 So, man, listen, for the 25 years that I have known you, right, everybody that knows that you played a role in my life in the church, the number one question, they were like, yo, is Will a man of faith? Does he love the Lord? I'm like, yes. Okay. So, but I want to tell, I want you to hear from the horse's mouth, are you a man of faith? You can't, you love the Lord. You can't get where I get if you don't love the Lord. Exactly. You don't get to sit how I sit and move, how I move if you don't love the Lord. Exactly. You know, you'd be seeing a whole lot of other repercussions. Oh, wow. Wow. Will Smith just smacked the s*** out of me. Will Smith absolutely slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars, but that's just the tip of the iceberg on this story. First some background, then I'll share what nobody else is talking about regarding this situation with Will Smith and Chris Rock. Stay tuned till the end of the video where I'll share my big take. So, Will Smith was set to possibly win his first Best Actor Award at the Oscars and finally make that big leap from just being, you know, an international movie star to actually winning an award which he hadn't done. There was lots of intense anticipation leading up to this moment and they asked Denzel Washington what he thought about. No, I haven't seen him yet. Tonight. No. Are you there for him? Because I know he may need you tonight. He may need you, especially if you want. He should be. I mean, you know, it's a lot of emotions. This is a long time. Well, I think a long time coming for him and it's a lot of emotion. It's probably all welling up in him right now. But as you know by now, during Chris Rock's monologue, he made mention of Jada, who is Will's wife, her hair. And what, you know, he either did or didn't know was that she suffers from alopecia, which means that your hair either falls out all completely or portions of it do. And she decided to cut it. He made a joke about that and what transpired shocked the world. Jada, I love you. G.I. Jane, too. Can't wait to see it. All right. That was a nice one. Okay. I'm out here. Uh-oh, Richard. Oh, wow. Wow. Will Smith just smack this out of me? Wow, dude. It was a G.I. Jane joke. I'm going to. Okay. So you've probably asked yourself this by now and I have, too. Is this fake? It seems fake. But after watching a lot of videos and a lot of people that were actually there at the Oscars, I'm convinced that it was real and especially him dropping numerous F-bombs on national TV. It convinces me that this was real, which is that much more insane. Okay. Two takes on this whole situation. Will Smith was wrong to slap Chris Rock for making a joke. That was just wrong. He definitely could have handled that in a much more mature way. So that was not right in my opinion. But also Chris Rock was wrong to make the joke if he did know that Jada was struggling with alopecia because I just think that's mean-spirited and just wrong, honestly. If he didn't know, then I just think it was a harmless joke about her hair that unfortunately had something going on beneath the surface information that he wasn't aware of. So that's just more of an unfortunate situation. Okay. But let's get into the interesting stuff here. Okay. So if we take a deeper look into this whole dynamic, and this is so interesting to me and so weird, because you take a look and it's actually been known for years by now that Jada and Will are in an open relationship. And if you're a sheltered homeschooler like me, then you're like, well, what is that? And it basically means that nobody is required to be monogamous, which is like, wait, why are you married then? Like, what's the point? But apparently, I guess it's what they're doing. And it's very confusing too, because at the beginning, you heard that Will kind of said that he believed in God, or he had faith in God. But honestly, if you're looking at his life and if you're looking at these key decisions around his marriage, you come to realize that the faith that he's putting in a God, that God is not the God of the Bible. It's a God of his own creation, his own imagination that is okay with his sin. She had to make herself happy. And I had to make myself happy. And then we were going to present ourselves back to the relationship already happy versus demanding that the other person fill our empty cup. Like you think about it, for any Christian, they know the verse where it's like, Man shall leave his father and his mother and they shall become one flesh, one flesh, not multiple fleshes. That's just weird. But this gives insight to the twisted morality of our world. When you reject the morality of the Bible, you're left with your own subjective standards. It's interesting to me that with the normalization of these open relationships, a lot of these couples are actually verbalizing some of the arguments of people that are in polyamorous relationships as well. This video from Jubilee highlights it well. And I love my husband. I've been with him for 18 years coming up. And I have some friends with benefits, but I am looking for someone else to be like in a relationship with that fulfills some needs that I'm not getting from my current partner. Okay, guys, now I'm going to pull it all together. What are we supposed to learn and take away from this whole situation? You and I are Will Smith. No, you're not a famous movie star. And no, I didn't star in men in black. But here's why I say that we can get real upset when God is criticized or mocked in the public sphere, and we can perform some grand gesture to demonstrate that we truly love him in the public setting. But behind the scenes, are we faithful to him? Or are we going to other people, other things to fulfill our needs? It's one thing to say we love God publicly, but will we be faithful to him privately? You want to feel loved, you want to feel needed, you want to feel pleasure, you want to feel happiness. So you fill your life with so many things and idols and hopes that they will fulfill your needs. Pornography, consumerism, man-centered religion, we've convinced ourselves that these things can coexist alongside of our relationship with God, but they can't. This analogy does break down because most likely Jada Smith has also been unfaithful to Will Smith as well. But here's the thing, God has never been unfaithful to us. He demonstrated this in the Old Testament as the Israelites turned to other gods. He stayed true to his covenant with them, even though they continued to reject him. We have played the prostitute, we have left our first love in hopes that our needs may be met in another. Because of that, we are continually left and our brokenness and sin incapable of mending that which is so twisted within us. But God in his mercy sent Jesus to become that ultimate sacrifice to pay for our betrayal against him. But while we were yet sinners, while we were in the arms of another, Christ died for us. His love wasn't all show. He didn't make a big deal and spectacle just to show the world, oh look how much I love them and he didn't back it up. No, he did back it up because he has been faithful to his promises to us from day one. Today I encourage you to don't use this as another opportunity to condemn somebody else in their sin, but rather turn it inward. Identify the times in your own life that you have strayed from your first love and repent. Turn to Christ in faith because he is so merciful and gracious to receive us back even though we continue to stray. His love is that good. This video is brought to you by my friends on Patreon. 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