BONUS - Social Justice vs. Biblical Justice
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On this episode of Right Response Ministries' new podcast, we talk about the importance of men in the ministry, and how important it is for us to have men in ministry. Pastor Jeff Ripple and his wife A.D. join us to talk about their experience attending Right Response's first conference, "The Battle of Bunkers Hill".
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Hey guys, real quick before we get started I have a small request. If you've been blessed by our
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review? This is quite possibly the most effective thing that you can do to ensure that this content
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gets out to as many people as possible. Thanks. A couple thank yous. One, let's do a warm round
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of applause, thanking John and A.D. and their wives for flying out here. Super grateful for
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both of them, their wives, but especially these men actually being men. We live in trying times.
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We have all been so disenchanted and disappointed by pastors, by men, by fathers, by leaders,
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and virtually every institution within our society,
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and the church, sadly, has not been an exception.
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And both John and A.D. have served as faithful examples of that.
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You guys are here because you've been blessed by their ministry
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and so I'm super grateful that they were willing to fly out here
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and be here and minister to you, minister to me, my family,
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The second thank you is for Christ Fellowship Church.
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Part of the reason why we were able to keep our expenses low for Right Response,
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Right Response fit the bill for this, and it was a lower bill, praise God,
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Christ Fellowship Church allowed us to use their space for free.
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So that's Pastor Jeff Ripple, and this is Christ Fellowship Church.
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and that helped us to make this affordable and so uh last let's see yeah last last announcement is
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so we want it to be free we want the conference to be free to you especially since it's four hours
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and especially if somebody's driving 13 hours you know i want it to be free because that takes some
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of the pressure off of me and john and at so that if it's lousy conference we'd be like hey we will
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we'll give you a free you know full refund you know now the problem is though is if you guys
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from georgia say okay will you give me a gas refund with biden's economy right putin's spike
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i mean biden so anyways um so thank you so much to you guys coming and uh and for you guys helping
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us to lower our costs but for anybody we want it to be free we're not charging you but if you are
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willing and able we do ask if you would prayerfully consider helping right response ministries to
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offset some of our cost a lot of you guys probably aren't prepared to give or anything like that
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physically. But if you are, you could put it in the bucket right there where the note cards for
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the questions are. If you want to do cash or check, if you'd like to give a donation, or you
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could also go to rightresponseministries.com slash donate. One of our prayers is that God would move
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on the hearts of men and women who have courage, who want to stand for biblical virtues and doctrine
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and courage, all these things, that they would become monthly partners, that they would help us
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in the ministry. And our goal is, Lord willing, that we'd be able to do something like this
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twice a year as of now we're going to try to make it an annual thing but within a couple years i
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would love if we could do spring and fall uh moscow idaho they've got enough stuff right that
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you know it's not fair and then we've got you know you've got phoenix and you've got arizona
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with james white you know and jeff durbin you've got john mccarthur in southern california but
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texas needs something and i keep thinking of revelation you know three two or two three i
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always get it backwards but strengthen that which remains and is about to die right there are places
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that I, you know, where people would argue, the battle's raging. And I would say, no, the battle's
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not raging in California. The battle was raging and we lost. We lost. And then there's the proverbial
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uncontested, you know, Timbuktu with a population of 247 people in the backwoods and staunchly
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conservative. And praise God for Timbuktu, you know, South Dakota, whatever it is. But then there's
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the battle of Bunkers Hill. There's a decisive point. There's the thing where there's still
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life. It still remains, but it's about to die. And we need reinforcements. We need conferences.
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We need things like this to remind us we're not alone, and for us to do this, we need help.
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So if you would consider becoming one of our co-laborers, one of our ministry partners with Right Response Ministries, we'd be grateful.
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All right, without further ado, let's give a round of applause for Mr. John Harris.
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And, man, I feel like I have such a long list of people to thank to put this together.
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I'm so glad that you're here. And technically, actually, A.D. came the farthest to speak from
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New Hampshire. That's pretty far. And my wife told me this morning, we came from upstate New York,
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it's snowing there right now. So I'm, some people are nodding their heads. Yeah, I'm very grateful
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to be here right now. It's much better than being in upstate New York. Well, we're going to talk
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today about social justice and the church, Christianity. How do these two religions
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conflict. I believe social justice is a religion. Many of you who listen to my podcast, you know I
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make that argument quite a bit. And some of this material will be from the book. For those who
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have read the book, this will be somewhat of a review. I wanted to start, though, with Ephesians
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chapter 5, if I may, because one of the things I've realized is being more academic and putting
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this whole issue through the grid of an academic eye, you can tend to start to think, and I fall
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into this, that it's just ideas. There's just ideas and there's people and there's places and
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one thing led to another and here we are with George Soros about to take over the world, right?
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It was like these little incremental steps and here we are. And there's some truth to that. I
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really think it's good to look at things historically, to trace lines, to figure out
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Where did these ideas come from? Who are we being influenced by? But there's something that's so
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basic that we cannot forget. And Ephesians chapter 5, the entire chapter to me, 5 and 6 actually,
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really, to me, simplifies all of this and breaks it down into something very simple.
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Ephesians chapter 5 opens with, there's a vice list, and it's the opposite of love. I don't want
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the left to take that word, by the way. That belongs to us. God is love, okay? Real love, not
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this fake tolerance love of I tweeted something, but I never fed anyone, and that means I love
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people. No, like real love, sacrificing oneself for the people in proximity to us that we actually
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know. And there's a vice list given of all the things that are not love, sexual morality,
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impurity, covetousness, right? And it goes on. And then you get to the end of chapter five,
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and there's all these hierarchies that are brought up. Husbands and wives, labor relationships,
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right? And you have an order that God has put down running into chapter six, children and parents.
