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 Wyck

in today's episode we're asking the

question why are we cheering for

murderers this is prompted you might

suspect by the story about the United

Healthcare CEO o who was brutally

murdered in New York City uh just a few

days ago uh what's interesting about

that story is not just the murder

although that in and of itself was so

Brazen and so awful that it got a ton of

attention what is most interesting to me

is the response to the murder that's

because if I did a podcast telling you

not to kill people most of you would

find that largely irrelevant to your

life you aren't going to go out and kill

the CEO of a company with whom you

disagree what the average person was

doing though after the fact was

celebrating the fact that a CEO had been

murdered that he belonged to an

insurance company of which people have

had negative experiences and I'm not

making that up or exaggerating there was

a ton of attention online about this

murder and how it must have been for

righteous reasons one example of this is

that that when United Healthcare itself

put out a statement on Facebook uh

mourning the loss of their CEO a man a

real human being with a family uh 75,000

people responded with the laughing emoji

I want you to let that sit in their

response to a statement about a man that

was murdered was laughing because the

thinking goes hey the Health Care system

in America is broken insurance companies

profit off of of that they make their

money by not paying for the services

people need therefore people are getting

sick and not getting healthy and maybe

even dying so it's okay I guess to

murder their chief executive officer

listen we have to realize that this is

yet another symptom of how sick we are

becoming as a culture because I don't

care what you think about the Health

Care system in the United States or

about insurance companies or about

United Healthcare in particular that man

Brian Thompson was made in the image of

God full stop God made him he belonged

to God no one gets to take his life and

most of all no one should celebrate the

loss of life this man is an image Bearer

and what's sad is that the celebration

wasn't just outside the church it was

inside the church as well the church

which at least politically has been

known for a long time now to stand for

life so I guess the view of some

Christians is that we're pro-life when

you're in the womb but if that baby

grows up to be an insurance CEO then hey

you can murder him who cares no that's

not what the Bible teaches When God says

you should not kill he doesn't Nuance it

with a person's job or career or chosen

industry he just says full stop you

don't get to kill judgment belongs to

God not to us if you celebrated this

man's murder you need to repent you need

to acknowledge to God the sin sickness

of your own heart and confess to him

that you found joy in the murder of

someone who was born in His image listen

if you say but Zach the healthc care

system is messed up and insurance

companies do take advantage listen I'm

here for that conversation but the

response to that is to run for office or

to make it a key issue on which you vote

to start to hold people responsible to

make the best financial decisions for

your family there are a lot of ways that

we as Americans living in a republic can

pursue change to the Health Care System

listen I'm not an expert on that so this

podcast episode isn't about any of those

things it's about this that's a healthy

and righteous way to pursue change if

you think the system is broken but

cheering the murder of another human

being is heinous it is against the

spirit of the gospel and it could

couldn't be more outside the character

of Jesus Christ instead the righteous

response of Christians should be to hope

that the guy who did the crime has in

fact been caught that he's brought to

Justice and that God brings his

incredible Mercy to the family of this

man who has been murdered I don't know

how his wife and children if he has them

would respond to a gospel message being

preached by a church that celebrated

their day dad or a husband's murder no

wait I do know how they'd respond and

that alone should break our hearts hey

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