The NXR Podcast - BONUS - Social Justice vs. Biblical Justice

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00:00:21 of applause, thanking John and A.D. and their wives for flying out here. Super grateful for

00:00:30 both of them, their wives, but especially these men actually being men. We live in trying times.

00:00:39 We have all been so disenchanted and disappointed by pastors, by men, by fathers, by leaders,

00:00:47 and virtually every institution within our society,

00:00:50 and the church, sadly, has not been an exception.

00:00:53 And so we need men.

00:00:55 We need men.

00:00:56 And both John and A.D. have served as faithful examples of that.

00:01:01 You guys are here because you've been blessed by their ministry

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00:04:18 All right, without further ado, let's give a round of applause for Mr. John Harris.

00:04:29 Well, thank you, Joel.

00:04:30 And, man, I feel like I have such a long list of people to thank to put this together.

00:04:34 I'm just amazed at everyone who's come out.

00:04:37 And I actually, I was distracted temporarily.

00:04:40 Who came the farthest again?

00:04:43 Can you raise your hand?

00:04:43 Who won that?

00:04:46 Oh, y'all did.

00:04:50 Did you get your free book?

00:04:52 Go grab that before you leave.

00:04:54 Yeah, grab two books, you know.

00:04:57 Yeah, thank you so much.

00:04:59 And we met first in the restaurant.

00:05:01 So, yeah, that was providential.

00:05:03 I'm so glad that you're here. And technically, actually, A.D. came the farthest to speak from

00:05:09 New Hampshire. That's pretty far. And my wife told me this morning, we came from upstate New York,

00:05:14 it's snowing there right now. So I'm, some people are nodding their heads. Yeah, I'm very grateful

00:05:20 to be here right now. It's much better than being in upstate New York. Well, we're going to talk

00:05:25 today about social justice and the church, Christianity. How do these two religions

00:05:30 conflict. I believe social justice is a religion. Many of you who listen to my podcast, you know I 0.96

00:05:35 make that argument quite a bit. And some of this material will be from the book. For those who

00:05:40 have read the book, this will be somewhat of a review. I wanted to start, though, with Ephesians

00:05:46 chapter 5, if I may, because one of the things I've realized is being more academic and putting

00:05:55 this whole issue through the grid of an academic eye, you can tend to start to think, and I fall

00:06:02 into this, that it's just ideas. There's just ideas and there's people and there's places and

00:06:07 one thing led to another and here we are with George Soros about to take over the world, right?

00:06:11 It was like these little incremental steps and here we are. And there's some truth to that. I

00:06:18 really think it's good to look at things historically, to trace lines, to figure out

00:06:22 Where did these ideas come from? Who are we being influenced by? But there's something that's so

00:06:27 basic that we cannot forget. And Ephesians chapter 5, the entire chapter to me, 5 and 6 actually,

00:06:36 really, to me, simplifies all of this and breaks it down into something very simple.

00:06:42 Ephesians chapter 5 opens with, there's a vice list, and it's the opposite of love. I don't want

00:06:48 the left to take that word, by the way. That belongs to us. God is love, okay? Real love, not

00:06:53 this fake tolerance love of I tweeted something, but I never fed anyone, and that means I love

00:06:58 people. No, like real love, sacrificing oneself for the people in proximity to us that we actually

00:07:03 know. And there's a vice list given of all the things that are not love, sexual morality,

00:07:08 impurity, covetousness, right? And it goes on. And then you get to the end of chapter five,

00:07:14 and there's all these hierarchies that are brought up. Husbands and wives, labor relationships,

00:07:20 right? And you have an order that God has put down running into chapter six, children and parents.

00:07:28 And then we get to, and this is the pivotal moment for me, and I think it's something that

00:07:33 we should all have on the front of our minds as often as possible, and that's

00:07:38 That's verse 10, finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, put on the full

00:07:44 armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle

00:07:50 against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic

00:07:55 spiritual powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the

00:08:01 heavenly places. It's ultimately where the battle is, okay? It's not with Biden, it's not with Putin,

00:08:08 or Zelensky, or any of the figures that we talk about, ultimately, Satan likes to use people,

00:08:13 and he does. They work for him, but they're not ultimately the enemy. The enemy is a spiritual

00:08:17 enemy. And so, everything that I'm about to present to you, which is very important, historical,

00:08:23 philosophical, we need to know those things, but just remember that this is a spiritual battle,

00:08:30 ultimately. And Satan is on one side, and God is on the other side. And the church hangs in the

00:08:36 balance. Now we know ultimately the church, God wins, the church is victorious. We know this.

00:08:42 But right now in our country, there is a great apostasy, a great falling away, and there's few

00:08:47 men willing to stand up and call a spade a spade. And I think there's a variety of reasons. I think

00:08:52 one of it is possibly a lack of understanding. And that's why we're here today is to understand

00:08:57 better. And so that's my task right now is to walk through the history, the philosophy, so we

00:09:02 understand what is it we're dealing with. If we were in Utah, we would want to understand Mormonism

00:09:07 to reach our neighbor, right? If you're a Christian in Utah and you don't understand anything about

00:09:11 Mormonism, you're a sitting duck. If you're in Saudi Arabia and you don't know anything about 0.99

00:09:16 Islam and you think you're going to reach these people, you're fooling yourself. You have to know

00:09:21 something about what they believe. Otherwise, they can use lingo that sounds really similar to what

00:09:26 you mean and you can think, well, we're the same and you're not. It's the difference between heaven

00:09:31 and hell. So we live in a culture saturated with social justice, with this political religion.

00:09:38 So we need to understand what social justice teaches, to be able to refute it, to answer it.

00:09:43 So that's what we're going to do. Let's open in a word of prayer, if we can, before we get started

00:09:47 here. Lord Jesus Christ, you are the maker of heaven and earth. Father, you sent your son,

00:09:56 You sent Jesus to die on behalf of sinners, and we just thank you so much for the sacrifice that you made.

00:10:03 We thank you for the gospel.

00:10:05 Lord, we want to oppose anything that would come against it because we know, Lord, how important it is.

00:10:10 We know where we would be without your grace and mercy, and we want others to know that.

00:10:14 So, Lord, I pray you'd fill our hearts, not just with the knowledge of social justice and what it teaches and why it's wrong,

00:10:20 but with a heart of compassion for the lost, with humility, knowing that we, without your grace, that's where we'd be,

00:10:27 and with a just, make the immaterial world more real than the material world to us today as we go through this.

00:10:34 In Jesus' name, amen.

00:10:37 Well, I'm going to take you through a slideshow, and I know what you're thinking.

00:10:42 There's no projector here, so I'm going to try to be very descriptive with my words as much as I possibly can.

00:10:47 and we're going to start just with the history of social justice and I don't know where Joel went

00:10:53 Joel yeah if you could just like 10 minutes before I'm supposed to stop you could just get my

00:10:57 attention in the back you know that'd be great so I don't lose track when I when I get into history

00:11:01 mode I just I lose focus of everything as I think I think AD and Joel kind of figured that out the

00:11:07 last few days so we're going to start with what social justice is what is it right that's the big

00:11:13 question. We hear this word all the time. It's actually been popular for quite some time.

00:11:19 And I'm going to give you a definition that I think captures its essence. It's pretty technical,

00:11:24 and we're going to come back to it at the end. And the way I think of it, this is a fog,

00:11:29 all right? So if you don't understand right away, that's totally fine. As we put more meat on the

00:11:33 bones, it will be more understandable. Here's my definition. The modern social justice movement

00:11:39 is a repackaged configuration of egalitarian ideas, heavily influenced over the past century

00:11:48 by postmodern and Marxist derivatives. Its purpose is to rectify disparities and advantages between

00:11:55 social groups through reallocation. Oh, thanks, John. We know what social justice is now, right?

