The Cause and Effect of Critical Race Theory Part 2 of 2

The cause and effect of critical race theory. Today is part two of that topic 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 of Jesus Christ. I'm David Wheaton the host and our website is thechristianworldview.org.

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Yes, racist, and I'll tell you why today. Whether it's in school board meetings, corporate board meetings, or even from the White House. And now a slightly less obvious version of critical race theory is being ushered into evangelical churches and organizations. The conversion story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19, where the tax collector tells Jesus, Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor.

And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much. That is the proof text and a few other texts from Scripture being used for why blacks should receive reparations from whites for slavery in our past history in America. So this weekend on the Christian worldview, we're going to discuss part two of the cause and effect of critical race theory. And last week we started, just to review briefly in case you missed last week's program, we talked about cause and effect, that ideas, or a worldview, is like a cause that does have an effect. It's the old line of ideas have consequences for better or for worse.

There's a cause and effect there. Good idea, good effect. Bad idea, bad effect. So if your idea of our country or the church is that it operates on racism and the whole system is structurally unjust, it's bigoted towards blacks and other skin color minorities, bigoted against women and homosexuals and immigrants, then the effect of that will be hatred of this country. You're going to hate this country. It seems like a terrible place. The effect of that is going to be a demand to what President Obama said before he took office to fundamentally transform the system. Because after all, it's a horrible country.

So what do you do? You try to transform it into a socialist utopia. Now this false and divisive and demonic idea that is called critical race theory has taken hold, we discussed last week, in this country because it's being perpetuated by the most powerful institutions. First and foremost, the Democratic Party, the educational system, big media, big tech, businesses, the elites in this country. And they have made so much headway because they know how to control language. When you hear words like equity, or diversity, or inclusion, that's code for critical race theory. If you hear acronyms like BIPOC, black indigenous people of color, that's a term commonly used as being the oppressed groups in critical race theory. You'll hear the term anti-racist or anti-racism.

In other words, it's not good enough to just be, well, I'm against racism, you need to actually actually work against this structural system that they perceive as racist in this country. Whiteness is another term they use all the time. There's a culture of whiteness in this country that is the oppressor, or white privilege is another one, intersectionality, we discussed that one. Another word they like to use is disproportionate impact on people of color.

You heard that word disproportionate, so there's some negative educational gap or crime gap, they'll call it a disproportionate gap or disproportionate impact on a certain group. They'll give the reason for this as being purely because of their race. Again, whites oppressing non-whites. Organizations like Black Lives Matter, ANTIFA, which is a more probably violent, if it could be that, then Black Lives Matter, are organizations that are just based on critical race theory. We read last week from the website gotquestions.org, they have a page on critical race theory, and they list out six false assumptions of critical race theory.

I think it's important to review those because I think it will help us identify when this worldview is being manifested in society. The first false assumption is this, that American government, law, culture, and society are inherently and inescapably racist. There's the bedrock foundation for critical race theory that we're just a hopelessly racist country. Number two assumption, that everyone, even those without racist views, perpetuates racism by supporting those structures. In other words, if you're just white, and you're living in society, and if you're not anti-racist, not actively working against what they perceive as racist system, even if you don't think you're a racist, you think you're, quote, colorblind, you're actually perpetuating racism by supporting this structural injustice in our society.

That's a second assumption. The third false assumption of critical race theory, according to gotquestions.org, is that the personal perception of the oppressed, their, quote, narrative, outweighs the actions or intents of others. In other words, these alleged victims of society, they have their own narrative, they have their own experience in life, and their experience is to be believed as the truth.

And so this is called something like standpoint theory, where someone's point of view, even if it's false, is to be taken as true. The personal perception of the oppressed, their narrative outweighs the actions or intents of others. So there may not be structural racism, but if someone perceives that there is, well, that's to be accepted and believed.

Number four, that oppressed groups will never overcome disadvantages until the racist structures are replaced. And this is where equity comes in. Remember, equity is different from equality. Equity is the forcing of equal outcomes. Equality is creating equal opportunities for people. In other words, the oppressed classes or groups of people, whether they're blacks, women, anyone else, will never be able to overcome disadvantages until the power structure changes. And that's ultimately what all this is about.

