746
00:41:38,480 –> 00:41:42,560
When we understand God’s
justice, we also understand

747
00:41:42,840 –> 00:41:47,320
God’s righteousness, and it is
calling us to be just.

748
00:41:48,760 –> 00:41:53,600
But He is calling us to be
righteous, and that is not a

749
00:41:53,600 –> 00:41:57,080
fundamental component of the
social justice movement.

750
00:41:58,040 –> 00:41:59,560
They want nothing to do with
God.

751
00:42:00,800 –> 00:42:04,200
They want nothing to do with
being made right and being

752
00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:08,160
corrected for their actions and
being having their sinful nature

753
00:42:08,160 –> 00:42:11,000
resolve.
It’s not part of their community

754
00:42:11,080 –> 00:42:13,200
or their ideology or their
worldview.

755
00:42:15,200 –> 00:42:18,120
So what I submit to you, of
course, is that whether we’re

756
00:42:18,120 –> 00:42:20,600
looking at the Old Testament or
the New Testament, justice and

757
00:42:20,600 –> 00:42:23,200
righteousness are are often
presented as two sides of the

758
00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:27,000
same coin.
This deeply intertwined concept

759
00:42:27,000 –> 00:42:29,920
that emphasizes living in
accordance with God’s will,

760
00:42:30,120 –> 00:42:34,720
justice, which includes dealing
with issues of moral integrity

761
00:42:34,720 –> 00:42:39,040
and righteousness and fair
treatment of others as we walk

762
00:42:39,040 –> 00:42:45,080
along the path to salvation.
And so it’s God’s righteousness

763
00:42:45,080 –> 00:42:49,880
that needs to form the baseline
of justice in our community in

764
00:42:49,880 –> 00:42:53,200
this world.
And so it’s divine justice that

765
00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:55,880
will save.
It says in Deuteronomy 32 and 3.

766
00:42:55,880 –> 00:42:58,680
For I will proclaim the name of
the Lord, ascribe greatness to

767
00:42:58,680 –> 00:43:01,080
our God, the rock.
His work is perfect and all of

768
00:43:01,080 –> 00:43:03,880
his ways are justice.
A God of faithfulness and

769
00:43:03,880 –> 00:43:06,360
without iniquity.
He’s just and he is upright.

770
00:43:06,360 –> 00:43:10,400
And so we’re not to stand idly
by while society collapses under

771
00:43:10,400 –> 00:43:13,120
its own weight.
We are to do our do our part.

772
00:43:13,320 –> 00:43:15,680
We’re not to neglect the needs
of our brethren and sisters in

773
00:43:15,680 –> 00:43:18,960
our community.
We’re not to shut out those even

774
00:43:18,960 –> 00:43:21,680
in our society where where we
can with our own personal

775
00:43:21,680 –> 00:43:26,280
endeavor, but to turn our
ecclesias into mechanisms to

776
00:43:26,280 –> 00:43:30,400
promote social justice, to open
them up for social justice

777
00:43:30,400 –> 00:43:32,840
movements to have meetings.
Which is happening.

778
00:43:34,560 –> 00:43:38,360
To spend inordinate amounts of
our money to support local

779
00:43:38,360 –> 00:43:44,800
causes and movements, which is
happening, these are untenable.

780
00:43:46,280 –> 00:43:53,080
Our mission, really our only
mission, is to preach the divine

781
00:43:53,280 –> 00:43:55,520
justice and righteousness of our
God.

782
00:43:58,240 –> 00:44:01,800
And so pursuing biblical justice
means following God’s way.

783
00:44:02,640 –> 00:44:04,480
To make right that which is
wrong.

784
00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:08,400
And we look to the Scripture to
know what that is, with the end

785
00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:14,760
goal of seeing lives reconciled
to God and transformed

786
00:44:14,760 –> 00:44:20,160
eternally.
Ephesians 2 and 10 says, For we

787
00:44:20,160 –> 00:44:24,480
are God’s handiwork, created in
Christ Jesus to do good works,

788
00:44:24,480 –> 00:44:28,520
which God prepared in advance
for us to do, and God’s justice

789
00:44:28,960 –> 00:44:36,400
will prevail.
You know, the world is broken.

