Ep 1245 | Witches Cast a Spell on Charlie Kirk. Can Christians Be Cursed?
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Jezebel hired witches to cast curses against Charley Kirk days before he was assassinated. What does the Bible say about the ability of christians to be cursed? I ve got some encouragement for you on that today!
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jezebel hired witches to cast curses against charlie kirk days before he was assassinated
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what does the bible say about the ability of christians to be cursed i've got some
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encouragement for you on that today also the rapture was supposed to happen yesterday but
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surprise it did not so how should we be thinking about that in times what does the bible say for
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what we should expect and how to prepare ourselves and i've also got some strong words against those
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who are trying to distract us from revival who are demonizing what happened at charlie's memorial as
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some kind of evil theocracy i've got a response to that we've also got a lot more on today's episode
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hey guys welcome to relatable happy wednesday hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far well it's
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been a bit of a whirlwind week i had the absolute joy and honor of co-hosting charlie kirk's podcast
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yesterday and andrew his best friend right hand man and i just got to remember our friend and honor
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our friend and again i will say what i said yesterday a lot of people have said to me over the past
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couple weeks gosh i didn't know that charlie was such a strong christian i didn't know that he talked
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about the bible so much i didn't know that he cared so much about theology and apologetics and
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i have been able to say over and over again i did i did know that i got a front row seat to that
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multiple times got to share a stage and a microphone with him multiple times over the past few years to
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defend the faith and he would call out the weak pastors and i'm just so thankful and realizing now
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what a special privilege it was to get to know that and to see that up front and i am one of the
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people that is picking up the mic of charlie kirk by joining turning point on their campus tour this
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fall i will be at louisiana state university with governor jeff landry on october 27th and we are going
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to be there to tell the truth and to take questions and to have a respectful back and forth
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and uh i'm honored yet again and something that i've realized over the past couple of weeks is i've
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been asked to do various things that you know charlie was doing before and many many of us have been
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asked to fill in for different things speaking engagements that charlie was booked for now i'm
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speaking for other people are speaking for so many people filling in on charlie's podcast i guest
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hosted his tbn show that he was doing on a daily basis and it's just hit me how many people are
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required to fill in for the work that just one man was doing and my husband and i were talking the
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other day just listening to all the people at the memorial talking about how busy he was how he was
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constantly working and i'm like well yes because god knew that he was going to call him home at 31 years
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old so he knew for those 13 years that he had to be on top of it that he had to fill in that he had to
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put in as much work and as much urgency as humanly possible in those 13 years so he could get all the
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things done that god wanted him to get done most of us can stretch that out over the span of decades
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but for him he had to do that concentrated work in a short amount of time and it's just a good
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reminder for all of us that god is totally sovereign over our lives every single bit of it and when it
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looks like he's just doing one thing he's actually doing a million things things that we cannot see
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and another beautiful part that i've known and have been reminded of several times throughout my life
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but especially over the past couple weeks is how god uses the various people in the body of christ to
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not just glorify himself not just advance the gospel to those who don't believe but also just to
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encourage one another to build up the body of christ he uses all of our different capacities and
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connections to do that and a beautiful example of that was andrew's testimony that he told yesterday i
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also heard him talk about it in another interview and i had no idea that actually this whole exchange
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had this um had this effect and instead of explaining it i'm just gonna play you this clip it's satin
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ali you sent me this this song it was the saturday after it happened and i was holding on to all these
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things that i thought my life was going to be before charlie was killed yeah all the plans that we had
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around the show it was a lot where i was gonna live how i was gonna live what my what my family's
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future was gonna look like and i was afraid for what all this would be and i listened to that song
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i had like an ugly cry i'm not afraid to admit it and i could feel myself letting go and dying to
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myself in that moment and saying yes lord yes matthew west who i hadn't talked to in a while he texted me
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that song he was like i wrote this demo after charlie died and i don't know why because i don't
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even know if we had really spoken except for maybe exchanged a couple texts and i was just like
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i was sitting and i was like i'm gonna text this to andrew i i don't know i just feel like i need to
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text it to andrew and so immediately i just texted it to you and obviously that was the holy spirit
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wasn't me wasn't even matthew it was god working he knew yeah it was he needed to do you know i yeah i
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mean i'd love to release that song i don't know if he's released it publicly but it was yeah it was
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beautiful and i actually sent it to erica and she she i mean i don't think she would mind saying
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because i mean it was saturday it had happened on wednesday uh you know if you you touched us
