Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1173 ｜ Speaking in Tongues or Muttering Nonsense？ The Truth About the Viral TikTok Video

00:00:01.000 Speaking in tongues, should this be something that Christians do? If so, how should we do it? 1.00

00:00:06.900 I posted about this on social media and got a firestorm of responses. Some very angry,

00:00:13.880 some in agreement. I will be addressing that thoroughly today. And Carmelo Anthony, he is

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00:00:45.360 Hey guys, and welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:51.620 All right. We're going to talk about speaking in tongues today. This is, as when we talked about

00:00:58.640 the anointing oil subject, some OG relatable content. Back in the day when we were only doing

00:01:06.260 two or three episodes a week, we always had an episode that was dedicated to a theological subject,

00:01:12.580 or we did a most misused series where we analyzed and broke down a verse that is

00:01:20.080 very decontextualized in pop culture or by a lot of cultural Christians like Philippians 4.13 or

00:01:29.120 Jeremiah 29.11. We haven't abandoned those. It's just that we now try to interweave theology and

00:01:37.880 scripture into our discussions about culture and politics rather than reserving an entire episode

00:01:43.940 for that. But today, we are reserving at least a large portion or maybe a portion. I don't know how

00:01:50.500 large it will be and how long I will talk to a purely theological subject. It doesn't tie into the

00:01:56.900 news or something that's going on in the culture necessarily, but it is certainly something that is

00:02:02.340 going on in the church and it is being displayed on social media. And that is speaking in tongues or

00:02:11.540 saying that you are speaking in tongues and then posting it on places like Instagram or TikTok.

00:02:19.140 And I played one of these viral videos that I saw going around on Instagram and I responded to it

00:02:27.860 with scripture explaining why I think how this is being done on social media is not biblical at all and

00:02:37.380 it's actually very dangerous spiritually for those that are viewing it. So let me show you this video

00:02:44.260 that I responded to. Here is that one.

00:02:51.860 Okay, I don't know about you, but I get a very deep pit in my stomach when I'm watching that.

00:03:12.860 I am extremely uneasy viewing that kind of content. So even apart from what the Bible says about

00:03:22.060 praying publicly like this for the sake of sharing it on social media, just right away, deep conviction.

00:03:30.860 What I think is conviction as I discern that this is just not right. This is just not right.

00:03:42.860 Powered by the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is always going to be in agreement with God's word,

00:03:50.140 right? Father, Son, Holy Spirit, all equal persons in the Trinity. They never contradict each other.

00:03:57.420 They never disagree. The entirety of the Bible is God's infallible, inerrant word.

00:04:04.380 So how God tells us to pray, the regulations and restrictions he puts around prayer. The Holy Spirit

00:04:11.900 is also saying and agreeing to as well. So the Holy Spirit is never going to compel someone to do something

00:04:18.780 that the Bible says not to do. And if you're wondering specifically what I'm talking about, what does the Bible say about this?

00:04:25.740 Well, I am going to tell you today some of it you may have already heard if you watched my video in response

00:04:31.580 to this, but I will give a more thorough rebuttal. First of all, I just want to say my own personal

00:04:38.380 observations is that that doesn't actually sound like a language. That sounds like gibberish said in a rhythmic

00:04:48.540 manner. There was a timer on the screen. If you're just listening to this, that was supposed to show how long she'd been

00:04:54.540 praying. I'm not sharing this person's name or account because this really isn't about her or

00:04:59.980 wanting to attack her, but it is giving a public response to a public post in the hopes that I can

00:05:05.740 offer clarity in the place of the confusion that I think a post like this causes. And so it does seem

00:05:14.140 to me, while I don't know the intentions of her heart, it does seem to me that this is a performance that

00:05:19.500 is posted on Instagram in order to maybe get likes or maybe it is for attention. Maybe it's not for

00:05:29.420 those things. Maybe she believes that she is actually showing other people how to pray or encouraging

00:05:35.980 other people. And yet what she is doing just doesn't correspond with the biblical directives that we

00:05:43.740 are given. And no matter what you believe about spiritual gifts, we'll get into kind of all of

00:05:49.900 that and continuationism versus cessationism. Whether you are a charismatic or whether you are reformed like

00:05:57.260 I am, we should all be able to watch a video like this and agree that filming yourself and posting it for

00:06:05.020 the world to see doesn't match what Jesus says in Matthew 6, 5 through 6. He says,

00:06:11.260 When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. And so here, he's probably talking about people 0.55

