Ep 1111 ｜ Daniel Penny’s 'Toxic' Masculinity Saved Lives
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Danielle Peeples has been found not guilty and cleared of wrongdoing by a Manhattan jury in the death of Jordan Neely. Today we will analyze the outcome, compare and contrast social justice with real biblical justice, as well as masculinity and the need for courage. We will also talk about some athletes that are sharing the gospel through statements they are making.
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Daniel Penny has been found not guilty and has been cleared of wrongdoing by a Manhattan jury
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in the death of Jordan Neely. We will look at this verdict today. We will analyze the outcome.
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We will compare and contrast social justice and mob justice versus real actual biblical justice,
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as well as masculinity and the need for more courage. We've got so much to talk about today.
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We will also talk about some athletes that are sharing the gospel through statements that they
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are making. Lots to celebrate on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day,
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a great start to your week. It is a great day to do the next right thing in faith with excellence
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and for the glory of God. I love what Elizabeth Elliott said. I heard this in one of her talks
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one time, not in real life, but over a podcast. And she said, the only thing you have to do today
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is the will of God. And as I was thinking that, I was wondering, okay, but how does someone know
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specifically what the will of God is in any given moment? Yes, of course we get to read his will for
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our lives in the word of God, which is inerrant and authoritative, but a lot of people want to
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know, but specifically in this moment, what is the will of God? We can discern what is the difference
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between right and wrong, sin and wickedness, but how do we discern the difference between what is good
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and what is best? Well, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we simply are responsible to do the
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next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. And when we understand that
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and that Christ gives us the strength to do that and that God promises us wisdom when we ask for it,
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it really relieves us of the burden of perfection, of thinking that we have to have it all figured out.
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We get to depend upon the Lord and the strength and the sufficiency and the wisdom that he gives us.
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And we simply do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. That is
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the only thing we are obligated to do. The only thing we have the capability of doing in any given
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moment. And that is the will of God for our lives. And so just start out this week with that knowledge
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and allow the troubles of tomorrow to take care of themselves. We serve a good God, a loving father,
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and a wise and faithful shepherd that will sanctify us and will accomplish what he sets out to accomplish
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in our lives. And we can have joy and hope in that. And really, that is the message of Christmas
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that God is going to go to any length. He is going to do whatever has to be done to seek and save the
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lost, to redeem his people. And we get to celebrate that gospel all the time, but especially this time
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of year, as we celebrate Emmanuel, God with us, that God took the form of a human and not just any human,
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but first an embryo was worshiped as an infant, was heralded by the kicks of an unborn John the
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Baptist. And he showed us what it looks like to love, what it looks like to serve. But most of all,
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he became our righteousness. He became our sacrifice. He died and he rose again, conquering death so that
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we might be reconciled to a holy God, be forgiven of our sins, become a new creation, and live forever
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with him. That is the gospel truth that we get to celebrate, especially this time of year, as we
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reflect in a more concentrated way on what the Advent means and what Christmas means. So just praise God,
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no matter what is going on in your life, all of these truths that we read in scripture that we've
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We also have good news happening in the news, unexpected news that we get to celebrate today,
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and that is that Daniel Penny was found not guilty by a Manhattan jury. They have cleared him of criminal
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wrongdoing in the death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway. So some of you may have not
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been following this story at all. So let me back up and tell you why this is so unexpected and what
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happened. So in May of 2023, police and witnesses say that Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless street performer,
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a Michael Jackson impersonator, boarded an F train in Soho, began shouting, throwing things,
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and making threats. According to Penny and other witnesses, Neely yelled at passengers on the
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subway saying things like, I don't have food. I don't have a drink. I'm fed up. I don't mind going
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to jail, getting life in prison. Someone is going to die today. I'm going to die. One woman who was on
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the train, one witness thanked Daniel Penny for saving her life. Another passenger described this rant
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as a satanic rant, and many passengers said that Daniel Neely, or Daniel Penny rather, actually kept
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them safe that day when he put Neely in a chokehold and restrained him. Eventually, Neely ended up
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dying in police custody. He was actually alive when the police found him, but the police say that they
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didn't want to resuscitate him. They didn't want to give him mouth to mouth because he was dirty,
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and they were afraid that he was going to give them some kind of disease. That is very sad, but that is
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not Daniel Penny's fault. So the fact that he was alive when the police found him, that is very
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significant. Here is Daniel Penny explaining what happened, SOT 6.
