Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 1111 | Daniel Penny’s 'Toxic' Masculinity Saved Lives

Starting point is 00:00:00 Daniel Penny has been found not guilty and has been cleared of wrongdoing by a Manhattan jury in the death of Jordan Neely. We will look at this verdict today. We will analyze the outcome. We will compare and contrast social justice and mob justice versus real actual biblical justice, as well as masculinity and the need for more courage. We've got so much to talk about today. We will also talk about some athletes that are sharing the gospel through statements that they are making lots to celebrate on today's episode of Relatable. It's brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers. Go to Good Ranchers.com. Use Code Alley and check out that's good ranchers.com code Alley. Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day, a great start to your week. It is a great day to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.

Starting point is 00:01:05 I love what Elizabeth Elliott said. I heard this in one of her talks one time, not in real life, but over a podcast. And she said, the only thing you have to do today is the will of God. And as I was thinking that, I was wondering, okay, but how does someone know specifically what the will of God is in any given moment? Yes, of course, we get to read his will for our lives in the world. word of God, which is inerrant and authoritative, but a lot of people want to know, but specifically in this moment, what is the will of God? We can discern what is the difference between right and wrong sin and wickedness, but how do we discern the difference between what is good and what is best?

Starting point is 00:01:55 Well, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we simply are responsible to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. And when we understand that and that, Christ gives us the strength to do that and that God promises us wisdom when we ask for it. It really relieves us of the burden of perfection, of thinking that we have to have it all figured out. We get to depend upon the Lord and the strength and the sufficiency and the wisdom that He gives us and we simply do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God. That is the only thing we are obligated to do.

Starting point is 00:02:35 the only thing we have the capability of doing in any given moment, and that is the will of God for our lives. And so just start out this week with that knowledge and allow the troubles of tomorrow to take care of themselves. We serve a good God, a loving father, and a wise and faithful shepherd that will sanctify us and will accomplish what he sets out to accomplish in our lives. And we can have joy and hope in that. And really, that is the message of Christmas that God is going to go to any length. He is going to do whatever has to be done to seek and save the loss, to redeem his people. And we get to celebrate that gospel all the time, but especially this time of year as we celebrate Emmanuel, God with us, that God took the form of a human and not just any human, but first an embryo

Starting point is 00:03:42 was worshipped as an infant, was heralded by the kicks of an unborn John the Baptist, and he showed us what it looks like to love, what it looks like to serve, but most of all, he became our righteousness, he became our sacrifice. He died and he rose again, conquer death so that we might be reconciled to a holy God, be forgiven of our sins, become a new creation, and live forever with Him. That is the gospel truth that we get to celebrate, especially this time of year as we reflect in a more concentrated way on what the Advent means and what Christmas means. So just praise God, no matter what is going on in your life, all of these truths that we read in Scripture that we've just reminded of, reminded of, reminded

Starting point is 00:04:34 ourselves of today in this episode so far, all of those things make today worthy of joy and worthy of hope and celebration. Quick pause for our first sponsor for the day, and that is Adele Natural Cosmetics. You guys know how much I love Adele. I use them every day. I love their essential cleanser. I love their essential moisturizing spray. Their serums, their Blue Lagoon Line smells so good. I love all of their lotions, especially the this time of year, their packaging and their sense are just so festive and fun. This company is the real deal. It's a Christian family-owned company. They are completely unapologetic about their faith, about their pro-life values. They care about every single ingredient that goes into their

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Starting point is 00:06:13 So some of you may have not been following this story at all. So let me back up and tell you why this is so unexpected and what happened. So in May of 2023, police at witnesses say that Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless street performer, a Michael Jackson impersonator boarded an F train in Soho began shouting, throwing things, and making threats. according to Penny and other witnesses, Neely yelled at passengers on the subway saying things like, I don't have food, I don't have a drink, I'm fed up, I don't mind going to jail, getting life in prison. Someone is going to die today. I'm going to die. One woman who was on the train, one witness

Starting point is 00:06:59 thanked Daniel Penny for saving her life. Another passenger described this rant as a satanic, And many passengers said that Daniel Neely, or Daniel Penny, rather, actually kept them safe that day when he put Neely in a chokehold and restrained him. Eventually, Neely ended up dying in police custody. He was actually alive when the police found him, but the police say that they didn't want to resuscitate him. They didn't want to give him mouth to mouth because he was dirty and they were afraid that he was going to give them some kind of disease. That is very sad, but that is not Daniel Penny's fault. So the fact that he was alive when the police found him, that is very significant. Here is Daniel Penny explaining what happened, SOT 6.

