The NXR Podcast - August 04, 2026


American Glory - Why You Need a Wartime Church


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00:00:00.000 Today on American Glory, we're discussing wartime churches and the liability of a weak pastor.
00:00:06.260 In my weekly audit, I'll be looking at a post made by a friend of mine that upset many weak
00:00:10.880 pastors, as well as an older clip that's connecting national judgment to weak churches.
00:00:16.560 All that and more coming up right now.
00:00:30.000 Welcome to American Glory. This is season two on American Christianity. I'm your host, 0.63
00:00:36.860 Dale Partridge. This is episode number five of season two, and it's titled,
00:00:42.060 Why You Need a Wartime Church. Now, this season, I'll be covering eight topics around American
00:00:48.040 Christianity. Now, in my last two episodes, I finished a two-part series on dispensationalism
00:00:53.960 and Zionism, and how American Christians have become slaves of Israel. Now, over 100,000 of you
00:01:01.040 listened to those episodes. I just want to thank you for your support. Now, if you watch those two
00:01:06.380 episodes, you already know how pastoral ignorance can produce national consequences. We saw that
00:01:13.280 the questions surrounding Israel are, at their root, theological questions. And when pastors
00:01:19.900 fail to teach clearly or lack the courage to do so, the nation inevitably pays the price.
00:01:26.260 Now today, we're going to show you how vital it is to have pastors that know what time it is
00:01:33.260 and how acting as if everything is just business as normal, if they're just unwilling to address
00:01:41.300 the cultural elephants in the room, it leads to weak churches that expel strong men and leave
00:01:47.320 the church and the nation more vulnerable. Now, more than that, we're going to be discussing why
00:01:52.800 Christians need wartime shepherds right now and where to find them. Now, if you didn't know,
00:01:59.440 American Glory is a podcast and a video show, right? So you can listen to it if you're listening
00:02:05.200 to it now. You can also watch it on YouTube. Now, if you're listening to it, you can listen
00:02:10.460 on the NXR podcast feed. You can also listen to the American Glory podcast feed. If you just
00:02:16.520 search for American Glory, you are going to find that whether it's Spotify, Apple Podcasts,
00:02:21.020 or wherever you listen to podcasts. Now, if you want to watch the video version of it,
00:02:25.360 which has lots of slides, again, I try to make them documentary style episodes, you can do that
00:02:30.380 by just going over to my YouTube channel, which is at Dale Partridge TV. So on that note, let's begin.
00:02:37.780 the bible teaches that it's vital to know what time it is sometimes that means recognizing the
00:02:46.940 urgency to repent sometimes it means understanding as solomon says that there is a time for every
00:02:53.380 purpose under heaven and sometimes it means possessing the wartime discernment of the sons
00:02:59.500 of issachar who quote had understanding of the times to know what israel ought to do end quote
00:03:06.420 Now, that demands biblical wisdom, historical perspective, cultural awareness, moral courage,
00:03:11.520 and the clarity to distinguish the passing controversies of the moment from the deeper
00:03:17.000 forces that are reshaping our entire age. Now, nations have eras just like individuals do,
00:03:23.600 but unlike eras of a man's life, national eras don't usually change every few years.
00:03:29.180 They endure for decades, and some people are born, they might live and die within a single
00:03:34.280 historical era. Now, others are born at the edge of one era and live long enough to cross it into
00:03:40.940 another era. And those generations are forced to adapt because the world around them is
00:03:46.840 fundamentally changing in a major way. Now, I believe that I belong to one of those generations.
00:03:52.540 Now, I grew up in the 1990s. I was born in 1985. But what now appears to have been really the
00:03:59.380 closing chapter of old America. Now, it was a nation with, you know, generally high social
00:04:07.380 trust, a strong Christian influence, a largely analog way of life, and confidence that America
00:04:13.300 would generally remain the same in the coming years. Now, I was a freshman in high school in
00:04:18.560 1999, and I didn't own a cell phone at the time. Social media didn't exist. Smartphones had not
00:04:25.320 yet been invented. The internet was a tool, not an environment. But then the ground of the culture
00:04:33.340 began to move. In 2000, the dot-com boom ushered in the information age. And within a generation,
00:04:41.080 nearly every aspect of American life, from commerce and communication and politics to
00:04:46.400 relationships, would be mediated through a screen. Now, this would reshape communication,
00:04:53.020 collapse institutions, democratize basically all information, radicalize individualism,
00:05:01.920 ignite world-altering social discourse and debate, and become basically the battlefield
00:05:07.780 on which most of Americans' ideological warfare would be fought. Now then, in my junior year of
00:05:15.940 high school on September 11th, 2001, the illusion of national peace was shattered, right? Some of
00:05:23.380 my older friends went on into the Middle East to fight Israel's wars. And then a few years later,
00:05:31.720 we saw the Great Recession of 2008, which revealed really the nation's economic instability.
00:05:38.040 Now in 2012, we voted for the very first black Muslim sympathizing president to prove that we
00:05:45.780 weren't racist as a nation. And in 2015, we legalized homosexual marriage and the black
00:05:52.240 president lit up the White House with rainbow colors to show our moral collapse to the entire 0.99
00:05:58.680 world. Then the deliberate flood of mass immigration came in, the relentless propaganda
00:06:04.520 of tolerance and multiculturalism. And then like a fist just to the back of the skull was COVID 0.52
00:06:12.300 in 2020. So we had a year of lockdowns, government tyranny, cities burning, racial bloodshed,
00:06:19.760 institutional trust started to evaporate overnight, and a level of nonstop cultural and moral chaos
00:06:28.080 has erupted that Americans never really imagined, and it's really been continuing to go ever since.
00:06:35.620 Now, because of our tendency toward hyper-normalization, which is really just
00:06:41.020 the gradual acceptance of extraordinary conditions as if they're normal, even though they're totally
00:06:47.540 not. We have become numb. We've become desensitized. And if there's not blood in the
00:06:55.240 streets, many people just dismiss our insane times. They say things like, oh, every generation
00:07:01.260 thinks that they're living through the end of the world, or it's not that bad, right? The World
00:07:06.060 War II generation endured far worse. Honestly, I just disagree. Not because the people of the
00:07:13.120 1940s didn't endure tremendous suffering. They did. But because we're fighting a fundamentally
00:07:19.320 different kind of war. The kind of wars of the 20th century were fought primarily against
00:07:26.920 foreign enemies. Today's conflict is between domestic enemies. The fault lines are not
00:07:33.460 running through foreign lands, but through your own neighborhoods, through your own institutions,
00:07:39.040 through your own churches, through your own political parties, even through your own families.
