Super Bowl, Sports, and the Worldview that Drives It

The Super Bowl, sports, and the worldview that drives it. That is a topic we'll discuss today, right here on the Christian worldview radio program, where the mission is to sharpen the biblical worldview of Christians and to share the good news, the gospel, that all people can be reconciled to God through faith in Jesus Christ.

I'm David Wheaton, the host, and our website is thechristianworldview.org. Well, thank you for joining us as what is known now as Super Bowl weekend here, and over 100 million people will watch the Super Bowl football game on Sunday. Americans will wager an estimated $6.8 billion on the game. The cost of a 30-second ad or commercial is over $5 million for a 30-second ad. The average price for a ticket to the game is almost $6,400.

And Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who's playing in the game, could receive the NFL's first $200 million contract after the season. So it would be easy to conclude that sports generates big numbers all around. And this says something about our society that sports garners this much attention and this much money, and where athletes are granted VIP status.

They're the celebrities of our of our society. So this weekend on the Christian worldview, we're going to discuss the worldview behind some current events around the Super Bowl and sports, including these four stories. Green Bay Packers future Hall of Fame quarterback Aaron Rodgers discussing why he doesn't believe in the God of the Bible. It's a very interesting conversation he had with his girlfriend, former race car driver Danica Patrick. That's coming up in this first segment. We're also going to talk about the tragic death of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash recently, what we can take away from that. We're also going to talk about the Super Bowl, who rejected a pro-life ad, but will be doing a drag queen ad.

Why would they reject the pro-life ad in favor of a drag queen ad? And we're gonna have audio of both of those. Also down in Australia, the Australian Open is taking place right now that this is finals weekend as well at the Australian Open and two tennis greats Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe did an on-court protest holding up a sign demanding that one of the stadium arenas at the Australian Open be renamed over what they call homophobic unquote comments by past tennis champion Margaret Court. We'll get into that as well today. So lots of issues regarding sports with the worldview behind them.

We'll look at them today here on the Christian worldview because whether it's sports or politics or business or culture or just life in general, worldview is always the driving force behind what is taking place. Let's get first to this this interview with Aaron Rodgers who is a Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, one of the elite quarterbacks in the NFL, very popular, top two or three quarterbacks always considered in the NFL and he's he's dating or his girlfriend is Danica Patrick as I mentioned she was a former I think it was an Indy car driver, she was a professional race car driver, raced against the men by the way and actually did quite well in her career. Now she has a podcast where she interviewed her boyfriend Aaron Rodgers, quarterback Aaron Rodgers on the on this podcast. And Aaron Rodgers talked about his background with regard to faith and religion and so forth and some very interesting things to discuss from this particular podcast. So here's the audio we're going to go through it and just stop it at very various points along the way to comment. Here's Danica Patrick interviewing quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

I'm Danica Patrick, and I'm pretty intense. Most people that I knew church was just you just had to go your parents made you go you wake up you put some clothes on you go and you can't wait to get back and watch the second game of the day in the NFL on TV. Now isn't that sort of a sad state of affairs and then it's just a in an encouragement and exhortation to parents out there to try to raise your children not to view church like that just you have to go and it's boring and you're just going so you can get back to watch the second NFL game of the day. It's it's not that church should change and try to be more exciting and have people parachuting out of the upper decks and so forth and making an entertainment driven because that's what they try to do. But when the gospel and the Bible is preached strongly and relevantly, even even children will get excited and can understand that.

