Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 464 ｜ When Pharisees Get Power, The People Protest

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Tuesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.

00:00:15.700 Today we're going to talk about hypocrisy, in particular hypocrisy in our ruling class when

00:00:21.460 it comes to how they conduct their lives, especially right now in the time of COVID and

00:00:29.280 thinking about the potential of future lockdowns and restrictions and mask mandates, but not just

00:00:37.960 that. We're going to look at some political activists, what they say versus how they live

00:00:43.300 and what they do. Then we're going to talk about what hypocrisy really means, what it means from

00:00:52.300 the foundations of the word, the origins of the word, but more importantly, how we see it biblically.

00:00:59.040 And what it means for us as Christians. Now, before we get into it, I do want to say one thing

00:01:05.040 about yesterday's podcast with Ben Shapiro. Got a lot of good feedback from you guys. So thank you

00:01:11.060 so much for that. He is also, he is obviously a wealth of knowledge when it comes to lots of

00:01:17.320 different things. Now, some of you, I think understandably, were offended by the first part

00:01:23.280 of that interview when I was kind of poking fun at some conspiracy theories surrounding the vaccine.

00:01:30.520 Now, you guys should know me well enough and you should have heard me talk about this enough to

00:01:36.700 know that I reserve no judgment whatsoever for people who choose not to get the vaccine. As I've

00:01:42.940 said before, you getting, not getting the vaccine or getting the vaccine is none of my business. It's none

00:01:48.920 of your business, whether or not I'm vaccinated. I understand, unlike a lot of people, that unvaccinated 0.98

00:01:55.500 does not mean infected. And so I believe in freedom. I believe in the liberty of personal

00:02:02.400 choice. And I truly reserve no condemnation whatsoever for people making the decision that's

00:02:08.500 best for themselves and best for their families. We were just joking around because Ben is,

00:02:14.360 as you know, adamantly an advocate for the COVID-19 vaccine. And so, I mean, he has talked about that

00:02:23.800 a lot and he has been incorrectly condemned by certain media outlets for being an anti-vaxxer

00:02:31.060 and he's not. So that's what I was poking fun about. There is no condemnation, no judgment,

00:02:37.060 no criticism from me towards you, whatever you choose about the vaccine. So I just wanted to

00:02:42.780 clarify that. I'm not going to apologize for that because it was still, you know, it was a fun part

00:02:49.020 of the interview, but I do want to clarify that for you guys. Now, let us talk about some hypocrisy

00:02:55.380 that we are seeing in the news. The thing that sparked this for me was this story in the New York

00:03:04.460 Post about Sean King. If you don't know who Sean King is, he is an activist who claims to be an

00:03:11.520 activist advocating for Black lives. He is one of the first people whenever there is a confrontation

00:03:18.300 between a police officer and a Black man, whether or not the suspect was armed, no matter what the

00:03:28.360 origins of the confrontation were, he is always one of the first people to accuse the police officer of

00:03:36.600 being racist and of targeting a Black person because of the color of their skin. He has called

00:03:42.940 for doxing of police officers or he reveals identities of police officers that are not actually

00:03:49.400 correct in the hopes that that person will be targeted. I assume in the hopes that person will

00:03:55.180 be harmed in some way, that their family will be put in danger. So he is not a good person from what I

00:04:01.880 see anyway, from the behavior that he demonstrates on social media. And in fact, there are people who

00:04:08.260 identify as evangelical Christians who have associated themselves with him, which is unfortunate.

00:04:13.260 There are a lot of people on the activist left that I might not agree with when it comes to their

00:04:19.020 strategies or when it comes to their political beliefs, but I don't see them as grifters. I don't

00:04:24.320 see them as terrible people who are just trying to dox anyone and everyone. I don't see them

00:04:29.420 necessarily as someone who has a bad character or dishonesty. Unfortunately, from what we've

00:04:34.980 seen from Sean King, he is someone who is extremely dishonest and who doesn't care who he puts in

00:04:42.000 danger as long as he can perpetuate a particular narrative. He is going to give misinformation.

00:04:47.300 He is going to leave out particular information as long as he can push this narrative that police

00:04:53.380 officers and really white people in general are racist. Now, there are also a lot of people

00:04:59.320 on the left who don't like Sean King because they also see him as a grifter. He has unfortunately

00:05:04.000 been accused of a lot of shady business when it comes to raising money for supposed black 0.66

00:05:13.060 causes. So let me read you this article. It's actually in Fox News. I originally saw it in the New

00:05:21.420 York Post, and it actually outlined some of the accusations that he's been facing. So the title of

00:05:27.460 the article is, Sean King lives lavishly in Lakefront, New Jersey home. Sean King has built

00:05:32.000 his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights

00:05:36.480 activist lives like a one percenter in a sprawling Lakefront home records show. King, 41, moved earlier

00:05:43.820 this year from a luxury two-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn. And that luxury two-bedroom

00:05:49.040 apartment, that sounds like a paradox to those of us who live in the suburbs, but I'm sure in downtown

00:05:54.680 Brooklyn, that actually is a luxury. To the five-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot North Brunswick,

00:06:00.400 New Jersey property with a lakefront backyard and gourmet kitchen, according to public records,

00:06:04.600 the property, surrounded by lush, tall trees, was purchased by King's wife, a PhD candidate

00:06:10.500 and educator in November 2020 for $842,000 public records show. Then that New York Post article gives

00:06:19.160 us a little bit more context about why people are saying this is hypocritical. I do not care if he

00:06:26.860 lives in a $10 million home. I think more power to you. I mean, that's part of what makes America

00:06:32.860 this great place, that you can be anyone from any background. And if you can get enough people to buy

00:06:38.440 something from you, like you can create a wealthy life for yourself if you are successful in doing

00:06:44.300 that. Unfortunately, that means that shady people can also be rewarded. And that seems to be what

00:06:50.460 happens here. This is from New York Post. King has been dogged for years by allegations of shady

00:06:56.340 dealings and his charitable efforts and movements he has founded, including a lack of transparency

00:07:00.220 and money he has raised for several criminal justice initiatives he has backed. Fellow activists

00:07:05.520 and those who worked with him raising cash for everything from Haitian orphans to the families of

00:07:09.700 black men killed by police have repeatedly raised questions about King's leadership and in some

00:07:14.380 cases asked where the donations have gone. Samaria Rice, whose 12-year-old son, Tamir Rice, was shot dead

00:07:20.700 by cops in Cleveland in November 2014. Truly, truly an awful case, by the way. That's my side note.