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I was scared for myself, but I looked around. I saw women and children. He was yelling in their faces
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saying these threats. I couldn't just sit still. I knew I had to act, and I acted in a way that would
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protect the other passengers, protect myself, and protect Mr. Neely. I used this hole to restrain
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him, and I did this by leaving my hand on top of his head to control his body. You can see in the video
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there's a clear rise and fall of his chest indicating that he was still breathing, and I'm calibrating my
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grip based on the force that he's exerting. I was trying to keep him on the ground until the police
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came. I was praying that the police would come and take this situation over. I didn't want to be put in
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that situation, but I couldn't just sit still and let him carry out these threats.
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You know, I say good for him, and we'll put up the picture that went viral after this. He is a former Marine,
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and he showed courage that most people in this situation simply wouldn't have shown, and the process
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that he's had to go through for a year and a half now shows exactly why most people in this situation
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wouldn't have done anything. We've all seen videos go viral on acts where a young woman is being either
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sexually assaulted, is being sexually harassed, and the men around them do absolutely nothing,
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either because they're cowards, they don't want to be inconvenienced, or because they know something
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like this is going to happen to them, especially if you have a Black suspect. That's just the case.
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When you've got a white person and a Black person and the white person even just appears like the
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aggressor, you know that you are going to lose in the media. You know that you're going to lose in
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the court of public opinion. You know that the activists, especially in a liberal area, are going
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to be against you. You know that there is going to be a progressive DA that tries to ruin your life,
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a progressive prosecutor that is going to be out to get you. There's more than likely going to be a
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progressive judge that is going to rule against you, and that was the fear in this case. And that's
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how it looked up until today when the verdict came out, that there was just too much against Daniel
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Penny simply because of the color of his skin. So the jury was made up of five men, seven women.
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They acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide, which could have put him behind
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bars for up to four years in Neely's death. The manslaughter charge, which was the top charge
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against Penny, was actually tossed on Friday. We'll talk a little bit more about the significance of that
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and how that was scary when we were looking at what the verdict of this case would be.
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But jurors ultimately sided with Penny's defense attorneys. They argue that the Marine veteran
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was justified in rushing to protect his fellow subway passengers when he subdued the erratic homeless man.
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Jurors heard from more than 40 witnesses, including passengers who described Neely's terrifying
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outburst on the train before Penny approached him from behind and took him down. Prosecutors argued
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that, okay, even if Penny did need to restrain him in the moment, even if he was justified for that,
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he ended up going too far by restraining him for far too long. But obviously that was not convincing
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to the jury. Again, this was very surprising when you look at who the judge was. The judge,
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his name was Maxwell Wiley, and he has a history of progressivism. Throughout the trial, he allowed
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the prosecution to refer to Penny as the white man in front of the jury. And the prosecution, of course,
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knows exactly what they're doing. Anyone who is a little bit social justice minded, who is even a
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little bit progressive, which of course in the city of Manhattan, probably everyone on the jury was,
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that that is going to indicate to them that Daniel Penny is the aggressor and is the oppressor and is
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guilty simply because of the color of his skin. I mean, talk about institutional and systemic racism.
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By the way, that is literally the institution, the system being blatantly racist and discriminatory
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against someone simply because of the amount of melanin that they have in their skin. That is
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partiality. That is the definition of injustice. Anyone who has Micah 6-8 in their bio should be
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absolutely reeling about that. If we really care about impartial justice, if we really care about due
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process, if we really want our justice system to operate in integrity and honor, we should absolutely
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be disgusted, should be aghast that that kind of language, that kind of demonization of a person
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because of the color of their skin is allowed in a court of law. Judge Wiley was also accused of
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handing the prosecution an outrageous gift, this is according to the New York Post, by granting the
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request to drop the count of manslaughter in the second degree on which jurors were deadlocked.
