When Pastors Become Political Movements It Becomes Dangerous

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:01]I am somebody.

[00:00:03]Your your pastor mentioned it in his remarks that Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson senior was not just a politician.

[00:00:17]Without him, you would have no Barack Obama or William Clinton or a Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Doc was doing stuff people didn't understand. And he made room for colored folks and women and Asian people and those in the LGBTQIA community to make it out of back rooms into boardrooms. Because in the nonsynoptic gospel of John, seven times Jesus I exhibits spiritual swag and says, "I'm not going to wait for anybody to tell me who I am. I'm going to selfidentify, self-affirm my own humanity and divinity. And I'm going to take a spiritual authority over the crooked toxicity of the Roman Empire. And I'm going to say I am somebody. I am the bread of life.

[00:01:13]>> All things theology. All things theology. We chop it up properly without an apology. Got to get that to God because this is how we do it at all things theology.

[00:01:28]When the Bible gets politicized, the sermons become dangerous, nonsensical talking points for your political party.

[00:01:36]Let's talk about this at All Things Theology. I'm your host Kub. We're going to be talking about a sermon recently from Reginald Sharp. We have looked at his content before and see how nonsensical they are. But look, look, look. I'm going to play this. Look, we're going to get into it cuz we're going to be talking about a cultural moment that just happened recently. Many of you know about. Let's hear what he's talking about. I am somebody.

[00:02:00]I am somebody. Turn to your neighbor and say, "Did you know it? Did you know it? Did you know it?" Tell them, "I am somebody.

[00:02:12]I am somebody.

[00:02:15]Your your pastor mentioned it in his remarks that Reverend Jesse Lewis Jackson senior was not just a politician, a prophet, and a preacher. He was also the honorary co-pastor of Fellowship Chicago.

[00:02:38]>> Okay. Okay. I want to get to the main point I have a problem with. Not that he's being mentioned in this sermon, but what we're going to see later is the politicalization of this sermon and really using I believe the I am somebody phrase in an unbiblical importing that into the Bible. We're going to see in a second cuz right now you'll be like, what's wrong with what he said? Stand by. We'll get to that. Again, I don't agree with any of this from a Republican or Democratic standpoint. Like just preach the text. If you want to say, "Hey, look, we want to say our condolences for this person that died," that's fine. But the sermon is really going to be a a phrasiology on the I am somebody. But look, here's ultimately why I have a problem with this, too.

[00:03:22]What did uh Jesse Jackson stand for?

[00:03:25]Well, we're about to hear some of this.

[00:03:26]Without him, you would have no Barack Obama or William Clinton or a Nelson Mandela in South Africa doctors doing stuff people didn't understand. And he made room for colored folks and women and Asian people and those in the LGBTQIA community to make it out of back rooms into boardrooms. I'm trying to tell you he didn't just say it. He lived it. He wanted you to know I am somebody.

[00:03:53]>> How dare you?

[00:03:54]>> Now, and that's part of the problem.

[00:03:56]This man is supposed to be a Christian man making room for that which God has not endorsed or lawed. Right? And it makes sense why Reginald Sharp would make this talking point because he has caved on the issue of LGBT or homosexuality explicitly. I don't know if you guys remember this. This might have been a year or two where he was asked about the subject of homosexuality. And I'm going to do like a recap of some of the talking points in this sermon so you can just see it briefly. But I did a full video reaction to this and it was a mess. Look, let's talk about that one >> cuz y'all know we still doing this right now.

[00:04:37]>> We're still using scriptures to try to hurt people.

[00:04:39]>> I got a lady right now want a meeting with me cuz she wants to know where I stand on LGBTQIA rights.

[00:04:46]Uh-huh. I was a member. I love her. God bless. I ain't mad at nobody, but I'm just telling the truth. She was a member under Pastor Jenkins, been gone for a while, but she's considering coming back. But before she joins, I want to know where my pastor stands on LGBTQIA rights.

[00:05:06]>> Last year, I received 10 anonymous letters from cowards >> who wanted to know where I stood on LGBTQIA rights. Now, I got an open door policy in my office, but you such a coward.

