00:11:30.740Yeah, so that means, practically speaking, that the true number is probably higher.
00:11:35.340This is actually a comment from someone who lives in Chicago, Deacon St. John.
00:11:38.800He said, I'm a Chicago emergency response worker on the south side of Chicago.
00:11:42.820The news does not even have the manpower to attempt to show an accurate picture of how bad it is here.
00:11:47.920And so we're going to get into the story and the specifics and even some evangelicals and the news outlets, how they responded to it.
00:11:53.180But all of this is continuing to build a case on the foundation and the bedrock that really it's only been in the last, I would say, four to five years.
00:12:01.380People have really grasped how bad it is.0.84
00:12:02.980So Black Lives Matter obviously brought policing to the forefront.
00:12:05.740But something else that brought these news stories and cases of violence to the forefront was Elon Musk purchasing X.
00:12:11.700And X has, on this topic at least, not necessarily on every topic, but on this topic at least, has been very open to allowing, to a certain degree, people to actually see the violence taking place.
00:12:21.840And really one of the only places publicly where these things can be seen.
00:12:25.420If it wasn't for, that's such a great point,
00:12:27.580because you cannot underestimate how big of a factor this is.
00:12:32.540For the last 48 hours until really just now,
00:12:37.320there's a couple other sources that are starting to pick it up.
00:32:53.560And again, we would reference probably the clearest episode
00:32:56.560where we lined that out is The Gospel Changes Genetics,
00:33:00.760I believe is the title of that episode.
00:33:02.820All right, so now we want to talk about evangelical pastors.
00:33:05.080I'll add one caveat to that, too, that your system,
00:33:08.480so being tough on crime this individual draymond brown jr who stabbed this woman to death the
00:33:13.700murderer he had 14 prior convictions for armed robbery larceny felony convictions and the judge
00:33:21.980was lax on sentencing and so you see a lot of attempts to be like we need more policing
00:33:26.680i don't have the individual one there's going to be a couple was it a woman i think in one
00:33:31.700it was multiple judges okay but think about that 14 prior convictions for
00:33:38.040including violent crimes. Armed robbery. This is not a guy that's like, he just needs community
00:33:43.400programs and mental health. No, he really needs a short rope and a tall tree is what he needs.
00:33:50.460That said, you're seeing this phrase. It's just like an oxymoron. It's ironic. But one of the
00:33:57.320phrases that I'm seeing, referencing this man who murdered this woman online right now is,
00:34:02.280he was a career criminal there should be no such thing as a career criminal if you are a criminal
00:34:10.720then you should not go free to commit crime again much less to commit it so many times so0.55
00:34:18.940consistently that it would make sense to title you a career criminal that is insane that our
00:34:25.740country allows for the freedom of criminals to the point to the degree that you could actually make
00:34:32.780crime a career right and you're not implying there all right shoplifting death penalty breaking and
00:34:39.260entering but say for example breaking and entering you're caught you are convicted you did it clear
00:34:44.320as day and you are beaten as the old testament prescribes in the public square so we're not
00:34:49.040talking about jail we're not talking about probation you receive a very very painful experience
00:34:54.360Well, if there was any hope that Draymond Brown Jr. would deviate from this path, that's honestly one of the only things that I can think of.
00:35:01.220That experience was so terrible, I don't care if I'm working at McDonald's night shift, I am going to be a productive member of society that does not have to steal because I never want to repeat that again.
00:35:11.060So we're not talking about, there was one city in ancient Greece, and it was literally like death penalty for everything.
00:35:16.500So we're not even talking about some type of brutal society like that.
00:35:18.920We're talking about biblical punishments that would deter as people at the lower levels to, I don't know, sometime before they stab someone from behind in the neck that has done nothing to them.
00:35:29.220They have been so severely reprimanded that they have either the state, it's clear, the state has to say, nope, you're out of here.