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And then we get to, and this is the pivotal moment for me, and I think it's something that
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we should all have on the front of our minds as often as possible, and that's
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That's verse 10, finally be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might, put on the full
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armor of God that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle
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against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic
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spiritual powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the
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heavenly places. It's ultimately where the battle is, okay? It's not with Biden, it's not with Putin,
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or Zelensky, or any of the figures that we talk about, ultimately, Satan likes to use people,
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and he does. They work for him, but they're not ultimately the enemy. The enemy is a spiritual
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enemy. And so, everything that I'm about to present to you, which is very important, historical,
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philosophical, we need to know those things, but just remember that this is a spiritual battle,
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ultimately. And Satan is on one side, and God is on the other side. And the church hangs in the
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balance. Now we know ultimately the church, God wins, the church is victorious. We know this.
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But right now in our country, there is a great apostasy, a great falling away, and there's few
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men willing to stand up and call a spade a spade. And I think there's a variety of reasons. I think
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one of it is possibly a lack of understanding. And that's why we're here today is to understand
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better. And so that's my task right now is to walk through the history, the philosophy, so we
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understand what is it we're dealing with. If we were in Utah, we would want to understand Mormonism
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to reach our neighbor, right? If you're a Christian in Utah and you don't understand anything about
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Mormonism, you're a sitting duck. If you're in Saudi Arabia and you don't know anything about
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Islam and you think you're going to reach these people, you're fooling yourself. You have to know
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something about what they believe. Otherwise, they can use lingo that sounds really similar to what
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you mean and you can think, well, we're the same and you're not. It's the difference between heaven
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and hell. So we live in a culture saturated with social justice, with this political religion.
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So we need to understand what social justice teaches, to be able to refute it, to answer it.
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So that's what we're going to do. Let's open in a word of prayer, if we can, before we get started
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here. Lord Jesus Christ, you are the maker of heaven and earth. Father, you sent your son,
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You sent Jesus to die on behalf of sinners, and we just thank you so much for the sacrifice that you made.
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Lord, we want to oppose anything that would come against it because we know, Lord, how important it is.
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We know where we would be without your grace and mercy, and we want others to know that.
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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,
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but with a heart of compassion for the lost, with humility, knowing that we, without your grace, that's where we'd be,
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and with a just, make the immaterial world more real than the material world to us today as we go through this.
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Well, I'm going to take you through a slideshow, and I know what you're thinking.
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There's no projector here, so I'm going to try to be very descriptive with my words as much as I possibly can.
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and we're going to start just with the history of social justice and I don't know where Joel went
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Joel yeah if you could just like 10 minutes before I'm supposed to stop you could just get my
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attention in the back you know that'd be great so I don't lose track when I when I get into history
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mode I just I lose focus of everything as I think I think AD and Joel kind of figured that out the
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last few days so we're going to start with what social justice is what is it right that's the big
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question. We hear this word all the time. It's actually been popular for quite some time.
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And I'm going to give you a definition that I think captures its essence. It's pretty technical,
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and we're going to come back to it at the end. And the way I think of it, this is a fog,
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all right? So if you don't understand right away, that's totally fine. As we put more meat on the
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bones, it will be more understandable. Here's my definition. The modern social justice movement
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is a repackaged configuration of egalitarian ideas, heavily influenced over the past century
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by postmodern and Marxist derivatives. Its purpose is to rectify disparities and advantages between
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social groups through reallocation. Oh, thanks, John. We know what social justice is now, right?
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That was as clear as mud. Let me read it for you one more time, okay? The modern social justice
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movement is a repackaged configuration of egalitarian ideas heavily influenced over the
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past century by postmodern and Marxist derivatives. Its purpose is to rectify disparities in advantages
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between social groups through reallocation, okay? So definitions are very important in this. And
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anytime you're arguing with the left, they love to play language games. These battles are mostly
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over the dictionary. So I think it's really important from the start, we need to understand
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what social justice is. And to do that, let's take a little walk down memory lane. Now, one of the
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things you'll hear is that social justice can be Christian, it can be conservative, because there's
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Roman Catholics who use the term. And there is some truth to this. I'm not going to spend a lot
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of time on it, but that's not the social justice tradition we're talking about. There was an effort
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And this term was used in the 1800s, mid-1800s, to try to preserve the social bonds that existed before the Industrial Revolution.
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And social justice was sometimes used to refer to that.
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Rerum Novarum was one of the encyclicals that Pope Leon put out, and it talks about this.
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if you do like a Google Ngram, I don't know if anyone's done that, you can put like a word
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into this search bar and it'll show you the books written over the past, you know, whatever time
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frame you want to give it, 100 years, when they became popular, when they were in use. Social
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justice doesn't even really become a popular word until the turn of the century. And then it becomes
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more popular. So we're going to trace it from when it became popular. And that's the tradition that
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we stand in when people use it. That goes back to the time during the Fabian Socialism phase,
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and the Fabian Socialists are still around, but when it first became popular in Great Britain.
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One of the most famous Fabian Socialists, some of you might recognize, is a guy named H.G. Wells.
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Wrote a number of fantasy, science fiction novels. I actually like a lot of his stuff,
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but he was an atheist. He was a socialist. And Fabian Socialism really taught that we're going
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to get there through progression. It's not going to be a revolution. We're going to bring about
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the revolution through this march through the institutions over time. And there were some
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Christians in the United States that thought, wow, we really like this idea. One of them being
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Walter Rauschenbusch. I really like the Fabian socialists and their ideas. Problem is, if I go
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back to America and I start talking about Fabian socialism, everyone's going to reject me because
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they think socialism means you're immoral, and they think it means that you deny the existence
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of God. And I don't want those associations. So instead he called it social justice. And justice
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wasn't even really a word that socialists were using that much. In fact, Karl Marx thought
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justice? Justice is just a word that the oppressors use. You know, the courts belong to them and they
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oppress the people they hate. That's what justice is. It was kind of a religious term. And then it's
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used by a number of people, Walter Rauschenbusch probably being the most famous, to refer to
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socialism. And they were pretty much the same thing. It was a Christianized socialism.