00:07:43.840 Okay, the battle isn't over like trade routes or like socioeconomic matters, right? It's over
00:07:48.780 national identity, morality, religion, the future of this nation. Now, looking back,
00:07:56.980 it seems clear that this series of events from, say, 2000 to the present were kind of like a
00:08:04.940 chain of historical explosions or like detonations that accelerated America into what is truly like
00:08:11.940 a Cold War of identity politics. Now, to me, it's been like watching a fuse burn toward
00:08:20.100 like a powder keg that's about to explode. Every year is like another spark. Every crisis is like
00:08:26.460 another inch. And groups are forming, right? Supplies are being gathered. Alliances are being
00:08:33.240 forged. Positions are being taken. The shooting has not yet begun, right? It's a cold war. It's
00:08:39.500 not a hot war yet, right? But everyone knows that American peace is like slipping away.
00:08:46.120 Now, even the Republican Party is no longer like a unified coalition, right? Israel has divided 0.57
00:08:51.420 the neocons from the America First movement. Christian nationalism has divided itself 0.67
00:08:56.280 from the secular conservative party. Whites are, you know, warring against blacks. We have blacks 0.99
00:09:02.800 warring against whites. We have Zoomers that are ready to destroy the boomers and boomers don't 1.00
00:09:07.560 understand this. Feminists are hating patriarchs and Christians are looking to outlaw Islam and 1.00
00:09:12.420 Hinduism. The polarity is expanding and it's going fast. And this division doesn't always 0.98
00:09:21.300 remain outside of the walls of the church. So the same fragmentation that's occurring in the
00:09:28.140 culture is actually occurring across nearly every major denomination, right? The PCA and the OPC
00:09:33.620 are fighting over Christian nationalism. The CREC is fighting over race in Israel.
00:09:39.860 The LCMS and the ACNA are trying to not be swallowed up by feminists. The Pope is calling for
00:09:47.060 Europeans to love foreigners while foreigners are killing Europeans. Eastern Orthodoxy is 0.98
00:09:53.020 swooping up Western sons while we're weak and aiming to make us essentially hate our Western 0.96
00:10:00.120 heritage and forefathers. Then you add to this like the AI tidal wave, and we face this kind
00:10:07.440 of greater uncertainty for jobs. You add the kind of Islamic invasion, Dearborn, Michigan, 1.00
00:10:13.140 and all that, then the millions of Hindus and the H-1B visas that are coming in. And you begin to 0.99
00:10:18.420 start to see this national theft that's occurring. Then you add black crime and OnlyFans and the 1.00
00:10:25.640 plummeting birth rates. And then the panic starts to set in if you start making sense of it. You 1.00
00:10:30.760 wake up to kind of the Jewish subversion, Israel, Zionism controlling our government. And it feels 0.91
00:10:37.060 like a rope that's starting to tighten around our national neck. And in every sector, in every
00:10:45.080 industry and institution, the trajectory is just like, it's unmistakable, right? America is moving
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00:11:58.260 Now, the central duties of a pastor are to shepherd, not merely to teach timeless biblical
00:12:08.360 truths, to shepherd them through the scriptures, but faithfully apply those scriptures to the
00:12:13.220 present moment, okay, to help their flock navigate the times with a Christian worldview.
00:12:19.820 And that raises the unavoidable question, does your pastor do this? Does your pastor
00:12:26.200 know what time it is. Because a shepherd who mistakes wartime for peacetime will emphasize
00:12:33.580 the wrong virtues, ignore the wrong dangers, and leave his flock basically unprepared for what's
00:12:41.240 coming. And I've seen this. I've seen lots of pastors that are still thinking, especially in
00:12:45.660 the Reformed world, they still think it's 2014 or 2016. They don't understand that the times
00:12:52.160 have fundamentally changed. We have to remember that culture is always downstream from the church
00:12:58.700 because morality is downstream from theology and theology is downstream from scripture.
00:13:05.540 Okay. So every political position eventually rests upon a moral claim and every moral claim
00:13:11.000 rests upon a theological claim. And every theological claim must ultimately answer to
00:13:15.520 the word of God. I once heard a quote that went something like this. Every philosopher,
00:13:23.540 scientist, and politician spends his life climbing the mountain of knowledge only to discover upon
00:13:29.660 reaching the top, a theologian waiting for him with a beer in hand. And I like that. I think
00:13:35.180 that's true. I think you start climbing up and you realize that all the answers really are in
00:13:40.840 the word of God, the scriptures, the Bible. And so that means the primary war is not first
00:13:48.180 in Congress or the White House or the courts. It's in the pulpits. It's in the pulpits, right?
00:13:55.680 Pagans can't fix America, okay? Atheists have no answers for fixing America. Every solution that 1.00
00:14:02.960 does not stem from God's word is going to stem from man's word, from man's emotions, from man's
00:14:08.200 ideas, okay? Now, not every pastor is called to be a politically engaged theologian who labors in
00:14:16.120 both the church and the state. In fact, I would say that I don't believe that that is even the
00:14:21.220 ideal. I don't believe that the black robe regiment of the American Revolution should be 0.99
00:14:26.440 the ordinary model for ministry, nor do I think it's generally desirable for pastors to serve
00:14:32.560 as political actors. You know, I think about, what's his name, Witherspoon, who was a Presbyterian
00:14:39.340 minister, and he signed the Declaration of Independence. So he was obviously, you know,
00:14:45.440 politically engaged. But I would say this, extraordinary times often require extraordinary
00:14:51.260 measures. And I believe that we are living in uniquely wicked, immoral times. Now, in an age
00:14:58.700 when many of our most prominent Christian statesmen lack basic theological depth.
