Why is society rotting at the seams according to the speaker?
Society is rotting at the seams because it has lost its absolutes. The culture no longer affirms that Scripture's absolutes are absolute. When those absolutes are ignored, people are on thin ice and sliding toward doom. Scripture has absolutes, and rejecting them brings ruin.
Les explains that society is rotting at the seams because we have lost our absolutes. We no longer, as a society, say these are absolutes, but Scripture does have absolutes, and when you ignore them you're on thin ice, sliding to your doom. He points to verse 22 as one of those absolutes: 'Almost all things are by law purged with blood,' and 'without the shedding of blood there is no remission.' He says we must hang on to that and not sidetrack it because it is an absolute. He then moves to 1 Peter chapter 1, where Peter agrees 100% with Paul in theology, noting verses 18 and 19 about not being redeemed with corruptible things like silver and gold.