Let's move on. But uh, I started going to Young Life. And that's where I met Matt Hawk who you know Matt's and Matt was leading our Young Life group there for a while and he was the first Christian that I met where I was like man like this dude like swears every now and then he loves sports he's like coaches sports he's like you know he's awesome dude like he's just a really rad guy to be around. I kind of like you know the way that he talks about Jesus and the way that he talks about what it means to have a relationship with Christ like that's pretty cool so I enjoyed my time with Young Life we did some amazing outreach stuff you know we went to Mexico during two spring breaks and build houses and that was meaningful you know that was like okay so here Aaron Rodgers is talking about his first introduction to parachurch ministry which is Young Life and Young Life is a Christian organization but I would consider it very lightly Christian like Aaron Rodgers just mentioned it was just about having a lot of fun didn't mention anything about being taught the Bible or or the gospel it was about fun and travel and good works going to Mexico and building houses and so forth nothing about the gospel and it's interesting at this influence in Aaron Rodgers life when he was a teenager and by the way very very formative impressionable time as a teenager he met a man named Matt Hawk I don't know who Matt Hawk is but apparently he was involved with Young Life and he thought Aaron Rodgers thought he was pretty cool because he swears and loves sports and coaches sports but he liked the way he talked about Jesus so already a formation of his what it means to be a Christian is being is being imprinted on him from his consideration that church is boring Young Life was fun and a guy who swears but likes the way he talks about Jesus so now we're set up for Aaron Rodgers to go off to college it gets into more organized you know athletes in action or whatever it might be campus organizations and I just didn't find any connection points with with those things and started questioning things and had friends who had other beliefs and enjoyed learning that's kind of a part of my life had some good friendships along the way that helped me you know to figure out what exactly I wanted to believe in okay so here's another formation now the friends get into it there was no Young Life in college he said he didn't find any connection points in any on-campus organizations like athletes in action which is a division of campus crusader crew he started questioning things like so many do when they go off to college like they should do really that you should be questioning where I came from why am I here and where do I go after I die those are the important things to question in life but there's no one speaking biblical truth into his life and all of a sudden the introduction of friends friends as he said who had other beliefs he had good friendships he said who helped him try to figure out what I wanted to believe in we don't want to believe in things that we want to believe and we want to believe in things that are the truth it's not what we want it's what the truth is we want to believe in that and so here's the influence of his peers we're all the product of our influences in this formative time in his life you can see what direction he's being pulled satan is always at work trying to hinder and destroy someone from coming to saving faith and this is what's taking place in Aaron Rogers life let's go next to the rest of the interview and ultimately it was that the rules and regulations and binary systems don't really resonate with me you know enjoyed learning about other religions and meeting the Dalai Lama you know it's been a fun path to to a different type of spirituality which which to me is more it's been more meaningful so here's the tragic choice ultimately as he was influenced by his friends and in the background and found out about other religions he said ultimately rules and regulations and binary systems don't resonate with me it's a shame that he views Christianity as rules and regulations because that's not what it is God does have his standards his will for how he wants us to approach him and live our lives and who he is absolutely but keeping those rules and regulations does not make us right with him at all at all the bible says it's not by works of righteousness that we have done that saves us but by his mercy and grace it's a relationship not a religion so to speak in a binary system we're going to get into that in a second he uses that term over and over again but meeting the Dalai Lama he said was was was exciting I can't remember the word he put with it it was a it was a path to a different kind of spirituality and of course in those kinds of spiritualities there's no accountability the Dalai Lama and other most other religious systems don't put any sort of accountability especially moral accountability there are no rules and regulations you just get to live the way you want to live and then you don't have to live in the you don't you can make up your own rules and regulations let's continue would you just would you separate the two being spirituality and religion like you were religious and now you're spiritual I think both can work for people I do I think some people just need structure and they need tradition and stuff and that that works for them and I don't have a you know a problem with it that doesn't it doesn't resonate with me yeah okay so here here's the very common worldview of our age that I'm not religious but I'm spiritual and whatever works for you it's a completely man-centered pragmatic whatever works for your happiness of course is this is the exact inverse the exact wrong way of looking at it we shouldn't be thinking about what works for us it what is what is God's will who is God and what is his will what is my purpose here to serve him he's looking at it exactly backward but this is very very common and very typical of someone who doesn't understand who God is who has never believed in the gospel doesn't understand his his place and purpose in light of who God is and what God's plan is for Aaron Rogers's life God designed Aaron Rogers to be