00:15:06.520 Pastors have to step in and fill the gap. Their task is not to become politicians,
00:15:12.120 but to encourage our existing politicians in the truth, and more than that, form future
00:15:18.600 politicians from within their own congregations. So if pastors neglect the theological formation
00:15:25.380 of future civic leaders. They shouldn't be surprised when the nation is led by
00:15:30.020 women and foreigners and fools. And what I mean by that is that we are reaping what we have sown. 1.00
00:15:36.620 We spent generations producing theologically weak and politically illiterate Christian men, 0.97
00:15:42.100 and now we're governed by theologically weak and politically illiterate Christian politicians. 1.00
00:15:48.220 Okay? This is the problem. Now, remember, a separation of church and state does not mean 1.00
00:15:55.980 a separation of church from God, or sorry, a separation of state from God. It doesn't also
00:16:01.920 mean a separation of church from statesmen. Okay? It is the pastor's duty to preach the
00:16:08.340 word of God to every area of life, including politics and cultural issues. I actually have
00:16:14.400 a really great book. It's sitting right over here on my desk. It's political sermons from the
00:16:21.860 American founding era. And it just shows that throughout church history, we have, especially
00:16:27.240 in high impact political times, wars around the revolution, around the civil war, around World
00:16:34.400 War I, you have political sermons because you're shepherding the people of God through the elephant
00:16:40.780 in the room. And that's very important to do. Now, if pastors can't answer the great moral
00:16:46.620 questions of our age from scripture, then nobody can. Okay. If you can't have the answer,
00:16:52.960 you're sending your flock to someone else to get those answers. And they're probably not going to
00:16:59.160 be aligned with a biblical worldview. And so politics can enforce moral order, right? We know
00:17:10.140 that. Politics can enforce moral order. But what it can't do is create a moral order. Okay. Again,
00:17:19.060 laws follow morality and morality follows theology. And so, yeah, you can legislate and you should
00:17:27.100 legislate laws that stop evil, but you need to make sure that those laws are really built off
00:17:32.820 of morality, which is built off theology, which is built off of scripture. And so this is why I
00:17:38.820 the first responsibility in America's present conflict rests with her pastors. But no one can
00:17:47.480 fight a war without first identifying the enemy. So in this episode, what I want to do is I want
00:17:52.920 to examine what I believe are the four greatest moral threats facing America today. I also want
00:18:01.540 to really share about how our church is seeking to resist those threats and show you how to identify
00:18:11.220 a wartime church and a wartime pastor and what to do if you can't find one near you. And so
00:18:18.120 if you don't know, I pastor Kingsway Reformed Church in Prescott, Arizona. We're small,
00:18:24.380 we're faithful. Prescott is, you know, when you think about Arizona, people think of cactuses,
00:18:29.760 but we sit at about 5,000 feet in the high desert, pine trees, open plains, highly conservative,
00:18:36.740 mostly older white community. Our congregation, however, is largely under 40, the age of 40.
00:18:44.240 And I mentioned that for a reason, right? Thomas Paine once said, 1.00
00:18:47.360 never trust anyone over the age of 40 in a revolution. And I remember the first time I 0.95
00:18:53.040 heard that and I thought, wow, that actually has lined up and proven to be true in our own church.
00:19:00.000 Now, you know, obviously it's clinical evidence, but we would love older families. But every time
00:19:06.280 we get them, they eventually leave after being offended when we preach against one of these
00:19:11.900 four threats. So these four threats are feminism, Zionism, globalism, and cowardice. Okay. Those
00:19:21.620 are the threats, feminism, Zionism, globalism, and cowardice. Now I get it. There are lots of 0.78
00:19:27.960 other issues, abortion, Islam, pornography, homosexuality, all of these things are very
00:19:31.700 serious. But from my perspective, those are all downstream consequences of one of these four macro 0.63
00:19:38.920 issues. And so let me just briefly walk through each one of these issues. And I want to explain
00:19:45.460 how I believe faithful churches should respond to them, and then show basically you why I believe
00:19:54.660 that it's increasingly important for Christians to find a church that is prepared for this kind
00:20:01.260 of national moment. So let's go ahead and begin with feminism. When you think about feminism, 1.00
00:20:08.080 immodesty, pornography, collapsing birth rates, family breakdown, emasculated men,
00:20:14.220 delayed or abandoned marriage, abortion, suicide, male and female depression, economic deceleration,
00:20:21.240 sexual chaos, you know, reduced civilizational confidence, institutional, political, and national
00:20:28.460 softening. All of these things are connected to feminism. In fact, feminism is quite possibly 1.00
00:20:34.980 the most powerful force of evil on the earth today. And at its root, feminism is, again, 1.00
00:20:42.140 a theological reality. It flows from God's curse on the woman in Genesis 3, chapter 16. Now, God is 0.91
00:20:49.500 in this passage of scripture, he's cursing the serpent, he's cursing man, earth, and woman. And
00:20:54.980 he says to the woman, quote, I will surely multiply your pain and childbearing. In pain, you shall 0.99
00:21:00.380 bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you, end quote.