00:06:17.820 like the Pharisees. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners

00:06:22.820 that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray,

00:06:30.160 go into your room and shut the door and pray to your father who is in secret. And your father who sees

00:06:37.060 in secret will reward you. Now, does this mean that you can never pray in public? I don't think

00:06:45.400 so. We read elsewhere in scripture, like in 1 Timothy 2, 8, that we should pray in every place. I don't

00:06:51.540 think it's wrong for a pastor to pray on stage at the end of a sermon. I don't think it's wrong for us

00:06:55.940 to pray for each other out loud in Bible study. Again, we read in different places in scripture that we

00:07:01.900 should be praying for one another. I think it's edifying, yes, to pray out loud for each other.

00:07:10.040 But it seems to me that the point, if we look at the context of what Jesus is saying and to whom he's

00:07:15.460 speaking, his point is that prayer should not be a performance for others. It isn't something that

00:07:22.320 we do to prove ourselves, to prove ourselves holy or to get likes or to get affirmation.

00:07:29.560 That shouldn't even be on the list of reasons we are praying or praying in public. Now, again,

00:07:36.680 maybe that's not the intention of the woman who posted this, but if it wasn't, if it truly was

00:07:42.080 for the edification of the body of Christ, it is still unbiblical because for one reason,

00:07:50.360 one of several reasons, I believe, no one can understand her. No one can understand her.

00:07:56.420 1 Corinthians 14 is replete with directions for speaking in tongues because what do we know about

00:08:02.960 God? If you've been listening to this podcast for any amount of time, you've heard me say over and

00:08:08.520 over again what we see throughout scripture from the beginning to the end, that God is a God of order.

00:08:15.000 He cares about how things are done. He cares about how he is worshiped. You can go back and you can

00:08:21.680 listen to or watch the episode I did a few weeks ago on anointing oils. And this is a principle that

00:08:29.620 we repeated in that episode as well, that God actually cares about how we pray. He cares about

00:08:35.440 how we worship and how we sing. And yes, there is some liberty. There is some freedom in that. But

00:08:42.120 again, this is a principle that we see affirmed throughout scripture in both the Old Testament

00:08:46.940 and the New. That orderliness is something that glorifies him and is also a gift to us as his

00:08:53.860 people. It's a gift to nations. It's also a gift specifically to churches and also to families.

00:09:00.160 God placed us in a garden, not in a jungle. The difference between those is that one is cultivated

00:09:05.980 orderly. It has borders. It has a system and a jungle is not. So again, so many different examples I

00:09:12.640 could give you of that. 1 Corinthians 14 is another example of God's orderliness, the orders

00:09:17.740 that he gives the church. So if you are a continuationist, if you believe that spiritual

00:09:23.720 gifts like prophecy, speaking, the laying on of hands for healing continue to this day versus a

00:09:31.260 cessationist who believes that these spiritual gifts mostly ceased after the apostles, you are still

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00:11:25.580 So in 1 Corinthians 14, Paul says this, and I won't read the entire chapter, but you should read

00:11:36.800 the entire chapter because it's all relevant to this conversation. But verse 9, he says,

00:11:41.540 If with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said?

00:11:46.840 Verse 13 and 16 through 19 says this, Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may

00:11:56.160 interpret. Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an

00:12:01.200 outsider say amen to your thanksgiving when he does not know what you are saying? For you may be giving

00:12:06.960 thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. I thank God that I speak in tongues

00:12:12.140 more than all of you. I mean, just right there. He says it. He's like, I'm glad that I can do this

00:12:17.220 more than y'all can because y'all are messing this up. Nevertheless, he says, in church, I would

00:12:22.000 rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others than 10,000 words in a tongue.

00:12:29.680 So he's saying, if you are praying publicly like this person is, and you don't have an interpreter

00:12:35.860 for the tongues that you are speaking, then no one who is listening to you is being edified.

00:12:40.700 You are just saying what sounds like nonsense into the air, and you are not actually offering

00:12:46.900 instruction or encouragement or admonishment to those who are listening. Verse 23,

00:12:53.020 If therefore the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers 1.00

00:12:58.260 enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? So if there's no one there to interpret,

00:13:03.720 will people who are not believers listen to this? And will they be built up? Will they be

00:13:09.580 drawn to the church? Or will they not say these people are insane? Verses 26 through 28,

00:13:14.440 let all things be done for building up. I think that's a really important principle here.