00:12:02 That was as clear as mud. Let me read it for you one more time, okay? The modern social justice

00:12:07 movement is a repackaged configuration of egalitarian ideas heavily influenced over the

00:12:12 past century by postmodern and Marxist derivatives. Its purpose is to rectify disparities in advantages

00:12:19 between social groups through reallocation, okay? So definitions are very important in this. And

00:12:26 anytime you're arguing with the left, they love to play language games. These battles are mostly

00:12:31 over the dictionary. So I think it's really important from the start, we need to understand

00:12:35 what social justice is. And to do that, let's take a little walk down memory lane. Now, one of the

00:12:41 things you'll hear is that social justice can be Christian, it can be conservative, because there's

00:12:47 Roman Catholics who use the term. And there is some truth to this. I'm not going to spend a lot

00:12:52 of time on it, but that's not the social justice tradition we're talking about. There was an effort

00:12:59 And this term was used in the 1800s, mid-1800s, to try to preserve the social bonds that existed before the Industrial Revolution.

00:13:08 And social justice was sometimes used to refer to that.

00:13:12 Rerum Novarum was one of the encyclicals that Pope Leon put out, and it talks about this.

00:13:19 Now, that word did not catch on.

00:13:22 It wasn't popular.

00:13:23 People didn't use it.

00:13:25 if you do like a Google Ngram, I don't know if anyone's done that, you can put like a word

00:13:30 into this search bar and it'll show you the books written over the past, you know, whatever time

00:13:34 frame you want to give it, 100 years, when they became popular, when they were in use. Social

00:13:39 justice doesn't even really become a popular word until the turn of the century. And then it becomes

00:13:44 more popular. So we're going to trace it from when it became popular. And that's the tradition that

00:13:50 we stand in when people use it. That goes back to the time during the Fabian Socialism phase,

00:13:57 and the Fabian Socialists are still around, but when it first became popular in Great Britain.

00:14:01 One of the most famous Fabian Socialists, some of you might recognize, is a guy named H.G. Wells.

00:14:06 Wrote a number of fantasy, science fiction novels. I actually like a lot of his stuff,

00:14:10 but he was an atheist. He was a socialist. And Fabian Socialism really taught that we're going

00:14:17 to get there through progression. It's not going to be a revolution. We're going to bring about

00:14:22 the revolution through this march through the institutions over time. And there were some

00:14:26 Christians in the United States that thought, wow, we really like this idea. One of them being

00:14:31 Walter Rauschenbusch. I really like the Fabian socialists and their ideas. Problem is, if I go

00:14:36 back to America and I start talking about Fabian socialism, everyone's going to reject me because

00:14:41 they think socialism means you're immoral, and they think it means that you deny the existence

00:14:45 of God. And I don't want those associations. So instead he called it social justice. And justice

00:14:52 wasn't even really a word that socialists were using that much. In fact, Karl Marx thought

00:14:56 justice? Justice is just a word that the oppressors use. You know, the courts belong to them and they

00:15:02 oppress the people they hate. That's what justice is. It was kind of a religious term. And then it's

00:15:07 used by a number of people, Walter Rauschenbusch probably being the most famous, to refer to

00:15:12 socialism. And they were pretty much the same thing. It was a Christianized socialism.

00:15:17 And there's, in the book, Christianity and Social Justice, the new one I have over there,

00:15:22 I trace a lot of this. And most of them are pastors, seminary professors, people like that

00:15:26 who are using this term during that time. So that's the kind of social justice we're talking

00:15:32 about. Now, what is that? Socialism, right? But at the base level, what is socialism? It's a

00:15:38 redistribution scheme. So another word you could use, if you wanted to be accurate, if you wanted

00:15:43 to be more conceptual and not get tied up with wrangling about the term, you could just call it

00:15:48 redistributive justice. That's what it is. And for that concept, I trace this back to Jean-Jacques

00:15:54 Rousseau, the philosopher of the French Revolution. And there were three things that Rousseau wanted

00:15:59 to achieve. He wanted an egalitarian ideal. Egalitarian is a French word for equal, but it's

00:16:06 not equality before the law, it's the elimination of disparities between people. It's where we're

00:16:11 all flatlined into having the same kind of outcome. We have the same level of income,

00:16:18 the same privilege, the same everything, and that way everything's fair, right? And that's socialism

00:16:22 at the end of the day. That's what they're teaching. Well, Rousseau was kind of a proto-socialist,

00:16:26 a socialist before socialism, and he thought this ought to be achieved. The problem is standing in

00:16:32 the way of achieving this great heaven on earth, this utopia, was social institutions that were

00:16:38 preventing it. The church, right? You have clerics who people call them pastor and honor them, and

00:16:43 they have a hierarchy. They have authority. You had families that are passing down their money

00:16:48 and inheritance, and that's not fair because wealth gets passed down. And there's all these

00:16:52 institutions in society that are preventing the achievement of this utopia. So he proposed the

00:16:59 third element to this is we need to implement a force capable of

00:17:03 executing this utopian dream. We need to crush all of

00:17:07 these institutions that are preventing heaven on earth from happening.

00:17:11 And so, who's going to do that? The government, right?

00:17:15 That's the logical conclusion. You're going to have to have a force capable,

00:17:19 a big bully who's capable of destroying all the little bullies that are out there

00:17:23 and then we'll have equality, right? Now you can see the problem with this already.

00:17:27 If the problem is disparities, you just created the biggest disparity there ever existed in human history.

00:17:32 You have the government up here and then just an atomistic individual kind of naked in the public square

00:17:37 with no voluntary associations or institutions to protect him from this guy.

00:17:43 So I don't know if it occurred to him, like, what if the top dog, what if the government goes tyrannical?

00:17:49 Then what?

00:17:50 So that's kind of the Achilles heel of this.

00:17:53 But that's been the scheme of social justice from the beginning.

00:17:55 And every iteration, I don't care which one you're talking about, the Me Too movement, feminism, the Black Lives Matter, even in some ways the COVID stuff, which I'll get to, every iteration carries this with it.

00:18:09 So fast forward to Karl Marx, socialism and communism.

00:18:12 In 1848, there's a bunch of revolutions across the European continent, and they fail.

00:18:17 But they're all socialist revolutions.

00:18:19 And in that same year, Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.

00:18:24 And he says, you know, the reason there's inequality, it's because of economic factors out there.

00:18:31 You have the bourgeois property and you have the proletariat and they're oppressed.

00:18:37 And so here's what we got to do.

00:18:39 We need to implement some policies that are going to prevent this economic disparity from emerging.

00:18:46 So elimination, abolish, actually, bourgeois property through state control of credit,

00:18:50 transportation and production as well as free public education i don't know if you knew that

00:18:56 free public education is a communist idea we've just kind of accepted it now it's normal it was

00:19:00 not normal for uh the greater part of human history and what i mean by that is a top-down

00:19:05 government controlled curriculum for children now during the same time you have in the united

00:19:12 states a bunch of social reform movements now you know it's not communism but uh you have 0.57

00:19:18 prohibitionism, you have anti-masonry movement, you have abolitionism, you have the woman's

00:19:22 emancipation movement. All this stuff is going on during the revivalistic

00:19:26 times, okay? And we need a perfect society. And

00:19:29 at the time of these failed revolutions in 1848, a bunch

00:19:34 of people from Europe, Germany especially, flocked to the United States.

