Aug. 5, 2024

Faith Under Fire

Faith Under Fire

310: What happens when Christian imagery collides with Greek mythology at a major event? Join Pastor Plek as he explores this controversial blend with guests Cody Sparks and Jordan Smith, who help break down the portrayal of Jesus in a drag spread during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. They will delve into the broader cultural and religious ramifications, comparing these reactions with how other religions might respond to similar depictions. They also ponder the potential impact on children and discuss whether Christians are seen as ineffective in opposing such portrayals.

Got questions? Text us at 737-231-0605!

Like, share, and subscribe! We love seeing and responding to your reviews and comments.

Support the show: https://wbcc.churchcenter.com/giving

Support the Show.

Chapters

00:04 - Christians and Controversial Cultural Offenses

10:14 - Cultural Offenses and Christian Responses

24:01 - Christianity, Culture, and Influence

28:47 - The Impact of Cultural Offenses

41:38 - Navigating Christian Cultural Controversies

49:09 - Christianity, Culture, and Inclusion

Transcript
WEBVTT

00:00:04.366 --> 00:00:06.610
and welcome back to pastor plex podcast.

00:00:06.610 --> 00:00:12.731
I'm your host, pastor plec, and joining me in studio today is none other than senor cody sparks.

00:00:12.731 --> 00:00:14.137
Welcome, cody sparks.

00:00:14.137 --> 00:00:20.853
Hello of the cody sparks band still here, and then also jordan smith.

00:00:20.853 --> 00:00:23.559
Uh, so glad that you can be joining us today, jordan.

00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:23.983
How are you?

00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:25.879
doing well, sir, thank well sir, thank you.

00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:26.361
All right.

00:00:26.361 --> 00:00:33.871
So we're going to be talking about something controversial and there's been a lot posted tweeted about this particular situation.

00:00:33.871 --> 00:00:35.686
I'd love to get some of your guys' feedback.

00:00:35.686 --> 00:00:39.566
Start with the old codester over here, cody.

00:00:39.566 --> 00:00:40.570
Oh, I'm playing catch-up.

00:00:40.840 --> 00:00:50.125
Oh yeah, yeah, Not catch-up, catch-up ketchup, but a little bit right because I mean, this is a tough one yeah, but it's not well.

00:00:50.125 --> 00:00:56.664
No, I mean it's it's a little bit of mixture and my thing is is that, is it really the last supper?

00:00:56.664 --> 00:00:57.966
Is it greek mythology?

00:00:57.966 --> 00:01:05.168
Is it death riding in on the white horse, like we talk about on tombstone, or or is it?

00:01:05.168 --> 00:01:06.311
Or is it the other?

00:01:06.311 --> 00:01:08.304
It's?

00:01:08.343 --> 00:01:09.506
a hard to tie in it's paris.

00:01:09.846 --> 00:01:10.007
What do?

00:01:10.027 --> 00:01:10.487
you expect.

00:01:10.487 --> 00:01:14.403
Yeah, yeah, so there's a lot of that, um, so let's talk it through.

00:01:14.403 --> 00:01:22.466
I feel like there's a lot here, all right, um, I'm I'm probably thinking that this opening ceremony was not conducted by christ.

00:01:22.466 --> 00:01:24.771
Could we just all agree with that, has it?

00:01:25.251 --> 00:01:26.212
really any been.

00:01:26.212 --> 00:01:32.390
Yeah, I mean honestly it's like well, yeah, this is probably the worst one I've ever seen, though honestly, Right right.

00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:35.105
Well, there's some woke Christians too right.

00:01:35.507 --> 00:01:36.590
Sure, sure, okay, fair enough.

00:01:36.590 --> 00:01:42.673
But first off, there's a whole drag spread.

00:01:42.673 --> 00:01:44.153
I guess Jesus is a woman.

00:01:44.153 --> 00:01:45.975
There's a whole drag spread.

00:01:45.975 --> 00:01:47.039
I guess Jesus is a woman.

00:01:47.078 --> 00:01:50.209
And then they kind of do when they brought it on TV.

00:01:50.209 --> 00:01:57.326
You've got the woman there in the middle with the little heart and if you know this, jesus would always hold a little heart.

00:01:57.326 --> 00:01:59.789
So clearly she's representing Jesus.

00:01:59.789 --> 00:02:14.032
Now what the makers of the act have said is that it's just showing love, like we represent diversity, inclusion, all that, okay, fine.

00:02:15.100 --> 00:02:54.937
The problem is you've got like a posed situation, like slow motion of the characters in the background taking on different poses to sort of reflect a last supper attitude, and then the Greek god, dionysus, kind of comes down on a big dinner plate and so it's kind of a mix of and if you know this about now, this is where you could say it really is Dionysus, and the reason why I say that is Dionysus is the god of winemaking, orchards, fruit, vegetation, festivity, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy and theater.

00:02:54.937 --> 00:02:56.948
So this does fit.

00:02:56.948 --> 00:02:59.300
It does fit with what they're doing.

00:02:59.300 --> 00:03:07.435
They want it to take ritual madness, religious ecstasy and insanity and put it all into one thing.

00:03:07.435 --> 00:03:09.045
I'm like you have honored.

00:03:09.146 --> 00:03:15.954
Well, if your goal was to honor Dionysus and if a byproduct of that was mocking Christianity, well done.

00:03:15.954 --> 00:03:18.048
You achieved your goal.

00:03:18.048 --> 00:03:23.826
But as a Christian, I look at that and I clearly know they are mocking Christ.

00:03:23.826 --> 00:03:29.794
And this is where you know, am I to judge non-Christians?

00:03:29.794 --> 00:03:33.326
Maybe not, but I think it's unloving to go.

00:03:33.326 --> 00:03:42.550
Yeah, that was funny Because it wasn't right, that was a horrific show of I don't know.

00:03:42.752 --> 00:03:44.395
I guess blasphemy I mean really.

00:03:44.395 --> 00:03:53.048
Imagine if this was like Muhammad and whatever the version of the Last Supper Muhammad had, there would be blood spilling all over the world.

00:03:53.048 --> 00:03:55.006
And what you're getting from Christians is going.

00:03:55.006 --> 00:04:01.788
That's disrespectful, you should not do that which just sort of shows why Christianity is so powerful.

00:04:01.788 --> 00:04:08.909
And what Elon Musk said is that Christianityianity is toothless, which I don't think.

00:04:08.949 --> 00:04:16.177
that's probably because elon musk doesn't understand the no, true right, so anyway, or is he saying we should be flipping tables right or should we flip it?

00:04:16.177 --> 00:04:18.685
No, the only people that that jesus flipped tables on?

00:04:18.725 --> 00:04:23.086
were religious leaders right and so clearly these are lost people doing lost things.

00:04:23.086 --> 00:04:25.232
Um, do they need to be held accountable?

00:04:25.232 --> 00:04:28.447
To whatever degree, you can cancel them.

00:04:28.447 --> 00:04:40.019
If you want to get back into where you have not a separation between church and state and the church is the state, then you'd probably have a problem, do you?

00:04:40.040 --> 00:05:06.543
think, though, that maybe he wasn't talking about just the Last Supper, that he was saying we're toothless due to the fact that we don't speak up when it's like drag in our face, pushing lbgtq rs tv on us, uh, throwing all the other things in our face, not just christianity, as in they're mocking the last supper, but all the above that happened there, because there was a lot of things that I was sitting there watching going.

00:05:06.543 --> 00:05:07.507
Are you kidding me?

00:05:07.507 --> 00:05:14.149
If I had a five, six, seven, eight year old older kid, I'd turn off right, this is out of control this.

00:05:14.209 --> 00:05:17.161
I watched it because I I love the olympics forever my whole life.

00:05:17.161 --> 00:05:18.144
I've always loved the olympics.

00:05:18.144 --> 00:05:22.223
That is the one that blew my mind yeah, there was just no reason for it.

00:05:22.805 --> 00:05:25.108
I like, I it's kind of like if you could do.

00:05:25.108 --> 00:05:27.833
And this is where, again, they make the argument.

