I'd like to make a couple of preliminary pastoral comments.

We are in one of the most significant moments in the history of the United States of America.

There is upheaval and pain and a cry for justice in the streets of this country as we now speak

currently in real time right now live it's 1106 a.m. I'm in Los Angeles in a studio. Not only in this city, many of the great

cities of this nation, There are protesters and even riots happening. Of course, I pray that we understand

is a community that it is protesting that is the language of the voiceless.

There is so much pain and I hope you see pain before you see problem.

In the midst of all this there have been some and I caution you

in surfing the internet right now.

You have to use a good judgment and be guided by the person of Jesus.

Having said that, if you spend any time on the internet, Instagram or Twitter and others,

you've seen the fodder, you have seen perspectives.

There seems to be at this point two kinds of cries emerging in our country. One is clearly a cry for justice for things

we have literally recorded on videotape and witnessed ourselves the true state of racism and bigotry and bias in our country.

Having said that, there's also a cry for order.

That cry for order. That cry for order oftentimes comes from Christians like you and me.

We cry for order.

Of course, as a leader and a friend and a father and a husband I can in no way condone looting or theft. But of course though I don't condone one thing I can

understand. This is a cry for justice. And yet, as the cry for justice,

continues to swell and grow in this country

there remains those who cry for order.

I want to give you a little perspective from scripture.

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