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They couldn't agree on that. And then telling them to only consider the lesser charge of criminally
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negligent homicide. The second charge was only to be considered if the jury acquitted Penny on the first
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charge. Under clear New York law, DAs must choose the charges before trial. They don't get to change
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their minds once they learn what the jury will buy. And so that's why that was also an injustice. A judge
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shouldn't be able to say, oh, you can't decide on that. Just go to the next one. Because if they can't
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decide on the first charge, then that could potentially be good or could have been good for
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Daniel Penny. But you don't get to say, okay, let's just make sure we get them. And if the next charge is
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more convincing to you, then just go to that one as long as you get them. That's what he seemed to be
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saying by allowing the jury to just throw out that charge and then go to the next one. Also, if you look
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at the prosecutor, she is also a progressive. Daphna Yoran, the investigation and prosecution were handled
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by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. That's led by Alvin Bragg. He appointed an assistant
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Manhattan DA Daphna Yoran as the lead prosecutor. You remember Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. He is the guy
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that downgraded 60% of all felony cases to lesser charges last year. He reduced 938 of the most
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serious charges in 2023, 834 of which were brought down to misdemeanors. Since being sworn in on January
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1st, 2022, Bragg has also declined to prosecute 14% of all arrests. So he is very soft on crime.
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He is largely responsible for the uptick in violent crime in Manhattan. That's what soft on crime
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policies do. This prosecutor, Daphna Yoran, in 2019, she asked for reduced punishment for Matthew Lee,
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a 57-year-old who snuck up on a former professor, Dr. Kun Kim, who was 87 years old, killed him over
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$300 with a fatal blow to the head. So this vicious murderer, she had compassion for him.
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So Lee was charged with manslaughter instead of felony murder after he agreed to meet with the
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victim's family and both parties consented to the outcome. This reduced his potential sentence from 25
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years to 10 years. And this all happened because she said this, when I got the time, I took the time
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to learn about the defendant. So this vicious murder, I really felt incredibly sorry for him
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that he had gotten to the point in his life where he felt that there was no choice but to commit
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this robbery. So that is social justice. You look at someone, you consider their past,
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you consider their skin color. So lady justice is no longer blind, but you're considering all of these
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factors that, according to your own bias, should reduce the punishment for a crime rather than just
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looking at the facts of the case and acting impartially. That is not actual justice because
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actual justice must be impartial. It must be blind. It must be direct. It must be proportionate.
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It must be truthful. It can't weigh all of these different aspects of someone's past or someone's
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life and suggest a verdict or suggest a sentencing based on those things. Again, that is not actual
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justice, but that is who she is. She is an activist at heart. She doesn't actually care about the truth
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of the matter. She cares about intersectionality. And so that's, of course, why we were worried going
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into this case. She maintained a confrontational attitude towards Penny during his trial with
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witnesses. Uh, she has brought to the stand referring to him again as the white man and as the murderer,
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uh, which of course the judge Maxwell Wiley, uh, allowed.
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As is typical for social justice activists, there has been an attempt at mob justice. This is the same
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thing that happened to Derek Chauvin rather than just looking at the facts of the case, what really
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happened. Like for example, that George Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his body and that it
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actually looks like Derek Chauvin's knee was on his back, on his shoulder blade and not on his neck.
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Activists want mob justice. They want the person to be punished because again, of the color of their
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skin, because of the station in life, because of how things look, because certain verdicts are
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politically expedient. The same kind of thing was happening here. That is, of course, what BLM does.
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BLM doesn't care about justice at all. They just care about their desired outcome. They care about
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retribution. In the immediate aftermath of Neely's death, liberal outlets released think pieces
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proclaiming that he was killed for the crime of being hungry and unhoused. BLM activists called Neely's
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killing an example of white supremacy. There were subway signs that said a man was lynched.
