#189 How the Enemy Recycles Hatred to Divide the Church

 In this thought-provoking episode, Brandon tackles a sensitive and timely question: Is America's Church RACIST? Brandon explores the complex and often controversial relationship between faith and race in the United States. From the legacy of slavery and segregation to modern-day biases and macroaggressions, we examine the ways in which racism has been perpetuated and perpetuates within Christian hearts. Have we justified hatred by hearkening back to the hatred that preceded it? Is the church truly a beacon of hope and unity, or has it failed to address its own complicity in modern, systemic racism? Listen in and share your thoughts in the comments. Let us know if you also see the growth in ethnic idolatry. 

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Black and blurred. It's me, Brandon again. Guys, we are coming off of last episode of me sharing about the calling God has made of my life, life, my family. The planet church here in Baltimore, if you haven't listened to that episode, please listen to it. I'm going to continue to give updates on that and also remind people because I'm in support raising right now for that. It's not about me by myself coming up to Baltimore and saying I want to start a church. No, there's checks and balances. I'm a part of a church planning network. Umm. I'm also I have a home church here in Southeast Baltimore and where I'll be launching from and I'll be in a staff role in that church called the planting resident planting resident. And in order for me to be on staff, I need to raise my own salary. It's a relatively new church. Plan everybody raises their own salary, of which I will be preparing to plant and getting the necessary resources and tools to plant launch out via this church. And that's what I'm raising support for now for those. For that salary. Sorry. So if you want more information, there's a link in the description of this episode. You can look at that and you can specifically reach out to me, my e-mail is going to be available on that as well. You can reach out to me and ask about how to support or you can ask me other questions about the church plan to gain more information. And I can schedule a one-on-one for us to be able to talk and. What it looks like for you to support me and partner with me in this endeavor. Now I do not just say that as like an aside, it's not an aside, it's directly related to this episode. It's directly related. It's it's been a while I think and and sorry guys, but episodes are going to be a little bit more sporadic just as I'm in this very transient time. It is my desire to keep this podcast go. And I would love help in that if you are. If you want to volunteer in some capacity, reach out to me there is much help needed. You wanna serve? If you've been blessed by this podcast that Darren and I brought to you over the years, I think we're at five years now and you want to see it grow. And you wanna contribute to that in any way, please reach out to me and we can figure things out along the way. There's there's a lot that could be used regarding this, but in the meantime. I'm all my lonely, and so all these things I'm doing by myself when I record, when I edit episodes, when I edit video episodes, running our Patreon, running our YouTube, I'm doing all that on my own. So reach out, reach out your your help would be greatly appreciated. Before we start, before I start, we had a message from John, the dog Barber from Lafayette, he says. Good Morning Bros John, the dog Barber from Lafayette Louis. Diana, what's three things y'all plan to accomplish this year? The future looks bright. God bless. Well, John, thank you for the message, bro. Darren is still in Silver Spring, MD. Doing what you're doing right now. Grooming dougs. He and his wife continually growing their business. Darren, actually, Darren, his wife, my sister-in-law. Just welcomed their fifth child. My nephew Jonah. We saw him last Sunday. I went back to Silver Spring to preach and they are doing well. Three things plan to accomplish well. Obviously one of them is to plant a church here in Baltimore directly related to this episode. Yeah. Planet church. We want to get our house in order. It's been a transient time moving back to Baltimore and getting all this stuff, doing all this stuff, while still maintaining the podcast, but then also #3 and not in this order, by the way, but #3, which you'll hear a story of this towards the end, but I'd like to see all of my boys that I grew up with come to Christ. And and that's not me accomplishing anything. I would just want to be a faithful brother, a faithful ambassador of Christ to them. But. I'd like to see them all come to Christ, so fat man, appreciate your message. Appreciate your message. Let's jump into the topic here. My heart's been grieved for some time, but I don't know if any of you have been paying attention, but some of the things that Darren and I have talked about over the years are rearing. It's their ugly heads. And what am I talking about? I'm talking about. The reality of ethnic idolatry that has been going on for at least decades. In the Black American Church, and the reason it has been. I don't know galvanized is because the history. And the pain that might have been a catalyst, that was a catalyst for it is real. That that's it's real. Right. UM. When we think about slavery, we think about racism. And our very myopic view of American history. We've utilized that to such a fault. That people now think that they can justify their rebellion to Christ. Obviously they wouldn't say it like that, but that's what we're witnessing. We're witnessing people rebel against Christ as professing Christians, and they think they can justify it because racism exists, and they also believe that racism. Is the greatest evil. Rather than sin itself against the holy and righteous God, and we are seeing the fruit that comes from such a gospel less aspect of the culture. And we're seeing it in myriad of ways. I came across a channel that seen before the biblical conservative. I don't know if I'm subscribed to him or not. I actually, I don't really watch his content, but he has great. He has some great content. So I want to start watching it, but I want to play a clip from him because he actually utilized a clip that I used a while ago of a of kind of like a cohort of. Black American pastors discussing this very issue.