00:07:28.740 Blasted King on social media, accusing him of soliciting funds in her dead son's name without her

00:07:34.180 permission and even about his identity as black or biracial. So that's a whole other thing with

00:07:38.600 Sean King. Some people accuse Sean King of actually being white and trying to look black for purposes

00:07:43.520 of activism and clout. I will not speculate on that. I'm just saying that those are some accusations

00:07:49.260 that some people have, including some black activists on the left. So Tamir Rice's mom said this on

00:07:56.500 Instagram. Personally, I don't understand how you sleep at night. I never gave you permission to raise

00:08:01.680 nothing. Along with the United States, you robbed me for the death of my son. You are a selfish,

00:08:07.200 self-centered person, and God will deal with you. King co-founded the Real Justice Political Action 0.98

00:08:13.260 Committee in 2017 with former Black Lives Matter leader Patrice Cullors, who resigned from BLM a

00:08:19.620 month after The Post revealed she had spent more than $3 million on real estate in the U.S. We'll get

00:08:24.600 to that in just a second. The federal PAC helps to elect progressive district attorneys across the

00:08:29.400 country to fight to end structural racism. Unfortunately, we've seen the repercussions

00:08:35.280 of that, and it ends up in criminals being let loose into society and unfortunately raising the

00:08:42.160 recidivism rate at the cost of people's innocent lives, taking in more than $3.2 million from 2019

00:08:51.040 to 2020. So this is a guy who has been accused, and I would just say accused, you're innocent until

00:08:57.140 proven guilty, but he has been accused time and again of taking people's money, cashing in on the

00:09:02.800 death of Black people, and then taking the money for himself and not actually contributing to any cause 0.98

00:09:10.140 that has substantively helped the communities that he says he represents. He says he represents the 0.98

00:09:16.260 downtrodden. He says he represents the poor, the marginalized, the Black community, and yet it

00:09:23.240 seems like he keeps on running into accusations of being sketchy and of grifting for self-gain. Now,

00:09:31.400 of course, to me, this makes him a hypocrite, and not only because he says he's representing the 0.98

00:09:38.920 downtrodden, he's just fighting for the little guy, and really he's lining his own pockets is what it seems 0.98

00:09:43.780 anyway. But also because he talks about how America is this systemically racist place. It's this

00:09:51.720 institutionally racist place. It's a place where people of color can't get ahead. He claims to be

00:09:57.800 a person of color himself, and yet he is living in a house that is much more lavish than most of us.

00:10:04.500 Most white people in the United States could ever even dream of living in. Almost a million dollar

00:10:10.400 house that the vast majority of white people would never be able to afford, or Black people or people 1.00

00:10:15.260 of any color would ever be able to afford. And we unfortunately see this continually from a lot 0.96

00:10:21.320 of activists who claim that America is this oppressive place where Black people really aren't

00:10:26.320 free. Cori Bush, a representative, said that recently on the 4th of July, and yet they themselves

00:10:32.420 disproved that, but they will still say, no, no, no, no, you know, I'm the exception. I'm not the rule,

00:10:37.220 but they have no problem. They have no problem lining their own pockets. And if it were true

00:10:45.400 that America was systemically racist, you wouldn't be able to, as a Black person, make millions of 0.94

00:10:51.800 dollars saying that America is systemically racist. That just doesn't make a whole lot of 0.63

00:10:58.580 sense. And yet it's also, in another sense, not that hypocritical because this is what, I mean,

00:11:05.580 this is what communists do. And I don't mean to say necessarily that he is, you know, he is a person

00:11:12.100 that really wants to seize the means of production. But he is a communist in the sense that he sees the

00:11:19.440 world as the oppressed versus the oppressors, the haves versus the have-nots. He somehow sees himself

00:11:24.800 on the side of the oppressed and fighting for the oppressed. And he wants to reorder society,

00:11:31.660 or he says that he does, to take down, you know, the powerful bourgeoisie. And people who claim to

00:11:38.660 advocate for this kind of ideal very often are also the ones that are accumulating power and

00:11:47.740 accumulating wealth, even as they say doing that as a person of color is basically impossible in the

00:11:54.560 unjust society that we live in. Now, we mentioned Patrice Cullors, and I just want to talk about that

00:11:59.880 because I don't think that we ever talked about it on our podcast. Patrice Cullors is a BLM co-founder.

00:12:06.160 Like, you will remember, the Black Lives Matter organizers have said explicitly that they are

00:12:10.640 Marxists. So when I say that they are Marxists, I'm not just saying that anyone who I disagree with

00:12:16.000 is a Marxist or anyone who says Black Lives Matter is a Marxist, because I don't believe that.