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And there's, in the book, Christianity and Social Justice, the new one I have over there,
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I trace a lot of this. And most of them are pastors, seminary professors, people like that
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who are using this term during that time. So that's the kind of social justice we're talking
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about. Now, what is that? Socialism, right? But at the base level, what is socialism? It's a
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redistribution scheme. So another word you could use, if you wanted to be accurate, if you wanted
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to be more conceptual and not get tied up with wrangling about the term, you could just call it
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redistributive justice. That's what it is. And for that concept, I trace this back to Jean-Jacques
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Rousseau, the philosopher of the French Revolution. And there were three things that Rousseau wanted
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to achieve. He wanted an egalitarian ideal. Egalitarian is a French word for equal, but it's
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not equality before the law, it's the elimination of disparities between people. It's where we're
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all flatlined into having the same kind of outcome. We have the same level of income,
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the same privilege, the same everything, and that way everything's fair, right? And that's socialism
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at the end of the day. That's what they're teaching. Well, Rousseau was kind of a proto-socialist,
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a socialist before socialism, and he thought this ought to be achieved. The problem is standing in
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the way of achieving this great heaven on earth, this utopia, was social institutions that were
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preventing it. The church, right? You have clerics who people call them pastor and honor them, and
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they have a hierarchy. They have authority. You had families that are passing down their money
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and inheritance, and that's not fair because wealth gets passed down. And there's all these
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institutions in society that are preventing the achievement of this utopia. So he proposed the
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third element to this is we need to implement a force capable of
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executing this utopian dream. We need to crush all of
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these institutions that are preventing heaven on earth from happening.
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And so, who's going to do that? The government, right?
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That's the logical conclusion. You're going to have to have a force capable,
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a big bully who's capable of destroying all the little bullies that are out there
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and then we'll have equality, right? Now you can see the problem with this already.
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If the problem is disparities, you just created the biggest disparity there ever existed in human history.
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You have the government up here and then just an atomistic individual kind of naked in the public square
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with no voluntary associations or institutions to protect him from this guy.
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So I don't know if it occurred to him, like, what if the top dog, what if the government goes tyrannical?
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But that's been the scheme of social justice from the beginning.
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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.
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So fast forward to Karl Marx, socialism and communism.
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In 1848, there's a bunch of revolutions across the European continent, and they fail.
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And in that same year, Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.
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And he says, you know, the reason there's inequality, it's because of economic factors out there.
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You have the bourgeois property and you have the proletariat and they're oppressed.
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We need to implement some policies that are going to prevent this economic disparity from emerging.
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So elimination, abolish, actually, bourgeois property through state control of credit,
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transportation and production as well as free public education i don't know if you knew that
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free public education is a communist idea we've just kind of accepted it now it's normal it was
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not normal for uh the greater part of human history and what i mean by that is a top-down
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government controlled curriculum for children now during the same time you have in the united
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states a bunch of social reform movements now you know it's not communism but uh you have
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prohibitionism, you have anti-masonry movement, you have abolitionism, you have the woman's
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emancipation movement. All this stuff is going on during the revivalistic
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times, okay? And we need a perfect society. And
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at the time of these failed revolutions in 1848, a bunch
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of people from Europe, Germany especially, flocked to the United States.
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And they settled, a lot of them settled in the Midwest, they settled
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mostly in the North, and some settled down South, but mostly in the
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Midwest, and they controlled newspapers. A lot of them became, they worked themselves in the Union
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Army, and there was a merging happening. These ideas were being introduced into the greatest
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environment that they could be introduced into, and so this is where we get the social gospel
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movement that starts right after this. Now, I've already talked a little bit about Fabian socialism.
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The social gospel movement is really, is an Americanized version of that, using the term
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social justice. After this, though, we have in this development cultural Marxism, all right? So
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to review, we have Marxism, we have communism, it's property. There's economic factors that are
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causing the disparities that we see, and that's what's causing everything to be unfair.
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And then we have after that these Fabian socialists who are saying, well, yeah, that's true,
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but we're not going to get there by a revolution. That failed. Let's just kind of progressively do
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it. Then came cultural Marxism. Some of you probably heard this term. And the father of
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cultural Marxism is an Italian communist named Antonio Gramsci. And he said that the workers
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failed to sufficiently revolt because they were controlled by the property class. And so there
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were things in society like libraries, schools, voluntary associations, architecture, street names,
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and the church and all these things prevented the oppressed people from realizing that they were
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truly oppressed. You know, 4th of July, not in their context, in our context, the 4th of July
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parade happens and what's everyone doing? American flags coming by, right? They're holding doors open
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for women. They have monuments to people. That's oppressing people, right? We're privileging some
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over others. This is all unfair. And so Antonio Gramsci said what needs to happen is we need to
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cease contenting ourselves to operate within the values of the state and start critiquing
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the status quo. Build our own hegemony, I mean our own system of hierarchy, our own that's fair,
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and then wait for the collapse of the old order. Now from this, the next really rung on this ladder
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is the Frankfurt School in Germany. So we're going from Italy to Germany, and they came up with a
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term called critical theory. Now you all have heard of critical race theory, right? Critical theory
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comes before critical race theory, and they drilled down deeper into society than Antonio
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Gramsci did. They were going to find that oppression because it's there. It's somewhere,
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it's maybe not seen overtly, but it's down there if we can really find it. It's the advertisements
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you see. You really need that car? They're making you think you need that car. You're being oppressed.