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Because I'm going to address some things I was on. I was in a conversation with Monique Dusanne and Kevin Briggins. Of all the things podcast man, my Mind's not working. That's why I should record at night the Center for Biblical Unity. And if you haven't listened to that, it's on. It's on my YouTube channel, it's on their YouTube channel, but we did a conversation reacting to a couple of things that I'm going to highlight. Here, and I'm also going to highlight some more modern headlines, but let's listen to what these this pastor has to say.

That we were driven by race so much, and I understand that because I was driven by race. Everything was in a filter of race, everything. And I understand the, the, the the idea. Love it, but when you're driven by race, the race is superseding the scriptures and you fit the scriptures to fit the narrative as opposed to allowing the Bible to be the narrative. So when you subject your thinking, your philosophy, your opinion, your race, your culture. And try to help the Bible to explain it. Then you get in trouble. Have we produced inside our people and their strength to stand against their culture? And to preach the gospel and live the gospel regardless of race and culture. And it's it's it's it's an ideal. Let me be clear. Racial and racial superiority, identity, all that this is idle within the black community and and we have to break that idea down.

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That's very explicit. And not only does he say it explicitly, that is the song that is being sung by many Christians in this country. The reason that's significant to highlight is because that's the way the Lord works. When it comes down to aspects of veracity, when it within the church, how do we know that something is biblical? It's not one and done, but it's a it's a, a A cohort of things that happen. One, do you find argumentation for it in Scripture 2? Umm. Are you hearing it within the body of Christ who are Holy Spirit indwelling people? I'm not saying, did you hear it this? One time I'm. Talking about is it a resounding message? Is it a resounding message? And the fact that there is an ethnic idolatry prevailing in our country is something that we need to be perking our ears up to. And even if we were to perk our ears up, we would be decades too late. We have allowed. The gospel to be absent in our churches for the sake of ethnic value. You've heard me talk about bibliographic ethnic theism. That in quote UN quote black culture. When I talk about the Black Church, I've gotten a lot of Christians that get mad at me over this. First of all, check your heart if that angers you so much, I get it that you can disagree and disagree. That's fine. But if for it to anger you so much for me to say something like this, no such thing as the Black Church, check your heart. At the end of the day, you won't come before me in death. You won't come before me in death, and only those who are identified in Christ Jesus will be received into the the Kingdom. And only those who profess Jesus as Lord will. Be received into the Kingdom. And so the question why I'm telling you to question your heart is when you get such a a visceral response and emotional response based on your ethnicity, you might be assuming that to be your primary identity. And if you assume that to be your primary identity, then it is not in your heart that Jesus is Lord, because then your primary identity. Would be him. So check that if you get that angry. But what I mean by that, when I say there is no black church, I don't mean in a conventional way. I've I was asked to preach at a a Chinese church, right. Some years ago. I've done conferences at Vietnamese churches and things like that. So I'm not speaking in a conventional way because the the that the the church that was all Chinese and the church that was Vietnamese. They don't identify themselves as the Vietnamese church at large. They don't believe that they are a distinct group. From the church. There is a beauty to the ethnic tradition of, quote UN quote. The conventionally speaking black church. I actually got a message from a dear brother who put it so well and I want to read that for you really quickly. I was talking about this very thing with the brother of mine or of ours. If you're a believer. And he said this, I do think the phrase the Black Church is complicated. But in summary, the beautiful reality is that there is only one church, and historically forces against God and his image bearing in black people created a context from which the reality of the phrase the Black church grew. That reality has both beauty and brokenness. In its beauty, it expresses the same heart as the church in Corinth. But in its brokenness, it expresses the black church versus the church. I I love having conversations with his brother because he he really takes the thoughts that have gambled in my mind and puts them in such a linear and distinct and coherent way when he shares his thoughts. And I was very appreciative of that because that's exactly what it is. Now some who even tout that phrase, the Black Church would claim, like, see, there it is. We're just highlighting its beauty like a a message from Pastor Eric Mason this past week or maybe last week, which I thought that he was being intellectually dishonest in his, in his message on Facebook or wherever it was, I've actually.