00:05:27.833 --> 00:05:33.791
It's about Dionysus, yes, but you're using the Last Supper to celebrate Dionysus, which makes it even worse.

00:05:33.791 --> 00:05:40.591
Anyway, why would you have a naked man for a family?

00:05:40.591 --> 00:05:43.976
I mean, we would call that grooming, and there was a child in that.

00:05:43.976 --> 00:05:49.408
Um, last supper, reenactment and dionysus comes.

00:05:49.408 --> 00:05:51.973
Dionysus, the god comes down and a big dinner plate.

00:05:51.973 --> 00:05:57.254
Uh, is that's what they're going to eat, right, which is just a sexual?

00:05:57.254 --> 00:06:03.668
A naked dude is the sexual thing that genie it's so wild to me how that becomes.

00:06:04.569 --> 00:06:17.334
So I think your point let's go down your point your point is that Christians don't speak up enough, not just on a religious context, but about LGBTQIA issues, Politics.

00:06:17.434 --> 00:06:19.315
Politics, all the above, I mean yeah.

00:06:19.315 --> 00:06:27.033
It takes a president to get shot, assassination attempt for people to finally be like, okay, is it?

00:06:27.033 --> 00:06:32.519
That's enough, enough right, I mean if you if trump would have been, like, murdered, what would the outcome?

00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:34.305
That would probably broke out into the civil war.

00:06:34.305 --> 00:06:37.622
Really, I mean, it would have been weird, which is a whole side note on that.

00:06:37.642 --> 00:06:46.536
We're not going to go on a rabbit trail, but it's crazy okay, I'll pause on that I want to hear what you think the because you're thinking there needs to be more, at least vocal outrage from Christians.

00:06:46.740 --> 00:06:56.846
Well, it's more like stand up for yourself, be like hey, we don't want that, okay, fair enough, rather than us being just like passive just like eh, it's fine, We'll just not watch it or not do it Eventually, enough is enough.

00:06:57.127 --> 00:06:57.327
Okay.

00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:08.221
Jordan, talk to me about your thoughts, thoughts, uh, you've, you've seen the.

00:07:08.242 --> 00:07:09.124
you know pieces of this opening ceremony act.

00:07:09.124 --> 00:07:09.725
How did it come across to you?

00:07:09.725 --> 00:07:15.033
Uh, that's kind of a loaded question, but, um, artistic expression, I guess.

00:07:15.033 --> 00:07:23.661
But also, like you said, it's kind of pushing the idea that you know everyone's accepted for who they are and it you know.

00:07:23.661 --> 00:07:26.509
It also kind of implies that, since it's using the last supper, that you know everyone's accepted for who they are and you know.

00:07:26.509 --> 00:07:30.827
It also kind of implies that, since it's using the Last Supper, that you know, oh, jesus is okay with all of this.

00:07:30.827 --> 00:07:34.187
So obviously I think that's bad.

00:07:34.187 --> 00:08:01.249
And to get back to one of Cody's questions about Elon Musk's statement, the word toothless to me means like violence, almost, and if he's saying that, then he an idiot, because jesus didn't show that at all but, I agree, like you said, or there's just been a bunch of public pushback on this already, which I think you know as christians that's what we should be doing right, so do you.

00:08:01.408 --> 00:08:05.975
But do you think like how offended should Christians be at this?

00:08:07.701 --> 00:08:11.612
I mean, as a Christian myself, I'm not offended by it at all.

00:08:11.612 --> 00:08:18.692
But one thing you did say is it can influence younger people who are watching it.

00:08:18.692 --> 00:08:21.802
So that's, I didn't take that into account.

00:08:21.802 --> 00:08:22.863
So that's kind of dangerous.

00:08:22.863 --> 00:08:23.846
So do you think?

00:08:23.886 --> 00:08:32.035
there is a part of us that we've become so accustomed to not being offended because we're above that.

00:08:32.035 --> 00:08:33.865
This is not our home.

00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:35.384
Earth is not our home.

00:08:35.424 --> 00:08:39.129
Heaven is our home and so therefore we are not offended by anything.

00:08:39.129 --> 00:08:52.287
People can say whatever they want, and so we don't react in disgust and say I can't be around that and we have been around in openly mocked situations, and is that bad?

00:08:52.287 --> 00:09:09.373
I think that's the question that I'm wrestling with, as I sort of take this on, Because I think you're right If nobody pushes back, like I think back in the day, whenever they had Gay Pride Day at Disney and then the Baptists boycotted it, I was like I kind of rolled my eyes at that.

00:09:09.373 --> 00:09:13.682
Right Now I'm kind of like Probably should have yeah right, like you know.

00:09:13.783 --> 00:09:16.951
Maybe that was the right move.

00:09:17.321 --> 00:09:18.426
What made you roll your eyes?

00:09:18.740 --> 00:09:21.605
Because I was like what kind of message is that sending?

00:09:21.765 --> 00:09:21.986
right.

00:09:22.106 --> 00:09:28.573
The reason I roll my eyes is like is it sends the message you don't want to be around gay people, and that's not it at all.

00:09:28.573 --> 00:09:39.600
It's just that you don't want your culture to be informed by a subset that, uh, stands for a sexuality that is completely against God's design.

00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:50.009
Right, I think that's where I would struggle with that, and and I and I think that I was like don't you want to be around gay people so that you could influence them for Christ?

00:09:50.009 --> 00:09:59.336
However, if you never get around to the influencing for Jesus part because you I don't know, you're not bold with your faith, then maybe boycotting is the best thing you do.

00:09:59.336 --> 00:10:02.097
The problem with that is it sends a message if you're not wanted.

00:10:03.081 --> 00:10:06.370
Well, how do you influence your faith in this specific scenario?

00:10:09.004 --> 00:10:10.951
Yeah, I think that's why it's a huge question.

00:10:10.951 --> 00:10:12.967
I think there is a.

00:10:12.967 --> 00:10:21.005
So whenever homosexuality was let's just call it gay marriage, gay marriage was not legal.

00:10:21.005 --> 00:10:33.500
When it was illegal, it was way easier to kind of show a person like hey, this is clearly here's where the morality of government lines up with the morality of Christians.

00:10:33.500 --> 00:10:36.167
Clearly this is a universal thing.

00:10:36.167 --> 00:10:51.429
Okay, then when that shifted, now it became the Christians are going against the grain on stuff and to some extent that's good right, because we're showing a morality that's unique and for God and his purposes and his design.

00:10:51.429 --> 00:10:58.485
But it does take away a sense of a conviction of sin that you get just naturally.

00:10:58.580 --> 00:11:02.885
I think sometimes people in this Dionysus, because the God of wine festivals insanity, literally.

00:11:02.885 --> 00:11:05.538
If you're the God of wine festivals, insanity what?

00:11:05.538 --> 00:11:05.919
Literally?

00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:14.714
If you're the God of insanity, you're the God of whatever I think is right, is right, there is no wrong, and I think that's you know.

00:11:14.714 --> 00:11:16.231
Can I give a new definition of insanity?

00:11:16.231 --> 00:11:19.618
It's like you know the classic was it Einstein?

00:11:19.618 --> 00:11:28.240
You know, you keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting.

00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.402
Keep doing the same thing over and over again, expect a different result.

00:11:30.402 --> 00:11:30.722
That's insanity.

00:11:30.722 --> 00:11:31.403
That's not insanity.

00:11:31.403 --> 00:11:42.173
But I think, since we're making up insanity definitions, I'd say trying to make something, calling something one thing, like calling a man a woman, is insanity, like that's where you, and then making that normal for everybody.

00:11:42.173 --> 00:11:46.057
I feel like we're living in the age of the emperor has no clothes, that's legit.

00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:49.809
And then, when it really gets worse, it's like, yes, men can have babies.

00:11:50.250 --> 00:11:50.412
Right.

00:11:50.620 --> 00:11:52.206
And you're like I'm so sorry, do what.

00:11:52.707 --> 00:11:56.187
Right, I've never heard that Like they can physically have babies.

00:11:56.741 --> 00:11:57.566
Oh, that's a big deal.