00:19:38 And they settled, a lot of them settled in the Midwest, they settled

00:19:42 mostly in the North, and some settled down South, but mostly in the

00:19:46 Midwest, and they controlled newspapers. A lot of them became, they worked themselves in the Union

00:19:50 Army, and there was a merging happening. These ideas were being introduced into the greatest

00:19:56 environment that they could be introduced into, and so this is where we get the social gospel

00:20:02 movement that starts right after this. Now, I've already talked a little bit about Fabian socialism.

00:20:08 The social gospel movement is really, is an Americanized version of that, using the term

00:20:12 social justice. After this, though, we have in this development cultural Marxism, all right? So

00:20:19 to review, we have Marxism, we have communism, it's property. There's economic factors that are

00:20:25 causing the disparities that we see, and that's what's causing everything to be unfair. 0.58

00:20:30 And then we have after that these Fabian socialists who are saying, well, yeah, that's true,

00:20:35 but we're not going to get there by a revolution. That failed. Let's just kind of progressively do

00:20:39 it. Then came cultural Marxism. Some of you probably heard this term. And the father of

00:20:44 cultural Marxism is an Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci. And he said that the workers

00:20:50 failed to sufficiently revolt because they were controlled by the property class. And so there

00:20:55 were things in society like libraries, schools, voluntary associations, architecture, street names,

00:21:01 and the church and all these things prevented the oppressed people from realizing that they were

00:21:06 truly oppressed. You know, 4th of July, not in their context, in our context, the 4th of July

00:21:11 parade happens and what's everyone doing? American flags coming by, right? They're holding doors open

00:21:17 for women. They have monuments to people. That's oppressing people, right? We're privileging some 1.00

00:21:23 over others. This is all unfair. And so Antonio Gramsci said what needs to happen is we need to

00:21:30 cease contenting ourselves to operate within the values of the state and start critiquing

00:21:34 the status quo. Build our own hegemony, I mean our own system of hierarchy, our own that's fair,

00:21:43 and then wait for the collapse of the old order. Now from this, the next really rung on this ladder

00:21:50 is the Frankfurt School in Germany. So we're going from Italy to Germany, and they came up with a

00:21:56 term called critical theory. Now you all have heard of critical race theory, right? Critical theory

00:22:02 comes before critical race theory, and they drilled down deeper into society than Antonio

00:22:08 Gramsci did. They were going to find that oppression because it's there. It's somewhere,

00:22:12 it's maybe not seen overtly, but it's down there if we can really find it. It's the advertisements

00:22:20 you see. You really need that car? They're making you think you need that car. You're being oppressed.

00:22:25 And one of the members that I like to mention is a guy named Theodore Adorno. He wrote a book in

00:22:31 1950 called The Authoritarian Personality. Let me give you the short form so you don't

00:22:36 have to read the book. I know none of you really want to read this book, right? You're

00:22:39 a Nazi, okay? There you go. There's the book. And The Authoritarian Personality had a profound 1.00

00:22:45 impact on university research and psychology departments. And he said things like submission

00:22:50 to parental authority, a belief in traditional gender roles, family pride, a fear of homosexuality,

00:22:55 is where homophobia comes from, right? And maybe Freud before that. But a strong devotion

00:22:59 to Christianity, the notion that foreign ideas posed a threat to American institutions,

00:23:03 all that stuff makes you a Nazi. And it gives you a level on the F scale. F means fascist.

00:23:09 So if you really love your parents, you know, kind of a Nazi, maybe not like Hitler level, 0.52

00:23:15 but like there's something there. And is it a wonder that today everyone's called a Nazi,

00:23:20 if they have an idea to the right of Bernie Sanders? No, because this is what university,

00:23:26 This is what our elites have been training in for years.

00:23:29 This has been going on forever.

00:23:30 It didn't just pop out of nowhere.

00:23:33 Now, add to this, to drill down even deeper, radical subjectivity.

00:23:36 And by the way, some people separate these and say, well, there's postmodernism here,

00:23:40 there's Marxism over here.

00:23:41 They're not separated in my mind.

00:23:42 They're the same thing.

00:23:44 Why do you say that, John?

00:23:44 Well, because the postmodern theorists said that.

00:23:47 Jacques Derrida, one of the French postmodernists, said that what he was doing was a certain

00:23:51 kind of Marxism.

00:23:53 Well, what was he doing?

00:23:54 He believed that meaning was not found in what was said,

00:23:57 but rather by what was meant in accordance with the hegemony of language.

00:24:01 Okay, so now there's this hegemony of language.

00:24:03 There's like words that we can say and words we can't say,

00:24:06 and they have oppression values attached to them.

00:24:09 There's no concrete, rooted in reality, objective truth.

00:24:13 There's just competing social groups.

00:24:15 So have you ever used this oppressive term?

00:24:18 I don't know to shock all of you, but have you ever said, like called someone a woman?

00:24:24 You ever said that? Yeah. Or maybe a man. That's another really oppressive term. 0.97

00:24:30 Well, you're imposing your values, right? Because there is no such thing as reality. There's

00:24:34 rootedness, objectivity. There's no woman or man. There's just this subjective categorizations that 0.82

00:24:41 we create in order to oppress other people. So we're going to conform someone to our standard

00:24:46 because, well, they have short hair and they're more muscular and they're taller. And we're going

00:24:50 say that's a man. Well, you're, you know, you're just, you know, you know where this is going

00:24:54 because you live it every day. Well, this is rooted in radical subjectivity, Jacques Derrida.

00:24:58 You can thank him for it next time. Well, if you're going to heaven, you'll never be able to

00:25:03 probably thank him, but I hold him responsible. Another guy is Michel Foucault, and he's,

00:25:11 he deconstructed knowledge by making it dependent on power. So he said, basically, everything's a

00:25:16 power play. And so think about it this way. This is the best way I can articulate it. If right now,

00:25:22 outside this door, let's say there was a car accident and it was a police chase and a criminal

00:25:28 gets out of the car and he's got the money bag and he's running in here for cover and the police

00:25:32 officer shoots the criminal before he gets in here. And there's eyewitnesses and they all have

00:25:37 a story to tell about this. Well, Foucault would teach us that the way that this story is told,

00:25:42 the things that are emphasized, this is all designed for a power play to take place. We're

00:25:49 supposed to have a bias towards either the criminal or the cop. And of course, I'm bringing

00:25:53 out a bias by saying criminal, right? So the way that the story is told is very important. There's

00:25:58 really no truth. There's just narratives out there that support either, in this case, the police or

00:26:03 the criminal. And Foucault deconstructed all of knowledge this way. The things you know,

00:26:09 it's not because they're objectively rooted anywhere. It's because it's a story you've

00:26:14 been told to support some kind of a power structure. Now this brings us to Derrick Bell

00:26:20 and critical race theory. Derrick Bell was a law professor at Harvard and one of the founders of

00:26:25 critical race theory and he believed that progress in American race relations was largely a mirage

00:26:30 obscuring the fact that whites continue consciously or unconsciously to do all in

00:26:35 their power to ensure their dominion and maintain control. So that whole ending slavery, the whole 0.84

00:26:42 civil right, meaningless. It's still, there's still this systemic racism out there that is

00:26:47 oppressing people. And the only way really to solve this problem is to look through the lens

00:26:54 of minority experience, to gain a solution. And society has to address this. So there's a number

00:27:02 of elements to critical race theory. I break it down into two, for simplicity's sake, because

00:27:07 there's like seven elements here. But number one is the Marxism. So you have oppressor, oppressed,

00:27:13 these sides kind of pivoted against each other. And then you have kind of the postmodern, which

00:27:18 is a deeper kind of Marxism, but there's subjective truth, that you need a certain kind of lens from

00:27:24 my minority experience to even approach solving this problem. And so this became, this evolved

00:27:32 or was built upon by his student, Kimberly Crenshaw, and she came up with the term

00:27:36 intersectionality. So critical race theory, critiquing society, it's all racist, it's all bad,

00:27:41 racism is normative, we've got to change our history books and vilify a certain group of

00:27:46 people, right? Then you have intersectionality, and this is not about ripping things down,

00:27:50 This is about building things. We're going to build the great new society based on this principle.

