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 Chuck Colson was one of the leading defenders of the Christian faith and the absolute truthfulness of God's Word.

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 From shortly after his conversion in the late 1970s until his death in 2012,

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 in a 2003 interview, he was asked to fill in the blank to these two questions.

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 First, he was asked, the greatest crisis facing the church today is, and he filled in the blank, individualism.

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 The greatest crisis facing the church today is individualism.

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 Now he defined individualism as the idea that we can do our own thing.

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 The culture is radically individualistic.

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 People just do whatever they want.

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 The second statement, he was asked to fill in the blank, the greatest threat facing the individual Christian is,

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 and he filled in the blank with the dismissal of truth.

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 Here was how he explained this.

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 The Barna poll showed that 54% of evangelicals believe that there is no absolute truth.

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 We have been sucked into the biggest lie this culture can propagate.

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 Colson was saying back in 2003 that most people in this country, including professing Christians,

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 according to Barna, 54% of evangelical Christians,

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 most people in the country, Colson was saying, including Christians,

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 reject the idea of absolute truth.

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 That means a universal standard of right and wrong.

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 2003, the majority of Americans,

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 the majority of evangelical Christians said,

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 there is no objective standard of right and wrong.

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 No absolute truth.

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 Now, Colson is saying that we as a nation have replaced absolute truth with the idea of personal truth.

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 That is, I decide what's right and wrong for me,

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 and you get to decide what's right and wrong for you.

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 Not absolute truth.

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 Personal truth is what most people believe.

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 Now, Colson was describing that in 2003.

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 How much more does that accurately describe our country today,

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 the world in which we live in?

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 You know, if you think about it,

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 that helps us understand how behaviors

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 that were widely understood to be sinful and shameful

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 just a few years ago are now widely accepted

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 and even celebrated.

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 Now, as I wind down my ministry as your pastor,

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 I'm preaching a series of five messages

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 using Billy Graham's last public message as my theme.

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 I put it on the screen each week.

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 Let's do it again.

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 Billy Graham said his last gathering on his 95th birthday.

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 With all my heart, I want to leave you with truth.

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 The first week we looked at the truth about the Bible.

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 Last week we looked at the truth about the church.

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 Today we're going to look at the truth about key cultural questions.

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 I want to say this.

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 As I'm winding down

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 and you're going to begin a new search for a pastor,

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 it is a part of the pastor's job description

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 to preach and teach the Word of God

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 and apply it to life in this world,

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 including today's cultural issues.

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 A pastor is not doing his job

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 if he does not teach the Bible

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 in a way that helps Christians apply

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 what God says, the truth of God's Word,

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 to real life,

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 including controversial issues in our culture.

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 So I want to say

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 to the church

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 and to the search committee,

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 I am praying

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 and I have absolute confidence

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 that you will,

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 search committees,

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 seek for

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 a man who unashamedly

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 believes that the Bible

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 is God's inerrant Word,

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 a man who believes

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 what the Bible teaches

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 about the cultural issues of today,

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 and we're going to look at some of them right now.

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 But as you,

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 as a pastor's search committee

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 and church,

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 look at such people,

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 interview such people,

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 make sure that they not only

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 believe the truth,

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 but will stand in the pulpit

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 and preach the truth

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 on a regular basis.

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 That is vitally important.

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 It's not enough just to believe what's right.

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 We need to live it.

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 And if you're a teacher in this church

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 or any church,

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 you need to teach it.

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 You do not need to be ashamed,

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 afraid,

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 that you're going to offend somebody.

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 The gospel is offensive.

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 The Word of God

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 is offensive

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 to people who do not believe it,

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 who reject it,

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 who oppose it.

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 So,

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 that's just one word

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 as we get started this morning.

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 I want to look

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 quickly at two cultural issues

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 that we've looked at before,

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 but because we're on the subject

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 this morning,

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 I want to bring them out

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 just as a reminder.

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 Number one,

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 the truth about homosexuality

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 and same-sex marriage.

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 The Bible clearly teaches

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 that homosexual behavior

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 is sinful behavior.

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 Now,

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 I've preached on that

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 over the years.

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 There are some examples

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 of scriptures

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 that are very clear.

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 God condemns homosexual behavior.

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 It is sinful behavior.

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 But I want to say

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 in this context,

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 while I've preached that,

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 I've often so emphasized

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 that the Bible's solution

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 to all sinful behavior

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 is to admit

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 it's sin against God

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 and to repent of it,

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 change your mind about it,

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 turn from it,

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 and turn to Jesus

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 in faith and forgiveness.

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 Some people get the wrong idea

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 if anything controversial

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 they'll ever preach,

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 especially on these sexual matters.

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 I have always tried

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 to come across,

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 communicate clearly.

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 This kind of behavior

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 is sinful behavior,

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 but it is forgivable behavior.

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 God can change anyone's life.

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 And that's the message

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 you need to hear.

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 Sin is sin.

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 But by the grace of God

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 through faith in Jesus Christ,

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 anyone can be forgiven,

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 the slate wiped clean,

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 have a fresh start,

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 a fresh even orientation to life.

