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\nThis is our 4th class from our
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\ntheme Be not ashamed and this
\nclass is titled Is there <\/p>\n
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\njustice?
\nBrother Sean, please. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you, brother Jason.
\nSnowblinds are blessed with <\/p>\n
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\nincredibly small bladders.
\nAnd is there justice? <\/p>\n
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\nThere is not.
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\nclassroom and so I asked the
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\nnot wear my jacket and so bear
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\nI’m also in trouble with this
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\nteens, I have 197,000% too much
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\nAnd so Marty always says don’t
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\nbecause, oh, I have all this
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\nIt’s because this topic is so
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\nAnd it’s not the intent of this
\ntopic to deal with every element<\/p>\n
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\nof the social justice movement.
\nIt’s not possible in 55 minutes,<\/p>\n
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\nbut it is to look at some of the
\nundertones of the movement and <\/p>\n
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\nhow they can affect us.
\nAnd so we’ll look at, God <\/p>\n
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\nwilling, three of those.
\nThe reason why it took so long <\/p>\n
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\nin the in the team class is
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\nthe Free Palestine movement.
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\nclass because it just takes up
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\nThe reason why I went over it
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\nasked them of any major social
\njustice movement, this was the <\/p>\n
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\none that they were most aware
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\nAnd so you have to remember that
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\ninformation when they’re in high
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\nIntermediate School.
\nI would say 90% of the class <\/p>\n
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\nknew about the Free Palestine
\nmovement in one way or another. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I just wanted to put that
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\nstart.
\nSo our theme verse from Micah <\/p>\n
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\nSix and Eight, a sunny school
\nmemorization verse from way <\/p>\n
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\nback, kind of sets the tone for
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\nWhich is he has told you, O man,
\nwhat is good and what does the <\/p>\n
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\nLord require of you but to do
\njustice and to love kindness and<\/p>\n
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\nto walk humbly before our God?
\nAnd at issue here is that the <\/p>\n
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\nmodern social justice movement
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\nmodernism and humanism that that
\nunderpins it is railing against <\/p>\n
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\nGod and his righteous word to
\nsay that it is God’s fault that <\/p>\n
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\nwe have injustice in this world.
\nAnd we don’t have time to deal <\/p>\n
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\nwith the issue of why does God
\nallow suffering and evil in this<\/p>\n
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\nworld?
\nThat’s related to the subject, <\/p>\n
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\nbut we have no time for that
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\nunderlying issues that we have <\/p>\n
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\nquickly because I know you
\nunderstand all these things to. <\/p>\n
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\nSay.
\nThat God created social justice <\/p>\n
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\nand not only did he create
\nsocial justice, He codified it <\/p>\n
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\nin law.
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\nthings down because when they <\/p>\n
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\nrun across people in the world
\nto say, oh, God is your God is a<\/p>\n
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\nGod of injustice.
\nIn actual fact, it’s the <\/p>\n
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\nopposite.
\nAnd we need to remember this. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd of course we understand what
\nGod wrote into the law of Moses.<\/p>\n
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\nIt was to create a godly, fair
\nand balanced social system. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God did all kinds of things.
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\nall the things that God codified
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\nThere are hundreds of verses and
\nsubtext that tells us what God <\/p>\n
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\ndid and why he did it.
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\nthere was a broad system of
\nsocial welfare, but God’s social<\/p>\n
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\nwelfare was different.
\nOf course, it included the <\/p>\n
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\nyou, you were told, you were
\ntold not to take all of it up, <\/p>\n
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\nSo that those who are
\nmarginalized, those who were <\/p>\n
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\npoor, the widow, the fatherless
\ncould come and take it. <\/p>\n
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\nbetween how we hand out social
\nwelfare today and how God <\/p>\n
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\ninstituted social welfare in the
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\nAnd this is fundamentally
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\nToday we give it for. <\/p>\n
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\nFree with no expectations.
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\nrecalling their own experience
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\nAnd if you want information on
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\naddress, I think, than many of
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\ndehumanizing systems that we <\/p>\n
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\noften think of today.
\nAnd you know that unlike any <\/p>\n
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\nthere are more slaves in the <\/p>\n
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\nWe don’t have time to cover that<\/p>\n
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\nthe profits when when things
\nwent off the rails with the <\/p>\n
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\nnation of Israel, the profits
\ncame in and a lot of the <\/p>\n
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\njudgments that they brought on
\nthe mate on the nation was to <\/p>\n
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\ntry to correct the fact that
\nthey stopped doing things that <\/p>\n
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\nbrought equity and fairness and
\njustice to society. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd and prophets like Isaiah and
\nJeremiah spent a lot of their <\/p>\n
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\ntime trying to get the nation of
\nIsrael back on track. <\/p>\n
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\nThe other question is actually
\nwhat the start. <\/p>\n
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\nOf this is.
\nIs that many people say that <\/p>\n
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\nsocial justice.
\nWell, that is just not true. <\/p>\n
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\nIn essence, Christ preached the
\nprinciples of God’s justice, but<\/p>\n
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\nway things worked out was in <\/p>\n
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\nfairness and imbalance.
\nThe Sermon on the Mount in <\/p>\n
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\nMatthew.
\nChapters 5 to 7 where he teaches<\/p>\n
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\nto be implement implemented now.<\/p>\n
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\nMercy, humility, peacemaking,
\njustice, He. <\/p>\n
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\nHe taught his followers to love
\ntheir enemies, to turn the other<\/p>\n
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\ncheek, to care for the poor
\nneeds. <\/p>\n
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\nSo all of those things were
\nembedded in the law as Christ <\/p>\n
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\npreached the gospel message all
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\nAnd he criticized the leaders <\/p>\n
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\nbasic laws that govern them
\ncan’t be subjective or relative.<\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:48,160 –> 00:18:50,760
\nAnd if we wonder why there’s so
\nmuch division and conflict in <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:50,760 –> 00:18:53,960
\nsociety, it’s because of the
\napplication of subjective truth <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:54,240 –> 00:18:58,240
\nand subjective morality that is
\ncausing all these problems. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:58,520 –> 00:19:01,000
\nGod has one truth.
\nHe is the baseline. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:19:02,120 –> 00:19:04,560
\nAnd so we need to remember that
\njust when we think about that <\/p>\n
348
\n00:19:04,560 –> 00:19:08,120
\nterm, DEI.
\nThe other problem with the <\/p>\n
349
\n00:19:08,120 –> 00:19:10,920
\nsocial justice movement is it
\njustifies tolerance and <\/p>\n
350
\n00:19:10,920 –> 00:19:13,640
\nacceptance.
\nAnd I ask the teens, I said, is <\/p>\n
351
\n00:19:13,640 –> 00:19:19,200
\ntolerance A biblical principle?
\nAnd the answer I got was no. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:19:19,760 –> 00:19:24,600
\nAnd I ask you, is tolerance A
\nbiblical principle? <\/p>\n
353
\n00:19:25,880 –> 00:19:28,480
\nNow, let me define tolerance
\njust from the Webster’s <\/p>\n
354
\n00:19:28,480 –> 00:19:30,520
\ndictionary.
\nActually, it’s up there, right? <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:31,480 –> 00:19:34,040
\nTolerance is the willingness to
\naccept and endure someone else’s<\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:34,040 –> 00:19:39,200
\nbeliefs, behaviors, or practices
\nthat differ from one’s own <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:39,200 –> 00:19:40,600
\nwithout interference and
\njudgement. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:41,320 –> 00:19:44,840
\nIs that form of tolerance
\nbiblical? <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:46,920 –> 00:19:51,720
\nBecause correct. 100 points
\nbecause where that goes, when <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:51,720 –> 00:19:55,240
\nyou have tolerance, what leads
\nvery quickly after is <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:55,240 –> 00:19:58,000
\nacceptance.
\nAnd this is the problem with the<\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:58,000 –> 00:20:00,960
\nsocial justice movement in
\ngeneral and in specific. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:20:01,040 –> 00:20:05,800
\nSome movements specifically
\ndon’t say that five times fast. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:20:06,760 –> 00:20:09,240
\nSo there’s this
\nmisinterpretation of virtues <\/p>\n
365
\n00:20:09,240 –> 00:20:13,000
\nthat somehow tolerance and
\nacceptance are biblical virtues.<\/p>\n
366
\n00:20:13,000 –> 00:20:15,200
\nAnd this is one of the problems
\nthat comes into our cliche that <\/p>\n
367
\n00:20:15,200 –> 00:20:17,760
\nwe need to tolerate, right?