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wrong on the arm we're like we just start crying about you know so um but you know she texted back just
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like crying emojis and she was just like this is so beautiful so it meant a lot in the moment
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so for a little bit more context on that saturday morning after charlie had been assassinated
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i got a text from matthew west and matthew sent me this file an audio file that was a demo of this
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song that he wrote and you can see it i shared it on uh instagram of course you know after he had
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made it public and so you can go watch that video that i posted and listen to it it really is
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so special i mean the lyrics are just incredible and you can see it on matthew west page in its
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entirety as well but what i love about that is seeing how god prompted matthew west to use his
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talents to write that song to put pen to paper and then prompted him for whatever reason to text that song
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to me and then immediately i hadn't even had a back and forth with andrew yet since charlie had
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been assassinated i had sent a text and saying that i'm praying for them but we hadn't had a conversation
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and so matthew s sent me that i was prompted to send that to andrew immediately and the lord used that
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to bring him to his knees to let him let go of all the things that he was holding so tightly to
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and prompted andrew to then send that to erica and that is just what god does and how sweet is that
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and i can tell you a dozen other examples of that just in my own life over the past two weeks of god
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using various people from all over in the body of christ to give courage and to give edification
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and to provide everything that needs to be provided for every believer in their own places in their roles
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at this moment god is doing something and gosh god is so gracious and god is so good and i'm just so
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thankful for how he is working in all of these ways and so i just want to encourage you before we get
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into some a couple other things about yesterday's episode to pray pray for the body of christ and
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every single person no matter what your role is no matter what your realm is has a role to play
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and this unique moment and this unique i'm hoping moment of revival and great awakening everyone has
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their role to play everyone is called in some way to take risks for the gospel everyone is called in
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some way to be bold for the gospel that does not require a microphone as i've always said you do not
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have to be an influencer to have influence whether you are a stay-at-home mom and you've got your five
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friends that you talk to on an everyday basis you've got a job there you've got an important
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role to play all of us moms have a vital role to play in discipling of course the next generation
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but even in addition to that how we infuse light into our communities should be absolutely relentless
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should be absolutely unapologetic yes gentle kind persuasive all of those things but whether or not
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you have a platform whether or not you've got an audience of 5 000 god can use you he will use you
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to multiply his kingdom that is what he is up to right now every single one of us has a role to play
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so pray for that in your own life pray for the body of christ pray for your pastors pray for the evangelist
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pray for the teachers i have seen a variety of people who are out on the front lines of evangelism
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and apologetics be hindered right now we've got christopher yuan who is a dear brother in christ
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who has just suffered a tragic fall and is in the hospital and is going to be hindered for a while
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right now from his ministry pray for him i've seen jonathan pakluda he's another pastor in waco texas who is
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an incredible evangelist who is in the hospital with a mysterious illness pray for him i'm sure you've
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maybe seen this in your own life so pray for those in particular who are out in public right now they
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don't matter more they're not more important to god they're not more important to the work of ministry
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but they do seem to be in satan's crosshairs and ephesians 6 reminds us we are not primarily fighting
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against flesh and blood we are fighting against the prince of the power of the air as ephesians 2
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describes him the present powers of darkness the principalities that are at work in the spiritual world
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like that is absolutely happening that is true but those things manifest themselves sometimes
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in physical ways that does not negate god's sovereignty at all we'll talk more about that
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today but be praying be praying as fervently as you can james 5 reminds us that the prayer of a
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righteous person has great power as it is working and while god is totally sovereign he has sovereignly
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chosen to use prayer and evangelism as a means by which we are supposed to
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win people to christ and also to build up the body of christ through prayer we can through the power
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of christ help heal people through prayer if that is god's will will we can strengthen people through
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prayer we can protect people through prayer if that is god's will he has chosen those things as a means
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by which to accomplish his perfect will so let us be a part of that willingly and let us lay ourselves
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down for the cause of christ this is a special moment and christians through the power of the
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so we had the incredible opportunity yesterday of not only um co-hosting charlie kirk's show but
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we as a team also got to um pick what we talked about we got to create the outline and we got to
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choose our guests and truly i felt the holy spirit in all of that and the planning and the preparation
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and the guests that we got on and the messages that were conveyed there it was so obvious to me that not
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only were the the exact right people to come on the show yesterday but also the ordering of them like
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that was out of my control i actually if it had just been up to me i would have kind of rearranged
