098. The Gospel, The Church, And Racial Injustice

The Paul Tripp Podcast

Paul Tripp Ministries, Inc.

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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"A church that does not exist to reclaim heathenism, to fight evil, to destroy error, to put down falsehood, a church that does not exist to take the side of the poor, to denounce injustice and to hold up righteousness is a church that has no right to be. Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for Himself." - Charles Spurgeon

In today’s episode, Paul wants to address the current events affecting our nation and help us think through them from a biblical perspective.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp
0:07.0	connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.
0:11.0	In today's episode, Paul wants to address the current events affecting our nation and help us think through them from a biblical perspective.
0:18.0	Here's Paul with the gospel, the church, and racial injustice.
0:26.8	I have been wanting to do a video addressing this moment that we're in culturally.
0:39.4	And I sort of wanted for the, to let the dust settle a little bit.
0:45.3	And I want to begin by saying that I really want to address my white brothers and sisters who love the Word of God,
0:59.0	who love the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:03.4	And I want to start by sharing two experiences with you.
1:10.4	The first is my own personal experience of ministry. two experiences with you.
1:15.0	The first is my own personal experience of ministry.
1:24.0	For decades, I have committed myself to this mission, connecting the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.
1:34.3	Take that narrative of Scripture with its chief character being the Lord Jesus Christ, the chief event being the cross of his sacrifice and apply that to daily life. I think of my ministry is putting
1:55.7	on gospel glasses and trying to look at everything. Now here's my experience.
2:01.6	When I have done that and applied that mission to marriage and parenting,
2:10.6	to midlife, to sex, to money, to human communication, to a variety of issues, people are just so encouraging
2:24.7	and tell me how thankful they are for my ministry. But when I apply the very same mission, looking at the issue of racial injustice, from the vantage point of the same message of Scripture, the same gospel. People get mad at me. They accuse me of
2:55.9	forsaking my calling. They call me a socialist or a Marxist. And one of the interesting
3:05.0	responses that I've had is people say, well, what about?
3:15.3	What about this person's background? What about abortion? And here's the issue for me.
3:23.3	When you are addressing an area of sin, there are no what-about.
3:30.5	Wrong is wrong. Sin is sin. And I don't think people would say that to me. If I were
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