790
00:44:38,040 –> 00:44:40,720
It’s, it’s literally broken.
It’s fractured.

791
00:44:40,720 –> 00:44:44,440
It’s stratified.
It’s divided politically,

792
00:44:44,440 –> 00:44:48,000
ideologically, socially,
morally, humanly.

793
00:44:48,160 –> 00:44:52,840
It’s broken.
And, well, our human

794
00:44:52,840 –> 00:44:57,320
sensitivities and our love and
compassion can cause us and

795
00:44:57,320 –> 00:45:00,280
should cause us to do good
things and righteous things

796
00:45:00,280 –> 00:45:02,400
within our community.
And I believe we’re called on to

797
00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:07,520
do that.
When it becomes corporate, when

798
00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:15,560
it becomes ecclesially driven,
we’re off the mark because we

799
00:45:15,560 –> 00:45:22,080
start putting credence in our
own solutions, solving mankind’s

800
00:45:22,080 –> 00:45:25,440
problems when that’s God’s
domain.

801
00:45:26,760 –> 00:45:29,680
And I think that’s the other
underlying issue with us getting

802
00:45:29,680 –> 00:45:34,200
involved in social justice, that
somehow we have the right to fix

803
00:45:34,200 –> 00:45:38,120
humanity’s problems on a
corporate scale, on a global

804
00:45:38,120 –> 00:45:40,400
scale.
It’s not our.

805
00:45:40,400 –> 00:45:42,480
Right.
It’s God’s right.

806
00:45:45,800 –> 00:45:49,640
God’s Kingdom is the place where
there’ll be justice and

807
00:45:49,640 –> 00:45:52,720
righteousness, there’ll be
equity for all, there’ll be

808
00:45:52,720 –> 00:45:55,360
love, there’ll be peace,
there’ll be healing for those

809
00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:57,840
suffering and a divine wisdom
that will fill the earth.

810
00:46:00,400 –> 00:46:02,960
The message of God’s justice is
repentance.

811
00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:05,760
It is following the path of
righteousness.

812
00:46:07,240 –> 00:46:10,080
And not only will that.
Help resolve the current issues

813
00:46:10,080 –> 00:46:13,160
of the day.
At least in some ways.

814
00:46:14,400 –> 00:46:19,840
It will help us into the realm
of God’s eternal salvation.

815
00:46:20,240 –> 00:46:23,120
Just to close, I just want to
read from Isaiah 55.

816
00:46:23,120 –> 00:46:33,370
So let’s turn that up.
I feel a little bit better that

817
00:46:33,370 –> 00:46:35,530
we are maybe a little bit ahead
of time.

818
00:46:35,970 –> 00:46:38,330
So I’ll read this section of
verses very slowly.

819
00:46:39,930 –> 00:46:41,490
Like our brother Kitson last
night.

820
00:46:46,890 –> 00:46:49,770
The prophet says in Isaiah 55
starting at verse 5.

821
00:46:49,770 –> 00:46:55,680
He says starting at verse 6, he
says seek the Lord while he may

822
00:46:55,680 –> 00:46:59,120
be found, call on him while he
is near.

823
00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:02,880
Let the wicked forsake their.
Ways and the unrighteous, their

824
00:47:02,880 –> 00:47:05,840
thoughts, let them turn to the
Lord.

825
00:47:06,360 –> 00:47:08,920
And He will have mercy on them
and to our God, and He will.

826
00:47:08,920 –> 00:47:16,000
Freely pardon, for my thoughts
are not your thoughts either.

827
00:47:16,000 –> 00:47:18,160
Are your ways my ways?
Declares the Lord.