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To personally get back in on Facebook, I don't know if that's a mistake yet, but. We'll see. But people are saying we're just highlighting the beauty and and I would say you're not, you've actually elevated the beauty of the black church over the beauty of the church. That there is an affinity for blackness. More than there is affinity for Christ likeness and the sonship in the Kingdom of God, and we're seeing that. We saw that in Eric, doctor Eric, Pastor Eric Mason's response to Allie Beth Stuckey and Melissa Dougherty as they were commenting on observations within some majority black churches, not majority of black churches, but majority black churches, meaning inside of this local congregation. People are majority black, that there is a dwelling and a promulgating of prosperity, gospel and heresies of the like. And what appalled Pastor Eric Mason and Doctor Anthony Bradley was a friend of mine. I haven't spoken to him in years. But he's a he was a. Mentor of mine. And it's what seems to anger them the most. As an observer, as I'm just looking, what seems to anger them the most is the fact that these women were white. Now, how did we get there? If you can remember, did I do an episode on this? I can't remember. Maybe it was just a YouTube video, but. There was a post that a woman made. On Twitter. And that post. Was. Her saying that she was going to raise her sons. Maybe I did do an episode I forget. Was it with Darren? Maybe not, I don't. Know, but let me see if I. Can pull it. Up she said that she was going to raise her white sons to be proud. And my question was not to pick a side. First of all I I I. Responded on that and. I said the problem with ethnic identity or ethnic idolatry is that it's ethnic idolatry. The ethnic divide in this country begets ethnic division, I said. We need Christians to raise Christian children who have an identity that truly doesn't perish. See this this. Ethnic identity attached to ethnic tradition will indeed perish. My body will be raised to life, yes, but the tradition that we attach it to will perish. But the fact that I am a member of a chosen race, royal priesthood and Holy Nation won't perish, but will be glorified. And we want children to be raised in that identity and identity rooted in this world won't meet those qualifications. And so basically what I was highlighting was I I was merely highlighting. How? We got to such a place. How do we get to a place where a where an American woman, a white American woman, feels that she has to shout it to the world, that she's going to raise her children as white and proud? And people will look at that and they'll point the finger and say, aha, I told you, this place is littered with racism. But the fact of the matter is the only reason I think that Pastor Mason, Doctor Bradley, have such a visceral response is because we've actually gotten use. To passive racism, if passive is way, if we if it's even correct to call it passive. We've gotten so comfortable with passive racism against white Americans, and we justify it right by saying they have power. Right. We say they have power. And so since all the white people have power, it's OK for us. To store up. Hatred and bitterness and resentment in our hearts because what's the one thing that's lacking from a person who's comfortable storing up hatred, bitterness and resentment in their heart while professing to be a Christian? Well, the one thing that's lacking is their reverence for Christ. How does that? Happen. How does a collective of people who identify as Christians yet are not concerned with obeying him in regards to how they view their neighbor? How have we so let the Academy, therefore redefine the conditions of the human heart so that all you have to do is redefine the term racism, and there we go, I can actually store up hatred in my heart and be OK because I'm not racist. I'm black. I can't be racist. It's a moot point. Because in the 1st century, Paul told slaves of that day to honor their masters. So even if you don't have the power and you have someone over you who does have power, you aren't serving them. You're serving your Lord. You're his slave. So what you're doing in your heart toward your master ought to be to the glory of Christ. And if Paul is saying that to servants in the context of servants and masters, then how much more is it true for neighbors? I don't care if that neighbor lives in a better house than you. Yet we don't have churches preaching that we don't have pastors who have a reverence for scripture. We don't have pastors who have discernment to be able to see what's happening in the culture and know that their congregations are inevitably being affected by it, and then to speak out loud about it. Two things happen when you. Say the truth. Clearly and out loud, the people in your midst who are truly siblings. We'll get a a a refreshing spring of water. Fed to them, they will get the bread of life fed to them just by hearing the truth. And the second thing that will happen which will benefit your congregation is that the people who secretly hate Jesus won't feel comfortable in your midst. That's a good thing. That's a good thing. I know that we want all people to come to Christ and I pray that in hearing the truth explicitly and clearly. We'll do that. Remember, the gospel is God's power. It's not us. It's not my articulation. It's not my alliteration. It's not me coming up with some catchy phrase. It's not smoke. It's not lighting. It's not whatever I wear. It's the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It's God's power unto salvation. Those who believe that a Jew first into the Greek. The fact of the matter is the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness of man, who in their unrighteousness suppressed the truth. When we're seeing this right before our eyes, a suppression of the truth. I'm gonna spend majority of my time just sharing some things with you guys. Let's look at. Some more of this clip from the biblical conservative. Because Bishop Patrick Wooden, he shared some things as well, and I thought those were that's also needed to hear. And it's not because that he's black, it's because of he's a believer. However, the fact that he's black means that the people who are waging war against Christ and his church. Even while wearing the title of Christ, they're not speaking from the Holy Spirit. They're speaking from their flesh. Something that's consistent. I'm I'm I'm. I'm sure this is not gonna be the case for everybody, but something that is consistent when I look at the profiles of these people who are the loudest is that I can scroll and scroll and scroll. And I don't really see much about the beauty of Christ. In their content. That's just interesting to me, that's just an observation. But let let's listen to. Patrick Wooden Bishop, Bishop with.