Starting point is 00:07:58 I was scared for myself, but I looked around. I saw women and children. He was yelling in their faces saying saying these threats I couldn't just sit still I knew I had to act and I acted in a way that would protect the other passengers protect myself and protect Mr. Neely I use this hole to restrain him and I did this by leaving my hand on top of his head to control his body you could see in the video there's a clear rise and fall of his chest indicating that he was still breathing and I'm calibrating my grip based on on the force that he's exerting and I just I mean I was trying to keep them on the ground as until the police came I was praying that the police would come and take this situation

Starting point is 00:08:41 under take this situation over I didn't want to be put in that situation but I couldn't just sit still and let let him carry out these threats you know I say good for him and we'll put up the picture that went viral after this he is a former Marine and he showed courage that most people in the situation simply wouldn't have shown. And the process that he's had to go through for a year and a half now shows exactly why most people in this situation wouldn't have done anything. We've all seen videos go viral on acts where a young woman is being either sexually assaulted, is being sexually harassed, and the men around them do absolutely nothing. Either because they're cowards,

Starting point is 00:09:28 they don't want to be inconvenienced, or because they know something like this is. is going to happen to them, especially if you have a black suspect. That's just the case. When you've got a white person and a black person and the white person even just appears like the aggressor, you know that you are going to lose in the media. You know that you're going to lose in the court of public opinion. You know that the activist, especially in a liberal area, are going to be against you. you know that there is going to be a progressive DA that tries to ruin your life, a progressive

Starting point is 00:10:07 prosecutor that is going to be out to get you. There's more than likely going to be a progressive judge that is going to rule against you. And that was the fear in this case. And that's how it looked up until today when the verdict came out, that there was just too much against Daniel Penny simply because of the color of his skin. So the jury was made up of five men, seven women. They acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide, which could have put him behind bars for up to four years in Neely's death. The manslaughter charge, which was the top charge against Penny,

Starting point is 00:10:49 was actually tossed on Friday. We'll talk a little bit more about the significance of that and how that was scary when we were looking at what the verdict of this case would be. But jurors ultimately cited with Penny's defense attorneys. They argue that the Marine veteran was justified in rushing to protect his fellow subway passengers when he subdued the erratic homeless man. Jurors heard from more than 40 witnesses, including passengers who described nearly's terrifying outburst on the train before Penny approached him from behind and took him down. Prosecutors argued that, okay, even if Penny did need to restrain him,

Starting point is 00:11:28 the moment. Even if he was justified for that, he ended up going too far by restraining him for far too long. But obviously, that was not convincing to the jury. Again, this was very surprising when you look at who the judge was. The judge, his name was Maxwell Riley, uh, Wiley rather. And he has a history of progressivism. Throughout the trial, he allowed the prosecution to refer to Penny as the white man in front of the jury and the prosecution, of course, knows exactly what they're doing. Anyone who is a little bit social justice minded, who is even a little bit progressive, which of course in the city of Manhattan, probably everyone on the jury was, that that is going to indicate to them that Daniel Penny is the aggressor and is the oppressor and is guilty

Starting point is 00:12:25 simply because of the color of his. I mean, talk about institutional. and systemic racism. By the way, that is literally the institution, the system being blatantly racist and discriminatory against someone simply because of the amount of melanin that they have in their skin. That is partiality. That is the definition of injustice. Anyone who has Micah 6-8 in their bio should be absolutely reeling about that. If we really care about impartial justice, if we really care about due process if we really want our justice system to operate in integrity and honor, we should absolutely be disgusted, should be aghast that that kind of language, that kind of demonization of a person because of the color of their skin is allowed in a court of law.