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uh the order of the guests because of an idea that i had in my mind of how things should go but then
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looking back i'm like thank you lord for knowing what you were doing and the exact order of the
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messages that needed to be conveyed i put out an instagram post that said hey if you um have been
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if god used charlie kirk's videos in your life to bring you to himself then can you send me your
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story i was not expecting all of the emails that i got because you know sending an email is kind of
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like a hassle but then i i got i think over a hundred emails from people telling me their incredible
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testimonies but one stood out to me of a woman named jacqueline who had been really into the new age
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and tarot cards and witchcraft and her husband started watching charlie kirk videos and she started
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watching charlie kirk videos she was pro-abortion she started hearing charlie talk about abortion
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she was off put at first and i love stories like this when you're like that makes me angry they're
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wrong but then the lord works on your heart and softens your heart you keep listening and the lord
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uses that truth to bring you to himself and that's exactly what happened with jacqueline her testimony was
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amazing it's also an encouragement to us keep slugging keep telling the truth because you never know how
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god is using your words in unseen ways to lay the groundwork for conversion and to plant seeds um and
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so that was amazing then we had my friend costi hen on pastor costi hen uh from gilbert arizona so he was
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really close to where we were yesterday and i knew he could come in and tell us exactly what we needed to
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hear we talked about discipleship if you're a seasoned christian and then also like how to be a new
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christian and andrew i'm so glad he asked him this asked costi to just explain the gospel and it was
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about two and a half minutes and we can't play the entirety of that thing here of that clip here and
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you should go watch it circulating on x but um he explains what jesus accomplished on the cross
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what happens um because of our sin what we actually deserve when it comes to judgment and hell
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and then what jesus's death actually does for us and how we get that salvation here he is
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one of the easiest ways to understand the gospel is god man christ response four simple things god
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is holy he's real he is the creator of heaven and earth he's the ruler and holds all authority he is a
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righteous holy loving father and that is who god is man is sinful we broke god's law
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from the garden of eden all the way through until now we all sin the bible says all have sinned and
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fallen short of the glory of god every sin that we would call small is still great enough to send
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you to hell and separate you from god and man has one core issue it's not our politics it's not the
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amount of money we make or don't make our main core issue is the issue of sin it separates us from god
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so you have god and you have man and then you need a solution because if we have no solution we are damned to
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hell yes and amen so yet again we see god using all of the all of the connections of believers
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kasi and i connected years ago and he's become a friend to both timothy and me and i'm just so i'm
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just so thankful for that i just knew he was just the right person but then he had a really good word
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also for those of us who are seasoned christians we're looking at revival we're like is this real
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please god let it be real but there could also be an older brother spirit and i'm talking about the
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parable of the prodigal son there there could be an older brother cynical spirit that is underneath
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some people some christians feelings about revival and here's what costi had to say about that sought
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nine first thing i want to tell the seasoned believers in the church is you reject a cynical
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spirit right at the root i we haven't dealt with this in our church by the grace of god but here's
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the deal remember the prodigal son the prodigal goes wild who was there obeying being faithful the
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other son yeah and what happens when the prodigal comes back oh come on i didn't get the fat and calf
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what's all the big deal for this yeah you'll have a bunch of people that say oh we'll see if the hype
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lasts oh yeah they were all there at state farm stadium on sunday we'll see if they actually show up to
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church next sunday oh yeah this is just about charlie do it for charlie do it for charlie i've
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been serving jesus i wasn't sure you'll have all of that pharisaic stuff so number one seasoned saints
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do not be that guy that's such a good word for all of us our spirit needs to be one of celebration
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and anticipation and hope um yes we should be looking at the true fruits of revival and jonathan
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adwords back in the first great awakening in the 18th century he wrote something about the fruits
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of revival that we need to see glorification of christ we need to see a love for scripture
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it's more than just an emotional experience it's also about repentance it's also about a spirit of true
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evangelism people who become christians in a true spirit-led revival make much of christ not much of
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their personal experiences not much of their emotions emotions aren't bad but all the glory
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goes to christ it's pointing to christ pointing people to scripture and go watch the segment yesterday
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with costi where he talks about okay how do we as christians take these people under our wing how do
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we make sure in our churches we're grabbing these people sticking them in the word and making sure that
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they are you know in the word of god i mean there's a parable about this the seed thrown on the fertile
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soil the rocky soil and so there's a lot right now that we seasoned christians need to remember