00:12:20.320 But they actually said that they are trained Marxists, and they have advocated for, supported,

00:12:26.640 they have, they have stumped for communist leaders around the world for as long as they have been

00:12:35.560 active in politics, including Maduro, including, including Cuban dictators. And so this is who they

00:12:44.520 are. They are Marxists, they are communists, and they're not shy about that. And they obviously traffic

00:12:50.100 in the same lie that people of color cannot get ahead in this country, that people of color aren't really 0.89

00:12:55.200 free, that we live in this oppressive, systemically racist society, white supremacist society, this, 0.88

00:13:00.940 you know, racist caste system where really only white people can get ahead. And America was founded 0.89

00:13:05.960 on white supremacy, and its systems are so infected with racism that people of color just can't succeed 0.96

00:13:11.480 in life. And yet, we read from the Daily Mail that she has built a $35,000 fence, an electric gate,

00:13:21.120 around her new $1.4 million Topanga Canyon home that she bought with cash. And she also has some other

00:13:29.720 properties, apparently, apparently amounting to, you know, a $3 million property portfolio is what is

00:13:37.760 being reported here. And so it's not only this, it's not only that she says that she's a communist and

00:13:45.720 that, you know, people of color can't get ahead in this country. And again, she is living more lavishly 1.00

00:13:50.200 than the vast majority of people of any skin color will ever live in this country. But if you look at

00:13:57.300 the demographics of where Sean King now lives, and where Patrice Culler now lives, it's vast majority

00:14:06.360 white. So Sean King has moved into an area that I believe is only 17% black. Patrice Cullers now lives 0.64

00:14:14.520 in an area in Los Angeles that I think is only like 2% black. So these are the same people who say

00:14:20.520 that white people are on the side of the oppressor and that they just want to be one of the people

00:14:24.900 that they're a voice for the marginalized. They don't want to live among the marginalized. These

00:14:28.340 are also the same people who talk about defunding the police. And yet, they're living in a place that

00:14:32.740 I guarantee you will never defund the police, probably has a lot of funding to the police and

00:14:37.640 can rely on the police to protect them. They don't want to live in the communities that they say that

00:14:43.820 they support. Speaking of defunding the police, here's another point of hypocrisy that I saw

00:14:50.580 reported. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Post reported that she has spent thousands on security, 0.91

00:14:57.460 including $4,000 plus to ex-Blackwater contractor. She spent apparently tens of thousands of dollars on

00:15:05.780 private security in this year alone. And look, I don't blame AOC at all for having private security.

00:15:12.800 She has a big platform and she is often maligned by people on the right. And so I guarantee you that

00:15:21.420 she's got a ton of creepers that are after her. There are probably a ton of people that want to 1.00

00:15:26.720 harm her. So I don't blame her at all for having security. Look, girl, I think that that's a good

00:15:32.500 idea for you to have armed security. But do I think it is also hypocritical for her to have armed 1.00

00:15:39.420 security and also advocate for defunding the police again in communities that she would never

00:15:45.360 deign to live in and she would probably not even walk alone in at this point in her life? Yes, I do

00:15:53.280 think it's hypocritical. She said this, she tweeted this a few months ago, right? Actually, I think that 0.82

00:16:00.160 it was, yeah, it was last year. So over a year ago now in 2020, she said defund defunding the police

00:16:06.560 means defunding the police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving

00:16:12.680 school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education's budget. So the exact

00:16:18.120 same police remain in schools. And then she said also on June 9th, 2020 defund means that Black and

00:16:26.000 Brown communities are asking for the same budget priorities that white communities have already 0.94

00:16:30.540 created for themselves, schooling more than police, etc. People asked in other ways, but we were always

00:16:36.480 told, no, how do you pay for it? So they found the line item. And she has also talked about,

00:16:42.460 she's also talked about on Instagram, she said that defunding the police looks like living in a suburb.

00:16:50.000 Affluent white communities already live in a world where they choose to fund youth, health,

00:16:53.640 housing, etc. more than they fund police. Well, it's a little bit different. You don't have the

00:16:59.960 same crime rates in a suburb, first of all, and I guarantee you suburbs will be the last place

00:17:05.840 to defund the police. You don't have the same problems in the suburb that you have in the inner

00:17:10.380 city. That's just that's just a fact. That's not a racial statement. That's just a fact. That is where

00:17:15.680 we see the majority of the crime in the inner city. And unfortunately, the people who are victims of

00:17:20.800 defunding the police, as we've seen in Minneapolis, as we've seen in cities across the country who

00:17:25.460 decided to do that, as we've seen in New York, as we've seen in D.C., trying to deprioritize the

00:17:30.400 police and to weaken the police so that they don't have as much power to be able, and in Chicago,

00:17:38.000 to be able to catch suspects, and they don't have as much funding to be able to hire the police

00:17:43.980 officers that they need. What we see is that crime has raised dramatically over the past year. And who

00:17:48.700 are the victims of that? Disproportionately people of color, disproportionately women and children of

00:17:53.320 color. So we've seen the murder rate, the violent crime rate in the communities that have sought to

00:17:57.860 defund the police or weaken the police in some way. And AOC doesn't care about that. She cares about her

00:18:06.600 own safety. Of course, she's going to pay thousands of taxpayer dollars to protect herself against those 0.99

00:18:13.640 who want to do her harm. She doesn't lose a second of sleep at night thinking about the women and 1.00

00:18:20.960 children who are being victimized in places where they no longer feel like they can call the police

00:18:26.980 because they don't even know if the police are going to show up because the police in some of

00:18:31.980 these places have been told not to enter into some neighborhoods to try to avoid any kind of negative

00:18:37.080 confrontation that can make headlines. And a lot of forces don't even have the manpower anymore to be

00:18:44.940 able to defend their communities and their cities the way that they're supposed to. And so you've

00:18:52.060 actually seen a lot of cities change their mind on this and say, OK, actually, no, we need to increase

00:18:57.700 the police budget. We actually do need more police officers. And so, again, it is hypocritical. It is

00:19:03.640 hypocritical for AOC to advocate for defunding the police, something that will never affect her for

00:19:08.780 the rest of her life because she's going to have a cushy life forever now, which, again, is fine. I 0.85

00:19:13.560 don't care how much money she makes. I don't care that she has private security. But advocating for 0.99

00:19:17.740 defunding the police is going to negatively affect people in poor communities, disproportionately people

00:19:23.860 of color. And as a Marxist, again, she doesn't care about that so long as she is so insulated with