Them they're trying to mix in God's truth today. One of the big things that we have to be concerned about as African Americans is the religion of skin color. Skin color we we we we got to be wet. You got to we we're doing the very same things that we condemned and right for the soul white folk for doing the Klan and others the Arians assumed that they were superior based on complexion. And now we are making the same assumptions. The skin color. Skin color we we we we got to be wet. You got to we we're doing the very same things that we condemned and rightfully so white folk for doing the Klan and others the Arians assumed that they were superior based on complexion. And now we are making the same assumptions and that is not good. And we got to be careful politically. People ask me at times, why do I talk as much as I do about politics and things that happen in the political arena? The the major reason is #1 the the. The political arena has stepped into the church, but more importantly, more importantly. The Antichrist will be as much a political leader.

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As he will be a religious leader, he will be as religious as he will be political. He will dominate both. Spheres and and whatever he's going to do in full power during the tribulation, we see signs of it. Now.

So I'm not gonna play the whole thing, but go check out the biblical conservative. It's this guy right above me, right here. Biblical conservative. If you're watching on YouTube and go subscribe to his channel. But I think Patrick Wooden is showcasing some things that I was highlighting. Sorry, let me. Go. Here that I. Was highlighting we need in the church. The fact that he is addressing what's happening right now. Is important. You're guiding your sheep on how to discern the times. That's important. That's something we don't have. You have people who say ohh I don't like to talk about politics. And maybe. Yeah, that's fine. Maybe don't stand behind your pulpit and talk about tariffs. That's great, but the but the things that we're mean when we say we don't want to talk about politics, we're talking about things that are cut to the quick right cut to people's heart. That's not politics, that's the world and and what he means by politics have gotten into the church because now politics apparently is covering a wide array of sexuality marriage. Children rearing. Whether that we should care for children in our, in our society or kill them. That's not politics. And if it is politics, then we definitely belong in politics as. Christians. There is something that just took place in the past week that's significant. Where it's it's, it's another tragedy. And you have a young man who unalive another young man. The one doing the unliving is black and the one who is now deceased was white. And we are seeing the. Gospel lists black church.