It's about gaining power. And so they're never going to overcome the disadvantages they perceive until this racist structure of our society is replaced. Number five, false assumption, is that the oppressor race or class groups never change out of all truism. They only change for self-benefit. In other words, those who are the oppressors, whites, males, Christians, heterosexuals, they're never going to change this racist structure of our society unless there's self-benefit for them. Don't expect them to do something for the good of the country or the good of society or for the good of other people.

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Now, back to today's program with host, David Wheaton. And the last false assumption of critical race theory, according to GotQuestions.org, is that the application of laws and fundamental rights should be different based on the race or class group of the individual involved. This is where critical race theory is actually racist. In an attempt to be, quote, anti-racist, they give preference based on skin color. And so fundamental rights should be different based on what, quote, race you are. Now, we know as Christians that there's only one race, the human race. So what they mean by race is really what we would call as Christians ethnicity or skin color. But they think that fundamental rights should be different based on the way you look or your ethnicity or the color of your skin. This is outright racism. So then we talked about how critical race theory comes from Karl Marx, the author of the Communist Manifesto, and that should tell you enough in and of itself, who saw the world as a conflict between the oppressor class, and at the time he saw it as those who were the business owners, the wealthy against the working class who were the oppressed.

It was mainly an economic struggle. Instead of just class, economic class, now race or sex, male, female or sexuality, homosexuality, that kind of thing, gender, gender identity, minority religions other than Christianity, and every other identity class is employed in this Marxist struggle for equity, for social justice. That's another word that's commonly used in the critical race theory. That's a code word for critical race theory. Now last week, you heard the soundbite from Tucker Carlson's program where he did a segment on Mayor Lori Lightfoot, the black lesbian mayor of Chicago, who announced that she wasn't going to do any interviews with any white journalists on the two year anniversary of her inauguration. I won't play that again.

You can listen to last week. But that was truly astounding how someone could actually get away with that in 2021 America. But really, we've heard this racial preferencing from the highest civil leader of our land. Just think back to the presidential campaign from 2020 when Joe Biden said this in one of the debates. I committed that if I'm elected president, have an opportunity to appoint someone to the courts, I'll appoint the first black woman to the courts. It's required that they have representation now.

It's long overdue. Secondly, if I'm elected president, my cabinet, my administration will look like the country. And I commit that I will in fact appoint a pick a woman to be vice president. There are a number of women who are qualified to be president tomorrow.

I would pick a woman to be my vice president. Of course, this is just blatant discrimination and racism stated by our current president that the court doesn't have a black woman on it. So therefore, we need to do that. So my question is, so would a black woman then rule in favor of blacks and women all the time because she's a black woman? Is that the point? Because that seems about the most unjust thing to do on the highest court in our land. And then to say you're going to nominate a female for your vice president, isn't that just blatantly discriminatory towards maybe another male qualified candidate? What good does that do to have a female vice president just because she's female? Is she going to favor women over men and therefore just cause more discrimination?

Is it just payback time? But that's all swept under the rug, ignored because black women are oppressed and women have been oppressed. And therefore, we need equity to make the outcomes the same in this country.

And it's okay if we have to discriminate and be racist to do it. Now, interestingly enough, those who have lived under these types of worldviews, this Marxist worldview of critical race theory, know what it's all about and know where it ends up. This next soundbite comes from a woman who immigrated here from China.

First, some background on the story from Fox News. A Virginia mom who endured Mao's Cultural Revolution in China before immigrating to the U.S. ripped a Virginia school board at a public meeting Tuesday over its stubborn support of the controversial critical race theory. Quote, I've been very alarmed by what's going on in our schools, Xi Van Fleet told the Loudoun County School Board members, you are now teaching training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history. She likened critical race theory, which critics derived as a form of neo-racism, which it is, to China's Cultural Revolution, a Mao-led purge that left between 500,000 to 20 million people dead from 1966 to 1976. Here is that woman, someone who immigrated from China, lived under Mao. Here's what she said to this school board in Virginia.

I've been very alarmed about what's going on in our school. You are now teaching training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history. Going up in Mao's China, all this seemed very familiar. The communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people. The only difference is they use class instead of race. During the Cultural Revolution, I witnessed students and teachers again turn against each other. We changed school names to be politically correct. We were taught to denounce our heritage. The Red Guards destroy anything that is not communist, oaths, statues, books, and anything else.