\nStarting to hear more and more <\/p>\n
368
\n00:20:17,760 –> 00:20:19,080
\nthat we can’t.
\nYou know, we shouldn’t judge. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:20:19,560 –> 00:20:24,520
\nChrist said do not judge.
\nThat’s not what he said, he <\/p>\n
370
\n00:20:24,520 –> 00:20:26,000
\nsaid.
\nJudge righteously. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:27,240 –> 00:20:29,800
\nNow, tolerance, there’s an
\naspect of that which I would <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:29,800 –> 00:20:31,800
\ncall patience.
\nAnd part of this definition is <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:31,800 –> 00:20:34,760
\nthat we might endure for a time.
\nAnd so, yeah, you know, years <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:34,760 –> 00:20:37,040
\nand years and years ago, we had
\na brother coming to the truth <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:37,040 –> 00:20:39,000
\nthat smoked, and he wanted to
\nkick the habit. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:39,000 –> 00:20:41,280
\nSo we would endure for a time
\nand have patience with that <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:41,280 –> 00:20:44,320
\nbrother, help him along until he
\nwas able to get that through. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:44,320 –> 00:20:47,080
\nWe just wouldn’t tolerate it.
\nAnd then eventually accept it <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:47,080 –> 00:20:49,600
\nbecause what happens after that,
\nyou start to justify it. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:49,880 –> 00:20:52,160
\nIf you’re tolerating everything
\nand then you’re accepting <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:52,160 –> 00:20:53,680
\neverything.
\nIt’s like, wow, we’ll just, I <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:53,680 –> 00:20:55,880
\nguess it’s OK.
\nThen you start adjusting. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:55,880 –> 00:20:59,240
\nWow, This is why he does it.
\nIt’s he has the shakes if he <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:59,240 –> 00:21:01,240
\ndoesn’t, right, it calms them
\ndown. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:21:01,240 –> 00:21:04,240
\nLet’s just let them have it.
\nThat’s just one example. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:21:04,240 –> 00:21:07,320
\nWe could apply that to pretty
\nmuch any other type of bad <\/p>\n
387
\n00:21:07,320 –> 00:21:10,080
\nbehavior.
\nRomans 1 and 32 says though they<\/p>\n
388
\n00:21:10,080 –> 00:21:12,880
\nknow God’s righteous decree,
\nthose that practice such things <\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:13,120 –> 00:21:16,280
\ndeserve to die.
\nThey not only do them, but they <\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:16,280 –> 00:21:17,920
\ngive approval to those that
\npractice them. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:17,920 –> 00:21:21,120
\nAnd that’s why Paul says that in
\nthe 1st chapter of Romans, <\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:22,480 –> 00:21:24,240
\nright?
\nWe’re not, we’re not to give <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:24,240 –> 00:21:28,080
\nactive approval, you know, tacit
\napproval to something or, or, or<\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:28,080 –> 00:21:30,240
\nto show tolerance that leads to
\nacceptance. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:30,600 –> 00:21:32,760
\nAnd this is what we’re taught
\nthrough the social justice <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:32,760 –> 00:21:37,840
\nmovement.
\nOne conservative writer said <\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:37,840 –> 00:21:39,800
\nthis and then this.
\nThis really resonated with me. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:39,800 –> 00:21:44,280
\nHe says we cannot be accepted by
\nGod until we fundamentally try <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:44,280 –> 00:21:47,200
\nto abandon those parts of
\nourselves that are fundamentally<\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:47,200 –> 00:21:49,920
\nunacceptable.
\nAnd I think that is true in <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:49,920 –> 00:21:52,160
\nsociety.
\nThat is true. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:52,160 –> 00:21:57,760
\nLiving under God is God does
\ncall us while we’re under sin. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:59,360 –> 00:22:01,200
\nBut then he calls us to
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:22:01,240 –> 00:22:04,240
\nHe requires that we change, that
\nwe move from the state. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:22:04,240 –> 00:22:05,760
\nThat we were in.
\nTo the state. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:22:05,760 –> 00:22:09,760
\nThat God needs us to be in.
\nAnd when you think about this, <\/p>\n
407
\n00:22:09,760 –> 00:22:11,760
\nthis is a meme that’s been going
\naround the Internet. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:12,640 –> 00:22:15,520
\nIt started, actually,
\napparently, around the Kennedy <\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:15,520 –> 00:22:17,160
\nera.
\nIf you can’t accept me at my <\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:17,160 –> 00:22:19,400
\nworst, you don’t deserve.
\nMe at my best. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:19,800 –> 00:22:21,560
\nAnd you know what?
\nThat sounds right. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:22,760 –> 00:22:24,280
\nIt’s like, you know, because
\nsome people are going to have a <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:24,280 –> 00:22:27,720
\nbad day, right?
\nSome people have some nasty <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:27,720 –> 00:22:29,840
\nhabits.
\nYou know, if you can’t accept me<\/p>\n
415
\n00:22:29,840 –> 00:22:31,400
\nat my worst, you don’t deserve
\nme at my best. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:31,400 –> 00:22:33,520
\nBut but really think about that
\nscripturally. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:33,640 –> 00:22:35,640
\nThink about that.
\nJust in a marriage relationship <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:36,360 –> 00:22:39,480
\nthat I’m supposed to accept
\nthings that are fundamentally <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:39,480 –> 00:22:42,840
\nunacceptable about somebody’s
\ncharacter, otherwise I don’t <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:42,840 –> 00:22:43,920
\ndeserve them when they’re at
\ntheir. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:43,920 –> 00:22:46,160
\nBest.
\nAren’t we all trying to improve <\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:46,680 –> 00:22:52,200
\neach other?
\nIt’s this form of non judgmental<\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:52,200 –> 00:22:54,720
\ncompassion and tolerance that is
\nseeping in. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:54,720 –> 00:22:57,120
\nThis is postmodernist thought
\nthat’s seeping into our <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:57,120 –> 00:22:59,160
\ncommunity.
\nWe need to call things out. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:23:00,000 –> 00:23:02,040
\nYou know, we need to stand
\npeople up in the things that we <\/p>\n
427
\n00:23:02,040 –> 00:23:04,040
\ndo.
\nWe need to do it with patients <\/p>\n
428
\n00:23:04,040 –> 00:23:07,000
\nand we need to do it with love.
\nWe need to build relationships <\/p>\n
429
\n00:23:07,000 –> 00:23:09,120
\nwith them so they under, we
\nunderstand, you know, what’s <\/p>\n
430
\n00:23:09,120 –> 00:23:12,800
\ngoing on in their lives.
\nIt’s like giving morphine to a <\/p>\n
431
\n00:23:12,800 –> 00:23:14,240
\npatient.
\nThere’s a mortal disease, so <\/p>\n
432
\n00:23:14,240 –> 00:23:17,040
\nthey can’t feel the pain and
\nsometimes we need to feel the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:23:17,040 –> 00:23:19,160
\npain to seek treatment and be
\nand be healed. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:19,160 –> 00:23:23,680
\nTolerating sin and accepting
\nevil behavior to make to make us<\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:23,680 –> 00:23:27,520
\nmore acceptable to God in our
\necclesias is not right. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:28,200 –> 00:23:31,000
\nAnd so we can’t shirk our
\nresponsibilities, our duties as <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:31,000 –> 00:23:34,400
\nshepherds to exhort and rebuke
\nand to help others bring them to<\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:34,400 –> 00:23:37,160
\nrepentance.
\nAnd So what the the gospel <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:37,160 –> 00:23:41,160
\nmessage is, is about calling
\npeople out of the world. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:41,320 –> 00:23:43,560
\nTo bring them into the
\nacceptance of the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:43,560 –> 00:23:49,720
\nChrist through the transition to
\nrighteousness, through his his <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:49,720 –> 00:23:53,520
\ndeath and his resurrection.
\nThat is the message, not <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:53,520 –> 00:23:56,600
\ntolerance and not acceptance.
\nWe can’t change. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:56,600 –> 00:24:01,000
\nGod’s laws to reduce the weight
\nof sin and to excuse our <\/p>\n
445
\n00:24:01,000 –> 00:24:04,440
\nactions.
