Who's to Blame for the Riots?

I have great admiration for the expository preaching by John MacArthur. Nobody does it better than him. Over the years, I couldn't find a flaw in this pastor. But Who's to Blame for the Riots? shows that, like all of us, he has some sins he cannot overcome despite a very good understanding of what are required of us.

Those sins are of racial bias and bigotry. 

This sermon shows that MacArthur has the same "very fine people" streak in him. Sadly, he trumps Trump and rises to a new level with saying "things happen" (60'12"). Policing bias and police brutality - the causes that led to the protests and to the riots - get zero mention.

Every Christian knows that the root cause of all our problems is ultimately the fallen man, but by stressing only that and skirting the causative reasons for the current events, MacArthur exposes his biases when answering the question in the title of his sermon.

I am glad he mentioned Hitler, because it makes it easier to highlight the flaw in his argument.

Hitler was able to commit those atrocities because his officers were just following orders. Hitler was brought down not by having the bible thrown at him. This minister of God (60'44") was destroyed at great cost, after a war that took another 85 million lives.

How many more lives will need to be unjustifiably lost before people in America need not be assumed guilty of a crime and be summarily/accidentally executed merely by their skin color? MacArthur grudgingly acknowledges black lives matter, uncomfortably, and has to divert immediately to abortion. Surely he knows that non-Christians do not live by Christian principles.

The rebels in the colonies rose and shed blood for eight long years over something more trivial - money. Were they a "lawless mob of criminals attacking" the anointed King? Were they "flying around opposing the authority that God has ordained"?

Together with a couple of other sermons on the same subject facing America today, MacArthur has stressed that he is not giving an opinion on politics or economics or whatever, and is just focused on preaching the gospel and explaining the bible for what it is. However, he is obviously taking sides in the political debate, and it is now clearer which side he is on.