Starting point is 00:13:16 Judge Wiley was also accused of handing the prosecution an outrageous gift, this is according to the New York Post, by granting their request to drop the count. of manslaughter in the second degree on which jurors were deadlocked. They couldn't agree on that. And then telling them to only consider the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide. The second charge was only to be considered if the jury acquitted penny on the first charge. Under clear New York law, DAs must choose the charges before trial. They don't get to change their mind once they learn what the jury will buy. And so that's why that was also an injustice. A judge shouldn't be able to say, oh, you can't decide on that. Just go to the next one. Because if they can't

Starting point is 00:14:01 decide on the first charge, then that could potentially be good or could have been good for Daniel Penny, but you don't get to say, okay, let's just make sure we get them. And if the next charge is more convincing to you, then just go to that one. As long as you get him, that's what he seemed to be saying by allowing the jury to just throw out that charge and then go to the next one. Also, if you you look at the prosecutor, she is also a progressive. Daphne Urian, the investigation and prosecution were handled by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. That's led by Alvin Bragg. He appointed an assistant Manhattan DA, Daphne Yoran, as the lead prosecutor. You remember Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg. He is the guy that downgraded 60% of all felony cases to lesser charges last year.

Starting point is 00:14:53 he reduced 938 of the most serious charges in 223, 834, of which were brought down to misdemeanors since being sworn in on January 1st, 2022. Bragg has also declined to prosecute 14% of all arrests. So he is very soft-on-crime. He is largely responsible for the uptick and violent crime in Manhattan. That's what soft-on-crimes policies, self-down crime policies do. This prosecutor, Daphne Yorin, in 2019, she asked for reduced punishment

Starting point is 00:15:31 for Matthew Lee, a 57-year-old who snuck up on a former professor, Dr. Kun Kim, who was 87 years old, killed him over $300 with a fatal blow to the head. So this vicious murderer, she had compassion for him. So Lee was charged with a child. with manslaughter instead of felony murder after he agreed to meet with the victim's family and both parties consented to the outcome. This reduced his potential sentence from 25 years to 10 years. And this all happened because she said this, when I got the time, I took the time to learn about the defendant. So this vicious murder, I really felt incredibly sorry for him that he had gotten to the point in his life where he felt that there was no choice but to commit this robbery. So that is,

Starting point is 00:16:22 social justice. You look at someone, you consider their past, you consider their skin color. So lady justice is no longer blind, but you're considering all of these factors that according to your own bias should reduce the punishment for a crime rather than just looking at the facts of the case and acting impartially. That is not actual justice because actual justice must be impartial, it must be blind, it must be direct, it must be proportionate, it must be truthful. It can't weigh all of these different aspects of someone's past or someone's life and suggest a verdict or suggest a sentencing based on those things. Again, that is not actual justice, but that is who she is. She is an activist at heart. She doesn't actually care about

Starting point is 00:17:15 the truth of the matter. She cares about intersectionality. And so, That's, of course, why we were worried going into this case. She maintained a confrontational attitude towards Penny during his trial with witnesses. She has brought to the same referring to him, again, as the white man and as the murderer, which, of course, the judge Maxwell Wiley allowed. I'm rocking my Carly Jean Los Angeles sweatshirt, my new one. I love all of my stuff from CJLA so much. Unless I'm wearing my merch, you will almost always find me wearing CJLA, their jeans, their tops, their jackets, their sweaters.

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Starting point is 00:18:40 Go to Carly Jean Los Angeles.com, Allie B-30. As is typical for social justice activists, there has been an attempt at mob justice. This is the same thing that happened to Derek Chauvin. rather than just looking at the facts of the case what really happened. Like, for example, that George Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his body and that it actually looks like Derek Chauvin's knee was on his back, on his shoulder blade, and not on his neck. Activists want mob justice.

