Ep 908 ｜ Calling Out Cru’s LGBTQ Compromise
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Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, a queer theorist turned Christian, spoke at Liberty University last week and called out organizations and ministries that she believes are compromising on the LGBTQ issue. She has some sharp words that you may not know about LGBTQ. And also, something that you don t know about, is that it can be a way to try to get out of a ticket if you are pulled over by a police officer. So we re going to see an example of that later in today s episode.
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Dr. Rosaria Butterfield, queer theorist turned Christian, spoke at Liberty University last week and called out organizations and ministries that she believes are compromising on the LGBTQ issue.
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She has some really, really sharp words that I want you to hear.
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And also something that you may not know about LGBTQ is that it can be a way to try to get out of a ticket if you are pulled over by a police officer.
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Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Halfway through the week. Hope you guys are having a great one.
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All right. We've got so much to get through today. I'll try to be as concise as possible.
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Okay. Before we get into what I just told you we're about to talk about, let me just tell y'all something that happened to me this week.
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Totally underestimated how much people would take interest in this story that I shared on Instagram yesterday.
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I don't know. Maybe this is just a story to make you feel better about yourself or for those of you who are still dealing with the effects of pregnancy brain, mom brain, newborn brain, all that stuff that I clearly am.
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Maybe you will listen to this and be like, oh, I haven't done something that dumb yet.
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And you'll feel better about yourself. That's what I'm here for.
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Okay. So we are renovating some parts of our house. This has been a long time coming.
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And just as an aside, I've never done anything like this before.
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And I am very reticent to make decisions about like new floors or new countertops or anything like that, because it's a really big, it's a big thing.
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It's a big thing to decide on. And obviously it's an investment that you're making.
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And I'm so scared that I'm going to pick the wrong thing.
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I know what I like, but actually going out there and picking something and not knowing exactly what it's going to look like.
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The decision-making process has taken me months.
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It's not something that necessarily comes naturally to me.
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So I'm soliciting the opinions of people who are more design-minded than I am.
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So that's how I've approached every step of this process, including the rug buying process.
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I am someone who has a million tabs open on my browser at all times,
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because I'm afraid if I exit out of a browser before I've actually completed the task or bought the thing or read the article,
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Now, very often it just like my interest expires on that thing.
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And there was no point for me having, there was no point to me having it open for four months,
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So Ruggable, I'm very, they're getting free advertising right now.
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No idea if they align with our values, but they have a rug system.
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They call it a rug system where you have like the rug itself, I guess, or the, I don't know, some kind of pad.
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Now, a washable rug is very, very interesting to me as a mom of toddlers,
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Rugs are very expensive, especially any kind of quality rug is very expensive.
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And then they can be very difficult to clean depending on the kind of rug that you get.
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And if you've got toddlers, it's just inevitable things are going to happen.
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Even if you try to silo them off in the kitchen when they're eating, things just happen to rugs,
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especially the particular rug that I was looking for, which was a runner in the entryway of my house.
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So I went back and forth on these Ruggable rugs, deciding which color I wanted.
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And so I wanted to pick a color that would go with the floor, but I just wasn't exactly sure what would look good.
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So I was going back and forth between all these different rugs and I finally narrowed it down.
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I finally narrowed it down to the rug that I was like, okay, it's a neutral tone, but it's got a little bit of gray in it.
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It had like this rope pattern on it that I was like, okay, that's nice.
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I think it'll probably look good, but I can always send it back if I, if I don't like it.
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I had it in my cart and I was still waiting and I deliberated.
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I did compare contrast and I settled on, on this runner, on this particular runner.
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If you're watching on YouTube, looks fine, right?
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So I ordered it, I ordered it and I was excited to try my Ruggable rug.
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And then yesterday I was sitting on the couch and, um, I got an email and it was like,
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But something in my mind, I, you know, I just glanced at it, but something caught, something
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And I thought that I saw the words toy story on that email.
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So I decided to look a few minutes later because I couldn't stop thinking about that.
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I was like, did I see the words toy story on that email?