00:11:57.566 --> 00:12:00.467
That side fights for it.

00:12:00.467 --> 00:12:01.625
It's like, yeah, men can have babies.

00:12:01.625 --> 00:12:07.230
For was like, yeah, men can have babies, and you're like that doesn't, that doesn't make sense.

00:12:07.230 --> 00:12:14.051
Like there's, there's somebody in congress or somewhere the other day testifying and was like, yeah, in there, like you really believe men can have babies right, so you get a uterus transplant.

00:12:14.250 --> 00:12:18.010
The only time I've seen that is that arnold schwarzenegger movie where he twins.

00:12:18.171 --> 00:12:20.679
No, not twins uh, what was it called?

00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:22.524
Yes, I know what you're talking about where he carried.

00:12:22.524 --> 00:12:22.865
Yeah, that was.

00:12:22.865 --> 00:12:24.008
That was great and that's funny.

00:12:24.008 --> 00:12:24.609
That was humor.

00:12:24.609 --> 00:12:27.144
Yeah, it was like a joke.

00:12:27.144 --> 00:12:31.946
Now it's to the point where no, this is a real deal, it's just awkwardly weird.

00:12:32.059 --> 00:12:33.647
I mean, yeah, there's no evidence of it.

00:12:41.609 --> 00:12:42.269
So why don't they just show?

00:12:42.269 --> 00:12:42.769
Okay, show me.

00:12:42.769 --> 00:12:43.650
Therefore you can have a baby.

00:12:43.892 --> 00:12:47.615
Oh, okay, right, interesting it is.

00:12:47.855 --> 00:12:48.256
It's weird.

00:12:48.256 --> 00:12:55.897
So I think again, for the longest time we've been like oh, okay, yeah, that is crazy to us, but to them that's like truth.

00:12:55.897 --> 00:12:58.682
They're like no, we really believe this, this is a real deal.

00:12:59.585 --> 00:13:13.562
And we just sit back and we're like y'all are just crazy, but in their heads they're like this is real right, and I think that's that's why that's why we and we don't speak up, therefore but this, to me, is why this, this opening ceremony, was so I would call it perfect, but kind of perfect.

00:13:13.562 --> 00:13:21.046
And the reason why I think it was perfect is because it showed the absolute insanity by worshiping the god.

00:13:21.046 --> 00:13:27.407
Like putting the god of insanity on a pedestal on top of jesus, literally um.

00:13:27.407 --> 00:13:30.934
It shows how far we have drifted from the truth.

00:13:30.934 --> 00:13:34.322
Like france used to be like catholic central, like that was.

00:13:34.322 --> 00:13:43.288
Like you know, when you think france, you think catholics, like that's why I think louis, louisiana, they have some French Creole thing going on down there and they're Catholic, quebec Catholic.

00:13:43.288 --> 00:13:52.466
And so to look at it now and sort of like going what is happening and I think this is where we are living in the age of the emperor has no clothes.

00:13:52.466 --> 00:13:53.278
It's the.

00:13:53.278 --> 00:13:56.835
What is insane is normal, and what is normal is insane.

00:13:57.355 --> 00:13:59.119
And that you know this is straight.

00:13:59.119 --> 00:14:17.808
I feel like just revelations of not revelation, but like a Romans one, you've exchanged the glory of God for a lie and then are starting to worship created things and then the perverseness is judgment on humanity because of, like, what you're seeing was not what God intended.

00:14:17.808 --> 00:14:19.687
So I like kind of where you're going initially, not what god intended.

00:14:19.687 --> 00:14:23.542
So, so so to the I like kind of where you're going initially is like it doesn't offend you.

00:14:23.542 --> 00:14:39.865
So tell me what you mean by that, because I think when I hear it doesn't offend me, I'm like this, okay, it's kind of like this if someone started mocking my wife or cat calling my wife, shouldn't I get offended by that?

00:14:41.268 --> 00:14:43.635
uh, yeah, I'd say you should be offended in that example okay.

00:14:43.676 --> 00:14:53.941
So what's the difference then between someone mocking your wife and mocking god?

00:14:54.523 --> 00:15:03.126
and maybe that's maybe I'm just seeing the silver lining here, but this has put christianity in the forefront right 100%.

00:15:04.557 --> 00:15:07.884
That's why I love that, because we're talking about Jesus and we're using.

00:15:07.884 --> 00:15:14.066
The whole world saw Jesus Now, granted not the way we portray him, but we're talking about Jesus through that lens.

00:15:14.294 --> 00:15:16.121
Well, it's just showing the blowback too right?

00:15:16.121 --> 00:15:16.884
That's the part.

00:15:17.135 --> 00:15:30.578
Yeah, but I feel like how could we have gotten to a point as a global culture let's call it global culture where mocking jesus is seen as like a good thing?

00:15:31.220 --> 00:15:36.379
So I think it starts with mocking, or I feel like this is where the not that we need to go, we're gonna have a holocaust against christians.

00:15:36.379 --> 00:15:41.089
But in the 20s and 30s, with the jews in germany, you would.

00:15:41.089 --> 00:15:43.179
You would cartoon the jews.

00:15:43.179 --> 00:15:47.756
They were big, rich people that were, you know, hoarding money, and they were like plot.

00:15:47.756 --> 00:16:02.888
You know that's what all the, all the newspapers would cartoon jews to be like that, and what I think we're seeing is you're cartooning christians be like that, which I'm sure the left has cartooned trump to be the worst person in the world, which is why then people want to shoot him.

00:16:02.888 --> 00:16:10.687
So I do think there is a responsibility as Christians to protect the greater flock of Christians as a whole, especially kids.

00:16:10.687 --> 00:16:14.894
All that, to speak out against it in some form or fashion.

00:16:14.894 --> 00:16:16.395
I think the hard part is how do we say that?

00:16:16.395 --> 00:16:17.878
The hard part is how do we say that?

00:16:17.878 --> 00:16:20.581
Because last night, at my men's group.

00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:30.811
You know Kaler, who used to identify I love saying used to identify but he used to identify as a gay person and then a gay Christian, and now he doesn't identify as gay at all.

00:16:30.811 --> 00:16:39.370
He said when he saw that Olympics his heart broke for them because he said that's who I used to be.

00:16:39.370 --> 00:16:45.721
Yeah, and boy, that shut us all up because I think we were kind of like, you know, making fun of it a little bit.

00:16:45.721 --> 00:16:55.057
And then all of a sudden he goes that I I know you guys are angry about that, but that's who I was and so my heart breaks for them in their sin.

00:16:55.057 --> 00:16:59.428
And I was like only kaylor could say that and it made an impact and everyone was like, oh yeah let's pray for them like that was the, that was like we only.

00:16:59.448 --> 00:17:01.615
Kaler could say that and it made an impact and everyone was like, oh yeah, let's pray for them.

00:17:01.615 --> 00:17:04.545
That was like we all repented right there.

00:17:04.545 --> 00:17:16.922
We prayed for all the people involved and sort of like globally, because that's who Kaler was and he has repented and is now wanting to live for Jesus.

00:17:16.922 --> 00:17:18.260
That was a wild perspective.

00:17:18.260 --> 00:17:21.003
So Jordan from your perspective, like talk to me then.

00:17:21.003 --> 00:17:25.205
Do you see it from that way or are you still kind of like, ah, it's whatever.

00:17:27.215 --> 00:17:27.596
I mean.

00:17:27.596 --> 00:17:36.164
So my perspective on the people in general is I mean, I'm trying to see it from their viewpoint right, they're nonbelievers stuck in their sin, if you will.

00:17:36.164 --> 00:17:38.076
So why?

00:17:38.076 --> 00:17:41.866
They probably don't see it as any sort of offensiveness, like even for us.

00:17:41.866 --> 00:17:48.553
Like you know, some shows have, you know, portrayed muhammad and you know it's, it's comedy.

00:17:48.553 --> 00:17:51.079
I don't know if you found, did you find that funny?

00:17:52.163 --> 00:17:57.602
I haven't seen one where muhammad's portrayed in a funny way but even then I would, I would be careful, well, well, yeah.

