Bishop EW Jackson: Welcome to another edition of the Awakening podcast here on American Family Radio. Your host, Bishop E.W. jackson. Great to be with you again today. folks, as always, thank you so much for your prayers, for your support. Thank you for the love that you show me, this network, and all the people who are affiliated with it and support it. We couldn't do this without you. So thank you so very, very much. We are grateful to God and grateful to you for standing with us.
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to murdering Brian Thompson
There is, an issue that we don't talk about as much now as we used to. But I want to spend some time today exploring this because I think it is something that we do need to come back to because I think it could be kind of the canary in the coal mine that we need to pay very, very close attention to. And I'll tell you what sparked this. Last week, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to, first degree murder, to the murder of Brian Thompson, which is exactly what he did. He did murder the man, admitted to murdering him. And in the process there was a lot of discussion again of all of the followers, apparently tens of thousands, mainly women, probably some men too, but I would assume don't have the same sort of romanticized view of him, but still supporters all across the country. They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for him. People just giving money. And the descriptions that people have of him are, are effusive. I mean they, they, they love him. let me just share with you some of the things that are being said. I'm going to talk about what this got me thinking about. with regard to him. there's a, there's a reporter, well, I guess she's, formerly with, she was with, Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz. And she just gushed over Luigi Mangione and she said he's a hero or role model because he's a hero or role model because he's handsome, he's smart, he's revolutionary. And are you ready for this one? Get this one. He's morally good. He's morally good. And she was saying how she understands that so many people are enamored of him, so many people are supporting him. And then she excuses it and said, you know, all these people clutching their pearls. he says, as if we don't lionize criminals. As if we don't, As if we don't stand murders of all sorts. We give them Netflix shows. I mean. Well, I don't know about the we. I don't. But I understand what she's saying. But that's really an excuse, isn't it? An excuse for what is apparently our own personal admiration for this man. Now, what is really going on here? I put Luigi Mangione, Carmela Anthony, the young black kid who killed Austin Metcalfe, stabbed him in the heart and killed him dead in a, a dispute over whether he should be in a particular tent at a sports event or not. Believe it or not, I throw George Floyd into this mix as well, because even though, again, in my view, George Floyd was certainly mistreated, should not have died, maybe didn't die only from the knee on the neck. But however one analyzes that situation, whatever conclusions you come to in that situation, one thing is crystal clear. George Floyd is no hero. I mean, he may have been a victim, but he certainly wasn't an innocent victim. Fentanyl addict. He's got fentanyl in the system. He's got methamphetamines in his system. He's so. He's high. He's trying to counterfeit money, probably to get money to buy drugs. He's got a record, and so he's certainly no babe in the woods. And yet you take these three people. Carmelo Anthony. I don't know whether it's over a million dollars or not now, but they. People sent him close to a million dollars. I mean, his family moved into, I think, a $900,000 home. They bought a big, expensive car. basically, they made all kinds of money off Carmela Anthony killing Austin Metcalf and George Floyd. they erected statues of him as if he's somebody we should all look up to and admire. And the only reason why he was in a negative interaction with police is because he was committing crimes, and the police were called to deal with him. He just happened to run into Derek Chauvin, which was very unfortunate for him because, I mean, I think Derek Chauvin was out of control. And I think the officers around him, at the very least, should have kind of restrained him, but they didn't. And George Floyd. But George Floyd precipitated the circumstances that led to his death. Now, people can call that blaming the victim or call it whatever they want, but it's the truth. And Yet. And yet we have a society that has turned all three of these men into heroes. I mean, the President of the United States, former president Joe Biden, said George Floyd was, as I think he even said had a greater influence than Martin Luther King.
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Bishop EW Jackson: Luigi. Luigi Mangion. Now, by the time you're hearing this, because I'm recording this before I know what the outcome is, he has not been sentenced yet. He's pleaded guilty to murder. He's not been sentenced. And I doubt very seriously he's going to be sentenced to the death penalty because he pleaded guilty. I'd be shocked if he got anything less than life in prison without the possibility of parole. But because he's so young, it's possible. I don't think he should get that. I think at the very least he should get life in prison. by the way, I am a big proponent of the death penalty. Particularly when you, in a cold blooded fashion, in a gross disregard for human life, take someone else's life, I believe you forfeit your own. I mean, I'm not talking about a situation which two people get into a fight and one person overwhelms the other and ends up killing them, but that was never the intention. I'm not talking about a situation where somebody maybe even commits vehicular homicide, but they didn't really set out to kill anybody. Maybe they're doing something stupid. But I'm talking about where a person sets out with malice aforethought to take the life of another human being. And they succeed in doing so, they forfeit their own lives. The Bible says, he that sheds man's blood, that by him, by man shall his blood be shed. It is, it is completely biblical to hold that view. And I hold it. So as far as I am concerned, Luigi Manjone is a candidate for the death penalty because let's be clear on what he did. He stalked Brian Thompson. And in the, pre dawn hours, I guess the sun was not quite up, but it was early morning,
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Bishop EW Jackson: comes up behind the man, shoots him in the back and kills him. Now folks, I don't know any standard whereby that is in heroic act. Again, it wouldn't be heroic. You've taken a person's life, life like that in cold blood. Wouldn't be heroic under any circumstances. But it's not as if he confronted the guy and got into a fight with him and maybe in the process the man lost his life. No, no, no. He comes up like a snake and shoots the man in the back. He never Even confronts him. He never even tells him why he's killing him. He never says, hey, I'm your victim, you did this to me. I mean, just shoots him in the back and he's supposed to be some kind of hero. And women apparently think he's good looking. And that, well, obviously that overcomes all that. I mean, doesn't matter if you cold bloodedly take another human being's life. as long as you're a good looking guy, that's okay. So let me tell you what I think is going on here. See, I believe that what we are witnessing is something that really began primarily in the 60s, and that is this more and more people have as a result of their education, as a result of the influence of popular culture. I think, and don't get me wrong folks, I know you don't listen to this stuff, but think about it. The rise of gangster rap, and there's another stuff that here, again, I don't listen to this stuff. There's something else now apparently they call drill. And that's supposed to be even more violent and more vicious than gangster Rapid. You know, a lot of these younger people are listening to this stuff from all backgrounds. It's primarily generated, by black artists. But people of all backgrounds listen to this stuff. This stuff is going around the world now. They're doing this in every country. Rapping about killing, rapping about, you know, murder. And, and again, I'm not saying there's a direct causal link between that and Luigi Man Jones. I'm just saying we have allowed within our culture a poison to enter into the body politic and spread. And that poison is moral relativism. In other words, there are no moral absolutes. Moral absolutes have been replaced with what I call feelings. Idolatry. right and wrong don't come into play. What comes into play? To define, to define. Right and wrong don't come into play. At least as defined by any absolute standard. Right or wrong or right or wrong are defined by what you feel. Your feelings determine right or wrong. So thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit murder, which is really what the Hebrew means. Well, that is meaningless because it depends on how you feel about the situation. And apparently if you feel like Luigi Man Jones, like you have been wronged by the health care system and somebody ought to pay for it, and you decide to walk up to a man and shoot him in the back, you haven't done anything wrong. In fact, you know, it's very, very interesting. Did you see, or read about Luigi Man Jones, confession, his plea, you have to. What they call elocute, meaning you have to say you did it, and you have to say how you did it. And there can