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So I went back to the email and I saw that it said your toy story rug has shipped.
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I'm picturing like, okay, Buzz Lightyear and Woody in primary colors on this rug.
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It's just a mistake, but that's not what I ordered.
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But then I looked at it and I was like, well, this is a picture of the rug that I ordered.
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This is like the beige gray rug with the rope design that I ordered.
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But now I'm seeing that in the top left corner of this picture are the words toy story.
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And then I see that the name of the rug is toy story rug.
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And so then I zoom in on it and on the corner of the rug, on one corner of the rug, as you
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And he is the one lassoing the design, Bree's laughing, the rope design.
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And then on the other corner is Jesse also lassoing the rope design.
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So after all this time, after all this deliberation and consideration and careful thought, compare,
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contrast the whole process that I went through to finally bite the bullet on buying this rug,
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Literally, it has Woody and Jesse on the rug lassoing the rope designs that I thought were
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That's going to be what people see when they come into the entryway.
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Um, and so if you ever need any design help, you're looking, um, I don't know, maybe you're
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a Disney adult and you are looking to design your house in a way that gives homage to your
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favorite childhood movies, but you want it to still kind of look cute.
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But actually, I'm not the first person that this has happened to.
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Um, some of you messaged me and this made me laugh out loud.
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You said that you ordered a rug that you really thought was cute and you didn't realize it
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They have these very, like, sophisticated and posh designs.
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So do they do this on purpose so they can go back to their Disney partners and say, look
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And people didn't realize that, okay, you've actually, you just ordered baby Yoda's head.
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Um, you thought that it was a cute bath mat and like a unique, a unique shape.
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Um, but I'm not gonna, I don't think I'm gonna send it back because there's someone on our
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team now who is interested in the rug for their house, for his child.
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They are hoping it's just, it's a baby, but they're hoping to manifest his love for, uh,
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And wives, if you have accidentally bought something that was really silly and your husband
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Um, then you can tell them this story and you can say, see, it's, it's not just me.
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Uh, one of you also messaged me and said that you bought a shirt that, uh, from Victoria's
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Secret that you thought said son and you wore it to target.
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And then it really said sin and your husband was like, why did you buy the shirt?
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I, I have a hard time understanding how that happened, but I cannot judge you at all.
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I'll let you know though, um, if I do end up buying another ruggable rug, uh, how it
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is, because again, washable rug, very, very enticing idea for me.
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Rosaria Butterfield has been on this show before.
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She was a queer theory professor, uh, a couple of decades ago.
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She was living a lesbian lifestyle with her partner and then she became a Christian and
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she shared exactly how that transformation happened when she was on our show a few months
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And she realized after she became a Christian that this part of her life that of course
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she held so dear, which was this lesbian partnership that she was in, that she was being called by
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She realized that there was no congruence between her homosexuality and the Christian life that
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God was calling her to, that scripture was really clear.
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This is something also that Christopher Yuan talks about, that they try really hard.
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There's a part of their spiritual journey where they're trying really hard to reconcile those
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two things that maybe the Bible is wrong or maybe the translation is wrong, or maybe that
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myth that the concept of homosexuality was just added to the Bible in 1946 by these homophobic fascists.
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And maybe it's possible to live in this particular kind of sin and still deny yourself and follow
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But both realize through the power of the Holy Spirit that that's just not possible, that
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all Christians are called to self-denial, that all Christians are called to repentance.
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And a form of that repentance is repenting from sexual sin, which the Bible is abundantly clear
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According to the God who made us, according to the God who is love, according to the God who
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defines all things, who tells us what right is, what wrong is, what true is, what false is,
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he says that the only form of holy sexuality is between one man and one woman or living a
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So there just isn't any, there isn't any gray there.
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And if we love the people around us, if we love our neighbors, if we love especially Christians
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who are still confused about this issue or who are trying to live a Christian life without
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repenting from this, we will tell them the truth in love.
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Like if we believe that God is better than us and more loving than us and wiser than us,
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then we will tell them the truth of God's word when it comes to sexuality.