Starting point is 00:19:13 They want the person to be punished because, again, of the color of their skin, because of the station in life, because of how things look, because certain verdicts are politically expedient. The same kind of thing was happening here. That is, of course, what BLM does. BLM doesn't care about justice at all. They just care about their desired outcome. They care about retribution.

Starting point is 00:19:36 In the immediate aftermath of Neely's death, liberal outlets released think pieces, proclaiming that he was killed for the crime of being hungry and unhoused. BLM activists called Neely's killing an example of white supremacy. there were subway signs that said a man was lynched here. So lynched, that is so disrespectful, insanely disrespectful to people throughout history who were actually lynched because of the color of their skin. There is no indication.

Starting point is 00:20:04 There is no proof that Daniel Penny targeted this person because of the color of his skin. It didn't have anything to do with that. By the way, there's no evidence that Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd because of the color of his skin. And everyone just jumped on this. idea that George Floyd was killed because he was black. There is no proof of that whatsoever. There's no indication of that. There's no justification for George Floyd or Jordanie to be hailed as some kind of hero. I'm not saying that Derek Chauvin was a hero either, but the way that the

Starting point is 00:20:38 world reacted to that incident was completely disconnected from reality. The way that it was used to then push policy, which has actually been extremely harmful to black communities like defunding the police, which is allowed a boom and violent crime, which disproportionately affects black Americans. I mean, it is a huge blight on American history. And the fact that any evangelical went along with that nonsense and couldn't think for one second, hang on. Is this true, first of all? And is this a real biblical call for? justice or is this a call for something else, for something actually nefarious? We had a lot of people who just suspended biblical wisdom, suspended judgment during that time, but it does seem like

Starting point is 00:21:30 things have shifted a lot because I think if what happened to Jordan Neely happened for years ago, we would have seen a different verdict, which is actually very sad because verdicts should not depend upon the cultural moment. It should not depend upon social media outrage. It shouldn't depend upon protests or how loud one side is. It should only depend upon the facts of a case. And yet, there was chanting outside of the courtroom. There were BLM activists who were calling him a murderer, calling him a subway strangler. And of course, it's Manhattan.

Starting point is 00:22:08 A fear that a lot of us had was that these protests were going to affect the jurors. The jurors were going to be intimidated. They were going to be too scared to say that he was not guilty, and they were going to act upon that fear of intimidation rather than the facts at hand. After the judge dropped the manslaughter charges against Penny, so that was last week. One of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter Greater New York spoke outside of the courthouse saying that Daniel Penny's trial is no different than Jim Crow and that they will not find a white man guilty of killing a black man in modern day America. That is literally insane. That is insane. Again,

Starting point is 00:22:53 no connection to reality whatsoever. I mean, as we have already articulated, Daniel Penny was the underdog in this case. The fact that the prosecution and their witnesses were allowed to refer to him as a murderer and as a white man, you would have never been able to get away with that. if it were the other direction, if it were referring to someone as the black man in order to put this idea in the jury's minds that because someone has a darker color of skin, they're automatically guilty. Here's dot seven. America has not changed and I hate to say it, it may never change. And people who keep asking, are we going to riot? Are we going to protest? Is that what's needed? Do glass have to break? Do cars have to burn? for a black man to get justice in America, we can't show out with peace. We can't show up with facts. We can't show up with evidence and witness after witness.

Starting point is 00:23:51 You give us nothing. And then you ask us to love this country. America hates black people. And we see it from that jury pool. That is, that is again literally so stupid. That has no foundation in reality whatsoever. Okay, there is absolutely no. evidence that there is systemic favoritism towards white people when it comes to the criminal justice

Starting point is 00:24:21 system today. I'm not saying that has never been the case, but there is no indication that that is the case today. And in fact, we have a lot of evidence that shows the opposite. Like, you're really telling me that this progressive judge, this progressive DA, this progressive prosecutor, what was very likely a progressive jury that they all hate black people. And that is why we got the verdict that we did. You know that that's not the case. The fact of the matter is the evidence must have been so overwhelming that the jury overcame their own biases, overcame their own personal fears, their fear of retribution, their ideas about politics, their thoughts about systemic racism or oppression of white people or of black people at the hands of white people to come to an objectively

