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00:21:41.000And let's just allow this to encourage us, too.
00:21:44.960So let me read you from John 15, starting in verse 18.
00:21:50.820If the world hates you, know that it has hated me, Jesus says, before it hated you.
00:21:55.880If you are of the world, the world would love you as its own.
00:22:00.040But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
00:22:06.240And then Jesus goes on to continue to encourage, basically, just promising persecution, that there is hardship, there is tribulation, there are trials that are inherent in the Christian life.
00:22:23.720In this world, you will have trouble, but take heart, for I have overcome the world.
00:22:29.680That's why the prosperity gospel that we see from several teachers, like Joel Osteen, basically saying that actually inherent in the Christian life is some kind of guarantee of a promotion, guarantee of greater success, guarantee of health, wealth in this life.
00:23:09.780He does allow you to get married and have children and take part in all of these wonderful gifts of grace.
00:23:16.300But he doesn't have to do those things.
00:23:18.340If God never gave you any good thing here in this life, like if he never gave you anything that your heart desires as far as material wealth and influence and relationships and things like that, he would be just as good and just as gracious and just as generous because he sent his only son to die for us.
00:23:38.840Because that is enough, like that is the good news of the Christian life.
00:24:02.540That's the joy of the Lord that is our strength, not that we might become famous or rich or whatever it is.
00:24:08.560So that's why I think the prosperity gospel is so damaging because it actually detracts from the joy of the gospel and it tries to put your joy and your hope and your expectation and all of these other things which are here today and are gone tomorrow.
00:24:22.060And so I actually love that Chris Pratt referenced this and he has been.
00:24:26.200I mean, obviously he's very successful.
00:24:28.060And so it's not like he has been excluded from Hollywood because of his faith yet.
00:24:32.900But, I mean, he has received his fair share of criticism.
00:24:36.240He has, you know, been called a homophobe or whatever because apparently the church that he attended at one point believed in traditional marriage.
00:24:43.520Now, I don't know that he's ever put out any kind of strong stance on that.
00:24:59.220And, of course, I couldn't say, Chris Pratt couldn't say, that the whole world hates us in the same way that they hated Jesus.
00:25:06.760I'm very thankful for the platform that I had.
00:25:09.720I'm sure he's very thankful for the success that he has attained.
00:25:12.560But in the sense that there is pushback, certainly, against the faith, especially in Hollywood, that's absolutely true.
00:25:18.660And I don't even believe in, like, diminishing that as by saying, well, he's rich, he's successful, and so he's never really endured any kind of persecution.
00:25:30.220I don't think that that's fair either.
00:25:32.280I think that we can say that someone has received some form of persecution, even if they're not being martyred in China or in the Middle East.
00:25:40.360I do think that there is a spectrum, and I've heard John Piper talk about this before, that whether it's slander or whether it's just criticism, whether it's martyrdom, torture, losing your job.
00:25:54.300Like, wherever it is on the spectrum of persecution, it is counting towards something, that it still matters.
00:27:04.940And I'm not saying that they're just as important as acknowledging John 14.6, that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
00:27:10.900But they're all part of that because, like, these are the most controversial topics of today.
00:27:14.900So if you're not willing to stand on them, it does tell us, like, how you actually feel about God and how you actually feel about the trustworthiness and the truth of his Word and who you fear.
00:27:25.860So he's talked about how Jesus helps him struggle and deal with the haters.
00:27:33.200And if you look, I saw someone that posted, like, these screenshots of people just absolutely hating on Chris Pratt over and over again for saying anything about Christianity.
00:27:45.040I won't even read you, but you can, I mean, you can see we'll put some of them up on the screen if you're watching on YouTube.
00:27:50.500And people really do just hate Chris Pratt.
00:27:53.580They also were mad at him because on Mother's Day, he did this tribute to his current wife, Catherine Schwarzenegger, and his mother-in-law, and I think his own mother, but did not publicly think Anna Faris, who is the mother of his first child, his son.
00:28:10.800And, you know, I kind of understand that.
00:28:13.880I mean, it is difficult when it comes to those things because we don't know what goes on behind the scenes.
00:28:18.900Like, I have no idea what kind of mother Anna Faris is.
00:28:21.500I don't, we don't know the truth about their lives.
00:28:24.140I think, of course, part of us is like, yeah, you probably should have said something about the wife of your first child, even if you don't have the greatest relationship, even if the marriage ended up tragically ending.