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Because remember, sexual sin is different than other sin, not that it is stronger than other
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But as scripture tells us, it is a sin against your own body, which is supposed to be as a
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Christian a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit.
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There's really no one who speaks more clearly on this issue than Dr. Butterfield.
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I just love her and I'm very inspired by her faith.
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When she came on a couple months ago, she was talking about an article that she wrote where
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she repented of using quote unquote preferred pronouns or abiding by this idea of pronoun
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Pronoun politeness is a practice that is practiced by some Christians who say that this is a way
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to build a bridge with non-believers who may identify as the opposite sex, who may call
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That maybe if we call the man who thinks he's a woman, she, then they will be more open to
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the gospel and we can build that trust and build a relationship with them and then they
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will come to Christ and then we can worry about the truth later.
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But as Rosaria said in her article of repentance and on this podcast, that you are not going
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to, you don't attract people to the cross of Christ by sinning, by lying, by basically glorifying
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One of those sins is trying to deny the body that God gave you by identifying as the opposite
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So she just wrote a book called Five Lies of the Anti-Christian Age and we actually were
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scheduled to record another podcast right before I went on maternity leave that was going to
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come out while I was gone about this book, but she ended up being sick that day and we
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So I'll just tell you a little bit about it and that kind of leads into why we're talking
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So, um, uh, so she wrote this book Five Lies of the Anti-Christian Age and one of the lies
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Being a spiritual person is kinder than being a biblical person and feminism is good for
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Transgenderism is normal and modesty is an outdated burden that serves male dominance and holds
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Like I would, if anyone has any questions on sexuality and like the holy sexuality, Christian
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sexuality, probably the top two books that I would recommend to you.
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And there are a lot of good ones, um, would be Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy and, uh, this
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book Five Lies of the Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Butterfield.
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So she talked about this book and the lies that she presents in this book, um, at Liberty
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This is a bi-weekly gathering of students for worship and nationally known speakers.
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Most of you probably know that Liberty University is a very large Christian university, um, generally
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So she spoke, um, at the, at the convocation and, um, she said a few things that she also
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One of the things that she says in her book is going back to what we just said about this
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idea that lies can actually bring someone to the foot of the cross.
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She says, as if the Holy, as if the fruit of the Holy Spirit can grow from sin.
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The fruit of the Holy Spirit is not going to grow from sin and lying is a sin.
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And so she just completely refutes this, even while humbly repenting herself of once, uh,
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Um, and then she goes on to, in this speech before Liberty University to quote unquote name
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She wants to name names of organizations that she believes are telling this lie, the lie
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And also this lie that she points out that, um, homosexual desire is not in itself disordered.
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This is something that we hear a lot that the feeling itself or the attraction itself is
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Just the action is sin, that it's okay to feel these things, to be attracted in this
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But she points out what Romans one points out that that is simply not true.
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When Romans one lists homosexuality as a disordered and sinful behavior, that, uh, prohibition is
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actually preceded by the description of homosexual desires is dishonorable.
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So this is Romans one 26 for this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions.
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So the passion itself is dishonorable for their women exchanged natural relations for those
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And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for
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one another men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty
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for their error goes on to say, and since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave
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them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
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They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness.
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And so homosexuality and the passion that is behind homosexuality, um, is dishonorable according
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And this is why I kind of said this as an aside a couple of minutes ago, this idea that
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homosexuality and that word was just added into the Bible in 1946.
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The word homosexuality, of course, is a relatively new word.
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The reason why it was added into translations in the mid 20th century is because there wasn't
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And so they started using it in new translations, but the concept was always forbidden.
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That verse that I just read, that's been in the Bible.
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These have all been parts of the biblical canon that clearly show that holy sexuality according
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to God, that holy marriage according to God is between one man and one woman.
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That idea that in 1946, homophobes completely changed the biblical canon.
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But we do see that the desire itself is dishonorable according to God.
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Now, that does not mean that a Christian who struggles with that, but is walking in repentance
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and is actively surrendering all sinful desires to the Lord, that they can't actually be a Christian.