in relationship with him okay God revealed himself to Aaron Rogers through creation through his conscience through even some I'm sure some of the church background even though he didn't like it there were some things some touch points in there that God was revealing himself to Aaron Rogers and Aaron Rogers had a choice to make whether he was going to take that revelation and seek it further and find out who this God was is and how it can be right with him or not and unfortunately at least up till now in his life he's chosen to go away from God let's go next to the next part of the soundbite how far back can you go and identify like yeah I thought it was weird when I was four like or whatever is there an example can you identify when the skeptic and the questioner in you was really present I mean high school for sure because I had two groups I was going to I was going through to church on Sundays and then to young life on Mondays and young life on Monday welcomed everyone you know it's like right come as you are be there at 7 29 and like be ready for some fun and it was fun and we had a great time church on Sundays was like more you know make sure you dress a certain way and don't bring that person and this person's gonna get looked at strangely if they show up and I think you know again it's very black and white binary in binary sense but I don't think it's very welcoming religion can be a crutch can be a can be something that people have to have to make themselves feel better and because it's at a binary it's us and them it's saved and unsaved it's heaven and hell it's enlightened and heathen it's holy and righteous and sinner and filthy okay we're going to discuss and respond to all the assertions he just made all the truth claims he made about Christianity in that particular sound by coming back we'll talk more about the Super Bowl sports and the world view that drives it you're listening to the Christian real view I'm David Wheaton I'm David Wheaton that critical race theory and intersectionality are simply analytical tools they're meant to be used as tools not as a world view not a 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thechristianworldview.org more about the Southern Baptist Convention actually coming up today on the program but let's get back to that sound but if you just joined us we're playing an interview that quarterback from the Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers one of the best quarterbacks in NFL recently did with his girlfriend Danica Patrick who is a former race professional race car driver and they're talking about religion and his formation of his quote spiritual beliefs let's listen to the last minute of the interview and then uh see whether what he's saying lines up with what the truth of who God actually is uh religion can be a crutch can be a um can be something that people have to have to make themselves feel better and because it's set a binary it's us and them it's saved and unsaved it's heaven and hell it's enlightened and heathen it's holy and righteous and sinner and filthy and that makes I think that makes a lot of people feel better about themselves is it oh you know I have you know I got Jesus and you know I'm saved I'm going to heaven and there's only 144,000 of us going even though there's seven billion people on the planet and you know I don't know how you can believe in a God who wants to condemn most of the planet you know to a fiery hell like what type of loving sensitive omnipresent omnipotent being wants to condemn most of his beautiful creation to a fiery hell at the end of all this so many false assertions so much blasphemy about who God is but so little time to discuss it I mean there's just so many things he said religion is a crutch to make feel better well is his spirituality a crutch to make him feel better as a person all these things can be disinverted right right back on them and us versus them obviously have this saved versus unsaved mentality he has a completely negative view of who Christians are it is us like him like people like us who are enlightened versus them those Christians who think they're holier than now but the but the last part is I think is is the interesting part where he talks about how can you believe in a God who wants to condemn most of the the world to hell he thinks there's 144,000 only going to heaven of course that's a miss complete misinterpretation revelation that has to do with Jewish people who are saved in the end times as not believers over all of eternity is gonna be a lot more than 144,000 so anyway he says how can you believe in a God who wants to condemn most people to hell and and this is this is one of the hard truths of scripture but the Bible is clear God does not want to condemn people to hell it says clearly in first Timothy chapter 2 God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth for there is one God and there is one mediator also between God and men the man Christ Jesus here's that binary system that he rebels against that he hates that there's one way to God and it's through Jesus Christ but the good news is there is there actually is one way God didn't have to make anyway he would have been completely just to give us what we all deserve in sentencing us all to hell for rebelling against him but God is gracious he is good he is compassionate he is patient and that he's offered away and the way he offered actually was through sending his own son to pay the penalty and take the death penalty for the sin for the death penalty that we deserve to pay and take our sin on him and in turn give give us his righteousness for those who would repent and believe that's the gospel that's a good God who is willing to save and send his own son to pay for sins that he didn't commit that's a good God and God desires all men to be saved now people often ask this question about this passage how can God desire desire something and then actually not have it fall through is he is he too weak to be able to uh to have people saving he desires all men to be saved so why doesn't he save them well there's an interesting footnote in this study bible the MacArthur study bible on this particular passage and it explains that there's a