\nTaking up the cross of Christ <\/p>\n
446
\n00:24:04,440 –> 00:24:07,480
\nmeans defying the social order
\nof the day, the power of <\/p>\n
447
\n00:24:07,480 –> 00:24:11,000
\ndarkness, and marching every day
\ntowards the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:24:14,600 –> 00:24:15,880
\nThis really resonated with the
\nteens. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:24:15,880 –> 00:24:17,680
\nAs well, I think everybody
\nunderstands this. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:24:17,680 –> 00:24:24,360
\nSocial justice is about the
\nvictim, and at first blush. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:24:24,360 –> 00:24:24,880
\nYou think?
\nWell. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:24:24,880 –> 00:24:29,200
\nYeah, everybody’s a victim of
\nsomething, right? <\/p>\n
453
\n00:24:29,920 –> 00:24:32,760
\nBut they emphasize this dynamic,
\nas I mentioned, between the <\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:32,760 –> 00:24:35,600
\noppressors and the oppressed.
\nAnd the outcome is you have this<\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:35,600 –> 00:24:38,440
\nvictim.
\nRight, that that this victim <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:38,440 –> 00:24:42,160
\nmentality, this mindset that
\nthat is consistently perceiving <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:42,160 –> 00:24:45,800
\noneself as a victim of every
\ncircumstance. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:46,640 –> 00:24:49,880
\nIt’s not my fault, it’s the
\nsociety’s fault. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:49,920 –> 00:24:52,240
\nMy parents raised me this way,
\nright? <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:52,520 –> 00:24:54,800
\nThis happened to me at school,
\nall these different things. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:54,800 –> 00:24:58,560
\nAnd I’m not saying that that
\nthose aren’t real elements that <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:58,560 –> 00:25:00,800
\ncan cause.
\nReal problems for people. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:25:02,000 –> 00:25:05,160
\nThe issue is if we get.
\nStuck in the victim mentality, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:25:05,200 –> 00:25:08,120
\nwe will never get out.
\nGod. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:25:08,120 –> 00:25:10,880
\nDoesn’t preach the victim
\nmentality. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:25:13,960 –> 00:25:17,320
\nWhat social justice, what
\nbiblical justice preaches to us <\/p>\n
467
\n00:25:17,600 –> 00:25:20,440
\nis that we bear our own burdens,
\nthat there is personal <\/p>\n
468
\n00:25:20,440 –> 00:25:22,560
\naccountability and
\nresponsibility to the things <\/p>\n
469
\n00:25:22,560 –> 00:25:24,640
\nthat we do.
\nGalatians 6 and five says for <\/p>\n
470
\n00:25:24,640 –> 00:25:26,240
\neach one should carry our own
\nload. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:25:26,520 –> 00:25:29,400
\nRomans 14 and 12.
\nEach of us will give account of <\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:29,400 –> 00:25:33,520
\nourselves to God.
\nYes, we’re a victim of sin. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:33,520 –> 00:25:37,400
\nWe’re a victim of our nature,
\nand often times we’re a victim <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:37,400 –> 00:25:40,600
\nof the circumstances of our own
\nbehavior and actions. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:41,840 –> 00:25:48,160
\nBut we should never have a
\nvictim mentality because we have<\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:48,160 –> 00:25:52,000
\nforgiveness and when we have
\nforgiveness, we can let go of <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:52,000 –> 00:25:56,080
\nthat.
\nSin and we need to forgive <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:56,080 –> 00:25:59,840
\nothers because the victim
\nmentality is about retribution. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:26:00,840 –> 00:26:03,960
\nSo if I was a victim, then
\ntherefore you need to pay to <\/p>\n
480
\n00:26:03,960 –> 00:26:07,240
\ncompensate me.
\nFor all the injustice you’ve <\/p>\n
481
\n00:26:07,240 –> 00:26:12,080
\nperpetrated on me, I’m sure
\nyou’ve all heard about what’s <\/p>\n
482
\n00:26:12,080 –> 00:26:16,920
\nhappening in the California
\nlegislature about slave <\/p>\n
483
\n00:26:16,920 –> 00:26:21,440
\nreparations in a state that
\nnever had or condone slavery, <\/p>\n
484
\n00:26:22,360 –> 00:26:26,000
\nnever had slave owners going to
\nforce people that never had <\/p>\n
485
\n00:26:26,000 –> 00:26:29,120
\nslaves to pay for those people
\nwho were never slaves. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:26:29,120 –> 00:26:32,920
\nIt’s going to be hundreds of
\nbillions of dollars. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:26:33,080 –> 00:26:35,120
\nThe math they’ve already done
\nsaid it’s going to bankrupt the <\/p>\n
488
\n00:26:35,120 –> 00:26:39,280
\nstate if it ever comes to be.
\nWe have empowerment through the <\/p>\n
489
\n00:26:39,280 –> 00:26:40,840
\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nChristians are called to <\/p>\n
490
\n00:26:40,840 –> 00:26:44,320
\novercome challenges through the
\nstrength that’s provided us in <\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:44,320 –> 00:26:47,400
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.
\nPhilippians 4 and 13 says I can <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:47,400 –> 00:26:49,560
\ndo all things through Christ who
\nstrengthens me. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:51,080 –> 00:26:53,680
\nAnd so it’s not about the victim
\nmentality, it’s about reaching <\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:53,680 –> 00:26:57,360
\nout to God for support, for
\nhelp, for encouragement, for <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:57,360 –> 00:27:02,240
\nstrength, and for forgiveness.
\nWhich is what the word of God is<\/p>\n
496
\n00:27:02,240 –> 00:27:07,160
\nabout, that if we’ve had issues
\nin our lives, if we’ve been <\/p>\n
497
\n00:27:07,160 –> 00:27:10,440
\nmarginalized, if there has been
\nproblems, if we’ve been unjustly<\/p>\n
498
\n00:27:10,440 –> 00:27:13,720
\ntreated, that there is
\nforgiveness and reconciliation. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:27:14,560 –> 00:27:17,840
\nSo instead of the social justice
\nmovement focusing on grievance, <\/p>\n
500
\n00:27:19,440 –> 00:27:21,440
\nwe need to focus on
\nreconciliation. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:27:21,800 –> 00:27:24,960
\nMatthew 6 and 14 For if you
\nforgive other people when they <\/p>\n
502
\n00:27:24,960 –> 00:27:27,920
\nsin against you, your heavenly
\nFather will also forgive you. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:27:29,360 –> 00:27:32,080
\nAnd one of my daughter’s
\nfavorite verses, and I quote it <\/p>\n
504
\n00:27:32,080 –> 00:27:34,680
\nall the time and I say it all
\nthe time, is that God then gives<\/p>\n
505
\n00:27:34,680 –> 00:27:36,360
\nus the hope of a positive
\nfuture. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:27:36,360 –> 00:27:39,400
\nJeremiah 29 and 11 For I know
\nthe plans that I have for you. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:27:39,400 –> 00:27:41,920
\nPlans.
\nTo prosper you and not to harm <\/p>\n
508
\n00:27:41,920 –> 00:27:43,920
\nyou plans to give you hope in
\nthe future. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:43,920 –> 00:27:48,440
\nAnd unfortunately, the victim
\nmentality focuses us to to to <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:48,480 –> 00:27:51,680
\ndwell on the past and the past
\nheard and the the negative <\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:51,680 –> 00:27:56,040
\nexpectations contrary to the
\namazing hope that God has given <\/p>\n
512
\n00:27:56,040 –> 00:27:59,120
\nus in the future.
\nAnd so, while addressing <\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:59,120 –> 00:28:02,280
\ninjustices are important, as
\nbelievers, we need to be very <\/p>\n
514
\n00:28:02,280 –> 00:28:05,840
\ncareful that we don’t adopt this
\nparticular mindset, certainly <\/p>\n
515
\n00:28:05,840 –> 00:28:08,960
\nnot within our ecclesia.
\nGod’s solutions are to have <\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:08,960 –> 00:28:13,520
\npersonal accountability and
\ntrust in his solution for the <\/p>\n
517
\n00:28:13,520 –> 00:28:16,480
\nfuture, and to rely on God’s
\noutcomes for our lives. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:28:19,600 –> 00:28:22,160
\nNow, social justice is also
\ncultural and political, and we <\/p>\n
519
\n00:28:22,160 –> 00:28:25,760
\ndon’t need to spend a lot of
\ntime on this because I think we <\/p>\n
520
\n00:28:25,760 –> 00:28:30,360
\nall understand it.