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Of course, we are all being sanctified by sinful desires of our sinful desires.
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They are dishonorable passions that we are actively, through the power of the Holy Spirit
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and the grace of God, meant to resist and repent of.
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And the hope is of the Christian life that those desires go away and wane entirely.
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And any sexually sinful desire, of course, we should also have the hope that that is,
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that we are completely sanctified of that as well.
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So here is Rosaria Butterfield naming names in her speech saying that these organizations
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attribute to the lie of, or contribute to the lie of pronoun politeness and this idea that
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sexually sinful desires are not actually sinful.
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I have heard all of these lies, and just in the last year, from Christian ministries.
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And this is where I name names, and I'm an English professor, so I call this Citing My Sources.
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Preston Sprinkle's Exiles in Babylon Conference, sponsored by his heretical Center for Faith,
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And I have believed these lies, too, and not only as a Christian, and I have repented publicly
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as a Christian in my book to you in articles, and these people can do the same.
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We don't throw people away, but without repentance, we don't trust them.
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We trust repentant saints, not just people with flashy ministries.
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And I think the reason why she's saying what she's saying, and the reason why she called
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out those organizations, we're going to kind of get into some of those reasons.
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But I do think that Preston Sprinkle would take issue with what Rosaria said here.
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In fact, I know for a fact that he would take issue with Rosaria lumping him in this category.
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I am more than happy to have Preston Sprinkle on.
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I think we probably agree on the vast majority of things that he says, even about sexuality.
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I'd be happy to have him on the podcast to talk about his recent book and to talk about
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Actually, more than that, I would love Rosaria and Preston to have a conversation.
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But the truth is, is that Preston Sprinkle has talked about the importance of pronoun
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politeness, or at least that it's according to your conscience, and that maybe it's a case
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by case basis, but that you can use someone's pronouns that don't correspond with their biological
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Because Rosaria and I agree, and as Rosaria says, she used to not believe this.
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It's always a lie to call a man she, and you are not bringing someone to the foot of the
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cross by sinning and by affirming something that is killing them, that is a delusion, that
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is not just hurting their own body, but is hurting society as a whole, that feeds into
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this delusion, this lie that gender is malleable, that you can switch sexes.
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That's what's cutting off the breasts of healthy young women, that is what is allowing men into
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And so I don't want to acquiesce on that at all.
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I don't want to contribute to that mass delusion at all that is deadly and damaging to the bodies
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and minds and souls and hearts of young people, of children.
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I don't see it as kind at all, even if it is polite.
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But I would be interested, of course, to hearing what Preston has to say about that, so maybe
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Now, Revoice is an organization that claims to be for biblical sexuality.
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They want to kind of bring people who identify as LGBTQ Christians into the fold while calling
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But there are a lot of contradictory things within Revoice.
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They say that they stand for biblical sexuality, but when it comes to identity, I think that
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I think it's very similar to what we said about Andy Stanley last week, that they see LGBTQ
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as who you are, not just a sinful desire that you have or confusion that you have or a part
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of your life and heart that needs to be sanctified by the Holy Spirit, but who you are, this immutable
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And you can see that by some of the posts that they post.
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For example, on their Instagram page, they have honoring LGBTQ plus history.
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Now, tell me if you think that this sounds like a Christian organization that is promoting
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biblical sexuality and believes the Bible's definition of sexuality and believes that sin
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or that homosexuality and transgenderism is wrong and sinful and therefore deadly.
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Tell me if you think that that would describe an organization that says this, which is Revoice.
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In honor of the LGBTQ plus history month, we want to take a moment to pay tribute to the
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incredible individuals who paved the way for our rights and privileges.
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Their courage and resilience will never be forgotten as we ponder the stories of those
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We anticipate the future where the church looks more and more like Jesus in the way that we
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Let us offer a prayer for progress, understanding, and unity.
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They go on to say LGBTQ plus history tells us where we have come from, informs us where we
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are, and sets the stage for where we are going.
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LGBTQ plus accomplishments are often lived on the shoulders of our predecessors.