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 The Bible also is clear

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 that same-sex marriage

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 violates God's design for marriage.

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 And God's design for marriage,

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 as you see there in Genesis 2,

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 to join one man and one woman

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 in a one-flesh relationship for life.

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 Look at it.

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 Therefore a man shall leave

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 his father and his mother

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 and hold fast to his wife,

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 and they shall become one flesh.

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 That's the foundational statement

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 on marriage that God has given us.

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 He's given us that institution.

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 And so same-sex marriage

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 violates God's design for marriage.

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 That's clear.

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 Let's go on.

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 The truth about transgenderism.

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 The Bible teaches that transgenderism

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 is contrary to God's design

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 for human beings.

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 We've also looked at this in the past.

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 So let's just quickly review.

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 God created human beings

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 in his image as male and female.

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 Look at this.

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 So God created man in his own image

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 of God.

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 He created him.

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 Male and female,

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 he created them.

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 Since creation,

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 since creation,

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 this is the beginning,

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 human beings have understood

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 that their biological sex,

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 or the new word,

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 gender,

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 was determined by God

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 and revealed at birth.

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 God determined

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 that you would be male or female.

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 And when you were born,

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 it became obvious

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 if you were male and female.

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 And I want you to understand,

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 if you were born a male,

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 you are a male.

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 If you were born a female,

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 you are a female.

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 You can say, pretend,

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 dress up, disguise,

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 any way you want to.

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 But biologically,

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 you are what you were born biologically.

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 And you can't change that.

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 And that is the truth of God's word.

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 God creates us male or female.

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 Now,

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 God commands human beings

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 to present themselves,

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 appear,

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 present yourself

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 as either a male,

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 if you're a biological male,

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 or a female,

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 if you're a biological female.

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 Now,

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 and do it in a culturally appropriate way.

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 1 Corinthians 11,

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 verses 2 through 16,

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 brings this out

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 as it talks about

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 a way a man and a woman

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 ought to appear in worship,

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 and participate in worship.

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 That's a long passage.

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 I just want to give you

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 a little commentary

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 that explains what we're talking about

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 quickly here this morning.

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 Craig Blomberg

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 explains

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 about how we're to present ourselves

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 according to our biological sex.

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 Look,

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 most interpreters agree

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 that one timeless principle

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 that may be deduced

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 from this passage

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 is that Christians

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 should not try to blur

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 all distinctions

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 between the sexes.

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 God created men and women

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 as sexual beings

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 with sexual differences.

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 So we must not try

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 to destroy

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 these distinctives

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 by dressing

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 or grooming

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 in ways

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 that make it impossible

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 to recognize

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 a person's gender

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 or worse still,

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 by changing

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 our sexual appearance

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 through transvestite,

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 the old word,

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 or transgender behavior.

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 Bottom line,

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 God expects men

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 to look and act like men.

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 God expects women

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 to look and act like women

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 in whatever way

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 is appropriate

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 at this time

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 in this culture.

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 That's the clear

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 teaching of Scripture.

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 And anything

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 that violates that

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 is sinful behavior.

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 Now,

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 let's move on

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 to today's

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 most hot-button issue.

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 One we've never

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 tackled before.

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 The truth about

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 critical race theory.

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 Critical race theory

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 or CRT

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 may be the most

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 controversial issue

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 in today's culture.

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 It is being

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 strongly debated,

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 as most of you know,

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 on college campuses,

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 in public school

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 board meetings.

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 You're reading

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 and seeing that

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 on TV.

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 It is strongly

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 debated in government,

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 even in the military.

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 Of course,

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 the media.

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 It's even being

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 debated in

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 Christian churches

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 and denominations.

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 This was the most

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 controversial issue

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 at this year's

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 Southern Baptist

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 Convention,

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 and I am

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 disappointed to say

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 that Southern Baptists

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 failed

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 to clearly

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 identify

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 critical race theory

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 as incompatible

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 with the teaching

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 of the Bible.

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 Southern Baptists

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 put together

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 a resolution

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 to declare

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 that only Scripture

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 is God's Word.

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 That's where we've

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 got to look for

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 our ultimate standard

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 of what we believe

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 and how we live.

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 They alluded to it,

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 but the convention

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 failed intentionally.

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 They called it

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 a compromise.

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 It was too much

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 of a compromise.

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 They would not

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 identify

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 critical race theory

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 as being totally

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 incompatible

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 with the teaching

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 of God's Word.

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 Now,

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 one thing that has

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 happened this past year

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 that's positive

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 in Southern Baptist life,

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 we have six

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 Southern Baptist

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 seminaries.

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 Their presidents

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 meet from time

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 to time,

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 issue statements,

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 I think it's called

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 a President's Council.

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 Earlier this year,

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 the presidents

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 got together

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 and they

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 clearly stated

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 that critical race

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 theory is incompatible

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 with the teaching

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 of the Bible

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 and that it is

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 incompatible

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 with our

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 denominations'

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 statement of faith,

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 the Baptist faith

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 and message.