\nNow when I say social justice is<\/p>\n
521
\n00:28:30,360 –> 00:28:33,600
\ncultural, what I mean is that
\ntoday’s social justice movement <\/p>\n
522
\n00:28:33,600 –> 00:28:36,800
\nis not the individual going out
\nand doing right by their <\/p>\n
523
\n00:28:36,800 –> 00:28:40,000
\nneighbor.
\nSocial justice movement today <\/p>\n
524
\n00:28:40,280 –> 00:28:43,680
\nhas invaded our culture and
\nthey’re changing our culture. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:28:44,600 –> 00:28:48,000
\nAnd these movements, as I said,
\nare backed by substantial <\/p>\n
526
\n00:28:48,000 –> 00:28:52,920
\nresource advertising campaigns,
\nsupport of high profile CE OS <\/p>\n
527
\n00:28:53,040 –> 00:28:55,080
\nGlobal.
\nInfluencers off of YouTube or <\/p>\n
528
\n00:28:55,080 –> 00:28:58,240
\nInstagram or TikTok.
\nAnd so they become very, very <\/p>\n
529
\n00:28:58,280 –> 00:29:00,680
\npowerful.
\nNot only do they shut down <\/p>\n
530
\n00:29:00,680 –> 00:29:05,120
\nhighways or they storm schools
\nor they take over campuses, but <\/p>\n
531
\n00:29:05,120 –> 00:29:08,280
\nthey’ve incited riots.
\nThey’ve wielded considerable <\/p>\n
532
\n00:29:08,280 –> 00:29:11,000
\ninfluence, and they’ve shouted
\ndown the traditional <\/p>\n
533
\n00:29:11,000 –> 00:29:15,160
\nconservative voice in order of
\nthis, this liberal progressive <\/p>\n
534
\n00:29:15,160 –> 00:29:18,920
\nagenda can come to play.
\nThey’re trying to change <\/p>\n
535
\n00:29:18,920 –> 00:29:23,000
\nculture, to be active their
\nimage. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:29:23,520 –> 00:29:25,720
\nAnd that’s a problem.
\nWe’re not supposed to be <\/p>\n
537
\n00:29:25,720 –> 00:29:27,560
\ninvested in the social culture
\nof the day. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:29:27,840 –> 00:29:29,560
\nWe’re supposed to stand in
\nopposition to it. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:29:29,560 –> 00:29:33,280
\nAnd of course, these new
\nmovements have deep political <\/p>\n
540
\n00:29:33,280 –> 00:29:35,320
\nengagement.
\nWe’ve already talked about some <\/p>\n
541
\n00:29:35,320 –> 00:29:37,840
\nof these things that they’re
\ncodifying in law. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:29:38,720 –> 00:29:42,640
\nCanada’s Bill C-16 is, is going
\nto be very problematic for us <\/p>\n
543
\n00:29:43,600 –> 00:29:46,920
\nwith fundamental changes, not
\nonly in how we can or cannot <\/p>\n
544
\n00:29:46,920 –> 00:29:50,680
\ninteract in society, but then
\nwhat will be taught about that <\/p>\n
545
\n00:29:50,680 –> 00:29:53,360
\nin school.
\nAnd these movements harbor <\/p>\n
546
\n00:29:53,360 –> 00:29:56,400
\nviolent political agendas
\nbecause they are intent on <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:56,400 –> 00:30:00,400
\ntearing down the social
\nstructures of the day, the <\/p>\n
548
\n00:30:00,400 –> 00:30:04,320
\ngovernment’s institutions, laws,
\nanything that stands in the way.<\/p>\n
549
\n00:30:05,000 –> 00:30:07,480
\nAnd we saw what happened in
\nSeattle over a couple of years <\/p>\n
550
\n00:30:07,480 –> 00:30:09,520
\nago was, was unbelievable.
\nIt was dramatic. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:30:09,520 –> 00:30:12,560
\nAnd in fact, pretty much every
\nmajor city in the US and many <\/p>\n
552
\n00:30:12,560 –> 00:30:15,120
\nmajor cities in Canada came
\nunder the same problem. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:30:16,360 –> 00:30:18,000
\nAnd so from a biblical
\nperspective. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:30:18,480 –> 00:30:21,320
\nYou know, when we look at our
\nindividual investment in these <\/p>\n
555
\n00:30:21,320 –> 00:30:25,000
\nthings, we can’t have any part
\nof it because these are embedded<\/p>\n
556
\n00:30:25,000 –> 00:30:27,560
\ninto the cultural fabric of
\nsociety that we’re not citizens <\/p>\n
557
\n00:30:27,560 –> 00:30:29,480
\nof.
\nIt’s legally entrenched into the<\/p>\n
558
\n00:30:29,480 –> 00:30:31,360
\npolitical movement that we can’t
\nbe part of. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:30:31,920 –> 00:30:33,880
\nAnd lastly, it’s a human
\nideology. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:30:33,880 –> 00:30:37,840
\nIt’s something that we cannot,
\nwe cannot be involved in because<\/p>\n
561
\n00:30:37,840 –> 00:30:42,040
\nit is not.
\nDirected by God, we are citizens<\/p>\n
562
\n00:30:42,040 –> 00:30:45,200
\nof this world in the sense that
\nwe live here and we have to <\/p>\n
563
\n00:30:45,200 –> 00:30:48,040
\nabide here, but we need to
\npromote our values and our <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:48,040 –> 00:30:50,480
\nbeliefs and show kindness and
\nlove and all those things are <\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:50,480 –> 00:30:52,920
\nright and good.
\nBut ultimately we are citizens <\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:52,920 –> 00:30:56,040
\nof, of God’s future.
\nPhilippians 3 and 20 but our <\/p>\n
567
\n00:30:56,040 –> 00:30:59,400
\ncitizenship is in heaven and we
\neagerly await a Savior from <\/p>\n
568
\n00:30:59,400 –> 00:31:02,600
\nthere, the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nAnd John says, the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
569
\n00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:05,840
\nChrist says in John 17, I have
\ngiven them your word, and the <\/p>\n
570
\n00:31:05,840 –> 00:31:08,960
\nworld has hated them, for
\nthey’re not of the world any <\/p>\n
571
\n00:31:08,960 –> 00:31:10,040
\nmore.
\nThan I am of the world. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:31:10,040 –> 00:31:12,640
\nMy prayer is not that you will
\ntake them out of the world, but <\/p>\n
573
\n00:31:12,640 –> 00:31:14,440
\nthat you will protect them from
\nthe evil 1. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:31:15,720 –> 00:31:17,520
\nAnd that’s the position that we
\nare in. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:31:19,160 –> 00:31:23,200
\nAnd so we have to address the
\ncore tenets of social justice <\/p>\n
576
\n00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:27,720
\nwithin our immediate space by
\ndoing right and seeking justice <\/p>\n
577
\n00:31:28,080 –> 00:31:30,760
\nwith our fellow man.
\nBut it must be grounded in <\/p>\n
578
\n00:31:30,880 –> 00:31:33,840
\nbiblical principles, must be
\ncarried out with compassion and <\/p>\n
579
\n00:31:33,840 –> 00:31:38,720
\nwith humility.
\nYou know, sadly, a number of <\/p>\n
580
\n00:31:38,720 –> 00:31:41,800
\nyears ago there were there were
\necclesial emails that were going<\/p>\n
581
\n00:31:41,800 –> 00:31:45,280
\naround for official events that
\nhad hashtag Black lives Matter <\/p>\n
582
\n00:31:45,280 –> 00:31:49,040
\nin the official e-mail tag like.
\nAnd that’s just that’s just a <\/p>\n
583
\n00:31:49,040 –> 00:31:51,800
\ntiny part of it.
\nThere are brethren and sisters <\/p>\n
584
\n00:31:51,800 –> 00:31:55,160
\nthat March in protest movements.
\nThey belong to these movements. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:31:56,120 –> 00:32:00,480
\nIf if you are a member of Black
\nLives Matter, the movement, <\/p>\n
586
\n00:32:01,360 –> 00:32:04,200
\nyou’re also anti Israel because
\nyou support Palestine. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:32:06,680 –> 00:32:10,760
\nAnyway, there’s so many things
\nand so many places we could go. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:32:17,290 –> 00:32:19,730
\nWe might have time just to talk
\nabout this for just a minute. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:32:21,410 –> 00:32:26,250
\nThe the Free Palestine movement,
\nthe Free Gaza movement is is <\/p>\n
590
\n00:32:26,250 –> 00:32:31,250
\nright now probably the social
\njustice event of the globe. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:33,210 –> 00:32:36,970
\nDo you know how many?
