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thanks so much for watching let's get
into the video so this video is not
coming from someone who's above the
teaching of tim keller in some big way
for significant portions of my life as a
christian i listened to many tim keller
sermons and i still believe the lord
used these things in my life for his
glory as well but there was a time as
there always is where i had to go from
milk to solid food and i know that many
of you have had similar experiences in
today's video i want to simply survey
the difference between tim keller's
position on racism and his position on
abortion because one is crystal clear
and the other well it's a bit muddy
here's a quote from tim keller on the
issue of racism quote how should
christians and especially those with an
anglo-white background respond to last
weekend's alt-right gathering in
charlottesville and its tragic aftermath
he asks
christians should look at the energized
and emboldened white nationalism
movement and its fascist slogans and
condemn it full stop it is time to
present the bible's strong and clear
teachings about the sin of racism and
the idolatry of blood and country again
full stop end quote you see tim keller
has no problem looking at a
controversial cultural issue in the face
staring at it and condemning it with the
strongest and clearest possible language
of course as long as it has to do with
racism that is for those of you who
don't know the charlottesville rally
sometimes called the unite the right
rally was one attended by at most even
according to the most liberal of sources
a few hundred neo-nazis and white
nationalists a few hundred at this rally
there was an evil and tragic event
wherein a person was murdered by someone
in a car who drove into the crowd
injuring over a dozen people as well so
the situation is tragic and this should
never have happened justice should be
done i am in no way supporting or
excusing this action in any way if
legally found guilty of premeditated
murder the individual driving that car
should be justly executed by the
authorities i believe that strongly
leviticus 24 17 says quote whoever takes
a human life shall surely be put to
death end quote i believe that this is
the just penalty for the horrifying
action that occurred in charlottesville
but the point is we have a situation
here where at most according to the most
generous estimates there were a few
hundred people espousing racist
political views and the result was the
tragic and wicked murder of one person
and the injury of around a few dozen at
most
tim keller's response to this situation
was clear sharp and definitely
condemning of what took place he even
made it abundantly clear that all white
christians in general should take a good
look at their beliefs and challenge
themselves and these hateful views that
presented themselves at the rally so not
only has tim keller been willing to risk
offending racist people in his response
but he's also willing to risk offending
anyone who's white even if they weren't
involved that's how passionate he is
about condemning this sin of racism and
just to be clear i do agree that it is a
grievous sin romans 2 11 says quote god
shows no partiality end quote therefore
we should not be partial against or for
people based on their skin color that's
obviously sinful but let's compare this
view with tim keller's view on murdering
babies through abortion shall we tim is
quoted as saying the following quote
there's a real danger that we preach on
it abortion in order that we can pat
ourselves on the back and say that we've
addressed a difficult cultural issue but
that can't be right especially when
there are non-christians out there who
do not believe the authority of the
bible and cannot see it's wrong the
danger is that we just put them off end
quote so tim keller says that there is a
quote danger that we quote put off
unbelievers by having firm stances on
abortion his words not mine in an
article tim cites the example of this in
action when he talks about a woman who
approached him after one of his church
services here it goes quote do you think
abortion is wrong she asked i tim keller
said that i did i'm coming to see that
there may be something wrong with it she
said as we spoke i tim discovered that
she was an ivy league graduate a lawyer
a longtime manhattan resident and an
active member of the aclu she
volunteered that she had experienced
three abortions i want you to know she
said that if i had seen any literature
or any reference to the pro-life
movement i would not have stayed through
the very first service end quote notice
that tim says this woman quote
experienced three abortions not that she
intentionally requested them and paid
for them even possibly no she just
experienced them intentional or not this
has the distinct effect of removing some
level of her moral guilt through this
language and contrasts this with the
fact that tim has no problem at all
telling all white people regardless of
their involvement to do the right thing
and change their response meanwhile the
woman who is directly responsible for
the murder of three people just had an
experience of something but all white
people must respond for what happened in
charlottesville even if they weren't
there so tim keller is deeply concerned
with offending or otherwise putting off
people who are in favor of murdering
infants at will
this is a danger according to tim keller
to the extent that he is exceedingly
cautious about making any type of harsh
public statement regarding abortion
contrast this with the scriptures and