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 They got a lot

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 of flack.

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 They got a lot

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 of criticism

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 for that.

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 Some people even

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 threatening to leave

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 the convention.

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 You know what my

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 thought is?

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 When a person

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 threatens to leave

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 the convention

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 over the truth,

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 there's the door.

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 I'll open it

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 for you.

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 Wouldn't you?

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 You don't compromise

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 the truth of God's Word

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 to avoid hurting

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 somebody's feelings,

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 especially over

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 a cultural issue

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 that is hurting

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 the church

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 and the family

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 and as clearly

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 as we're going

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 to see,

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 contrary

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 to the teaching

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 of God's Word

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 about dealing

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 with these kind

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 of problems,

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 racial type problems.

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 Now we've all heard

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 about critical race

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 theory in recent months.

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 What exactly is it?

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 You know,

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 wherever you look,

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 it's hard to just,

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 you know,

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 just firmly,

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 clearly,

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 plainly describe.

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 CRT is rooted

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 in Marxism,

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 but it replaces

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 Marxism's focus

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 on a conflict

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 between social classes

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 with a conflict

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 between races.

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 One of the most

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 widely used

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 definitions

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 of CRT

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 comes from

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 the UCLA

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 School of Public Affairs,

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 which is a

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 pro-critical race

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 theory group.

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 I want you to read it

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 and it looks like

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 it came from

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 a school of public

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 affairs at a university.

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 But look at it.

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 This is one of the

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 most common

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 definitions you'll find

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 if you do any kind

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 of research on this.

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 CRT recognizes

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 that racism

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 is ingrained

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 in the fabric

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 and system

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 of the American society.

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 The individual

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 racist

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 need not exist

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 to note

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 that institutional

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 racism

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 is pervasive

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 in the dominant

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 culture.

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 This is the

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 analytical lens

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 that CRT

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 uses in examining

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 existing

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 power structures.

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 CRT identifies

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 that these

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 power structures

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 are based on

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 white privilege

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 and white supremacy,

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 which perpetuates

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 the marginalization

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 of people of color.

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 Let's try to

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 simplify that.

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 CRT says

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 that all major

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 legal,

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 cultural,

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 and institutional

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 power lies

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 with and was

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 designed by

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 white people.

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 Therefore,

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 racism is

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 systemic

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 and inescapable

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 in Western

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 society,

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 especially

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 in the United

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 States.

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 CRT says

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 that all white

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 people in this

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 country are

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 oppressors

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 by virtue

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 of being

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 white and

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 that all

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 people of

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 color,

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 especially

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 black people,

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 are the

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 oppressed

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 by virtue

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 of being

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 people of

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 color.

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 This is

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 because all

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 power structures

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 are rooted

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 in white

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 privilege and

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 white supremacy.

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 If you've

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 kept up with

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 any of this,

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 I think you

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 can call it

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 a growing

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 movement

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 against

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 critical race

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 theory throughout

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 our culture.

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 And one

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 thing that's

00:16:39.239 --> 00:16:39.599
 really stood

00:16:39.599 --> 00:16:40.299
 out to me,

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 school board

00:16:42.779 --> 00:16:43.379
 related

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 controversies

00:16:44.739 --> 00:16:45.299
 discussions.

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 More and

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 more black

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 parents,

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 like one

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 father in

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 particular,

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 are totally

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 against this

00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:55.359
 concept of

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 critical race

00:16:56.219 --> 00:16:56.759
 theory,

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 which teaches

00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:00.119
 their children

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 that they're

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 oppressed

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 because they're

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 black and they

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 can't do

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 anything about

00:17:04.259 --> 00:17:04.440
 it.

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 This black

00:17:05.740 --> 00:17:06.320
 father that

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 probably a lot

00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:07.340
 of you read

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 about or

00:17:07.779 --> 00:17:08.620
 maybe heard

00:17:08.620 --> 00:17:09.340
 on an

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 interview,

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 he said he

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 was teaching

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 his daughter

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 that she was

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 created in the

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 image of God,

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 that she had

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 gifts and

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 abilities,

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 that she could

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 develop,

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 and she could

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 be whatever she

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 wants to be

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 in life.

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 If she gets the

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 education, the

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 training, she has

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 those talents and

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 gifts, there's

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 nothing holding

00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:27.820
 her back.

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 She can go for

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 whatever it is she

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 wants to be,

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 and that's what

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 most of us have

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 taught our

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 children their

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 whole lives.

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 That's what is

00:17:35.860 --> 00:17:37.300
 normal to teach

00:17:37.300 --> 00:17:37.920
 in American

00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:38.500
 society.