00:36:15.640not delayed. When justice is delayed, it incentivizes others to do wrong. So it's swift,
00:36:23.600it's impartial, but it's also proportional. However, there is a biblical principle for
00:36:31.240even if it's a more minor crime, for a repeat offender who does that minor crime and receives
00:36:37.840a proportional punishment, but then still the punishment doesn't dissuade him and he does it
00:36:43.860again and again and again and again, then eventually, even though it's the same crime,
00:36:48.920the punishment actually increases. And so biblically speaking, you could commit a lesser
00:36:54.960crime, but by being a repeat offender, it can get all the way to the death penalty. One example that
00:37:01.500I think of is in the case of a, and this is not a toddler, this is not a two-year-old, but a grown
00:37:07.920man um being rebellious towards his parents and now we know it's speaking of a grown child and
00:37:15.620not a child who's still young and in the home because um in the same context deuteronomy
00:37:21.280references this grown child uh being a glutton and a drunkard right so i don't think it's talking
00:37:29.640about you know you know the four-year-old who's a drunkard right so this is this is a man who is
00:37:34.840grown, but his parents, they're elderly now, but they're still alive. And he is a continual,
00:37:42.040incessant, repeat offender in terms of bringing shame upon his parents and rebelling against his
00:37:50.960parents in public ways that is bringing humiliation upon his family. And Deuteronomy says,
00:37:57.180in such a case, right? So it's not a man who gets drunk is put to death. The Bible doesn't say that.
00:38:03.560drunkenness is a sin. Public drunkenness that causes you to do sort of thing can elevate to
00:38:08.980the level of a crime. But even in that instance, it is not a capital crime receiving capital
00:38:15.280punishment. But pretty much all crimes, biblically speaking, can become capital crimes if they're
00:38:22.960repeated without any inhibition enough times. And so the idea, again, of a career criminal,
00:38:31.340We might say, well, you know, the first time it's that this guy, you know, got in an altercation and fought someone and punched him in the face and, you know, they pressed charges.
00:38:55.520Biblically speaking, you don't get to 14.
00:38:57.560You don't get to throw a Coke bottle out of your car window 14 times and live to tell about it.
00:39:05.340Biblically speaking, no matter how low that crime is on the totem pole, if it's repeated that many
00:39:11.580times, then what you're dealing with is a man who will not be rehabilitated. And when that's the
00:39:18.740case, in terms of biblical principles, you don't take a man who refuses to be rehabilitated and
00:39:25.260punish everyone else, a.k.a. here's three meals a day, here's room and board, here's an hour a day
00:39:31.000in the yard to do some exercise and weightlifting. No, no, no. You don't punish everybody else
00:39:36.100by making them pay more money in taxes for such a guy to keep him in a cage. No, if a guy can't
00:39:43.960be rehabilitated, biblically speaking, he doesn't go to lifelong prison, which is a punishment on
00:39:49.580society through taxes, but rather he actually receives capital punishment. He receives the
00:39:54.980death penalty. All right. Let's get into it. We've teased it out enough, but one of the big1.00
00:40:01.500narratives, and this was even before 2020, because you had wokeness brewing for a good while
00:40:06.720before that, at least five, six, seven, eight years prior. And there was different individuals
00:40:11.380that were pushing it. And a big narrative was undue policing of black neighborhoods. And so
00:40:16.760they insisted, all right, white Christians, there are black Christians here in your fellowship.
00:40:21.040They're here in your church. They're here in their community. And they've had an experience
00:40:24.180that you haven't had, and because they've had this experience, because they're under duress from the
00:40:28.300police, you need to sit down and listen. They've gone through something you haven't gone through.
00:40:32.960They've had to tell their children things you haven't had to tell your children, and you need
00:40:36.820to sit down. You need to shut up. You need to read the books. You need to educate yourself so that0.99
00:40:41.640you can empathize with them. You can agree with them. You can share in their struggle, and I'm
00:40:46.580going to share a clip from a very famous pastor, Paul David Tripp. He's written a number of books.
00:40:50.980shepherding a child's heart was that him yep paul david tripp so uh author he booked a book
00:40:55.160on parenting book on marriage i mean this is the quintessential gospel guy and when yeah george
00:40:59.780floyd not just gospel this is the gospelly gospel gospel gospel centered centered gospel gospel
00:41:05.400guy this is i mean so gospel how slow he talks i mean just sit down get your popcorn we're gonna
00:41:10.180have about two hours here to just get out this little bit that he says no but i mean this is
00:41:13.620this is your quintessential reformed gospel guy and when george floyd happened listen to how he
00:41:17.760sat down and began to explain what Christians have to do, what they should be thinking about,
00:41:22.340what they should be asking, and beginning to put a kind of moral weights upon them.