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Many of us benefit today from rights and privileges fought for by those who come before us.
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Our struggles and challenges do not occur in a vacuum.
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They're informed by the history of pain, turmoil, and rejection between the church and the LGBTQ
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And so it goes on to say that that to me doesn't sound like an organization that believes that
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LGBTQ is a sin and is disordered and should be repented of.
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It sounds like these people believe that this is a core identity and we don't have time to
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go into every facet of revoice, but I promise you if you research them yourself, which I
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welcome you to do, then you will find the same thing.
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My desire is not to take anything out of context or to condemn an organization that shouldn't
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I am for any organization that is promoting healthy and biblical sexuality and repentance
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from sin and of all people, but that doesn't seem to be really what this organization is
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I think a lot of people were probably surprised by that.
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It's an interdenominational missions organization and it's really big.
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So there are probably people within CRU that align with all different kinds of political
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leanings, especially when it comes to these culture war issues, which is really a biblical
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So here's something that they say on their website that I found troubling.
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So this is a resource or just guidance that they have on their website about evangelism.
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It says, in evangelism, should I use someone's chosen or preferred name and pronouns?
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Deciding to use someone's preferred name and pronouns is an issue of conscience.
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We must prayerfully decide before the Lord how we will act in each of these.
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Oh, dear Lord, should I lie to this person and call this man a she so I can feed into this
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delusion that is chopping off the healthy breasts of young women that you purposely and perfectly
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Oh, Lord, should I lie to this person in the hopes that confirming and affirming and then
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celebrating their sin is somehow going to bring them to the foot of the cross?
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That somehow I can disagree with you and make you sound more appealing to the world?
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I mean, that is like asking God to please bless this Cain's to the nourishment of our bodies.
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Like, OK, that's probably it probably just doesn't work like that.
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So CRU staff and volunteers are expected to use pronouns themselves.
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It says that align with their biological sex, using a person's preferred name and pronouns
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Using a person's preferred name and pronouns can be a profound way to demonstrate that you
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recognize them and desire to show them respect.
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This is one helpful way to begin to build trust.
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Why is it disrespectful to say, look, God made you male or female in his image?
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That's what Genesis 127 says, that they weren't just made genderless in his image.
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So part of being made in God's image is the gender that God assigned you at conception.
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So I am not just affirming the person's gender by calling them the pronoun that corresponds
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I am affirming the Imago Dei in them when I am calling them by the pronoun that corresponds
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with the sex that God purposely and providentially gave them, assigned to them before time began.
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So basically what crew is saying is what so many so-called Christian organizations are saying
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here is that we can actually win people over by disagreeing with God, that we'll kind of hide
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That mean guy over there who so rudely and impolitely and disrespectfully said that he made
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We'll put that on the shelf for now and we'll hope that by lying to someone, by deluding
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someone about something so important, their identity, that maybe we can gain enough rapport
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Remember when we had Laura Perry Small on and she tried to transition so-called into a man
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and the thing that brought her back was the truth telling of her parents, her parents and
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their Christian friends who refused to ever call her a man, who refused to ever say he.
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There was temporary distance in their relationship because they wouldn't just unconditionally
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And it was through writing God's word and reading God's word and seeing the truth and
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then weighing that against her parents who were telling her the truth that actually brought
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You will not bring someone to a place of repentance by lying.
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And people think that being polite according to worldly standards is godlier than being godly.
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That's a weak crusade where you're basically acquiescing on one of the biggest and most
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So, Rosario has something to say about all of this.
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This kind of faux compassion that we think is going to lead people to the Lord by just
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Christian compassion for the sinners like the sinner I used to be means walking with
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them through the gritty battle of hating and fighting sin through the power of Christ
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and living for righteousness through his Holy Spirit.
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Christian compassion does not coddle, humanize, or domesticate sin.
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Christian compassion does not believe that man is more merciful than God.
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Christians do not encourage sinners to come out as gay or trans in order to be quote unquote
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This is a mission that leads everybody to hell.