difference between what God desires and what he decrees something he desires he does desire all men to be saved but that's not his decreed will where if he decrees something it will come to pass the note says the Greek word for desires is not that which normally expresses God's will of decree his eternal purpose but God's will of desire there is a distinction between God's desire and his eternal saving purpose which must transcend his desires in other words his decrees happen his desires are over his desires are underneath subordinate to what he decrees God does not want us to sin he hates sin with all his being he hates its sin's consequences eternal wickedness in hell he hates that God does not want people to remain wicked forever in each in eternal remorse and hatred of him in hell yet God for his own glory and to manifest that glory even in wrath chose to endure from according from scripture vessels prepared for destruction for the supreme fulfillment of his will in his eternal purpose God chose only the elect out of the world John 17 6 6 Christ's prayer where he says that and passed over the rest leaving them to the consequences of their sin unbelief and rejection of Christ ultimately God's choices are determined by his sovereign eternal purpose not his desires so that's the whole the whole tension of wait now you mean that God chooses people to go to hell no he doesn't choose people to go to hell everyone is going to hell and God because of his goodness has decided that some he will pull off that and enlighten them to understand and believe in the gospel then you're going to say well what's the responsibility of man well Paul anticipates that in Romans 9 he says who who are you a man to question God's will it's beyond him it's above and beyond our thoughts and our ways to understand how that tension can be resolved in in God's selection election his for loving of those he would save that were deserving and destined to go to hell why he chose someone not others at the same time man's call over and over again in scripture to repent and believe in the gospel John 3 16 all who believe everyone who receives him there's this tension there and I'm not going to be able to resolve that because nothing can no human being can resolve this this tension between God's election and man's responsibility to repent and believe but there be no one in hell that says to God you created me purposely and just sent me to hell I never had a chance no there's human respect we have meaningful human responsibility in all of this and that's what I would recommend to Aaron Rodgers or anyone listening today who thinks like him that God is this judgmental he just wants to send people to hell no that's wrong that's not what scripture teaches Romans 2 4 says do you think lightly of the riches of his kindness and his tolerance and God's patience not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance after we sinned once against God it would be like it's rebelling as the king of the universe he'd be completely just to kill us at that moment and send us to hell but it goes on in verse 5 but because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up for yourselves wrath and the day of wrath and revelation at the righteous judgment of God who will render each person according to his deeds to those who by perseverance and doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality eternal life those are those who come to saving faith and the good works of their life or give evidence of that belief but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth but obey righteousness wrath and indignation it is binary marin rogers is right about that what jesus said in john 333 whether it was jesus or the apostle john he who believes in the son has life he who does not believe in the son does not have life but the wrath of God abides on him it is binary admittedly so but God is gracious to give us one way that we can be forgiven and made right and live in eternity with him let's get on to the next topic today from the sports world is from the super bowl and speaking staying in the football realm after aaron rogers that the uh the according to reformation charlotte website it says what we what we see happening in the nfl on super bowl this year is unprecedented in all professional sports history to his knowledge he writes this year lining up the commercial breaks between the year's most watched television sports game will be drag queens and lgbtq propaganda now the ad that was rejected that ad was was favored was for like a hummus company i can't remember the name of it it was for like a hummus product they're using two drag queens to promote their their product a hummus and so but on the other hand an ad by faces of choice a woman named lyric jillette had prob had produced an ad wanted to buy an ad on the super bowl uh they didn't they rejected her ad and so i'm going to play both ads here i'm going to play first of all the the pro life ad 30 seconds ad now you tell me how offensive this is will you look me in the eye can you look me in the eye and tell me that i shouldn't be alive can you tell me that i didn't deserve to survive one reality binds us together one event we all share one choice tried to steal our lives but we survived we are the survivors of choice we are the faces of choice i am the face of choice i am that choice very touching strong powerful ad of people whose parents i i believe they either tried to have abortions and it didn't work or their parents chose not to have abortions i can't remember which one it was but they're saying we're the we're the product of choice that my parents chose to have us powerful ad is that really that controversial i mean many many people in this country uh you know maybe even up to half or more in this country would totally agree and be and be impacted by that ad not offensive in 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along this is from a quote after she began negotiating in july to air a powerful black and white ad featuring adults and children of different genders and ethnicities with one thing in common they survived abortions there you go there's the answer to that they actually these are actually abortion