Starting point is 00:25:24 right conclusion. That is justice. justice is not, it's not defined by outcomes per se. It is defined by the process. And BLM, and all social justice activists only look at the outcome. And if the outcome is what they want, they say that is justice, no matter how they got there. So if it's by mob justice, if it's by some kind of malicious retribution, as long as the black person ends up on top, they call that justice. But that's not real justice. After Penny was acquitted, that same BLM activist had this to say sought eight.

Starting point is 00:26:12 And in my Bible, thou shalt not kill. In the Torah, thou shalt not kill. My heart bleeds for the Neely family. My heart bleeds for his father who sat in front of me every single day and prayed for justice for his son. These wonderful white people, I hope they celebrate their Christmas while the Neely family is praying and asking God for comfort. Them and God them America. My goodness. Okay, well, here is another BLM activist calling for black vigilantes to fight against oppression. Dot 9. We need some black vigilantes. That's right. people want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud how about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us i'm tired that is again just absolutely ridiculous and it is so hard to respond

Starting point is 00:27:15 to look jordan neely was born in the image of god i mean he was made in the image of god of course his life mattered and the outcome of his life is really sad. But how he got there is also really sad. That is not Daniel Penny's fault. I think that we all know like white or black, that we would rather be in a train car with Daniel Penny than Jordan Neely. And we all hope that if we are in a situation where we feel threatened and there is an erratic person, who is threatening our lives or the lives of our children, that someone like Daniel Penny with that kind of courage and that kind of boldness is in the same space with us.

Starting point is 00:28:04 And you're joking yourself if you say otherwise. We all know if we are in that situation, we want to see that kind of heroism. But here these activists are not only saying that this is wrong, that it was wrong that he defended his fellow subway passengers, but that there should actually be some kind of violent retribution for that. Again, there is just no evidence that the oppression of black people in the United States is because of white supremacy or because of white people at all. Like, we can talk about the problems that are facing the black communities,

Starting point is 00:28:48 why so many disparities exist, the first place you should look is not white people, is not white supremacy, is not even in modern America today the criminal justice system. Like if we look at specifically Jordan Neely's life, if we look at his dad and what he is trying to do to make bank off of his child's death, I think we get a pretty good idea of why Jordan ended up the way he was, which is very sad. I've been talking to y'all about WeHeart Nutrition for a while now. I started taking their women's supplements at the beginning of this year and a year later. I got to tell you, I feel really good.

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Starting point is 00:30:56 But his father, Dornili's father, is accusing him of negligence, assault, and battery. So he's trying to get money out of Daniel Penny. That's what he's doing. Now, why is this so egregious? Is this just a sad father who is seeking some kind of justice, some kind of recompense for his precious son, as the BLM activist indicated, no, of course not. This is a derelict father who wanted nothing to do with his son for his entire life, who abandoned him and is now seeking to make money off of his death. According to the guardian, Neely's mother was killed by his stepfather in 2007 when he was 14. He bounced between homes before ending up in the foster care system. According to some relatives, Neely had autism and schizophrenia and later developed severe depression and PTSD.

Starting point is 00:31:53 He was reportedly abandoned by his father as a young age. Again, was raised by his mother and stepfather, but that ended in tragedy too. At any point in life, it seems to me, the father could have stepped in and could have been present in his son's life. Who knows what the outcome of his life could have. been if he had had a father who before now had stepped up and taking care of him. But now only when it is financially expedient for him, only when he can capitalize upon his son's tragic death, is he saying, oh, hey, guys, I'm present, I'm here. So if we want to look at why Jordan very sadly ended up where he did, we can look at his family. We can look at his dad. It is a cop out to say this