be different rules with regard to that. But all Louise Man Jones said was, I killed Brian Thompson, and I knew it was illegal when I did it. M. Now, you know, folks, admitting that something is illegal is not the same as admitting that it's wrong or immoral. And he didn't say that he could have. That would have been. In fact, it might have helped him in the sentencing process, but he didn't say it. It might have helped him if he had said, I killed Brian Thompson, and I knew that it was wrong, and I knew that it was immoral when I did it. and I am now admitting that I did it and acknowledging that what I did was wrong. What I did was immoral. If he had said that, I'm not saying it would have brought the mercy of the court, into the picture, but it might have. The judge might have said, well, at least I'm hearing an expression of remorse. I heard nothing in. I knew it was illegal. It's almost as if he's saying it might have been illegal, but it wasn't wrong. It might have been illegal, but it wasn't immoral. But the reality is it was immoral and wrong before it was illegal. He didn't have the right to take that man's life. Now, ah, my understanding is that Brian Thompson was actually working on trying to figure out ways of better delivering health care to people and providing them with better service. That that was something that he was sincerely trying to work out. And apparently based on at least what we know, there's no accusation that Brian Thompson somehow made a decision that directly affected Luigi Manjone. Not that that would absolve him of wrongdoing, but there is not even that direct connection. As far as we know, he just picked him out because he's a health care executive. And probably, frankly, you know what? Probably because he thought he would. He was one of the people easiest to get to. I mean, folks, of course, Brian Thompson, we didn't know who he was until now. It's not that he was a big celebrity or something like that. And I don't walk around the streets or anything or travel, you know, go back and forth to the supermarket and yeah, I do go to the supermarket and do all the. Go to the laundry and do all the same things anybody else does. But I'll tell you what. When I'm out traveling to speak and going to venues and stepping up on stages and in big crowds, I have security. I arrive with it. My security is with me while the event is going on, and I leave with it because I've been threatened. Now I, frankly, I am shocked that Brian Thompson was out by himself at that time in the morning on his way to a corporate event with absolutely no one protecting him. But look, that's, that's another matter. I'm not blaming the victim here, but these days, you just can't take this stuff for granted. But the fact that he shot the man in the back and is being hailed by some as a hero is a testament to the degeneration of our culture. To the point where we now have people who think a man who shoots another man in the back because he thinks on some attenuated basis, this man is part of a problem in the delivery of health care and the way it's affected him personally. Not, a person who's directly attacked him or hurt him or harmed him, but someone who's part of an industry that he thinks harmed him. And so you get to shoot this man in the back and kill him, and you're supposed to be a hero. Well, look, moral relativism, because we're dealing with moral and cultural relativism now, these are the monstrous results that it can lead to. Not only the commissions of these kinds of acts. I, acknowledge that it was illegal. Yeah, but you don't acknowledge it was immoral, that it was wrong. But it leads to these kinds of acts. But it also leads to people supporting these kinds of acts. And where does that go? I mean, if your thinking is really warped and you want to be a celebrity, you want to have a bunch of people who really admire you, find a target that you think a bunch of people that you, whose, whose favor you want don't like and kill that person. I, mean, I'm under no illusions, folks. Again, not that I'm some big celebrity or anything like that, but I'm under no illusion that if somebody took me out, the LGBT so called community, the SPCG movement, I call it this, the sexual, perversion child grooming movement, would dance on my grave and they'd probably give awards to the person who took me out. They would be thanking them, sending them money, because that's what our cultures come to. If some person, activist, homosexual, transgender abortionist, were killed by someone, even though I vehemently disagree with what that abortionist, that homosexual, that transgender Whatever that person is, I vehemently disagree with what they are doing. I would not celebrate their murder. I would consider that to be an act of evil, as bad and maybe worse than the person that they killed. But they don't have the same. Because, you see, because I have an absolute morality by which my life is governed, it is wrong to commit murder. And you don't get excused from committing murder because the person you murdered is somebody who might consider me an enemy or I might consider an enemy. Although I like to think of people as enemies. I mean, the reality is there are people who are your enemies.
When you throw out God's absolute morality, anything goes
There are people who want to hurt you. Most of us have them or have experienced having them at some point in our lives or will. But I'm not dancing on anybody's grave. I'm not celebrating anybody's death. And I'm certainly not lionizing a person who goes out and commits murder because they happen to commit, they happen to murder a person that I might not like personally or might not like what that person stands for. Because God has given us absolute standards, and those standards don't give way to our feelings. But when. When you allow that to happen, anything goes. Chaos, anarchy, violence in the streets ensues because you're justified. It's okay. Now, I haven't talked to Carmelo Anthony, and I can't say that this is absolutely true from his perspective. But I can say, based upon my experience of the many people I have talked to and everything I've experienced, read, studied with regard to the racial obsession of many in the black community, that the reason why they are lionizing and giving money to Carmela Anthony is because he killed a white boy. And M. That's okay. Forget the absolute commandment. You shall not. No, no, it's okay. If. If a black kid has killed a white kid, that's okay, folks. It makes me godly angry because it's just as wrong as it can be. But when you throw out God's absolute morality and you supplant that with your feelings, this is where it takes you. M. And frankly, we as Christians have a responsibility to stand up for what we know is right and stand against what we know is wrong, no matter which way it cuts. M. That is why, even though I might agree with Guy Benson, 90% of the time, I can't support him and his homosexual lifestyle and his claims of Christianity. Why he claims to have a husband that's an abomination to God, I can't support that. Oh, but wait a minute. But he's a conservative. He's a Republican. No, it doesn't matter. Does not matter. The word of God is the word of God. And the word of God does not change based upon one's political alliances, proclivities, friendships, you name it. Heaven and earth will pass away, Jesus said. But my word will never pass away, Jesus said. Whoever the word falls on it will grind them to powder. You don't, you don't get a pass. You don't get a pass in terms of violation of God's word because you're my family member. I've got family members who are Muslims. I love them, I really do. My heart goes out to them. But they're wrong. They're wrong and the path they're on will send them to hell. And there's not a thing I can do about it except to tell them the truth, that there is none other name given unto heaven among men whereby we must be saved. But through name of Jesus, Muhammad won't do it and the Quran won't do it, and Islam won't do it. Those, all of that will send you to hell. Now that's just the absolute truth, folks. And we're supposed to speak the truth in love. And, you know, people sometimes interpret that verse in Ephesians. Speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things. In Ephesians, chapter four, they interpret that as, when you speak the truth, you have to be soft and you have to be sweet and you have to be gentle. I don't believe it means that at all. You know what, I believe it means? I believe it means make sure that your motive for speaking is love. Not hatred, the desire to save people, not condemn people. I don't think it has anything to do with tone. Nothing wrong with a good tone. Bible says the book of Proverbs. Sweet lips increase learning. Nothing wrong with that. Paul said, I'm all things to all men, that by all means save some. So, sure, you have to approach it, approach different people in different ways and all of that, but the point is that you are speaking the truth to them because you love them. And you know if you love them, you want them saved, you want them adhering to the truth, not a lie. In fact, it's love that allows you to say it, knowing that it may well bring you into disfavor with them. They may not like you for it, they may be angry with you over it, they might even hate you for it. But you speak the truth in love because you're willing to make that personal sacrifice in order to give them some opportunity to change course. I'll tell you what I would say to Luigi Manjone. Son, you better repent before it's too late. Because you are on your way to hell based on the course you've chosen in life.