00:21:06.880 In other words, sin would cause women to have a desire to dominate and to usurp the authority 1.00
00:21:15.880 of their husbands, the authority that was ordered prior to sin, but sin entered in the chaos and 1.00
00:21:24.040 perversion between the sexes. And one of the most effective ways for women to do that is simply to 1.00
00:21:31.260 never get married at all, which is unfortunate because the partial cure to this particular
00:21:37.100 dimension of the curse is mentioned in 1 Timothy 2, verse 15, when Paul says,
00:21:43.820 but women will be saved through childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness
00:21:50.960 with propriety. In other words, when women have children, to some degree, it restrains a woman's 0.80
00:21:58.260 desire to dominate her husband and remain insubordinate. And so today, we live in an 0.99
00:22:07.020 epidemic of single, skanky, contraceptive, popping women who have fully embraced the curse 1.00
00:22:14.280 and rejected the cure. And ultimately, feminism does what? Well, it sells liberation. But liberation 1.00
00:22:22.320 from what? Well, from marriage, from motherhood, from homemaking, from submission, from being
00:22:28.460 called a helper. Okay. For millennia, that impulse was restrained by patriarchy. Some of it good,
00:22:36.260 some of it bad. And that restraint has now been weakened by a variety of causes that we don't
00:22:42.260 have time to talk about today. But feminism is not just outside of the church. Okay. Women 1.00
00:22:48.980 in the church, what I call clean feminism or Christian feminism, you will see this tendency 1.00
00:22:55.500 everywhere. Okay, women are the least pastored demographic in the American congregation. 1.00
00:23:02.380 Unfortunately, most men are terrified to correct women. And as a result, they refuse to shepherd
00:23:09.020 them. And instead, what they do is they hand the women's Bible study over to the most assertive
00:23:15.840 woman in the room. And they ignore things like immodesty, even if it caused their own flock to 0.70
00:23:21.940 stumble. They tolerate gossip and disrespect because they know that women so often split
00:23:31.140 churches. They cause church splits. And it's wicked cowardice, which we'll get to later. 1.00
00:23:37.060 Now, at our church, we have great and godly women at our church. But in order to preserve that
00:23:44.040 and to help disciple these wives in biblical femininity 0.55
00:23:48.140 and to cultivate it also into our daughters,
00:23:51.340 we've done a few things.
00:23:52.980 And I think these things are just basically historic things.
00:23:56.480 In fact, I would say that all of church history
00:23:58.400 for literally thousands of years did these types of things.
00:24:02.640 And so we formally hold to the doctrines
00:24:04.920 of biblical patriarchy.
00:24:06.560 We expect that our families understand what that means.
00:24:11.000 We explain that.
00:24:12.080 and we hope and work with them to live those principles out. And this is not just patriarchy,
00:24:18.100 it's biblical patriarchy. And this applies not only to spiritual life, but to every area of life.
00:24:23.760 Now our church is openly, this is another big thing, our church is openly supportive
00:24:28.100 of repealing the 19th Amendment. In fact, the New York Times actually just came out to our church
00:24:34.760 earlier this year for a few days, actually, did photos, did a whole thing, wrote an article on us
00:24:41.300 titled, quote, the women who believe women should lose the right to vote. So second, we've, we have
00:24:51.120 male pastors lead all women's Bible studies and the women love it. Okay. Like why would you want
00:24:57.640 Becky when you could have one of the pastors or the senior pastor who went to seminary and spent
00:25:03.860 40 hours a week in the scriptures? Like, why would you want Becky? Like have, have the guy that's
00:25:09.820 coming there to actually preach theology who knows theology, right? Third, we do not apologize
00:25:16.900 for instructing women in joyful submission to their husbands. We preach it through the pulpit
00:25:22.820 when it's natural. When we get to those passages of scripture, we remind women when it's appropriate. 0.99
00:25:27.620 We also encourage men to love their wives and love them well. Now, the fourth thing that we do
00:25:34.100 is many of our women wear head coverings. If you're unfamiliar with that practice,
00:25:38.800 I've written a book defending the doctrine called A Cover for Glory. But in short,
00:25:44.480 basically head covering is an outward symbol of the biblical doctrine of headship
00:25:49.680 seen in 1 Corinthians chapter 11. So again, we have head symbols to reflect the doctrine of
00:25:56.280 headship. And if you want to read 1 Corinthians chapter 11, you can do that. You can also pick
00:26:02.160 up a copy of my book if you want to learn more about that. Now, the fifth thing is that we
00:26:06.660 maintain a dress code. Now, again, our ladies are beautiful. They are modest. I don't know if we've 0.99
00:26:12.440 ever had to enforce a dress code with any of our women ever. But anyone who arrives, say, outside 0.99
00:26:18.460 as a guest, outside of our dress code, would be asked to cover up or be sent home if they were
00:26:27.020 outside of the dress code. And sure, they would certainly be invited to return the following week
00:26:31.580 properly dressed. But in other words, nobody is wearing leggings or short dresses that are
00:26:40.980 revealing or having their chest hanging out at Kingsway. And we do that because it not only
00:26:48.080 guards the women who should not be dressing that way because they need to have a more dignified
00:26:54.920 understanding of their own body and the worth of their own value. Things that are valuable,
00:27:00.720 we put like guards around them, right? Like if you have a diamond, you don't go throw it out on
00:27:04.780 the picnic bench. You put it in a safe. You know, you have a fence around your house. You have
00:27:10.360 walls around your family. We guard that which is precious to us. And so when you have women
00:27:19.180 who don't understand that, they don't realize their bodies are precious, made for a particular
00:27:24.580 purpose, made for the eyes of their husbands. When they don't understand, they actually like
00:27:30.060 are putting the diamond out on the, you know, the park bench. And they're like letting everybody
00:27:35.860 have access to it and take a piece of it that they should not be giving away. And it also protects
00:27:42.960 our young girls from seeing an example that we don't want to be replicated. And of course,
00:27:50.060 it protects the men from the temptation to, you know, lust. And so there's a whole variety of
00:27:56.740 reasons. And if you go to Europe, like go try to walk into one of the cathedrals dressed like a
00:28:04.300 Western skank. You're not getting in. There are dress codes at these places. And I think every 1.00
00:28:08.940 church should have a dress code and should enforce it. Okay. The second we need to talk about is
00:28:14.820 Zionism. Okay. Again, if you're, if you watched my previous episodes on dispensationalism and 0.89
00:28:19.820 Zionism, you already understand the threat. Okay. If you haven't, I do recommend you just go back 0.98
00:28:25.620 and listen or watch those episodes. America is being deeply divided and eroded by the nation
00:28:34.200 of Israel. And that division, as I said earlier, is not primarily political. It's actually theological. 0.96
00:28:40.460 It flows from the doctrine of dispensationalism. And basically, one group of Christians believe
00:28:46.380 the promises of the Old Testament still belong to the modern Israel. Another group believes
00:28:54.180 those promises belong to the church, the true Israel, made up of both Jewish and Gentile
00:29:00.340 believers that are in Christ. Now, Zionism is related but distinct from dispensationalism,
00:29:06.520 right? Dispensationalism has kind of nurtured Christian Zionism as a new category and has
00:29:14.900 produced kind of America's Jewish supremacy in finance and tech and media. Now, Jews make up 0.99
00:29:22.680 less than 2% of the U.S. population, yet they hold a disproportionately, a wildly disproportionate
00:29:28.960 influence in key areas of American life. Now, this influence matters because the Jews 0.99
00:29:34.620 own companies like Meta, right, which own Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp and Threads, 0.93
00:29:41.720 and it's run by Mark Zuckerberg, who's Jewish. Alphabet owns Google and YouTube and Android and
00:29:49.260 Gmail and Chrome. And it was founded by, you know, and long controlled by Larry Page and
00:29:55.000 Sergey Brin, who are also Jewish. TikTok's U.S. algorithm and the whole infrastructure 0.75
00:30:01.880 sit under Oracle, controlled by Larry Ellison, who is Jewish. The major hookup apps, right? 0.99
00:30:10.540 Tinder and Hinge and OKCupid and Match and Grinder and Bumble and all these apps, 1.00
00:30:16.240 they're founded or controlled by Jewish executives. The pornography industry is also 0.99
00:30:22.360 dominated by a similar pattern, right? OnlyFans and Pornhub and MindGeek, the whole empire of
00:30:29.200 the porn world there, Vixen Media Group, Gamma Entertainment, all led by Jewish owners. Then you 0.99
00:30:36.060 look to Hollywood and the news. You have Warner Brothers. You have Discovery. I forgot the guy's
00:30:42.880 named David Zaslav. You have Disney under Bob Iger, right? Who's also Jewish. You have
00:30:49.320 Paramount under, I forgot, Redstone. You know, you have Comcast and NBC Universal
00:30:57.320 under the Roberts family. You have Amazon that has a Jewish CEO right now. Then you have CNN
00:31:03.540 and the New York Times and Breitbart and PopBase and Right Wing Watch. It's always attacking me.