\nUniversity campuses in the US <\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:36,970 –> 00:32:43,200
\nand Canada that they took over
\nthis spring, just Canada and the<\/p>\n
593
\n00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:50,840
\nUS, over 250 campuses were taken
\nover by violent mobs. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:32:51,240 –> 00:32:53,200
\nIt happened in Canada as well,
\nhappened in the UK. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:32:53,200 –> 00:32:55,840
\nIt happened in Australia to a
\nlesser degree. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:32:57,640 –> 00:33:01,240
\nAnd the problem is with this,
\nand I think we all understand, <\/p>\n
597
\n00:33:01,240 –> 00:33:05,200
\nis that although we all agree.
\nThat. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:33:05,200 –> 00:33:08,640
\nHorrifying things are happening
\nwithin the nation of Israel. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:33:09,880 –> 00:33:13,520
\nViolent conflict is never
\nsomething that we should support<\/p>\n
600
\n00:33:13,520 –> 00:33:16,320
\nor approve.
\nAnd people dying and children <\/p>\n
601
\n00:33:16,320 –> 00:33:17,720
\ndying is.
\nIt’s horrific. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:33:17,720 –> 00:33:20,680
\nAnd so there’s a there’s a
\nsympathy that we have. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:33:20,680 –> 00:33:25,240
\nObviously it’s heartbreaking to
\nsee what’s happening, but Israel<\/p>\n
604
\n00:33:25,240 –> 00:33:26,720
\nhas a right to defend their
\nborders. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:33:27,640 –> 00:33:30,920
\nAnd what happened on October 7th
\nwas horrifying. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:33:31,480 –> 00:33:34,000
\nIt was a terrorist act and all
\nthose. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:33:34,000 –> 00:33:37,920
\nThings are being whitewashed
\nover for the sake of the victim <\/p>\n
608
\n00:33:39,000 –> 00:33:41,320
\nin Palestine.
\nI’m just going to read through <\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:41,320 –> 00:33:42,560
\nthis.
\nI do have a slide on this, but <\/p>\n
610
\n00:33:42,560 –> 00:33:47,920
\nit’s so small you can’t see it.
\nBecause the Palestinian movement<\/p>\n
611
\n00:33:48,520 –> 00:33:53,880
\nis revising history in order to
\nsupport their cause #1 <\/p>\n
612
\n00:33:53,880 –> 00:33:56,600
\nsupporters of the Palestinian
\ncause, whether you like it or <\/p>\n
613
\n00:33:56,600 –> 00:33:58,840
\nnot.
\nOr by extension, supporting <\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:58,840 –> 00:34:00,760
\nHamas, which is a terrorist
\norganization. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:34:00,760 –> 00:34:05,400
\nI think that’s pretty easy.
\nNow Hamas constitutionally wants<\/p>\n
616
\n00:34:05,400 –> 00:34:08,040
\nto wipe Israel off the map.
\nWe can just set that aside. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:34:08,800 –> 00:34:11,000
\nWhenever somebody says.
\nFrom the river to the sea, if <\/p>\n
618
\n00:34:11,000 –> 00:34:13,560
\nthey know which river in which
\nsea they’re talking about, which<\/p>\n
619
\n00:34:13,560 –> 00:34:17,000
\nis sad reality of many of these
\npeople, including what was <\/p>\n
620
\n00:34:17,000 –> 00:34:19,560
\nhappening at U Victoria in
\nVictoria. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:34:21,040 –> 00:34:26,320
\nIn order to get space from the
\nriver to the sea, you have to <\/p>\n
622
\n00:34:26,320 –> 00:34:31,400
\npush Israel out, as one of the
\nstudents in the class today <\/p>\n
623
\n00:34:31,400 –> 00:34:34,920
\nsaid, which means genocide for
\nthe Jews. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:34:35,760 –> 00:34:40,800
\nSo although they decry genocide
\nbeing perpetrated on them, their<\/p>\n
625
\n00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:45,280
\nresponse is wipe out Israel.
\nListen some of their songs, I <\/p>\n
626
\n00:34:45,280 –> 00:34:46,360
\njust can’t remember them right
\nnow. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:34:47,600 –> 00:34:51,199
\nThe protesters intentionally or
\nunintentionally or ignorantly <\/p>\n
628
\n00:34:51,199 –> 00:34:56,199
\njust revised historical facts.
\nNumber one, they deny the Jews <\/p>\n
629
\n00:34:56,199 –> 00:34:58,880
\nhistorical right to the land.
\nYou. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:34:59,080 –> 00:35:00,480
\nDon’t even need the.
\nBible to prove it. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:35:00,840 –> 00:35:03,480
\nYou can prove it through
\nhistory, but they deny that <\/p>\n
632
\n00:35:03,480 –> 00:35:07,200
\nnumber one.
\nEven though their legal claim <\/p>\n
633
\n00:35:07,200 –> 00:35:10,560
\nwas codified in 1948 through the
\nUN, they deny that. <\/p>\n
634
\n00:35:10,680 –> 00:35:13,240
\nThey say that was false.
\nThey say that was done by, you <\/p>\n
635
\n00:35:13,240 –> 00:35:17,120
\nknow, white power or something.
\nTheir denials, as far as that <\/p>\n
636
\n00:35:17,120 –> 00:35:19,640
\ngoes, contradict reality.
\nAnd there are many of those. <\/p>\n
637
\n00:35:19,640 –> 00:35:20,960
\nI don’t have time to go through
\nall of them. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:35:21,240 –> 00:35:23,600
\nAnother one of the claims, of
\ncourse, is that Israel is a <\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:23,600 –> 00:35:27,440
\ncolonial power that is
\nperpetrating injustice on a <\/p>\n
640
\n00:35:27,440 –> 00:35:31,000
\nmarginalized group.
\nNow that is literally laughable <\/p>\n
641
\n00:35:31,560 –> 00:35:34,360
\nwhen you think of the history of
\nthe nation of Israel that has <\/p>\n
642
\n00:35:34,360 –> 00:35:38,880
\nbeen colonized by no less than
\n10 major countries in the last <\/p>\n
643
\n00:35:38,880 –> 00:35:41,280
\n2000 years.
\nOh let’s see, Egypt, Assyria, <\/p>\n
644
\n00:35:41,280 –> 00:35:45,520
\nBabylon, Persia, Greece.
\nThe Romans kicked Israel out of <\/p>\n
645
\n00:35:45,520 –> 00:35:52,000
\nthe land.
\nThey deny that oppression, you <\/p>\n
646
\n00:35:52,000 –> 00:35:54,000
\nknow, governmental political
\noppression. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:35:55,520 –> 00:35:58,120
\nIsrael’s the only liberal
\ndemocracy in the entire Middle <\/p>\n
648
\n00:35:58,120 –> 00:36:01,240
\nEast.
\nThey allow rights and freedoms <\/p>\n
649
\n00:36:01,280 –> 00:36:04,160
\nthat most other Arab nations do
\nnot. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:09,800
\nI find that very hard to
\nrationalize that they don’t <\/p>\n
651
\n00:36:09,800 –> 00:36:13,640
\nunderstand that.
\nAlso Israel is the only country <\/p>\n
652
\n00:36:13,800 –> 00:36:16,240
\nthat’s really allowed them some
\nform of self governance. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:36:18,360 –> 00:36:19,720
\nEgypt doesn’t open their
\nborders. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:36:20,960 –> 00:36:22,680
\nMaybe they talk about the
\noppressive borders. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:22,680 –> 00:36:24,600
\nThey never mentioned Egypt.
\nVery interesting. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:25,280 –> 00:36:27,760
\nJordan doesn’t want them.
\nWhy isn’t, why isn’t Egypt just <\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:27,760 –> 00:36:30,880
\nopening up their their gates at
\nthe wrath of border and just <\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:30,880 –> 00:36:34,000
\nletting refugees in?
\nThey’re letting food trucks in. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:36:34,240 –> 00:36:36,080
\nThey’re not letting people in.
\nYou know why they’re not letting<\/p>\n
660
\n00:36:36,080 –> 00:36:37,240
\nthem in?