828
00:47:19,720 –> 00:47:22,240
As the heavens are higher than
the earth, so are my ways higher

829
00:47:22,240 –> 00:47:25,240
than your ways, and my thoughts
than your thoughts, as the rain

830
00:47:25,240 –> 00:47:27,920
and the snow come down from
heaven, and do not return to it

831
00:47:27,920 –> 00:47:31,600
without watering the earth and
making it bud and flourish.

832
00:47:32,000 –> 00:47:35,320
So that it yields seed for the
sower and bread for the eater.

833
00:47:35,600 –> 00:47:38,600
So is my word that goes out of
my mouth.

834
00:47:40,360 –> 00:47:44,880
It will not return to me empty,
but it will accomplish all that

835
00:47:44,880 –> 00:47:47,600
I desire and achieve the purpose
for which I sent it.

836
00:47:50,040 –> 00:47:52,320
You will go out and joy and be
LED forth in peace.

837
00:47:52,320 –> 00:47:54,960
The mountains and the hills will
burst into song before you, and

838
00:47:54,960 –> 00:47:57,680
all the trees of the field will
clap their hands.

839
00:47:57,920 –> 00:47:59,720
Instead of the thorn Bush will
grow the journeypour.

840
00:47:59,720 –> 00:48:02,480
Instead of the briars, the
Myrtle will grow this.

841
00:48:02,480 –> 00:48:05,720
Will be the Lord’s renown, the
prophet says, for an everlasting

842
00:48:05,720 –> 00:48:15,000
sign that will endure forever.
Our current situation is, is

843
00:48:15,000 –> 00:48:22,280
dark, it’s it’s debilitating,
but this is the vision of the

844
00:48:22,280 –> 00:48:28,200
future where all of man’s issues
are resolved, not in protest,

845
00:48:28,720 –> 00:48:32,800
not in activism, not in anger,
not in promoting individual

846
00:48:32,800 –> 00:48:37,080
rights, not in playing the
victim, but by God’s hand of

847
00:48:37,080 –> 00:48:42,280
justice.
So look, if you want to take up

848
00:48:42,280 –> 00:48:46,720
a cause, take up a cause of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

849
00:48:47,080 –> 00:48:49,040
And preach the gospel, preach
that message.

850
00:48:49,880 –> 00:48:53,160
And if you want to protest,
protest against the evils of

851
00:48:53,160 –> 00:48:56,280
this age, protest against the
darkness of this world and

852
00:48:56,280 –> 00:48:59,320
contrast that to the light of
God’s truth.

853
00:48:59,320 –> 00:49:06,160
And if you want to March, then
let’s March along that narrow

854
00:49:06,160 –> 00:49:09,680
path that leads to the Kingdom
of God.

855
00:49:12,280 –> 00:49:21,200
Let’s be not ashamed.
Of God’s justice, because when

856
00:49:21,200 –> 00:49:25,600
that great day arrives, and
Brother Greg and I were talking

857
00:49:25,600 –> 00:49:30,040
about this last night, the
unbelievable return of the Lord

858
00:49:30,040 –> 00:49:32,760
Jesus Christ.
That when that day arrives,

859
00:49:32,760 –> 00:49:39,720
brethren and sisters, and the
Almighty God turns to his Son

860
00:49:43,040 –> 00:49:48,600
who’s seated at his right hand,
and he says, the hour has come

861
00:49:54,330 –> 00:49:59,730
and Christ returns with 10,000
of his Saints to this earth.

862
00:50:00,570 –> 00:50:04,730
Brethren and sisters, the the
only justice that will matter,

863
00:50:04,730 –> 00:50:10,770
it will be his.
And it will be at that time that

864
00:50:10,770 –> 00:50:12,570
God’s righteousness will
prevail.

865
00:50:16,530 –> 00:50:22,240
Thus says the Lord, keep justice
and do righteousness, for soon

866
00:50:22,240 –> 00:50:27,160
my salvation will come, and my
righteous will be revealed.