Starting point is 00:32:44 test to do with some kind of intangible, uh, specter of white supremacy out there that somehow killed him. That's simply not the case. It's not what happened. Here is his father saying this was rigged satin. What are we going to do, people? What's going to happen to us now? I had enough for this. System is rigged. Mm-hmm. Come on, people. Let's do something about this. I mean, these kinds of lies, this view of the world and of justice, this refusal to take responsibility, to see things as they are, to only see things through the lens of white skin or black skin, it is such a cancer to any community, to any community, to, any group of people. And these race hustlers who want to make a buck off of the death of an image bearer of God, you cannot convince me that they care about this young man, that they actually

Starting point is 00:34:03 care about the loss of black life. I'm sorry. I mean, maybe somewhere deep down they do, but I think that BLM itself has revealed that it's really just a grifting organization that wants to make money when a black person died, that they dies, that they really just want political power. I don't really think that they hear about helping people. I mean, these are these are the same people, the same progressives that will celebrate an abortion, will ignore black on black crime, but only pipe up about injustice when a white person harms a black person, whether it is justified or not. You're not going to convince me that. You're not going to convince me that those people really believe in justice.

Starting point is 00:34:51 And one thing that I meant to say was that BLM activist who said, my Bible says, do not kill. That's not what the Bible says. The Bible says, thou shall not murder. And not all killing is murder. Self-defense is not murder. War is not considered murder, at least according to the God of the Bible who invented justice. Of course, there are, of course, war crimes that are not justified.

Starting point is 00:35:19 But there are certain kinds of killing that are not murdered. The death penalty is not murder, according to the God who commanded the death penalty for murder and who created justice and who is the source of truth and who is in himself love. And so it is simply not true to say that all forms of killing should demand the same kind of outcome and the same kind of verdict and the same kind of sentencing. I do think this was the correct verdict, and I think courage should be rewarded. I think masculinity should be rewarded. This is a unique kind of boldness that seems like a relic of the past. We want men, black or white, no matter what their background is, to have an instinct to stand up for the most vulnerable

Starting point is 00:36:05 and to take action when danger presents itself. We don't want people who are eager to kill someone. of course, we want people who believe and honor the dignity of image bears. I don't want Jordan Neely to have died. I want him to still be alive. But he had a long criminal record of assaulting the dignity of human beings. He broke the face of an elderly woman by assaulting her. And a man finally staffed up and protected other people from becoming Jordanian. Neely's victims. And so this verdict was correct. And I just want to finish this segment by

Starting point is 00:36:48 reading you the difference. This is from my book, Toxic Empathy in Social Justice and Justice. We have a whole chapter on this, which is certainly the most controversial chapter in my book, I think. It's all controversial. Social justice is not justice. That's not only because it harms those. It pretends to help. And it's not only because it's supported by philosophical and statistical errors. It's not justice because it is evil. It is the opposite of what God calls justice. Proverbs 2010 tells us unequal weights and unequal measures are both alike and abomination to the Lord. In God's law giving to ancient Israel, he prohibits favoritism even to the poor. You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness

Starting point is 00:37:33 shall you judge your neighbor. Showing partiality is a perversion of justice that God disdains. shows no partiality and we are to follow his example. And I include all the biblical references there. Just as mistreating someone because they're black is wicked, so is mistreating someone because they're white or because they're deemed privileged. God doesn't see one form of mistreatment as less abominable than the other. And then we go on to define what true justice actually is, which is proportionate, which is truthful, which is direct, which is impartial. And social justice, of course, is none of those, is none of those things. Social justice is typically defined as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth. But of course, it is morphed into something much

Starting point is 00:38:28 more far-reaching that basically always says that the white straight, quote-unquote, cis male is on the side of oppression and that everyone, else is at least somewhat a victim. When you see every case and every crime through that lens, that makes it impossible to discern what is actually true, what is actually right, and what is actually good. All right, we might have more on that in the coming days, but we are praising God for justice. We pray for the protection of Daniel Penny in this case. And we also pray against any acts of vigilanteism or retribution, it should be good news to black or white people that our justice system, even in progressive Manhattan, does work. This is the fruit of due process. While our justice

