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Here we go to Building on the American Heritage Series with David Barton. David's today's topic. We're seeing more and more out there. It's social justice. I just saw the other day in an advertisement. At a fairly large church, a visiting speaker was talking about social injustice. And there's this movement saying government needs to do what the Bible says that we should be doing. And that's how we'll get social justice. Is that the right way to get? Well, you've actually hit it. It's a jurisdictional problem. It's not that God doesn't want justice and he doesn't want a society. He does. He makes it real clear. We're told in Jeremiah that his habitation is a place of justice and holiness. God's into social justice, but he's also into jurisdictional lines. There are certain things he told the government to do, certain things he told the family to do, certain things he told the church to do, certain things he told the individual do. For example, he told the government in Romans 13 that the government bears the sword in our defense, bears the sword to punish the wicked. Well, if the church picks up the sword to punish the wicked, and if the church picks up the sword to do it in defense, always ends in the frosties. It always has across history. God did not give the sword of civil government or civil justice to the church. He gave it to government. What's being advocated in social justice and the way it's being advocated now is the government needs to do these issues. The government needs to get involved in social issues. No, that's not what God has said. As a matter of fact, that has always been a philosophy that has been associated. This is the third time has come up in America. This is this modern version, and it's always associated with a socialistic mentality and a movement towards socialism on the part of government. We want to see government get more involved in the lives of individuals. We want to treat every individual

the same. And not that you don't want that, but that's not the biblical role for government.

And so what happens is in the 1880s, we had a social justice movement. In the 1920s, 25 is called

Social Gospel Movement. And here it is again, resurrected in the 2000 period,

and it's a third time that religious leaders have stepped up and said it's time for the church

to get government doing some things. Now, the right way to look at this, particularly the fact

that we're trying to elevate government and Delaney to do more and more and more,

goes actually back to Genesis, one of our good friends, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, he points out that a lot of times,

who is Christians get the Tower of Babel thing all goofed up, we don't do it right. And he starts

by saying, you know, that really Hebrew language is significant language, because the first time

God revealed himself to humankind, he revealed himself in the Hebrew

language. That's what he spoke to, was the Hebrews and children of Israel spoke to him there on the

Mount, et cetera. So God chose that language and in Rabbi Lapin says, that means that everything

that God says is of importance. And he points out that, for example, he said in the Hebrew language, it's impossible to say the word coincidence. You can't say that because coincidence never crossed God's mind. In God's mind, he has a plan for everything. Nothing's accidental. So God didn't say coincidence. You can't even say it in the Hebrew language. In the same way, you cannot say the word retirement in Hebrew. God doesn't get to a point

where he says, okay, you're done with everything. Just sit there and enjoy yourself. No, we got that story in Luke where the guy said, hey, soul, take ease, rest, prosper, just enjoy yourself. You've been working really hard. And God said, you fool. Tonight, your soul is required of you. If you're going to stop being productive, God's going to take you home.

No such thing is retirement. No such thing is retirement.

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