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Come to bear. Because. The racial divide around this story. Is really grotesque. It's quite grotesque. You know, even before addressing this, I remember the story of. The young man, I want to say it was Georgetown I, but I'm lying. I can't remember. And I'm not gonna look it up right now, but it was a young man. I believe he was a law student and he was. Either in his apartment or. There was a police officer, a woman who went into the wrong apartment, and she thought that he was in her apartment and trying to harm her, and so she shot and and and killed him. And I remember in the courtroom, his brother. Was testifying and he forgave the police officer and man. There was an outcry from all of the either Black Church folks or Black Church adjacent. Why on Earth would that enrage them so much? It's because that forgiveness is a reminder of Jesus's Kingdom, and Jesus Kingdom is in staunch opposition to their Kingdom. It doesn't matter if they want to call themselves Christians or not. He diametrically opposes that Kingdom. And there is much repentance necessary. There's a quote from Charles Spurgeon and this is what he says on the wrath to come this. Is something that. We are. We are forgetting as a as a local body or a church in America. When it comes down to sin, the reality of sin and the wrath to come. Trust, Virgin says, says how terrible to await the dread advance of a hurricane such as occurs sometimes in the tropics to wait in terrible apprehension till the wind shall rush forth in fury, tearing up trees from their roots, forcing rocks from their pedestals and hurling down all the dwelling places of a man. And yet. Sinner, this is your present position. No hot drops have as yet fallen, but a shower of fire is coming. No terrible winds howl around you, but God's Tempest is gathering its dread artillery as yet the water floods are dammed up by mercy, but the floodgate shall soon be opened. The Thunderbolts of God are yet in his storehouse. But lo, The Tempest hastens, and how awful shall that moment be? When God, robed in vengeance, shall March forth in fury. People are out here playing games like. God has a team. Amongst humans. He doesn't even see. His church as his team. No, he is the team. We are with him. There was a moment, Joshua, where Joshua comes face to face with the what's called commander of the Lord. I believe it is the synonymous with the Angel of the Lord, and I also believe that it's Jesus preincarnate the preincarnate Christ or second second person of the Trinity and. He asked this question. Hey, are you here with our enemies or are you here with us? And the command of the Lord's Army says no? My answer to your question your multiple choice question is no. Your entire premise is wrong headed. The Lord isn't sided with anyone. It is you. Who has become transformed to side with me? You were once a child of wrath. By nature. By nature, you were a child of wrath. And through Christ Jesus you have been transformed and the desires of your heart given to you, because those desires have conformed to my will. That is what we are, that is what it means to come to Christ and the people who are playing church, thinking that while they're out here doing social justice while hating Jesus and his bride. Read that again. Go back and listen to what is coming again. The Lord's wrath. The Thunderbolts are stored up in the storehouse. It's not a game. So the tragedy of the boy. Has turned into this vitriolic race debate where there are a lot of black Americans who are explicitly. Defending the murderer. So I'm going to play a clip from Instagram from the right winged Angel, and then give my commentary on it. Listen to this. This is a black woman. Speaking.

He believe or feel any kind of sympathy for. You're not going to make me believe or feel any kind of sympathy for awesome Metcalfe.

Austin Metcalf is the gentleman who was. Killed.

He put his hands on a young man when he should have kept his hands to himself. When the young man told him touch me and see the better not touch me. That meant that I don't want you in my space. I don't want you touching me. Once the part days is over, you can not think that you can move somebody out of a seat that you don't own and think that it's going to be OK and you can't determine how I'm going to retaliate on you when you put your hands on me in an aggressive manner. Also, Metcalf got exactly what he deserved. Point blank. Period. It's time. Feeling sorry for somebody feelings or feeling emotional about somebody feelings. Also, Metcalf should have kept his damn hands to himself. Point blank. Period.