\nBecause they don’t want the same<\/p>\n
661
\n00:36:37,240 –> 00:36:39,480
\nproblems that the Jews have to
\ndeal with in their land. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:36:41,480 –> 00:36:45,240
\nWhy isn’t Saudi Arabia, why
\nisn’t Iran just taking in <\/p>\n
663
\n00:36:45,240 –> 00:36:47,440
\nhundreds of thousands of
\nPalestinian refugees? <\/p>\n
664
\n00:36:47,440 –> 00:36:51,640
\nThey don’t want the problem.
\nHistory proves that the <\/p>\n
665
\n00:36:51,640 –> 00:36:54,480
\nPalestinians have declined
\nstatehood or partial statehood <\/p>\n
666
\n00:36:54,760 –> 00:36:58,160
\nat least three times.
\nI’ll probably be corrected. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:36:58,160 –> 00:37:01,200
\nAfter that it’s more.
\nAnd of course, we know that Gaza<\/p>\n
668
\n00:37:01,200 –> 00:37:04,000
\nwas given over to the
\nPalestinians in 2005. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:37:05,040 –> 00:37:08,000
\nIsrael said, OK, we’ll give you
\na sense of autonomy. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:10,080
\nWe’ll give you the place.
\nIt’s a beautiful place. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:37:10,600 –> 00:37:12,560
\nYeah, I’ve never been there, but
\nI’ve seen pictures. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:37:13,800 –> 00:37:15,760
\nAnd as we know, they gave them
\nindustry, they gave them <\/p>\n
673
\n00:37:15,760 –> 00:37:17,560
\ngreenhouses, they gave them
\nagriculture industry. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:17,680 –> 00:37:20,600
\nThey gave them a going concern,
\nlike a multi billion dollar <\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:20,640 –> 00:37:22,960
\nindustry.
\nWithin months it was all <\/p>\n
676
\n00:37:22,960 –> 00:37:24,520
\ntrashed.
\nIt was looted, it was burned, it<\/p>\n
677
\n00:37:24,520 –> 00:37:27,880
\nwas destroyed.
\nAnd in 2007, the Palestinians <\/p>\n
678
\n00:37:27,880 –> 00:37:31,120
\nvoted in Hamas and the Rockets
\nstarted coming over. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:37:31,120 –> 00:37:34,280
\nAnd, and, and if, and somebody
\nhas done this accounting and I <\/p>\n
680
\n00:37:34,280 –> 00:37:35,840
\njust don’t have time to put it
\nup on the screen. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:37:35,840 –> 00:37:40,640
\nBut of the, the, the billions
\nand billions and billions of <\/p>\n
682
\n00:37:40,640 –> 00:37:45,200
\ndollars that have been given to
\nthese organizations in in Gaza <\/p>\n
683
\n00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:48,680
\nand in the West Bank.
\nSo much of it is been diverted <\/p>\n
684
\n00:37:48,680 –> 00:37:51,760
\ninto weapons and concrete and
\ntunnels and enriched their <\/p>\n
685
\n00:37:51,760 –> 00:37:55,520
\nleaders who are worth hundreds
\nand some say billions of <\/p>\n
686
\n00:37:55,520 –> 00:38:01,000
\ndollars.
\nNow that’s the reality of the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:06,600
\nfree Palestine movement of a
\npeople who are in the land of <\/p>\n
688
\n00:38:06,600 –> 00:38:12,280
\nGod’s people.
\nAnd there’s there’s probably 100<\/p>\n
689
\n00:38:12,280 –> 00:38:13,960
\nother things that we could talk
\nabout. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:38:13,960 –> 00:38:18,040
\nSo while we are sympathetic to
\nthe cause of the plight of <\/p>\n
691
\n00:38:18,040 –> 00:38:23,640
\nsuffering as we should be
\nadvocating for, this type of <\/p>\n
692
\n00:38:23,640 –> 00:38:28,120
\nPalestinian cause goes against
\neverything we know about <\/p>\n
693
\n00:38:28,120 –> 00:38:32,280
\nbiblical truth about the
\nintegrity of God’s word. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:34,440 –> 00:38:36,560
\nAnd one of the teens came up to
\nme and said, you know, so how do<\/p>\n
695
\n00:38:36,560 –> 00:38:39,480
\nwe talk to somebody about this?
\nI think the first problem is we <\/p>\n
696
\n00:38:39,480 –> 00:38:42,320
\ncan’t just start spouting facts
\nand saying where they’re wrong. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:38:42,320 –> 00:38:43,600
\nI think we have to ask them
\nquestions. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:38:44,400 –> 00:38:48,080
\nYou have to question them.
\nWhen, when did the Palestinian <\/p>\n
699
\n00:38:48,080 –> 00:38:50,520
\npeople come to be?
\nWeren’t Jews called <\/p>\n
700
\n00:38:50,520 –> 00:38:53,720
\nPalestinians, you know, prior to
\nto the Balfour Declaration? <\/p>\n
701
\n00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:56,600
\nWhat was the land like?
\nWhy did nobody want the land? <\/p>\n
702
\n00:38:56,600 –> 00:38:58,720
\nYou know, for hundreds of years
\nit was a wasteland. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:38:58,720 –> 00:39:01,600
\nNobody wanted it.
\nRight now somebody, now <\/p>\n
704
\n00:39:01,680 –> 00:39:03,960
\neverybody wants it.
\nLike I think we can ask these <\/p>\n
705
\n00:39:03,960 –> 00:39:05,880
\nkind of questions.
\nWhat are the Arab nations doing?<\/p>\n
706
\n00:39:06,280 –> 00:39:09,000
\nAre they taking in refugees?
\nAnd I think we can start to <\/p>\n
707
\n00:39:09,000 –> 00:39:12,960
\nchange the narrative.
\nAs the young Lords boy said the <\/p>\n
708
\n00:39:12,960 –> 00:39:15,320
\nother day, you got to change.
\nYou got to change the narrative <\/p>\n
709
\n00:39:15,320 –> 00:39:20,520
\nand bring it back to God.
\nAnyway, I thought we had time to<\/p>\n
710
\n00:39:20,520 –> 00:39:22,520
\ncover it.
\nAnd now I’m, I realize I’m <\/p>\n
711
\n00:39:22,520 –> 00:39:26,640
\nwrong.
\nI think the important part to <\/p>\n
712
\n00:39:26,640 –> 00:39:31,720
\nunderstand about social justice
\nand, and comparing that to even <\/p>\n
713
\n00:39:31,720 –> 00:39:35,120
\ntraditional justice that, that
\nwe might even agree with at a <\/p>\n
714
\n00:39:35,120 –> 00:39:38,120
\nsocial level, right?
\nThe kind of traditional justice <\/p>\n
715
\n00:39:38,120 –> 00:39:41,040
\nthat we would get involved in
\nand just giving a hand up to our<\/p>\n
716
\n00:39:41,040 –> 00:39:43,680
\nneighbor and and making sure
\nthat we do the right things <\/p>\n
717
\n00:39:44,240 –> 00:39:48,640
\nwithin our society.
\nThat God’s justice is not only <\/p>\n
718
\n00:39:48,640 –> 00:39:51,360
\ndifferent fundamentally, but
\nGod’s justice. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:39:51,880 –> 00:39:57,640
\nIs his righteousness.
\nIn fact, in the Old Testament, <\/p>\n
720
\n00:39:57,640 –> 00:40:00,720
\nthose two words are really
\ninterchangeable, right? <\/p>\n
721
\n00:40:00,720 –> 00:40:04,360
\nThe word for mishpat and sadek
\ncan sometimes either be <\/p>\n
722
\n00:40:04,360 –> 00:40:06,040
\ntranslated as righteous or
\njustice. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:40:06,040 –> 00:40:08,120
\nAnd I think this is important
\nfor us to understand because <\/p>\n
724
\n00:40:08,120 –> 00:40:12,680
\nwhen God talks about justice,
\nhe’s talked about, he talks <\/p>\n
725
\n00:40:12,680 –> 00:40:17,520
\nabout being made right by him to
\nbe being made right by God. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:40:19,160 –> 00:40:21,680
\nAnd so.
\nBound up in this word for <\/p>\n
727
\n00:40:21,680 –> 00:40:25,520
\njustice is actually our
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n
728
\n00:40:29,160 –> 00:40:33,360
\nProverbs 8 and 20 says the Lord
\nworks righteousness and justice <\/p>\n
729
\n00:40:33,360 –> 00:40:38,560
\nfor all the oppressed.