00:19:30.540 privilege and power that she doesn't really have to think about it. So that's another example of this 1.00

00:19:35.960 hypocrisy. Now we're going to get into some COVID hypocrisy. 0.90

00:19:44.800 OK, let's talk about some of this COVID hypocrisy. You guys know that a lot of places right now are

00:19:51.000 they are re-mandating masks. And if you haven't listened to last, I think it's last Wednesday's

00:20:00.320 episode, I believe, with Steve Dace, where we went through a ton of data on masks, on vaccines,

00:20:08.020 on COVID, on the Delta variant. If you haven't listened to it yet, then we will put it in the

00:20:12.720 description of this episode so you can go listen to it and how it really does not make sense to

00:20:18.140 mandate masks right now with the numbers that we're seeing, especially in K-12 schools. It just

00:20:23.880 doesn't make any sense. And it makes even less sense when we see a lot of the hypocrisy from the

00:20:30.340 leaders that are mandating these masks. This, again, is the New York Post reporting that the D.C.

00:20:37.880 Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrates birthday maskless hours before the new mandate kicks in. And so we will put

00:20:45.480 up a picture of this. There are photos of Bowser celebrating her birthday without wearing a face

00:20:51.520 mask or anyone around her really wearing a face mask just a few hours before a new indoor mask

00:20:58.180 mandate for the city kicked in. Of course, it looks like she did this on purpose. It looks like she 0.81

00:21:04.140 purposely pushed off the mask mandate so she could have a birthday party with dozens of people all

00:21:10.240 crowded together without masks. But she is still going to mandate that for everyone else. It looks

00:21:16.600 like the scheduling here is a little suspicious. She had also just the night before she had gone to

00:21:24.680 a Dave Chappelle show. She is in a picture with him and a few other people. Again, we'll put that up

00:21:29.900 where none of them are wearing masks. Again, this is right before the new mask mandate went into place.

00:21:38.060 So she had announced this mask mandate was going into place and she got in all of her maskless

00:21:42.920 activities before that happened. She had also, so this is according to the Washington Examiner,

00:21:49.040 not 24 hours into the indoor mask mandate she imposed on D.C., Muriel Bowser officiated an indoor

00:21:55.760 wedding with hundreds of fellow maskless guests. So you tell me, do you think Muriel Bowser and other

00:22:02.840 leaders who are doing the same thing, do you think that they're afraid of the Delta variant?

00:22:06.340 Now, I'm not telling you that you shouldn't be concerned. I've talked to a lot of nurses. Some

00:22:10.220 people are concerned. Some people think it's being sensationalized. And it is a little bit more

00:22:15.540 contagious and maybe slightly more deadly than the original variant. This variant, by the way,

00:22:20.920 comes from India. And we're hearing all kinds of contradictory messaging about whether or not

00:22:27.380 the vaccine is really helping people not get this particular variant and not spread the can

00:22:33.200 and not spread the variant. And that is why now they're imposing these mask mandates. But they

00:22:39.920 don't actually seem to be very afraid of it. And if you're saying, well, it's because Muriel Bowser and

00:22:45.380 all the people there are vaccinated. Well, according to the CDC, according to multiple reports,

00:22:51.660 according to the study out of Massachusetts, apparently like you are just as likely to get this

00:22:57.360 Delta variant. And again, there's contradictory messaging and contradictory data on this. But

00:23:02.940 according to some reports, you are just as likely to get this variant and just as likely to have,

00:23:07.680 you know, a viral load that can pass on to someone else. And so this would be, according to that logic,

00:23:16.340 very irresponsible. I wouldn't call it irresponsible. I would just call it hypocritical. We also saw a lot of

00:23:22.540 hypocrisy from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, which, of course, we have seen for the past year as she is

00:23:28.400 imposing all kinds of restrictions, regulations and mandates on Chicago. She is flouting them 0.99

00:23:33.480 herself. She got her hair done without a mask on. She went to, you know, some kind of Biden celebration.

00:23:40.300 I'm pretty sure she went to a Black Lives Matter rally a year ago. And yet she pretends like she really

00:23:46.760 cares about the health and safety of Chicago. But this is really incredible. And so

00:23:51.480 she attended Lollapalooza music festival amid reinstating COVID restrictions. According to Fox

00:23:58.440 News, despite announcing plans to resume more pandemic restrictions in the city, the Democrat

00:24:03.000 mayor continued to host Lollapalooza, which is one of the largest music festivals in the country. If

00:24:07.840 you're watching on YouTube, we will put a picture up. I mean, hundreds, hundreds and hundreds, thousands

00:24:14.080 of people mashed together. I'm sure some of them are wearing masks. I'm sure a lot of them aren't.

00:24:20.180 I mean, you see these pictures. I mean, this looks like 2019. None of these people in these pictures

00:24:26.200 are wearing masks. No one cares. No one is afraid of it. But this is a lot of money for the city of

00:24:33.480 Chicago. And so Mayor Lightfoot is is not going to she's not going to stop that from happening because 0.97

00:24:41.980 that's important for her. And yet she is going to reinstate all of these regulations. It's politics. 0.99

00:24:49.820 And so I hear a lot of people on the left saying, oh, the right is politicizing this. Really? Do you

00:24:55.720 think it's the right politicizing this? Or do you think that the right is a little bit hesitant

00:24:59.360 to accept the integrity of all of these mandates and restrictions when we see so much hypocrisy? And

00:25:06.320 we see that really leftist politicians are politicizing this kind of thing. I mean, you know,

00:25:12.080 you understand that there are people. I saw I heard a terrible story about this young woman who she 0.99

00:25:19.100 overdosed. I guess that's correct word on on alcohol to the point to where she died. And yet after she 0.99

00:25:26.680 died, she was in the hospital. They tested her for coronavirus. She tested positive for coronavirus.