We are also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador Program and the Bias Reporting System. This is indeed the American version of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism.

It should have no place in our school. Pretty sad that a woman who escapes that over in China now has to deal with it again here in America. The article from Fox continues about this woman says the Cultural Revolution began when she was six years old, she said, and immediately pitted students and teachers against one another by hanging big posters in hallways in the cafeteria where students could write criticisms against anyone deemed ideologically impure. Does that remind you of anything that's going on in big tech social media right now where people get pulled off social media if they say anything that's not approved by Facebook or Google or any of these other social media giants? I don't think just because we're America after all that these kinds of tyrannical things can't happen here because they do and they are happening. The underlying attitude of critical race theory is one of resentment, envy, covetousness for what these quote oppressed groups don't have. Really what that leads to is an anger and a hatred for whom they deem as the oppressor.

This next soundbite exemplifies it. It's from a Yale School of Medicine event. The title of the message being given was The Psychopathic Problem of the White Mind. Delivering that message was a woman named Aruna Kilunani. She was of, I think, Eastern Indian descent. She's an MD, a medical doctor, who is a New York-based psychiatrist.

I'm going to play the audio, but the audio is a little scratchy. It wasn't done. It was probably done by maybe a phone from someone in the audience, but I also have the transcript that I will read if you can't make out what is being said in this audio. Again, this is a New York-based psychiatrist giving a message to the Yale School of Medicine on the psychopathic problem of the white mind. What you're going to hear is the wicked endpoint of critical race theory.

Now, in case you couldn't make that out, let me just read what she actually said there. White people make my blood boil. I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away, relatively guiltless, with a bounce in my step, like I did they world a blanking favor. She went on to say this, and I quote, black rage has nothing to do with black people and everything to do with white people. Now, of course, this is an extreme example of someone who has imbibed this and taken it to its logical conclusion. When you have resentment, bitterness, anger, the Bible says anger in the heart, if not restrained, moves on to murder.

That's exactly what this woman was saying. We talked earlier about how critical race theory is not only just divisive, it doesn't bring people together, but it actually turns into something far more dangerous and destructive. It turns to hatred of one another. This is how a society breaks down, but I think that's the goal.

Divide, break it down. There's a need for bigger government, and then attain power to restructure society. That's the whole goal of this thing is attaining power. Now, there are so many other examples of this, but as I've been going over them and listening to these soundbites in preparation for the program, I came to the realization that as a believer, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised at this. The unredeemed mind is controlled by the flesh, driven by the flesh, influenced by Satan in the lives of this world.

So maybe we shouldn't be surprised. But the really terrible thing is not that non-believers push it, because we can probably expect it. The terrible thing is that critical race theory is being pushed hard now into the evangelical church and evangelical organizations who should know better than to dally or toy with or even use it as a quote analytical tool. As the Southern Baptist Convention had a resolution a couple years ago on critical race theory, they should know this is divisive and unbiblical and just a demonic worldview. Justin Peters, who runs a ministry, wrote recently, he said, undoubtedly, you've been hearing terms like social justice, intersectionality, and critical race theory.

These things are troubling enough in the political realm, but what is far more troubling is that you have also heard these terms being used by evangelicals and in a positive way. We are told that critical race theory can be used by the church as a helpful analytical tool. The infamous Resolution 9 adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention with the help of President J.D. Greer, Russell Moore and others, states this explicitly. And we played this soundbite a couple years ago from the Southern Baptist Convention when Curtis Woods, one of the professors at Southern Seminary, said this on the floor of the convention. It is our aspiration in this resolution simply to say that critical race theory and intersectionality are simply analytical tools. They're meant to be used as tools, not as a worldview.

You see, that's how it gets introduced. This isn't a comprehensive worldview. This doesn't compete with the Bible, but it can be used as an analytical tool. It's just a foot in the door and eventually the wickedness of this worldview is all the way in. Justin Peters goes on in his article to say, woke theology has permeated even our reformed circles, those who believe in the doctrines of grace when it comes to salvation. Eric Mason in his book, Woke Church, forward sadly by Ligon Duncan, tells us that we need to get woke to the systemic racism that permeates the U.S. and also the church. Social justice is evil, Justin Peter writes. It creates distrust and foments racism. It erects walls of separation that the gospel has already broken down. It is a thoroughly secular philosophy that springs from the twisted mind of Karl Marx and tragically has been adopted by many who call themselves theological conservatives. If you are troubled by what you are seeing, good, you should be. If you are confused by what you are seeing, that's cannibal.