I was thinking about this particular verse in Galatians, chapter five
I was thinking about this particular verse in Galatians, chapter five. You know, I've memorized Galatians 5, 22 and, through 23. Because I will just share with you personally that my natural disposition is not very patient. I like everything to be done yesterday. I don't like getting going to a store and having to wait in line. I'm not going to fight anybody over it. I'm not going to cuss anybody out over it. Don't get me wrong, but I don't enjoy it. I don't like driving in the fast lane on the highway and having somebody do the speed limit. But I memorize these verses because I know when I'm feeling that sense of frustration or impatience, I meditate this love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Because I know that's how God wants me responding. And when I memorize those verses, when I begin to meditate those verses, it has a calming effect on my spirit, and it just tends to put everything in perspective. I have to tell you, the verses
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Bishop EW Jackson: are just as important when you reject God's morality. See, God's morality is spiritual. Jesus said, my words are spirit, and they are life. God's moral laws are spirit and life. God has not given us moral rules to hold us back or to stop us from having fun. He's given us moral rules to save ourselves and others. He's given us moral rules because he loves us and he knows what's best for us. He knows what leads to human flourishing, and he knows what leads to human failure and destruction. So here you go. Because the fruit of the Spirit leads to life, but the works of the flesh lead to death. And so Galatians, chapter 5, verse 19, says, now the works of the flesh. And in following says, now the works of the flesh are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, the idolatry of feelings, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like of, which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in time past that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. He who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, which is decay and death. He who sows to the spirit will of the spirit, reap life everlasting. Now, I don't know Luigi Mangione, and even if I knew him, I don't know that I could change his mind. I would certainly witness to him the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I tell him what the consequences are of his actions and, and the way he's thinking. But I don't know that I could change his mind. But here's what I know. We can all influence the sphere around us or the atmosphere around us by, always standing for the truth, always standing for what is right. You know, I've seen situations in which people were willing to surrender their Christian principles because their family members, potential punishment, consequences for their actions were at stake. So you lie for them, you become complicit in their immorality or their crime. As Christians, as disciples of Jesus Christ, we're not supposed to do that. We're supposed to stand firm on the word, because in the end, you're not helping anybody by doing that. You're ultimately hurting them. Because in the end, people need to be accountable for their own actions and take responsibility for their own actions. And look, God is gracious and merciful, and he's the one to whom we turn when we've messed up. And he's the one to whom we appeal in behalf of those who have messed up. But what we don't do is join in the lies, join in the corruption, join in the crime, join in the, the thievery, whatever it is, in order to protect somebody. Because we claim we love them. No, if you really love them, the best thing that can happen to them is to face the consequences of their action. Because maybe therein they can find the redemption that they need when they brought themselves to rock bottom. Maybe they will finally say, oh, God, help me, I need you. Forgive me, deliver me, cleanse me. This moral relativism, you know, the same thing is we've, seen the same thing culturally where, you know, you're not allowed to criticize another culture. You can't say your culture is better than another culture. Yes, I can. Unequivocally, unapologetically, I can say that American culture is better than many and better than most cultures on Earth. I found out about, a tribe, I believe this was in Papua NewSong Guinea. I'm not sure the location, but one of these aboriginal tribes that had not really been reached by civilization. They're still out there, by the way, and part of their culture was to deal with storms and earthquakes and things that would happen to cause the deaths of people, disease. In order to try to figure out what had caused this, they had concluded as a cultural norm, women are always the problem. So they would take leaves and identify the leaves with particular women in the tribe and they would boil those leaves. Now, I can't remember for sure whether the leaf rose to the top or the leaf fell to the bottom, but whichever way it went, if one particular leaf became identified because of the way it behaved, that was the woman who caused the plague, caused the earthquake, caused the bad weather, whatever it was caused the crop to be destroyed. And they would kill that woman, they sacrifice her. Because that's the way you appease the gods. Because she's the problem. She's the one that they were. Yeah, our culture is better than that. And, not only that, aboriginal culture, our culture is better than Muslim culture. We treat women better, we treat human beings better. And even though I'm a Christian, I don't treat another human being like a second class citizen because that person's not a Christian. Whereas Islam teaches you that. That if in a Muslim country and culture, if you are not a Muslim, you are by definition a second class citizen. And we've even heard instances of where you walk down the street and Muslims are coming down the street, you've got to get off the sidewalk to let Muslims pass by because you are not as good as they are. And if they are coming down the street, you don't have a right to stay on that same sidewalk. And if it obstructs their ability to pass by, you must leave the sidewalk. Yeah, American culture is better than that. And God's laws and his Judeo Christian principles that he's given to us through the word of God are better than cultures that are not based upon those principles. Yes, I said it and I'm not taking it back. American culture based upon Judeo Christian principles is better than cultures that are not. And I don't care where they are. Africa, Europe, Asia, India, you name it, I don't care. Our culture is better than cultures that are not based upon Judeo Christian principles because our culture is rooted and grounded in truth, and. And those are not. We've got to move away from this moral and cultural relativism nonsense.
