Evangelical & Honesty

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. Proverbs 18:17

A pregnant woman (Ta’Kiya Young) was recently caught shoplifting liquor at a local Kroger (see attached video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cnc869mmf/?mibextid=wwXIfr ) where she lived. Police were called to the scene, and upon arrival, she refused to get out of the car and chose to use her vehicle as a weapon.

Police were forced to shoot her as she chose to use her vehicle as a battering ram. Young died, and I am not sorry to say this: she brought this tragic death upon herself, just like George Floyd did.

My thesis is real simple: Obey the law, accept the consequences if and when caught, and everyone goes home alive at the end of the day.

I do not roll, tolerate, or have any time for people who think they can break the law and then cry foul, but this is the playbook the Adversary repeatedly uses.

My snarky retort is brief and to the point: Miss me with your utter foolishness.

When you choose to live by the sword, then you will die by that very sword and very likely end up in eternal torment. The first part of that statement is not the ranting of a nobody like me. Those words come directly from the mouth of none other than Jesus Christ Himself, you know, the Second Person of the Trinity.

In the Young case, despite the immoral and baseless raving of Young’s family and duplicitous lawyer, there was no police brutality whatsoever, and thank God for bodycam!

Professing Evangelicals, aren’t you exhausted from all the false claims of police misconduct?

Police are like any other human entity: most are good, and yes, there will always be a few bad apples. Any and all police misconduct should always be thoroughly investigated, and if there is merit, then I am a firm and ardent advocate for holding them to the fullest extent of the law.

Yet, people believe they can get away with their brazen lies with impunity. Additionally, the lawyer involved in the Young case has no ethics, because I guarantee you this lawyer has seen the bodycam footage. After all, if he didn't, he should be sued for malpractice.

So, I know he has seen the video because that is the first thing any concerned person with a vested interest in the case will want to see. Today, unlike in other times, we have the added benefit of most life’s events being captured somewhere, somehow. I mean, almost everyone has a smartphone.

The lawyer in this case is along the lines of Ben Crump, a notorious race hustler who knowingly placed a phony witness on the stand in the Trayvon Martin case. Yet, I know most will not know anything about this judicial malfeasance (or care to know) because your father is the Devil, the father of all lies.

Trayvon Martin was not an innocent victim, just out minding his own business. The truth is, he physically assaulted George Zimmerman.

Michael Brown did not die with his hands up. He charged the police officer, and after repeatedly being warned, was shot by the police officer, who had a genuine fear for his life. I might add that Brown had a significant size advantage over the officer, so you do the math.

George Floyd, while he did die with a policeman kneeling on his neck, was high on fentanyl, which played a significant role in his death. If Floyd simply complied with a lawful police order, he would probably be alive today, or at the very least would not have died that day. I say this because Floyd was a legitimate scum-bag who lived a deplorable, violent, against-women lifestyle. Frankly, I say good riddance. Our society is better off without George Floyd roaming the streets.

Editor's note: I loved the line from Jason Whitlock in response to Maria Taylor’s public lament about the death of George Floyd. I am paraphrasing here, but it was along the lines of, “Maria Taylor would not want George Floyd as her next-door neighbor.”

Sadly, in our instant news cycle and Liberal media world today, all we get is the first story, but rarely the full story. The major news outlets know the full story will not garner clicks or eyeballs, so they run with the sensational plot line, and no plotline evokes more passionate emotion than race, all the more when the victim is an African-American, and the alleged perpetrator is Caucasian.

Facts be damned. All the Leftist media wants you to know is that the victim was a person of color and the police officer was not a person of color.

Forget that Taylor was caught on camera shoplifting.

Forget that Taylor was caught on camera shoplifting, pregnant, and buying liquor. Let me say again, Taylor was pregnant.

Forget that Taylor was caught on camera shoplifting, buying liquor, and then refusing to vacate the car when ordered by the police.

Forget she was pregnant, caught on camera shoplifting, buying liquor, and then refused to vacate the car when ordered by the police, and then volitionally chose to use her vehicle as a weapon, placing the police officers' lives in jeopardy.

All the media wants you to know is that a pregnant female person of color died at the hands of a Caucasian police officer.

God, because He knows all things, inspired King Solomon to pontificate on the folly of accepting what is proposed first without full scrutiny.

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. Proverbs 18:17

Well, my daughter says I need to make these blog posts shorter, so I will take her counsel and park it here, for now🤣!

Lying is a grand sin and not just a small peccadillo that God winks at because He understands boys will be boys, or to err is human and to forgive is divine.

No, God is angry all the day long, and the other thing that will appease or propitiate His wrath is blood.

The blood will be yours via death or the death of His One and Only Son. That, my friend, is the Gospel in a nutshell.

Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. Psalm 2:12

The choice is yours, so choose wisely and do so quickly because you do not have as much time as you might think.

As usual, let me know what you think. Until then, keep your hands to the plow and seek to serve for an Audience of One.

With fear & trembling,

Ricky V Kyles Sr. DEd.Min