00:31:09.520 and Bloomberg and many more. Okay. Now that's not even counting AI and data power, right? Open AI
00:31:17.720 is Sam Altman, who is Jewish and Palantir, right? Is founded and run by Jewish executives, right? 0.99
00:31:26.900 Oracle, again, Larry Ellison, controlling the core database and infrastructure systems, 0.99
00:31:31.900 the governments and banks and hospitals and everything depends on. And that's not, again,
00:31:36.480 even considering like the, the political seats and the government positions. And, um, if you
00:31:42.600 don't know, like Jews are just behind so many perverted things, right? So the, the mass immigration 1.00
00:31:50.500 of the heart seller act, we talked about that in season one, uh, religious pluralism, um, you know, 0.62
00:31:56.420 the civil rights act, homosexuality, uh, in 2015, the normalization of sexual degeneracy everywhere, 0.50
00:32:02.180 the cultivation of Western self-hatred. And again, you might not realize all this, 0.75
00:32:11.120 but that's pretty amazing when 2% of the American population is Jewish and they control 0.94
00:32:17.060 that much influence. And once you realize that, and you realize that they're pumping in 0.98
00:32:24.280 an anti-Christ propaganda message into our nation. Like if you removed all Jewish influence in 0.93
00:32:32.340 America, it would like completely change the nation. And if you could take that Jewish influence 1.00
00:32:38.000 and make it Christian, it would radically change the nation. I was just actually a couple days ago, 1.00
00:32:44.440 I was sitting there watching the three stooges with my sons, the one from like the 1940s. 0.95
00:32:52.440 And I realized like how dumb it was. 0.98
00:32:55.200 And it was even immodest in the 1940s. 0.96
00:32:58.540 Like my boys were like, oh, there was a girl like in some sort of like bathing suit kind
00:33:01.840 of thing.
00:33:02.160 Again, two of the three were Jewish.
00:33:04.620 And then I started thinking about all the shows that I watched at like Nick at Night
00:33:08.340 as a kid. 1.00
00:33:09.120 And it was like The Munsters, again, Jewish, weird perversion. 1.00
00:33:12.740 Adam's Family, similar. 1.00
00:33:15.160 I Dream of Jeannie, weird witchcraft stuff.
00:33:18.460 Bewitched, same thing.
00:33:19.700 um you know there was just this weird push constantly and media that's kind of this
00:33:27.240 non-christian approach to life that constantly occurs from this very minority group of people
00:33:35.520 and why are they here comfortably well they are here because of dispensationalism and so you know
00:33:41.880 we have to just think about this now much of this is is you know rooted in the fact that traditional
00:33:49.280 Judaism still views the Christian West as a continuation of the Roman Empire. Now, the Roman
00:33:56.220 Empire, as I mentioned in my last episode, destroyed Jerusalem and their temple in 70 AD.