We need to reject moral relativism
If you've heard me over any period of time, one of the things you may have heard me say in some of my speeches is I'm not suggesting that we are genetically better people or even that we Americans are intellectually better people, or even that we Americans are inherently better, spiritually and morally better than other people. But I'll tell you what, our, cultural foundations are better than other nations. And as a result, we have gotten better results. And there's no question about that, that is indisputable. We've not become the America we are by honoring people like Luigi Manjone or Carmela Anthony or George Floyd or Al Capone or Jesse James or any of the people who have basically made their lives and made their names achieve celebrity status by committing crimes, violating the word of God. Yeah, it may be entertaining to watch, but I'll tell you what, it's no way to live. We need to reject this moral relativism, this cultural relativism. And we need to reassert that there are absolute rules of morality that every human being must live by. And when you don't live by them, you suffer the consequences. And we are not going to hail you as a hero because you show up in the pre dawn hours and, slither up behind a man and shoot him in the back. And I'll tell you what, I have just as little admiration for these silly women who like this former Washington Post reporter, which tells you something about the Washington Post that they would even hire such a person. Talking about, he's handsome, and he's a moral person. Oh, my goodness. How confused can you be? Well, look, I think that this moral and cultural relativism is why we have so much anti American, anti Christian, anti capitalist, anti Jewish, anti white sentiment being expressed in so many aspects and institutions of our culture. All of that, all of that is rooted and grounded in amorality or moral relativism where, well, you know, there's really no right or wrong. It's how I feel about it. I mean, I've said before, now we see anti Semitism arising with it. But you know, you put in terms of demographic groups, you put anti Christian, anti Jewish and anti white. You could put that all together now you got a whole bunch of people, they think they're doing some great thing to express hatred against Christianity, hatred against Jews, and hatred against white people. And all of it is rooted and grounded in rank rebellion against the word of God. Jesus said on this rock, I'll build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Jesus loves his church. Jesus loves his people. Jesus loves his disciples, he loves his children. He loves Christians. You got a whole movement now of people who hate Christianity. I mean, they've likened us to the Taliban They've likened us to terrorists. And we see the rise of anti Semitism in our country. Now somehow, once again, Jews are the source of all problems, the source of all evil. Jews run the White House. Jews run America. Jews are behind it all. I mean, it's demonic and it's wrong. You've heard me say many times, I hate these wrong ideologies. I hate Islam, I hate homosexuality. I, I hate Marxism, I hate socialism. But I don't hate those people who are caught up in that. I pray for them. I love them. I don't want to hurt them. I don't want to kill them. I don't want anybody else to hurt them or kill them. I want them ultimately to be redeemed. I want them to know the love of God that redeemed me from my sin. That's not the way they approach us, though. And this, this, this racist, anti white obsession these days, as if the worst thing in the world you can be, as if you chose to be it is, is a white man that somehow that makes you by definition the epitome of evil. I mean, folks, this, this, this is profoundly morally wrong and profoundly evil. it's the reversal of what we all thought the civil rights movement was all about. Not judging people by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. And now we've reversed it. And you got people thinking that you do have a right to judge anybody by the color of their skin, as long as that person is of European ancestry, that it's okay. I tell you, America has become the most successful nation in the history of the world because we're rooted and grounded and founded on biblical principle. And if we allow these people who are following this sentiment, this moral relativism, this feelings idolatry nonsense, Marxism, socialism, I feel white people. I feel white people are privileged. I feel rich people have too much. I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel. Your feelings aren't facts. They're emotions. When they, when they're supportive of the truth, praise God. You know, I can get emotional worshiping and praising God sometime. That's a good thing. But when these people get all emotional because they, as we've seen happen at some of these, rallies, conservatives go on college campuses and people become enraged. Some kids want to witness to pro life, or some people want to witness to pro life, people become enraged and they want to attack them and they want to harm them. Their feelings are nothing but a conduit for the devil. Yeah, feelings aren't truth. Feelings aren't God. They're just that, feelings. The word of God is true. The word of God will never mislead you. Your feelings will mislead you if you follow them wherever they want to go. They can't and will mislead you if you engage in feelings idolatry. Just get ready for self destruction, because that's where it's going. That's exactly what Luigi Manjone has done. Destroyed himself. But if you follow the word of God, the word of God leads to life. In the beginning was the Word. The word was with God. The word was God. all things were made by him, was not without him, was not made anything that was made in him was life. Life. And the life was the light of men. M. That's where you find life. That's where you find light. It's in the Word. It's in the truth of the Word. Jesus said in his high intercessory prayer in Jon 17, Father, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. I am going to continue to stand on the word of God, and I trust you are, too. And nobody's going to cow us away from that, because by telling us, we've hurt their feelings too bad. Grow up, toughen up, and just deal with the truth. Nor am I going to allow my feelings to get me off the Word. Well, I know the Bible says that, but, you know, I feel. I told you, I asked the politicians not too long ago, and I got ready to go, folks. But I asked a politician not too long ago, happened to be living a homosexual lifestyle, wanted to talk to me, so I talked to him.
We better start following the word of God and not listening to cultural relativism
I'll talk to anybody. I'm not afraid to talk to people because I don't hate them. I love them. I want the very best for them. But I asked during the course of the conversation, well, you claim to be a Christian. How do you justify your homosexuality? What the person said was, well, my feelings is what I follow. Well, your feelings will take you straight to hell. We better start following the word of God and not listening to the siren song of moral and cultural relativism that tells us, well, anything goes, right or wrong, is only determined by what I feel. No, right and wrong are, determined by the word of God. And that must be our standard. And that. That standard, that foundation, is what has allowed us to become the greatest nation in the history of mankind. Not feelings. Idolatry. All right, well, listen, I've got to go. God bless each and every one of you. Look, if you'd like me to come to your church, your organization, your company. for a Truth Tour event, email me@, ah, truthtourstandinc.net that's truthtourstanding.net or you can call us at 757-375-6444. and if you'd like to help us and at stand, just go to standAmerica us. StandAmerica us. God bless each and every one of you. You know what to do. Stand up. step up. speak up. And refuse to back up. Because we cannot be defeated if we will not quit because we are, on God's side. God bless everybod.
Bishop EW Jackson: Welcome to another edition of the Awakening podcast here on American Family Radio. Your host, Bishop E.W. jackson. Great to be with you again today. folks, as always, thank you so much for your prayers, for your support. Thank you for the love that you show me, this network, and all the people who are affiliated with it and support it. We couldn't do this without you. So thank you so very, very much. We are grateful to God and grateful to you for standing with us.