00:13:19.480 Let all things be done for building up. If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most 1.00

00:13:24.620 three, and each in turn, so not talking over each other, and let someone interpret. But if there's no

00:13:30.860 one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

00:13:38.400 Okay? It's pretty clear. I had some people comment on my video. The reason I'm talking about this,

00:13:43.420 I guess I didn't say this in the beginning, is because, oh my gosh, I got so many comments

00:13:48.920 on that video where I read from 1 Corinthians 14, where I read from the passage in Matthew, Matthew 6,

00:14:00.800 a commenter saying that I was so far off that I was completely wrong that it was even not gracious

00:14:10.960 of me or not kind of me to offer a public response to a public video. And instead of getting a biblical

00:14:20.260 contention or biblical rebuttals to the biblical references that I quoted, it was statements like,

00:14:30.780 prayers and tongues go directly to the throne room of God. Which, what? That's not a biblical concept.

00:14:38.320 All of us in Christ who are praying through Jesus, all of our prayers go directly to God.

00:14:45.740 There's not some special access or VIP pass that is granted to you when you are speaking in tongues.

00:14:53.280 I had some people comment and say that none of this chapter applies to this post at all because

00:15:00.120 she's not in the local church. She's an individual praying in private, but she's not praying in private,

00:15:05.680 actually. She's broadcasting the prayer, supposedly to encourage believers. So this is not the biblical

00:15:12.980 way to do it. And this chapter is really clear about that. And all of this matters for the very

00:15:18.540 reason that Paul says it matters because it looks like drunken nonsense to unbelievers. We don't expect 1.00

00:15:25.820 non-Christians to understand or agree with all Christians say or do, but we don't intentionally 0.93

00:15:31.280 turn them away either by seeming insane. Let's go deeper on this though. Say this person had not

00:15:40.160 posted this on social media. Is this what praying in tongues should look like privately or even say

00:15:47.220 in the context of the local church? I'm not even getting into the question yet of whether we as

00:15:54.240 Christians should expect to speak in tongues. We'll just assume for a second that we should, 1.00

00:15:58.880 that we should be expecting to speak in tongues. Is this what speaking in tongues should actually

00:16:04.100 look like and mean? So let's go to the first place where we actually read about speaking in tongues.

00:16:11.740 Acts 2, at the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled the believers in Jerusalem and verse 4,

00:16:16.960 they quote, began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. The Greek here for

00:16:24.380 tongues that is used in this passage is glossa, which can be translated into languages. So not

00:16:31.480 babbling, but languages. And that's what was happening here. These Christians were supernaturally 1.00

00:16:36.560 able to speak languages that they did not previously know how to speak. We read in verses 7 through 11

00:16:43.660 that Jews in Jerusalem heard them and wondered, quote, are not all these people who are speaking

00:16:49.480 Galileans? And how is it that we hear each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and

00:16:56.880 Elamites and et cetera, et cetera. We hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.

00:17:04.780 So these people at Pentecost were not speaking gibberish. They were speaking actual languages for

00:17:09.900 the purpose of sharing the gospel with people who spoke that language. Now, when Paul is speaking to

00:17:16.620 the Christians in Corinth, some believe that he seems to be talking about a different version of

00:17:24.060 speaking in tongues, and there's debate over that, but one that's not only for the purpose of evangelism,

00:17:31.160 but for the building up of the church specifically, which is why an interpreter is needed. Is it possible

00:17:38.740 that this version of speaking in tongues isn't necessarily in an earthly language? So the kind that he's

00:17:45.700 talking about in 1 Corinthians 14 for the local church, since it wasn't ostensibly to reach others

00:17:51.700 who speak another language than them, that is possible, I guess. I don't think so. I don't think 0.95

00:17:58.520 we see evidence of the idea of Christians repeating gibberish over and over again. Some would call this 1.00

00:18:04.200 a heavenly language that's referred to in 1 Corinthians 13.1. I don't think that's what 1 Corinthians 13.1

00:18:11.500 is referring to. I think he's almost just using a literary device, hyperbole, to say,

00:18:16.780 even if I speak in the tongues of men and angels but have not love, I am a noisy gong. I don't think

00:18:23.180 he is actually speaking literally about some kind of gibberish-sounding heavenly language there. So

00:18:29.380 I just don't think we see any biblical evidence of Christians needing to repeat what sounds like

00:18:36.280 babbling over and over again as a sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit. So now the question

00:18:41.900 is, should Christians expect to see as commonplace, speaking in tongues, foretelling, prophesying that's 0.99