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Here, so lynched, that is so disrespectful, insanely disrespectful to people throughout history who
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were actually lynched because of the color of their skin. There is no indication, there is no proof that
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Daniel Penny targeted this person because of the color of his skin. It didn't have anything to do
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with that. By the way, there's no evidence that Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd because of the
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color of his skin. And everyone just jumped on this idea that George Floyd was killed because he was
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black. There is no proof of that whatsoever. There's no indication of that. There's no justification
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for George Floyd or Jordan Neely to be hailed as some kind of hero. I'm not saying that Derek Chauvin
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was a hero either, but the way that the world reacted to that incident was completely disconnected
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from reality. The way that it was used to then push policy, which has actually been extremely harmful
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to black communities, like defunding the police, which has allowed a boom in violent crime, which
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disproportionately affects black Americans. I mean, it is a huge blight on American history. And the fact
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that any evangelical went along with that nonsense and couldn't think for one second, hang on.
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Is this true, first of all? And is this a real biblical call for justice? Or is this a call for
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something else, for something actually nefarious? We had a lot of people who just suspended biblical
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wisdom, suspended judgment during that time. But it does seem like things have shifted a lot,
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because I think if what happened to Jordan Neely happened four years ago, we would have seen a
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different verdict, which is actually very sad because verdicts should not depend upon the cultural
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moment. It should not depend upon social media outrage. It shouldn't depend upon protests or how
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loud one side is. It should only depend upon the facts of a case. And yet there was chanting outside of
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the courtroom. There were BLM activists who were calling him a murderer, calling him a subway strangler.
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And of course, it's Manhattan. A fear that a lot of us had was that these protests were going to affect
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the jurors, that the jurors were going to be intimidated. They were going to be too scared to
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say that he was not guilty. And they were going to act upon that fear of intimidation rather than
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the facts at hand. After the judge dropped the manslaughter charges against Penny, so that was last week,
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one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Greater New York spoke outside of the courthouse saying that
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Daniel Penny's trial is no different than Jim Crow and that they will not find a white man guilty of
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killing a black man in modern day America. That is literally insane. That is insane. Again, no connection
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to reality whatsoever. I mean, as we have already articulated, Daniel Penny was the underdog in this
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case. The fact that the prosecution and their witnesses were allowed to refer to him as a murderer
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and as a white man, you would have never been able to get away with that if it were the other direction,
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if it were referring to someone as the black man in order to put this idea
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America in the jury's minds that because someone has a darker color of skin, they're automatically
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guilty. Here's thought seven. America has not changed. And I hate to say it, it may never change.
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And people who keep asking, are we going to riot? Are we going to protest? Is that what's needed?
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Do glass have to break? Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in America?
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America. We can't show up with peace. We can't show up with facts. We can't show up with evidence
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and witness after witness. You give us nothing. And then you ask us to love this country.
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America hates black people. And we see it from that jury pool.
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That is, that is again, literally so stupid. That has no foundation in reality whatsoever.
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Okay. There is absolutely no evidence that there is systemic favoritism towards white people when it
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comes to the criminal justice system today. I'm not saying that has never been the case,
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but there is no indication that that is the case today. And in fact, we have a lot of evidence that
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shows the opposite. Like you're really telling me that this progressive judge, this progressive
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DA, this progressive prosecutor, what was very likely a progressive jury, that they all hate black
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people. And that is why we got the verdict that we did. You know that that's not the case. The fact
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of the matter is the evidence must have been so overwhelming that the jury overcame their own
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biases overcame their own personal fears, their fear of retribution, their ideas about politics,
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their thoughts about systemic racism or oppression of white people or of black people at the hands of
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white people to come to an objectively right conclusion. That is justice.
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Justice is not defined by outcomes per se. It is defined by the process. And BLM and all
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social justice activists only look at the outcome. And if the outcome is what they want, they say that
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that is justice, no matter how they got there. So if it's by mob justice, if it's by some kind of
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malicious retribution, as long as the black person ends up on top, they call that justice. But that's
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not real justice. After Penny was acquitted, that same BLM activist had this to say, Sot 8.
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And in my Bible, thou shall not kill. In the Torah, thou shall not kill. My heart bleeds for the Neely
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family. My heart bleeds for his father who sat in front of me every single day and prayed for justice
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for his son. These wonderful white people, I hope they celebrate their Christmas while the Neely family
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is praying and asking God for comfort. I'm them and give them America.
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My goodness. Okay, well, here is another BLM activist calling for black vigilantes to fight
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against oppression, Sot 9. We need some black vigilantes. That's right. People want to jump up
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and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?