00:25:32.400 And because she tested positive, her family was not her parents were not allowed to come in and see

00:25:38.140 their daughter who had just died because of that. That was a story from a nurse who follows me. I've

00:25:42.880 heard several stories like that. And of course, there have been elderly people who have died in

00:25:47.340 nursing homes and in hospitals whose families weren't allowed to come see them and be with them 0.91

00:25:52.060 as they died. And so if this does not boil your blood, that while people are going through the worst

00:25:59.300 tragedies of their lives like that, because of the restrictions of some of these leaders,

00:26:03.760 even while they're doing what is politically advantageous or personally advantageous to them,

00:26:08.500 I don't know what will. Hypocrisy makes people really frustrated. It's not just the COVID restrictions

00:26:14.640 that people are mad about. It is more than that. It is the hypocrisy of the leaders that are

00:26:21.080 implementing these kinds of restrictions. Not to mention, not to mention what's happening at the 0.55

00:26:27.280 border, which I just want to touch on briefly. Well, first, let me mention also just very briefly

00:26:33.620 that Axios reported that Obama is planning a birthday bash amid COVID concerns. So like we're

00:26:39.480 hearing everywhere in the leftist media that we really need to care about the Delta variant. We are

00:26:43.340 hearing rumblings of lockdowns again in particular places. And yet he is apparently having about 700

00:26:51.200 people to his $12 million home in Martha's Vineyard. Again, another great example of just how oppressive

00:26:58.040 the United States is. And so again, I think a lot of people see this as hypocrisy. Maybe he's not the

00:27:06.200 one that's implementing the restrictions, but he is certainly going against the narrative that everyone

00:27:12.420 needs to stay inside with a mask on. I can almost guarantee you the people at Martha's Vineyard at

00:27:18.300 President Obama's birthday party will not all be wearing masks. And again, even if they're vaccinated,

00:27:23.760 we're hearing that they still could pose a risk and a threat. That's why people are saying that

00:27:28.520 vaccinated people still need to be masked up. So you see why people could be frustrated. And then 1.00

00:27:33.180 we've got what's happening at the southern border, which I will get into in just one second.

00:27:38.980 Okay, because I want to get into the biblical portion of all of this, I'm just going to very

00:27:49.360 briefly talk about what's happening at the border. And again, why people are so upset about some of

00:27:56.280 these restrictions because of the duplicitousness, the duplicity, however you want to say it, of the

00:28:04.540 leaders that are implementing them. So I'm going to show you a video of one thing that is happening

00:28:10.800 at the southern border. There are hundreds and consequently thousands of people that are

00:28:18.800 infiltrating the United States every day. And the sketchy thing about it is that there's hundreds of

00:28:25.500 them showing up. And then the federal government is transporting them by bus and by plane to different

00:28:32.600 cities in the United States. We have no idea why. We have no idea where they're going. We have no idea

00:28:39.500 how long they're staying. We have no idea if they're being tested. We have no idea if they're

00:28:43.260 being vaccinated. Actually, I've heard from a source familiar with the matter that they are not being

00:28:49.480 tested, that they're not being vaccinated. I heard some bunk statistic the other day that 90% are

00:28:54.600 vaccinated. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. I know that they're not being tested for the most part.

00:29:01.220 They're not being vaccinated. We don't know in a lot of cases where they're coming. It's not just

00:29:05.900 South America. It's not just Mexico. It is also places like Haiti. It's also places like Africa.

00:29:13.140 They're coming through the southern border, even as the northern border is basically closed. So there's

00:29:18.160 a lot of sketchy things that are going on. And if we were really worried about the spread of this,

00:29:23.200 like if we were really worried about the rise in cases and we were really worried about the Delta

00:29:27.220 variant, we would close the southern border in an instant. But it seems like the same people who

00:29:32.300 are fearmongering about the virus aren't actually scared of it because they're not closing the

00:29:36.640 southern border. I mean, we are talking now hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants that

00:29:42.220 have been transported from the border into the interior of the United States. I mean, a lot of

00:29:47.340 people slammed Donald Trump for saying America first and oh, Christian nationalist, blah, blah, blah.

00:29:53.140 Tell me what do you think is better leadership? America first or America last? Like, who would

00:29:58.240 you say is a better mayor? Like, is the is the mayor of Tulsa a good mayor of Tulsa if he actually

00:30:04.700 cares about the city of Oklahoma City more? And if he prioritizes the needs of Oklahoma City more than

00:30:13.520 he prioritizes the needs of Tulsa? No, you would say that that's a bad mayor. Wouldn't you say it's a

00:30:18.660 good mayor to say, you know, this is the best city in the world? I love Tulsa. And my focus is on making

00:30:24.880 Tulsa the best place it can be and prioritizing the needs of my constituents and Tulsa? Like, you would

00:30:29.160 say that that's a really good mayor. So why is it different on a presidential level? Like, why do some

00:30:34.500 people who identify as progressives or progressive Christians say that it is some evil, fascistic,

00:30:42.540 you know, Christian nationalist, bad thing to say that we're going to put America first? No, that's 0.93

00:30:51.200 what you do. You put the needs and the priorities of your family first. That's what nations are. They

00:30:56.200 are akin to families. And a good leader prioritizes the needs and the safety and the resources and the

00:31:03.260 industries of his own people before the needs of people from other countries. That doesn't mean that

00:31:09.940 you hate people from other countries. It doesn't mean that you're mean to migrants. It doesn't mean

00:31:15.160 that you're a bigot. It just means that you're a good, responsible leader. Joe Biden is not a good,

00:31:19.400 responsible leader because his federal government is actually putting the needs of Americans last.

00:31:24.580 And that is hateful. That makes you a wicked, wicked ruler. And again, this is hypocrisy that's going 0.99

00:31:31.900 to make people mad. This is exactly why we are seeing protests from around the world.