That is part of the plan. Social justice is a leftist political Trojan horse disguising itself as a theological movement. When you are hearing the same terms come out of the mouths of evangelicals that you hear coming from the leaders of the Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter, you know something is wrong, unquote, Justin Peters well said. The Christian worldview with David Wheaton returns in just a moment. With a growing and aggressive segment of our society in full throated opposition to God and biblical Christianity, the question has become, how can Christians stand firm and raise their children to do the same? Ken Ham, the founder and president of Answers in Genesis, recently released a compelling book titled, Will They Stand?

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Short takes are also available and be sure to share with others. Now, back to today's program with host David Wheaton. Just to show you the extent of it, how much it is coming into Christian organizations, this from the website Reformation Charlotte, World Vision Training Corps says Native Americans or Indians shouldn't have to repent from idolatry. The article says World Vision, which used to be a charitable organization to help fight poverty around the world, has now become nothing more than another woke organization advocating for the destruction of Christianity and its influence in the continuance of ethnocentric pagan idolatry. World Vision is a series of online training courses where they promote these progressive and Marxist ideas by employing non-white racial instigators to demean biblical Christianity in Western culture that was born out of it. In one video, a Native American talks about how Christians from Western Europe brought Christianity to America and destroyed the Native Americans covenants with God.

Here's that audio where he talks about Native Americans. They were already very spiritual. They were people who understood that God is powerful, that God is love, that they had personal experiences and even covenants with God. There were ceremonies based on those covenants.

There were stories built around those. And in particular, we all have our covenant story of the land that was given it to us for so long ago. It's sort of like that verse in Acts 17, 26 and 27, where it says from one man, he created every ethnos or nation so that they might reach out and find God. And so those places God placed our different native peoples in. And yet the people who came saying, no, they're the ones that are believing in the real God destroyed our relationship with those places by removing us, by taking away those stories, by taking away those songs and those ceremonies and the very foundation of what it meant to follow God here already. And so we were very close. And as my adopted Kiowa mother used to say, when the missionaries came, we were very close to the message. We only didn't understand how much God loved us because we didn't know the story of Jesus.

Do you see what he's saying there? The Indians, they were on the right track. They were worshiping the true God. They didn't know about Jesus, but they were worshiping the true God.

Oh, really? Animism, nature worship, dead ancestor worship. No, they were not worshiping the God of the Bible. But what he's saying is that those Christian missionaries, those white people when they came over, they really ruined it for the Indians. There you have critical race theory in world vision, a supposedly Christian organization. Okay, now let's get to what has become the proof text of Scripture to support critical race theory and the payment of reparations for our past history of slavery.

A proof text is where you have a certain idea, a predetermined idea that you're trying to make a point on or trying to prove is right. So you find texts that are taken out of context or misinterpreted in Scripture to prove your point, a proof text for your point. This next soundbite is from a pastor named Leon Crump Jr. Maybe you've heard of him. According to his website, he is an author, international speaker, and founder and senior pastor of Renovation Church in Atlanta, a champion for the church's participation in focused and intentional cultural renewal.

That should tell you a lot right there. That's not the point of the church to do cultural renewal. The point of the church is to save souls and to disciple Christians. Crump is the leading voice of a generation committed to operating as God's redemptive agents in the earth.

He has a quote on his website, and here's another telling thing about him. It is apparent, this quote says, that there are at minimum two purportedly Christian faiths in the United States. One committed to the whole of Scripture, apparently that's his, and its implications on the whole of life, and the other committed to using Scripture to uphold your way of life. In other words, if you're not in the social justice bandwagon, then you don't believe in the whole of Scripture, because that's what Scripture is about, bringing social justice to the world.

That's what the Gospel is about. It's about equalizing, creating equity in this world. Right below that quote, there's a banner for an event coming up in Atlanta, and it says, for your soul, a rally celebrating blackness. Now just flip that around for a second. What if it said a rally celebrating whiteness?