00:34:01.100 And it's why many rabbis and Jewish leaders, even Netanyahu, to this day express hostility toward
00:34:08.900 Western Christian nations. In other words, this whole kind of Judeo-Christian myth has to be
00:34:14.960 destroyed. Okay. You can actually check out Joel Webin's book, The Hyphenated Heresy on Judeo
00:34:20.960 Christianity, talking about this. But Judaism is not an ally to Christianity. It is an enemy of 0.76
00:34:29.100 Christ. Now at our church, we try to address this carefully. Okay. First, we make it clear that
00:34:35.320 we love all people, right? It's not every Stein, but it's every time, right? It's not all Jews,
00:34:41.940 but it's always Jews. So we understand that it's not every single Jewish person. We're looking at 0.95
00:34:47.700 Judaism as a whole. We're looking at certain key individuals that are behind some of these things,
00:34:52.300 but we desire that all of them come to Jesus Christ as Lord. Now, at the same time, we desire
00:35:00.040 to teach against dispensationalism and to state plainly that Judaism is a false religion with no 0.95
00:35:07.700 covenantal relationship to Christianity at all. The Old Testament is Christian. The New Testament 0.82
00:35:13.480 is Christian, okay? Modern Judaism is not simply like the Old Testament without Jesus. No, it's a
00:35:19.620 completely different religion that developed after the rejection of the Messiah, the removal of the
00:35:24.500 priesthood, the removal of the temple, the sacrificial system is gone. All of that's gone,
00:35:30.580 right? Jesus said, quote, if you deny me, you deny the Father. So Jews who reject Christ do not
00:35:38.600 worship the same God as Christians. They reject the Father according to Jesus's own words. And we
00:35:46.540 teach these things without apology. I wrote it in my book, The Israel Delusion. I talk about it from
00:35:52.240 a biblical perspective. Now, in addition, we teach the biblical doctrine of nationalism,
00:35:57.620 which fights against American Zionism. Again, Zionism, like if you want to be a Jew in a Jewish 0.86
00:36:04.380 land and you want to be Jewish supremacy and Jewish influence in a Jewish land, go do that. 0.89
00:36:08.840 You should do that because that's nationalism there. What's very weird is American Zionism. 0.86
00:36:16.620 Like it would be super weird to have like, I don't know, like go to Nigeria and all the Nigerians 0.51
00:36:25.520 are fighting for American nationalism. That's super weird, okay? So, you know, this is a very
00:36:33.600 important point that I think, well, you know what, I'll do this. It leads us into our next topic,
00:36:37.960 which is our third threat, which is globalism. Now, if you don't know, globalism is heavily a
00:36:45.780 product of feminism and Zionism, okay? Women and Jews have consistently voted for policies 1.00
00:36:53.080 that open the floodgates to mass immigration, often from Islamic and Hindu societies. Now,
00:37:00.340 at the same time, Zionist military campaigns in the Middle East have driven waves of Muslim
00:37:06.200 refugees from their battles and wars. And where do those people go? Well, they go to Western
00:37:11.720 nations and into Europe and into the United States. So on the one side, you have women 1.00
00:37:16.040 opening the gates with their suicidal empathy and inviting people in. And then on the other side, 0.95
00:37:21.740 you have Jews pushing people toward the gates and it creates like a pincer movement against the 1.00
00:37:29.620 nation, right? One group is dismantling the will to defend our own borders. That's the women. And 0.94
00:37:36.680 then the other group is actively promoting mass migration toward those open borders. Now, so
00:37:42.860 globalism stands as the direct opposite of nationalism, okay? Many Christians still fail 1.00
00:37:49.480 to grasp that this is fundamentally a biblical issue. Genesis 10 and 11 clearly show God's
00:37:56.560 rejection of globalism at the Tower of Babel and his affirmation of nationalism in the Table of
00:38:01.820 Nations in chapter 10. In scripture, nations are ordered by at least four marks. Ancestry,
00:38:09.980 language, land, and laws. And that is God's design for social peace in a sinful world.
00:38:19.960 Now, nationalism may produce wars between nations, but multiculturalism produces wars
00:38:30.020 inside nations. And so I think that everybody would agree, foreign wars are always preferred
00:38:35.480 over civil wars. And we know that nationalism is also like the divine pattern because God chose
00:38:44.800 Old Testament Israel as a nation, and it was the enduring template throughout the
00:38:53.380 Old Testament until it was destroyed in 70 AD for rejecting the Messiah.
00:38:59.900 Now, we're not required to copy Old Testament Israel's every national detail, yet we can and
00:39:07.700 should learn from its principles. Israel was certainly defined by those four markers, right?
00:39:12.980 Ancestry, language, land, and laws, along with religion. Strangers and sojourners were permitted
00:39:20.220 into the land, but never in numbers that threatened the nation's integrity, 1.00
00:39:24.780 like that produced demographic replacement or enabled national theft or imported pagan 0.67
00:39:30.920 religions. That was never allowed. And that is precisely what is happening in America
00:39:36.640 and the rest of the West today. These are like Christian issues, okay? We need Christian 0.97
00:39:45.760 politicians who will embrace the biblical design for nations. That design requires churches and 0.98
00:39:53.040 especially pastors to study and preach on this particular topic. And what I'm trying to say
00:39:59.100 is that there is a biblical justification for mass deportations right now, for remigration,
00:40:07.880 for comprehensive reform of our immigration policies. And if you're not living under a rock,
00:40:14.540 you know that nationalism and race and immigration are basically the most pressing
00:40:21.280 issues facing Western nations, like everybody who's anybody in the world right now is talking
00:40:27.380 about it, whether you're Elon Musk, whether you're Pete Hegseth, whether you're Tucker Carlson,
00:40:33.760 whether you're President Trump himself, whether you're the European Union. We just watched
00:40:39.000 all the people from Morocco flood into the city of Spain. 0.95
00:40:45.480 and these are biblical issues. The Bible has answers for these things. So at Kingsway,
00:40:54.460 we operate in the realm of the church, not the state. So anyone who believes in Jesus Christ
00:41:01.800 is welcome to come to our church, right? So we are nationalists, of course, but we also believe
00:41:07.440 that in the church, we're not the state. And so we bring people and we do find our oneness in Christ
00:41:13.620 there. And I've talked about this, you know, in my series on race and nationalism. But at the same
00:41:21.500 time, we preach against globalistic effects like race egalitarianism or the Gnostic impulse that
00:41:30.740 wants to spiritualize everything and erase ethnic distinctions. You know, like we're all just
00:41:37.440 Christian and like our ethnicities don't matter anymore. Like that's, we preach against that
00:41:43.140 stuff. We preach in support of Christian nationalism, which is both Christian and
00:41:48.440 nationalistic. Again, I mentioned I did a recent study, a six-part series through Genesis 9-11
00:41:56.480 titled Race, Nations, and Christian Nationalism. And I did this, by the way, not because I just
00:42:00.940 chose 9-11. I've been preaching through Genesis since December of 25. And so to be honest,
00:42:09.800 this has been one of the more difficult subjects to address in our church. And I think at any
00:42:17.500 church, race and ethnicity are extremely sensitive topics. And we have many Christian friends from
00:42:24.720 other races and nations. Like I have lots of friends from different places that I love that
00:42:29.880 are in Christ. But the larger picture of nationalism still has to be preached to this
00:42:36.720 generation. And we have to restore the proper biblical order and understanding for America and
00:42:42.260 the West. Because order brings peace. And peace is one of the fruits of the Spirit. I mean,
00:42:48.420 Jesus is literally the Prince of Peace. So I'll end there, but on that particular point.
00:42:54.900 The last threat I want to talk about in the church is, it's not external, it's internal.