00:27:55 There are people out there who are more oppressed than others, and some have multiple identities of oppression.

00:28:01 If you're a woman and you're gluten-free, that's two levels of oppression.

00:28:05 No, she didn't say that. My brothers are celiac, by the way, so I can say that joke.

00:28:10 If you, though, are homosexual and you're also some other identity that's oppressed, you're an immigrant, 1.00

00:28:16 like you understand oppression in a unique way so the goal should be find the most oppressed people 0.88

00:28:22 and then we take our cues from them because they know more they've experienced oppression

00:28:26 and you can see what this does there's a race to the bottom now everyone's oppressed right like

00:28:32 everyone wants to be oppressed if they're not oppressed they start making up stuff about

00:28:35 themselves being oppressed so they can impress you with how oppressed they are uh and and it you

00:28:40 know the quality of everything goes down i mean we're reaping the consequences of this but the

00:28:45 Yeah, the bottom line is, you know, this is going to undo the wrongs that society has imposed.

00:28:52 Now, what's the end goal of all of this? 0.89

00:28:54 The end goal is this, and this is my thesis, is to destroy Christianity, okay? 0.98

00:28:59 And I know some conservative commentators say, that's just against white people. 0.99

00:29:03 Oh, they just don't like men. 0.87

00:29:05 They just don't like America.

00:29:06 They don't, yeah, okay, I see all that.

00:29:09 But ultimately, if you wanted to, you know, look at it, think of it like as a circle with interlaying like levels of circles.

00:29:16 Yeah, of course, there's all these things.

00:29:18 But where's the trajectory?

00:29:19 Where are they headed? 1.00

00:29:19 They're headed to Christianity. 1.00

00:29:21 That is the ultimate goal of this whole thing. 0.98

00:29:24 And I have a number of quotes.

00:29:25 I can't read them all to you.

00:29:26 Let me read you a few, though. 0.84

00:29:27 Karl Marx, the social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling in a press class, meaning they believe in a hierarchy. 0.83

00:29:34 The proletariat, though, is revolutionary. 0.74

00:29:36 How about Antonio Gramsci? He wanted socialism to kill Christianity. His words, not mine.

00:29:44 Foucault desired to liberate people from political rationality, which he thought stood on the idea

00:29:49 of Christian pastoral power, and I can go on. Now, that's part one, destroy Christianity. Part two,

00:29:56 replace Christianity. How are you going to do that? Well, Rousseau believed Christian law was harmful 0.99

00:30:01 to the constitution of the state. 0.99

00:30:03 So instead, he imagined a religion

00:30:04 that would one day make a revolution among men.

00:30:08 Rather than biblical revelation,

00:30:10 he based his new faith on the innate principle

00:30:12 of justice and virtue.

00:30:14 People are good.

00:30:15 We can come together.

00:30:16 We can have our own religion.

00:30:19 H.G. Wells was actually, his word, not mine,

00:30:21 he said the New World Order would,

00:30:24 he compared it to a religion. 0.79

00:30:26 That's what it's going to be.

00:30:28 Herbert Marcuse, one of the Frankfurt School members,

00:30:31 He believed that religion inspired guilt in the present life.

00:30:34 It postponed human fulfillment to the afterlife and reinforced the evil status quo.

00:30:40 Yet he also held out hope that religion could be beneficial in transforming society if it

00:30:45 became a heretical expression of a political attitude.

00:30:48 In other words, maybe if we can subvert Christianity and kind of rearrange some things, then it 0.90

00:30:54 might be helpful.

00:30:56 Derek Bell, father of critical race theory, thought fundamentalist Christians divert

00:31:01 political protest and reaffirmed the conservative values on which the white middle class's traditional

00:31:06 illusions of superiority are grounded. Nevertheless, he also saw how a new interpretation of Christianity

00:31:12 could lead to enlightenment instead of pacification. We need to reimagine Christianity. We need to

00:31:20 reinterpret Christianity. We need to change Christianity. And the whole intent is to replace 1.00

00:31:25 Christianity. Don't buy it. That's what we're living in right now. People who studied this, 0.88

00:31:32 who knew the writings of these utopianists, weren't surprised by what just happened and what

00:31:38 they're seeing in the church. This has happened before in other ways. Liberation theology

00:31:44 being probably one of the most recent examples. So that brings us to our context. And I can't

00:31:53 show you the pictures, but you can probably imagine some of them from 2020. Riots in the

00:31:59 streets, civil religion on full display, white people bowing down to BLM protesters. Michael 0.51

00:32:07 Tracy, a reporter, said, I'm telling you, every protest I've been to so far perfectly mirrors an

00:32:12 outdoor evangelical Christian worship service. It's not a Christian observation. That is someone

00:32:17 from the world. Why did he say that? Well, it's because we have a new religion in front of us.

00:32:23 salvation right in christianity it's original sin that's the bad news there's a divine law

00:32:29 we've broken it and there's going to be some judgment the good news is we can be born again

00:32:34 there's um there's also i i put in the sacraments but you use a different word for that um ordinances

00:32:40 there's things that christians should do when they're saved and then there's a heaven in the 0.57

00:32:46 hereafter where we'll be with god well in social justice it's whiteness it's maleness it's

00:32:51 heterosexuality. These are original sin. These are the replacements for that. Political correctness 0.89

00:32:58 replaces the divine law. Judgment is getting canceled because there's no afterlife. You got

00:33:01 to have it now. The good news is you can become woke, which is like being born again. You can do

00:33:08 progressive political things. Those are your sacraments. And then you can have social equity,

00:33:14 inclusion and diversity and they have their own deity and it's not a personal deity just like in

00:33:22 some religions like some eastern religions there's no personal deity but they believe that social

00:33:27 conflict theory is the hand of providence you didn't build that someone else did that for you

00:33:33 wasn't hard work it was because of the forces of history conflict theory through the years brought

00:33:39 you to this point and benefited you because you have white privilege or something along those

00:33:42 lines. Instead of the love of Christianity, we have a revolution, and they call it love. It's not.

00:33:50 The collective state becomes justice. We have the canon of woke books instead of the Bible,

00:33:56 and oppressed perspectives are inspired, and you may not question them. They're inherent.

00:34:04 They are infallible, inhumanly good. We have social studies programs instead of seminary,

00:34:10 And, of course, they have their own hierarchy, even though they're against hierarchy.

00:34:14 The critical theorists, the media, the community organizers.

00:34:18 They participate in activism and implicit bias training and decolonization.

00:34:22 This is evangelism. This is discipleship.

00:34:26 Instead of the world of flesh and the devil, it's systemic racism, white privilege, and white supremacists lurking around every corner.