survivors you heard in that ad before the break now they're adults and so forth in an era where she says where we're trying to give survivors a voice whether that is through the me too movement or any number of issues for some reason we deserve we deem survivors of abortion worthy of being ignored into oblivion very good point by by ms gellette actually we're always talking about the the victims and survivors of sexual harassment and they should be they should be should be brought to light but how about the victims of who have had who have had botched abortions where they've actually thankfully lived through them and she says that to me is both ironic but also just appalling so you heard the pro-life ad of those various people from different walks of life talking about how that they they survived quote-unquote choice well here's the the the ad at the the super bowl this year for the hummus company they've only released 15 seconds of it but this one was accepted now you have to just picture in your mind not gonna be able to of course see the video of this on radio but there's two men sitting side by side dressed up very dramatically as women and one of them is trying to put a football helmet over his over his huge hair that he has on his head of course they're acting like women dressing like women the sin of the sin of homosexuality transgenderism right in front of us being promoted and actually being affirmed and actually celebrated in some way tomorrow on the super bowl ready cracker chickpeas i was born ready i hope this doesn't give me helmet hair oh there you go make people laugh that's what you got to do lower lowers their sensitivity to what is perverse men dressing as women so forth and that's what's promoted today in our culture it's no accident why this is becoming affirmed and you know the binary system as erin rogers calls it of abortion uh is is pushed off the side they they weren't even they wanted to buy an ad they weren't even able to buy it that's so much there's a rejection by the way this is fox the same company that owns fox news channel you know what the conservative bastion right in on television same network owned by the same people rejected this particular ad remember fox news channel is not the the christian church okay i'm thankful for what they bring out a different conservative perspective in their news channel but uh this is not this is not pervasive all throughout their whole network of stations now meanwhile speaking of abortions uh abortion roe versus wade the court case that legalized it was decided back on january 22nd anniversary of it was just a couple weeks ago in 1973 and of course there was the march for life as there always is in washington dc the march for life mission is to end abortion not just to just to lower it to end it which is a good good thing this is the american holocaust get into that in a minute by uniting educating and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square advocates for uh overturning roe versus wade now interestingly enough for all the people out there who are pro-life completely against abortion but can't stand donald trump um donald trump was just the first president ever ever to attend and speak at the march for life george bush one and two never spoke at it even ronald reagan never spoke on it and here's what our president had to say when he spoke at the march for life all of us here today understand an eternal truth every child is a precious and sacred gift from god together we must protect cherish and defend the dignity and the sanctity of every human life when we see the image of a baby in the womb we glimpse the majesty of god's creation you know for his shortcomings his personal foil abilities if that's a word it's pretty strong to say every child is made in the image of god that's the president united states saying that that means something that's powerful advocacy for him to do this the first president ever every president should be there because it's quite self-evident that a child in the womb is a child and abortion is ending intentionally ending that life it is legalized murder of the unborn it is the american holocaust 60 million babies have been aborted in our country god will have to judge us for this great sin we talk about the holocaust and the concentration camps and in germany and it was horrific uh a blot on history this isn't even bigger blot than that 60 million babies have been murdered in the womb and now all the way up to the time of birth and now after birth people advocate for that as well now the erlc the evangelical sorry the ethics and religious liberty commission of the southern baptist convention this is the the or the the parachurch organization that's sort of a political advocacy group for the southern baptist convention led by russell moore one of their research fellows thomas kid uh for the erlc ethics and religious liberty commission tweeted uh he also is a professor of baylor and he's speaker and author for the gospel coalition that's who thomas kid is he tweeted out upon seeing president trump um speak at the march for life he said this hopefully it will be good for trump personally it isn't good for the pro-life movement to be associated with him unquote so just think about that for a second according to thomas kid of the erlc and the gospel coalition it's better for babies to keep on getting slaughtered than having a president actually identify and speak for their lives is is that uh is that the conclusion where to take from that particular comment hopefully it'll be good for trump personally like he's doing a lot of political reasons to to shore up the pro-life oh maybe maybe he is i'm sure this he's a politician he probably is but what he said is advocating for uh living human beings made in the image of god it isn't good for the pro-life movement to be associated with him so apparently it's better that babies keep on getting slaughtered than to be associated with dallas trump that is the kind of evangelical mentality that is becoming ever more popular today as leaders like russell moore i'm going to read about what he had to say the head of the erlc had to say about what it means to be pro-life notice how pro-life is not is not