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And one of the members that I like to mention is a guy named Theodore Adorno. He wrote a book in
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1950 called The Authoritarian Personality. Let me give you the short form so you don't
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have to read the book. I know none of you really want to read this book, right? You're
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a Nazi, okay? There you go. There's the book. And The Authoritarian Personality had a profound
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impact on university research and psychology departments. And he said things like submission
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to parental authority, a belief in traditional gender roles, family pride, a fear of homosexuality,
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is where homophobia comes from, right? And maybe Freud before that. But a strong devotion
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to Christianity, the notion that foreign ideas posed a threat to American institutions,
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all that stuff makes you a Nazi. And it gives you a level on the F scale. F means fascist.
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So if you really love your parents, you know, kind of a Nazi, maybe not like Hitler level,
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but like there's something there. And is it a wonder that today everyone's called a Nazi,
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if they have an idea to the right of Bernie Sanders? No, because this is what university,
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This is what our elites have been training in for years.
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Now, add to this, to drill down even deeper, radical subjectivity.
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And by the way, some people separate these and say, well, there's postmodernism here,
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Well, because the postmodern theorists said that.
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Jacques Derrida, one of the French postmodernists, said that what he was doing was a certain
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He believed that meaning was not found in what was said,
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but rather by what was meant in accordance with the hegemony of language.
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Okay, so now there's this hegemony of language.
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There's like words that we can say and words we can't say,
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and they have oppression values attached to them.
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There's no concrete, rooted in reality, objective truth.
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I don't know to shock all of you, but have you ever said, like called someone a woman?
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You ever said that? Yeah. Or maybe a man. That's another really oppressive term.
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Well, you're imposing your values, right? Because there is no such thing as reality. There's
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rootedness, objectivity. There's no woman or man. There's just this subjective categorizations that
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we create in order to oppress other people. So we're going to conform someone to our standard
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because, well, they have short hair and they're more muscular and they're taller. And we're going
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say that's a man. Well, you're, you know, you're just, you know, you know where this is going
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because you live it every day. Well, this is rooted in radical subjectivity, Jacques Derrida.
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You can thank him for it next time. Well, if you're going to heaven, you'll never be able to
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probably thank him, but I hold him responsible. Another guy is Michel Foucault, and he's,
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he deconstructed knowledge by making it dependent on power. So he said, basically, everything's a
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power play. And so think about it this way. This is the best way I can articulate it. If right now,
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outside this door, let's say there was a car accident and it was a police chase and a criminal
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gets out of the car and he's got the money bag and he's running in here for cover and the police
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officer shoots the criminal before he gets in here. And there's eyewitnesses and they all have
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a story to tell about this. Well, Foucault would teach us that the way that this story is told,
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the things that are emphasized, this is all designed for a power play to take place. We're
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supposed to have a bias towards either the criminal or the cop. And of course, I'm bringing
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out a bias by saying criminal, right? So the way that the story is told is very important. There's
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really no truth. There's just narratives out there that support either, in this case, the police or
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the criminal. And Foucault deconstructed all of knowledge this way. The things you know,
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it's not because they're objectively rooted anywhere. It's because it's a story you've
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been told to support some kind of a power structure. Now this brings us to Derrick Bell
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and critical race theory. Derrick Bell was a law professor at Harvard and one of the founders of
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critical race theory and he believed that progress in American race relations was largely a mirage
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obscuring the fact that whites continue consciously or unconsciously to do all in
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their power to ensure their dominion and maintain control. So that whole ending slavery, the whole
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civil right, meaningless. It's still, there's still this systemic racism out there that is
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oppressing people. And the only way really to solve this problem is to look through the lens
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of minority experience, to gain a solution. And society has to address this. So there's a number
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of elements to critical race theory. I break it down into two, for simplicity's sake, because
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there's like seven elements here. But number one is the Marxism. So you have oppressor, oppressed,
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these sides kind of pivoted against each other. And then you have kind of the postmodern, which
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is a deeper kind of Marxism, but there's subjective truth, that you need a certain kind of lens from
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my minority experience to even approach solving this problem. And so this became, this evolved
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or was built upon by his student, Kimberly Crenshaw, and she came up with the term
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intersectionality. So critical race theory, critiquing society, it's all racist, it's all bad,
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racism is normative, we've got to change our history books and vilify a certain group of
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people, right? Then you have intersectionality, and this is not about ripping things down,
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This is about building things. We're going to build the great new society based on this principle.
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There are people out there who are more oppressed than others, and some have multiple identities of oppression.
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If you're a woman and you're gluten-free, that's two levels of oppression.
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No, she didn't say that. My brothers are celiac, by the way, so I can say that joke.
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If you, though, are homosexual and you're also some other identity that's oppressed, you're an immigrant,
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like you understand oppression in a unique way so the goal should be find the most oppressed people
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and then we take our cues from them because they know more they've experienced oppression
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and you can see what this does there's a race to the bottom now everyone's oppressed right like
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everyone wants to be oppressed if they're not oppressed they start making up stuff about
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themselves being oppressed so they can impress you with how oppressed they are uh and and it you
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know the quality of everything goes down i mean we're reaping the consequences of this but the
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Yeah, the bottom line is, you know, this is going to undo the wrongs that society has imposed.
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The end goal is this, and this is my thesis, is to destroy Christianity, okay?
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And I know some conservative commentators say, that's just against white people.
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But ultimately, if you wanted to, you know, look at it, think of it like as a circle with interlaying like levels of circles.
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That is the ultimate goal of this whole thing.
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Karl Marx, the social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling in a press class, meaning they believe in a hierarchy.
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The proletariat, though, is revolutionary.
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How about Antonio Gramsci? He wanted socialism to kill Christianity. His words, not mine.
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Foucault desired to liberate people from political rationality, which he thought stood on the idea
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of Christian pastoral power, and I can go on. Now, that's part one, destroy Christianity. Part two,
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replace Christianity. How are you going to do that? Well, Rousseau believed Christian law was harmful
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that would one day make a revolution among men.
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Herbert Marcuse, one of the Frankfurt School members,
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He believed that religion inspired guilt in the present life.