How would that go over? Then there's the Black Power fist in the middle of the ad for the event. Leon's Crump is going to be there.

Lecrae is going to be providing music and there's some others as well. So that's just a little background on this next soundbite from Pastor Leon's Crump as he talks about the call for reparations, that it really is an outworking of the Gospel, using the story of Zacchaeus and his conversion as a tax collector in Luke 19. I believe that Jesus is sovereign in salvation, that man cannot save himself.

In fact, Paul says you were dead, now you have been made alive in Christ Jesus. So we cannot work our way into faith and favor. We cannot earn our salvation by how hard we work.

We cannot purchase our salvation by how much we give. And so when I read this passage, it leaves me a little confused because only one of two things just took place here. Either what Zacchaeus did earned his salvation and Jesus has declared it or Zacchaeus had to do what he did because you cannot be made alive by the living God and the Spirit of God and believe in Jesus and think that reconciliation simply requires an apology.

So let me just jump in here for a second. He starts out by talking about that salvation comes not by works, it's an act of God in our life, it's a gift of grace. But then he transitions to the story of Zacchaeus, and we're going to read that passage in a second, where Zacchaeus comes to saving faith in Christ and he says to Christ that I'm going to give half my money to the poor and I'm going to give back fourfold to anyone I've wronged. And so, Leon's crump turns that into, well, you can't just ask forgiveness and an apology to be saved.

There's more that you need to do. There's a call for if there have been wrongs done, there must be reparations. So he's taking it from the individuals that Zacchaeus wronged, extrapolating from that, that a group needs to get reparations from this unjust society that was America back in the time of slavery and Jim Crow.

He continues. Zacchaeus was a wealthy man. How did he get wealthy? By working for the Roman government to further oppress the Jews and pocketing part of the money that he was receiving. He had built his entire wealth on the back of another people. But when he met Jesus, he knew that I can't simply receive the good news of the gospel and then proceed as a beneficiary of other people's work without restoring them to wholeness.

He makes a very persuasive argument. And unless you have a sharp biblical worldview, you're going to say, well, yeah, he's right. When you're saved, there's a responsibility, a duty to start working for all who have been wronged by this unjust society. But let's read the actual story from Scripture about Zacchaeus in Luke 19. It said, He – Jesus – entered Jericho and was passing through. And there was a man called by the name of Zacchaeus.

He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. Zacchaeus was trying to see who Jesus was and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see him, for he was about to pass through that way. Verse 5. When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house. And he – Zacchaeus – hurried and came down and received him gladly. When they sought the religious leaders of the day, they all began to grumble, saying, He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner. Tax collectors, they often collected taxes, but extra taxes, they extorted their own people to keep some for themselves.

That's what they were known for. Verse 8. Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much. And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham.

For the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. That from Luke 19, the conversion of Zacchaeus. Now note here, Zacchaeus is saved by believing who Christ is, not by giving half of his possessions to the poor or giving back to those who he is who is defrauded. Scripture is clear that true conversion, justification, does not come by us earning it through our good works, but by faith in who Christ is and what He did for us. Faith alone in Christ alone, not faith plus our good works. Ephesians 2 verses 8 through 10 and many other passages clearly teach this.

It's unambiguous. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Verse 10. Here's the purpose of salvation though, for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus. Four good works were saved by faith and saved for good works. Therefore, Zacchaeus was not saved by his good works of giving to the poor or giving back to those he had wronged. Those were evidences of his conversion.

Very important and critical distinction. He called Jesus Lord, proving that he believed who Christ was. But the evidence of that saving faith, the giving back, was not the grounds, the means of gaining justification or saving faith, but the evidence of that saving faith is the good work of giving to the poor. By the way, he hasn't defrauded but willingly wanted to help them. But then he says he's going to give back to those if he has personally defrauded anyone. He didn't say he had, he said, if I have, and he was willing to do so.

Again, another evidence of a converted heart. The truth here is, if someone today has directly defrauded someone today, they should feel and be compelled to make restitution. That's the law actually. So for instance, if there was a slave owner today, he should be compelled to pay his slaves for their labor and the loss of income opportunity that they had while being enslaved to him. But we have no slave owners in America today, and the demand that whites, through the government, through you and me taxpayers, through institutions, through organizations, pay money or give benefits to a group, blacks, who weren't directly defrauded. In other words, those who aren't guilty today are being asked or probably someday are going to be required to pay those who haven't been defrauded.