good enough to be pro-life to be pro-life as many other things that you have to be if you're going to be pro-life notice this is where this will take you if you start appropriating some of these other policy positions he wants you to take here's what russell moore says to care about human life doesn't mean that we're necessarily going to agree on what health care system model ought to look like but it does mean that we agree that sick people matter it doesn't mean that we're necessarily going to agree on what sorts of affirmative action programs we ought to have in our colleges universities but it has to mean that we understand and know that black lives matter black people matter it doesn't necessarily mean that we agree on how many immigrants ought to come into the country every year but it has to mean that the lives of immigrants and strangers and sojourners matter to god and ought to matter to us so we can't be the people who say that these people are parasites we have to say these are people created in the image of god now that that's a very very loaded paragraph that he just made there uh in other words if you care about pro-life then you need to you need to agree with a health care system uh that sick people matter well i think every christian cares about a health system that does that but the health system that he's implying here is is one that where the government directs a life and death decisions and they they do the redistribution of who gets health care and who does and he goes into affirmative action programs that that's just an assumption there there just should be affirmative action based on people's skin color that that's not even a question in in his mind that you should you should divide people according to their their skin color and it doesn't he talks about immigration how many immigrants these are all of course christians are for legal immigration of those who come into the country who want to be americans and contribute to our society but of course christians should be against the globalistic idea of no boundaries and no borders where we have this one world one world nation so to speak where the world will end up eventually according to the bible it will end up there but until that point is god created nations not global not doesn't want man together that's what we've learned in the at the tower of babel and so what what a what a tricky duplicitous statement on abortion that russell moore makes from the erlc and jeff maples columnist for that website i mentioned earlier reformation charlotte uh writes out southern baptist leader russell moore laid out a brand new definition of of being pro-life to include not only opposing abortion but supporting such things as affirmative action for black college students softening border laws and government-operated health care systems being pro-life he says has nothing at all to do with social justice it's about ending the slaughter of innocent children in the womb that's exactly right that's about that's all it's ever been about and having the president of the most powerful nation in the world attend the event despite the fact that he's not truly a christian jeff maple doesn't believe he's a true born-again christian which i tend to agree with but of course we don't know donald trump's heart but look i'm very thankful for the policy positions he takes even non-christians can be advocates for the pro-life cause just proves he writes that he has a better grasp on general revelation than the vast majority of those who think themselves as leaders of the church of jesus christ so true coming back we're going to finish the show talking about coby bryant and his tragic death much more coming up stay tuned here on the christian real view i'm david wheaton there's an abundance of resources available in christian bookstores and online but the sad reality is that many of them even some of the most popular do not lead to a sound and strong faith a key aim of the christian worldview is to identify and offer resources that are biblically faithful and deepen your walk with god in our online store we have a wide range of resources for all ages adult and children's books and dvds bibles and devotionals unique gifts and more so browse our store at thechristianworldview.org and find enriching resources for yourself family friends small group or church you can also order by calling our office toll-free at 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demand the um the d platforming the the renaming of a stadium court down there that was named after the really the greatest tennis champion of all time that you probably haven't heard about because it was in a past era and she's not very well known let's say in america but she is in other parts of the world named margaret court she won the most major singles of all time and uh she believes in a biblical definition of marriage and that has put her in the crosshairs and uh of of course those who advocate for homosexuality and transgenderism like martino naturalova and john mackinrell and um create quite a brouhaha down in australia but we don't have time to get in that whole story there's more to it than just a couple sentences but i want to close today in talking about another sports story that captured uh the attention of the entire world and that was the death of coby bryant and his daughter and seven other people about a week ago in los angeles now if you don't know who coby bryant is he's one of the most accomplished basket nba basketball players of all time he won five nba titles i think two olympic golds he was considered you know maybe the top four or five players in history he's only 40 years old and uh in los angeles last weekend he was riding in a helicopter that's how he traveled around i mean this man is fantastically wealthy made hundreds of millions of dollars probably in his career he'd also won an oscar by the way for a short film uh animated film that he helped produce on basketball and ironically just as an aside here glenn keen um the the the animator of a lot of the disney the famous disney animator who also did the adam raccoon books which we offer he's a believer uh the series that we offer which is an excellent series that you