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 That's what

00:17:39.420 --> 00:17:40.860
 throughout time

00:17:40.860 --> 00:17:41.500
 people have

00:17:41.500 --> 00:17:42.000
 taught their

00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:42.759
 children, wanted

00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:43.080
 for their

00:17:43.080 --> 00:17:44.360
 children, but

00:17:44.360 --> 00:17:44.980
 critical race

00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:45.560
 theory is coming

00:17:45.560 --> 00:17:46.900
 in and saying

00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:48.019
 in effect to

00:17:48.019 --> 00:17:48.680
 black children,

00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:49.540
 you're part of

00:17:49.540 --> 00:17:49.940
 the oppressed

00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:50.420
 group, you

00:17:50.420 --> 00:17:50.940
 can't do any

00:17:50.940 --> 00:17:51.480
 better, you

00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:51.920
 got to wait

00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:53.519
 until we create

00:17:53.519 --> 00:17:54.560
 a revolution to

00:17:54.560 --> 00:17:55.180
 do away with

00:17:55.180 --> 00:17:56.040
 white power in

00:17:56.040 --> 00:17:56.480
 this country.

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 That's what's

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 happening.

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 Now the best

00:18:00.859 --> 00:18:01.700
 resource that

00:18:01.700 --> 00:18:02.480
 explains the

00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:03.140
 problems of

00:18:03.140 --> 00:18:03.759
 critical race

00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:04.460
 theory and

00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:05.119
 its liberal

00:18:05.119 --> 00:18:06.099
 view of social

00:18:06.099 --> 00:18:08.000
 justice is this

00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:09.819
 book, Fault

00:18:09.819 --> 00:18:11.539
 Lines by

00:18:11.539 --> 00:18:12.059
 Votie

00:18:12.059 --> 00:18:12.839
 Baucom.

00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:14.740
 It's the best

00:18:14.740 --> 00:18:15.680
 resource I have

00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:16.180
 found.

00:18:17.299 --> 00:18:19.960
 He has done a

00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:20.579
 great job of

00:18:20.579 --> 00:18:21.599
 researching this.

00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:23.420
 He quotes

00:18:23.420 --> 00:18:25.259
 lengthy quotes

00:18:25.259 --> 00:18:27.299
 of people who

00:18:27.299 --> 00:18:29.019
 are writing in

00:18:29.019 --> 00:18:29.779
 favor of

00:18:29.779 --> 00:18:30.839
 developing critical

00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:33.339
 race theory and

00:18:33.339 --> 00:18:34.059
 he has the

00:18:34.059 --> 00:18:35.140
 ability to show

00:18:35.140 --> 00:18:36.140
 their weaknesses,

00:18:36.379 --> 00:18:37.079
 their flaws,

00:18:37.259 --> 00:18:38.140
 their errors.

00:18:39.140 --> 00:18:40.379
 He even points

00:18:40.379 --> 00:18:43.299
 out how a lot

00:18:43.299 --> 00:18:43.759
 of the things

00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:44.119
 that are being

00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:44.879
 said publicly

00:18:44.879 --> 00:18:46.720
 about police

00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.259
 out to get

00:18:49.259 --> 00:18:50.460
 black people,

00:18:50.579 --> 00:18:51.059
 black men in

00:18:51.059 --> 00:18:52.000
 particular, he

00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.160
 cites all kinds

00:18:53.160 --> 00:18:53.640
 of research,

00:18:54.059 --> 00:18:54.599
 studies,

00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:55.240
 government

00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:57.460
 studies and

00:18:57.460 --> 00:18:58.480
 others that

00:18:58.480 --> 00:18:59.000
 shows that is

00:18:59.000 --> 00:18:59.480
 not true.

00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:00.980
 It is a false

00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:02.000
 narrative that's

00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:02.759
 being promoted

00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:03.819
 by many but

00:19:03.819 --> 00:19:04.579
 especially people

00:19:04.579 --> 00:19:05.400
 involved in

00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:06.220
 CRT.

00:19:07.299 --> 00:19:08.079
 I strongly

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 encourage you,

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 get Fault

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 Lines by

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 Votie

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 Baucom.

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 It will

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 enlighten you

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 on a lot of

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 issues about

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 race and I

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 want to say

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 Votie

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 Baucom grew up

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 basically in

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 poverty, a

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 single mother,

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 a rough

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 neighborhood.

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 But he

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 talks about it

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 in his book

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 that his mother

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 believed in

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 taking personal

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 responsibility.

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 She highly

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 valued education.

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 She made

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 sure that he

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 didn't associate

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 with the wrong

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 people growing

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 up.

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 And by putting

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 him in the

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 right kind of

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 environments to

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 the best of her

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 ability, by

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 making sure he

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 got a good

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 education and

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 took responsibility

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 for himself and

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 his actions,

00:19:50.740 --> 00:19:52.079
 Votie

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 Baucom is a

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 world-known

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 now theologian.

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 He has

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 degrees from

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 Southern Baptist

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 seminaries.

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 He has

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 pastored churches,

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 preached in many

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 Southern Baptist

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 churches.

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 We used his

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 material several

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 years ago in

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 one of the

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 Sunday night

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 discipleship

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 classes that

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 we had back

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 then.

00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:10.460
 Votie

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 Baucom now is

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 teaching at,

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 he is the

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 dean of the

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 African Christian

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 University School

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 of Theology at

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 the African

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 Christian University

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 in Zambia.