I mean, what a scheme. That is why critical race theory is all about blame shifting. You blame someone else for your perceived victimhood, for your perceived bad plight in life. But it's also this critical race theory scheme is all about gaining power, because that is ultimately what is going to keep this con going, gaining money, gaining position, gaining power. And the father of black liberation theology who would have been into critical race theory had he been living today is James Cone. And I've played this soundbite before in the program, but it goes a long way toward explaining how someone like Pastor Leon's Crump understands the gospel and how this movement of critical race theory and social justice misinterpret scripture for their own ends.

Now again, let me jump in to what Leon's Crump has on his website. It is apparent that there are at minimum two purportedly Christian faiths in the US, one committed to the whole of scripture and its implications on the whole of life, and one committed to using scripture to uphold your way of life. Just what James Cone just said, you can't be a Christian and be part of the alleged power structure. You can't be part of the whiteness of our society.

That's impossible. Now, how do I know that you're really identifying with the victim? Well, if you're identifying with the victim, you not only want to feel good about that, you also have to pay back that which you took. You just don't say, please forgive me now.

The only way in which your repentance, your forgiveness can be authentic, your reception of it can be authentic, your repentance can be authentic, is that you give back what you took. And white people took a lot from black people. That is exactly what Pastor Leon's Crump was saying as he talked about Zacchaeus. It's like he's repeating the words of James Cone.

I'm not sure when James Cone gave that sound, but I think it was back in the 70s. So in a way, this ideology is not new. It's just gaining steam. Then James Cone goes on to say, the ultimate motivation is not peace and harmony and unity and loving your brother in society, but it's the attaining of power. If you read me, I'm as hard on the black church as I am on the white church. It's just the white church got more power. They can do more harm. The more power you have, the more harm you can do.

And that's why the white church need to be critiqued and white theologians need to be critiqued. It has to do with power. It has nothing to do with biology. And that's why the redistribution of power is so essential. If you're not talking about redistributing power, you just joking around. You just want to feel good. It's not about feeling good. It's about distributing power. We can thank James Cone for being truthful because that is what it's all about. It's about attaining power.

It's about attaining money. Now, just compare that version of the gospel to the actual gospel, that God created all ethnicities. He views each person as having equal value, and so should we. And that God holds you individually and me individually, not as a group, but individually accountable for my own sin. I'm not accountable to God for sins committed by someone else, even if they're my forebearers, my relatives from many generations back.

God's too just for that. Yes, I may be affected by the sins of my forebearers, and their sins are not put to my individual account. The next point is that God does not divide the world into oppressor versus the oppressed, but into two groups, believer and non-believer. And that God sent his son Jesus to pay the penalty for your individual sin, not for your group ethnicities sin. So he didn't come to die for white people, the group of white people for their sins against black people. He came to die for the sins of a white person and for the sins of a black person. And so therefore we must individually, whether black or white, each of us must individually repent of our sin and believe in the person and work of Christ.

And then the evidence of that salvation is just like in the life of Zacchaeus, is that you as an individual will be compelled, because of your new life in Christ, to restore to those if you have personally defrauded someone, and you're going to try to help those who are less fortunate, not out of coercion, but because your nature has changed and you now have the Holy Spirit inside of you impelling you to do charitable good in this world. The great sin of critical race theory is that it shows partiality, and the Bible consistently speaks against partiality. Partiality is true discrimination.

It's showing favoritism to one over the other. Leviticus 19.15, you shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor defer to the great, but you are to judge your neighbor fairly. First Timothy 5.21, I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, Paul writes to Timothy, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality. Critical race theory is all about partiality.

It makes up oppressed groups and then favors them and tries to discriminate against who they deem as the oppressors. Christian, you need to be able to identify this wicked, demonic scheme of this worldview that is taking hold in our country. We are out of time today, but thank you for listening to the Christian worldview. Just a reminder, you can get a copy of My Boy Ben for a limited time for a donation of any amount of the Christian worldview. You can only get this offer by going to our website, thechristianworldview.org, or by calling us, 1-888-646-2233.

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