00:18:48.880 different than foretelling? So foretelling, being able to say what is going to happen in the future

00:18:54.620 with 100% accuracy because it comes from God. That doesn't mean a full picture of the future because

00:19:01.840 we know that we could be prophesying in part, but it has to be accurate. It can't be wrong if it is

00:19:08.500 from the Holy Spirit. And that's different than foretelling prophecy, which might be that God has

00:19:14.080 given you the ability to say true things based on the truth of Scripture in a way that people can

00:19:19.780 really understand and convict them. So should we expect as Christians to be able to prophesy in a 0.57

00:19:26.680 foretelling way, should we be able to expect as commonplace the laying on of hands for miraculous

00:19:33.460 healing? Continuationists, as I said earlier, say, yes, we are on the same apostolic mission,

00:19:40.240 they would say, as the early church. All that they did and could do, we do and can do. Now,

00:19:46.500 cessationists say no. The purpose of those gifts was for the apostolic age to authenticate the gospel

00:19:54.060 at that time, and they would say that the need for those gifts has ended. Cessationists do believe,

00:20:02.820 of course, that God can still do those things. He can do anything he chooses, but cessationists don't

00:20:08.520 believe that God promises to grant all believers these abilities today or that they are a validation

00:20:15.640 of saving faith. There are Bible-believing Christians in both camps. Both use Scripture to back up their

00:20:23.560 positions. So is this a salvation issue? I don't think so. No. Now, I do think that charismatics

00:20:32.820 tend, not always, but tend to wade into anti-biblical territory. I simply have not seen—I have not seen—that

00:20:45.220 doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I have not seen these gifts of the Spirit practiced in the orderly

00:20:56.240 manner that the Bible calls for. Now, maybe that could be happening in local charismatic churches

00:21:03.080 across the country, and I just don't know about it because I don't go to those churches, and because

00:21:07.480 they're doing it the right way, they're not displaying it on social media, they're not,

00:21:11.160 you know, telecasting it everywhere, and I am totally open to that. But when we do see these

00:21:17.200 public displays and public testimonies of what goes on in many Pentecostal, hyper-charismatic

00:21:25.680 churches throughout the country, this stuff is not being done in accordance with Scripture. And again,

00:21:32.380 if that is the case, then it's not really the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit will never compel

00:21:37.160 you to do something or say something that is in disagreement with God's Word. And so that,

00:21:44.880 to me, is part of why the continuationist argument is less compelling. That's part of why.

00:21:54.000 And I won't even get into my whole biblical response to kind of like both camps of arguments

00:22:01.240 on continuationist versus cessationist. I just see charismatic theology at times easily veering in

00:22:10.960 to the mystical and the new age, the prosperity gospel, name it and claim it health and wealth.

00:22:18.260 I declare this. I prophesy that it can very quickly veer into chaos when it is unchecked by Scripture.

00:22:26.840 And that's a really important caveat, because there are charismatics that I know and follow who

00:22:31.940 love God's Word and do believe in the continuation of the gifts of the Spirit, but they love God's Word.

00:22:38.840 And so they are bound by God's Word, even as they believe in that kind of manifestation of the Holy

00:22:44.480 Spirit. Likewise, conversely, rather, Reformed theology can veer into rigid legalism. Like,

00:22:52.820 we just love the Bible. We love exactly what it says. We love to memorize it. We love to apply it.

00:22:57.720 We love theology. We love apologetics. But it can veer into rigid legalism if the letter of the Bible

00:23:04.080 is being understood without understanding the Spirit, its intent. And so both camps have their

00:23:13.320 vulnerabilities. You kind of know where I stand on that. But what is really important is this principle

00:23:20.120 here in 1 Corinthians 14, 33, for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. And that is why

00:23:29.720 He grants us so graciously the clarity and the order that we see in His Word. So no matter what camp you

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00:25:23.980 All right. We debated over whether we would talk about King of Kings today, the new animated movie,

00:25:31.280 or whether we would give an update on Carmelo Anthony. A lot of you have been asking me to

00:25:35.860 talk about King of Kings and what I think about it, but I don't feel fully prepared. Bree is fully

00:25:41.960 prepared, and I know that you care about her opinion too, but I wanted to make sure that I had

00:25:47.220 enough to bring to the table, and so I will give you my thoughts, but it's going to be next week at

00:25:54.240 this point because tomorrow we've got Sean McDowell on, and we'll be talking about theology and apologetics and

00:25:58.980 all kinds of good stuff tomorrow, but I just want to make sure that I'm fully prepared to bring my