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I'm tired. Tired. That is, again, just absolutely ridiculous. And it is so hard to respond to.
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Look, Jordan Neely was born in the image of God. I mean, he was made in the image of God. Of course,
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his life mattered. And the outcome of his life is really sad. But how he got there is also really sad.
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That is not Daniel Penny's fault. I think that we all know, like white or black, that we would rather
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be in a train car with Daniel Penny than Jordan Neely. And we all hope that if we are in a situation
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where we feel threatened and there is an erratic person who is threatening our lives or the lives of our
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children, that someone like Daniel Penny with that kind of courage and that kind of boldness
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is in the same space with us. And you're joking yourself if you say otherwise. We all know if we
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are in that situation, we want to see that kind of heroism. But here these activists are not only
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saying that this is wrong, that it was wrong that he defended his fellow subway passengers, but that
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there should actually be some kind of violent retribution for that. Again, there is just no evidence
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that the oppression of black people in the United States is because of white supremacy or because of
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white people at all. Like we can talk about the problems that are facing the black communities, why so
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many disparities exist? The first place you should look is not white people, is not white supremacy,
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is not even in modern America today, the criminal justice system. Like if we look at specifically
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On Wednesday, December 4th, Jordan Ely's father, Andre Zachary, filed a civil suit in the New York
00:30:43.140
Supreme Court against Daniel Penny, which of course, a lot of people are afraid this is going to be the
00:30:47.300
outcome of Daniel Penny. They're saying, get out of New York, go take refuge in a red state. They're
00:30:52.680
still going to try to ruin your life and absolutely bankrupt you. But his father, Jordan Ely's father,
00:30:58.580
is accusing him of negligence, assault, and battery. So he's trying to get money out of
00:31:04.640
Daniel Penny. That's what he's doing. Now, why is this so egregious? Is this just a sad father
00:31:09.840
who is seeking some kind of justice, some kind of recompense for his precious son as the BLM
00:31:18.800
activist indicated? No, of course not. This is a derelict father who wanted nothing to do with his son for
00:31:26.100
his entire life, who abandoned him and is now seeking to make money off of his death. According
00:31:34.660
to The Guardian, Neely's mother was killed by his stepfather in 2007 when he was 14. He bounced
00:31:41.660
between homes before ending up in the foster care system. According to some relatives, Neely had autism
00:31:47.300
and schizophrenia and later developed severe depression and PTSD. He was reportedly abandoned
00:31:55.520
by his father as a young age. Again, was raised by his mother and stepfather, but that ended in tragedy
00:32:02.320
too. At any point in life, it seems to me the father could have stepped in and could have been
00:32:10.160
present in his son's life. Who knows what the outcome of his life could have been if he had had a father
00:32:16.440
who before now had stepped up and taken care of him. But now, only when it is financially expedient for
00:32:23.200
him, only when he can capitalize upon his son's tragic death is he saying, oh, hey guys, I'm present. I'm
00:32:31.760
here. So if we want to look at why Jordan very sadly ended up where he did, we can look at his family.
00:32:40.260
We can look at his dad. It is a cop-out to say this has to do with some kind of intangible
00:32:48.180
specter of white supremacy out there that somehow killed him. That's simply not the case. It's not
00:32:56.420
what happened. Here is his father saying this was rigged. Sotten.
00:33:00.740
What are we going to do, people? What's going to happen to us now?
00:33:22.600
I mean, these kinds of lies, this view of the world and of justice, this refusal to take
00:33:37.300
responsibility, to see things as they are, to only see things through the lens of white skin
00:33:43.520
black skin. It is such a cancer to any community, to any group of people. And these race hustlers
00:33:53.220
who want to make a buck off of the death of an image bearer of God, you cannot convince me
00:34:00.120
that they care about this young man, that they actually care about the loss of black life.