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And if you are a Christian whose indwelling sin is marked by sexual or gender confusion, I
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But be warned, there is a particular way that empathy with people who sin in the same way
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that you do works against your sanctification and their salvation.
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I think the exploitation of empathy has caused a lot of Christians to compromise, a lot of
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Christians to believe just as she said that we are more merciful than God, that we're better
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I think that's what I took away from Andy Stanley's sermon last week.
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You can go back and listen to my commentary on that, that he actually believes that he knows
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a little bit better than the God of the universe on what can actually attract people to the cross
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Here's the good news, and we'll close out this segment, but here's the great news, and
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The good news isn't that people understand you or people can empathize with you or that
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this is the one sin that you can't really be sanctified of, and it's fine.
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Somehow you can find congruence between your sin and the Christian life.
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I have a habit of speaking scripture, of saying scripture without actually saying the
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You'll remember that Andy Stanley, something that he said last week, and something that
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I think that Rosaria is pointing out here, that this is a different kind of temptation
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As Andy Stanley said, he said it is in a category unto itself, LGBTQ, and we talked about some
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scriptures that buck against that, like 1 Corinthians 6, that you were engaged in sexual sin, you
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were greedy, you were thieves, you were all kinds of sinners, such were some of you, but
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you were washed and sanctified by Jesus Christ.
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This is the truth that completely contradicts what Andy Stanley, a very influential Christian
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1 Corinthians 10, 13, no temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man.
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Your feelings, your confusion about your identity and who you are is not special.
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God is faithful and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability.
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But with the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape that you may be able to endure
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something else that Andy Stanley said in the sermon that we commented on last week is that
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some men who call themselves homosexual, homosexual, they may live a chaste life for years or for all
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So they choose to engage in what he called a gay marriage.
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That completely contradicts what God's word says, that he is faithful.
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God is faithful to you and that he will provide the way of escape for you that you may be able
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And there is no temptation that has overtaken you that is not common to man.
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Scripture also says that, and I'm going to make sure that I have this reference right as well.
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For we do not have a high priest, Jesus, who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses,
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but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are yet without sin.
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Your sin, your feelings of sexual confusion aren't special.
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You can resist that sin by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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If Jesus died for that sin, then his Holy Spirit can give you the power to resist that sin.
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If you have been bought with a price, if you are a Christian, you are a new creation.
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You have the ability to live a life of holiness.
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We will always be battling in our mind, in our hearts against the temptations and against
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the struggles and the sinful desires that all of us have.
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And in glory, we will no longer have those temptations anymore.
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But you do have the power to resist those things and to battle against those things.
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Okay, there were a ton of other things I wanted to talk about today.
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I wanted to talk about that story of Mr. Beast, the YouTuber that we've talked about before.
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He built 100 wells in Africa and people are mad about it.
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I also want to make sure that we talk about a couple stories that I've seen floating around
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on Twitter that are never, ever, ever going to get the mainstream attention that they should
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One is an older man being murdered by a gang of thugs.
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We don't know the motivation behind it, but I do know that it's not going to get the
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cries of lament and repentance that would happen if the races were reversed.
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Certainly not by evangelicals who claim to want to seek justice and love mercy.
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They seem to only shine a light on certain kinds of stories that push a certain kind
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And that really bothers me because as Christians, we are called to impartiality, especially when
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I want to end on maybe a little bit of a lighter note.
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It's actually ridiculous, but it's also really sad, this whole story.
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But it kind of goes into what Rosaria was talking about.
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Like this person that we are about to talk about, she needs to be told the truth of the
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gospel and led to repentance because she is absolutely burdened by the lies that she
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So this video was first posted by the Daily Caller on November 2nd.
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So a woman is pulled over, maybe you saw it on Twitter, for going in the wrong direction
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When the officer pulls her over, he smells alcohol.
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He puts her through the standard sobriety test.
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She repeatedly uses her indigenous, non-binary, and mentally ill status to push back against
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the cop who is patient throughout the encounter.