00:26:03.960 best to the table when it comes to that and give you my thoughts on it, so we'll probably be doing

00:26:08.260 that on Tuesday. So instead, we are going to talk about Carmelo Anthony, and we talked about this case

00:26:14.980 a little bit after it happened. This is local to the town that I grew up in outside of Dallas,

00:26:22.480 and it's a tragic situation. You've got two 17-year-old high school boys, runners. They were

00:26:29.260 at a track meets, and Carmelo Anthony was in a tent for Memorial High School. There were tents set up

00:26:37.080 for the different teams corresponding with the different high schools, and Carmelo was under the

00:26:42.880 wrong tent, and so Austin Metcalf, he said, you know, you're in the wrong tent, and this is according to

00:26:49.460 the witness testimony of a lot of people who were there, and he said, hey, you're in the wrong tent.

00:26:56.120 Can you please, I don't know if he said please, but can you get up and move? Carmelo Anthony,

00:27:01.200 according to witness testimony, refused and said, make me, and also said, don't touch me. Well, Austin

00:27:10.260 Metcalf decided that he was going to try to make him by grabbing his backpack and pulling him out of the

00:27:17.440 seat, and when he did that, Carmelo Anthony reached in his backpack and got a knife and stabbed Austin

00:27:26.220 Metcalf in the heart, murdering him, and Austin's brother, Hunter, has given very emotional testimony

00:27:33.160 in a couple interviews. He held his twin brother as he died, tried to stop the bleeding. He says that

00:27:42.160 he watched his brother's soul leave his body. I mean, can you imagine the bond they have? They

00:27:48.500 shared a womb together. They took their first breath together, and then his brother took his

00:27:53.880 final breath in his arms. I mean, just a tragic situation. Police reported when they arrested

00:27:59.940 Carmelo Anthony, they referred to him as a suspect, and Carmelo Anthony said, it's not allegedly,

00:28:06.540 I did it, and also asked if he would be able to use self-defense, and if you want to go and listen

00:28:13.620 to some of the reaction to that and what some people on social media were saying, what some

00:28:20.880 commentators were saying, then you can go listen to that. I've done a couple of videos on it as well

00:28:25.760 on social media. It's really sad how many people have been defending Carmelo Anthony, trying to say

00:28:31.160 that this was self-defense. It was not self-defense. Carmelo Anthony felt disrespected. He didn't fear

00:28:38.140 for his life. There was no reason for him to fear for his life. You have to fear serious bodily harm

00:28:44.160 or fear for your life to take fatal action. You can't just be bullied. You can't just feel

00:28:52.100 disrespected. There were all these rumors flying around that Austin Metcalf called him names. It doesn't

00:28:57.280 matter. It doesn't matter what he said, and that's not even true. It's not verified by any eyewitness

00:29:02.780 testimony anyway. It's just people trying to turn this into a race war, and it really is crazy how

00:29:09.840 many people either on the left or who happen to have more melanin, not everyone, but that's just how

00:29:15.360 it's broken down, who are defending Carmelo Anthony, and it really shouldn't be like that. We should all be

00:29:21.220 impartial. We should realize that Lady Justice is blind. We should look at the facts of the case. That's 1.00

00:29:25.540 biblical justice, by the way. I read you some of the comments and posts from people who are defending

00:29:30.280 him. It is insane. You are morally blind. You are morally blind if you do not see that this is a

00:29:38.160 clear-cut case of murder that is in no way justified or defensible whatsoever, okay? And I think that his

00:29:45.420 trial will actually prove that, and he's going to spend a very long time in prison, which is good, but

00:29:49.780 right now he's out of jail. And his bond has been lowered from $1 million to $250,000. And thanks to

00:29:56.700 funds that his family raised via Gibson to go, he was able to make bail and get out of jail. And a lot

00:30:04.280 of people are understandably saying, what the heck? He's literally a cold-blooded murderer. Why is he out 0.99

00:30:09.580 of jail? So let me back up and give you a little bit more information. So he was released from jail

00:30:15.660 Monday, April 14th, after his bond was lowered from $1 million to a quarter of a million dollars.

00:30:20.860 His release comes with strict conditions, including house arrest and ankle monitor, weekly check-ins,

00:30:25.980 no social media use, no trial date has been announced yet. Okay, so people have a lot of

00:30:33.780 questions about why the heck the judge lowered this bond. What is going on here? What was the motivation

00:30:39.500 behind it? Here's that too. Okay, so he was released. And then there was a picture that was posted by

00:31:08.140 someone named Minister Dominique Alexander. He is the founder and president of the Next Generation

00:31:13.020 Action Network. He posted a picture of himself and Carmelo saying that Carmelo's release on bond was

00:31:22.580 a victory for justice, for family, and for the power of people coming together to protect our youth.