00:34:31 and the hope is if there is a hope is that intersectionality is going to be applied by

00:34:38 the social justice warriors with the inspiration of our saints the victims of police shootings and

00:34:43 we'll get there one day to equality and it's a pipe dream it only produces less equality

00:34:50 it produces more pain because this isn't how humans are actually wired and the covid religion

00:34:57 actually really parallels this in fact they're very similar salvation is vaccination the sacraments

00:35:03 are masks social distancing lockdowns and booster shots proselytizing is public service announcements

00:35:09 and social media virtue signals membership in the club in the religion is your vaccine card

00:35:14 the heathens are the unvaccinated the heretics are the anti-vax conspiracy theorists

00:35:19 the high any conspiracy theorists here there's a few okay wow okay

00:35:24 okay the high priests are anthony fauci and the government health officials

00:35:30 god is government and the savior is science you don't you think this is political how about all 0.71

00:35:37 the pastors who said this is just a political thing i'm staying out of it what foolishness

00:35:42 can they not see what's right in front of them

00:35:44 so we know people and i'm sure you do too that got woke checked their privilege and then started

00:35:52 to shame others. That's the progression, right? They get woke, and you've got to check everyone's

00:35:56 privilege, become the policeman, and we just got to shame people when we figure out they're part

00:36:00 of the problem. And this saddens me. There's real people that are caught up in this, and compassion

00:36:05 should make us strive to, as we would with a Mormon or a Jehovah's Witness, to help them see 0.94

00:36:12 the error of their ways. And this is not going to provide satisfaction. You're just going to get 1.00

00:36:15 angrier. I don't know if you've seen that with your friends or your family members who've gone

00:36:20 this direction is exactly what I've seen. They're never satisfied because there is no utopia here

00:36:24 on earth. We're never going to breach a state of equality in that sense. So to review the

00:36:30 social justice, what is it? It's a modern, the modern movement is a repackaged configuration

00:36:35 of egalitarian ideas heavily influenced over the past century by postmodern and Marxist

00:36:41 derivatives. And its purpose is to rectify disparities and advantages between social groups

00:36:46 through reallocation. Goals are achieving an egalitarian idea, dismantling the social

00:36:51 institutions that prevent its achievement, and implementing a force capable of executing

00:36:56 the utopian dream. So that's the history. That brings us to today. Now, I think I probably had

00:37:02 like maybe 10 minutes or five, I don't even know. I don't have much time, but I want to bring you

00:37:06 through briefly the philosophy, real quick. That's what it is, and we've gone through some of that.

00:37:11 what does it teach? Let's talk about, let's drive down deeper into what is it actually saying? What

00:37:17 are people actually buying into? What are they assuming when they go into this religion? And I

00:37:23 want to break this down really into four sections here briefly. We're going to talk about metaphysics,

00:37:29 epistemology, and value theory. Sorry, I say metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, value theory,

00:37:37 and then also just the gospel.

00:37:39 I want to talk about their scheme of how do you get saved and all of that.

00:37:43 So Christianity has attempted to merge with this,

00:37:48 and the clearest way to see it is to compare what Christians believe about these things

00:37:52 and what social justice warriors teach.

00:37:55 So metaphysics, that's the first category.

00:37:57 Metaphysics is a philosophical study that concerns what is reality.

00:38:02 What stuff exists in the universe?

00:38:04 What's the universe composed of?

00:38:05 What's it made of?

00:38:07 Now, I'm not recommending this movie, okay? Don't tell anyone I recommended this movie. But if you happen to have seen this movie in your BC days for some, right? The Matrix. Have anyone seen The Matrix? Okay. Everything's broken down into a computer. It's ones and zeros. That's reality. And you were deceived, right? Into thinking there's real tangible things out there. Like I'm in reality, but actually I'm not. I'm asleep and it's all one big giant computer.

00:38:35 It's just a bunch of ones and zeros out there, right?

00:38:38 That's the matrix.

00:38:40 Social justice is like that, okay?

00:38:43 It flattens reality down into ones and zeros.

00:38:46 Everything has an oppression value.

00:38:50 So it doesn't matter if it's the McDonald's menu.

00:38:54 You're going to find some racism on it or sexism or something.

00:38:58 It's not like you walk in and you're like, is there racism here?

00:39:03 It's like, where's the racism?

00:39:04 We know it's here.

00:39:05 you're hiding it. Now, have anyone ever seen this show, CSI? Don't raise your hand. CSI,

00:39:11 Crime Scene Investigation, all right? My parents used to love watching this show,

00:39:15 and you know the murder happens, and the guys walk in with the lights that show the blood,

00:39:20 and they're like, oh, that's where it happened. I can see, you know, here's the blood and everything.

00:39:24 Well, social justice warriors, they have this like defective light that they walk in,

00:39:28 they're like, it's blood everywhere. Everything's blood. So that's kind of the way to view social

00:39:33 justice metaphysics. What's reality composed of? Well, it's oppression. And it's everywhere.

00:39:38 And if you don't see it, you just need the right glasses so you can see it.

00:39:42 And you can see the dangers of this right away. It destroys social trust by presuming guilt on

00:39:47 any human activity, not advancing egalitarianism. Like, if you're not with the revolution,

00:39:52 there's only one other option. You're with the oppressors, right? It doesn't matter who you are,

00:39:57 what your experiences were. It also requires immediacy. This is an emergency. We got to act

00:40:02 now how many of the things over the last few years it's like don't think about it don't research it

00:40:07 act now right so it's this horrible evil it's this big boogeyman that we didn't even see and

00:40:13 all of a sudden we can see it's going to destroy us it reorientates the purpose of life towards

00:40:18 political activism as well so everything just becomes political there pastors who say like i'm

00:40:24 just going to sidestep politics i'm a pastor you know i can be neutral on that well this is a

00:40:30 political religion and they see you as political and if you don't see them as political you're the

00:40:34 one at the disadvantage so what are how do we respond to this what are some some things well

00:40:41 one of them is this um social justice warriors ideologues they do not apply their own standards

00:40:53 to themselves. Have you ever noticed that? If everything is oppression, what about the idea

00:41:00 that everything is oppression? Could that be oppression too? What about all the efforts to

00:41:06 bring about this egalitarian utopia? Could that also be part of oppression? How do we know that

00:41:11 we haven't been duped into thinking everything is about oppression and that itself is oppression

00:41:16 somehow? Someone's behind that. It's like Wizard of Oz. There's someone behind that curtain too.

00:41:22 So it's kind of self-refuting.

00:41:24 That's one of the problems with it.

00:41:28 It also has limitations.

00:41:30 It is impossible to impose these egalitarian abstractions

00:41:33 beyond the limits of rationality and of reality.

00:41:38 So, you know, really, this little girl with a doll that's oppression,

00:41:41 like, you know, you're going to find an oppression value here, right?

00:41:44 There's certain things that we just intuitively were like,

00:41:47 well, that's not a threat.

00:41:48 That can't be oppression.

