00:01:31.600And in our culture, we have devised schemes of somehow proving to the culture at large, to society, that we've been mistreated, that we've been oppressed.
00:01:43.440And if we can prove that, if we can spin that narrative and get others to accept it as true, then we are granted a certain measure of influence, a certain measure of power.
00:01:54.960this is what intersectionality is all about it's it's seeing how many minority statuses we can
00:02:03.920claim right that if you're a white male and you're heterosexual you're in trouble
00:02:09.920right but if if you're black well you have some status if you're a black man that's one thing but0.98
00:02:18.760But if you're a black woman, then you have more status, more influence, more power.1.00
00:02:24.760If you're a black woman in a wheelchair, it's a force to be reckoned with.0.99
00:02:29.860If you're a black man in a wheelchair who cross-dresses and calls himself a woman, a.k.a. transgender, you have all the power in the world.1.00
00:02:40.640You might as well be a czar, a sultan, a king.0.97
00:02:46.780You can be on late night talk shows, and everybody has to listen to what you say.
00:02:50.440Even if you speak about things that you have no knowledge about, it doesn't matter.
00:02:53.760Research, hard work, diligent study, not necessary.
00:02:58.740You have a unique oppressed position and opinion, and who is anybody else to disagree?
00:03:06.060That's the culture that we live in today.
00:03:07.680So, first and foremost, probably just about anyone in this room is not a victim.
00:03:17.020So, the first thing that we should do as Christians, as followers of Jesus, when we feel as though we're victimized, is we should remind ourselves that we're probably not.
00:03:26.820The second step is as we consider our alleged oppression, as we consider our alleged mistreatment, we should consider it by the eternal and perfect standard of God's word.
00:03:40.980we should consider it not based off of these fleeting flawed standards of our culture today
00:03:49.260not by our own personal self-absorbed standard but rather by the unchanging perfect righteous
00:03:55.720standard of god's word by god's word by god's standard have i truly been mistreated and if so
00:04:03.280the first thing that we should consider is can i let it go the proverb said that it's a man's glory