00:17:58.002 --> 00:18:00.228
Yeah, yeah, you see that as common South Park.

00:18:00.248 --> 00:18:01.390
Which one South Park South Park?

00:18:01.390 --> 00:18:02.633
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:18:02.653 --> 00:18:03.074
South Park.

00:18:03.074 --> 00:18:03.795
That's funny, yeah.

00:18:03.795 --> 00:18:06.744
So how is that different here?

00:18:06.744 --> 00:18:11.705
Because you're mocking the Islamic people at that point, right, sure.

00:18:12.567 --> 00:18:17.637
Yeah, but I still think that would be, I would be treading, I would be treading.

00:18:17.637 --> 00:18:20.104
I don't think the goal I think so.

00:18:20.104 --> 00:18:21.006
I don't know.

00:18:21.006 --> 00:18:43.346
As a Christian I'd have my goal to mock openly someone's faith system, because I think that would sort of build up walls and again, I'm not trying to be like hands across America on this but at the same time I want to offend people at the right spot.

00:18:43.346 --> 00:18:45.640
Now to your point.

00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:46.242
They don't know.

00:18:46.242 --> 00:18:48.021
I think they were trying to offend Christians.

00:18:48.021 --> 00:18:49.781
I think they were trying to stick it to them.

00:18:49.781 --> 00:19:02.144
I think someone was like they probably started off with Dionysus, the Greek god of merrymaking, wine and insanity, and like what's the most insane thing you could think of?

00:19:02.144 --> 00:19:04.423
And you go oh, what about this?

00:19:04.855 --> 00:19:18.635
You put the Last Supper and you make the God Dionysus the Last Supper for Jesus and you make Jesus a woman with a putting her, you know, doing the little heart thing that Jesus, I mean, that's that would be funny.

00:19:18.635 --> 00:19:26.843
But if, from that perspective, to say your Jesus is not real, and again, so I guess this goes back to, is it?

00:19:26.843 --> 00:19:32.787
I feel like there's a part of which we don't get offended.

00:19:32.787 --> 00:19:38.832
When someone's unintentionally trying to, they're just being themselves and they're cussing all over the place.

00:19:39.214 --> 00:19:40.855
Right, so you saw this as malicious, a malicious attack.

00:19:40.894 --> 00:19:48.239
Yeah, I think they're intentionally trying to mock Christians, and I don't think they.

00:19:48.239 --> 00:19:59.585
I don't know if they start off that way, but when they put the Last Supper team out there and then had Dionysus come down on a big plate, to me that's like, okay, come on.

00:19:59.585 --> 00:20:06.203
And then for them to be like, oh, if you were offended, I didn't even see it that way.

00:20:06.203 --> 00:20:07.145
At least own it.

00:20:07.145 --> 00:20:07.948
I guess that's what I'm saying.

00:20:08.316 --> 00:20:22.779
Own the fact that you were trying to stick it to christians oh, just own it and then we can go okay, now we can have a war of words, and you know, I think that's totally fine well, I think, how do you, how do you deny it?

00:20:22.799 --> 00:20:24.242
they're saying that it's nothing.

00:20:24.242 --> 00:20:42.038
All allusions to the last supper were purely coincidental they're like oh, there was actually 14 people on this one right, you know completely different yeah they're like no, there wasn't there, it wasn't the same, like they wasn't even facing the same direction right they were like yeah, yeah, literally in different parts of it.

00:20:42.078 --> 00:20:50.787
if you look at the like, the contrast, like in the last supper, they're facing this way like I'm faith, but in the um, in the video, they're facing this way.

00:20:50.787 --> 00:20:51.749
I mean, it's like that.

00:20:51.749 --> 00:20:55.615
Those are the things that I think they just messed it up because they look we're looking at a mirror or something.

00:20:55.615 --> 00:20:58.240
I feel like that's where it's a struggle.

00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:03.859
Is it's so clear that they were intentionally mocking Christianity?

00:21:03.859 --> 00:21:05.944
But again, I think that's fine.

00:21:05.944 --> 00:21:09.265
I think the question I'm really—and this is the one I'm really wrestling through.

00:21:09.666 --> 00:21:13.982
I think in the past, when somebody would say something stupid about Christianity, I would just blow it off.

00:21:13.982 --> 00:21:28.846
I don't think I would be, to your point, overly offended, and I think that may have been a mistake, because I'm not revealing the disgust that God might have toward that thought.

00:21:28.846 --> 00:21:32.924
And I think this is where, back in the day, you used to call this being winsome.

00:21:32.924 --> 00:21:39.144
So you're not offended by it, you're above it all, you're just.

00:21:39.144 --> 00:21:42.740
You know it doesn't, nothing affects you, and that was really awesome.

00:21:42.740 --> 00:21:56.642
However, I think we're entering to a stage where Christianity is now the no longer the majority, and so you're not being winsome, you're now being you're.

00:21:57.064 --> 00:21:57.424
Silent.

00:21:57.684 --> 00:21:58.105
Silent.

00:21:58.105 --> 00:22:08.891
Yes, that's where it's a problem, because it's not the pervasive culture majority to think that a man dressing up as a woman is wrong.

00:22:08.891 --> 00:22:13.366
Now you're in a culture where that is celebrating a person's true identity.

00:22:13.366 --> 00:22:17.044
Is this woman pretending to be Jesus?

00:22:17.044 --> 00:22:23.214
Or, uh, this man dressed as a woman pretending to be a disciple?

00:22:23.214 --> 00:22:23.875
You're like it's.

00:22:23.875 --> 00:22:33.367
It's that's the part where that now is the norm, and if you don't get on board with that, you are a part of the problem.

00:22:33.367 --> 00:22:45.048
And so now, not standing up against that makes you just sort of like a silent, complicit person, and that's where I feel like over the past 20 years, you've seen the shift Really.

00:22:45.087 --> 00:23:08.925
Since the 90s, at the height of the moral majority type time when Newt Gingrich balanced the budget with Bill Clinton, you saw a shift in things where it went to, with George Bush being president and then Barack Obama, that huge swing to the left where Christianity became a target.

00:23:08.925 --> 00:23:19.795
And then, when we didn't say anything and we weren't offended by anything and people who do that are small-minded that became a problem.

00:23:19.795 --> 00:23:44.705
And I think that's how I mean, that's how you win the war of culture and influence is you make people feel stupid for being against something so open and loving, which is why we're watching so many Christians abandon their faith and, granted, I don't know if they're really Christians in the first place, but they're abandoning traditional God's design, uh, sex and marriage, that whole thing.

00:23:44.705 --> 00:23:50.663
Because, uh, it has been seen as such a pejorative in the culture to be that way.

00:23:50.663 --> 00:23:52.086
You're like your automatic.

00:23:52.086 --> 00:23:55.799
Your life is a polemic if you stand for, uh, traditional marriage.

00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.445
So that's kind of where I'm seeing that go right.

00:24:01.128 --> 00:24:08.857
So, like I said there was, there has already been pushback on this yeah um, you say not to remain silent, but like what does that look like?

00:24:08.857 --> 00:24:13.275
Do I need to go blast social media every time something gay is portrayed in the media?

00:24:13.496 --> 00:24:14.739
or I don't know.

00:24:14.739 --> 00:24:16.564
I I think that's maybe, but I mean how?

00:24:16.564 --> 00:24:17.567
How do you influence culture?

00:24:17.567 --> 00:24:20.214
I think that's maybe, but I mean, how do you influence culture?

00:24:20.214 --> 00:24:31.190
I think that becomes the ultimate question, and maybe it's like so one of the ways that I'm watching the progressive churches.

00:24:31.190 --> 00:25:07.319
When I say progressive, like gay-affirming churches, they would say something to the effect of if you are offended by the LGBTQgbtqia portrayal the last supper, well then you should be more offended by the fact that christians are bashing gays all over the world like that's the that's the verbal um judo that's going on to make you feel bad for being a uh, heterosexual christian who is trying to follow jesus.

00:25:07.380 --> 00:25:16.258
Like you should feel bad for that, that you're offended by that and you shouldn't be, and so trying to separate the offense from you, which is like it's like that's how you get a family to get a divorce.