00:34:07.420
I'm sorry. I mean, maybe somewhere deep down they do, but I think that BLM itself has
00:34:14.180
revealed that it's really just a grifting organization that wants to make money when a
00:34:22.140
black person died, that they dies, that they really just want political power. I don't really think that
00:34:28.120
they care about helping people. I mean, these are, these are the same people, the same progressives
00:34:34.020
that will celebrate an abortion, will ignore black on black crime, but only pipe up about
00:34:41.000
injustice when a white person harms a black person, whether it is justified or not. You're not going to
00:34:48.600
convince me that those people really believe in justice. And one thing that I meant to say was that
00:34:53.440
BLM activist who said, my Bible says, do not kill. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says,
00:34:59.000
thou shall not murder. And not all killing is murder. Self-defense is not murder.
00:35:07.680
War is not considered murder, at least according to the God of the Bible who invented justice. Of
00:35:13.960
course, there are, of course, war crimes that are not justified. But there are certain kinds of
00:35:20.380
killing that are not murdered. The death penalty is not murder, according to the God who commanded the
00:35:26.100
death penalty for murder and who created justice and who is the source of truth and who is in himself
00:35:33.520
love. And so it is simply not true to say that all forms of killing should demand the same kind of
00:35:43.540
outcome and the same kind of verdict and the same kind of sentencing. I do think this was the correct
00:35:48.920
verdict. And I think courage should be rewarded. I think masculinity should be rewarded. This is a
00:35:54.800
unique kind of boldness that seems like a relic of the past. We want men, black or white, no matter what
00:36:00.720
their background is, to have an instinct to stand up for the most vulnerable and to take action when
00:36:08.400
danger presents itself. We don't want people who are eager to kill someone. Of course, we want people
00:36:15.140
who believe and honor the dignity of image bearers. I don't want Jordan Neely to have died. I want him to
00:36:23.120
still be alive. But he had a long criminal record of assaulting the dignity of human beings. He broke the
00:36:33.880
face of an elderly woman by assaulting her. And a man finally stepped up and protected other people
00:36:42.000
from becoming Jordan Neely's victims. And so this verdict was cracked. And I just want to finish this
00:36:48.000
segment by reading you the difference. This is from my book, Toxic Empathy and Social Justice and
00:36:53.180
Justice. We have a whole chapter on this, which is certainly the most controversial chapter in my book,
00:36:58.760
I think. It's all controversial. Social justice is not justice. That's not only because it harms those
00:37:04.700
that pretends to help. And it's not only because it's supported by philosophical and statistical errors.
00:37:10.600
It's not justice because it is evil. It is the opposite of what God calls justice. Proverbs 20.10
00:37:16.700
tells us unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike an abomination to the Lord.
00:37:22.200
In God's law giving to ancient Israel, he prohibits favoritism even to the poor.
00:37:27.000
You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great,
00:37:32.280
but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor. Showing partiality is a perversion of
00:37:37.420
justice that God disdains. God himself shows no partiality and we are to follow his example.
00:37:43.560
And I include all the biblical references there. Just as mistreating someone because they're black
00:37:47.920
is wicked, so is mistreating someone because they're white or because they're deemed privileged.
00:37:53.340
God doesn't see one form of mistreatment as less abominable than the other. And then we go on to
00:38:03.320
define what true justice actually is, which is proportionate, which is truthful, which is direct,
00:38:10.540
which is impartial. And social justice, of course, is none of those things. Social justice is typically
00:38:19.900
defined as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth. But of course,
00:38:26.000
it is morphed into something much more far-reaching that basically always says that the white,
00:38:32.120
straight, quote-unquote, cis male is on the side of oppression and that everyone else is at least
00:38:38.520
somewhat a victim. When you see every case and every crime through that lens, that makes it impossible
00:38:45.680
to discern what is actually true, what is actually right, and what is actually good. All right, we might
00:38:53.860
have more on that in the coming days, but we are praising God for justice. We pray for the protection
00:38:59.640
of Daniel Penny in this case, and we also pray against any acts of vigilantism or retribution.