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all right speaking of seasoned christians sometimes seasoned christians get in debates
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about eschatology eschatology is a fancy word that just means knowledge of the end times the eschaton
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and there are many different views within christianity true christians have disagreements
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on what the end times are going to look like and we've done episodes dedicated to this most recently
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we had an episode about israel and the different views on israel we can link that in the description
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of this episode so that you can go back and watch that or listen to it but right now there is yet
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another debate it's really never ending about the rapture because if you did not hear the rapture was
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supposed to happen yesterday and i and i'll explain what this means a little bit more in a second as
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a post-trib pre-millennialist have never hoped that i was wrong that i am wrong in my theology
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more than yesterday because my theology what i see clearly in scripture is that actually those of us
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who are alive during the tribulation will have to go through that tribulation until we die or until
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we are caught up with the lord until we go home but this particular view the dispensationalist view
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the pre-millennialist pre-tribulation view i know that's just like a lot of vocabulary christianese
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out there but they believe that we are going to be saved by the rapture first before the tribulation
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happens and so there were all these viral videos imposed yesterday saying oh the rapture is supposed to
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happen on september 25th and i was looking out to the clouds and i was like yes jesus i am ready
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please let's go unfortunately that didn't happen and we're going to talk about why it didn't happen
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in just a second and what the bible actually says about the rapture and about the end times
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it's very important to be talking about this especially right now as we are all feeling this big
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big spiritual shift we know that the devil is not going down without a fight and so it's important
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for us to be sober minded and be aware of what's going on and have a biblical perspective about what
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our responsibility is in a moment like this we'll get into that in just a second let me go ahead and
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got post-millennialists and they believe that actually a lot of the end times prophecies that
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typically we ascribe to um that that we ascribe to the end times so a lot of the prophecies that we see
00:25:49.500
in scripture that typically we ascribe to the end times have really already happened that we are
00:25:54.720
living in an age when actually more and more people are coming to christ that christ is manifesting the
00:26:02.080
victory that we know was already won in his death and resurrection more and more obviously uh throughout
00:26:09.260
history here on earth okay um and then we've got the pre-millennialist view and you've got two
00:26:16.300
different pre-millennialist views and that is the historic pre-millennialist view which is my view
00:26:23.200
that's pre-millennialist post-tribulation that we will be taken up with christ but not until the
00:26:29.300
tribulation happens for those of us who are still alive and then you've got the dispensationalist view
00:26:34.260
which they believe that the bible is organized into seven different dispensations of grace they also
00:26:40.080
believe in two distinct plans for the church and for israel where whereas post-mill and historic
00:26:46.120
pre-millennialists typically believe that the the church is talked about in the old testament and
00:26:53.740
that actually all of us are united both the remnant of israel and christians through our faith in jesus
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christ and again go listen to that episode if you need more detail on that but no matter what no matter
00:27:09.280
what you believe especially for those of us on the pre-millennialist side that pre-millennialist means
00:27:15.220
like before the reign of christ um yeah the gosh there's so much there's so many details that i could
00:27:22.680
go into on that that i'll try to just keep it concise but here's what we know we know that we are not going
00:27:29.440
to be able to predict when the rapture happens okay we're not that's like eschatology 101 so when anyone
00:27:37.480
says we know the rapture is going to happen on this day don't listen to them period okay god has not
00:27:44.440
revealed that to them he's not he has not because god is not going to contradict what his word says
00:27:50.100
here's what we read from the book of matthew matthew 24 now dispensationalists will use this to justify
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their position but and you could obviously there are arguments within interpretation but what we
00:28:03.540
absolutely read from this is that we will not know we will not know matthew 24 36 through 44 but
00:28:10.320
concerning that day and hour no one knows not even the angels of heaven nor the son what but the
00:28:17.420
father only you got some people out there who are these tiktok prophets saying yeah i know like joe
00:28:24.980
schmo knows but jesus christ doesn't know come on okay so remember or memorize that but concerning
00:28:31.680
that day and hour no one knows not even the angels in heaven nor the son but the father only
00:28:35.240
but as were the days of noah so will be the coming of the son of man okay also something to say about
00:28:41.720
that what did i say last week that i can kind of see why god sent the flood i mean things are like
00:28:46.360
really evil things have got to be similar to how they were back then so as were the days of noah so
00:28:52.160
will be the coming of the son of man for as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking
00:28:56.020
marrying and giving in marriage until the day when noah entered the ark and they were unaware until the
00:29:00.820
flood came and swept them all away so will be the coming of man then two men will be in the field
00:29:05.940
one will be taken um one will be taken in one left two women will be grinding at the mill one will be
00:29:12.660
taken in one left therefore stay awake for you do not know on what day your lord is coming but know
00:29:18.300
this that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming he would
00:29:23.080
have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into therefore you must also be ready
00:29:27.480
the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect it's pretty explicit in the words of jesus
00:29:34.780
right there first thessalonians 4 14 through 18 and this is what you know people in my position
00:29:41.080
typically refer to when we're like it kind of looks like christians are going to have to go through the
00:29:45.260
tribulation if they're here for this we declare to you by a word from the lord that we who are alive
00:29:53.300
who are left until the coming of the lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep for the lord
00:29:58.920
himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command with the voice of an archangel and with
00:30:04.760
the sound of the trumpet of god and the dead in christ will rise first then we who are alive who are left
00:30:11.920
will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so we will always be
00:30:18.240
with the lord yes lord thank you so much therefore encourage one another with these words i hope that
00:30:26.420
encouraged you so that's all we need to know right now we won't know the day we won't know the hour that