00:41:26.960As I was thinking of this video, I thought of a second experience.
00:41:34.080Several years ago, Llewellyn and I began to attend Epiphany Fellowship Church.
00:41:42.020it's a largely african-american church i would imagine that there are 75 or 80 percent of the
00:41:52.400congregation is populated by our black brothers and sisters uh epiphany will always be a bit of
00:42:00.520multicultural church but is a predominantly black church it has been a transforming experience
00:42:11.820for us because we have listened to the experiences of brothers and sisters that we have come to love
00:42:22.080dearly. This is our family. And we have heard things way outside of our personal field of
00:42:34.960experience we've heard of moms and dads who've had to have conversations with their sons and
00:42:45.820daughters that we never had to have with our children that video comes across like a hostage
00:42:53.540video you've got eric mason behind the camera yeah you had better the whole time i'm listening
00:42:58.100i'm thinking leonce crump eric mason brandon washington these guys are probably just barely
00:43:03.120outside of the frame, holding a gun to Paul David Tripp's head and making him repeat the line.
00:43:09.220Unfortunately, that was actually probably pretty voluntary. But again, these were the pastors that
00:43:13.220were telling you, they have to have the talk, you have it better. But the truth is that you alluded
00:43:18.840the exact opposite. The truth is the exact opposite. And that's what makes me so...
00:43:22.460And you do have to have a talk about it. So there is a talk, but not the one they're espousing.
00:43:27.080Correct. There is a talk and parents do need to have it, but it's the exact opposite of what
00:43:32.460we were told for years and years and years and that makes me frustrated because it is it's not0.80
00:43:37.600just ignorance it really is deceitful i think it's wicked um the kosher right and i think that's the
00:43:43.500best label that i could come up with you know it's it's the israel worshiping you know allegedly0.81
00:43:49.260you know conservative really more so neocon i think you know ben shapiro think james lindsey
00:43:55.120think you know that that kind of crew um the kosher right uh wants you to think that you know
00:44:00.700wokeness is all the same, just two sides of the same coin, right? They're both wrong. They're
00:44:06.300both immoral. They're both unbiblical and equally so just in opposite directions, right? And that's0.83
00:44:12.960what they would say. But that's not true. The problem with wokeness, real wokeness, right?
00:44:19.780Woke left is the only kind of woke there is. That's what wokeness is. It's leftism. And that
00:44:25.900wokeness that we all experienced in 2000 you know from i would say at least in my experience all the
00:44:31.080way from 2013 up until 2022 23 24 um that wokeness that what made it so sinister um was not that it
00:44:42.760that it talked about race it is okay and permissible to talk about race it's that it talked about race
00:44:49.760deceitfully it blatantly lied it said there's there is a a racial massacre in the united states
00:44:57.620of america in 2020 currently you know going on targeting the black community and it was
00:45:06.780it was immoral because it was false it was blatantly false however you know and they'll say0.51
00:45:14.740well here you are you're saying that uh well black parents shouldn't have the talk with their kids
00:45:19.360and just for the record i'm going to come back to this i think black parents absolutely need to have0.92
00:45:24.180several talks with their black children um but not the talk of police are out to get you0.90
00:45:29.800and you better watch out but the talk of um statistically speaking most of the other black1.00
00:45:37.160children your age are reprobates and misbehaved and rebellious towards authority including police0.99
00:45:46.400and you better not be one of them like there is a talk and you better be careful around them0.99
00:45:52.080because black on black violence as high as it is black on white black on black is correct just as0.97
00:45:57.220high if not higher and i want to get to that uh nathan i think it was ashana howell h-o-w-e-l-l
00:46:04.780in the comments if you could go and find that because i want to read this they have um a comment
00:46:08.880that i disagree with but i'll give her the benefit of the doubt here i think she's just probably
00:46:13.200missing our point but uh real quick with what west said in terms of black on white and black
00:46:18.460on black um she i think is is misunderstanding what we're trying to communicate here she said
00:46:23.340well where's the evidence and speaking of this latest instance that we addressed at the top of
00:46:27.820the show where's the evidence of racism though uh you can't just assume that the attacker was racist
00:46:33.700in the same way uh black people shouldn't assume that all police brutality um cases are because
00:46:40.260of racism and i would agree i i completely agree in this one incidence i i don't know maybe it was
00:46:45.980racial racially motivated maybe it wasn't that's not our point uh the point of our episode is not0.98
00:46:51.640that um that all these black murderers are racist our point is they just kill people0.97
00:46:58.280at an incredibly complicated calculus yeah so so we're not saying oh the problem here is that all1.00
00:47:05.080these black guys are racist against white people some of them absolutely are absolutely but that's0.51
00:47:11.780not the point the main point that we're making is simply that when it comes to the raw statistics1.00
00:47:19.100the facts whether it's black on white crime or black on hispanic crime or black on black crime
00:47:25.240any way you slice it there's just exponentially more crime specifically violent crime and murder
00:47:33.500And so when we say, you know, white parents, if you're a Christian white parent who loves the Lord and loves your children, that you need to have the talk.
