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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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Is Social Justice Biblical? 0:00 Hey. We're back, and we're in chapter 21, which is the topic of social justice in the well versed small group series.0:08 Let me pose a question to you. Is social justice that's a phrase we hear so much today. Is social justice actually biblical? Think of the word social justice for a moment if you would.0:20 Social justice. It it first got its start in terms of that phrase being used, I think, around 18 91, all the way back with Pope Leo the thirteenth. The term originally0:32 had a very good meaning. Social justice meant just what you'd say, justice for all. That sounds good enough. But over the course of time, social justice has taken on a very0:43 different meaning. It's really become, tragically, a face for Marxism, or it's become a face for liberation theology. It's become a0:55 face for, let's just take from people who have and give to people who don't have. Nowhere in scripture is the government told they're to go take from people who have to give who people1:07 who don't have. Now there is the commandment in scripture where the church, right, the people of God, they are to rise up and they're to meet the needs of those around them, the widow, the orphan, the poor, the1:18 downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the hurting, the wounded. We we get that. The scripture is very clear, but the scripture never justifies a government saying, I'm gonna take from you because1:30 you have produced a lot, and I'm gonna give to you because you have not produced anything. That is not scripturally just not not social justice the way it's used today. What I would advocate1:43 is a term I would simply call biblical justice. Now that word, I can get excited about. Biblical justice takes into the account the issue of Galatians 3 28, a powerful verse.1:55 Galatians 3 28 says, there's neither Jew nor Greek, there's neither male nor female, and there's neither slave nor free. In that 1 verse, it'll say Jew and Greek,2:07 it identifies the issue of racism. In the issue of male and female, it addresses the issue of of of sexism. In the issue of slave or free, it addresses2:18 the issue of classism. Biblical justice is is is truly blind justice. It doesn't try to steal from the rich to give to the poor, but it it touches lives in the way thatBiblical Justice vs. Social Justice 2:30 god ordained justice to be executed freely. We do have in our culture rich and poor. We do have in our culture male and female, and we have many different ethnicities. But nowhere are we2:42 commanded for the government to get involved and start absconding with people's wealth just simply because they have made a lot of money. There are way more advantageous ways to execute justice,2:54 and I would contend biblical justice is the route to go, not social justice, which is a form of redoing the way we do our current government. Let me give you an example. And I went to3:06 listen to a social justice speaker, somebody who's a little bit of a spokesperson for it. And what did he begin to say? Well, first of all, he attacked, capitalism and said how horrible capitalism3:18 innately is and how socialism was good. The second thing he addressed was the issue of sexism. Okay. Fair enough. And then he went on to racism. Fair enough. There is3:30 the sin of racism and racism is sin. No no doubt about that. But his application was the reason we're sexist and racist, the evidence for that in the country, is because the members of Congress, the3:42 number of members of Congress do not square with the number of females, for example, in society. He said, since there is a little over 50 percent of females in the nation, the the congress should be a little over3:53 50 percent females. He was establishing a quota. He failed to mention that more than 50 percent of the voters are women, and these voters are4:05 apparently voting for who's in congress, so they're voting largely for men. He failed to point that out. I said, well, let me ask you a question. You have a quota system. He says, yes. That's4:17 right. I says, if there's a certain percentage of evangelicals in the culture, do you think that there should be that same percentage of evangelicals on the Supreme Court? Which he kind of4:28 sputtered to a halt. And he said, well, I don't know. I asked him the question a second time. He said, well, I don't know how many evangelical attorneys there are, which was a bit of a put down. The fact is he wanted to4:39 assign a strict quota system. He went beyond that 1. He had no concern for those who were being aborted, so he was very selective who got justice. His social justice wasn't4:51 biblical justice. Biblical justice in Proverbs says, rescue those who are being unjustly killed or taken to the slaughter. What about those being aborted? He immediately went5:03 into a discussion also of wealth distribution. We should all have the same amount of wealth regardless of what we do. It's really fascinating when when college students this story has been told many times. When college5:14 students are asking you to believe in wealth redistribution. Oh, yes. Yes. I I I do. I said, okay. Well, in this class, regardless of how much you worked on the class, no matter how much you work, how much you study, no5:25 matter what your grade is, we're all gonna give you the exact same grade. Are you in favor of that? Well, the the kids who had low grades, who hadn't worked, they were really happy with it. The kids who had worked hard,5:35 who had a's and b's, they were not happy with it. But that's exactly what's being demanded by the social justice advocates. They also want to say poverty and assign all the guilt and the blame.Dangers of Social Justice and Call to Biblical Truth 5:46 It's because of you. Any kind of problem that's assigned guilt or blame. If there's people doing act of terrorism, it's because of you. They wanna sign all kinds of blame for you because you were entrepreneurial.5:58 You worked hard and you accumulated. You have something. Therefore, you should be guilty for that. It is milking the attitudes of people in, I think, unhealthy ways. And then he went on to discuss terrorism.6:11 I thought, well, good. He's gonna discuss terrorism. He never once referenced the issue of rattle radical Islamicist. He talked in instead totally about the police. Now that was his advocate for6:22 social justice and what he saw social justice to be. Social justice, in my opinion, is not an answer. It only creates greater animus in the culture. Biblical justice.6:35 Justice that God has ordained in his scripture. That to me is the answer.6:44 I just wanna reemphasize on what doctor Gallo was just touching on in Galatians 3 28. You know, Jew or Greek represents racism. Yep. Male or female represents sexism.6:53 Mhmm.6:54 And slave or free represents classism.6:56 Absolutely. And I don't want some social justice proponent advocating for me just because I'm a woman or just because I'm Mexican. Advocate for me because I'm a person. Every person is valued and matters by God.7:08 And millennials are kind of funny on this word social justice. We really love it. But really, it's a front, for socialism, Marxism, or liberation theology. And and I would encourage you millennials, don't bite on this7:19 term. Let's get back to what the Bible has to say about true biblical justice.7:25 And like I said, I'm Mexican. Chris is black. We don't hate Alex just because he's white, or we don't accuse him for having white privileges.In this video 0:00 Is Social Justice Biblical?2:26 Biblical Justice vs. Social Justice5:39 Dangers of Social Justice and Call to Biblical Truth
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