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Normal vs. Crazy: Woke Insanity Exposed 0:10 Well, we're looking again at the book reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. We're looking now at chapter 2, and it's titled The Insanity of Being Culturally Woke.0:22 And by the way, if you have friends who prefer this in other languages, it's out in Spanish and Portuguese. Now they they divide because this is a 500 page book. They divide it up in here's volume0:34 1 of it in Spanish, but it's volume 1, volume 2. Portuguese, they divide it up. It's coming out in Hungarian, Armenian, other other languages as well. So if you have friends who0:46 speak other languages, please direct them to get the book reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. Well, let's talk about chapter 2. Hopefully, you've read it, but if you've not, you're I'm glad you're a0:58 part of this video series as well. On February the seventh 20 23, Joe Biden, president Joe Biden gave the State of1:07 the Union1:07 address. The counter address was given by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. She said an interesting thing. She says, the dividing line in America is no1:19 longer between right and left. It's between normal and crazy. I don't know how anybody could summarize it any better. You wouldn't have thought, you could not possibly have thought that1:31 people could possibly be fired for calling a man, a man. You would not think ever in America, a young athlete named Riley Gaines would be robbed of her title. And when she1:43 tied with this guy who called herself a girl, they gave the guy the award and not her. She went home without the trophy. You would not thought it's possible that people in1:54 prestigious universities, 1 in particular, that the ethicist there, professor, would say it's okay to kill a baby 28 days after birth if the2:06 baby's an inconvenience to the parents. This is in America. No 1 would have thought in America that if there was a garage attendant who was to take care of the garage with with a2:18 parking levels, And along comes a thief bearing a gun, and they get into a struggle. The garage attendant is protecting what he's supposed to protect. They get into a struggle, and the gun goes off2:30 and shoots and injures the thief. The the garage attendant gets charged with a crime in in our country. Nobody would think that somebody would be nominated for the supreme court,2:42 in part because she's a woman. But when asked what is a woman, she doesn't know what a woman is. There's a name for this process you've been hearing a lot lately, and it's called2:54 gaslighting. What is gaslighting? Comes from a 19 38 play, and it was made into a film in 19 44. In this film, in the play,3:05 a man keeps turning the lights down little bit by little. His wife complains it's getting darker. He says, no, she's just imagining it. He keeps doing this and accusing her of being mentally3:17 ill, that she's got the problem, she's going crazy, when in fact she's being gaslighted. He's actually turning it down and then lying down lying to her about the lighting. That's what's been3:29 happening in our nation. We are no longer in a situation whether it's a partisanship issue. It's not a case of Republican versus Democrat. It's not right versus left.Gaslighting the Nation: Reprobate Minds 3:41 What it is is right versus wrong. Good versus evil. It's light versus darkness. It's biblical truth as opposed to anti scriptural constructs. It's the things3:53 of God as opposed to the things of the evil 1. We have something that's broken loose in our nation. What is that? Well, it's a mental illness. 14:05 person has said, 1 well known commentator has made the statement, liberalism is a mental disorder. Wokeism certainly is. And by that I mean Romans chapter 1. This is a pretty serious4:17 charge that I'm making right now, but Romans chapter 1 makes it says it this way. There comes a time when God gives them over to a reprobate mind. It's a tragic phrase. It means he's effectively4:29 abandoned them. And they they they think things and do things and process information in a most serious and bizarre way. And that's the wokeness or the mental4:41 illness that we find ourselves facing in this culture. In 19 88, a very famous man by the name of Carl Menninger, known for his mental health clinics and4:52 such, out of Topeka, Kansas, wrote a book with an intriguing title. And that title was, Whatever Became of Sin? I think that's 1 of the most5:04 important questions to ask. Whatever became of sin? Why is sin not acknowledged? Why in our secular culture today is there not the recognition with5:16 all the damage and harm and wounding that's happening to individuals, adults and children, Why is there not the awareness that there's this thing called sin?5:28 When you violate God's will, it has repercussions, and it creates enormously painful conditions for people committing their sins and to those around them.Whatever Happened to Sin? Biblical Awakening 5:40 A book like Reversed, my goal is to get us removed from that and to walk in God's ways. Not only personally, but as this book notes, we want to walk in God's5:52 ways governmentally or biblically. When political leaders make decisions that are evil, contrary to God's word, let's call them sin, the result6:03 is enormous pain and suffering upon humanity. In fact, I would make the case that to the extent a government will follow the biblical6:15 principles of governance to that extent, that nation will reduce human pain, suffering, and poverty. Let's do the reverse. This is hard6:27 to say. To the extent that a nation violates biblical principles, to that extent, it'll increase human pain, suffering, and poverty. We want to reduce it. How do we6:39 do that? By walking in God's pattern, God's way. And he's so loving. He put in his book, the Bible, the principles not only of personal aspects of life,6:51 not only family, not only congregational or church life, but in the aspects of civil governance. And he did that out of love for us. So we live by principles that7:02 bring blessing and joy and peace and tranquility and harmony in our communities. The goal of this series is for us to go from culturally woke to7:14 biblically awake.7:18 Let us pray. Heavenly father, help our children to love justice as you do and to act justly as they all do. May our children always be merciful just as7:30 you are merciful. Father, grant that our children may know proper respect for everyone as your word commands. We pray this in the mighty name of Jesus, and we ask you to anoint our7:41 children, especially in this end time generation. In Jesus' name, amen.7:48 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey, don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Normal vs. Crazy: Woke Insanity Exposed3:31 Gaslighting the Nation: Reprobate Minds5:40 Whatever Happened to Sin? Biblical Awakening
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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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