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 He went over

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 there six years

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 ago.

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 Votie Baucom is

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 a black man.

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 He speaks from

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 the experience of

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 being a black

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 man growing up as

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 I described in

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 America.

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 But one of the

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 things he will

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 tell you in that

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 book based on his

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 experience of living

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 in Africa and just

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 living life in this

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 country, he will

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 say the United

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 States of America

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 is actually one of

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 the least racist

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 nations on the

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 planet.

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 Read what Votie

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 says and the way

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 he backs up his

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 arguments and shoots

00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:05.279
 holes in CRT

00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:05.779
 arguments.

00:21:06.620 --> 00:21:07.880
 Now, Baucom says

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 that CRT has

00:21:08.859 --> 00:21:10.140
 spawned what he

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 calls a new cult or

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 religion called

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 anti-racism.

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 And he points out

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 how anti-racism has

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 its own vocabulary

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 and assigns new

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 definitions to old

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 words and phrases.

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 He provides some of

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 the, he defines some

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 of these words and

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 phrases in a way that

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 will help us to

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 understand some of

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 the things we're

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 hearing today from

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 advocates of CTR when

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 they throw around

00:21:41.940 --> 00:21:42.660
 these words.

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 So bear with

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 we're going to

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 look quickly and

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 we're only going to

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 look at two

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 explanations.

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 We're just going to

00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:48.759
 look at the

00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:49.460
 statements on most

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 of them but we'll

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 look at two

00:21:50.180 --> 00:21:50.640
 definitions.

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 Number one, you're

00:21:52.100 --> 00:21:52.800
 hearing these words,

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 you're reading these

00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:54.880
 words, look at it.

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 Whiteness, a set of

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 normative privileges

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 granted to white

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 skinned individuals and

00:22:02.540 --> 00:22:03.880
 groups which is

00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:05.980
 invisible to those so

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 privileged by it.

00:22:07.619 --> 00:22:10.059
 He says the cult of

00:22:10.059 --> 00:22:12.159
 anti-racism roots every

00:22:12.159 --> 00:22:13.619
 aspect of its world

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 view in the assertion

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 that everything begins

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 with the creation of

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 whiteness.

00:22:19.659 --> 00:22:20.659
 More specifically the

00:22:20.659 --> 00:22:21.779
 creation of whiteness

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 with the express purpose

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 of establishing white

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 people as the dominant

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 hegemonic which means

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 illegitimate oppressors

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 and all non-white people

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 as the objects of that

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 oppression.

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 Another word I know

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 you know, white privilege.

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 That's a series of

00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:44.500
 unearned advantages that

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 accrue to white people

00:22:45.919 --> 00:22:47.779
 by virtue of their

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 whiteness.

00:22:49.919 --> 00:22:52.039
 Now here's one that I

00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:53.819
 really needed help on the

00:22:53.819 --> 00:22:54.379
 explanation.

00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:56.219
 White supremacy.

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 He says according to CTR

00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:01.819
 any belief, behavior, or

00:23:01.819 --> 00:23:03.139
 system that supports,

00:23:03.719 --> 00:23:04.819
 promotes, or

00:23:04.819 --> 00:23:07.299
 enhances white privilege.

00:23:08.740 --> 00:23:10.319
 He says this is not your

00:23:10.319 --> 00:23:11.720
 grandfather's version of

00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:13.019
 white supremacy.

00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:15.439
 When I think, hear that

00:23:15.439 --> 00:23:16.200
 word, I think about the

00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:16.619
 KKK.

00:23:17.679 --> 00:23:19.599
 I think about evil,

00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:21.899
 sinful, race, real

00:23:21.899 --> 00:23:22.419
 racist.

00:23:23.139 --> 00:23:24.259
 He says it does not refer

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:26.119
 to the KKK or neo-Nazis

00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:27.099
 except when it does.

00:23:27.639 --> 00:23:29.099
 This version refers to the

00:23:29.099 --> 00:23:31.899
 very air one breathes in a

00:23:31.899 --> 00:23:34.039
 culture created by and for

00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:35.180
 white people.

00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:40.899
 CRT people would say that

00:23:40.899 --> 00:23:42.819
 if you are a white person,

00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:45.319
 you are guilty of white

00:23:45.319 --> 00:23:48.079
 supremacy because you are

00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:49.399
 a white person.

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 number four, white complicity.

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.600
 White people through the

00:23:53.600 --> 00:23:56.200
 practices of whiteness and by

00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:57.600
 benefiting from white

00:23:57.600 --> 00:23:59.840
 privilege contribute to the

00:23:59.840 --> 00:24:03.019
 maintenance of systemic racial

00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:04.519
 injustice.

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:07.759
 By you breathing and living,

00:24:08.820 --> 00:24:10.680
 according to CRT, you are

00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:14.460
 contributing to systemic racism

00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:15.660
 in this country.

00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:17.300
 white fragility.