00:41:49 there's we know it but we have to buy into this ideology to put these glasses on to just subvert

00:41:56 what we already know attempting to immediately force the destruction of hierarchies representing

00:42:02 barriers to this vision often produces unintended consequences the solutions often are the cures

00:42:08 are worse than the disease oftentimes so that's another problem with this and it fails to take

00:42:13 into account the full spectrum of attributes woven into the created order including the

00:42:17 categories of being people share beyond oppression level we're not just oppressors or oppressed

00:42:22 there's so many other things that we are we're made in the image of god we're accountable to god

00:42:26 we're subject to the law of god we're in need of salvation and if we're saved we're redeemed

00:42:31 a lot more fundamental than whether i'm an oppressor or impressed and that's the glue

00:42:35 that can hold us together this stuff only breaks people apart so it's metaphysics

00:42:42 ideology is fundamentally grounded in an abstract world that doesn't exist it's a figment of

00:42:52 someone's imagination and they're just imposing it upon the real world that we all know exists

00:42:57 but we suppress an unrighteousness it's an attempt to recreate what god has already created

00:43:02 now there's some questions some practical things you can ask people um you can ask basic questions

00:43:11 has proper time and attention been given to comprehending all the available facts things

00:43:15 like that generally unless they're already a little reasonable you're not going to get many

00:43:19 places with that but one of the questions i think that gets to the heart of it could the motives of

00:43:23 social justice activists be connected to a desire to oppress that'll make them really think if not

00:43:29 why not another question what tangible things are social justice activists personally doing to

00:43:34 elevate the condition of suffering people well that's that exposes it right away did you know

00:43:39 actually question um and free book if if and if you already have a free book grab a dvd or

00:43:45 something does anyone know the most the state in this country that gives the most to charity anyone

00:43:51 no one's gotten it yet yeah right what'd you say okay that i'll take that one there's one other

00:44:01 state. It's Utah. You're close. Utah and Mississippi compete every year for who's going to be the

00:44:11 most, who's going to give the most to charity. And how could it be that the poorest state in

00:44:16 the country, Mississippi, with those backward hillbillies are given more to charity than New 1.00

00:44:21 York and California? How is that possible? Do you know political conservatives give more to charity 1.00

00:44:27 than political liberals who say they care about the poor so much?

00:44:31 Isn't that weird?

00:44:33 What are these ideologues doing to actually tangibly help real people?

00:44:36 Or is it just they want to take our money to go do something? 0.92

00:44:39 Well, that's hypocrisy.

00:44:40 So these are the questions you can ask to help people.

00:44:43 And, of course, I have a lot of Bible verses here I don't have time to get to

00:44:47 about charity and about the problems with ideology,

00:44:50 but this is totally against a biblical worldview.

00:44:52 The Bible does not see mankind like this.

00:44:54 the Bible sees a robust vision for human nature. We have so many identities. We have,

00:45:02 and I don't mean the ones we make up, like real ones that we actually know we have, like I'm a

00:45:06 man, right? And there's responsibilities attached to that. I have a culture. There's borders around

00:45:10 me. I have them in my house. I have them in my county. I have them in my state. I have them in

00:45:14 my country. There's things I enjoy doing. I like fishing and stuff, and people that like those

00:45:20 things. I have an identity with them. It's a weak identity, but there is, you know, that's part of

00:45:25 who I am. There's so many things that God has put around us that confer identity, and it's not just

00:45:32 where you sit on a spectrum. So that's metaphysics. I want to talk a little bit about standpoint

00:45:38 epistemology. This is the social justice warrior's epistemological belief. You know, how do we know

00:45:45 truth? That's epistemology. What is truth? How can we come to understand what things are actually

00:45:49 out there. And they believe in standpoint theory or standpoint epistemology. And it's a Marxist

00:45:56 belief imported into feminist critical theory. Marx called it class consciousness. It's developed

00:46:00 since then. The underlying assumption is that different experiences produce different kinds

00:46:05 of knowledge, which in turn produce different understandings of reality. Standpoint theorists

00:46:09 consider oppressed experiences to be superior in understanding because they require knowing the

00:46:15 standards of the group oppressing them as well as their own standards. So I have some cartoon

00:46:21 characters that I can't show you, but I can try to explain to you how this works. Imagine with me

00:46:26 for a minute, you're going to have to be very imaginative here. You have blue world and red

00:46:30 world, okay? And there's boxes around blue world and red world, and no one can get out. There's a

00:46:35 blue man in blue world, there's a red man in red world, and they're stick figures, and they just

00:46:39 cannot transcend the 2D box they're in. So everything looks, to the blue man, it looks blue. 0.59

00:46:45 He thinks blue lives matter. To the red man, it looks red. And they can't see it any other way,

00:46:50 right? Well, how are we going to know who's lying to us if they contradict each other? Blue says

00:46:55 one thing, red says another. Blue says we should fund the police, red says we shouldn't. Well,

00:46:59 how do we know, how do we adjudicate between blue and red? If everything falls into these categories,

00:47:05 then who's going to come and tell us, right? Well, the sociologists will come. And they'll

00:47:10 compare blue and red. And they'll tell us, actually, you need to trust red. Red is the

00:47:16 experience that's right in this. So somehow the sociologist gets a pass. They can transcend,

00:47:22 look at both of these red world and blue world objectively and say, it's red world. Red world's 0.61

00:47:27 the one. Now, they never tell you this. They just assume that everyone should know we should trust 0.98

00:47:32 red, red nose, all right? And so what does the Bible teach about this? And actually, let me say

00:47:39 one more thing before I get to the Bible. So blue needs to put on some red glasses too, okay, to try

00:47:45 to somehow see the world red's way. They'll never get there, but, you know, it's on the hamster wheel

00:47:49 of trying it. So it's really hopeless. The Bible, though, presents a different story on knowing

00:47:57 truth. There's God's view. Not the sociologist. There's just God's view. He has the objective

00:48:02 view, bird's eye view. He sees everything. And blue world and red world don't exist. There's

00:48:07 God's world. And blue man and red man need to put on God's glasses. They need to see their 0.51

00:48:13 experiences through the revelation of God. They need to look at things, and they need to see that

00:48:18 there's natural revelation, there's special revelation, and this should inform how we think

00:48:22 about what's in front of us. And guess what? We can all do it. There's no barrier. Social location

00:48:29 doesn't prevent us from doing it. It's the man of God who is equipped. It's the Bereans who even

00:48:34 checked Paul out. And Paul's like, that was good. You should do that. We can all get there. If

00:48:39 anything, Proverbs would teach, it's those who are wise we should go to. Why are they wise? Because

00:48:44 they're godly. It's not because they have a social location. It took work to get there.

00:48:48 we got it flipped upside down we got it flipped way upside down we should today you don't trust 0.92

00:48:55 the old guys right don't trust anyone who's who's got experience and wisdom trust that oppressed

00:49:01 social location but behind the oppressed social location isn't an oppressed person

00:49:06 it's an elite sociologist telling you what the oppressed person thinks it's they're not going

00:49:12 to the the factory line and asking what bob the the factory worker thinks about things they're

00:49:17 telling you in their theories what Bob, what would be good for Bob. And that's why it drives

00:49:23 them nuts if they lose elections and it's the working class that, you know, outvote them because 0.77

00:49:27 they're like, no, we represent the poor and the lowly and they don't. So we see this everywhere 0.82

00:49:34 in our society. Believe women, right? Why? Because they're women. They're oppressed. We should 0.99

00:49:37 believe them. White people need to listen when people of color talk about racism. Hillary Clinton.

00:49:42 Why? 1.00

00:49:43 Just because they're people of color, that's the only reason? 1.00

00:49:47 How about whether or not there's truth? 1.00

00:49:48 That should be the concern, truth.

00:49:52 How about every time there's a police shooting, right?

00:49:54 Or not a police shooting, sorry, a school shooting.

00:49:57 Who gets on the television?

00:49:58 It's some kid who survived it or parents of the kid.

00:50:01 And they're going to lecture us on gun rights.

00:50:03 Why?

00:50:03 They have no experience in that.

00:50:05 They just survived a shooting.

00:50:06 That doesn't give them the authority to lecture everyone else.

00:50:09 But that's the world we live in now.

00:50:12 The Bible talks a lot about truth, objective truth in particular, right?