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to murdering Brian Thompson
There is, an issue that we don't talk about as much now as we used to. But I want to spend some time today exploring this because I think it is something that we do need to come back to because I think it could be kind of the canary in the coal mine that we need to pay very, very close attention to. And I'll tell you what sparked this. Last week, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to, first degree murder, to the murder of Brian Thompson, which is exactly what he did. He did murder the man, admitted to murdering him. And in the process there was a lot of discussion again of all of the followers, apparently tens of thousands, mainly women, probably some men too, but I would assume don't have the same sort of romanticized view of him, but still supporters all across the country. They've raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for him. People just giving money. And the descriptions that people have of him are, are effusive. I mean they, they, they love him. let me just share with you some of the things that are being said. I'm going to talk about what this got me thinking about. with regard to him. there's a, there's a reporter, well, I guess she's, formerly with, she was with, Washington Post, Taylor Lorenz. And she just gushed over Luigi Mangione and she said he's a hero or role model because he's a hero or role model because he's handsome, he's smart, he's revolutionary. And are you ready for this one? Get this one. He's morally good. He's morally good. And she was saying how she understands that so many people are enamored of him, so many people are supporting him. And then she excuses it and said, you know, all these people clutching their pearls. he says, as if we don't lionize criminals. As if we don't, As if we don't stand murders of all sorts. We give them Netflix shows. I mean. Well, I don't know about the we. I don't. But I understand what she's saying. But that's really an excuse, isn't it? An excuse for what is apparently our own personal admiration for this man. Now, what is really going on here? I put Luigi Mangione, Carmela Anthony, the young black kid who killed Austin Metcalfe, stabbed him in the heart and killed him dead in a, a dispute over whether he should be in a particular tent at a sports event or not. Believe it or not, I throw George Floyd into this mix as well, because even though, again, in my view, George Floyd was certainly mistreated, should not have died, maybe didn't die only from the knee on the neck. But however one analyzes that situation, whatever conclusions you come to in that situation, one thing is crystal clear. George Floyd is no hero. I mean, he may have been a victim, but he certainly wasn't an innocent victim. Fentanyl addict. He's got fentanyl in the system. He's got methamphetamines in his system. He's so. He's high. He's trying to counterfeit money, probably to get money to buy drugs. He's got a record, and so he's certainly no babe in the woods. And yet you take these three people. Carmelo Anthony. I don't know whether it's over a million dollars or not now, but they. People sent him close to a million dollars. I mean, his family moved into, I think, a $900,000 home. They bought a big, expensive car. basically, they made all kinds of money off Carmela Anthony killing Austin Metcalf and George Floyd. they erected statues of him as if he's somebody we should all look up to and admire. And the only reason why he was in a negative interaction with police is because he was committing crimes, and the police were called to deal with him. He just happened to run into Derek Chauvin, which was very unfortunate for him because, I mean, I think Derek Chauvin was out of control. And I think the officers around him, at the very least, should have kind of restrained him, but they didn't. And George Floyd. But George Floyd precipitated the circumstances that led to his death. Now, people can call that blaming the victim or call it whatever they want, but it's the truth. And Yet. And yet we have a society that has turned all three of these men into heroes. I mean, the President of the United States, former president Joe Biden, said George Floyd was, as I think he even said had a greater influence than Martin Luther King.
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Bishop EW Jackson: Luigi. Luigi Mangion. Now, by the time you're hearing this, because I'm recording this before I know what the outcome is, he has not been sentenced yet. He's pleaded guilty to murder. He's not been sentenced. And I doubt very seriously he's going to be sentenced to the death penalty because he pleaded guilty. I'd be shocked if he got anything less than life in prison without the possibility of parole. But because he's so young, it's possible. I don't think he should get that. I think at the very least he should get life in prison. by the way, I am a big proponent of the death penalty. Particularly when you, in a cold blooded fashion, in a gross disregard for human life, take someone else's life, I believe you forfeit your own. I mean, I'm not talking about a situation which two people get into a fight and one person overwhelms the other and ends up killing them, but that was never the intention. I'm not talking about a situation where somebody maybe even commits vehicular homicide, but they didn't really set out to kill anybody. Maybe they're doing something stupid. But I'm talking about where a person sets out with malice aforethought to take the life of another human being. And they succeed in doing so, they forfeit their own lives. The Bible says, he that sheds man's blood, that by him, by man shall his blood be shed. It is, it is completely biblical to hold that view. And I hold it. So as far as I am concerned, Luigi Manjone is a candidate for the death penalty because let's be clear on what he did. He stalked Brian Thompson. And in the, pre dawn hours, I guess the sun was not quite up, but it was early morning,
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Bishop EW Jackson: comes up behind the man, shoots him in the back and kills him. Now folks, I don't know any standard whereby that is in heroic act. Again, it wouldn't be heroic. You've taken a person's life, life like that in cold blood. Wouldn't be heroic under any circumstances. But it's not as if he confronted the guy and got into a fight with him and maybe in the process the man lost his life. No, no, no. He comes up like a snake and shoots the man in the back. He never Even confronts him. He never even tells him why he's killing him. He never says, hey, I'm your victim, you did this to me. I mean, just shoots him in the back and he's supposed to be some kind of hero. And women apparently think he's good looking. And that, well, obviously that overcomes all that. I mean, doesn't matter if you cold bloodedly take another human being's life. as long as you're a good looking guy, that's okay. So let me tell you what I think is going on here. See, I believe that what we are witnessing is something that really began primarily in the 60s, and that is this more and more people have as a result of their education, as a result of the influence of popular culture. I think, and don't get me wrong folks, I know you don't listen to this stuff, but think about it. The rise of gangster rap, and there's another stuff that here, again, I don't listen to this stuff. There's something else now apparently they call drill. And that's supposed to be even more violent and more vicious than gangster Rapid. You know, a lot of these younger people are listening to this stuff from all backgrounds. It's primarily generated, by black artists. But people of all backgrounds listen to this stuff. This stuff is going around the world now. They're doing this in every country. Rapping about killing, rapping about, you know, murder. And, and again, I'm not saying there's a direct causal link between that and Luigi Man Jones. I'm just saying we have allowed within our culture a poison to enter into the body politic and spread. And that poison is moral relativism. In other words, there are no moral absolutes. Moral absolutes have been replaced with what I call feelings. Idolatry. right and wrong don't come into play. What comes into play? To define, to define. Right and wrong don't come into play. At least as defined by any absolute standard. Right or wrong or right or wrong are defined by what you feel. Your feelings determine right or wrong. So thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit murder, which is really what the Hebrew means. Well, that is meaningless because it depends on how you feel about the situation. And apparently if you feel like Luigi Man Jones, like you have been wronged by the health care system and somebody ought to pay for it, and you decide to walk up to a man and shoot him in the back, you haven't done anything wrong. In fact, you know, it's very, very interesting. Did you see, or read about Luigi Man Jones, confession, his plea, you have to. What they call elocute, meaning you have to say you did it, and you have to say how you did it. And there can be different rules with regard to that. But all Louise Man Jones said was, I killed Brian Thompson, and I knew it was illegal when I did it. M. Now, you know, folks, admitting that something is illegal is not the same as admitting that it's wrong or