00:31:39.800 Again, we're going to show you some pictures and maybe I'll throw even to a video of some protests

00:31:49.320 in France. But we're seeing anti-lockdown protests in Canada, in France, in England, in Germany,

00:31:55.520 in Australia, obviously in the United States. It's not that anyone wants anyone to die from COVID. No one

00:32:02.700 wants that. And none of these people rallying, I guarantee you, think that COVID is fake. I guarantee you

00:32:07.840 that they've all been affected by it in some way. Maybe they've had it themselves. They've had a

00:32:12.200 friend who has had it. Maybe they even have a family member who's died from it. I am close to

00:32:16.820 people who have had family members die from it. I certainly don't think it's fake. I think it can

00:32:21.320 be dangerous for a lot of people. I also think that there are nefarious motivations behind these

00:32:26.240 lockdowns. I also think that there are a lot of other dangers, a lot of other threats to people's

00:32:30.720 lives on a daily basis. The fact that there were far more people, far more kids who died by suicide

00:32:36.080 in the past year and a half, I guarantee you, exacerbated by these lockdowns, then died by

00:32:40.620 the coronavirus, means that I have to expand my compassion beyond people who are just harmed from

00:32:49.240 coronavirus. There are a lot of dangers, a lot of threats, a lot of causes of death that we are not

00:32:54.220 even recognizing or talking about today because compassion has become so narrow that the only thing

00:33:01.480 that the media wants to report on is deaths by COVID. There are a lot of things that people die

00:33:06.040 from, unfortunately, sadly, tragically on a daily basis. And this is not worth ruining people's

00:33:11.820 lives and ruining people's livelihoods, taking away their will to live and everything that makes life

00:33:17.560 worth living for a virus that for most people, they have a 99.8 or higher even likelihood of

00:33:27.520 surviving. It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That's exactly why you are seeing people

00:33:32.080 protest around the world. Let me play you a brief clip from a protest in France.

00:33:43.720 So yeah, people are going to be super frustrated. People are going to be really, really frustrated

00:33:47.720 by all of this. And again, it's not just the restrictions and the regulations. It's the hypocrisy of

00:33:53.260 it. People just don't do well with hypocrisy. They do not do well with their livelihoods being taken 0.71

00:34:01.400 away from them. They don't do well with seeing their teenager become a shell of who they were

00:34:07.540 because they have been forced into virtual learning for the past year and a half for a virus that is no

00:34:12.800 more deadly to that age group to ages zero to 17 than the flu. There are a lot of nurses, a lot of 0.52

00:34:19.260 parents that I've talked to that tell me, and I know this firsthand, that RSV, that croup, that hand,

00:34:26.120 foot and mouth are really, really bad this year. Even the flu right now, which is rare for the

00:34:31.000 summer, it's really bad among kids. A lot of you have personally reached out to me and said that

00:34:36.060 your kid was in the hospital with RSV just a couple of weeks ago. Both my kids had RSV just a couple

00:34:41.560 of weeks ago. It transferred to my husband and me as well. And so there are a lot of sick kids right

00:34:48.000 now because unfortunately their immune systems are shot from being locked inside for the past year

00:34:53.980 and a half. I personally think that there is a negative bacterial effect on kids when they are

00:35:02.060 wearing masks all day. And so unfortunately, we have harmed kids and the strains of viruses that are

00:35:08.020 going around right now that are not at all COVID are seriously and intensely impacting kids. But no one

00:35:14.140 cares about that. Like no one wants to report that. Apparently, it only matters when someone is

00:35:18.960 negatively impacted by one virus and not other viruses. It's really sad. It's really sad. And

00:35:24.940 the media hysteria about this has killed people. I mean, there are also reports of nurses who don't

00:35:32.880 want to treat people who are COVID positive, especially people who are unvaccinated with COVID

00:35:37.840 because they're afraid of getting it or they just have some, you know, political leaning about it.

00:35:42.660 I don't think that that accounts for most nurses at all. I've only had very wonderful experiences

00:35:51.260 with nurses in my life. But certainly that is happening. I saw one thread on social media from a

00:36:00.120 nurse on Twitter that talked about a man who tested positive, an old man who tested positive, and he was

00:36:06.500 placed in a holding pattern in the hospital because no one wanted to treat him because he was COVID

00:36:11.220 positive. And they didn't want to do this invasive, invasive procedure that he needed because he was

00:36:16.560 COVID positive. And he ended up dying while he was waiting. He needed this procedure. They didn't want

00:36:21.400 to do the procedure because he was COVID positive. And so because and that's unscientific. So because

00:36:27.380 the media has caused hysteria about this, people are actually dying from it. Okay, so this is life and

00:36:32.720 death. This hypocrisy actually matters. And now I know the hypocrites that I just listed,

00:36:37.420 were all, they were all Democrats. That's wasn't my goal. This is just what's in the news. And it 0.97

00:36:44.780 is Democrats who are, who are implementing these kinds of restrictions and then flouting the

00:36:51.680 restrictions. They tend not to be Republicans. Republicans have their own problems with hypocrisy,

00:36:56.600 too. And I have no problem calling that out. There are plenty of people who identify as conservatives and 0.94

00:37:02.060 Republicans who are hypocrites. Hypocrisy is wrong, no matter whether you have an R or a D by your name. 0.98

00:37:08.140 But the stories that are in the news right now, they do happen to be, they happen to be centered on 0.99

00:37:15.500 Democrats who are acting like hypocrites. And that makes people very frustrated. 0.97

00:37:23.440 Okay, so let's talk about this word hypocrisy, which again, does not just describe Democrats.