00:39:07.160
It should be good news to black or white people that our justice system, even in progressive Manhattan,
00:39:12.540
does work. This is the fruit of due process. While our justice system is very imperfect, it is the
00:39:19.220
greatest ever constructed in the history of the world. And it is based on the biblical principles that
00:39:25.860
we read in God's law giving to Israel. Lady justice should, must remain blind. That is a benefit to
00:39:34.260
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have time for two like very long and detailed stories on today's episode. So we're going to end
00:42:33.540
with some more lighthearted stuff and some encouraging stuff. Well, it's like, it's kind of
00:42:39.780
sad a little bit, but it's also encouraging. And that is the courage of an athlete, a soccer player,
00:42:47.300
or as our friends across the pond would say, a football player wearing a Jesus loves you
00:42:53.620
armband, despite the warning that he was given to not wear something like this. And so last week,
00:43:01.380
Crystal Palace, it's a professional soccer club based in South London that competes in the Premier
00:43:07.080
League, the top tier of English soccer defender, Mark Gaye. I think that's how you pronounce his last
00:43:13.020
name. He wrote, I love you, Jesus on the armband. And in a second game, Jesus loves you. This is his
00:43:20.800
league issued rainbow colored captain's armband. He was given a warning that writing that on his
00:43:27.880
rainbow colored armband went against the England's football, England's football association's rules
00:43:35.260
for religious slogans. So more details on this during 13th and the 14th match weeks of the Premier
00:43:41.700
League season, the league partners with Scottish LGBT charity Stonewall for rainbow laces, a campaign to
00:43:49.860
promote LGBT acceptance in soccer. So that's all fine, which that is a sort of religion. It's
00:43:56.880
certainly an ideology that not everyone subscribes to. And so they're forced to promote that. But you
00:44:02.020
can't say something as simple as Jesus loves you without violating their rules. Huh? The league provides
00:44:07.840
all 20 Premier League clubs with rainbow corner flags and other equipment, most notably club captains
00:44:15.840
during these games are given the option to wear a rainbow colored armband, which they're technically
00:44:20.680
free to decline, that they are encouraged not to decline. It's unclear how much pressure is put on
00:44:25.420
them to comply. And so this player could have just said, no, I'm not going to, which could have made a
00:44:32.780
statement. But he decided during the team's November 30th match against Newcastle United, Gaye chose to wear
00:44:39.000
the rainbow armband, but wrote, I love Jesus on, on it in marker and the team's following game
00:44:48.540
on December 3rd, he wrote again, Jesus loves you. And so of course the football association was very
00:44:57.560
upset by this. After the second time Gaye wrote the phrase on December 3rd, the league issued a formal
00:45:04.000
warning and yet another reminder of the rules. So the league is saying right now they're not going
00:45:10.260
to take formal action. They might because he's a devout Christian. So the fact that he put this over
00:45:17.100
the rainbow armband, they're saying that could be seen as hateful. During the second game, midfielder
00:45:24.880
Sam Morsi, who was a practicing Muslim, was the only player who refused to wear the rainbow armband.
00:45:30.780
He instead wore the usual black version. ESPN says the football association considered Morsi's
00:45:37.580
decision to be a matter for the club than the individual and does not contravene any uniform
00:45:42.780
regulation. So it'll be very interesting to see if they are even handed in how they treat the players
00:45:50.600
and the reasons for the players not using the rainbow armbands. Gaye responded to this controversy.
00:45:58.160
He said, I think the message was pretty clear to be honest. It was a message of love and truth as
00:46:02.080
well and a message of inclusivity. So I think it speaks for itself. I believe 100% in the words
00:46:07.540
that I wrote. Even what I've just said right now, it's a message of truth and love. And I hope people
00:46:11.800
can understand that my faith is my faith and I'll stand by it for the rest of my life. So good for him.
00:46:18.540
His father also had something to say. His father spoke to the Daily Mail. If you look at the LGBT community,
00:46:23.880
if you look at what they're doing, they're trying to impose on others what they believe in. It's
00:46:28.240
belief against belief. But at the end of the day, everyone has the right to an opinion. He didn't
00:46:32.500
refuse to wear that armband like Morsi did. People should pay more attention to the person who
00:46:37.140
refused to wear it. Mark said yes and did the right thing. He accepted to wear the armband.
00:46:44.300
He was just trying to balance the message. He was saying, you gave me the armband as a Christian.