\nSorry, that was. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:40:38,640 –> 00:40:42,200
\nPsalm One O 3, Proverbs 8 and 20
\nsays I walk in the way of <\/p>\n
731
\n00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:44,880
\nrighteousness along the path of
\njustice. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:40:45,560 –> 00:40:51,000
\nGod is not just trying to
\nrectify a wrong, He’s trying to <\/p>\n
733
\n00:40:51,000 –> 00:40:56,240
\nbring us to salvation.
\nJustice is tied in with God’s <\/p>\n
734
\n00:40:56,240 –> 00:40:57,840
\nrighteousness.
\nThe New Testament is no <\/p>\n
735
\n00:40:57,840 –> 00:40:59,800
\ndifferent.
\nIn the Greek New Testament and I<\/p>\n
736
\n00:40:59,800 –> 00:41:02,880
\ncan’t pronounce these two terms.
\nWhen we see justice, it often. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:41:03,120 –> 00:41:07,800
\nIs translated as righteousness,
\nand the verb to be made <\/p>\n
738
\n00:41:07,800 –> 00:41:12,120
\nrighteous is to declare or to
\njustify the righteous. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:41:12,960 –> 00:41:16,160
\nAnd so when we see justice and
\nrighteous in the New Testament <\/p>\n
740
\n00:41:16,160 –> 00:41:19,960
\nis also the same concept.
\nFirst John three and seven, dear<\/p>\n
741
\n00:41:19,960 –> 00:41:22,240
\nchildren, let not anyone lead
\nyou astray. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:41:22,240 –> 00:41:26,960
\nThe one who does what is right
\nis righteous, just as he is <\/p>\n
743
\n00:41:26,960 –> 00:41:29,840
\nrighteous.
\nMatthew 6 and 33 the Lord says, <\/p>\n
744
\n00:41:29,840 –> 00:41:34,160
\nBut seek ye first His Kingdom
\nand his righteousness, and all <\/p>\n
745
\n00:41:34,160 –> 00:41:36,000
\nthese things will be given unto
\nyou. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:41:38,480 –> 00:41:42,560
\nWhen we understand God’s
\njustice, we also understand <\/p>\n
747
\n00:41:42,840 –> 00:41:47,320
\nGod’s righteousness, and it is
\ncalling us to be just. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:41:48,760 –> 00:41:53,600
\nBut He is calling us to be
\nrighteous, and that is not a <\/p>\n
749
\n00:41:53,600 –> 00:41:57,080
\nfundamental component of the
\nsocial justice movement. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:41:58,040 –> 00:41:59,560
\nThey want nothing to do with
\nGod. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:42:00,800 –> 00:42:04,200
\nThey want nothing to do with
\nbeing made right and being <\/p>\n
752
\n00:42:04,200 –> 00:42:08,160
\ncorrected for their actions and
\nbeing having their sinful nature<\/p>\n
753
\n00:42:08,160 –> 00:42:11,000
\nresolve.
\nIt’s not part of their community<\/p>\n
754
\n00:42:11,080 –> 00:42:13,200
\nor their ideology or their
\nworldview. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:42:15,200 –> 00:42:18,120
\nSo what I submit to you, of
\ncourse, is that whether we’re <\/p>\n
756
\n00:42:18,120 –> 00:42:20,600
\nlooking at the Old Testament or
\nthe New Testament, justice and <\/p>\n
757
\n00:42:20,600 –> 00:42:23,200
\nrighteousness are are often
\npresented as two sides of the <\/p>\n
758
\n00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:27,000
\nsame coin.
\nThis deeply intertwined concept <\/p>\n
759
\n00:42:27,000 –> 00:42:29,920
\nthat emphasizes living in
\naccordance with God’s will, <\/p>\n
760
\n00:42:30,120 –> 00:42:34,720
\njustice, which includes dealing
\nwith issues of moral integrity <\/p>\n
761
\n00:42:34,720 –> 00:42:39,040
\nand righteousness and fair
\ntreatment of others as we walk <\/p>\n
762
\n00:42:39,040 –> 00:42:45,080
\nalong the path to salvation.
\nAnd so it’s God’s righteousness <\/p>\n
763
\n00:42:45,080 –> 00:42:49,880
\nthat needs to form the baseline
\nof justice in our community in <\/p>\n
764
\n00:42:49,880 –> 00:42:53,200
\nthis world.
\nAnd so it’s divine justice that <\/p>\n
765
\n00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:55,880
\nwill save.
\nIt says in Deuteronomy 32 and 3.<\/p>\n
766
\n00:42:55,880 –> 00:42:58,680
\nFor I will proclaim the name of
\nthe Lord, ascribe greatness to <\/p>\n
767
\n00:42:58,680 –> 00:43:01,080
\nour God, the rock.
\nHis work is perfect and all of <\/p>\n
768
\n00:43:01,080 –> 00:43:03,880
\nhis ways are justice.
\nA God of faithfulness and <\/p>\n
769
\n00:43:03,880 –> 00:43:06,360
\nwithout iniquity.
\nHe’s just and he is upright. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:43:06,360 –> 00:43:10,400
\nAnd so we’re not to stand idly
\nby while society collapses under<\/p>\n
771
\n00:43:10,400 –> 00:43:13,120
\nits own weight.
\nWe are to do our do our part. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:43:13,320 –> 00:43:15,680
\nWe’re not to neglect the needs
\nof our brethren and sisters in <\/p>\n
773
\n00:43:15,680 –> 00:43:18,960
\nour community.
\nWe’re not to shut out those even<\/p>\n
774
\n00:43:18,960 –> 00:43:21,680
\nin our society where where we
\ncan with our own personal <\/p>\n
775
\n00:43:21,680 –> 00:43:26,280
\nendeavor, but to turn our
\necclesias into mechanisms to <\/p>\n
776
\n00:43:26,280 –> 00:43:30,400
\npromote social justice, to open
\nthem up for social justice <\/p>\n
777
\n00:43:30,400 –> 00:43:32,840
\nmovements to have meetings.
\nWhich is happening. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:43:34,560 –> 00:43:38,360
\nTo spend inordinate amounts of
\nour money to support local <\/p>\n
779
\n00:43:38,360 –> 00:43:44,800
\ncauses and movements, which is
\nhappening, these are untenable. <\/p>\n
780
\n00:43:46,280 –> 00:43:53,080
\nOur mission, really our only
\nmission, is to preach the divine<\/p>\n
781
\n00:43:53,280 –> 00:43:55,520
\njustice and righteousness of our
\nGod. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:43:58,240 –> 00:44:01,800
\nAnd so pursuing biblical justice
\nmeans following God’s way. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:44:02,640 –> 00:44:04,480
\nTo make right that which is
\nwrong. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:08,400
\nAnd we look to the Scripture to
\nknow what that is, with the end <\/p>\n
785
\n00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:14,760
\ngoal of seeing lives reconciled
\nto God and transformed <\/p>\n
786
\n00:44:14,760 –> 00:44:20,160
\neternally.
\nEphesians 2 and 10 says, For we <\/p>\n
787
\n00:44:20,160 –> 00:44:24,480
\nare God’s handiwork, created in
\nChrist Jesus to do good works, <\/p>\n
788
\n00:44:24,480 –> 00:44:28,520
\nwhich God prepared in advance
\nfor us to do, and God’s justice <\/p>\n
789
\n00:44:28,960 –> 00:44:36,400
\nwill prevail.
\nYou know, the world is broken. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:44:38,040 –> 00:44:40,720
\nIt’s, it’s literally broken.
\nIt’s fractured. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:44:40,720 –> 00:44:44,440
\nIt’s stratified.
\nIt’s divided politically, <\/p>\n
792
\n00:44:44,440 –> 00:44:48,000
\nideologically, socially,
\nmorally, humanly. <\/p>\n
793
\n00:44:48,160 –> 00:44:52,840
\nIt’s broken.
\nAnd, well, our human <\/p>\n
794
\n00:44:52,840 –> 00:44:57,320
\nsensitivities and our love and
\ncompassion can cause us and <\/p>\n
795
\n00:44:57,320 –> 00:45:00,280
\nshould cause us to do good
\nthings and righteous things <\/p>\n
796
\n00:45:00,280 –> 00:45:02,400
\nwithin our community.
\nAnd I believe we’re called on to<\/p>\n
797
\n00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:07,520
\ndo that.