00:31:29.820 That is sick. That is nasty. That is absolutely morally depraved. This person stole the future 0.92

00:31:37.960 of guilt, an image bearer of God because he felt disrespected or because he didn't like being

00:31:44.280 touched because he said, make me. And apparently that's some legal loophole for murdering someone.

00:31:51.180 You know, kids get in fights all the time. I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying you should

00:31:55.160 lay hands on someone. I just want you to know that that is not a legal or moral justification for

00:31:59.940 murdering someone. I'm just trying to keep you safe out there, okay? Anyone who is watching this case

00:32:04.980 and is like, yeah, if I say make me and someone touches me, well, then I can kill them. That's 1.00

00:32:12.240 not going to fly. I just want you to know that if you use that as the justification, you will be

00:32:17.420 spending the rest of your life in prison. Don't do it. But some people are rejoicing, saying that this

00:32:25.340 is good that he's out. And it's such a weird picture. Even if you do believe that this is self-defense,

00:32:30.580 even if you believe this, there's no reason to pose for a picture. There's no reason for this

00:32:36.620 guy, Minister Dominique, to be smiling in this picture. That's weird. A photo op to post on X?

00:32:43.760 There's a 17-year-old that's murdered. You should be sad about that. You should be traumatized that you

00:32:49.940 took a man's life. And apparently Carmelo did have a history of different kinds of altercations in the

00:32:55.600 past, which is very sad. This organization that Minister Dominique Alexander is in charge of,

00:33:02.880 they say their mission is to lobby for social change and equality for all, regardless of race,

00:33:07.780 religion, nationality, gender, sex, or age. And of course, that's not true. It is to show partiality

00:33:12.460 towards those who have more melanin, even when they've committed murder. Alexander, this guy,

00:33:18.880 is serving as a family advocacy representative and spokesperson for the Anthony family during the

00:33:25.100 legal process. His role includes advocating for a fair trial, addressing misinformation,

00:33:30.420 raising concerns about the investigation and threats to the Anthony family. Let me tell you right

00:33:34.960 now, because first of all, I will say Carmelo does deserve a fair trial. We see that modeled in

00:33:41.400 scripture, okay? So yes, even the accused deserves a fair trial. I will just say to the family, who I'm

00:33:50.520 sure is super sad about this and very traumatized themselves to Carmelo's family, fire this dude. 0.92

00:33:56.820 Fire this dude. This looks awful. If I were a parent in this situation, I would say there is no chance in 0.66

00:34:05.120 hell that you are posting a picture smiling with my child who has just been accused of murder,

00:34:10.620 who just stabbed a guy in the heart. This looks horrible. This guy has consistently expressed 0.97

00:34:16.580 solidarity with BLM. Again, this just means that he doesn't actually believe in biblical impartial

00:34:23.920 justice. Collin County District Judge Angela Tucker claimed that her decision was to lower the bond

00:34:31.640 from $1 million to $250,000. It was based on the law, the Constitution. She also took into account,

00:34:37.940 she says, Carmelo's age, lack of prior criminal record, community ties, the family's financial

00:34:43.760 situation, given that the defense argued that the $1 million bond would place undue burden on the

00:34:50.820 family. Okay, so his defense lawyers went to this judge and said, this is undue burden. Please lower it

00:34:57.020 so he can get out of jail. So you got a lot of people assuming that this judge, Angela Tucker, 0.88

00:35:03.540 made this decision based on social justice race reasons. She herself is black. So people are just 0.72

00:35:09.400 kind of posting her picture and being like, you know why she did this. And while I do disagree with

00:35:16.160 this, I mean, this guy is a murderer. He does seem like he is a threat to his community. And I don't 0.84

00:35:21.300 think he should have been let out of jail. I also can't assume that this judge is doing this based on

00:35:28.520 social justice. I mean, at first, when I saw this, I didn't even know who the judge was. I felt this is

00:35:33.300 mob justice. This is a judge responding to the demands of social media, the demands of the public,

00:35:41.660 rather than just looking at the facts and seeing that this is a person, this is a cold-blooded

00:35:47.600 murder that shouldn't be allowed in society, making everyone else vulnerable. But I don't know that

00:35:55.980 that's true. I mean, this is a judge who was appointed by a Republican. The Collin County

00:36:02.700 Republican Party has consistently endorsed her. She was appointed, like I said, by Greg Abbott.