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I think I'm going to stop and start the clip or say like, okay, let's pause or whatever
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Also, I want our mics up while we're playing this and our faces up so you can see our reaction.
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And also, we'll try to, we might have some commentary along, along the way.
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Let's go ahead and check out our girl who is having, I guess, what she considered a fun
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I need to run you through some tests right now.
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But I just want you to know that I also have very bad social anxiety.
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As you know, I'm an indigenous person and there's a bunch of s*** going around.
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I need to know if you have any injuries or anything that would prevent you from doing
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Place it in front of your left in a heel-to-toe touching manner with your arms by your side.
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No, but I just want to tell you that I suffer from really bad anxiety, especially with generational
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I'm going to speak with you right over here, okay?
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Go ahead and place your hands behind your back.
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And obviously that's why she's getting arrested.
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Did you know you're going the wrong direction on the road?
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I think she couldn't decide whether she wanted to be a damsel in distress.
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And the spirit of her indigenous ancestors fighting against the white man.
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I'm going to use that next time I am pulled over or something.
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I am still dealing with that trauma 75 years later.
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Like so her thought was that he should just definitely let me keep driving.
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I hope that you don't think you like got disciplined.
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I don't think I've ever seen a video of a cop that nice to someone.
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Honestly I think that she deserves to be arrested just for the things that she said.
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That honestly I'm not sure that she should get first amendment rights.
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You don't get first amendment rights for saying things like generational trauma.
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Now the thing I believe is that she has mental health issues.
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And apparently she has manifested in her mind physical problems as well.
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He was like do you have any physical reason that you can't walk this line or can't like
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These are the people that are like dictating corporate policy and are pushing public policy
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How did we get a generation of of people like this?
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But it also it made me laugh a little bit like she put all of our favorite sayings into
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I did because I forgot to turn my headlights on once.
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I just feel like and this is what my husband says because he's so I'm from Texas and
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I think that everything should be 60 miles an hour and my husband says that that's not
00:45:59.780
why that's why I'm a bad driver because I'm always going 60 miles an hour whether it's
00:46:04.560
the speed limit is 70 or 45 and he is a good driver.
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We just have competing driving styles but I think 60 miles an hour is a really great speed
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limit and I have a hard time going under that so I've gotten pulled over a lot.
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But I don't I don't give any excuse but now now I've got a whole I've got a whole list
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Like I said so many other things that I wanted to talk about that we will get to tomorrow
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and as always if you've got subjects that you guys want me to react to talk about please
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I don't know if I'm the only one who feels like Thanksgiving has crept up on me.
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I feel like it should be two weeks from now and it's next week.
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That's just wild but I'm super excited about the holidays.
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And so we will have I think two episodes out next week two new episodes out next week Monday
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and Tuesday the no episode on Wednesday and Thursday.
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I'm super excited about the episode that we have coming out on Monday if it's long enough
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it might be two part so it might be Monday Tuesday but super excited about it's about
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colonialism and the real history of Europe and if we're just all these white evil colonizers
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and so I'm super excited about that really interesting conversation.
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So that is our that's our Thanksgiving schedule and we'll talk more about our Christmas schedule
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soon also just a reminder we've got amazing relatable merch make sure that you get some
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merch there will be mugs one day hopefully before Christmas but we have a lot of other
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10% off but get your related gal in your life some merch I'm wearing some right now it's nice
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and stitched in there it's really cute this would be a good Christmas color too.
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Uh don't forget to also see the blind also by my friends um uh the Robertsons this is
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about Phil's testimony and his and uh Miss Kay's early marriage and what that was like
00:48:35.940
very volatile life that they had before Christ but then he came to Christ and obviously has
00:48:40.520
just transformed so much and what Jesus has done in and through him is just amazing so very
00:48:44.980
encouraging very uplifting story just go out and see it go buy it make sure that your friends have
00:48:50.660
seen it too you can go to BlazeTV.com slash the blind buy it for $19.99 BlazeTV.com slash the blind
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BlazeTV.com slash the blind okay and that is it for today we will see you guys back here tomorrow