00:50:17 John 4 says, God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

00:50:22 John 8, you will know the truth, the truth will set you free.

00:50:24 I could go on and on and on.

00:50:25 I'm the way, the truth, and the life.

00:50:26 Truth is assumed.

00:50:27 Objective truth is assumed in Scripture.

00:50:31 It's something that we can all access.

00:50:33 God has given us a word, and that should be a comforting thought.

00:50:37 You're not morally or intellectually inferior

00:50:41 because you come from some social location.

00:50:43 God's spoken to you.

00:50:44 He's put you here for such a time as this,

00:50:47 and he's given you a word, and he's given you things to do.

00:50:49 And we can know what he wants you to do.

00:50:52 It's in his word.

00:50:54 So responding to this, obviously, biblically,

00:50:57 God's justice is universally accessible.

00:50:59 We have principles.

00:51:00 God's justice is known by the righteous,

00:51:02 not people from a certain social location.

00:51:04 God gave us an objective standard.

00:51:06 his word Christians should have no business going to the world for 0.94

00:51:11 understanding justice questions to ask people why should a person's external 0.67

00:51:17 identity factors or personal experience alone qualify them more than someone

00:51:21 else to speak authoritatively on law justice in history or how about this why

00:51:27 would we assume someone is qualified to write instruction manuals for surgeons

00:51:31 simply because they underwent an operation.

00:51:34 You want the diversified guy who didn't go to school to operate on your brain?

00:51:39 If so, that's fine, but I don't want that.

00:51:41 I want someone who did well in medical school

00:51:43 and who knows what they're doing and has been tested.

00:51:48 And I don't care what they look like, frankly.

00:51:51 All that matters is, are they going to be able to do the job?

00:51:55 So that's standpoint epistemology.

00:51:57 Now, the third philosophical branch here is ethics.

00:52:01 and social justice warriors, as we talked about before, they believe in egalitarianism.

00:52:06 Now, I love this definition of socialism. This is from a former secretary of the Treasury,

00:52:11 Leslie Shaw. He said, socialism is the idea that men must succeed equally regardless of aptitude.

00:52:17 Socialism is the idea that men must succeed equally regardless of aptitude. Okay, you want

00:52:22 to break it all down? That's what they're teaching. Today's march towards equity, diversity, and

00:52:27 inclusion seeks to universally eliminate disparities in influence privilege and resources

00:52:33 between various social groups and the term egalitarianism is often applied to a similar

00:52:38 set of ideas promoted during the french revolution as we just discussed and they they called it at

00:52:43 that time liberty equality fraternity same idea is just getting repackaged okay and so the goal

00:52:50 is not equality before the law where lady justice is blind and anyone walking through that courtroom

00:52:55 is going to have applied to them the just standard. 1.00

00:52:59 Instead, Lady Justice takes off the blindfold and says, wait, okay, that's a woman over 1.00

00:53:04 there, so we're going to have to treat that person differently than the man we just sentenced 1.00

00:53:08 for the same exact crime.

00:53:10 Lower the sentence, right?

00:53:11 That would be true justice in the egalitarian sense. 1.00

00:53:15 So Lady Justice is blind, Lady Justice takes the blindfold off. 0.99

00:53:18 That's the difference. 0.95

00:53:20 And just about every social move in our society right now is towards egalitarianism.

00:53:27 Positive rights, which would be like, you have the right to free health care, you have the right to living wage.

00:53:31 Preferred pronouns, hate speech laws, being a global citizen, defunding law enforcement, reparations, replacing historical monuments, the list goes on and on and on.

00:53:41 These are all about forwarding egalitarianism.

00:53:43 That's all they are.

00:53:44 That's what it's rooted in.

00:53:45 now as Christians we know justice is the faithful application of God's law irrespective of who a

00:53:52 person is biblical justice is retributive meaning criminals are punished for their actual crime

00:53:57 today's social justice is redistributive meaning it seeks to reallocate in order to create more

00:54:03 equitable outcomes in society so the go-to section for Christians on this is Exodus 23 in my mind

00:54:09 where God lays down his justice and and he talks about the different groups that we should not be

00:54:15 influenced by. If it's your family and they're like, hey, you know, give a break to so-and-so,

00:54:19 it's a relative, don't listen to them. If it's the alien and the sojourner, if it's a stranger

00:54:25 and they don't have the way of navigating the culture because they just, they're new and they

00:54:31 don't have the widow maybe who doesn't have a husband protecting her, these kinds of things,

00:54:36 the orphan doesn't have parents, don't take advantage of those people, right? Treat them

00:54:39 equally, equal before the law. It also says though in verse 3 of Exodus 23, you shall not be partial

00:54:45 to a poor man in a dispute. Just because they give you a story and they're poor and they're

00:54:50 oppressed, don't be partial to that. Don't let that sway you emotionally. You need to apply justice

00:54:56 faithfully. Giving a man his due. Questions to ask. Is God's law just? It's not egalitarian.

00:55:07 Does diversity, equity, and inclusion exist as part of the state of nature or the state of grace?

00:55:11 Now, this is more maybe heady, but, you know, where do those things actually exist, if they exist anywhere?

00:55:19 You often hear every tribe, tongue, nation, right?

00:55:21 Well, that's a heavenly reality, right?

00:55:23 And we have a preview of that in the church, but we live in the real world.

00:55:27 There's real hierarchies.

00:55:28 There's real things that exist here and relationships we have that are going to change when we enter the eternal state.

00:55:34 And that's fine.

00:55:35 God made it that way.

00:55:36 on what basis are humans entitled to social privileges now this is actually an interesting

00:55:41 question for instance what makes an american an american and able to access all of the privileges

00:55:48 that come with that is it they just live here well a lot of people live here they moved here

00:55:53 from other places they they land here you know from from england or somewhere you know does that

00:55:57 make you an american uh does it make you an american uh because you happen to like baseball

00:56:03 on apple pie? I mean, what is it that makes you an American, right? That's actually a harder

00:56:08 question than I think. So we have in our country a process of citizenship where you have to actually

00:56:13 share in American values. You have to know something about this country. You have to value

00:56:17 its history. You have to defend the liberties for which it stands. You have to take some ownership

00:56:22 of the country that you're coming into, knowing that men have bled and died. Women have sacrificed 1.00

00:56:26 for centuries to bring us to the point we are now and all the blessings we enjoy. It doesn't just 0.99

00:56:31 belong to everyone. It's not for the whole world. And that's the distinction of nations and

00:56:38 countries. Are there certain hierarchies that should not be deconstructed? Do they produce

00:56:44 disparate social outcomes? So like, all right, if it's a Christian, you know, deconstruct the 1.00

00:56:48 nation. Well, what about the family? It's just like, you know, the nation's kind of an extension 1.00

00:56:52 of the family. Do we just get rid of the family too? Like, where does this train end? Because

00:56:57 This is a slippery slope we're on, a real one.

00:57:01 So the last section of this that I want to end with,

00:57:05 the difference between Christianity and social justice,

00:57:07 is on the, and I wish I had more time,

00:57:10 but let me just briefly give it to you.

00:57:11 It's on redemption.

00:57:13 It's on the different gospel that social justice promotes.

00:57:16 For secular social justice activists,

00:57:18 human participation in achieving egalitarian equality is good news.

00:57:22 It means the world will eventually overcome inequalities

00:57:24 through corporate human action and enter a utopian state.

00:57:28 And social justice activists within Christianity often merge the gospel's message of salvation

00:57:32 by grace through faith with a law derived from the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.

00:57:37 And such fusion merges elements of law with gospel.