[00:05:23]You wouldn't come to my face. So, you came like Nicodemus by night to sneak letters to try to figure out where I stand.

[00:05:34]>> But what I'm not going to do ever is use scripture >> to kill any of God's people. If you want to find a scripture to use it to kill people, YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND IT. But there's never just one voice on any topic in God's Bible.

[00:05:52]Tell your neighbor, it's not just one voice.

[00:05:54]>> It's other voices that you can reach on.

[00:05:57]Because the same Bible says in Isaiah 56:5 through, I believe 7, IT SAYS, "I WILL GIVE IN my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting NAME THAT SHALL NOT be cut off." People ready to cut folk off because they're different. Verse six.

[00:06:17]and the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to minister to him to love the name of the Lord and to be servants and all who keep the Sabbath and do not profane it and hold fast my commandment.

[00:06:28]These I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be ACCEPTED ON MY ALTAR.

[00:06:39]FOR MY HOUSE shall be called a HOUSE OF PRAYER. FOR WHO?

[00:06:44]>> FOR STRAIGHT PEOPLE. FOR WHO? FOR WHITE PEOPLE FOR WHO? FOR RICH PEOPLE FOR WHO?

[00:06:51]FOR SOUTHSIDERS, FOR WHO?

[00:06:54]>> SO I DON'T GET TO DETERMINE WHO GETS IN THIS HOUSE CUZ IT AIN'T MY HOUSE.

[00:07:00]>> So where do I stand on it? Any issue going on in the culture. I stand on love.

[00:07:06]>> And whenever you stand on love, you stand on business. And if you don't like standing on love, go to another hating church full of hateful PEOPLE. BUT IN THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS GOD'S HOUSE, WE GOING TO LOVE EVERYBODY BECAUSE I DON'T WANT NOBODY DYING PREMATURELY, COMMITTING SUICIDE, STUFFED IN DEPRESSION BECAUSE CHURCH FOLK DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE GOD'S PEOPLE.

[00:07:32]>> YOU HAVE TO INTERACT. Some of you, well, I don't know what to do. I'm a Christian and it's just so inclusive now. And now I got to use pronouns. Be respectful and use their pronouns.

[00:07:41]Amen.

[00:07:42]>> He, she, it hit, them call them whatever they want to be called.

[00:07:46]>> They're God's children.

[00:07:50]>> You stand firm on your I'm he, I'm she, I'm him, I'm her. You be who you be. So Reginald Sharp is lauding um Jesse Jackson, Reverend Jesse Jackson for his progressive views on sexuality because Reginald Sharp has been progressive on his views of sexuality for quite a long time as well. This is actually the bad part. As we can see from those clips, this is an unbiblical view that he's promoting and we dealt with some of the arguments that he presented in that video. I'll have to link that to the in the description if you'd like to watch that live. But now we're about to deal with the phrase, I am somebody, and see what he's going to do with this. I mean, I think you can kind of guess, but this is what happens when you try to politicize the Bible. Listen to this.

[00:08:38]Because in the nonsynoptic gospel of John, seven times Jesus I exhibit spiritual swag and says, "I'm not going to wait for anybody to tell me who I am.

[00:08:54]I'm going to selfidentify, self-affirm my own humanity and divinity. And I'm going to take a spiritual authority over the crooked toxicity of the Roman Empire. And I'm going to say I am somebody I am.

[00:09:14]>> I'm tired of this church.

[00:09:15]>> Boy, ain't no way, boy. Boy. Ain't no way, boy.

[00:09:18]>> Now, a phrase that would use to bring dignity and value to people who were oppressed, I am somebody. I have self-esteem and worth is being imported to the phrase I am. That's not what Jesus was saying. I have self-worth and value. It is a divine proclamation that he is not of the creation. He is above.

[00:09:44]He is God. He is self-existent. He is the creator.