00:24:18.420 --> 00:24:20.420
 The inability and unwillingness

00:24:20.420 --> 00:24:22.060
 of white people to talk about

00:24:22.060 --> 00:24:24.820
 race due to the grip that

00:24:24.820 --> 00:24:26.980
 whiteness, white supremacy,

00:24:27.600 --> 00:24:28.960
 white privilege, white

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:31.980
 complicitly, knowingly or

00:24:31.980 --> 00:24:32.640
 unknowingly.

00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:34.820
 He's talking about the, not the

00:24:34.820 --> 00:24:36.060
 inability to talk like I'm

00:24:36.060 --> 00:24:36.500
 talking now.

00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:38.920
 He's talking about the inability

00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:40.440
 or unwillingness of white people

00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:42.640
 to stand up and be counted and

00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:43.960
 discuss this with people.

00:24:43.960 --> 00:24:48.100
 systemic sin, the last one.

00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:50.500
 The sin of racism is no longer

00:24:50.500 --> 00:24:52.039
 to be understood as an

00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:53.019
 individual sin.

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.960
 Instead, the term now incorporates

00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:57.860
 the idea of institutional or

00:24:57.860 --> 00:25:00.380
 structural racism and its

00:25:00.380 --> 00:25:01.059
 implications.

00:25:01.360 --> 00:25:03.440
 Hence, America has sinned and

00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:05.680
 certain white Americans have

00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.079
 inherited that sin whether they

00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:10.000
 know it or not.

00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:13.299
 Now, everything that I pointed out

00:25:13.299 --> 00:25:16.980
 at the CRT, this is contrary to

00:25:16.980 --> 00:25:18.339
 what the Bible teaches about

00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:20.920
 humanity and race.

00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:24.420
 What you have seen on the screen,

00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:25.359
 what I've been talking about, about

00:25:25.359 --> 00:25:30.259
 CRT, this is not something that

00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:34.599
 maybe could be used to help us be

00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:36.059
 better informed as Christians.

00:25:36.059 --> 00:25:36.399
 No.

00:25:39.399 --> 00:25:44.980
 CRT teaches untruth.

00:25:44.980 --> 00:25:49.519
 A wrong explanation of humanity

00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:52.059
 and the problems of humanity like

00:25:52.059 --> 00:25:52.919
 race.

00:25:54.679 --> 00:25:56.740
 This is why people like Votie

00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:59.819
 Bauckham and others call critical race

00:25:59.819 --> 00:26:03.839
 theory a worldview that is contrary to

00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:05.740
 the Christian worldview.

00:26:06.419 --> 00:26:07.679
 As Christians, we should look at life

00:26:07.679 --> 00:26:08.720
 through the lens of Scripture.

00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:10.740
 A biblical worldview.

00:26:11.019 --> 00:26:11.899
 A Christian worldview.

00:26:12.859 --> 00:26:16.879
 Well, critical race theory, that's its

00:26:16.879 --> 00:26:17.480
 own worldview.

00:26:18.199 --> 00:26:22.139
 Secularism, atheism has their own

00:26:22.139 --> 00:26:23.119
 worldviews.

00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:27.720
 Now, let's go to what the Bible talks

00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:27.939
 about.

00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:30.939
 Critical race theory is contrary to

00:26:30.939 --> 00:26:32.000
 biblical truth.

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.240
 And I want to show you why.

00:26:33.779 --> 00:26:36.339
 First, all human beings can trace

00:26:36.339 --> 00:26:40.759
 their origin to one common source.

00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:42.960
 And that is the creative work of God.

00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:44.859
 Look again at Genesis 127.

00:26:45.420 --> 00:26:47.799
 So God created man in his own image,

00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:48.339
 image of God.

00:26:48.380 --> 00:26:48.960
 He created him.

00:26:49.220 --> 00:26:50.500
 Male and female, he created them.

00:26:50.779 --> 00:26:52.019
 What I want us to focus on here is,

00:26:52.339 --> 00:26:53.740
 God created human beings.

00:26:55.059 --> 00:26:56.019
 Male and female.

00:26:57.500 --> 00:26:58.799
 Both in his image.

00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:01.579
 Because all people are created in the image

00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:05.559
 of God, all people have equal worth and

00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:07.559
 value and significance.

00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:10.000
 It comes from being created in the image of

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.279
 God.

00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:13.339
 We don't separate people according to race

00:27:13.339 --> 00:27:14.019
 or ethnicity.

00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.700
 We're a part of the one human race.

00:27:17.779 --> 00:27:18.500
 That's the next thing.

00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:20.779
 All human beings can trace their origin to one

00:27:20.779 --> 00:27:23.159
 common ancestry, Adam and Eve.

00:27:23.659 --> 00:27:25.180
 Adam is the father of us all.

00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:27.460
 Look at what Paul said in Acts 17.

00:27:27.460 --> 00:27:30.059
 And he made from one man every nation of

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:33.480
 mankind to live on the face of the earth.

00:27:33.819 --> 00:27:36.140
 And he made from one man every nation of

00:27:36.140 --> 00:27:36.460
 mankind.

00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:40.380
 Secondly, Eve is the mother of us all.