00:30:32.220
hasn't even been revealed to all of the heavenly beings so ignore all of those prophecies of people
00:30:37.580
saying they know when they don't know when that is caused to sow division and anxiety and fear we do
00:30:44.820
just have to be ready we have to be doing what we want to be found doing at that moment not wasting
00:30:51.380
time i'm speaking to myself just as much to anyone else not um not wasting time not uh sowing chaos
00:31:00.800
but through strength being peacemakers sharing the gospel doing what god has called us in that moment
00:31:09.220
that doesn't mean that you have to be doing these historic valiant public feats in that moment
00:31:14.420
you could be changing a diaper you could be washing dishes you could be sending an email you could be
00:31:20.760
sharing the gospel you could be buying groceries but in that moment be caught doing the next right
00:31:25.500
thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of god all right we've got another theological subject
00:31:31.360
uh to tackle and that is curses uh you might have seen this article that was going around i hadn't even
00:31:39.980
shared it or talked about it and maybe i should have there's just been so much going on it's been hard to
00:31:44.040
know exactly what what to say and when but jezebel posted on their instagram and posted on their
00:31:49.880
website and if you can't tell by the name jezebel is not a christian site okay it is secular left-wing
00:31:57.440
degenerate demonic disgusting nonsense okay that's what fills the pages of jezebel so it shouldn't be
00:32:05.560
surprising that just a couple days i believe it was a couple days maybe a few days before charlie's
00:32:11.800
brutal assassination that they posted that they had hired witches to send a curse on charlie kirk
00:32:20.360
and megan kelly talked about this on her show yesterday jezebel has since taken the article down
00:32:26.780
not of course because they're morally against it not because they feel guilty obviously they wanted to
00:32:32.900
try to harness the powers of darkness against charlie kirk and let this just be a lesson for all of you
00:32:40.640
agnostic people out there who don't know quite yet what to think evil clearly exists and evil hates
00:32:48.800
goodness and darkness hates light and so that is why this demonic outlet called jezebel tried to harness
00:32:58.860
the powers of satan to attack this emissary of light and goodness and the gospel so they wrote this
00:33:07.020
article and reportedly this you know very much disturbed erica and charlie because yes they
00:33:14.560
understood that evil is real that the spiritual powers of darkness are real and it uh reportedly
00:33:20.740
propelled them to pray which we should all pray because satan is real and demons are real but here's
00:33:26.300
what i want to encourage you as we pray and as we put on the full armor of god as we read in ephesians 6
00:33:32.680
i want to assure you christian of your protection i want to assure you christian that you are covered
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by the blood of the lamb that you are covered by christ and by the way if you want that protection
00:33:47.060
get right with god through jesus and if you want to know what that means read ephesians 2
00:33:52.520
by grace through faith you can be not only saved by christ so that your soul can go to heaven forever
00:33:58.900
and saved from the hell that every single one of us deserves but also you will be under his
00:34:03.640
protection that doesn't mean that nothing bad will ever happen to you of course but that you will be
00:34:11.220
not under the curse of the darkness but you will be under the protection and the grace of our lord
00:34:17.200
jesus christ and nothing will befall you nothing can befall you apart from god's sovereign will
00:34:24.820
so i'll read you some verses that support that that should encourage you christian that in this
00:34:31.040
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so i'm just going to read you some verses i'm just going to read through them just to remind you of some
00:36:14.820
really important truths for us as christians galatians 3 13 through 14 christ redeemed us from the curse of the law
00:36:20.980
by becoming a curse for us for it is written curse it is everyone who was who is hanged on a tree that's
00:36:28.300
jesus so that in christ jesus the blessing of abraham might come to the gentiles so that we might receive
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the promised spirit through faith and i'm losing my voice right now so pray for me colossians 1 13
00:36:42.020
he has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son in whom we have
00:36:49.060
redemption the forgiveness of sins 1 john 1 7 but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have
00:36:56.200
fellowship with one another and the blood of jesus his son cleanses us from all sin so i just want to remind you
00:37:04.660
christian that you are a new creation the old has passed the new has come that you are now in christ
00:37:10.900
you are now covered by him you cannot be possessed by a demon that no curse is going to befall you that
00:37:19.840
is outside of god's protection you actually cannot go outside of god's protection now listen god can allow
00:37:27.720
you to be tempted jesus was tempted in the wilderness god can allow trials to befall you read james 1
00:37:34.960
god actually uses trials to build your character and to build your perseverance we see in the book of
00:37:42.240
job that god allowed satan to have some authority over what happened to job but nothing can befall you
00:37:51.660
outside of god's sovereignty god's moral will of course can be broken because all of us sin but his
00:38:00.560
sovereign will as we read in job 42 2 cannot be thwarted no plan of god can be thwarted and we know
00:38:08.480
that he is actually actively using all of the bad things that happen all of the tragedy that occurs
00:38:14.160
all of these sins that are committed for his glory and the good of those who love him that's romans
00:38:21.220
8 28 and remember christian as we read in psalm 37 that god is not doing nothing as all of these
00:38:26.860
bad things are happening but his anger is kindling and one day as we just read he is going to come
00:38:32.560
back and he is going to defeat all evil forever he is not doing nothing about the evil that occurs but
00:38:38.280
he is using all of it somehow and his redemptive plan for his glory and the good of his church
00:38:44.300
god is not distant he is not busy he is not idle he is not wondering what's going to happen next
00:38:51.920
god's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a hitch so let us remember god's sovereignty
00:38:58.680
and what we are about to read there was a part of erica's speech that i was really touched by
00:39:05.980
and she said this this is a line from her speech at the memorial even in death i could see the man
00:39:14.520
charlie that i love she said i saw the one single gray hair on the side of his head which i never told
00:39:22.400
him about and she's talking about when she had to go identify his body at the hospital after he had been
00:39:28.780
shot and killed she said i saw the one single gray hair on the side of his head and you know what i
00:39:35.080
thought of i thought of these words of jesus when he's speaking to his followers he's telling them
00:39:40.780
about the persecution that's to come he says this in luke 21 16 through 18 some of you they will put to
00:39:49.620
death you will be hated by all for my name's sake but not a hair of your head will perish so you'll be
00:40:00.040
delivered up to death they will put you to death you will become martyrs and yet not a hair on your
00:40:07.540
head will perish remember we are immortal we are bulletproof until god calls us home
00:40:14.920
let us remember this promise from isaiah 46 9 through 10 remember the former things of old for i am god
00:40:22.460
and there is no other i am god and there is none like me declaring the end from the beginning and from
00:40:28.700
ancient times things not yet done saying my counsel shall stand and i will accomplish my purpose
00:40:34.720
romans 8 28 and we know that for those who love god all things work together for good for those who are
00:40:44.300
called according to his purpose god is in control god will do something about evil in fact i was just
00:40:53.500
reading and and i apologize i don't have the exact reference in front of me because i was reading my
00:41:00.640
