On Sunday evening, August 20, 2017, Pastor John MacArthur was asked about the recent protests and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. MacArthur, the longtime pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, and has long supported law enforcement.
A member of the audience asked MacArthur about Charlottesville and his perspective is one that all should listen to.
“That’s not about slavery. That’s not about something that happened about 200 years ago. That’s an opportunity for angry, hostile, self-willed selfish people to explode and feel good about it. Because they can get away with it when there enough of them too many of them to stop…..the human heart is evil.”
He went on to say that “no one tolerates white supremacists.”
As part of the three restraints that God has built in society, MacArthur mentions law enforcement.
“God ordained the police police as a restraint in society,” he says.
“When you assault the police long enough that you diminish their authority and the sense of fear and the sense of reverence that a society has to have for those that police them then all hell will break loose…..the police have been stripped of their powers….you literally have unleashed the human heart at it’s worst level.”