00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.720
 Scripture says, Adam named his wife Eve because

00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:44.819
 she would become the mother of all the living.

00:27:46.259 --> 00:27:49.440
 Now just based on what the Bible says about the way

00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:53.340
 God created human beings, two things are true about

00:27:53.340 --> 00:27:54.360
 all people.

00:27:54.359 --> 00:28:00.139
 Every person who has ever lived is of equal worth and

00:28:00.139 --> 00:28:01.979
 importance for this reason.

00:28:02.639 --> 00:28:03.979
 They were created in the image of God.

00:28:05.599 --> 00:28:06.119
 Everybody.

00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:08.859
 White, black, brown, red, every.

00:28:10.399 --> 00:28:14.039
 Then every person who has ever lived is a descendant of

00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:18.099
 Adam and Eve, which means everyone is a member of the

00:28:18.099 --> 00:28:21.740
 same original race, the human race.

00:28:21.740 --> 00:28:27.180
 This truth helps us understand that all human

00:28:27.180 --> 00:28:33.460
 prejudice, hostility, divisiveness that is based on

00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:38.220
 race or nationality or ethnicity, that's contrary to the

00:28:38.220 --> 00:28:40.519
 way God created human beings to live.

00:28:41.660 --> 00:28:46.859
 All human prejudice, hostility, divisive, division between

00:28:46.859 --> 00:28:47.900
 races, groups, whatnot.

00:28:47.900 --> 00:28:52.740
 That is contrary to the way God created us and intends us to

00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:53.680
 live in this world.

00:28:54.280 --> 00:28:59.940
 Therefore, the root cause of all human relational problems,

00:29:00.040 --> 00:29:03.600
 including racial problems, is sin.

00:29:05.080 --> 00:29:09.400
 Not whiteness, as CRT says.

00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:13.320
 CRT says the root cause of the problems of racism in this country

00:29:13.320 --> 00:29:14.780
 is whiteness.

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:18.339
 The word of God says the root cause of all racial problems in

00:29:18.339 --> 00:29:19.859
 this country is sin.

00:29:20.960 --> 00:29:25.980
 We have failed to treat one another as equal worth and

00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:27.519
 value because we're created in the image of God.

00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:30.559
 We've failed to treat one another as brothers and sisters

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 universally in the sense that we're all part of the human

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 race.

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 Now, God's solution to the problem of racism and all sin is

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 found in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 I want you to note quickly how Paul describes how coming to

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 Christ changes us and changes the way we view other people.

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 Paul's describing when a person is born again by the Spirit of

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 God, we are made different.

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 Look at this.

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 From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the

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 flesh, even though we once regarded Christ according to the

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 flesh.

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 We regard him thus no longer.

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 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

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 The old is passed away.

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 Behold, the new has come.

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 When a person truly is born again by the Spirit of God, they're

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 regenerated.

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 Their whole way of looking at life changes.

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 Supernatural work of God.

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 That's what Paul's talking about.

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 Then, he also describes how God used the death of Christ to

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 unite his people by tearing down walls of racial and ethnic

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 prejudice and hostility.

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 Look at this from Ephesians 2.

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 But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off, he's talking

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 about Gentiles, have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

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 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both, Jew and Gentile,

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 one, and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of

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 hostility.

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 That he might create in himself one new man, Christians, brothers and

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 sisters in Christ, the church, out of Jew and Gentile.

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 So, making peace and might reconcile us both to God in one body, the

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 church, through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.

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 One of the tallest and strongest walls of separation has ever existed

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 between Jews and Gentiles.

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 And a lot of you know that.

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 The Jews were responsible for building that wall.

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 They were God's chosen people, but God chose them for a purpose.

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 God chose them to be channels to whom he worked to reach all humanity.

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 But the Jewish people only heard the part about, we're God's chosen

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 people.

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 And they took it pridefully.

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 They became arrogant.

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 We're God's chosen people.

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 Y'all are not.

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 They were Southern Jews that said, you know, y'all are not.

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 But that was true.

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 Instead of becoming agents of peace and reconciliation, they became

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 agents of hostility, rejection, division.

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 Well, the walls of division that the Jews built also became the

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 Gentiles wall.

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 The Gentiles owned it.

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 And both Jew and Gentile embraced a common hostility and hatred for

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 one another.

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 Now, a major wall of division exists today between black and white

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 Americans.

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 Like the Jews, I want you to listen to this.

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 This is important.

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 Like the Jews, white people in this country are responsible for

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 building the walls to start with through the institution of

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 slavery that existed in this country's first 200 years, including

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 colonial times.

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 Now, those walls of division and hostility, they were reinforced by

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 the legal discrimination and segregation that took place in this

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 country 100 years after the end of slavery or until the mid-1960s.

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 That was the Jim Crow laws.

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 So we need to own up to what we have done as white people in this country to build

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 walls of division and hostility.

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 But, like the Gentiles, black people in this country have taken co-ownership of

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 these walls of division.

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 You see, racism and prejudice are two-way streets.

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 CRT does not believe that.

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 Critical race theory teaches that only white people are or can be racist.