00:28:35.780But people are also just trying to find an opportunity to pick holes in the things that he says anyway.
00:28:46.060My hope is that the Lord keeps him, continues to sanctify him, draws not just him, but his entire family to himself, to God, and that they just continue to stand firm.
00:29:02.320All right, let's talk about this Biden white supremacy clip.
00:29:19.100I wanted to be able to get to this because it's so absolutely ridiculous.
00:29:27.900To stand up against the poison of white supremacy, as I did my inaugural address to a single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.
00:29:39.000And I'm not saying this because I'm at a black HBCU.
00:30:41.320With your voices and votes, I was able to fulfill my commitment to put the first black woman on the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
00:30:47.780And by the way, she is brighter than the rest.
00:31:20.700It doesn't even make the top 50 threats to our nation.
00:31:25.880That's not to say that there aren't people out there who consider themselves white supremacists.
00:31:30.040I actually just had a psychologist on who talked about the rabbit hole that is on the Internet that leads these these young men who are lonely, who are purposeless, who are involuntarily celibate in many cases.
00:31:44.360Into these kinds of forums that foment all kinds of hate against women, against Jewish people, against anyone who is not white.
00:31:55.160So I'm not saying that there aren't people here, even inherently violent people here, who consider themselves ideologically white supremacist.
00:32:04.460But in comparison to the other threats that we have, the other violent threats that we have in our country, is white supremacy even close to the top issue, the top threat that we have?
00:32:19.660If you just look at the numbers, based on the crime statistics that we've got from the Bureau of Justice statistics, it is far more likely for a white person to be killed by a black person than the other way around.
00:32:29.920And unfortunately, black men commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes and specifically murders in this country, like 60 percent of all violent crime committed by black Americans, even though they only make up 13 percent of the population.
00:32:47.980And really, it's less than that because it's about 6 percent because it's typically black men who are committing these violent crimes.
00:32:54.860I think about 40 percent of all murders are committed by this 6 percent of the population.
00:33:00.940Now, most of this is intraracial violence, which, by the way, it's so funny when people say it was intraracial violence.
00:33:07.080It's black people killing black people.
00:33:08.780Does that mean that we shouldn't care about it?
00:33:11.660Does that mean that those that that threat of violence doesn't matter?
00:33:15.000Because that's really revealing, I think, when people use that as a point to just, well, let's dismiss this as an issue.
00:33:20.640I happen to care that also black men, black people make up a disproportionate number of murder victims, of violent crime victims in this country.
00:33:31.580But even if you're looking at interracial violence, so you're looking between a black person and a white person, a black person, an Asian person, whatever it is, that's still wildly disproportionate.
00:33:41.080It should not be that a small percentage of the population accounts for such a large number of murders against people in other races as well.
00:33:49.260Yes, it's most likely for a white person to kill a white person.
00:33:52.040It's most likely for a black person to kill a black person, a Hispanic person to kill a Hispanic person.
00:33:56.780But actually, when it comes to Asians, it is most likely for a black person to kill an Asian person than for an Asian person to kill an Asian person.
00:34:04.200Again, Bureau of Justice Statistics, FBI crime data.
00:34:07.360And again, it is far more likely for a white person to be killed by a black person than vice versa.
00:34:14.560And actually, there have been several stories recently of this is so tragic, but black men, typically black young men, killing a white person because they wanted to kill a white person.
00:34:26.500There was this horrible story in New Orleans.
00:34:31.660He was outside someone's house, and he was fixing their mailbox.
00:34:37.420And then two young men who happened to be black, their names were Taj Matthews and Maurice Holmes, 23 and 25-year-old.
00:34:50.320They just drove up to this guy who was outside a home fixing this mailbox and shot him through the chest, and he died.
00:34:57.540And when they asked, why did you do this, Matthews said they just wanted to kill a white person.
00:35:07.000This is not all that uncommon, actually.
00:35:11.820If you're not on Twitter, it's kind of difficult to find these stories, and if you don't follow the right people who are actually reporting on these.
00:35:19.100But you see, these kind of stories are typically reported as local crime stories, stories that have no national value, that we shouldn't talk about, that shouldn't count towards terrorism, they shouldn't count as hate crimes, but rather should just be kind of pushed to the side as something that could be taken care of on the state or local level.
00:35:40.920Of course, if the races were reversed, this would be an entire news cycle for probably weeks, especially going into the summer.
00:35:50.200That's typically when riots and protests happen.