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It postponed human fulfillment to the afterlife and reinforced the evil status quo.
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Yet he also held out hope that religion could be beneficial in transforming society if it
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became a heretical expression of a political attitude.
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In other words, maybe if we can subvert Christianity and kind of rearrange some things, then it
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Derek Bell, father of critical race theory, thought fundamentalist Christians divert
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political protest and reaffirmed the conservative values on which the white middle class's traditional
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illusions of superiority are grounded. Nevertheless, he also saw how a new interpretation of Christianity
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could lead to enlightenment instead of pacification. We need to reimagine Christianity. We need to
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reinterpret Christianity. We need to change Christianity. And the whole intent is to replace
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Christianity. Don't buy it. That's what we're living in right now. People who studied this,
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who knew the writings of these utopianists, weren't surprised by what just happened and what
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they're seeing in the church. This has happened before in other ways. Liberation theology
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being probably one of the most recent examples. So that brings us to our context. And I can't
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show you the pictures, but you can probably imagine some of them from 2020. Riots in the
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streets, civil religion on full display, white people bowing down to BLM protesters. Michael
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Tracy, a reporter, said, I'm telling you, every protest I've been to so far perfectly mirrors an
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outdoor evangelical Christian worship service. It's not a Christian observation. That is someone
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from the world. Why did he say that? Well, it's because we have a new religion in front of us.
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salvation right in christianity it's original sin that's the bad news there's a divine law
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we've broken it and there's going to be some judgment the good news is we can be born again
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there's um there's also i i put in the sacraments but you use a different word for that um ordinances
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there's things that christians should do when they're saved and then there's a heaven in the
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hereafter where we'll be with god well in social justice it's whiteness it's maleness it's
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heterosexuality. These are original sin. These are the replacements for that. Political correctness
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replaces the divine law. Judgment is getting canceled because there's no afterlife. You got
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to have it now. The good news is you can become woke, which is like being born again. You can do
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progressive political things. Those are your sacraments. And then you can have social equity,
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inclusion and diversity and they have their own deity and it's not a personal deity just like in
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some religions like some eastern religions there's no personal deity but they believe that social
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conflict theory is the hand of providence you didn't build that someone else did that for you
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wasn't hard work it was because of the forces of history conflict theory through the years brought
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you to this point and benefited you because you have white privilege or something along those
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lines. Instead of the love of Christianity, we have a revolution, and they call it love. It's not.
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The collective state becomes justice. We have the canon of woke books instead of the Bible,
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and oppressed perspectives are inspired, and you may not question them. They're inherent.
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They are infallible, inhumanly good. We have social studies programs instead of seminary,
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And, of course, they have their own hierarchy, even though they're against hierarchy.
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The critical theorists, the media, the community organizers.
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They participate in activism and implicit bias training and decolonization.
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Instead of the world of flesh and the devil, it's systemic racism, white privilege, and white supremacists lurking around every corner.
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and the hope is if there is a hope is that intersectionality is going to be applied by
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the social justice warriors with the inspiration of our saints the victims of police shootings and
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we'll get there one day to equality and it's a pipe dream it only produces less equality
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it produces more pain because this isn't how humans are actually wired and the covid religion
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actually really parallels this in fact they're very similar salvation is vaccination the sacraments
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are masks social distancing lockdowns and booster shots proselytizing is public service announcements
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and social media virtue signals membership in the club in the religion is your vaccine card
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the heathens are the unvaccinated the heretics are the anti-vax conspiracy theorists
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the high any conspiracy theorists here there's a few okay wow okay
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okay the high priests are anthony fauci and the government health officials
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god is government and the savior is science you don't you think this is political how about all
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the pastors who said this is just a political thing i'm staying out of it what foolishness
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so we know people and i'm sure you do too that got woke checked their privilege and then started
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to shame others. That's the progression, right? They get woke, and you've got to check everyone's
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privilege, become the policeman, and we just got to shame people when we figure out they're part
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of the problem. And this saddens me. There's real people that are caught up in this, and compassion
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should make us strive to, as we would with a Mormon or a Jehovah's Witness, to help them see
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the error of their ways. And this is not going to provide satisfaction. You're just going to get
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angrier. I don't know if you've seen that with your friends or your family members who've gone
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this direction is exactly what I've seen. They're never satisfied because there is no utopia here
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on earth. We're never going to breach a state of equality in that sense. So to review the
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social justice, what is it? It's a modern, the modern movement is a repackaged configuration
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of egalitarian ideas heavily influenced over the past century by postmodern and Marxist
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derivatives. And its purpose is to rectify disparities and advantages between social groups
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through reallocation. Goals are achieving an egalitarian idea, dismantling the social
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institutions that prevent its achievement, and implementing a force capable of executing
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the utopian dream. So that's the history. That brings us to today. Now, I think I probably had
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like maybe 10 minutes or five, I don't even know. I don't have much time, but I want to bring you
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through briefly the philosophy, real quick. That's what it is, and we've gone through some of that.
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what does it teach? Let's talk about, let's drive down deeper into what is it actually saying? What
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are people actually buying into? What are they assuming when they go into this religion? And I
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want to break this down really into four sections here briefly. We're going to talk about metaphysics,
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epistemology, and value theory. Sorry, I say metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, value theory,
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I want to talk about their scheme of how do you get saved and all of that.
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So Christianity has attempted to merge with this,
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and the clearest way to see it is to compare what Christians believe about these things
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Metaphysics is a philosophical study that concerns what is reality.
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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.
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It's just a bunch of ones and zeros out there, right?
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So it doesn't matter if it's the McDonald's menu.
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You're going to find some racism on it or sexism or something.
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It's not like you walk in and you're like, is there racism here?