00:43:01.260 Cowardice. Okay. Scripture says in Revelation 21, eight quote, but as for the cowardly,
00:43:07.460 the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral,
00:43:14.380 sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire 0.98
00:43:20.680 and sulfur, which is the second death, end quote. So I want you to catch something. 0.96
00:43:26.480 Um, scripture places cowardness or cowardice, uh, in the same category of depravity as murderer
00:43:35.680 and sorcery and sexual immorality, right? So to fear man more than God is wicked. Okay. To refuse
00:43:45.400 to be hated by the world is wicked. And what that means is that to stay silent, you know,
00:43:53.540 about your employer's pronoun policy. That's wicked. To make transgender activists comfortable 0.59
00:44:01.360 while they're reading to children in the library, it's detestable. Okay, to refuse to call ICE on 0.98
00:44:07.960 illegal migrant, you know, people that are working in your neighborhood because you don't want the
00:44:13.700 social cost, that's cowardice. To let your wife lead the home because you can't deal with her 1.00
00:44:21.620 attitude, that's abdication. It's cowardice. And all of this really comes down to the same root, 0.95
00:44:28.280 which is the fear of man. And what I want American Christian men to understand is that your ancestors
00:44:33.860 were a hundred times more radical than you are. Okay. They fought off Muslims with swords and
00:44:40.160 they stuck their bodies on spikes to warn others. Okay. They crossed oceans to Christianize pagan 0.97
00:44:46.180 lands filled with witch doctors and human sacrifice. They settled territories filled 0.98
00:44:51.960 with barbarians who scalped their wives and their children. And then they slaughtered those people 0.99
00:44:57.320 and their tribes and they stacked their skulls as a monument. They were burned at the stake 0.98
00:45:03.380 in Europe over a different view of communion and salvation. They went to war in the American
00:45:10.180 revolution with the strongest empire on earth over a 3% tax increase on tea. Okay. They killed
00:45:16.880 one another over state freedoms from the federal government in the civil war. And I say all this
00:45:22.060 because you are not radical for telling women to stop dressing like whores or that Islam should be 0.99
00:45:29.360 outlawed in the West. Like you're not extreme for wanting Hindus and their demon gods to leave our 1.00
00:45:35.500 nation. You're not a bigot for wanting to repeal the 19th amendment and to see feminism die in 0.99
00:45:41.940 this nation. You're not harsh for calling homosexuality perverse or disgusting. You're 0.95
00:45:47.240 not a racist for wanting a nation that's built on blood and soil. These are in fact, moderate
00:45:54.480 desires of gentle Christian men throughout history. The truth is, if you want to restore
00:46:02.640 America to a Christian nation or any nation, you have to become far more intense, far more extreme, 0.88
00:46:09.920 far more clear, far more righteous, far more committed to Christ. This is the only way forward. 0.82
00:46:15.020 And ultimately, America is filled with cowards. The church is filled with cowards. The pulpits 1.00
00:46:21.260 are filled with cowards. The Bible calls these men hirelings. They're people who do it for the 1.00
00:46:27.020 money and not for the ministry. And you have to remember that it's difficult to preach something
00:46:33.580 when your salary depends on you not preaching it. And that is extremely common in the church today.
00:46:40.220 And when these men finally do speak against the evils of the day, they do it like five years too
00:46:45.580 late. Like after the Overton window has already shifted and the risk is completely gone. Like
00:46:51.600 condemning homosexuality today is like a low risk deal, okay? Doing it in 2015 required a degree of
00:46:59.060 courage. Okay, condemning race egalitarianism will probably be safer in five to 10 years, but today
00:47:05.640 it's dangerous. And many of today's pastors are the ones who show up after the real fight is over.
00:47:12.620 The brave men, you know, that struck the first blows against the dragon, you know, they're there. 0.67
00:47:18.920 Then the cowards arrive after, like the hyenas, okay?
00:47:23.240 And once the dragon's already down, they stab the corpse, and then they make a post on X
00:47:28.900 about it to try to look heroic.
00:47:31.060 It's the same pattern as those who basically started condemning Fauci and COVID, the COVID
00:47:37.360 vaccines, after all the data was already public and the danger of speaking about it had already
00:47:43.660 passed.
00:47:45.260 Joel Webin, just this last week, put it well.
00:47:48.260 He said, quote, most people are cowards, so they appoint centrists as heroes in order to make
00:47:54.960 themselves feel brave, end quote. And you know, I'm not a centrist. I don't think Joel is much
00:48:02.260 of a centrist. I don't think that we're actually extreme though. I think we're to the right for
00:48:08.080 sure. I can't tell you how many people like think that I'm extreme. I mean, you know, I always get,
00:48:14.320 I'm too harsh, or too intense, or too arrogant. I have drawers back here of hate mail. Our church
00:48:23.880 voicemail is filled with vitriol. People have left our congregation over every single one of
00:48:31.340 these threats. And we have crazy reviews that we have to get removed on our Google page.
00:48:36.200 And people get mad at us not because we're soft on the gospel, not because we teach heresy,
00:48:43.500 not because we're walking in unrepentant sin. We love the gospel. We preach it every single
00:48:48.680 Sunday. We go verse by verse through the scriptures. We do counseling. We do worship.
00:48:54.220 We do hymns. We do liturgy. We do all of these things. But they're leaving these things because
00:49:01.180 we're addressing the issues that are extremely difficult and sensitive topics, and they fear
00:49:08.680 men more than they fear the Lord. They fear, they don't understand that these are all normal
00:49:14.600 positions from everyone like a hundred to 120 years ago. GK Chesterton, he once said,
00:49:22.560 quote, every generation is saved by a handful of men and women who have the courage to be out of
00:49:29.460 date, end quote. And that's me. Okay. I'm out of date. I often tell people that I'm not a Nazi.
00:49:36.660 I don't follow Hitler's stuff.
00:49:39.680 I'm not some secret Klan member.
00:49:41.960 I'm not even like an extremist throughout most of history.
00:49:45.040 I'm simply a normal Christian man from 1850.