00:35:53.060And then you would see all of the evangelicals for Biden talking about how racist and horrible this country is.
00:35:59.700But when it's black people perpetrating this kind of violence against white people, it's to be brushed under the rug.
00:36:05.020And this is what my whole big thing was when the George Floyd incident happened and why I was willing to be one of the people standing up and saying and calling out these Christians for posting the black square and for crying out for justice and things like that, is that you never heard a peep from these people when the police officers kill a white person unjustifiably.
00:36:30.840You never hear a peep from these people when black people kill white people or black people kill Asian people because of their race.
00:36:37.980And so they're guilty of the sin of partiality.
00:36:40.420They're guilty of being dictated by the media and allowing their compassion to wax and wane based on what the news cycle is.
00:37:06.400That is a very self-serving form of lazy activism that has nothing to do with biblical justice or love.
00:37:14.200And so unless you are also talking about these cases where clearly like there is some kind of ethnic animus going on here underneath these kinds of crimes, then I really don't want to hear you talk about it when the races are reversed just because it's popular, just because you're going to get some social or racial justice points.
00:37:35.020Again, this is much more likely in this country than the reverse.
00:37:39.000These kinds of crimes are much more likely.
00:37:41.900Another very similar story just happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
00:37:44.840According to Fox News, a black man has been charged.
00:37:47.120Interesting that Fox News capitalizes black has been charged with fatally shooting two white strangers in the back of the head in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as part of what authorities are calling a racially motivated hate crime.
00:37:56.880Carlton Guilford allegedly shot and killed two men to whom he did not have any connection on April 18th, according to the Tulsa Police Department.
00:38:05.060Police said Gifford, who, according to jail records, is homeless, went inside the Rudisill library around 940, walked up to a man sitting behind a desk, shot him in the back of the head.
00:38:15.940After the library shooting, Guilford went to a nearby Quick Trip convenience store and shot 55-year-old James McDaniel in the back of the head.
00:38:23.720And so execution style killed both of these men and said, according to Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler, the evidence suggests Guilford, who is black, shot both men because they were white.
00:38:42.380So apparently he's being charged with a hate crime.
00:38:44.120I've mixed feelings about hate crimes because every murder is motivated by hate.
00:38:50.560Although I understand that it carries with it maybe different kinds of consequences.
00:38:54.980But again, I mean, these are just two stories that have happened in the past few weeks.
00:39:00.060If there was a story where the races are reversed, we would have heard about it.
00:39:05.280Again, if white supremacy were the greatest terroristic threat, the greatest violent threat to this country, we would all know about it.
00:39:14.660We would all be able to give detailed examples every week of these kinds of threats happening.
00:39:20.840So I'm not saying that we should think any differently about people based on their skin color inherently, that they have a higher propensity towards violence innately.
00:39:36.800I think in order to be truthful people, in order to be impartial people, in order to be just people, we have to be able to see past the narratives and see things as they really are.
00:39:48.160Because it allows Democrats to get power.
00:39:50.380Yes, he's saying this because he's at a black college.
00:39:52.660It encourages more people to vote for him.
00:39:54.700If you can say we're defeating white supremacy over here on the Democrat Party and you vote for us, they'll get more power to do the things that they actually want to do,
00:40:03.480which have nothing really to do with helping black people.
00:40:07.640And it just creates the chaos and the animus that I think a lot of people in charge really like.
00:40:12.780Because the more anarchy and hate you create, the more I think you rely on a big power to come in and save the day.
00:40:19.280And that's what those who want to dramatically grow the power of the government desire to do.
00:40:33.480Okay, this is a crazy, crazy story that I've been meaning to talk about.
00:40:40.100I first saw it at the beginning of May, so it's a couple weeks late, but I bet a lot of you haven't seen it.
00:40:44.120Of course, it's not going to be on CNN.
00:40:45.900It's not going to be reposted by your favorite social justice influencers.
00:40:50.360So you got to rely on me to talk about it.
00:40:53.040In 2020, this is according to Reason Magazine,
00:40:55.780Morgan Bettinger, a UVA student, was accused on social media and on news outlets of telling protesters
00:41:00.080they would make good effing speed bumps.
00:41:03.160It was more than a year before investigations cleared her.
00:41:05.700The allegations first attracted attention after Zianna Bryant,
00:41:09.380a 19-year-old UVA student and social justice activist,
00:41:12.060made them on Twitter during the Black Women Matter demonstration.