devo and i've got a psalms journal that i am using it's from crossway and um david is talking about
00:41:10.140
his enemies and he is talking about the enemies of god and he is telling god like i need you to do
00:41:18.860
something about it like i need you to stop these evil people here it is it's psalm 9 15 those who
00:41:27.940
mock god those who scoff at god reject god this is what we read about them the nations have sunk in
00:41:34.300
the pit that they have made in the net that they hid their own foot has been caught so all of these plans
00:41:42.200
all of these schemes and plots of evildoers right now the wicked who gnash their teeth against god
00:41:49.300
and against the righteous they will fall into their own trap we have to trust god we even see it right
00:41:55.460
now that god's in the business of redemption he is already doing something so good out of something so
00:42:01.220
tragic and i want to warn you this is what we're going to talk about next with our remaining time
00:42:07.200
i want to reward or warn you that uh in this time there are going to be those who by the powers of
00:42:16.300
darkness and the spirit of satan want to distract you and want to demonize revival and don't want you
00:42:24.420
to look to christ they don't want you to look to the cross they don't want you to love your neighbor
00:42:28.020
they don't want you to go to church they don't want you to read your bible they don't want you to pray
00:42:31.340
and they are being used far worse than that historic phrase of useful idiots that's a communist
00:42:38.860
phrase used to describe people who are just mindless vessels of the terrible ideology of communism and
00:42:45.340
socialism far worse than that there are people who are vessels of wrath as we see in romans 9 there's
00:42:52.460
still hope for people right now who are unbelievers that god can save them if he chooses to save them and
00:42:58.680
we should be praying for the repentance of people like ilhan omar and don lemon and all of these
00:43:02.960
people who are purveying these awful ideas 100 god can do that he turned saul who approved of the
00:43:09.200
martyrdom of stephen into paul the greatest evangelist that ever lived so god can do anything
00:43:14.500
but there are people right now who are going to make you think that a few things one that what you
00:43:21.860
can see with your own eyes and ears isn't really true and so you need to go down every dark rabbit hole
00:43:26.760
that exists um and i'm not saying we shouldn't ask questions we should ask questions but the and the
00:43:33.320
question that we should always ask is where's the evidence where's the evidence we should ask that to
00:43:38.300
individuals we should ask that to the government where's the evidence i don't want innuendo innuendo
00:43:42.140
is an evidence innuendo is an investigation innuendo is clickbait okay so we should be seeking
00:43:48.160
the truth there don't let those people distract you don't let them build in you anxiety and paranoia and
00:43:52.500
distract you from your purpose in this revival don't let them distract you from repentance
00:43:57.500
satan would love that and number two there are going to be people both on the right but definitely
00:44:04.040
on the left who are telling you that this is christian nationalism something super scary that we're
00:44:12.800
wedding state power and christianity and that it should scare us and that you shouldn't feel deeply
00:44:18.380
watching this footage of charlie kirk's memorial and it's hogwash i'm going to play you some of that
00:44:24.800
in just a second and i'll give you my response um i'll go ahead and play you uh this first clip
00:44:32.980
and then we can respond to it before we get to our next break here's salt one what we saw in that arena
00:44:39.400
was not simply faith finding public expression it was religious nationalism on full display that is the
00:44:48.260
truth that is my truth this is my freedom of expression the language was unmistakable take
00:44:54.900
the nation back for god restore america's covenant this is a holy calling that's what it sounded like
00:45:00.920
this is not the language of democracy this is the language of domination oh my gosh this is my
00:45:08.420
truth you know the the holy spirit has been working over time in my heart to give me a spirit of
00:45:15.940
self-control because the things i want to say to don lemon and ilhan omar and aoc and all of these
00:45:24.400
wicked people who have said some of these people have said horrific things about charlie kirk but also
00:45:31.640
saying things like this look this was a memorial this was not a state sanctioned event these were our top
00:45:38.440
leaders exalting the name of christ and declaring that jesus is king and guess what jesus is king is what
00:45:44.960
all christians believe is what we're all supposed to believe and that is a total statement that is a
00:45:51.380
total statement genesis 1 1 god created the heavens and the earth okay the all christians believe that
00:45:56.720
can you say that you believe that as a christian if you can't say that you believe that then
00:46:00.380
you're not a christian you got a lot of work to do all christians believe that god created the
00:46:04.880
heavens and the earth if god created all of it he is the authority over all of it if he has the
00:46:09.740
authority over all of it then he gets to say what is and what isn't what's right and what's wrong
00:46:12.980
what's good and what's bad, what a woman is, when life begins, what a marriage is,
00:46:17.060
what is good and what is evil. He gets to define those things. We don't get to compartmentalize
00:46:22.280
God's authority over there. God's authority is infused into every single area of the Christian
00:46:28.320
life, how we conduct business and how we vote. And Christians, just like every other person in
00:46:34.480
society, every other person in America, whether you are Muslim, whether you are a secular
00:46:38.620
progressive, whatever belief system you have, you have the freedom to bring the fullness of that
00:46:44.320
belief system into the voting booth, into the halls of Congress, into every school board meeting.
00:46:49.760
That actually is a democratic process. Let the best idea win. Of course, Christians believe we have
00:46:57.120
the best ideas. The founders believed that Christians had the best ideas for how a society
00:47:01.360
should function and flourish. If we believe that God created the heavens and the earth, if we believe
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that God is love, 1 John 4, 8, then of course we believe that God and what we believe about God,
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what we know about God should inform policy because we love our neighbors. You can't believe that God is
00:47:18.940
love but believe that he doesn't have the best way for us to love our neighbors, both personally and
00:47:26.140
politically, that just doesn't make sense. No, these people believe that everyone else, that the secular
00:47:31.640
progressive who believes their pseudo-religious idea is that you can be born in the wrong body or that
00:47:36.960
personhood can be placed on a human being somewhere in the birth canal by the fetus fairy, those people
00:47:43.980
get to bring the fullness of their worldview into the voting booth. But when Christians do it, it's
00:47:48.560
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MSNBC, which of course is a bastion of all truth and virtue and definitely should be the place that
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we go to to understand theology better, is telling us, be afraid, be very afraid of Christians like
00:49:22.700
Marco Rubio from the stage of a memorial sharing the gospel. Here's Sato.
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What you're seeing here is a movement called Christian nationalism that merges Christianity
00:49:34.080
as it's been practiced in America for centuries with a very specific interpretation of what the
00:49:40.380
founding fathers wanted, what Aristotle wanted, going all the way back to the ancients. You saw Larry
00:49:46.180
Arn, who is the president of Hillsdale College and a proponent of this strain of interpretation of
00:49:52.680
the Bible, merge Christianity and protecting the Western civilization values into one and the same
00:50:00.580
thing. It's a very somewhat convoluted argument, but if you distill it into the right talking points,
00:50:07.940
it really hits you in the, uh, patriotic heart area. What? Oh no. The, uh, these Christians are
00:50:16.480
following the extreme views of Aristotle. Oh my gosh. What a radical. Remember that guy?