00:46:48.400
I don't believe in your cause, but I will put it on. But Morsi didn't put it on. Honestly,
00:46:53.420
I think it's fine not to put it on too. I don't think it was necessarily the more right thing to
00:46:58.720
put it on and say Jesus loves you. I think it would have been fine not to wear it.
00:47:03.120
The Football Association are happy for the crowd to sing God Save the King when England plays,
00:47:07.300
which mentions God and religion. And they're happy to have their religious hymn abide with me
00:47:11.160
during the final. Yet, they have to go at my son for expressing his beliefs. Where's the sense in
00:47:20.280
that? What has he done wrong? I think that good for him. I think that he showed courage in that.
00:47:27.220
And obviously, it got people talking about that message. And the word of God does not return void.
00:47:32.460
John 3.16 is true that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever
00:47:37.880
ever believes in him will not perish, but will have everlasting life. And that message was conveyed.
00:47:43.400
People are talking about it. And so I believe that God can use this for his glory. Yes and amen. So
00:47:48.280
good for this soccer player for deciding to speak up in this way.
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And then we've got another, we've got a coach this time, another person in the athletic realm,
00:49:06.700
this time from Boise State on this side of the pond, speaking up for the truth of the gospel
00:49:17.480
I mean, Jesus deserves all the glory. I mean, we serve a champion. He died on the cross,
00:49:27.260
but he rose again three days later. That's the God I serve, man. Everything's possible.
00:49:31.780
And our players, they don't run from hard work. They just keep swinging, keep swinging, keep swinging.
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That's uncommon. They deserve the credit. Jesus deserves the credit. We've got the best staff
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I love that. That was so clear and so pointed. He didn't have to do that. He could have,
00:49:50.640
if he wanted to, just said something vague about God, but he decided to
00:49:54.020
share what the Christian faith hinges on, and that is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
00:49:59.660
That's what validates Christianity. If we don't have the resurrection, we don't have faith in anything.
00:50:05.080
And he went up there, and he articulated that, and I'm just so grateful for that. He's also
00:50:09.340
making an impact on his team. I didn't know this. I'm sure a lot of you did, especially those of you
00:50:13.760
who are fans of Boise State, but he actually baptized running back and Heisman Trophy candidate
00:50:24.280
Good morning. I'm about to go get baptized today.
00:50:27.140
So, Lord, I thank you, Lord, the obedient hearts that are sitting in this room.
00:50:35.580
And I thank you, Lord, that this is going to be a point of separation, Lord, from the old
00:50:39.440
I love that. There are a lot of reasons today to be praising God. Yes, there's some sadness and
00:51:06.960
some craziness going on in the world, absolutely. And we'll be talking about some of that later
00:51:12.400
this week. But honestly, today, there are things to celebrate. We get to celebrate a good verdict.
00:51:20.000
We get to celebrate the courage of athletes, which I think is just like a microcosm of what seems to be
00:51:25.740
happening at the college level throughout the country. I think that we are seeing among the
00:51:32.240
younger generation a sort of awakening, a sort of revival, and every bit of courage counts. Every
00:51:40.020
bit of sharing the gospel, of speaking the truth in love counts. And again, we just see over and over
00:51:45.680
again God's great mercy. It seems like our culture has gone to hell in a handbasket, but I see so many
00:51:51.720
reminders that God's eternal plan of redemption is still going off without a hitch. I still see reminders
00:51:56.700
that the beauty of Western civilization in many cases is still holding. And that happens because
00:52:03.620
of the efforts and the courage of Christians to raise a respectful ruckus about the things that
00:52:09.900
matter. So never think that what you are contributing to the kingdom or to this country, that they don't
00:52:17.920
matter. God works all things together for the good of those who love him. And that's not to conflate
00:52:24.480
our politics or our political movements with the gospel or with our Christian faith. Those things do
00:52:32.620
go hand in hand because they have to. I'm not saying those things are the same. I'm simply saying that
00:52:38.540
whatever we do for good causes that are bigger than ourselves do contribute to the preservation of
00:52:49.240
a country that we love and that we want to survive and thrive for our children and our grandchildren.
00:52:58.140
And our faith absolutely plays a role in that. All right. That's all we got time for today. We will be back