00:37:29.920 That's not the point of this. The point is to explain how frustrating hypocrisy is and how it

00:37:36.880 really can drive people to the brink, especially when it comes to our leadership. But as Christians,

00:37:43.260 we are also called to reject hypocrisy. Just for fun, I wanted to look up the etymology of the word

00:37:49.900 hypocrite. There are words like this that we use all the time. We know what they mean generally, but

00:37:54.820 we don't really stop to ask where they come from. And I like looking at the origin of words

00:37:59.900 I think it can really help us better understand them. Hypocrite comes from the Greek word

00:38:05.740 hupokrisis, which means to play on stage or to pretend. Hupo or hypo means under. So for example, 0.99

00:38:14.020 if you have hypothyroidism, you have an underactive thyroid. The opposite is hyper, which means over or

00:38:20.440 in excess. Now the krisis and hupokrisis or hupokrisis probably comes from the Greek crinian, 0.91

00:38:28.600 which means to separate, to judge, to decide, to distinguish, to discern. So it would seem,

00:38:35.080 getting to the most literal meaning of this word, that to be a hypocrite means to fail to distinguish 0.95

00:38:40.880 or to under distinguish between reality and pretend, or to pretend that something is reality 0.77

00:38:48.500 when it's not, to act, to play a role, and then metaphorically to be something else entirely

00:38:53.580 backstage. It's used in language to describe people who pretend to have a particular virtue,

00:39:01.180 to pretend to have a certain value, or who preach that virtue and that value and promote it to others.

00:39:06.540 We've just given you many examples of that. But don't represent it and live it out themselves.

00:39:12.300 What we see in Scripture, throughout Scripture, from really Genesis to Revelation, that God hates

00:39:18.820 hypocrisy. He hates the pretense of righteousness coupled with a rebellious heart. He hates outward

00:39:24.520 obedience accompanied with a self-serving spirit. So in the Old Testament, we see that David says to

00:39:30.900 God in Psalm 51, 16 through 17,

00:39:33.220 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it. You will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

00:39:38.720 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

00:39:45.040 Isaiah 29, 13 through 14, talks about the fact that the people are honoring God with their mouths.

00:39:53.420 They draw near to God, and they honor Him with their lips, but their hearts are far from them.

00:40:01.840 And so they actually fear man and what man thinks more than God. And so this is the Lord basically

00:40:10.000 talking about frustrating and confounding the wisest of Israel to show that He alone is the source of 0.97

00:40:16.780 wisdom and power to invoke sincere fear and worship of Him, because at this time they were fearing man 0.96

00:40:22.680 more than they feared God, and they were hypocrites. God cares very much about sincerity. Again, He hates

00:40:29.420 pretense. He hates deceit. He cannot be deceived. Proverbs 6, 16 through 19 talks about the six things that

00:40:37.280 the Lord hates, the seven things that are an abomination to Him, and one of them is a lying tongue. 1.00

00:40:43.620 So this is bad news. This is bad news for a lot of politicians in both parties. It's also comforting,

00:40:50.180 I think, that the Lord hates what so many people in power are doing and plotting and scheming that manifests

00:40:55.700 itself in the oppression of civilians. And one day, because He hates all forms of sin, He will pour out wrath

00:41:02.040 and exact perfect justice. One of the ways that David actually defends his own righteousness in the

00:41:09.360 Psalms, in Psalm 26, 4, is to say that he doesn't even associate himself with hypocrites. Jesus calls

00:41:16.480 out hypocrisy quite a bit in the New Testament. You could even say that this was one of the central

00:41:21.420 themes of Jesus's ministry, to call out outward righteousness in order to gain attention and power

00:41:28.780 that was then undermined by inward selfishness. We see this in Matthew chapter 6, when He says,

00:41:36.580 when you give to the needy, when you pray, when you fast, don't do any of these things to get the

00:41:42.620 approval of other people. Don't be loud about it. Don't be showy about it. The people who are doing

00:41:47.480 these things, outward forms of righteousness, in order to get the applause and approval of other people,

00:41:52.620 He says, have already received their reward. So He's saying people who do good things for a

00:41:58.620 reward here on earth in the form of accolades, that's all you're going to get. You get no reward

00:42:04.360 in heaven for that. You want a fleeting applause for your good deeds? You got it. But that's all you're

00:42:09.580 going to get. And then in Matthew 15, 1 through 9, He talks about a conversation that He has, or Jesus is

00:42:17.160 having a conversation with the Pharisees, and He accuses them of trying to get around particular

00:42:24.460 commandments to gain in a selfish way. He talks about trying to get around the commandment to honor

00:42:34.980 your father and mother by avoiding the responsibility of taking care of their parents financially with this

00:42:41.320 kind of godly sounding excuse. And what He's saying is that they are making void the Word of God,

00:42:48.920 that they have not understood the real intention of the law, because God's law has always been about

00:42:55.800 obedience from a heart that is dedicated to Him. And a heart that loves and is dedicated to God

00:43:00.780 never asks, what can I get away with? How can I skirt this law on a technicality? How can I look

00:43:07.060 righteous to other people and avoid sacrifice? But rather, how can I best glorify God? How can I most

00:43:13.760 authentically and fully obey Him? So He's saying to the Pharisees in this chapter, you don't love God.

00:43:20.520 You love yourself. You don't worship Him. You worship yourself. You don't seek to give God glory. You

00:43:24.660 seek to glorify yourself. Okay, then your reward is all the attention that you're getting here on earth,

00:43:29.540 all the power that you've accumulated by your hypocrisy, and you got another thing coming for 0.87

00:43:34.920 you in eternity. And let me just make another point on this in His conversation with Pharisees.

00:43:41.040 You often hear people who identify as progressive Christians talking about how Jesus denounced the

00:43:47.080 Pharisees as a way to make the point that Jesus didn't like religious people. And they call anyone 0.99

00:43:53.200 a Pharisee who expresses any care at all about Christian morality, sexuality, etc. They point to 0.78

00:43:58.780 Matthew 7, 1 that says, judge not lest you be judged. They point to Romans 2, 1 that says not to judge.

