Friday, October 14, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 03:53)
An Urgent Edition of The Briefing: The Parkland Shooter Receives Life Sentence Without the Possibility of Parole
Part II (03:53 - 11:18)
‘Whoever Sheds the Blood of Man, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed, for God Made Man in His Own Image’: The Imago Dei and the Biblical Foundation for Capital Punishment
Part III (11:18 - 15:04)
The Broward County Courthouse and the Trial of Alvin Ford: My Confrontation with the Issue of Capital Punishment
Part IV (15:04 - 20:40)
‘If This Was Not the Most Perfect Death Penalty Case, Why Do We Even Have the Death Penalty At All?’: The Haunting Question
Part V (20:40 - 23:16)
‘Even So, Lord Come Quickly’: The Sheer Heinousness of Sin and the Crying Out for Ultimate Justice
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 14, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.1 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Today there is one story we have to talk about in a way that is unusually urgent, and |
| 0:18.8 | that one story comes from the state of Florida, from Broward County, Florida, where in the sentencing |
| 0:23.9 | phase of the trial of the Parkland School shooter, Nicholas Cruz, the jury eventually came |
| 0:30.4 | back with a result that ended up yesterday with a life sentence, a sentence of life in prison |
| 0:36.2 | without the opportunity of parole. |
| 0:38.0 | But the big headline story is not the sentence that Nicholas Cruz received, but rather the |
| 0:43.4 | one that he did not, and that is the death penalty. |
| 0:46.9 | Some of the most basic issues related to murder, justice, righteousness, the administration |
| 0:51.8 | of justice, murder, aggravated murder, law enforcement, mass shootings. |
| 0:56.2 | They all come together in this one story, and yesterday it came down to one courthouse |
| 1:01.6 | in Broward County, Florida, and the worldview dimensions are absolutely immense. |
| 1:08.0 | Sadly, there's almost no doubt that you remember the heinous details of this crime, Nicholas |
| 1:12.8 | Cruz, who had just shortly before been a student at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School |
| 1:18.1 | in Parkland, Florida, he had been haunting the school, he had been staking out the school, |
| 1:24.2 | he had been in trouble at the school, and it made threats against the school. |
| 1:28.7 | But on Valentine's Day of 2018, he entered the school with malice of forethought, with |
| 1:33.6 | the intention of carrying out mass murder, and with a legally obtained semi-automatic weapon, |
| 1:39.9 | he ruthlessly and systematically killed 14 students there at that school, 14 teenagers, |
| 1:46.6 | and then three members of the faculty, a total of 17 premeditated murders. |
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