\nWhen it becomes corporate, when <\/p>\n
798
\n00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:15,560
\nit becomes ecclesially driven,
\nwe’re off the mark because we <\/p>\n
799
\n00:45:15,560 –> 00:45:22,080
\nstart putting credence in our
\nown solutions, solving mankind’s<\/p>\n
800
\n00:45:22,080 –> 00:45:25,440
\nproblems when that’s God’s
\ndomain. <\/p>\n
801
\n00:45:26,760 –> 00:45:29,680
\nAnd I think that’s the other
\nunderlying issue with us getting<\/p>\n
802
\n00:45:29,680 –> 00:45:34,200
\ninvolved in social justice, that
\nsomehow we have the right to fix<\/p>\n
803
\n00:45:34,200 –> 00:45:38,120
\nhumanity’s problems on a
\ncorporate scale, on a global <\/p>\n
804
\n00:45:38,120 –> 00:45:40,400
\nscale.
\nIt’s not our. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:45:40,400 –> 00:45:42,480
\nRight.
\nIt’s God’s right. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:45:45,800 –> 00:45:49,640
\nGod’s Kingdom is the place where
\nthere’ll be justice and <\/p>\n
807
\n00:45:49,640 –> 00:45:52,720
\nrighteousness, there’ll be
\nequity for all, there’ll be <\/p>\n
808
\n00:45:52,720 –> 00:45:55,360
\nlove, there’ll be peace,
\nthere’ll be healing for those <\/p>\n
809
\n00:45:55,360 –> 00:45:57,840
\nsuffering and a divine wisdom
\nthat will fill the earth. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:46:00,400 –> 00:46:02,960
\nThe message of God’s justice is
\nrepentance. <\/p>\n
811
\n00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:05,760
\nIt is following the path of
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:46:07,240 –> 00:46:10,080
\nAnd not only will that.
\nHelp resolve the current issues <\/p>\n
813
\n00:46:10,080 –> 00:46:13,160
\nof the day.
\nAt least in some ways. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:46:14,400 –> 00:46:19,840
\nIt will help us into the realm
\nof God’s eternal salvation. <\/p>\n
815
\n00:46:20,240 –> 00:46:23,120
\nJust to close, I just want to
\nread from Isaiah 55. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:46:23,120 –> 00:46:33,370
\nSo let’s turn that up.
\nI feel a little bit better that <\/p>\n
817
\n00:46:33,370 –> 00:46:35,530
\nwe are maybe a little bit ahead
\nof time. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:46:35,970 –> 00:46:38,330
\nSo I’ll read this section of
\nverses very slowly. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:46:39,930 –> 00:46:41,490
\nLike our brother Kitson last
\nnight. <\/p>\n
820
\n00:46:46,890 –> 00:46:49,770
\nThe prophet says in Isaiah 55
\nstarting at verse 5. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:46:49,770 –> 00:46:55,680
\nHe says starting at verse 6, he
\nsays seek the Lord while he may <\/p>\n
822
\n00:46:55,680 –> 00:46:59,120
\nbe found, call on him while he
\nis near. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:02,880
\nLet the wicked forsake their.
\nWays and the unrighteous, their <\/p>\n
824
\n00:47:02,880 –> 00:47:05,840
\nthoughts, let them turn to the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:47:06,360 –> 00:47:08,920
\nAnd He will have mercy on them
\nand to our God, and He will. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:47:08,920 –> 00:47:16,000
\nFreely pardon, for my thoughts
\nare not your thoughts either. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:47:16,000 –> 00:47:18,160
\nAre your ways my ways?
\nDeclares the Lord. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:47:19,720 –> 00:47:22,240
\nAs the heavens are higher than
\nthe earth, so are my ways higher<\/p>\n
829
\n00:47:22,240 –> 00:47:25,240
\nthan your ways, and my thoughts
\nthan your thoughts, as the rain <\/p>\n
830
\n00:47:25,240 –> 00:47:27,920
\nand the snow come down from
\nheaven, and do not return to it <\/p>\n
831
\n00:47:27,920 –> 00:47:31,600
\nwithout watering the earth and
\nmaking it bud and flourish. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:47:32,000 –> 00:47:35,320
\nSo that it yields seed for the
\nsower and bread for the eater. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:47:35,600 –> 00:47:38,600
\nSo is my word that goes out of
\nmy mouth. <\/p>\n
834
\n00:47:40,360 –> 00:47:44,880
\nIt will not return to me empty,
\nbut it will accomplish all that <\/p>\n
835
\n00:47:44,880 –> 00:47:47,600
\nI desire and achieve the purpose
\nfor which I sent it. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:47:50,040 –> 00:47:52,320
\nYou will go out and joy and be
\nLED forth in peace. <\/p>\n
837
\n00:47:52,320 –> 00:47:54,960
\nThe mountains and the hills will
\nburst into song before you, and <\/p>\n
838
\n00:47:54,960 –> 00:47:57,680
\nall the trees of the field will
\nclap their hands. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:47:57,920 –> 00:47:59,720
\nInstead of the thorn Bush will
\ngrow the journeypour. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:47:59,720 –> 00:48:02,480
\nInstead of the briars, the
\nMyrtle will grow this. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:48:02,480 –> 00:48:05,720
\nWill be the Lord’s renown, the
\nprophet says, for an everlasting<\/p>\n
842
\n00:48:05,720 –> 00:48:15,000
\nsign that will endure forever.
\nOur current situation is, is <\/p>\n
843
\n00:48:15,000 –> 00:48:22,280
\ndark, it’s it’s debilitating,
\nbut this is the vision of the <\/p>\n
844
\n00:48:22,280 –> 00:48:28,200
\nfuture where all of man’s issues
\nare resolved, not in protest, <\/p>\n
845
\n00:48:28,720 –> 00:48:32,800
\nnot in activism, not in anger,
\nnot in promoting individual <\/p>\n
846
\n00:48:32,800 –> 00:48:37,080
\nrights, not in playing the
\nvictim, but by God’s hand of <\/p>\n
847
\n00:48:37,080 –> 00:48:42,280
\njustice.
\nSo look, if you want to take up <\/p>\n
848
\n00:48:42,280 –> 00:48:46,720
\na cause, take up a cause of the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:48:47,080 –> 00:48:49,040
\nAnd preach the gospel, preach
\nthat message. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:48:49,880 –> 00:48:53,160
\nAnd if you want to protest,
\nprotest against the evils of <\/p>\n
851
\n00:48:53,160 –> 00:48:56,280
\nthis age, protest against the
\ndarkness of this world and <\/p>\n
852
\n00:48:56,280 –> 00:48:59,320
\ncontrast that to the light of
\nGod’s truth. <\/p>\n
853
\n00:48:59,320 –> 00:49:06,160
\nAnd if you want to March, then
\nlet’s March along that narrow <\/p>\n
854
\n00:49:06,160 –> 00:49:09,680
\npath that leads to the Kingdom
\nof God. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:49:12,280 –> 00:49:21,200
\nLet’s be not ashamed.
\nOf God’s justice, because when <\/p>\n
856
\n00:49:21,200 –> 00:49:25,600
\nthat great day arrives, and
\nBrother Greg and I were talking <\/p>\n
857
\n00:49:25,600 –> 00:49:30,040
\nabout this last night, the
\nunbelievable return of the Lord <\/p>\n
858
\n00:49:30,040 –> 00:49:32,760
\nJesus Christ.
\nThat when that day arrives, <\/p>\n
859
\n00:49:32,760 –> 00:49:39,720
\nbrethren and sisters, and the
\nAlmighty God turns to his Son <\/p>\n
860
\n00:49:43,040 –> 00:49:48,600
\nwho’s seated at his right hand,
\nand he says, the hour has come <\/p>\n
861
\n00:49:54,330 –> 00:49:59,730
\nand Christ returns with 10,000
\nof his Saints to this earth. <\/p>\n
862
\n00:50:00,570 –> 00:50:04,730
\nBrethren and sisters, the the
\nonly justice that will matter, <\/p>\n
863
\n00:50:04,730 –> 00:50:10,770
\nit will be his.
\nAnd it will be at that time that<\/p>\n
864
\n00:50:10,770 –> 00:50:12,570
\nGod’s righteousness will
\nprevail. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:50:16,530 –> 00:50:22,240
\nThus says the Lord, keep justice
\nand do righteousness, for soon <\/p>\n
866
\n00:50:22,240 –> 00:50:27,160
\nmy salvation will come, and my
\nrighteous will be revealed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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