00:25:16.258 --> 00:25:22.596
You shouldn't be offended that your wife is being um pursued by another man like that.

00:25:22.596 --> 00:25:27.144
That's essentially what we're saying is okay.

00:25:27.144 --> 00:25:28.767
Does that make sense?

00:25:28.767 --> 00:25:28.807
I?

00:25:29.307 --> 00:25:29.929
I know that might be.

00:25:29.929 --> 00:25:30.836
That's a weird like.

00:25:30.836 --> 00:25:35.025
Like like people defending where it's like.

00:25:35.025 --> 00:25:46.886
Christians say okay, I hear all of you out there like posting and all these things, but when's the last time that you've read your Bible or when's the last time you've posted a verse on your page?

00:25:46.886 --> 00:25:53.228
Right, you're in uproar right now, but what does your own personal life look like?

00:25:53.327 --> 00:25:54.920
Right, and so I think no, this is good.

00:25:54.920 --> 00:26:20.107
I think what happens, and this is just our I you know I can't speak for every church or every christian community, but, um, for the most part, I think christians don't read their bible, they're not into god's word and they're not being changed, and so, therefore, what does Christianity offer me Meaning?

00:26:20.107 --> 00:26:28.384
If I'm a lost person, seeing you offended, affected, it just seems like you have something to be angry about.

00:26:28.384 --> 00:26:37.201
The same way that you get upset that your football team loses, you get upset that your religion lost on TV because they got portrayed in a negative way.

00:26:38.176 --> 00:26:47.806
I think that's how we're coming off, and I think this is where one of the things that just this actually preview for the sermon this Sunday is like we don't glory in Jesus.

00:26:47.806 --> 00:27:05.988
There's a tendency for us to glory in arguing, and I think this is why I'm bringing it, because I feel like I should say something, but I don't know how to do it in a way that honors God and it doesn't make me come off like I'm really upset at you.

00:27:05.988 --> 00:27:20.324
I love these people that are so broken that they don't understand the wrath they're incurring from God, because they are openly putting God to shame, and we know God will not be mocked.

00:27:20.324 --> 00:27:31.339
He is never going to let that just whatever, like every careless word that you say you'll be judged for, and so I think this is where it's like.

00:27:31.682 --> 00:27:32.423
I think that's where.

00:27:32.994 --> 00:27:35.963
I think Candice, oh man.

00:27:35.983 --> 00:27:36.404
Full house.

00:27:36.424 --> 00:27:43.404
Full house girl, her brother's Candice Cameron whatever her married name is, candice was like I just feel sad for these people, right?

00:27:43.404 --> 00:27:44.820
And then she got well, don't you feel mad?

00:27:44.820 --> 00:27:54.566
She's like I feel mad that my savior is mocked, but the expression that I'm feeling more is sad for these people and I was like, wow, that was a Kaler sort of response which I really appreciated.

00:28:01.755 --> 00:28:14.977
I think growing like, growing up and especially getting older and stuff it was we were taught love the person, hate the sin, yeah, so if we're trying to get people here by bashing in into christianity in the church, by bashing and going hard and telling them that they're just worthless pieces of whatever, and how could you do that?

00:28:14.977 --> 00:28:19.505
Where's that imitation and this is a lot of people are saying this too where's that imitation?

00:28:19.505 --> 00:28:19.933
Where's that love?

00:28:19.933 --> 00:28:20.669
Right, like where you a lot of people are saying this too.

00:28:20.669 --> 00:28:21.137
Where's that invitation?

00:28:21.137 --> 00:28:21.346
Where's that love?

00:28:21.346 --> 00:28:21.445
Like where?

00:28:21.445 --> 00:28:21.605
You know?

00:28:21.605 --> 00:28:28.157
It's kind of like the controversial Superbowl commercial of uh, what was the Jesus commercial?

00:28:28.157 --> 00:28:30.563
Uh, he gets us, he gets us.

00:28:30.563 --> 00:28:33.268
You know, it's just like whoa, whoa, timeout.

00:28:33.429 --> 00:28:40.006
Well, it's so weird, isn't it wild, that, over and over again, jesus is at the center Every time.

00:28:40.006 --> 00:28:41.468
Now, okay, here's another place.

00:28:41.468 --> 00:28:50.259
I'm not recommending this movie, but guess who is Marvel H Christ Deadpool?

00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:56.950
So, like Deadpool in his movie says, I am the Marvel Jesus, you should call me Marvel H Christ.

00:28:56.950 --> 00:29:15.790
Now, I don't know where Ryan Reynolds stands with Jesus, but I'm guaranteeing you it's not close, but for some reason, he chose to make Deadpool the antihero that mocks all superhero movies.

00:29:15.790 --> 00:29:20.605
The way that he's going to do it is he is going to call himself Marvel Jesus.

00:29:20.605 --> 00:29:22.067
Now, why?

00:29:22.067 --> 00:29:23.480
Why is that?

00:29:23.480 --> 00:29:29.107
How does it, over and over again, jesus get right to the center of you can't escape.

00:29:29.107 --> 00:29:38.643
And how does Jesus become a four-letter word, like whenever someone says something in anger, it's usually a JC kind, kind of like.

00:29:39.925 --> 00:29:43.980
That's their expression of anger yep but, but how did?

00:29:43.980 --> 00:29:44.300
Why?

00:29:44.300 --> 00:29:47.126
Because that name has power.

00:29:47.367 --> 00:29:53.784
Yeah, that's good, and it's one of those deals where you can look at this as, no matter what, guess who we're talking about.

00:29:53.784 --> 00:29:54.886
Guess who we're talking about.

00:29:54.886 --> 00:29:56.278
Guess we're talking about where it's.

00:29:56.278 --> 00:29:59.134
You look at it as he makes all things work together for his good.

00:29:59.134 --> 00:30:00.637
He does, and you're sitting here.

00:30:00.637 --> 00:30:05.808
How do you know that somebody that did watch that on tv didn't go?

00:30:05.808 --> 00:30:07.019
Wow, that is sad.

00:30:07.019 --> 00:30:09.229
Yeah, and enough is enough, right, you know?

00:30:09.269 --> 00:30:16.025
and that's kind of my point too right like, if still any exposure is good exposure, right, right, god uses this.

00:30:16.726 --> 00:30:17.627
So that's all.

00:30:17.627 --> 00:30:19.538
Hey, if it was exposure for me, I'll take it.

00:30:19.538 --> 00:30:20.559
Well, that's why I'm not a fan.

00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.823
Put my name out there, right, yeah, yeah.

00:30:24.336 --> 00:30:36.624
I think there's a line there, though, that I'm trying to be really careful of, because if I'm not offended by it, then I'm inviting someone to do that more, and that is incurring more wrath upon them.

00:30:37.015 --> 00:30:49.202
However, if, in love, I say I don't think you know what you're doing and I don't think you understand the wrath you're incurring, that this is not just a vague idea that you're like kind of laughing at.

00:30:49.202 --> 00:30:51.855
It's the savior of the world, and maybe you haven't.

00:30:51.855 --> 00:31:02.508
You have less revelation, and so therefore, I understand that you don't understand what your words mean, but I'm going to tell you what your words mean, with the hopes that you might repent and then therefore come to Christ.

00:31:02.508 --> 00:31:11.803
Now I would say that in a one-on-one conversation, but when we don't have one-on-one opportunities, how do we like?

00:31:11.803 --> 00:31:50.342
I think this is where, and maybe you have to explain that whole thing, and maybe your social media post goes something like this hey, I know that you thought that was funny and it reflection of your non-understanding, misunderstanding, intentional mockering of people whose faith and life revolve around him is a very dangerous place for you to be in and I'm praying for your soul to be saved.

00:31:50.342 --> 00:31:56.928
That comes off a little bit condescending, but I think it should, because you're correcting someone's sinful thinking right.

00:31:57.675 --> 00:32:07.977
Yeah, I agree, I mean my thing I'm trying to think through is how do you reach the most people in saying that right, like my idea, just maybe make a wells branch church post about that.