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you're hiding it. Now, have anyone ever seen this show, CSI? Don't raise your hand. CSI,
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Crime Scene Investigation, all right? My parents used to love watching this show,
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and you know the murder happens, and the guys walk in with the lights that show the blood,
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and they're like, oh, that's where it happened. I can see, you know, here's the blood and everything.
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Well, social justice warriors, they have this like defective light that they walk in,
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they're like, it's blood everywhere. Everything's blood. So that's kind of the way to view social
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justice metaphysics. What's reality composed of? Well, it's oppression. And it's everywhere.
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And if you don't see it, you just need the right glasses so you can see it.
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And you can see the dangers of this right away. It destroys social trust by presuming guilt on
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any human activity, not advancing egalitarianism. Like, if you're not with the revolution,
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there's only one other option. You're with the oppressors, right? It doesn't matter who you are,
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what your experiences were. It also requires immediacy. This is an emergency. We got to act
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now how many of the things over the last few years it's like don't think about it don't research it
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act now right so it's this horrible evil it's this big boogeyman that we didn't even see and
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all of a sudden we can see it's going to destroy us it reorientates the purpose of life towards
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political activism as well so everything just becomes political there pastors who say like i'm
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just going to sidestep politics i'm a pastor you know i can be neutral on that well this is a
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political religion and they see you as political and if you don't see them as political you're the
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one at the disadvantage so what are how do we respond to this what are some some things well
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one of them is this um social justice warriors ideologues they do not apply their own standards
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to themselves. Have you ever noticed that? If everything is oppression, what about the idea
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that everything is oppression? Could that be oppression too? What about all the efforts to
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bring about this egalitarian utopia? Could that also be part of oppression? How do we know that
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we haven't been duped into thinking everything is about oppression and that itself is oppression
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somehow? Someone's behind that. It's like Wizard of Oz. There's someone behind that curtain too.
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It is impossible to impose these egalitarian abstractions
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beyond the limits of rationality and of reality.
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So, you know, really, this little girl with a doll that's oppression,
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like, you know, you're going to find an oppression value here, right?
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There's certain things that we just intuitively were like,
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there's we know it but we have to buy into this ideology to put these glasses on to just subvert
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what we already know attempting to immediately force the destruction of hierarchies representing
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barriers to this vision often produces unintended consequences the solutions often are the cures
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are worse than the disease oftentimes so that's another problem with this and it fails to take
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into account the full spectrum of attributes woven into the created order including the
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categories of being people share beyond oppression level we're not just oppressors or oppressed
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there's so many other things that we are we're made in the image of god we're accountable to god
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we're subject to the law of god we're in need of salvation and if we're saved we're redeemed
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a lot more fundamental than whether i'm an oppressor or impressed and that's the glue
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that can hold us together this stuff only breaks people apart so it's metaphysics
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ideology is fundamentally grounded in an abstract world that doesn't exist it's a figment of
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someone's imagination and they're just imposing it upon the real world that we all know exists
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but we suppress an unrighteousness it's an attempt to recreate what god has already created
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now there's some questions some practical things you can ask people um you can ask basic questions
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has proper time and attention been given to comprehending all the available facts things
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like that generally unless they're already a little reasonable you're not going to get many
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places with that but one of the questions i think that gets to the heart of it could the motives of
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social justice activists be connected to a desire to oppress that'll make them really think if not
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why not another question what tangible things are social justice activists personally doing to
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elevate the condition of suffering people well that's that exposes it right away did you know
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actually question um and free book if if and if you already have a free book grab a dvd or
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something does anyone know the most the state in this country that gives the most to charity anyone
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no one's gotten it yet yeah right what'd you say okay that i'll take that one there's one other
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state. It's Utah. You're close. Utah and Mississippi compete every year for who's going to be the
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most, who's going to give the most to charity. And how could it be that the poorest state in
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the country, Mississippi, with those backward hillbillies are given more to charity than New
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York and California? How is that possible? Do you know political conservatives give more to charity
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than political liberals who say they care about the poor so much?
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What are these ideologues doing to actually tangibly help real people?
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Or is it just they want to take our money to go do something?
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So these are the questions you can ask to help people.
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And, of course, I have a lot of Bible verses here I don't have time to get to
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about charity and about the problems with ideology,
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but this is totally against a biblical worldview.
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the Bible sees a robust vision for human nature. We have so many identities. We have,
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and I don't mean the ones we make up, like real ones that we actually know we have, like I'm a
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man, right? And there's responsibilities attached to that. I have a culture. There's borders around
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me. I have them in my house. I have them in my county. I have them in my state. I have them in
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my country. There's things I enjoy doing. I like fishing and stuff, and people that like those
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things. I have an identity with them. It's a weak identity, but there is, you know, that's part of
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who I am. There's so many things that God has put around us that confer identity, and it's not just
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where you sit on a spectrum. So that's metaphysics. I want to talk a little bit about standpoint
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epistemology. This is the social justice warrior's epistemological belief. You know, how do we know
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truth? That's epistemology. What is truth? How can we come to understand what things are actually
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out there. And they believe in standpoint theory or standpoint epistemology. And it's a Marxist
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belief imported into feminist critical theory. Marx called it class consciousness. It's developed
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since then. The underlying assumption is that different experiences produce different kinds
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of knowledge, which in turn produce different understandings of reality. Standpoint theorists
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consider oppressed experiences to be superior in understanding because they require knowing the
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standards of the group oppressing them as well as their own standards. So I have some cartoon
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characters that I can't show you, but I can try to explain to you how this works. Imagine with me
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for a minute, you're going to have to be very imaginative here. You have blue world and red
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world, okay? And there's boxes around blue world and red world, and no one can get out. There's a
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blue man in blue world, there's a red man in red world, and they're stick figures, and they just
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cannot transcend the 2D box they're in. So everything looks, to the blue man, it looks blue.