00:50:24.020
This is just, it is fear mongering and actually what it is. It's just like everything else. Our views
00:50:29.940
on gender, our views on marriage, our views on speech, all of these things are normal. They've been
00:50:34.340
normative for Christians for two, I mean, in a lot of ways, 2000 years, obviously not every single
00:50:40.400
political position that we hold today is relevant to Christians who have lived in other places
00:50:44.980
throughout history, but especially since we are looking, um, at the forging of Western civilization
00:50:50.840
and the founding of America, the idea that you should put your country first, that the welfare
00:50:56.620
security of your country should come before the welfare and security of other countries. That is the
00:51:01.560
right and responsibility of every single government around the world. That's just obvious. Zimbabwe
00:51:06.360
should put Zimbabwe first. France should put France first. That should be infused into immigration
00:51:11.320
policy, economic policy, foreign policy. Of course, that is the God-given righteous and merciful
00:51:17.760
responsibility of every single government to put the needs of their citizens first. God created countries.
00:51:23.400
He created borders. They were his idea. The government is instituted by God, Romans 13,
00:51:27.880
to punish evil and to reward good. Of course, that goes for every single country. That sure as heck
00:51:34.860
goes for our country. When we look at Jeremiah 29, the Israelites were placed in exile. What did God
00:51:40.620
tell them before he said, I have plans to prosper you and not to harm you? And verse 11, he tells them,
00:51:46.460
seek the welfare of the city that I have placed you in. So Christians are in exile here on earth,
00:51:50.640
and yet we have been placed here by a God who does nothing accidentally or arbitrarily,
00:51:54.880
but does everything with purpose and intention. You are placed in this space, on this tiny spot
00:52:00.000
of the universe, on this small speck of eternity by a God who does nothing by accident. We are called
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to make better the space, the sphere that we occupy. Yes, there are a million ways that we can do that
00:52:12.120
on the personal level, but politics is a way that we do that. Policy is a way that we do that because
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politics affect policy, policy affects people, and people matter. Politics matter because policy
00:52:26.060
matters because people matter. Politics is a way, not the only, not the primary, a way to love your
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neighbor. And yes, Christians for the past several centuries have believed that. Going all the way
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back 2,000 years ago, it's not that they were primarily political activists, but the gospel of
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Jesus Christ, the previously exclusively Hebrew idea of the Imago Dei changed the world because
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these Christians came into a society that measured people's worth based on their rationale and based on
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their ability to reason, the logos, and their productivity and said, no, no, no, no, no. That's
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not how we're measuring people's worth. We're measuring people's worth by the fact that they are human.
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If they're human, no matter their size or their age or their productivity, they're made in the image
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of God so they all have worth. And oh, oh, by the way, you thought that was it? No, no, no. No matter
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how smart or rich you are, you are dead and you're sent apart from Christ and you are going to hell.
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And you need just as much help getting to heaven as anyone else. You are all equally dead and sent
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apart from Christ. You all have to be made alive by grace through faith in Christ. Yes, that's right.
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Our King, our Messiah, our Savior died on the cross, but he didn't just die on the cross. Unlike all of
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your leaders and your prophets, he rose again three days later. And we know he's coming back,
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but we've got work to do until then. And everywhere that Christian feet hit the ground,
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they said the child sacrifice will stop now. The injustice will stop here. The neglecting of
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the vulnerable will stop here. And yes, that happened on a personal level through the building
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of hospitals and orphanages and adoption agencies. All of that happened on a cultural level and
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stigmatizing things like abortion and infanticide and child prostitution. All of that happened 2,000
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years ago in pagan ancient Rome until over time as these small group of persistent and relentless
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Christians were killed and then multiplied, killed and then multiplied. All of those evil practices
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eventually became stigmatized, became shamed, and then in many cases became criminalized.
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And so Christians over time through infusing goodness into every sphere that they occupied,
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they changed how the world functioned. They changed the systems to go from objectifying Christians or
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objectifying children and the most vulnerable to treating those people with dignity. And those people
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had those ideas when they founded the United States of America. And that was the belief that led
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abolition against slavery, which by the way is still practiced in many non-Western countries today.
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And that is the same spirit that leads us to fight against things like abortion, not just on the
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personal level and taking care of those babies, but also guaranteeing their legal right not to be
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murdered. Yes, we are declaring that Jesus is king when we fight for the legal right of babies to not be
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slaughtered inside the womb. We are declaring that Jesus is king when we say you do not have the right
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to butcher a body of a young person who is confused about their gender.
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Yes, we are declaring that Jesus is king when we say we don't want more Lake and Rileys. We don't want
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more Molly Tibbettses. We want to protect these borders with as much mercy and strength as we can.
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Yes, those come from a Christian worldview. There are practical reasons for all of those policies. But yes,
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Christians get to bring the fullness of what we believe into the public sphere, just like everyone
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else. And Christian, if you are disturbed by, rather than grateful for, some of the most powerful
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people in the world getting on stage and declaring that Jesus is king, then you have been brainwashed.
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Not everyone else. You have been brainwashed. Because what we saw at Charlie's memorial was God's
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mercy to us. That God has not turned his back on us yet. That he is showing us grace by giving us all
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of these people in this administration who love him and know him and want to make him known. That
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should make you celebrate and say, hallelujah, thank you, Lord, for not forgetting us when you could have.