00:57:42 And this is one thing Paul said we can't do.

00:57:44 That's Galatians. 0.89

00:57:46 So, J. Gresham Machen, by the way, just I want to tip a hat to him because he actually pointed this out.

00:57:52 He said, look, this is what's happening 100 years ago.

00:57:54 same thing's happening again in a repackaged form and and we can we can see this all over the place

00:57:59 Desmond Tutu right just died here recently he believed that Christian the Christian message

00:58:05 was that God relied on us to help make this world all that God has dreamed of it being which meant

00:58:09 a diverse equal and inclusive place MLK Jr. believed just as the apostle Paul left his

00:58:15 little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet

00:58:18 in the Greco-Roman world I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom and he called

00:58:23 his march in selma the third great awakening this is a gospel move even with people who don't

00:58:29 believe the gospel right that's the crazy part of this i could go on and on in evangelical circles

00:58:35 richard mau ron sider john perkins they said some of the same things they're the kind of the

00:58:39 grandparents of the movement we have now but today who do we have paul david tripp he says i was

00:58:44 guilty of believing a truncated and incomplete gospel in 2018 which left out the gospel of god's

00:58:49 justice. Russell Moore preached the gospel through activism, and he said that the civil

00:58:57 rights movement failed to be a gospel people during the civil rights movement, Christians,

00:59:03 because of our silence in the face of systemic sin, and we could learn from MLK. He was doing 0.64

00:59:08 it right. Anthony Bradley believes evangelicals have never had the gospel because of their failure 1.00

00:59:15 to believe in black equality, apparently. Eric Mason, I don't know if any of you have read Woke

00:59:22 Church. What a dog's breakfast. I mean, this book is just a mess. And I can't believe, I'm just going

00:59:28 to call him out. Lincoln Duncan wrote the foreword to that, and he ought to know better. And if you

00:59:32 look at some of the things Lincoln Duncan said years ago, he would never have said what he said

00:59:36 in the complimentary fashion he said to Eric Mason's book. But Eric Mason thinks that Epiphany

00:59:41 fellowship, his church, can learn about how to apply the gospel from who? From Rwanda's, 0.99

00:59:47 and I'm probably going to botch this, but Gassana court. From South Africa's racial 0.86

00:59:52 reconciliation committee. Germany's denazification programs. These are examples of promoting the 0.51

00:59:58 gospel in society. Really? Because they're not even Christians. Where do we come up with this

01:00:04 stuff? This is not the gospel of grace. Through Jesus Christ. Salvation by grace. So what is the

01:00:10 gospel. It's really important, right? The gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone

01:00:17 who believes. That's the gospel. Nevertheless, Galatians 2.16, knowing that a man is not justified

01:00:25 by the works of the law, but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ

01:00:29 Jesus so that we may be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, since by

01:00:34 the works of the law, no flesh will be justified. There's the gospel issue, gospel above all,

01:00:41 it's gospel-centered this and that, and you're never talking about the gospel, but somehow the

01:00:45 gospel is attached to it. This is the gospel. It's salvation through Christ. That's what it is. It's

01:00:53 God's work, not our work. So you can't, as a Christian, because you fail in some work, that

01:00:58 doesn't mean you're failing the gospel. You don't have half the gospel. No, no, it's Christ's work.

01:01:03 that's the gospel so in closing i just want to say in the book of galatians paul talks about

01:01:10 false brethren the pseudodelphas who came in they subverted the church i think we're seeing the same

01:01:16 thing and they said look you got to have the gospel plus circumcision plus the law and he said

01:01:19 that's heresy that's anathema curse that he said to peter you're giving them cover you're being

01:01:25 confusing and and you need to stop and peter repented and and that's what we need to do today

01:01:30 when this kind of stuff comes into your church.

01:01:35 In fact, on the issue of circumcision,

01:01:38 Paul was fine in one circumstance in Acts 16

01:01:41 promoting the circumcision of Timothy,

01:01:44 but he was not fine promoting the circumcision of Titus in Galatians.

01:01:48 Why? Because they made it a gospel issue.

01:01:51 That was the whole difference.

01:01:54 So I want to end with this. 0.94

01:01:56 What does Christianity offer, right? 1.00

01:01:58 Social justice, warriors picking apart our culture, our families, our very way of life. 0.92

01:02:04 And Christianity all along offered this. 0.58

01:02:05 Forgiveness of sins, including injustice, real injustice.

01:02:09 Unity in Christ.

01:02:11 Gender, class, age, tribe, tongue, nation, all of it unified in Christ.

01:02:14 There is a unity there.

01:02:15 Those distinctions don't go away, but there's a unity that we have.

01:02:19 Fulfilling identity.

01:02:21 You're more than just power relationships.

01:02:23 You're something way more than that, way more valuable than that.

01:02:27 Roles and responsibilities.

01:02:28 Social justice doesn't give us a clear insight on,

01:02:31 people are confused.

01:02:32 Am I a guy?

01:02:33 Am I, who am I?

01:02:35 There's a purpose in Christianity.

01:02:38 There's function, a basis for rights.

01:02:40 They're found in responsibilities.

01:02:42 God's given different responsibilities to different people.

01:02:44 That's how we know what our rights should be.

01:02:46 Government, you can't tell me what to, 1.00

01:02:48 you know, how to spank my kids or discipline them. 0.99

01:02:51 That's my responsibility, right?

01:02:53 It's not the pastor's job either.

01:02:54 In the same way, like, it's not the government's job to go and impose upon the pastor and tell them what they can and can't preach.

01:03:01 And so there's different, there's distinctions there.

01:03:03 We have a basis for rights.

01:03:05 And we have a theology of culture.

01:03:06 There's a sense of belonging that Christians have.

01:03:09 We know the world's not our home ultimately.

01:03:11 We know that there's a heavenly home.

01:03:13 We also know God put us here for such a time as this, for good works which he preordained.

01:03:18 And so we're not confused.

01:03:20 We're actually the stable ones in society as Christians.

01:03:23 and that's what we need to offer to the world.

01:03:25 There's a stability that we have.

01:03:27 And I would just suggest,

01:03:28 if anyone's looking to be practical,

01:03:29 find your local college campus,

01:03:31 open your home,

01:03:32 go find whatever ministry and say,

01:03:34 come on over, I got pizza.

01:03:35 And they'll flock.

01:03:36 You'll find people that, you know,

01:03:37 all over your house that you're like,

01:03:39 how did you get here?

01:03:40 And it's not just because they want pizza.

01:03:42 It's because they want to see a stable home

01:03:45 and most of them now haven't seen it.

01:03:46 Their parents are divorced.

01:03:48 They've moved all over the country.

01:03:49 They have no identity

01:03:50 and you can show them the stability

01:03:51 that comes from being in Christ.

01:03:53 Let's pray.

01:03:54 Father, thank you for all that you've given us in your word,

01:03:59 that you've given us a clear word.

01:04:01 Lord, I know this is a lot to take in,

01:04:03 and we just went so fast through so much,

01:04:05 but Father, I pray this would spark in the minds of many here, Lord,

01:04:09 a passion to go and to battle, Lord, in this world

01:04:14 where the devil's fill is all around us,

01:04:17 and young people especially are being swept away

01:04:20 into an alternative to the family and to the church.

01:04:23 And Lord, let us give them the real deal.

01:04:25 Let us show them, Lord, what it means to be in Christ

01:04:28 and to be secure in him.

01:04:30 In Jesus' name, amen.

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The NXR Podcast - March 20, 2022

BONUS - Social Justice vs. Biblical Justice

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