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He thinks blue lives matter. To the red man, it looks red. And they can't see it any other way,
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right? Well, how are we going to know who's lying to us if they contradict each other? Blue says
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one thing, red says another. Blue says we should fund the police, red says we shouldn't. Well,
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how do we know, how do we adjudicate between blue and red? If everything falls into these categories,
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then who's going to come and tell us, right? Well, the sociologists will come. And they'll
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compare blue and red. And they'll tell us, actually, you need to trust red. Red is the
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experience that's right in this. So somehow the sociologist gets a pass. They can transcend,
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look at both of these red world and blue world objectively and say, it's red world. Red world's
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the one. Now, they never tell you this. They just assume that everyone should know we should trust
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red, red nose, all right? And so what does the Bible teach about this? And actually, let me say
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one more thing before I get to the Bible. So blue needs to put on some red glasses too, okay, to try
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to somehow see the world red's way. They'll never get there, but, you know, it's on the hamster wheel
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of trying it. So it's really hopeless. The Bible, though, presents a different story on knowing
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truth. There's God's view. Not the sociologist. There's just God's view. He has the objective
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view, bird's eye view. He sees everything. And blue world and red world don't exist. There's
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God's world. And blue man and red man need to put on God's glasses. They need to see their
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experiences through the revelation of God. They need to look at things, and they need to see that
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there's natural revelation, there's special revelation, and this should inform how we think
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about what's in front of us. And guess what? We can all do it. There's no barrier. Social location
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doesn't prevent us from doing it. It's the man of God who is equipped. It's the Bereans who even
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checked Paul out. And Paul's like, that was good. You should do that. We can all get there. If
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anything, Proverbs would teach, it's those who are wise we should go to. Why are they wise? Because
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they're godly. It's not because they have a social location. It took work to get there.
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we got it flipped upside down we got it flipped way upside down we should today you don't trust
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the old guys right don't trust anyone who's who's got experience and wisdom trust that oppressed
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social location but behind the oppressed social location isn't an oppressed person
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it's an elite sociologist telling you what the oppressed person thinks it's they're not going
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to the the factory line and asking what bob the the factory worker thinks about things they're
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telling you in their theories what Bob, what would be good for Bob. And that's why it drives
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them nuts if they lose elections and it's the working class that, you know, outvote them because
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they're like, no, we represent the poor and the lowly and they don't. So we see this everywhere
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in our society. Believe women, right? Why? Because they're women. They're oppressed. We should
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believe them. White people need to listen when people of color talk about racism. Hillary Clinton.
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Just because they're people of color, that's the only reason?
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How about every time there's a police shooting, right?
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Or not a police shooting, sorry, a school shooting.
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It's some kid who survived it or parents of the kid.
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That doesn't give them the authority to lecture everyone else.
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The Bible talks a lot about truth, objective truth in particular, right?
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John 4 says, God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
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John 8, you will know the truth, the truth will set you free.
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God has given us a word, and that should be a comforting thought.
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and he's given you a word, and he's given you things to do.
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his word Christians should have no business going to the world for
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understanding justice questions to ask people why should a person's external
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identity factors or personal experience alone qualify them more than someone
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else to speak authoritatively on law justice in history or how about this why
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would we assume someone is qualified to write instruction manuals for surgeons
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You want the diversified guy who didn't go to school to operate on your brain?
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and who knows what they're doing and has been tested.
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All that matters is, are they going to be able to do the job?
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Now, the third philosophical branch here is ethics.
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and social justice warriors, as we talked about before, they believe in egalitarianism.
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Now, I love this definition of socialism. This is from a former secretary of the Treasury,
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Leslie Shaw. He said, socialism is the idea that men must succeed equally regardless of aptitude.
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Socialism is the idea that men must succeed equally regardless of aptitude. Okay, you want
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to break it all down? That's what they're teaching. Today's march towards equity, diversity, and
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inclusion seeks to universally eliminate disparities in influence privilege and resources
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between various social groups and the term egalitarianism is often applied to a similar
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set of ideas promoted during the french revolution as we just discussed and they they called it at
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that time liberty equality fraternity same idea is just getting repackaged okay and so the goal
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is not equality before the law where lady justice is blind and anyone walking through that courtroom
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is going to have applied to them the just standard.
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Instead, Lady Justice takes off the blindfold and says, wait, okay, that's a woman over
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there, so we're going to have to treat that person differently than the man we just sentenced
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That would be true justice in the egalitarian sense.
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So Lady Justice is blind, Lady Justice takes the blindfold off.
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And just about every social move in our society right now is towards egalitarianism.
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Positive rights, which would be like, you have the right to free health care, you have the right to living wage.
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Preferred pronouns, hate speech laws, being a global citizen, defunding law enforcement, reparations, replacing historical monuments, the list goes on and on and on.
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now as Christians we know justice is the faithful application of God's law irrespective of who a
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person is biblical justice is retributive meaning criminals are punished for their actual crime
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today's social justice is redistributive meaning it seeks to reallocate in order to create more
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equitable outcomes in society so the go-to section for Christians on this is Exodus 23 in my mind
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where God lays down his justice and and he talks about the different groups that we should not be
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influenced by. If it's your family and they're like, hey, you know, give a break to so-and-so,
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it's a relative, don't listen to them. If it's the alien and the sojourner, if it's a stranger
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and they don't have the way of navigating the culture because they just, they're new and they
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don't have the widow maybe who doesn't have a husband protecting her, these kinds of things,
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the orphan doesn't have parents, don't take advantage of those people, right? Treat them
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equally, equal before the law. It also says though in verse 3 of Exodus 23, you shall not be partial
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to a poor man in a dispute. Just because they give you a story and they're poor and they're
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oppressed, don't be partial to that. Don't let that sway you emotionally. You need to apply justice
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faithfully. Giving a man his due. Questions to ask. Is God's law just? It's not egalitarian.
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Does diversity, equity, and inclusion exist as part of the state of nature or the state of grace?