OK, now if you don't hear the Antichrist. The spirit of the age and that then I don't know what you're listening to, or he might. Dwell in you. So let me just say this. This is the narrative. The narrative is that at a track meet, there was a gentleman who was under a tent while it was raining and the tent did not belong to him. And Austin Metcalf, a member of the tent to whom it belonged, asked him. The move asked him to leave. I think the guy might have, like, dared him to move or told him to make him leave, and Austin Metcalf either grabbed his book bag and try started pushing the guy out, just moving him out and I think the guy in retaliation stabbed him in the heart. Now. What I'm hearing from a lot of people is like parental lessons, and that's why they're justifying the murder of Carmelo Anthony. Carmelo Anthony is the assailant. And they're saying you should never put your hands on them. So, like, where have we come to in a society already know where we've come into a society, this is a godless society, even amongst those who claim to be children of his. It's a godless society when you say because you touch me. That's why you deserve to die. That's why we ridicule Black History Month on this podcast. We don't ridicule American history, but Black History Month. It's a joke. Because it's wielded by people. As justification for this type of mentality, keep at the forefront of people's minds the bitterness and hatred for those who did such dirty things to your ancestors so that you can be justified in your vengeance and retaliation. Did you hear what she said linking this incident? Rosa Parks, what does Rosa Parks, sitting down on the bus have to do with this? It says that if you have untethered passions and you teach those untethered passions to your children in the form of black history, it will turn into hatred and bitterness. So this woman. Has. Connected. The anger. To Rosa Parks, refusing to get up out of her seat. To the anger of this young man refusing to leave the tent. Guys, that's important to hear. Because I've been saying this for years, that growing up black in this country. And not in a Christian context. The only I would say. Uh. What's the word I'm looking for? The default the default foundation by which you understand society is for it to be racist. And you're going to have hatred and bitterness born in you if you are not raised with tethered passions tethered to an anchor that is good and you are learning the history of America, quote, UN quote, through a black Americans lens, you will inevitably be raised with hatred and resentment. That's a fact. And that is what we're seeing amongst so many who even profess themselves to be Christian. Matt Walsh. Tweeted about this. And once again, I was highlighting and making a point. I did not tell people that I was agreeing with Matt Walsh. I was highlighting the way the conversation goes because I was also, I mentioned that in Baltimore, there was a young boy, a teenager, white boy who was beaten and stripped, had his clothes stripped from him by a gang of black. Kids. And I was saying that. Because we are not acknowledging sin in humanity. That, that even even when it comes down to black people in the way they view white people, you think? That they're only racist. And that that's the driving force. That's stupid. But there is sin. And what happens when you are raised in a society for the last? Let's say 20 to 50 decades, 50 years. 20 to 50 years, say 40 years, 40 years is the 80s, and that's when things started to turn because you don't have a movie called White Man can't jump unless the tide starts turning. And that tide in the beginning was a very liberal liberal pass to black people. On being able to slander white people, you were able to slander them as much as you wanted to. And people went along with it. It's just funny. That's the only reason a movie like White Man can't jump can exist. We we don't even think twice about it. I'm not saying I have a problem with the title. I'm just saying I have a problem with the fact that if another movie comes out about like, you know, black man can't commit to a wife or something like that, then people got a problem. With it, if a white director makes it. I'm just saying there's no consistency. I forgot what I was getting at with that, but ohh yeah, this has been this has been going for. This is a long time coming. It is a long time coming and so when? You. Have that and you have sinful people raised in that society. Guess what? You get embittered, hateful and resentful people. That's the black generation we're seeing today. Because the pain is still real, people have gone through real ostracization and discrimination and racism. They've gone through it real instead of being in Christ, they're using that reality to justify wielding it against their neighbor. And that's the issue and that is going to exacerbate. A counter response. Where the pendulum spins because what we're seeing in the response to Austin Metcalf's death is cold blooded hatred. That's what we're seeing. So I'm going to read this tweet or this uh post from Matt Walsh. This is what he says he. I mean, make sure people can see that. Let's put it here. He said if I told you that a young man stabbed another young man to death for telling him that he was in the wrong seat and then I told you that one young man in the altercation was white and the other black, and then I asked you to guess the race of the assailant, every single person would know the answer immediately. Young black males are violent to a wildly outrageously disproportionate degree. That's just a fact. We all know it, and it's time that we speak honestly about it or nothing will ever change. Now, before I read the full response, that's what my post is. It's not just his message, it's the the conversation that's happening.

I want to.