00:36:09.300 She has served as the judge of the Texas 199th District Court since 2012. So I don't know. She

00:36:17.540 says, again, that her motivation had to do with age, with the lack of threat that she felt that he posed.

00:36:25.980 So I don't know. I don't know the fullness of her motivations behind that. But there were some

00:36:32.720 interesting details that came out in this bond hearing about the money that the family has raised

00:36:42.440 via GiveSendGo and what it is actually being used for. It seems like it might have been used to pay for

00:36:50.900 a new expensive house in a gated community and a brand new car. And if that is the case, then

00:36:57.520 this whole thing is grifting and dancing upon the grave of an innocent young man who did not deserve

00:37:06.880 to die. And that is the lowest of the low. If you have any sympathy for that, if you are a part of that

00:37:13.060 in any way, if you were defending that, you need to do some serious soul searching. Okay, that's satanic.

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00:38:23.400 So during the bond hearing, there were some questions about the give-send-go money that has

00:38:31.420 been raised for Carmelo Anthony. And yes, almost $500,000 has been raised for Carmelo Anthony's

00:38:39.080 family. Why? Why would someone donate to the family of a murderer? I don't understand. It's

00:38:47.120 just because race is involved. I mean, that's what it is. It's just because there is toxic empathy

00:38:52.320 because this person is seen as on the side of the oppressed because he's Black, even though in the

00:38:59.200 situation, he was clearly the oppressor. That's what's going on here. It is toxic empathy. If you

00:39:04.060 want to understand why your friends tend to have more sympathy and empathy for criminals and for

00:39:10.140 violent perpetrators and the victims of those crimes, then you should read my book, Toxic Empathy,

00:39:14.260 and you can read the chapter specifically on social justice. It might be well-meaning, but ultimately,

00:39:19.300 it is extremely unjust and destructive. So during this bond hearing, the first assistant district

00:39:25.540 attorney Bill Worski, he asked about this give-send-go money. Is it being used to get Carmelo

00:39:31.800 out of jail? It seems like it's being used for other things. Andrew Anthony explained that the funds

00:39:36.980 could not be immediately accessed. That's his father, Carmelo Anthony's father. He also said that

00:39:43.420 the funds would be used, this is according to the Dallas Morning News, to relocate to a new house and to

00:39:51.360 pay for security measures. Defense attorney Mike Howard also clarified that the funds would be

00:39:56.780 needed for Anthony's long-term legal defense and family support. Also during the bond hearing,

00:40:05.460 Andrew Anthony disclosed that the fundraiser money had already been allocated for relocating to a new

00:40:13.040 house. They're renting a house. I think I said earlier that they bought a new house, but they are

00:40:18.060 renting a new house in a gated community, a pretty expensive house in an exclusive community. Other

00:40:26.360 neighbors are saying it looks like they just bought a really nice new sedan. It's got new tags

00:40:32.220 on it. And either this was bought by the money in Gibson Go, which I'm a little bit confused about that

00:40:41.900 because he's simultaneously saying that, okay, we can't access it right away, but also apparently is

00:40:48.540 using it to move and to possibly be getting a new car. And if they say, oh no, the new car is not

00:40:57.540 because of this money. Well, that's also confusing because he said in this bond hearing, the father

00:41:03.120 said, you know, we're tied on cash. I'm the sole breadwinner. I've had to take extended leave from my

00:41:07.740 job. That was part of the reason why the bond was lowered to $250,000. And so there's just a lot

00:41:13.300 of confusion going on here about how these funds are actually being used. And again, there shouldn't

00:41:18.960 be any funds, like there shouldn't be any donated funds. There just shouldn't. Does he have a right

00:41:23.720 to a fair trial? 100%. Anything other than that is basically a reward for murdering someone. And that

00:41:31.260 is backwards. It should also be noted that the Gibson Go only said that the money was to, quote,

00:41:39.180 support Carmelo and his family during this challenging and difficult time. It didn't

00:41:43.540 actually specify how the money was going to be used. It's not just for a legal defense. And so I guess

00:41:49.400 they were kind of clear or unclear purposely about that from the beginning. And then, of course, there's

00:41:55.300 been backlash to all of this going around this news circulating on acts the past couple of days. And