you will see how truly out of balance it
is in john 8 44 jesus says this quote
you are of your father the devil and
your will is to do your father's desires
he was a murderer from the beginning end
quote you see murder is from the devil
killing babies is satanic it's demonic
it's from satan no christian should ever
do it or participate in it it's a scheme
of the enemy the bible clearly condemns
murder in the strongest possible terms
as i cited earlier murder was rightfully
a death penalty offense under old
testament law with some caveats so tim
keller's deep concern for putting off
those who practice and support murder is
completely out of touch with scripture
you just won't find it in there but
that's not the only thing that's
inconsistent here remember what i said
the point of this video was to compare
his perspective on racism to that of
murdering children and we have two
situations here in one situation one
person was killed brutally murdered and
maybe a few dozen injured at most and at
most we have hundreds of people who are
espousing hateful unbiblical views about
people of other races this is bad but in
the other situation we have in the year
2019 alone
1729 innocent lives being taken every
single day before they even have the
chance to be born and at least half of
the united states voting block believes
that's perfectly ethical one person is
killed and tim keller is willing to
offend whoever it takes to condemn it
strongly
1729 people were killed on that very
same day and tim keller is deeply
worried about putting someone off if he
talks about it a small minority of
hundreds of people were gathered
together to espouse a hateful position
and tim keller is so distraught so upset
that he will ask all white people to
check their response to this even if
they weren't even involved and at the
very same time tens of millions of
americans espouse murderous hatred
towards the unborn and tim keller is
deeply worried about coming off as harsh
or unloving by condemning them the
imbalance here is so totally obvious
it's palpable it's so clear it's
astounding one person is murdered and
tim keller stands up straight declaring
strongly to all the world the wickedness
of this action millions are murdered and
tim keller will stop at nothing to make
sure the people who support it and
encourage it will feel coddled and
helped let me point you back to the
previous passage about partiality
because it's really relevant here romans
2 11 says quote god shows no partiality
end quote we should have consistent
standards and i will be the first to
admit that i myself do not always have
the equal weights and balances that i
should but that doesn't excuse us from
trying and that doesn't excuse us from
repenting we must try we must attempt to
have consistent standards according to
god's word and we must repent when we're
wrong and by god's grace we will be
forgiven so i would urge tim keller and
others who think like him on this to
repent and change this is not justice
this is not right when you strongly
rebuke the evil of racism and virtually
ignore the much more widespread evil of
abortion that's a problem and
unfortunately i think i know where all
of this is coming from i think we all do
it's coming from the world philippians 2
15 says quote that you may be blameless
and innocent children of god without
blemish in the midst of a crooked and
twisted generation among whom you shine
as lights in the world you see we are
supposed to speak truth to the world not
coddle them and make them feel better
only christ can truly help them only
christ can truly restore them and we
must pray that he will the media
academia and the culture at large have
been on a tirade against racism for
multiple years now everyone who
disagrees with the slightest view of
theirs is called the white nationalist
neo-nazi hateful bigot meanwhile women
who have abortions are called brave and
amazing and wonderful and anyone who
dares to stand up against them is shot
down at the very worst these women are
called just people who were in difficult
situations who just had no other way out
i guess you could say they just
experienced something is it a
coincidence though that just as the
world condemns racism and promotes
abortion we see leaders in the church
like tim keller hardening their views
significantly on the issue of racism and
softening their views significantly on
the issue of abortion i don't think it's
a coincidence at all i think it's
precisely in line with the spirit of our
age it's very clear what's happening
here but we were not meant to reflect
the world we were meant to reflect
christ romans 12 2 says quote do not be
conformed to this world but be
transformed by the renewal of your mind
that by testing you may discern what is
the will of god what is good and
acceptable and perfect end quote our
churches are not supposed to do our best
to reflect and exhibit the moral
standards of the current political
climate we live in but rather the moral
standards of god and his word i have no
superiority ethically to tim keller i'm
a wretched sinner saved by grace i'm no
better than anybody i'm inconsistent
sometimes too but i'm just laying out
the facts for you as doug wilson has
said somebody's got their thumb on the
scales here i think that has become
painfully obvious to those of us
watching all this play out so let's pray
that tim keller and others like him
would balance out their views with
scripture that they would recognize this
and change it immediately according to
the truth of god's word
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