[00:09:48]I mean, do I literally have to go into depth biblically what the I am is meaning and I am somebody are totally different. See, because if you're not careful, if this is all Jesus was talking about, cuz remember he said it's he he admitted some kind of phrase to to divinity and self uh human worth. Then that means when you say I am somebody, you're claiming to be Yahweh too, right?

[00:10:13]See, this is the problem. When you isite the Bible, it actually brings down the claims of Jesus as unique and you being somebody. Look, I don't care about the phrase. You can claim to be I am somebody, whatever.

[00:10:29]Okay, but they're not the two same claims. I hope that's not what Jesse Jackson was claiming. I don't think that was. So, you're even ripping out what he was trying to articulate. You see, both claims are actually being used out of context. But let's hear some more about this claim of just self-v valueue and worth >> the bread of life and I am the light of the world and I am the door of the sheep and I am the good shepherd and I am the resurrection and the life and I am the way to truth and the life and I am the truth.

[00:11:00]>> But here's the problem uh Reginald only Jesus can make those claims right? They're unique.

[00:11:10]We cannot make those claims. It's not just a phrasiology of I am somebody.

[00:11:16]It's not just a claim of selfworth.

[00:11:18]>> Vine, I like Jesus because Jesus does not wait for anybody to give him value.

[00:11:25]He knows who he is, where he is, and what he's been sent to do. I like people like that. Folks who need folk to validate them, irritate me. folk that always need somebody to like them and like their post and invite them and you don't.

[00:11:42]>> So again, we see that this is being made a mess.

[00:11:46]>> You got to stop doing that. You've got to stop doing that.

[00:11:50]>> Sermon is literally a sermon just about recognizing who you truly are just like Jesus did. Uh Jesus didn't need other people to like him. While that is true, that is not what the I am statements is about. It is a claim of divinity and not just divinity in some kind of general sense, but Jesus quotes passages on the Old Testament about Yahweh, you know, Exodus 3, and applies them to himself.

[00:12:19]That's why they wanted to kill him by the end of uh John chapter 8. They're like, "Oh, this man's blasphemy, right?"

[00:12:26]Not could be said about you. Well, cuz cuz it's not blasphemy because he is who he claimed to be. If you claim to make those I am claims, it would be blasphemous. You see the difference? I mean, this is quite obvious, but feel like you anybody unless somebody includes you. That's irritating. At some point, you got to grow up and selfidentify.

[00:12:46]You got to walk yourself in the room and say, "Even if you don't know me, I know me. Even if you won't date me, I'll date me. Even if you don't open the door for me, I'll knock the whole door down. I am somebody." I like this Jesus because Jesus gives us permission to own who we are in God. That's not what Jesus is doing. Oh, like I am somebody. You're an I am somebody, right? That's not what Jesus is doing. This isn't a matter of who you want to date or what door you want to get into. Jesus is the door. You need to go through his him, right? This is a load of nonsense. But again, all this sermon is politicizing the Bible based on um Jesse Jackson. It would be similar to um here here here let me give the Republican version just so you don't think I'm being one-sided. It would be like saying make America great again and going to all the places are where great is and importing MAGA into it. Both are unacceptable.

[00:13:52]Both are inappropriate because the Bible isn't teaching MAGA. The Bible ain't teaching I am somebody from the I am statements.

[00:14:00]I mean this this should be very simple.

[00:14:02]But you know what? Hold on. Let me let me let me let me say something cuz you know why he does this?

[00:14:07]>> YOU DON'T KNOW THE BIBLE. YOU DON'T KNOW THE BIBLE.

[00:14:10]>> Cuz he doesn't know the Bible. My goodness. And and and the a little more concerning part or maybe equal is the fact that people are standing around cheering a a blatant heretical hold on a second like a bad >> a blatant heretical sermon where he's literally claiming we can self-identify with the I am statement because Jesus gives us an example of how to No sir, you've missed it. Jesus is the only one who can make these claims.

[00:14:43]>> And that's the kind of spiritual swag I need you to get tonight. Before I move another further, I know that's country, but that's good talking. Before I move another further, I want to wake up the beast in you. I want to wake up the greatness in you.