Starting point is 00:39:17 system is very imperfect, it is the greatest ever constructed in the history of the world. And it is based on the biblical principles that we read in God's law giving to Israel. Lady justice should, must remain blind. That is a benefit to All of us, again, no matter what our background is, no matter what our color is. So no matter who you are, we should be praising God for that. Okay, it is time for you to switch to EveryLife diapers. You might not know this, but the diapers that you're using are probably donating to pro-abortion causes, which is really like sickly ironic. You would think that every diaper company would be pro-life. Unfortunately, that's not true. Everylife is the only diaper company I know that is a

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Starting point is 00:42:32 So we're going to end with some more lighthearted stuff and some encouraging stuff. well, it's like, it's kind of sad a little bit, but it's also encouraging. And that is the courage of an athlete, a soccer player, or as our friend across the pond would say, a football player wearing a Jesus loves you, armband, despite the warning that he was given to not wear something like this. And so last week, Crystal Palace, it's a professional soccer club based in South London that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English soccer, defender Mark Gaii. I think that's how you pronounce his last name. He wrote, I love you, Jesus, on the arm band.

Starting point is 00:43:17 And in a second game, Jesus loves you. This is his league-issued rainbow-colored captain's arm band. He was given a warning that writing that on his rainbow-colored arm band went against the England's Football Association's rules for, religious slogan. So more details on this. During 13th and the 14th match weeks of the Premier League season, the league partners with Scottish LGBT charity Stonewall for Rainbow Laces, a campaign to promote LGBT acceptance in soccer. So that's all fine, which that is a sort of religion. It's certainly an ideology that not everyone subscribes to. And so they're forced

Starting point is 00:44:01 to promote that, but you can't say something as simple as Jesus loves you without violating their rules, huh? The league provides all 20 Premier League clubs with rainbow corner flags and other equipment. Most notably club captains during these games are given the option to wear a rainbow colored arm band, which they're technically free to decline, that they are encouraged not to decline. It's unclear how much pressure is put on them to comply. And so this player could have just said, no, I'm not going to, which could have made a statement, but he decided during the team's November 30th match against Newcastle United, Gayee chose to wear the rainbow armband but wrote, I love Jesus on in Marker. And the team's following game on December 3rd, he wrote again, Jesus

Starting point is 00:44:52 loves you. And so, of course, the Football Association was very upset by this. After the second time, Gaye wrote the phrase on December 3rd, the league issued a formal warning and yet another reminder of the rules. So the league is saying right now they're not going to take formal action. They might because he's a devout Christian. So the fact that he put this over the rainbow armband, they're saying that that could be seen as hateful. During the second game, midfielder Sam Morsi,

Starting point is 00:45:25 who was a practicing Muslim, was the only player who refused to wear the rainbow armband. He instead wore the usual black version. ESPN says the Football Association considered Morrissey's decision to be a matter for the club than the individual and does not contravene any uniform regulation. So it'll be very interesting to see if they are even handed in how they treat the players and the reasons for the players not using the rainbow armbands. Gaye responded to this controversy. He said, I think the message was pretty clear, to be honest. It was a message of love and truth as well and a message of inclusivity. I think it speaks for itself. I believe 100% in the words that I wrote, even what I've just said

Starting point is 00:46:09 right now, it's a message of truth and love. And I hope people can understand that my faith is my faith, and I'll stand by it for the rest of my life. So good for him. His father also had something to say. His father spoke to the Daily Mail. If you look at the LGBT community, if you look at what they're doing, they're trying to impose on others what they believe in. It's belief against belief, but at the end of the day, everyone has the right to an opinion. He didn't refuse to wear that armband like Morsey did. People should pay more attention to the person who refused to wear it. Mark said yes and did the right thing. He accepted to wear the armband. He was just trying to balance the message. He was saying, you gave me the arm band as a Christian. I don't believe in your cause,

Starting point is 00:46:49 but I will put it on. But Morsey didn't put it on. Honestly, I think it's fine not to put it on too. I don't think it was necessarily the more right thing to put it on and say Jesus loves you. I think it would have been fine not to wear it. The football is. are happy for the crowd to seeing God save the king when England plays, which mentions God and religion, and they're happy to have the religious him abide with me during the final. Yet, they have to go at my son for expressing his beliefs. Where's the sense in that? What has he done wrong? I think that good for him. I think that he showed courage in that. And obviously, it got people talking about that message. And the word of God does not return void.