00:47:42.160The talk that we're referencing is the talk that takes your children according to their maturity at the proper time, the appropriate time, and says, there are certain parts of town that you cannot go.
00:47:55.880And there are certain people that you cannot be around.0.63
00:47:59.520you know right uh if there's someone who who is black in our church and and they've been in our
00:48:06.560church and we know them and they love the lord jesus christ great we're not talking about that
00:48:12.100person but we're talking about when you go into a crowd of people if you go into a crowd of strangers
00:48:17.760and they're white strangers there's some danger if they're black strangers there is 30 times0.90
00:48:25.760more danger. Them's the facts. And it is actually a failure of your parental duty.0.99
00:48:33.920White parents, please hear me. If you teach your children growing up, if you lie to them1.00
00:48:39.720and say all people and all races of people in our country are the same, they are not.
00:48:48.840you are actually depriving your child of factual, truthful information that could
00:48:54.700save their life. They actually should have a situational awareness. As a young teenager and
00:49:02.820later on in life, as a young adult, a situational awareness. They should know that in certain parts
00:49:08.380of town and in certain contexts and certain times of day, the evening, nighttime, that all strangers1.00
00:49:16.100represent some degree of threat but a group of black men1.00
00:49:22.560represents a much greater threat and that is somewhere where if you're if you're black yourself1.00
00:49:31.120and there's a group of black men men and it's nighttime and you're black you don't need to go0.95
00:49:36.440over there if you're white a white man you really don't need to go over there and if you're a white0.93
00:49:41.500woman you really really really don't need to go i'll take another level and say this applies for1.00
00:49:46.040also husbands with their wives women can have a tendency they don't think in those categories
00:49:50.280i don't think about who could be a threat what could happen i've been on public transit like
00:49:53.980that i would never be sitting with my back to someone i would probably have my back against
00:49:57.460the wall so you're telling your wife hey if you you see especially a black man and he seems to0.99
00:50:02.540be following you get to your car as fast as possible call me i don't want you being around0.99
00:50:06.820this type of public transportation hey i know you'd like to pick this up or visit this person
00:50:10.520they live in this part of town i'm just not allowing you to go to that is a wise prudent
00:50:15.180thing right loving to tell your wife and if you are in in the city if she does take public transit
00:50:20.540hey dear i bought you a car it was two thousand dollars i'd like you to drive this like why can't
00:50:26.160we get americans to take public transit europe does it well uh there's a reason and it doesn't
00:50:30.680have to do with the timing it doesn't have to do with the cost it's dangerous that's right yep and
00:50:36.140this also uh would apply to your children as they reach young adulthood and they're thinking about
00:50:40.600where to start a family and where to live right that you have those conversations you talk to
00:50:44.980your son you talk to your daughter and you say hey uh you know they come to your dad i got a job
00:50:50.580offer i'm really excited about it does require me to you know to uh transfer and move and it's like
00:50:56.440oh you're you're moving to um to salt lake city great oh you're moving to atlanta no yeah please
00:51:06.560sweetheart do not do that well why dad um because there are two different kinds of people that live
00:51:14.120in atlanta and salt lake city and one poses again objective objectively at a factual level
00:51:23.340statistically speaking a far not we're not talking about if if and i just want to make this point
00:51:29.100real quick if if we were saying you know uh with with one demographic there are you know 10 people