00:44:04.900 And they use these verses to say that you're not allowed to criticize any action, any kind of lifestyle,

00:44:09.940 any belief system. Because if you do, you're just a judgmental Pharisee. And Jesus hated the

00:44:14.680 judgmental Pharisee. But here are a few problems with that. And this is where we're going to close

00:44:20.100 out. What people who use this line really mean when they say that is that conservative Christians

00:44:28.360 aren't allowed to say what's right and wrong behavior according to the Bible because that is

00:44:32.820 Pharisaical. But they have no problem using the Bible to support what they say is right and wrong 0.99

00:44:38.440 and calling anyone who doesn't align with their definitions of morality and love,

00:44:43.020 usually conservative Christians, not real Jesus followers. So in using Matthew 7, 1 to call anyone

00:44:48.840 who cares about, for example, the Christian sexual ethic of Pharisee, they themselves are being 0.68

00:44:53.900 judgmental and violating Matthew 7, 1. Both Matthew 7, 1 and Romans 2, 1 are not talking about discerning

00:45:01.140 between right from wrong and righteousness from sin. Both are talking about hypocrisy.

00:45:06.240 Matthew 7 goes on to say that before you call out sin in another person, you got to remove the sin

00:45:11.240 from your own life. You got to take the log out of your own eye. Romans 2 goes on to say that you

00:45:15.520 are wrong to judge others for doing the very same things that you are guilty of. Jesus, hear me,

00:45:22.100 this is so important. Jesus did not condemn the Pharisees for being too religious or too righteous or

00:45:29.600 too holy or even too judgmental. Jesus condemned them for being hypocrites. It's not that they were 0.98

00:45:36.880 too obedient to God. It's not that they were too righteous. It's that they had outward obedience that

00:45:43.740 was accompanied by a selfish, unregenerate heart that did not love God. So their spirit was one of,

00:45:50.760 what can I get away with to try to skirt full obedience to God's law when it's inconvenient,

00:45:54.900 rather than I love God and want to obey him as much as possible. Back what we read from David in

00:46:02.700 the Psalms, it's not sacrifice that the Lord really requires. It's a contrite heart before him. And that's

00:46:08.180 something that can happen on the right or the left, that kind of hypocrisy, the right or the left at the

00:46:12.620 theological spectrum or political spectrum. But people who call themselves progressive Christians 0.80

00:46:17.600 should realize how susceptible they are to this line of thinking. Because I am constantly hearing

00:46:23.880 from that segment of the world, all the ways that we can get around what the Bible teaches about,

00:46:29.460 say, modesty or gender or sex or porn or marriage or any area of Christian morality.

00:46:34.340 And I'm always hearing, you know, the argument from absence with some people who identify as

00:46:39.680 progressive Christians that Jesus never talked about abortion. Jesus never talked about homosexuality.

00:46:44.600 And not only is that incorrect, because he does talk about these things, you know, honoring

00:46:51.280 the honoring children, for example, and honoring sexual morality. But it's also a fallacy. It's a

00:46:59.900 misunderstanding of the Trinity since Jesus is God and everything that God says, Jesus also says. But

00:47:05.880 it's also emulating the spirits, demonstrating the spirit of what can I get away with? How can I find a

00:47:11.600 way to do what I want to do? And that is not representative of a heart that loves and is

00:47:16.180 submitted to God. We hear from them that God really only cares about social justice. He doesn't care

00:47:22.120 about our sin. The reality is, and I promise I'm about to, I know I keep going, but I promise I'm about

00:47:28.200 to end this. The reality is if Jesus were alive today, these same people would call him a bigot and

00:47:33.300 a Pharisee. Because for all their talk of Jesus's condemnation of religious people and his association with 0.56

00:47:39.080 the lowly and the sinners, the prostitutes, the tax collectors, which also important for this crowd 0.95

00:47:44.100 to note, the tax collectors were seen as the scum of society because overtaxation was considered a 0.95

00:47:48.480 form of oppression. The adulterers, they seem to ignore that Jesus called all of these people to 0.96

00:47:55.500 repentance. He forgave their sins and urged them to sin no more. Not to mention, he reiterates the

00:48:01.120 biblical definition of marriage and gender in Matthew 19. So he would have been seen as hugely

00:48:05.480 problematic to many people who profess to be progressive Christians today. Jesus cared about

00:48:10.140 sin. He came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law. He didn't come to say sinning doesn't

00:48:14.520 matter. He came to take the definition of sin to the next level by saying it's not just about what you

00:48:19.500 do. It's about why you do what you do. Jesus cared about what we do on the outside, but he wanted it to

00:48:26.500 be done from a place of sincerity and love, not hypocrisy. 1 Peter 1, 22 through 23, 2, 1 through 3

00:48:35.460 says, having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love,

00:48:41.600 love one another earnestly from a pure heart since you have been born again, not of perishable seed,

00:48:47.220 but of imperishable through the living and abiding word of God. So put away all malice and all deceit

00:48:53.660 and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants long for the pure spiritual milk

00:48:59.760 that by it you may grow up into salvation if indeed you have tasted and seen that the Lord

00:49:06.720 is good. So this is true for all of us. Like this is something that I take to heart. We all have the

00:49:12.340 tendency to be hypocrites. We all struggle with hypocrisy. It's even more frustrating when we see it 0.98

00:49:16.960 from our leadership class, but it's something that we all have to look inward and examine in our own

00:49:21.520 selves. We all have the propensity towards self-righteousness and judging other people of

00:49:25.920 the same things that we are guilty of. And so thank the Lord that we can be sanctified

00:49:29.880 by the Holy Spirit, that we can be justified by grace through faith, that he calls us to radical

00:49:36.160 transparency, radical honesty. I pray that he would continue to sanctify me in that way. That's my prayer

00:49:41.840 for all of us. It's especially my prayer for people in power because it causes a lot of unrest that is

00:49:47.540 going to end, I think, in a very ugly way. So let's continue to pray for honesty and true virtue,

00:49:54.380 not just among ourselves, but also from the people who lead us. All right. We'll be back here tomorrow

00:49:58.840 with more.

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Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - August 03, 2021

Ep 464 ｜ When Pharisees Get Power, The People Protest

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