immoral. And he didn't say that he could have. That would have been. In fact, it might have helped him in the sentencing process, but he didn't say it. It might have helped him if he had said, I killed Brian Thompson, and I knew that it was wrong, and I knew that it was immoral when I did it. and I am now admitting that I did it and acknowledging that what I did was wrong. What I did was immoral. If he had said that, I'm not saying it would have brought the mercy of the court, into the picture, but it might have. The judge might have said, well, at least I'm hearing an expression of remorse. I heard nothing in. I knew it was illegal. It's almost as if he's saying it might have been illegal, but it wasn't wrong. It might have been illegal, but it wasn't immoral. But the reality is it was immoral and wrong before it was illegal. He didn't have the right to take that man's life. Now, ah, my understanding is that Brian Thompson was actually working on trying to figure out ways of better delivering health care to people and providing them with better service. That that was something that he was sincerely trying to work out. And apparently based on at least what we know, there's no accusation that Brian Thompson somehow made a decision that directly affected Luigi Manjone. Not that that would absolve him of wrongdoing, but there is not even that direct connection. As far as we know, he just picked him out because he's a health care executive. And probably, frankly, you know what? Probably because he thought he would. He was one of the people easiest to get to. I mean, folks, of course, Brian Thompson, we didn't know who he was until now. It's not that he was a big celebrity or something like that. And I don't walk around the streets or anything or travel, you know, go back and forth to the supermarket and yeah, I do go to the supermarket and do all the. Go to the laundry and do all the same things anybody else does. But I'll tell you what. When I'm out traveling to speak and going to venues and stepping up on stages and in big crowds, I have security. I arrive with it. My security is with me while the event is going on, and I leave with it because I've been threatened. Now I, frankly, I am shocked that Brian Thompson was out by himself at that time in the morning on his way to a corporate event with absolutely no one protecting him. But look, that's, that's another matter. I'm not blaming the victim here, but these days, you just can't take this stuff for granted. But the fact that he shot the man in the back and is being hailed by some as a hero is a testament to the degeneration of our culture. To the point where we now have people who think a man who shoots another man in the back because he thinks on some attenuated basis, this man is part of a problem in the delivery of health care and the way it's affected him personally. Not, a person who's directly attacked him or hurt him or harmed him, but someone who's part of an industry that he thinks harmed him. And so you get to shoot this man in the back and kill him, and you're supposed to be a hero. Well, look, moral relativism, because we're dealing with moral and cultural relativism now, these are the monstrous results that it can lead to. Not only the commissions of these kinds of acts. I, acknowledge that it was illegal. Yeah, but you don't acknowledge it was immoral, that it was wrong. But it leads to these kinds of acts. But it also leads to people supporting these kinds of acts. And where does that go? I mean, if your thinking is really warped and you want to be a celebrity, you want to have a bunch of people who really admire you, find a target that you think a bunch of people that you, whose, whose favor you want don't like and kill that person. I, mean, I'm under no illusions, folks. Again, not that I'm some big celebrity or anything like that, but I'm under no illusion that if somebody took me out, the LGBT so called community, the SPCG movement, I call it this, the sexual, perversion child grooming movement, would dance on my grave and they'd probably give awards to the person who took me out. They would be thanking them, sending them money, because that's what our cultures come to. If some person, activist, homosexual, transgender abortionist, were killed by someone, even though I vehemently disagree with what that abortionist, that homosexual, that transgender Whatever that person is, I vehemently disagree with what they are doing. I would not celebrate their murder. I would consider that to be an act of evil, as bad and maybe worse than the person that they killed. But they don't have the same. Because, you see, because I have an absolute morality by which my life is governed, it is wrong to commit murder. And you don't get excused from committing murder because the person you murdered is somebody who might consider me an enemy or I might consider an enemy. Although I like to think of people as enemies. I mean, the reality is there are people who are your enemies.
When you throw out God's absolute morality, anything goes
There are people who want to hurt you. Most of us have them or have experienced having them at some point in our lives or will. But I'm not dancing on anybody's grave. I'm not celebrating anybody's death. And I'm certainly not lionizing a person who goes out and commits murder because they happen to commit, they happen to murder a person that I might not like personally or might not like what that person stands for. Because God has given us absolute standards, and those standards don't give way to our feelings. But when. When you allow that to happen, anything goes. Chaos, anarchy, violence in the streets ensues because you're justified. It's okay. Now, I haven't talked to Carmelo Anthony, and I can't say that this is absolutely true from his perspective. But I can say, based upon my experience of the many people I have talked to and everything I've experienced, read, studied with regard to the racial obsession of many in the black community, that the reason why they are lionizing and giving money to Carmela Anthony is because he killed a white boy. And M. That's okay. Forget the absolute commandment. You shall not. No, no, it's okay. If. If a black kid has killed a white kid, that's okay, folks. It makes me godly angry because it's just as wrong as it can be. But when you throw out God's absolute morality and you supplant that with your feelings, this is where it takes you. M. And frankly, we as Christians have a responsibility to stand up for what we know is right and stand against what we know is wrong, no matter which way it cuts. M. That is why, even though I might agree with Guy Benson, 90% of the time, I can't support him and his homosexual lifestyle and his claims of Christianity. Why he claims to have a husband that's an abomination to God, I can't support that. Oh, but wait a minute. But he's a conservative. He's a Republican. No, it doesn't matter. Does not matter. The word of God is the word of God. And the word of God does not change based upon one's political alliances, proclivities, friendships, you name it. Heaven and earth will pass away, Jesus said. But my word will never pass away, Jesus said. Whoever the word falls on it will grind them to powder. You don't, you don't get a pass. You don't get a pass in terms of violation of God's word because you're my family member. I've got family members who are Muslims. I love them, I really do. My heart goes out to them. But they're wrong. They're wrong and the path they're on will send them to hell. And there's not a thing I can do about it except to tell them the truth, that there is none other name given unto heaven among men whereby we must be saved. But through name of Jesus, Muhammad won't do it and the Quran won't do it, and Islam won't do it. Those, all of that will send you to hell. Now that's just the absolute truth, folks. And we're supposed to speak the truth in love. And, you know, people sometimes interpret that verse in Ephesians. Speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things. In Ephesians, chapter four, they interpret that as, when you speak the truth, you have to be soft and you have to be sweet and you have to be gentle. I don't believe it means that at all. You know what, I believe it means? I believe it means make sure that your motive for speaking is love. Not hatred, the desire to save people, not condemn people. I don't think it has anything to do with tone. Nothing wrong with a good tone. Bible says the book of Proverbs. Sweet lips increase learning. Nothing wrong with that. Paul said, I'm all things to all men, that by all means save some. So, sure, you have to approach it, approach different people in different ways and all of that, but the point is that you are speaking the truth to them because you love them. And you know if you love them, you want them saved, you want them adhering to the truth, not a lie. In fact, it's love that allows you to say it, knowing that it may well bring you into disfavor with them. They may not like you for it, they may be angry with you over it, they might even hate you for it. But you speak the truth in love because you're willing to make that personal sacrifice in order to give them some opportunity to change course. I'll tell you what I would say to Luigi Manjone. Son, you better repent before it's too late. Because you are on your way to hell based on the course you've chosen in life.