Highlight this issue. The issue is that. You have a white man. Saying this and people just like they jumped down Allie, Beth Stuckey and Melissa Doherty's throats for commenting on an observation in predominantly black churches, meaning black churches that have predominantly black Americans. In them not saying predominant like like most. Of black churches. They jumped on the fields because they're white. The assumption is that because you're white, you better watch your mouth and you. Better not say anything. This is a bullying culture and people feel justified in it, but guess what? You know why Matt Walsh has to say it is because that bullying culture is also to fellow black Americans. Because we'll realize that the idolatry truly is ideological. It's not just based on the skin. The skin is secondary. The ideology is primary. I'm a perfect example of it. Darren is a perfect example of it. Any other Black American who loves people loves Jesus as a result of loving people and wants to see them flourish and tells them the truth. They've experienced that because then the Satan that is called the black culture will jump down your throat. And they'll try to steal away your identity, thinking that you cared so much about being accepted by them. You know, The funny thing about this life that the Lord has called me to this is just me speaking in a side, Brandon. Is that I spent majority of my time as a teenager and a preteen wanting to win the world. I wanted to be in the world. I wanted to go to parties with my boys. I wanted to get drunk. I wanted to have sex with women. I wanted to do all these things because I wanted to be accepted by people. And when the Lord calls you? Out of that, you die to. I am dead to that so people can't entice me to want to belong to the world that Brandon, who found that attractive is dead. I'm still flesh and it's still being killed in me more and more. So there'll be tempting moments where I don't want to be, you know, separated from the group or whatever it is. But. When it comes down to a whole hearted, what's the word I'm looking for? Foundation and fundamental that I live by. It won't be to please the world. I don't care about being liked that Brandon died. And people don't get that. And so the thing they do is they'll call you a coone or an Uncle Tom, or they tell you ain't really black. As if that matters to me. It doesn't matter to anybody who's truly in Christ. So you have Matt Walsh saying this. And he's saying it. Because he feels like it's very obvious, and no one's saying it. And do you know why? It's very obvious, because as it was becoming more and more obvious, still no one was saying it. No one was willing to mentor. No one was willing to fill in father roles. Everybody acquiesced to the culture because, at the essence of black culture, is a love for the world and whatever the world says, worship you better bow your knee and open and confess your worship to it. So even though black culture is prevalent, ohh no no, no, no, no, you're not on the forefront, it's sexuality, and your sexuality has to remove men from their manhood. Doesn't matter what it is. Either you do it through your actions and removing your manhood, or you join us ideologically in saying that manhood is bad. And you better do it and you better put on your suit and go behind your pulpit and get your congregation to do it. That's why there's no men in the, quote UN quote, black church. You might see males, but there's no men. You see sermons that are heavily directed towards women. And now you see an acceptance of sexual licentiousness and sexual perversions. Because the world demanded it. So this is what the response was to Matt Walsh's post. And this is this response is what I said is evidence that we are headed towards something cataclysmic in society. Here's a woman responding. It's a white American woman. She says how do isolated acts of violence weigh against centuries of genocide, war, slavery and robbery at the hands of power structures comprised entirely of white men, I wonder. So you know what's going to happen. When people are watching things with their eyes and they're being told you're not allowed to say anything about it because of history. But then they're going to get gas lit further, and they're going to say the history is what I say it is. You have no right to talk about things like the movie woman King that depicted a woman in the form of a some type of monarch, but they cut out and revised the history where the woman comes from, a tribe that actually used to rape and pillage villages in Africa to sell them as slaves. They were all black. So the history is what I tell you it is. And we're gonna do this all in the name of Jesus and loving everybody justice. How do isolated acts of violence weigh against centuries of genocide, war, slavery and robbery? And I have an answer for this woman and all the other black Americans that she feels threatened enough to have to regurgitate this nonsense from. You know how it weighs against it equally. It is a sin against the holy and righteous God. That's how it weighs against it. And we don't care. We don't care. And we have gotten to a place. That says. UM. What I find right in my eyes is right and 9:00. We're not concerned with it. Conflict we don't engage in healthy conflict in our churches. People just let stuff slide and they create these like happy go lucky. I've heard this from many people. Even I'm in conversation with a sister from across the country. Who's telling me about a circumstance where things are so happy? Go lucky, but because she has a question about something she's being made to feel like she's. The bad guy. Because of her love for the church. So you can't ask questions cause then you're causing conflict and you're being divisive.

