Wake Up, Look Up

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hello everyone thanks for listening to

wake up lookup a podcast where we

connect events happening in real time to

the Gospel of Jesus Christ I'm Zach

wrock and in today's episode we're

asking the question can evil ideas be

defeated uh now before I start let me

say I want to focus on one particular

idea that was prompted by an article I

read in the Atlantic this week but more

generally I want to use that idea as a

broader theme because I think throughout

the rest of our lives there are going to

be evil ideas that pop up in culture and

at different times it's going to feel

like those ideas are winning but I want

to show you that if this one is being

defeated then others of similar ilk can

be defeated as well uh you would have

had to be hiding under a rock over the

last year and a half to know that one of

the most evil ideas manifesting in our

culture is that gender is not a real

thing that a person has to decide for

themselves whether they're male or

female independent of their created

state or of their anatomical reality uh

We've covered this issue at nauseum here

on wakeup lookup and showed how

ridiculous it is that this seems to be

confusing for people and how damaging it

is it has been to so many people to to

buy into this delusion but that's why

it's interesting that in the Atlantic

this week they were showing how exit

polling information coming out of P this

past week's presidential election shows

that Americans by and large are

beginning to reject this idea at least

in one specific expression and that is

the inclusion of biological males in

female sports you know this has been one

of the Battlegrounds of this topic as

what is called trans women a man who was

born biologically male but has decided

he is female is beginning to compete in

sports against women which is not just

unfair but actually oftentimes

physically damaging to women who are

just not big and strong enough to

compete physically against people that

were born biologically male and what the

exit polling is showing is that

Americans by and large said this is a

key issue for them and overwhelmingly

said we do not want Men playing in

sports against women and I say that this

is significant because a year ago maybe

even six months ago it felt like we were

trending in a completely different

direction as a country the current

president presidential ad Administration

was pushing back against Colleges and

Schools that sought to regulate the

participation of biological males in

female sports don't forget that our most

recent Supreme Court Justice uh during

her nomination process was asked what

does it mean to be a woman and she said

she couldn't answer the question CU

she's not a biologist that's where we

were not that long ago but now people

are saying enough this is crazy I don't

want my daughters competing against boys

I don't want my daughters competing

against men and what do that teach us

well it teaches us that bad ideas wrong

ideas evil ideas do pop up and sometimes

rise to popularity but they can and

often will be defeated the Bible is full

of instances about this as well times

where leaders are advancing one evil

plot or scheme or idea or another and

God's people consistently through

argumentation and through the

faithfulness of God are able to defeat

those ideas this is why a feeling of

inevitability is never something God's

people should embrace we should push

back against bad ideas we should speak

truth in the face of Lies We should

lovingly winsomely but

unapologetically say this is right and

this is wrong this is true and this is

false because people's minds can change

culture Society is often shaped by the

people who showed up to have the debate

in only a year the country is Shifting

dramatically

on this issue what other issues are

there where through a similar pattern of

argument and conversation and pushing

back we can move our culture towards

human flourishing and away from neighbor

harm listen we have to acknowledge that

from time to time we're tempted to give

up we're tempted to think that our

culture is broken and the Brokenness

cannot be stemmed we're tempted to just

say hey we're just waiting for Jesus to

come back but the promise of Jesus isn't

just one day that everything will be

fixed the promise is behold I am making

all things new I've started and I won't

stop until it's done and with that

promise as our backdrop what we're

seeing is that if we show up and join in

good actually can overcome evil truth

can overcome fiction reality can win out

in the end can evil ideas is be defeated

yes if we show up and start to try hey

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