Starting point is 00:47:32 John 316 is true that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him will not perish but will have everlasting life. And that message was conveyed. People are talking about it. And so I believe that God can use this for his glory. Yes and amen. So good for this soccer player for deciding to speak up in this way. Last sponsor for the day is Jace Madical.

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Starting point is 00:48:47 prescriptions that you and your family rely on. So go to Jace.com. Use code Alley. You'll get a discount on your order when you do. That is jace.com code Alley. And then we've got another, we've got a coach this time, another person in the athletic realm, this time from Boise State. on this side of the pond, speaking up for the truth of the gospel after a game. Here's stop four. Thank you, Jesus. And I mean, Jesus deserves all the glory. I mean, we serve a champion. He died on the cross, but he rose again three days later. That's the God I serve, man. Everything's possible. And our players, they don't run from hard work. They just keep swinging, keep swinging, keep swinging. That's uncommon. They deserve the credit. Jesus deserves the credit. We've got the best staff in the nation.

Starting point is 00:49:41 and we got the best fan base of the nation too. Bronco Nation undefeet. I love that. That was so clear and so pointed. He didn't have to do that. He could have, if he wanted to, just said something vague about God, but he decided to share what the Christian faith hinges on. And that is the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

Starting point is 00:49:59 That's what validates Christianity. If we don't have the resurrection, we don't have faith in anything. And he went up there and he articulated that. And I'm just so grateful for that. He's also making an impact on his team. I didn't know this. I'm sure a lot of you did, especially those of you who are fans of Boise State. But he actually baptized running back in Heisman Trophy candidate Ashton, Gene Tee, back in August.

Starting point is 00:50:23 Here's up five. Good morning. Come on, come on. I'm about to go get baptized today. So, Lord, I thank you for the obedient hearts that are sitting in this room. And I thank you, Lord, that this is going to be a point of separation from the old... That's intended upon your confession of faith in Jesus. Christ is your Lord and Savior, we now baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Starting point is 00:50:52 In two, the name of the Lord of Jesus and made you arise from the newness of life. I love that. There's a lot of, there are a lot of reasons today to be praising God. Yes, there's some sadness and some craziness going on in the world, absolutely. and we'll be talking about some of that leader this week. But honestly, today, there are things to celebrate. We get to celebrate a good verdict. We get to celebrate the courage of athletes, which I think is just like a microcosm of what seems to be happening

Starting point is 00:51:26 at the college level throughout the country. I think that we are seeing among the younger generation a sort of awakening, a sort of revival, and every bit of courage counts. bit of sharing the gospel of speaking the truth and love counts. And again, we just see over and over again God's great mercy. It seems like our culture has gone to hell in a handbasket, but I see so many reminders that God's eternal plan of redemption is still going off without a hitch. I still see reminders that the beauty of Western civilization in many cases is still holding.

Starting point is 00:52:01 And that happens because of the efforts and the courage of Christians to raise a respectful ruckus about the things that matter. So never think that what you are contributing to the kingdom or to this country, that they don't matter. God works all things together for the good of those who love him. And that's not to conflate our politics or our political movements with the gospel or with our Christian faith. Those things do go hand in hand because they have to. I'm not saying those things are the same. I'm simply saying that whatever we do for good causes that are bigger than ourselves do contribute to the preservation of a country that we love and that we want to survive and thrive for our children and our grandchildren. And our faith absolutely plays a role

Starting point is 00:53:00 in that. All right, that's all we got time for today. We will be back here tomorrow.

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