[00:14:58]>> Sir, sir, >> I'm tired of the church.

[00:15:04]>> No. No. There there might be a beast in you, but there's no greatness. Nothing good dwells in you except Christ, right?

[00:15:14]Except him. It got nothing to do with the I am statements. That's not what Jesus was teaching us to do. Don't matter who like you, don't like you, baby. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to live in my purpose in my mother's womb. I was ordained and I was sanctified to be a prophet to the nations. I like me. If you don't, I am somebody. And I need you to know that he takes a moment of selfidentification and self-affirmation.

[00:15:44]But then he doesn't just do that, he does it singularly. And every time he names something, >> now watch this cuz if you thought that point was bad, this is going to be equally as bad.

[00:15:55]>> And he says, "I am the I am the I am the bread. I am the resurrection. I am the light. I It's athe." It's a definite article, 'the'. And people mess up because they keep treating you like you are a no.

[00:16:10]>> But they keep forgetting when God made you, he made you a the So you may find a another girl, but you ain't going to find the girl.

[00:16:20]>> Say, is that all?

[00:16:22]>> Is that all?

[00:16:24]>> This is a great picture. You know what I've been doing lately? I like to caption this foolishness message. Well, here's the problem with this. So Jesus says he is the bread of life. He is the great shepherd. He is the the the because there is no other. He's unique.

[00:16:42]He's the monogamous one, the one-of-a-kind one. And it is true of him. There is no other. Right? There cannot be said about you being the girl, the whatever, cuz you're not a girl. This is a sermon for the women.

[00:17:00]>> Yes. Queen sleigh.

[00:17:02]>> That's who is going to really resonate with this point right here. Right. This is nonsense. No, you're not the there's guess what? There are other people like you in some sense. You can find another girl, another listen to the other things he mentions. You may find another pastor, but you ain't going to find the see see. You better look down your row.

[00:17:26]Say, do you know who you sitting by? I am not a a or an option. I'm a the I I I am the one.

[00:17:34]>> No, you are not the one. Christ is the one. And this is the whole like, well, if you leave the church, you ain't going to know find another pastor like me.

[00:17:44]Well, that's probably for good reason.

[00:17:46]Cuz if that's the standard, then they don't need that kind of pastor, right?

[00:17:51]They need a pastor who's going to actually labor over the word of God, take time to exedute its meaning, not do this nonsense, right? But of course, there is no good sermon with stories and I see Jesus when there's like a good old praise break. Let's see what this praise break is about. And I am a branch. And when I'm connected, when I'm connected to him, I will do much more than I've ever done before. I got one word for you. Much you c I speak much over your house. Much over your church, wave much over your bank account.

[00:18:39]>> Yeah. So greater works you'll do. It's going to be you're going to do much more, right? It has to do with your bank account, your house, and your >> I got bread.

[00:18:49]I got bread in my pocket. I got bread in my pocket.

[00:18:53]>> This sermon was much heresy, much false doctrine. It was the worst sermon I might have heard. You know, I could do with the same parallels, right? No.

[00:19:04]Let's finish this praise breaker. We're out of here. weigh much over everybody around you. You shall produce much. You shall become much. You shall achieve much. Look at the church.

[00:19:17]>> Create much.

[00:19:18]>> Again, look at the church. What's missing? Bibles in their hands. They're too pre too busy praisebreaking and ready to applaud for everything the pastor said. Look, I I am of the option.

[00:19:29]I am of the opinion that we need to be more silent during the sermon time because you need to listen. Don't be so ready to clap and applaud that you cheer heresy.

[00:19:40]>> You shall INHERIT MUCH. YOU SHALL SEE MUCH. YOU SHALL ENJOY MUCH. You shall evolve much. You shall turn in much. You shall overcome much. Because I nonsense.

[00:19:55]This much false doctrine here. Again, my original point. When the gospel, when the Bible becomes politicized, you get very dangerous sermons. And I think we just saw that on display. Yo, thank you for watching another video. Let me know what you think in the comment section.

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