I was thinking about this particular verse in Galatians, chapter five
I was thinking about this particular verse in Galatians, chapter five. You know, I've memorized Galatians 5, 22 and, through 23. Because I will just share with you personally that my natural disposition is not very patient. I like everything to be done yesterday. I don't like getting going to a store and having to wait in line. I'm not going to fight anybody over it. I'm not going to cuss anybody out over it. Don't get me wrong, but I don't enjoy it. I don't like driving in the fast lane on the highway and having somebody do the speed limit. But I memorize these verses because I know when I'm feeling that sense of frustration or impatience, I meditate this love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Because I know that's how God wants me responding. And when I memorize those verses, when I begin to meditate those verses, it has a calming effect on my spirit, and it just tends to put everything in perspective. I have to tell you, the verses
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Bishop EW Jackson: are just as important when you reject God's morality. See, God's morality is spiritual. Jesus said, my words are spirit, and they are life. God's moral laws are spirit and life. God has not given us moral rules to hold us back or to stop us from having fun. He's given us moral rules to save ourselves and others. He's given us moral rules because he loves us and he knows what's best for us. He knows what leads to human flourishing, and he knows what leads to human failure and destruction. So here you go. Because the fruit of the Spirit leads to life, but the works of the flesh lead to death. And so Galatians, chapter 5, verse 19, says, now the works of the flesh. And in following says, now the works of the flesh are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, the idolatry of feelings, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like of, which I tell you beforehand, just as I told you in time past that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. He who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, which is decay and death. He who sows to the spirit will of the spirit, reap life everlasting. Now, I don't know Luigi Mangione, and even if I knew him, I don't know that I could change his mind. I would certainly witness to him the gospel of Jesus Christ, and I tell him what the consequences are of his actions and, and the way he's thinking. But I don't know that I could change his mind. But here's what I know. We can all influence the sphere around us or the atmosphere around us by, always standing for the truth, always standing for what is right. You know, I've seen situations in which people were willing to surrender their Christian principles because their family members, potential punishment, consequences for their actions were at stake. So you lie for them, you become complicit in their immorality or their crime. As Christians, as disciples of Jesus Christ, we're not supposed to do that. We're supposed to stand firm on the word, because in the end, you're not helping anybody by doing that. You're ultimately hurting them. Because in the end, people need to be accountable for their own actions and take responsibility for their own actions. And look, God is gracious and merciful, and he's the one to whom we turn when we've messed up. And he's the one to whom we appeal in behalf of those who have messed up. But what we don't do is join in the lies, join in the corruption, join in the crime, join in the, the thievery, whatever it is, in order to protect somebody. Because we claim we love them. No, if you really love them, the best thing that can happen to them is to face the consequences of their action. Because maybe therein they can find the redemption that they need when they brought themselves to rock bottom. Maybe they will finally say, oh, God, help me, I need you. Forgive me, deliver me, cleanse me. This moral relativism, you know, the same thing is we've, seen the same thing culturally where, you know, you're not allowed to criticize another culture. You can't say your culture is better than another culture. Yes, I can. Unequivocally, unapologetically, I can say that American culture is better than many and better than most cultures on Earth. I found out about, a tribe, I believe this was in Papua NewSong Guinea. I'm not sure the location, but one of these aboriginal tribes that had not really been reached by civilization. They're still out there, by the way, and part of their culture was to deal with storms and earthquakes and things that would happen to cause the deaths of people, disease. In order to try to figure out what had caused this, they had concluded as a cultural norm, women are always the problem. So they would take leaves and identify the leaves with particular women in the tribe and they would boil those leaves. Now, I can't remember for sure whether the leaf rose to the top or the leaf fell to the bottom, but whichever way it went, if one particular leaf became identified because of the way it behaved, that was the woman who caused the plague, caused the earthquake, caused the bad weather, whatever it was caused the crop to be destroyed. And they would kill that woman, they sacrifice her. Because that's the way you appease the gods. Because she's the problem. She's the one that they were. Yeah, our culture is better than that. And, not only that, aboriginal culture, our culture is better than Muslim culture. We treat women better, we treat human beings better. And even though I'm a Christian, I don't treat another human being like a second class citizen because that person's not a Christian. Whereas Islam teaches you that. That if in a Muslim country and culture, if you are not a Muslim, you are by definition a second class citizen. And we've even heard instances of where you walk down the street and Muslims are coming down the street, you've got to get off the sidewalk to let Muslims pass by because you are not as good as they are. And if they are coming down the street, you don't have a right to stay on that same sidewalk. And if it obstructs their ability to pass by, you must leave the sidewalk. Yeah, American culture is better than that. And God's laws and his Judeo Christian principles that he's given to us through the word of God are better than cultures that are not based upon those principles. Yes, I said it and I'm not taking it back. American culture based upon Judeo Christian principles is better than cultures that are not. And I don't care where they are. Africa, Europe, Asia, India, you name it, I don't care. Our culture is better than cultures that are not based upon Judeo Christian principles because our culture is rooted and grounded in truth, and. And those are not. We've got to move away from this moral and cultural relativism nonsense.