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It's evil. It's evil. And this is my vision and This is why this is so connected to me planning a church. It's because something that has really been held in my heart deeply. Is that we won't until we reach glory, we won't celebrate the fact that the Lord used his bride to abolish an end to slavery. That he used his bride to fight against chattel slavery in the United States, where people still say that that's the issue here in this country, and it's reverberating. And the only thing we know about the history of slavery is that it existed. And we as a church don't even celebrate the fact that the church abolished it. And So what I'm wanting right now. Is for people who are listening to my voice. If you want to be a part of something special. The revival that the Lord will bring to his church. Those who confess Jesus as Lord. You want to be a part of that, then partner with me in some capacity. Please do it prayerfully, but please at least look at the prospectus that I've attached to this description because I'm going to need supporters because I dwell in a place and in a context that hates my message, even if they don't know it yet. They hate what I'm talking about because it's too brash and it rubs up against very sensitive walls and things like that. But if you want to be a part of the church waging war on the Kingdom of Hell, the way the bride of Christ has always waged war. Partner with me. Because I want to be here in Baltimore waging war on ethnic idolatry. That's what I wanna do. And when you partner with me, you will get all of the intricate details. I'll keep you up to date. Month to month as best as I can and updating you on the things that the Lord is doing. And one thing that I just share with my supporters now is that and I. And I'm still at the very low level. I've only raised the 20%. But one thing that. I shared with them is how what the first thing I did in coming back home is. I reached out to my friend group, who I had grown apart from. I've grown apart from them because I came to Christ. And they didn't. But they're my boys. I love them. I've married them, as in their their spouses. I we did premarital, they they were gracious enough to be able to hear me out and share with them the gospel. Tell them the beauty of the Lord's design and marriage and. And let me to officiate the wedding in a good conscience. But even looking at them at my boys wedding, I remember. Some years ago, just looking at the group, my group of boys kind of sitting over there joking and stuff while I was talking to a guest at the wedding, and I was looking at them. Thinking I'm not one of them anymore. And I haven't been. And I praise God for it. But my deepest desires for them to be 1 of me. For them to be my brothers and no longer my boys, and I sent to my supporters the opportunity that I had. When I first moved back, I reached out to them and I said would you guys give me four to six months? By a Bible. Bring your transparency. Bring all of your gripes, your questions, your arguments, your doubts about Christianity and Jesus, and bring an open mind. And I explained to them what that open mind was. It's not just trusting Brandon, no matter what it's going wherever the evidence is leading you, no matter how it makes you feel. Bring that with you. And would you want to sit and learn, challenge and grow as men? And they said yes and we met for the third time last week. That is my desire. To get back to a biblical church with a biblical gospel in biblical discipleship and teach flourishing. Flourishing as a man, flourishing as a woman, flourishing as a husband and wife who have children who adopt children who rear children, raise them in the knowledge of the Lord, and allow the Lord to use these families to create cities. After creating communities, trusting the Lord to it, I don't want anything fancy. I don't want people to care about my language and my smarts and my degrees, whatever it is, trusting the Lord to grow his church. In doing that here. Is a direct assault on ethnic identity or ethnic idolatry. Because our very first meeting, I told them you guys have been watching my podcast from afar. You've seen the content I put out. Bring your questions, bring your best arguments, bring your issues, and let's talk about it like men. And here we are at meeting #4 coming up next week. So at the very least, be praying for them because it is my prayer that this church, Lord willing that he brings here in Baltimore City will start with baltimorean men. Who know and love him? And want to lead as if they know and love him, and because they know and love him and trust him and and trust his faithfulness, they're willing to die. Both socially and physically, for the sake of the gospel. That's my desire. Bury that in your heart and join me and partner with me in that. Look into the prospectus that I've posted in the description, because it's going to come from those people who will never be known, just like slavery being abolished will never be acknowledged and will never be celebrated in this world in this country. How about that? But that's what it means. To be the. Bride of Christ to find contentment with sweeping the dungeon. For his glory and dying. That's what beauty is. That's what's beautiful. So join me in that. Join me in that if you're watching the video version of that, I'm going to post a video intro that I did to my perspectives on that, so I hope that you enjoy it, but in the meantime, to everyone else, I thank you guys for tuning into this episode of Black and Blur. We are guaranteed to hear one of two things, my humble opinion or the facts. Alright.