00:32:07.977 --> 00:32:10.222
I don't know if you have an idea of how to reach.

00:32:10.262 --> 00:32:13.598
Yeah, this is where you know who the best that this is holland greg from ecc.

00:32:13.598 --> 00:32:18.130
He, he, he is very great at his social media posts on these kind of things.

00:32:18.130 --> 00:32:20.194
But yeah, I think that might media posts on these kind of things.

00:32:20.194 --> 00:32:25.656
But yeah, I think that might be the direction we kind of need to go on some of these things To be.

00:32:25.656 --> 00:32:28.685
This is where I need more creative.

00:32:28.685 --> 00:32:30.962
It takes me forever to think of something.

00:32:31.284 --> 00:32:31.463
Sure.

00:32:32.135 --> 00:32:36.417
And I sit there and I'll try and craft a post and craft a post to make it right, and then I sit there and go crud.

00:32:36.417 --> 00:32:37.221
I'm not going to say anything.

00:32:38.076 --> 00:32:38.840
Because it comes off wrong.

00:32:38.840 --> 00:32:44.296
I'm like, am I passive?

00:32:44.316 --> 00:32:45.097
aggressive, or am I too too aggressive?

00:32:45.097 --> 00:32:45.819
Am I telling you that you're just?

00:32:45.819 --> 00:32:49.076
Yeah, I think that's my problem, and maybe my problem should be I need to say something as opposed to nothing.

00:32:49.076 --> 00:32:58.982
But, um, what I don't want to be is an, is more noise, uh, but what I do want is to have, when people kind of come across, that is to reflect on.

00:32:58.982 --> 00:33:03.739
Do I understand the depths of God's love and the way that I'm mocking?

00:33:03.739 --> 00:33:07.407
It is like what they were wanting to say is free expression of love.

00:33:07.407 --> 00:33:19.019
Well, the greatest expression of love is Jesus dying on the cross, and when you make fun of that, you're making fun of the absolute essence of love, the highest form of love, your benefit at my expense.

00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:30.624
And maybe what you really are saying is I don't want that love, I want selfish, my benefit at your expense, and that is what the Olympics showed my benefit at your expense.

00:33:30.624 --> 00:33:36.140
And I think that's the problem with the overall arching world view of life.

00:33:36.800 --> 00:33:48.048
So, assuming they have malicious intent with this ceremony um, I forgot where I was going with that one do they need to apologize or something I don't know?

00:33:48.048 --> 00:33:57.500
No, I mean, they just seem to think I don't know how to best say this like would you say they hate christians the oh.

00:33:59.364 --> 00:34:03.652
So somebody sent me this a while ago and it was a.

00:34:03.652 --> 00:34:09.143
Uh, the creative director of the thing of the opening olympics was trying to make fun of christians.

00:34:09.143 --> 00:34:16.543
And come to find out, uh, let's see 24 paris olympics with all of it.

00:34:16.543 --> 00:34:19.887
Satanic macy, macy, like all the masonic and lbg imagery.

00:34:19.887 --> 00:34:23.201
The guy's jewish right but they were talking about uh.

00:34:23.201 --> 00:34:29.961
There's only one religion which manages to directly attack christ and promote non-traditional values and gender orientations.

00:34:29.961 --> 00:34:32.208
Is it talmudic judaism?

00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:35.661
yeah, that's the right way.

00:34:35.661 --> 00:34:35.961
Is that?

00:34:35.961 --> 00:34:36.503
Is that right?

00:34:36.762 --> 00:34:38.847
yeah, is what they were talking about.

00:34:38.847 --> 00:34:45.028
The olympic ceremony in paris was not uplifting french any any other other cultures.

00:34:45.489 --> 00:34:52.634
It was promoting a different tradition right yeah and I think their whole thing was liberty, right?

00:34:52.634 --> 00:34:57.192
Oh so when you think about the bastille, I think they're almost going back to that which.

00:34:57.192 --> 00:35:00.644
When I think about the bastille and guillotines and off with their heads.

00:35:00.644 --> 00:35:02.938
That was a failed revolution.

00:35:02.938 --> 00:35:05.233
Sure they wanted to get rid of the bourgeoisie.

00:35:05.233 --> 00:35:12.764
They wanted to make sure everybody that had any money died and the people be lifted up, and it did nothing but create another ruling class of people.

00:35:12.764 --> 00:35:22.431
And so the and and that was problematic, and it was just bloodshed after bloodshed for no purpose, and I think that's the god of insanity that they're they're worshiping anyway.

00:35:23.172 --> 00:35:27.659
I I just, it's all interesting and it's where people defend, like what's the olympics?

00:35:27.659 --> 00:35:35.326
And they're doing the greek things because it started in greece and they're trying to tie in paris style and pair.

00:35:35.326 --> 00:35:43.847
And it's france, it's, it's the modeling capital of the world and it's all these things are like, oh, it's fashion, it's all these things, what did you expect?

00:35:44.269 --> 00:35:52.378
and we're like I don't know not that decency, I just like call them in like, because I'm listen, I I understand they're not going to be christian.

00:35:52.378 --> 00:35:54.688
Sure, like gay people doing stuff I would.

00:35:54.768 --> 00:35:56.311
I wouldn't but where's your morale like?

00:35:56.311 --> 00:35:59.045
Where's your morals right, like your kids?

00:35:59.106 --> 00:36:02.108
and maybe that's what they're saying, and this is why this becomes.

00:36:02.108 --> 00:36:08.273
They have drag shows in libraries for the purpose of grooming children.

00:36:08.273 --> 00:36:23.405
To think that men dressing up as women and not just like any women, like stripper women, men dressing up as stripper women for provocative sexual enticement is what children should be exposed to Generally.

00:36:23.405 --> 00:36:28.657
20 years ago for sure, maybe 10 years ago we would have called that grooming.

00:36:28.657 --> 00:36:31.594
Now we're calling that just a way to rear your children.

00:36:31.594 --> 00:36:35.655
And if you don't think like this, then you are a bigot.

00:36:35.655 --> 00:36:42.353
And I think that's where, again, this gets back to why I think it's important for us to speak up, speak out.

00:36:42.353 --> 00:36:45.577
Again, this gets back to why I think it's important for us to speak up, speak out.

00:36:45.577 --> 00:36:52.871
And to Elon Musk's point, christianity has become toothless and again, I don't know if that was— I don't feel like it means we're not going out and fighting.

00:36:52.913 --> 00:36:53.954
I feel like it's just—.

00:36:53.974 --> 00:36:54.757
Burn the place down.

00:36:54.885 --> 00:36:57.333
Yeah, I feel like it's honestly speaking up for yourself.

00:36:57.353 --> 00:36:58.175
So is he a Christian.

00:36:58.568 --> 00:36:59.545
That's an even better thing.

00:36:59.545 --> 00:37:01.228
I don't even know his background, but Is he a Christian?

00:37:01.228 --> 00:37:01.789
That's an even better thing.

00:37:01.789 --> 00:37:07.141
I don't even know his background, but for someone like that to speak up and be like, hey, that's pretty ridiculous, to be doing something like that, it's kind of cool.

00:37:08.925 --> 00:37:10.228
With the platform he has right, like if he were a Christian.

00:37:10.228 --> 00:37:13.175
Why wouldn't he go more in depth and just saying, hey, we're toothless.

00:37:13.896 --> 00:37:14.518
He didn't say we.

00:37:14.518 --> 00:37:16.733
He just said Christians have become toothless.

00:37:16.733 --> 00:37:31.755
And I think what he I you know it's elon musk, so he's always trying to provoke stuff and what I think elon musk was doing in that moment was trying to get a rise out of christians to speak up for themselves, because, you know, it's not like elon musk was is mr conservative?

00:37:31.755 --> 00:37:36.797
He well, you know, he started his business in california and I don't think he moved.

00:37:37.097 --> 00:37:41.690
I think the left became so left that he was like oh my gosh, this is out, is out of control.

00:37:41.690 --> 00:37:42.753
I'm a conservative.

00:37:42.813 --> 00:37:44.195
Now, how did this happen?