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Now, this is more maybe heady, but, you know, where do those things actually exist, if they exist anywhere?
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You often hear every tribe, tongue, nation, right?
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And we have a preview of that in the church, but we live in the real world.
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There's real things that exist here and relationships we have that are going to change when we enter the eternal state.
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on what basis are humans entitled to social privileges now this is actually an interesting
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question for instance what makes an american an american and able to access all of the privileges
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that come with that is it they just live here well a lot of people live here they moved here
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from other places they they land here you know from from england or somewhere you know does that
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make you an american uh does it make you an american uh because you happen to like baseball
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on apple pie? I mean, what is it that makes you an American, right? That's actually a harder
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question than I think. So we have in our country a process of citizenship where you have to actually
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share in American values. You have to know something about this country. You have to value
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its history. You have to defend the liberties for which it stands. You have to take some ownership
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of the country that you're coming into, knowing that men have bled and died. Women have sacrificed
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for centuries to bring us to the point we are now and all the blessings we enjoy. It doesn't just
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belong to everyone. It's not for the whole world. And that's the distinction of nations and
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countries. Are there certain hierarchies that should not be deconstructed? Do they produce
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disparate social outcomes? So like, all right, if it's a Christian, you know, deconstruct the
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nation. Well, what about the family? It's just like, you know, the nation's kind of an extension
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of the family. Do we just get rid of the family too? Like, where does this train end? Because
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So the last section of this that I want to end with,
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the difference between Christianity and social justice,
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It's on the different gospel that social justice promotes.
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human participation in achieving egalitarian equality is good news.
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It means the world will eventually overcome inequalities
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through corporate human action and enter a utopian state.
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And social justice activists within Christianity often merge the gospel's message of salvation
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by grace through faith with a law derived from the principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
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And such fusion merges elements of law with gospel.
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So, J. Gresham Machen, by the way, just I want to tip a hat to him because he actually pointed this out.
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He said, look, this is what's happening 100 years ago.
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same thing's happening again in a repackaged form and and we can we can see this all over the place
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Desmond Tutu right just died here recently he believed that Christian the Christian message
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was that God relied on us to help make this world all that God has dreamed of it being which meant
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a diverse equal and inclusive place MLK Jr. believed just as the apostle Paul left his
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little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet
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in the Greco-Roman world I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom and he called
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his march in selma the third great awakening this is a gospel move even with people who don't
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believe the gospel right that's the crazy part of this i could go on and on in evangelical circles
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richard mau ron sider john perkins they said some of the same things they're the kind of the
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grandparents of the movement we have now but today who do we have paul david tripp he says i was
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guilty of believing a truncated and incomplete gospel in 2018 which left out the gospel of god's
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justice. Russell Moore preached the gospel through activism, and he said that the civil
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rights movement failed to be a gospel people during the civil rights movement, Christians,
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because of our silence in the face of systemic sin, and we could learn from MLK. He was doing
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it right. Anthony Bradley believes evangelicals have never had the gospel because of their failure
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to believe in black equality, apparently. Eric Mason, I don't know if any of you have read Woke
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Church. What a dog's breakfast. I mean, this book is just a mess. And I can't believe, I'm just going
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to call him out. Lincoln Duncan wrote the foreword to that, and he ought to know better. And if you
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look at some of the things Lincoln Duncan said years ago, he would never have said what he said
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in the complimentary fashion he said to Eric Mason's book. But Eric Mason thinks that Epiphany
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fellowship, his church, can learn about how to apply the gospel from who? From Rwanda's,
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and I'm probably going to botch this, but Gassana court. From South Africa's racial
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reconciliation committee. Germany's denazification programs. These are examples of promoting the
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gospel in society. Really? Because they're not even Christians. Where do we come up with this
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stuff? This is not the gospel of grace. Through Jesus Christ. Salvation by grace. So what is the
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gospel. It's really important, right? The gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone
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who believes. That's the gospel. Nevertheless, Galatians 2.16, knowing that a man is not justified
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by the works of the law, but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ
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Jesus so that we may be justified by the faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, since by
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the works of the law, no flesh will be justified. There's the gospel issue, gospel above all,
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it's gospel-centered this and that, and you're never talking about the gospel, but somehow the
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gospel is attached to it. This is the gospel. It's salvation through Christ. That's what it is. It's
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God's work, not our work. So you can't, as a Christian, because you fail in some work, that
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doesn't mean you're failing the gospel. You don't have half the gospel. No, no, it's Christ's work.
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that's the gospel so in closing i just want to say in the book of galatians paul talks about
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false brethren the pseudodelphas who came in they subverted the church i think we're seeing the same
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thing and they said look you got to have the gospel plus circumcision plus the law and he said
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that's heresy that's anathema curse that he said to peter you're giving them cover you're being
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confusing and and you need to stop and peter repented and and that's what we need to do today
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when this kind of stuff comes into your church.
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but he was not fine promoting the circumcision of Titus in Galatians.
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Social justice, warriors picking apart our culture, our families, our very way of life.
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Forgiveness of sins, including injustice, real injustice.
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Gender, class, age, tribe, tongue, nation, all of it unified in Christ.
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Those distinctions don't go away, but there's a unity that we have.
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You're something way more than that, way more valuable than that.
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Social justice doesn't give us a clear insight on,
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God's given different responsibilities to different people.
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you know, how to spank my kids or discipline them.
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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.
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And so there's different, there's distinctions there.
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There's a sense of belonging that Christians have.
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We also know God put us here for such a time as this, for good works which he preordained.
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We're actually the stable ones in society as Christians.
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Father, thank you for all that you've given us in your word,
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but Father, I pray this would spark in the minds of many here, Lord,
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a passion to go and to battle, Lord, in this world
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and young people especially are being swept away
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into an alternative to the family and to the church.
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Let us show them, Lord, what it means to be in Christ
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