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 Black people cannot.

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 That's wrong.

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 It doesn't make sense.

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 Racism and prejudice go both ways.

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 White toward black, but also black toward white.

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 CRT says that we have a problem with systemic racism in this country.

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 But it says very little about individual racism.

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 Systemic racism means that racial problems are embedded in the systems and structures of

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 this country, in government, in banking, in education, and everywhere.

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 Well, that was true in this country in the years of slavery and Jim Crow.

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 But in the mid to late 1960s, civil rights acts were passed.

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 Since then, many other laws have been passed.

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 And the truth of the matter is, systemic racism is illegal in this country today.

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 It is not allowed in this country today.

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 Our racial problems are not truly systemic, embedded in the culture.

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 Our racial problems are personal problems.

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 Their problems are problems of the heart.

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 You know, there are definitely groups of people and individuals in this country who are racist to the core.

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 You may know some.

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 Some of them have such evil hearts that they are proud and public about their hatred for people

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 who are just about in any way different from them.

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 These kind of people need to always be called out, condemned, and opposed.

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 We need to let it be known there is no place for groups or individuals who hate people of another race, nationality, or ethnic group.

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 We must not tolerate racism in any form, on any level.

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 It is sin.

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 It is evil.

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 It will destroy our country.

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 But at the same time now, the only real solution to the sin of racism is repentance.

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 The only real solution to the sin of racism is for the Spirit of God to, from within, change people.

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 The way they think.

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 The way they see life.

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 The way they live life.

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 The way they relate to other people.

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 Critical race theory says that I must repent of the sins of past generations of racists.

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 That is not true.

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 That is not true.

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 I cannot repent of my forefathers' sins.

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 You can't of yours.

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 We repent of our personal sins, but not anyone else's.

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 Critical race theory also says, get this, I must repent of being white.

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 That's not only wrong, that's ridiculous.

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 Being white is not a sin.

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 Now you need to be aware of this.

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 There are some evangelicals, including some Southern Baptists, who have actually called for white people to repent of their whiteness.

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 And their white privilege.

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 White people do not need to repent of their whiteness.

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 Because being white is not a sin.

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 If you're white, you're white because God made you white.

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 You don't repent of what God made you.

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 Black people do not need to repent of being black.

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 Because black is not a sin.

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 God made black people black.

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 The Bible says that we can and must repent of our personal sins.

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 You can't repent of past generation sin.

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 There is nothing to repent of about being white or black or anything like that.

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 But the Bible does strongly teach that we can and must repent of all personal sins.

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 We must all own the sin that we are guilty of against God and other people.

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 We must not only own it, admit it, confess it, but we must turn from it, repent of it.

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 Let's be more specific.

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 If you have or are prejudiced against someone because of the color of their skin,

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 in your attitude, word, or actions,

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 you have sinned against them and God.

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 I want to be clear about that.

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 If you are a prejudiced person, you look down, you despise, you mistreat,

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 you alienate someone because of the color of their skin,

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 because of their ethnicity or anything like that,

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 that is sin against Almighty God.

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 You are rejecting the way that He has created you,

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 equal, everyone equal in God's image.

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 And you've sinned against that person that you have shown

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 through your attitude, words, or actions, racist conduct.

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 If that's true, admit it, turn from it.

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 Change your mind.

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 Ask God to help you to change your mind.

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 We cannot be right with Him until we do that.

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 In fact, no one can be right with God and refuse to repent of,

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 turn from any sin that God has made clear to you that you are guilty of.

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 The racial problems that exist in our country today are complex.

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 And I don't want to mislead anybody into thinking it's just a simple thing.

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 But I do want to be clear that critical race theory has no sensible or workable solution to the racial problems in our country.

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 But the Word of God provides us with wise and workable solutions that will help us to acknowledge,

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 deal with, and overcome the sins of racism if we'll do it God's way.

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 I want to encourage you this morning.

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 By God's grace, let's all do our part to tear down the walls that keep people apart.

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 Let's do all that we can to start building bridges that will bring people together.

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 Let's pray.

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 Dear God, help us to see this morning the truth about these cultural issues of today.

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 The truth that comes from your Word.

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 And help us, Father, to develop our beliefs and our convictions based on those truths.

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 And help us, dear God, to reject everything that is contrary to your Word.

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 No matter how popular it may be with people around us or just people in general in today's world.

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 Dear God, help us to see that by your grace, through the power of your Spirit,

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 we can apply the truth of your Word and build bridges across the racial divides that exist in this country.

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 Help us, Father, to seek to do that humbly.

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 Help us to seek to do that dependently upon you.

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 And help us to seek to do that together with others in this church,

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 in this community,

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 of all races,

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 of all ethnicities.

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 Give us the desire and ability to do this.

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 Let's just, in attitude of prayer,

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 listen to the Lord.

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 You respond to Him as you need to this morning.

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 Listen, pray, obey.

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 Definitely, yes!

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 Hallelujah.

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 Lilly.

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 Allez Julubal.

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 Bre not for anyone else'spit,

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