00:37:44.195 --> 00:37:46.650
Right, and I don't think he has a religion per se.

00:37:46.650 --> 00:37:52.574
But then when he realized who was on his team, he looked around and goes oh, it looks like the Christians are the ones that are on my team.

00:37:52.574 --> 00:37:55.246
Shoot, all right, I'll hitch up my pony here.

00:37:55.246 --> 00:37:57.289
I don't think he had a.

00:37:57.289 --> 00:38:03.820
I think the reason he moved more right is because the left went so far left.

00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:08.684
I mean he looks like he's super conservative, but in reality I don't think he's really that conservative.

00:38:09.246 --> 00:38:10.311
Well, why did he buy Twitter?

00:38:10.311 --> 00:38:12.550
What was the reason for that?

00:38:12.550 --> 00:38:21.449
Because they were censoring and they were not letting people actually have free speech, so the left could do whatever they wanted, say whatever they wanted, and when the right tried, it was censored, it was cut.

00:38:21.449 --> 00:38:23.934
So why are we not equal?

00:38:23.934 --> 00:38:25.237
We're equal playing field here.

00:38:25.237 --> 00:38:25.925
Right, right, right.

00:38:25.925 --> 00:38:29.451
And so he's like hey, this has to be open for everybody, all of it needs to be put out there.

00:38:29.451 --> 00:38:34.516
So I think that was also a push for him as well was like hey, y'all aren't playing fair ball here.

00:38:37.528 --> 00:38:39.831
Yeah, always, he can pick whoever he wants.

00:38:39.831 --> 00:38:47.661
He can pick the richest person in the entire world to effectively go to battle for Christians, even if he's not a believer, aka Nebuchadnezzar.

00:38:47.661 --> 00:38:54.369
I mean, it's not like unheard of, I do think when you start working for Jesus though it'd be really it's an added bonus to get saved.

00:38:54.369 --> 00:39:00.271
So I'm hoping that Elon does get saved, but he clearly has been speaking out for Christians, which is sort of wild to think about.

00:39:00.271 --> 00:39:08.956
Anyway, yeah, so to the point of this whole thing, I don't know if we actually landed on any conclusions other than, clearly.

00:39:09.065 --> 00:39:18.336
I know that the French media and the left would want you to think that that was not intended to mock Christianity, but it was.

00:39:18.336 --> 00:39:38.255
And what's also funny is Celine like performed for the first time in like I don't know, feel like 20 years or something crazy, a long time because she has yeah, she got the stiff person I watched like a uh video the other day about her and pretty much selling her soul to the devil, quote, unquote, and all this whole thing before this even came out.

00:39:38.396 --> 00:39:39.846
Oh, yeah, I'll have to find.

00:39:39.846 --> 00:39:50.847
Yeah, we'll have to look it up and find it later because it's a whole ordeal and that after she did all these things, like she got hit with some rare throat type of disease.

00:39:50.847 --> 00:39:52.451
It was pretty interesting.

00:39:52.451 --> 00:39:56.818
I was like, oh, that's pretty cool wow, all right.

00:39:56.878 --> 00:39:59.949
Yeah, so sell her soul to the devil is the thing.

00:39:59.949 --> 00:40:01.972
Yeah, oh, wow, she did.

00:40:01.972 --> 00:40:07.059
Yeah, she's launching a Luciferian children's clothing line.

00:40:07.059 --> 00:40:09.811
Yeah, okay, that's false, never mind.

00:40:10.231 --> 00:40:17.335
That was there was some yeah, that was one and there was a couple other things in there and I just watched it before the opening ceremonies and then that all happened.

00:40:17.335 --> 00:40:19.851
I was like, oh man, I don't look too much.

00:40:19.851 --> 00:40:28.514
It is another thing that when stuff gets posted and put out there, people are so quick to immediately just repost it and type it out.

00:40:29.056 --> 00:40:37.516
I have to go and do research on I have to look it up I've got to go to a few different places, see what people are saying, looking into a few different things, and be like okay, yeah, that's legit or that's not.

00:40:37.516 --> 00:40:46.797
You know, somebody had posted a video of a bunch of people in paris with like and singing and they were like oh, christians gathered, thousands of Christians gathered.

00:40:46.797 --> 00:40:49.760
After that happened in Paris to worship God.

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:53.875
Well, that was like six months ago or something a year ago.

00:40:53.875 --> 00:40:56.489
The video so it's like why are you even put that out there?

00:40:56.489 --> 00:40:58.094
Stuff like that.

00:40:58.465 --> 00:41:00.228
It's kind of silly so it's weird how.

00:41:01.108 --> 00:41:09.059
that's why I'm like a firm believer of hey, let's dive deep, look into it, figure it out first, and then just don't jump to conclusions so fast, right.

00:41:09.501 --> 00:41:17.125
Yeah, what I thought was interesting, there were several posts that were kind of first one was like can you believe this Last Supper?

00:41:17.125 --> 00:41:21.610
And then people say that wasn't the Last Supper, that was just dionysus.

00:41:21.610 --> 00:41:32.652
Then I then I watched it and I looked it up and I was like nope, definitely the last supper, definitely, uh, the greek god, dionysus, was involved with it, but it was him taking over jesus.

00:41:32.652 --> 00:41:36.005
Um, and granted, jesus, in this case, was a woman.

00:41:36.005 --> 00:41:38.110
Uh, it's just a sort of wow, all right.

00:41:38.150 --> 00:41:40.755
So did you see the actual picture they were talking about?

00:41:41.076 --> 00:41:41.938
The Last Supper one.

00:41:41.938 --> 00:41:46.235
No the naked dude the blue man.

00:41:46.985 --> 00:41:48.853
It's the Feast of the Gods, yeah.

00:41:48.853 --> 00:41:58.338
It's an actual painting and it's the one where they're saying that this is what it was actually about.

00:41:58.945 --> 00:42:01.373
Yeah, and it looks nothing Right.

00:42:02.425 --> 00:42:03.447
I had an idea.

00:42:03.668 --> 00:42:05.835
Yeah, it doesn't look anything like it.

00:42:05.835 --> 00:42:09.204
It looks way more like the last supper.

00:42:09.204 --> 00:42:20.431
Yeah, I'm looking at the picture now yeah and I'm like, yeah, come on, this is definitely a the last supper is the thing, not that one.

00:42:20.431 --> 00:42:24.077
They a little yeah, they did do a little combo situation.

00:42:24.518 --> 00:42:28.996
Right, and that's where people, when they're defending it, that's where it's like, ok, we're going to that.

00:42:29.255 --> 00:42:32.032
Right, but no Right, it's it.

00:42:32.032 --> 00:42:34.190
That's the part the problem is, it's it.

00:42:45.425 --> 00:42:53.728
You're clearly know what you're doing when you have the imagery of Jesus with the heart, with the heart with the crown, with all the things, and then dionysus coming down as the um, you know the yeah, yeah, clearly it's kind of and it's out there where they're like you know where they're actually trying to mock it.

00:42:53.728 --> 00:42:56.797
So it is what it is yeah, I mean I, yeah.

00:42:56.856 --> 00:42:59.871
that's where I'm like I I've seen too much to go on.

00:42:59.871 --> 00:43:08.773
After looking at all the different pictures and paintings, it's just too similar and I think they may have started out with.

00:43:08.833 --> 00:43:11.431
Like we said Right, but I think they're like, oh, this could be funny.

00:43:12.025 --> 00:43:12.990
And then they didn't.

00:43:12.990 --> 00:43:21.911
You know, it really wasn't funny to people, yeah, and they just gave themselves, like, the ability to deny it by saying no, look, there's the blue dude right here.

00:43:21.911 --> 00:43:23.775
Anyway, okay.

00:43:23.795 --> 00:43:25.137
Yeah, love people, hate the sin.

00:43:27.090 --> 00:43:33.045
There you go, all right and make some conservative posts that make people think, and let me know when you do, because you're probably way better than I am.

00:43:33.045 --> 00:43:35.972
All right, so any other final thoughts there, jordan.