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Get your mind right. Get your heart right. Don't be psyoped. Don't be manipulated by this
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Okay. I want to play you this clip from Charlie Kirk because he was the best
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at defending the Christian foundations of America. Like, the capacity in that man's brain
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to remember all of these facts and to regurgitate them without saying um, without stumbling over
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his words was really amazing. I can't say it better than Charlie. Here's top five.
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Remember that we were a collection of states and colonies, and you need to read the state
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constitutions before anything else. Nine out of 13 of the original states required you to be a
00:58:55.940
Bible-believing Christian to serve in government at the time of the founding. 13 out of 13 required a
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declaration of faith. Nine out of 13 required you to be a Protestant, except Maryland, which was
00:59:03.920
Catholic, which still required a declaration of faith. Almost every single one of the original
00:59:07.840
state constitutions, Pennsylvania included, they had, I profess Lord and Jesus Christ as my Lord
00:59:12.340
and Savior in the original state constitutions. They say that God was only mentioned four times in
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the Declaration of Independence. Well, that's a big deal. Okay. Laws of nature and nature's God.
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The last paragraph of the declaration reads as a prayer. It says, we appeal to the supreme
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judge of the universe. Who is the judge of the universe? Jesus Christ. It says in Revelation
00:59:28.880
that Jesus will judge the earth on his throne. So in the declaration, they were praying to
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Christ our Lord as a prayer very specifically. So yes, explicitly Christian. In order to hold
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state office, you actually had to be a Protestant Christian in most of the colonies. And yes, when
00:59:49.400
people say, oh, this founding only says God this many amount of times. Well, how incredible is it?
00:59:55.100
How incredible is it? I mean, of course, the very first part of the declaration declares that we
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were given our rights by a creator. We were endowed with certain inalienable rights, among them being
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life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, or property. I mean, even if it just said that, that's incredible
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that we have a creator, not just some like deistic far off God who set the world into motion and then
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had nothing to do with it. A lot of people say, oh, all the founders were deists. Some of the
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founders were deists. George Washington was not a deist. Many of the founders that signed the
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declaration were not deists. They were not just theists. They were actually Christians. Many of
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them, I'm not getting into a Calvinist debate, but Calvinism at this time, especially because of the
01:00:45.120
First Great Awakening, was very prevalent. A lot of these people were Presbyterian. And so it's just
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not true that they had like no semblance of biblical faith. It is absolutely true. Now, of course, the
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First Amendment to the Constitution says that we have a freedom of religion, that we cannot be forced to
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practice a particular religion. And I think that that is, I think that that of course is true. Of course
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it's true. But that also is why these people going out there and saying, hey, I'm a Christian. I'm also a
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government official. It's not theocracy. It's not forcing anyone to pray. It's not forcing anyone
01:01:20.160
to believe. You can be a Jewish person. You can be a Muslim person in the United States. But that
01:01:25.460
doesn't negate our Christian foundations. And yes, because of that, Christianity and the basic
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principles of Christianity, the worldview of Christianity, of having a creator, of having a
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greater moral order, of having a family set up between one man and one woman, of the reality of
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the Imago Dei, and because of that, having an innate worth, the need for impartial justice and due
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process, all of which is inspired by Scripture, it is so important for those tenets to be understood by
01:01:56.640
every single student. No one says they have to abide by them and their families themselves, but
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understood by every single student and should be the foundation of policy in America. The basic
01:02:09.000
principles, absolutely. And if you don't believe that, if you want to buck against that, if you want
01:02:14.360
to speak against that, if you want to, you know, try to say that that's not the case and you want to
01:02:21.660
create some kind of like petition or organization against that, you have the freedom to do that because
01:02:26.540
of Christianity. You have had the privilege of living in a decently rightly ordered society,
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of having rights, inherit rights, because of Christianity. You only get to speak against the
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prevailing worldview of a country. You only get to be a dissent in a country when the prevailing worldview
01:02:50.000
of that country values personal liberty. It is because of Christianity that all of you people
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out there that have spoken against it and that hate America have been free to bring those ideas to the
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table. But you see, now things do look a little bit different. The marketplace of ideas was just shot
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up by a leftist who couldn't handle being disagreed with. And then actually, all of these people who
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suddenly care about free speech cared more when a multimillionaire got suspended from his job for
01:03:24.980
five days than when someone was assassinated for saying something that is true. Jimmy Kimmel has been
01:03:32.300
reinstalled. Some left-wing nut shot up an ABC affiliate. So there's officially been more violence
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because of Jimmy Kimmel getting suspended for lying on air than the right has displayed since one of our
01:03:49.320
legitimate heroes got assassinated. I'm going to question your free speech bona fides if you cared
01:03:56.180
more about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel for five days than Charlie Kirk getting assassinated for speaking
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words that were true. Hmm. I'm going to start to maybe think you're just a left-wing radical and you
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need Jesus. You need Jesus. And we should be praying for that. But you know, I do think that when Jesus tells us
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to pray for our enemies, that includes some of the psalms and the prayers of David who said,
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please, Lord, you got to do something about the evil. You got to do something about them. Please don't let them
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flourish. Don't let them win. Pray for their repentance. Yes. But let's pray for justice.
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Let's pray for truth to prevail too. All right. That's all we've got time for today. We will be back here on Friday.