We need to reject moral relativism
If you've heard me over any period of time, one of the things you may have heard me say in some of my speeches is I'm not suggesting that we are genetically better people or even that we Americans are intellectually better people, or even that we Americans are inherently better, spiritually and morally better than other people. But I'll tell you what, our, cultural foundations are better than other nations. And as a result, we have gotten better results. And there's no question about that, that is indisputable. We've not become the America we are by honoring people like Luigi Manjone or Carmela Anthony or George Floyd or Al Capone or Jesse James or any of the people who have basically made their lives and made their names achieve celebrity status by committing crimes, violating the word of God. Yeah, it may be entertaining to watch, but I'll tell you what, it's no way to live. We need to reject this moral relativism, this cultural relativism. And we need to reassert that there are absolute rules of morality that every human being must live by. And when you don't live by them, you suffer the consequences. And we are not going to hail you as a hero because you show up in the pre dawn hours and, slither up behind a man and shoot him in the back. And I'll tell you what, I have just as little admiration for these silly women who like this former Washington Post reporter, which tells you something about the Washington Post that they would even hire such a person. Talking about, he's handsome, and he's a moral person. Oh, my goodness. How confused can you be? Well, look, I think that this moral and cultural relativism is why we have so much anti American, anti Christian, anti capitalist, anti Jewish, anti white sentiment being expressed in so many aspects and institutions of our culture. All of that, all of that is rooted and grounded in amorality or moral relativism where, well, you know, there's really no right or wrong. It's how I feel about it. I mean, I've said before, now we see anti Semitism arising with it. But you know, you put in terms of demographic groups, you put anti Christian, anti Jewish and anti white. You could put that all together now you got a whole bunch of people, they think they're doing some great thing to express hatred against Christianity, hatred against Jews, and hatred against white people. And all of it is rooted and grounded in rank rebellion against the word of God. Jesus said on this rock, I'll build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Jesus loves his church. Jesus loves his people. Jesus loves his disciples, he loves his children. He loves Christians. You got a whole movement now of people who hate Christianity. I mean, they've likened us to the Taliban They've likened us to terrorists. And we see the rise of anti Semitism in our country. Now somehow, once again, Jews are the source of all problems, the source of all evil. Jews run the White House. Jews run America. Jews are behind it all. I mean, it's demonic and it's wrong. You've heard me say many times, I hate these wrong ideologies. I hate Islam, I hate homosexuality. I, I hate Marxism, I hate socialism. But I don't hate those people who are caught up in that. I pray for them. I love them. I don't want to hurt them. I don't want to kill them. I don't want anybody else to hurt them or kill them. I want them ultimately to be redeemed. I want them to know the love of God that redeemed me from my sin. That's not the way they approach us, though. And this, this, this racist, anti white obsession these days, as if the worst thing in the world you can be, as if you chose to be it is, is a white man that somehow that makes you by definition the epitome of evil. I mean, folks, this, this, this is profoundly morally wrong and profoundly evil. it's the reversal of what we all thought the civil rights movement was all about. Not judging people by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. And now we've reversed it. And you got people thinking that you do have a right to judge anybody by the color of their skin, as long as that person is of European ancestry, that it's okay. I tell you, America has become the most successful nation in the history of the world because we're rooted and grounded and founded on biblical principle. And if we allow these people who are following this sentiment, this moral relativism, this feelings idolatry nonsense, Marxism, socialism, I feel white people. I feel white people are privileged. I feel rich people have too much. I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel. Your feelings aren't facts. They're emotions. When they, when they're supportive of the truth, praise God. You know, I can get emotional worshiping and praising God sometime. That's a good thing. But when these people get all emotional because they, as we've seen happen at some of these, rallies, conservatives go on college campuses and people become enraged. Some kids want to witness to pro life, or some people want to witness to pro life, people become enraged and they want to attack them and they want to harm them. Their feelings are nothing but a conduit for the devil. Yeah, feelings aren't truth. Feelings aren't God. They're just that, feelings. The word of God is true. The word of God will never mislead you. Your feelings will mislead you if you follow them wherever they want to go. They can't and will mislead you if you engage in feelings idolatry. Just get ready for self destruction, because that's where it's going. That's exactly what Luigi Manjone has done. Destroyed himself. But if you follow the word of God, the word of God leads to life. In the beginning was the Word. The word was with God. The word was God. all things were made by him, was not without him, was not made anything that was made in him was life. Life. And the life was the light of men. M. That's where you find life. That's where you find light. It's in the Word. It's in the truth of the Word. Jesus said in his high intercessory prayer in Jon 17, Father, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. I am going to continue to stand on the word of God, and I trust you are, too. And nobody's going to cow us away from that, because by telling us, we've hurt their feelings too bad. Grow up, toughen up, and just deal with the truth. Nor am I going to allow my feelings to get me off the Word. Well, I know the Bible says that, but, you know, I feel. I told you, I asked the politicians not too long ago, and I got ready to go, folks. But I asked a politician not too long ago, happened to be living a homosexual lifestyle, wanted to talk to me, so I talked to him.
We better start following the word of God and not listening to cultural relativism
I'll talk to anybody. I'm not afraid to talk to people because I don't hate them. I love them. I want the very best for them. But I asked during the course of the conversation, well, you claim to be a Christian. How do you justify your homosexuality? What the person said was, well, my feelings is what I follow. Well, your feelings will take you straight to hell. We better start following the word of God and not listening to the siren song of moral and cultural relativism that tells us, well, anything goes, right or wrong, is only determined by what I feel. No, right and wrong are, determined by the word of God. And that must be our standard. And that. That standard, that foundation, is what has allowed us to become the greatest nation in the history of mankind. Not feelings. Idolatry. All right, well, listen, I've got to go. God bless each and every one of you. Look, if you'd like me to come to your church, your organization, your company. for a Truth Tour event, email me@, ah, truthtourstandinc.net that's truthtourstanding.net or you can call us at 757-375-6444. and if you'd like to help us and at stand, just go to standAmerica us. StandAmerica us. God bless each and every one of you. You know what to do. Stand up. step up. speak up. And refuse to back up. Because we cannot be defeated if we will not quit because we are, on God's side. God bless everybod.
Bishop E.. W. Jackson addresses the troubling trend of idolizing individuals who have committed heinous crimes. He discusses the case of Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty to murder, and examines the societal fascination and support for him and others like George Philly DA and Carmela Anthony. Bishop E. W. Jackson argues that moral relativism has seeped into our culture, leading to a dangerous acceptance of violence and crime. He calls for a return to absolute moral standards rooted in biblical principles and challenges listeners to stand firm in their beliefs.
Chapters:
(01:03) Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to murdering Brian Thompson
(21:55) When you throw out God's absolute morality, anything goes
(29:04) I was thinking about this particular verse in Galatians, chapter five
(38:56) We need to reject moral relativism
(49:01) We better start following the word of God and not listening to cultural relativism
Bishop E.. W. Jackson addresses the troubling trend of idolizing individuals who have committed heinous crimes. He discusses the case of Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty to murder, and examines the societal fascination and support for him and others like George Philly DA and Carmela Anthony. Bishop E. W. Jackson argues that moral relativism has seeped into our culture, leading to a dangerous acceptance of violence and crime. He calls for a return to absolute moral standards rooted in biblical principles and challenges listeners to stand firm in their beliefs.
Chapters:
(01:03) Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to murdering Brian Thompson
(21:55) When you throw out God's absolute morality, anything goes
(29:04) I was thinking about this particular verse in Galatians, chapter five
(38:56) We need to reject moral relativism
(49:01) We better start following the word of God and not listening to cultural relativism
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