00:42:02.740 they updated, the family updated on their Gibson Go this. They said, quote, while legal defense is a

00:42:10.900 critical part of this journey, we want to make it clear that this fund is not solely dedicated to legal

00:42:15.300 expenses. Okay. The funds raised will also support a range of urgent and necessary needs that have

00:42:22.320 emerged as a result of the situation, including, but not limited to, the safe relocation of the

00:42:27.000 Anthony family due to escalating threats to their safety and well-being, as well as basic living

00:42:32.160 costs, transportation, counseling, and other security measures. The Daily Mail talks to some of the

00:42:38.740 families in this area. They're not happy about it. They, of course, are worried for the safety of

00:42:42.940 their community. If you have, like, a young man who is this easily triggered because he feels like

00:42:49.700 he was, you know, he was talked down to or he was condescended in some way or even someone touched

00:42:55.980 his backpack and has a justification for murder, do you want that person as your neighbor? No. And

00:43:02.300 they are apparently using the funds that people via toxic empathy are donating to them to relocate to

00:43:08.100 an area like this. It's not good. It's not justice. And gosh, we are such a sick society. We are such a sick

00:43:17.240 society that we can't see things clearly when race is involved. It's toxic empathy. It's also just like 0.96

00:43:24.260 a demonic spiritual blindness. Truly. Matt Walsh says, he's been talking about this a lot. He says,

00:43:30.220 there's no hope of improving, quote unquote, race relations in this country as long as a black 1.00

00:43:33.900 murderer can still be rewarded with half a million dollars and a new home for stabbing a white kid to 0.99

00:43:38.480 death. It doesn't set a good precedent. That's for sure. Kyle Rittenhouse, this is according to End 0.97

00:43:48.500 Wokeness, he draws this kind of parallel. Kyle Rittenhouse shot rioters to save his life. It was

00:43:54.640 deemed self-defense. And it's true. It actually was. Maybe he shouldn't have been there that night. You

00:43:59.380 could say he shouldn't have been in Kenosha. But in those moments, he was defending himself.

00:44:03.780 Um, $2 million bond. It was never reduced. 86 days and pre-trial detention. Okay. That was

00:44:12.900 during 2020. You remember that. Carmelo Anthony brought a knife to a track meet, got insulted,

00:44:19.660 killed someone because of that. Bond is reduced to $250K. 12 days in pre-trial jail, buys a new house.

00:44:27.960 That last point, is it exactly correct? They're renting a new house. And so just know that

00:44:33.780 that when people say, oh, there are two justice systems and black people are very unfairly treated

00:44:41.420 in this country, in our justice system, um, cases like this, situations like this make that argument

00:44:49.660 much less compelling. I'll say that. Again, I have no idea Carmelo's motivation. I don't know that it

00:44:56.200 was motivated by race. I don't think that he was targeting this kid because he was white.

00:45:00.100 Um, I have no idea. And I don't know that race was really relevant to this at all. But it has

00:45:06.640 certainly turned into that people defending him because he was a black kid that killed a white kid. 0.78

00:45:11.520 And that is the indication of a really big problem and a huge impediment to true impartial justice,

00:45:17.300 which should be no respecter of persons. Um, okay, let me read a text, uh, from that my mom sent me.

00:45:25.800 And she sent it from a friend of hers who, um, who had a child at the, at the track meet. And

00:45:36.440 she just wanted to make sure that this, um, this story got out. She said, a friend of mine sent this

00:45:44.680 to me, thought it might be a good story to talk about, uh, talk about surrounding the stabbing

00:45:48.440 incident from my friend, Susan. I wanted to tell you about something that no one is talking about

00:45:53.560 nationally thought you might find this interesting. 17 year old Liam Gunningham was at the track meet

00:46:00.180 and was the first person to run to Austin Metcalf after he was stabbed. When everyone started running

00:46:04.880 away, this young man, I guess, in addition to Austin's twin brother, ran to the stab student and

00:46:12.000 began life-saving efforts. Yesterday, Liam was honored by Live Like Knox at a banquet for his bravery

00:46:18.500 and presented with a scholarship. Um, and so I just want to recognize the hero in this case,

00:46:26.000 one of the heroes in this case, and that courage and morality still exist in a society that

00:46:32.680 unfortunately rewards violence and cowardice. And when the world seems to be going mad, Christians 1.00

00:46:40.060 are called to sanity. We are called to clarity. We are called to true justice and true compassion,

00:46:46.000 which is always intertwined with the truth, with factual truth, and most importantly,

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