should get for your kids was the animator for coby bryant's film that won an oscar just as an aside there anyway coby bryant often traveled around los angeles if you've ever been there you know what the traffic is like he lived a little south of los angeles and he had a gym a basketball academy or something up in more the west or northwest part of los angeles and to get there from where he lived it'd probably take an hour and a half by driving so you know with his money he was able to afford being able to helicopter around los angeles whether it was to there or to the los angeles lakers games that he played for for many many years and so last weekend they were in a helicopter he and his daughter and then seven other people parents and their own children who are going to be playing in this particular basketball practice or game well they got caught in a a a fog bank uh near their destination and crashed into the side of the mountain this is an incredibly tragic story that made world headlines all over the place when someone as significant as coby bryant in the middle of his life young man 40 years old dies along with eight other people including his daughter and so there are many many things to take away from this story but i just want to point out three here to close the program first of all this is a horrible tragedy kids children lost their fathers and their and their mothers coby had three other kids there was a mother the coach of the team was on the flight none of her kids her husband weren't her husband was quoted as saying the hardest thing for me now is just how do i do this how do i go forward without my children's mother i mean you can just imagine you know what what that would be like mothers lost their children in this thing nine people unexpectedly died the families of those who are dealing with this complete grief and shock in their life need to be prayed for they need to need to be prayed for that they would would come to understand who god is and that death happens to all of us and that there's an urgency there's a call there's a command to be to get right with god before that happens there's no there's no answer to why this happened we don't know why god allowed this to happen remember god either causes or allows everything to happen he's in control of this universe he could have stopped that plane that helicopter from crashing crashing but for some reason he chose not to we don't know why i'm gonna i'm gonna give the reason that jesus answers why in a second here but we just don't know that answer why we may never know that answer why number two thing to take away is we don't know you don't know when you are going to die but you will you will die and i will die at some point that that is it is appointed that a man wants to die the bible says and the bible says that you will either go to heaven or hell there's the binary system that erin rogers was talking about you'll go there one of those two places based on how you answer one question did you receive or did you reject the person and work of jesus christ on your behalf in other words did you pay put your faith in what jesus did for you on the cross that he paid the penalty you deserve to pay for your sin are you trusting only and holy and that nothing of your own to be right with god in his work not your own works or have you rejected that and said no i have another but i have a spiritual path as erin rogers was saying that opening interview of the day that's that's the fact we're all going to die and we're going to stand before god in judgment the bible says and we're going to be sentenced to heaven or hell we're either going to pay the penalty for our own sins for us or we're going to have faith that jesus paid them for us on our behalf that's really the bottom line here so it's not that kobe bryant dot at age 40 we're all going to die we're all we're all in the process of dying right now we just don't know when the last thing is this death is the great equalizer you know the rich and the famous like kobe bryant and the unknown of those to other people who are on the helicopter they take nothing to the grave bryant's multi-millions of dollars and fame could do nothing nothing to keep him from dying at a time that he didn't expect in other words you can amass all this fame and fortune in life but you just die like everyone else and what does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul what will a man give in exchange for his soul jesus asked that question and the answer is there's nothing there's nothing you can do or gain or doesn't profit you anything to gain the whole world if you lose your soul i don't you know i don't know what kobe bryant what his beliefs were i never met the man i don't know what his heart was the day before the crash whether he had come to saving faith the last day of his life i do not know but the the call is for the rest of us who are still living who are still breathing who still have this opportunity to get right with god to do it now to the why question when there were some tragedies in israel just like this was a tragedy jesus was asked basically the question why did god allow this and jesus said to them do you suppose that these galileans who all died were greater sinners than all other galileans because they suffered this faith fate i tell you no but unless you repent you will all likewise perish his answer is look we're all going to die we don't know when the call is to repent and believe in the gospel if you've never done that do it today go to how to be right with god on our website thechristianworldview.org if you'd like to find out more about that it's one of the most popular pages on the website because it answers the most important question about how we can be made right with a holy god until next weekend everyone think biblically and live accordingly we hope today's broadcast turned your heart toward god his word and his son to order a cd copy of today's program or sign up for our free weekly email or to find out how you can be reconciled to god through jesus christ go to our website thechristianworldview.org or call us toll free at 1-888-646-2233 the christian world view is 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