"They Got Murder in the Bible. That Don't Mean Murder Is Right."
This one sentence dismantled an argument that has kept people out of the Word for years.
Dee-1 is on assignment.
He is in the trenches of hip-hop culture, navigating one of the most idolatrous communities in entertainment, and doing it with grace, with truth, and with the kind of prophetic boldness that does not flinch when it meets resistance. His Platinum Pledge, a declaration to denounce the glorification of sex, money, violence, and drugs and to righteously influence the youth through music, has nearly six figures worth of signatures. Charlemagne the God is one of them. A shift is happening. The people are tired. And Dee-1 is one of the vessels the Lord is using to move them out of the mentality that says glorifying darkness for a check is acceptable, and into the mind of Christ that says we are called to something higher.
But this clip was not just about Dee-1. It was about the conversation he had. And that conversation is worth sitting with.
Big Bank asked the questions that a lot of people are asking. He pushed back on the Bible. He said he believes some of it is cap. He brought up slavery. He asked which Testament we trust. He said he did not really want to know the answers, just wanted to see if they could be made to make sense. And honestly, I appreciate him for that, because he was not alone in those questions. He was the voice of many, and I respect the fact that he said out loud what most people only think to themselves.
Here is what I want us to take from that exchange. When we encounter a scripture that feels like cap, what we are usually bumping up against is not error in the Word. We are bumping up against the ceiling of our own carnal understanding. His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. And leaning on our own understanding, our own logic, our own intelligence, will leave us in a place of confusion every single time. This is exactly why the Holy Spirit exists. Not to make the Word palatable to our natural minds, but to lead us into all truth, past the limits of what our flesh can process on its own.
The Bible contains the full truth of humanity, including its ugliness. Murder is in there. Betrayal is in there. Slavery is in there. Not as endorsements, but as a mirror held up to the wickedness of the flesh, and as a backdrop to the redemption that was always the point. And when it comes to slavery specifically, what many of us have not yet encountered is the depth of what that word carries in scripture. There is natural slavery and there is spiritual slavery. There is indentured servitude rooted in ancient economic systems and there is the bondage of a soul that has not yet met its Redeemer. The Word must be examined in a variety of ways before we can say we truly understand what it is saying.
As for the Old and New Testaments being in conflict, they are not. You cannot fully appreciate the New without the Old. Christ did not come to cancel the story. He came to complete it. The Old Testament is the foundation. The New Testament is the fulfillment. Both contain truth. Both are necessary. And together they form a living Word, not a regular book, but a book that breathes, that speaks, that teaches, that refines, that transforms, and that develops the character of anyone willing to commune with what they have read.
I put the full video below because this is a conversation worth finishing.
I do not have every answer. You do not either. But what I took from this clip more than anything is the reminder of how to show up when someone brings their questions and their doubts to the table. Not with condescension. Not with impatience. With grace, love, and respect.
Because here at Locked in Christ, the assignment has always been the same. Walk with people out of the world and into the Word.
Stay forever locked in Christ.