00:43:36.706 --> 00:43:50.418
Yeah, so as a same-sex attracted person myself, I'm kind of trying to put myself in the shoes of these people who, let's assume, are being malicious.

00:43:50.418 --> 00:43:53.686
Okay, which makes me think.

00:43:53.686 --> 00:44:00.059
I mean, christians are usually associated with the ones, like you said, who bash the gays the most, and all of that, right.

00:44:00.059 --> 00:44:04.476
So I assume this is some sort of attempt by them to bash us back.

00:44:04.735 --> 00:44:20.135
Yeah, but yeah, I just I have not had the experience in the church at least not much of people hating me for my sin or I guess I wouldn't call it sin to be gay.

00:44:20.135 --> 00:44:22.670
To be clear, acting on it is sin.

00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:27.456
So I can understand their perspective to a certain degree.

00:44:27.456 --> 00:44:34.304
And I mean things in the Christian culture have affected me as well.

00:44:34.304 --> 00:44:42.367
You know, like a typical saying, if someone thinks something is stupid, you know they'll say that's gay, right, stuff like that.

00:44:42.367 --> 00:45:05.606
You know, and I assume't you know think of what that could actually do or affect certain people, especially kids, um, but just their experience the most seems to have been, you know, they're seeing us all as hateful, right, um, and kind of, you know, sticking our nose up like we're better than you, like you were saying.

00:45:05.606 --> 00:45:17.690
I think a good way to combat this maybe is to show relatability to a certain degree, in the sense that, hey, we're all sinners, we're not better than you show.

00:45:17.690 --> 00:45:21.152
Yeah, we all have sinful desires.

00:45:21.974 --> 00:45:30.501
All of us do, and I think you know there are times when I want to act out in rage or anger.

00:45:30.501 --> 00:45:37.376
There are times where I and that's a sinful desire that I have to put at the feet of Jesus Discipline my children.

00:45:37.376 --> 00:45:39.708
I could discipline out of anger, I could discipline in love.

00:45:39.708 --> 00:45:41.735
You know there's no matter what.

00:45:41.735 --> 00:45:51.867
The desire of darkness is always bad.

00:45:51.867 --> 00:45:52.851
But I think what happens is we, that we, we, we.

00:45:52.851 --> 00:46:15.117
I think if you start treating like someone's sinful desires as worse than another's, then that's where that becomes problematic and I think that's where jesus is wanting us to kind of really get to the heart of loving people, because you know, coveting your neighbor's wife is a sinful desire and we should not be promoting that and we shouldn't say it's okay to like, hey, it's okay that you want to covet your neighbor's wife, but you can't help it.

00:46:15.224 --> 00:46:42.860
No, we say no, we are going to repent from that and repent from that, and repent from that, over and over again I think that's the beauty of this is my heart for these people is I want them to repent from their sinful desires, and then their sinful desires become sinful actions, and then that's the, the ultimate struggle that I think we're battling here, um, in the, in the culture, wars of, of, of you know, I guess globally, if we're talking in Paris.

00:46:43.766 --> 00:46:49.512
So I think, like our baptism structure can do it well, like what was your life like before Christ?

00:46:49.512 --> 00:46:54.893
Right, you can establish a sense of relatability and I think that might make them more open.

00:46:54.893 --> 00:46:56.748
Yeah, but you know.

00:46:56.748 --> 00:47:00.813
And then the other portion of that is you know what has your life been like after Christ?

00:47:00.813 --> 00:47:02.248
And that's where you get to say all of that is you know what has your life been like after Christ.

00:47:02.204 --> 00:47:14.713
And that's where you get to say all of the blessings, all of the new experiences you've had, that you know kind of magnified Jesus instead of I don't know like.

00:47:15.074 --> 00:47:15.956
I don't know in the Bible.

00:47:15.996 --> 00:47:22.123
It's all just like hate gays, you know you guys suck all this stuff, but that seems to be the perception and that needs to be dispelled.

00:47:22.123 --> 00:47:22.485
You're right on.

00:47:22.485 --> 00:47:25.273
This is where I love what you just said and it just makes me want to jump on it.

00:47:25.273 --> 00:47:26.887
1 Corinthians 6-9,.

00:47:26.887 --> 00:47:28.612
Do you not know?

00:47:28.612 --> 00:47:30.737
The unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God.

00:47:30.737 --> 00:47:32.251
Do not be deceived.

00:47:32.251 --> 00:47:44.150
Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

00:47:44.150 --> 00:47:45.931
You'd say this exact thing, of that entire thing.

00:47:46.045 --> 00:47:48.530
And then 1 Corinthians 6.11,.

00:47:48.530 --> 00:47:52.297
And such were some of you.

00:47:52.297 --> 00:47:56.753
And there, but for the grace of God, go I.

00:47:56.753 --> 00:47:58.336
But such were some of you.

00:47:58.336 --> 00:48:02.726
You used to be all those things, all the things that will not inherit the kingdom of God.

00:48:02.726 --> 00:48:11.413
You were those things, but now you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

00:48:11.413 --> 00:48:13.418
And so, man, I really love that.

00:48:13.418 --> 00:48:19.157
I mean you could summarize your entire thought, I think, with those three verses.

00:48:20.025 --> 00:48:21.931
And it really depends on the context too.

00:48:21.931 --> 00:48:25.052
Right, like it said you know I've struggled with drinking Like.

00:48:25.052 --> 00:48:29.750
That verse could very much sound like okay, I'm screwed, then I'm not going to inherit the kingdom of God.

00:48:29.750 --> 00:48:34.630
It just seems like the difference is the repentance aspect of it.

00:48:34.710 --> 00:48:38.887
I think that's where you say I don't want to be a drunkard, god help me.

00:48:38.887 --> 00:48:41.351
And that is like a repentant.

00:48:41.351 --> 00:48:43.356
Now nothing may have changed yet.

00:48:43.356 --> 00:48:48.956
Right Like you still, you're going to have desires that you're going to have to constantly submit to Jesus.

00:48:48.956 --> 00:48:55.617
On drinking, I'm not going to fill my body with alcohol, even though I desire to feel numb.

00:48:55.617 --> 00:49:00.434
I desire the buzz, I desire the party I don't know.

00:49:00.434 --> 00:49:02.759
I think that's where you could go with that.

00:49:02.759 --> 00:49:04.351
And then God's saying no, desire me.

00:49:04.351 --> 00:49:08.170
And I think that's the beauty of what you're really, really getting at the heart of.

00:49:08.170 --> 00:49:15.079
I think sometimes people just hear in those verses homosexuality.

00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:18.269
But it's thieves, greedy people, it's all of the above.

00:49:18.385 --> 00:49:33.751
Drunkards, revilers, swindlers it's kind of wild how many different types of people in here all with wrong desires, the sexual immoral idolaters, adulterers, men who practice homosexuality I just thought that that was sort of wild.

00:49:33.751 --> 00:49:42.320
So that's the beauty of the gospel, and I love the Corinthian church, which is from Greece, so they totally lived up to this party.

00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:54.239
Like you know, their love feast, where they were supposed to be celebrating Jesus' death, burial and resurrection, turned into debaucherous parties where they were essentially worshiping Bacchus or Dionysius.

00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:56.530
That's where it's sort of a wild disorder to think about.

00:49:56.530 --> 00:49:58.715
Yeah, all right.

00:49:58.715 --> 00:50:00.237
Hey, thanks for watching.

00:50:00.237 --> 00:50:04.797
If you got any questions, you can text us at 737-231-0605.

00:50:05.146 --> 00:50:08.235
We'd love to hear from you as we really talk faith, culture and everything in between.

00:50:08.235 --> 00:50:36.175
We are hoping that you, if you are watching this and you're from the LGBTQIA community, we would love to talk with you, have communication with you and love you and call you to repent and ask that God would just invite you into his family, because what is going on in your heart is something that's really special, and so I want you to, as you're hearing this, not to feel like there's a whole lot of judgment, because such were some of us, but we were washed, sanctified and we've been given over to Christ.

00:50:36.175 --> 00:50:37.358
We're so excited about that.

00:50:37.358 --> 00:50:41.436
So, from our house to yours, have an awesome week of worship.