00:49:48.460 I recently saw an ex quote about this,
00:49:53.540 and it said, quote,
00:49:54.860 being far right in 2026 just means having the same views
00:50:00.060 as 99% of all humans who ever lived up until the 21st century.
00:50:05.260 You're not far right.
00:50:06.460 You're just normal, end quote.
00:50:08.860 Now I agree with him, but I would just say
00:50:10.920 probably the 20th century, not the 21st century.
00:50:13.420 But the reality is this,
00:50:15.820 the greatest male sin in America right now
00:50:19.220 is quite possibly cowardice. 0.93
00:50:22.320 So to continue to allow 0.81
00:50:24.080 what no other previous generation would allow,
00:50:27.760 because you fear man or you're lazy or whatever it may be, 0.84
00:50:31.640 it's quiet Christianity. 0.99
00:50:34.760 It's sinful. We have to see that under today's liberal Christian regime, the vast majority of 1.00
00:50:44.280 our favorite historical pastors would actually be defrocked and disciplined by most of today's
00:50:51.660 denominations. Like Luther would be ejected for his views on the Jews. Jonathan Edwards for his
00:50:57.940 slaves. R.L. Dabney for his views on race. Cotton Mather for his view on nationalism. Matthew
00:51:04.400 Henry because he believed in the curse of Ham. William Gouge for his view on patriarchy. The
00:51:09.640 Puritans on their views of witchcraft and feminism. And so right now, there are a few, if any,
00:51:17.980 denominations that are safe for historic Christianity. But this leads us into the
00:51:25.220 final question. What should you do as a Christian to find a wartime church that will lead you
00:51:31.660 spiritually and morally through this extremely difficult time before us. Now, first,
00:51:39.120 if your pastor does not see feminism or Zionism or globalism as serious threats to the average
00:51:45.600 American, then one of two things are happening. Either he is not a good shepherd because he's
00:51:53.100 blind to the wolves at the gate, or he's a coward who refuses to name them. And there is nothing 0.98
00:52:00.640 more demoralizing to a church member than realizing that you are ahead of your own pastor
00:52:06.880 in moral vigilance and in applying the Christian worldview to the actual dangers of our time.
00:52:14.260 It's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to turn a pastor like this around. Now that said,
00:52:21.560 have a few honest conversations, not just one, more than one. Pray for wisdom. Try to understand
00:52:29.240 where he actually stands. But if it becomes clear that he views you as extreme when you're simply
00:52:37.940 just trying to be faithful and clear-eyed, then it's time to respectfully move on. And do it
00:52:44.720 orderly. Don't gossip. Don't dishonor him. Go in good faith. But this is, you know, if your church
00:52:54.940 is like closed for COVID, didn't celebrate when Roe v. Wade was overturned, didn't mention Charlie
00:53:02.580 Kirk, doesn't talk about any of these things. Like this, these aren't good signs. This is one
00:53:08.760 of the main reasons many men have stopped going to church altogether, right? They're like stuck
00:53:14.920 under these cowardly pastors and they can't find a courageous church nearby and they can't easily 0.97
00:53:22.080 relocate. So they just quietly drop out and they don't want to go to a church and like wave, you 0.80
00:53:28.160 know, sway their hips to Jesus and sing these like emotional songs with women worship leaders. 0.94
00:53:33.340 And that's a tragedy. Okay. And I actually don't recommend that. All things considered, 0.92
00:53:38.620 it's still better to remain in a weak church than to have no church at all. I will say that. Okay.
00:53:44.660 So I will say if you have nowhere else to go, then you should stay. But if you're able to move
00:53:50.440 somewhere else locally, or you're able to relocate, I believe you should. We already
00:53:55.000 moved for jobs. We moved for family. We moved for better geography. We should also be willing to
00:54:01.380 move for a faithful church. In fact, I would say 80% of our church has relocated from other states
00:54:08.380 or countries to be at our church. That's real. I'm going to, you know, we'll talk about that in
00:54:14.740 our next episode. But this is, again, the beginnings of a bigger conversation
00:54:21.400 that we should talk about on Christian boroughs or Christian colonies. Places where families can
00:54:28.320 lock arms, lock in for multi-generations, plant themselves long-term, build something durable.
00:54:35.380 And to do that, you need a strong church with strong theology,
00:54:38.440 you know, confessionalism rooted down to historic Christianity, not some random non-denom
00:54:45.260 situation. You want confessionalism. And a community of like serious believers,
00:54:54.700 a solid classical Christian school for your children. And so I'll close this episode
00:55:02.940 and I'll start that for my next episode. We'll talk about Christian Burroughs
00:55:07.420 in the next episode, what that looks like about relocating, what you should be looking for
00:55:10.860 in a really great church. I think that'll be a helpful episode. I want to leave you with one
00:55:16.360 of my favorite lines from Thomas Paine. He says, quote, if there must be trouble, let it be in my
00:55:22.760 day that my children may have peace, end quote. And men, this is our trouble right now to navigate,
00:55:30.200 to set our sons and daughters up well. And so I pray that we can do that wisely. But now let's
00:55:36.860 get into the weekly audit. Our first audit is a post from Brian Sauve, a friend of mine from
00:55:49.740 Ogden, Utah. He's a great church up in Northern Utah, outside of Salt Lake City, to check out if
00:55:55.340 you're looking for a relocating in the Northwest. And it's on the matter of imprecatory prayers.
00:56:02.380 Now, precatory prayers are prayers that basically ask God to bring judgment, calamity, curses
00:56:08.680 down upon a person's enemies of those who are doing great evil.
00:56:15.060 Okay, and that's something we actually see in the scriptures.
00:56:16.940 Psalm 35, Psalm 58, 109, 137.
00:56:20.960 There's actually others.
00:56:22.200 And I believe it's a strong example of a wartime church in what Brian posts.
00:56:27.060 So I want to read his posts and let's look at it together.
00:56:29.640 He says, one of the most important additions we have made to our liturgy in the last two years
00:56:37.660 is the addition of an imprecatory section to every single pastoral prayer. It changes week to week,
00:56:45.500 but each week we are praying for God to curse, oppose, and destroy someone in particular, 0.86
00:56:52.120 whether that be abortionists in our area, wicked persecutors of the church, or other evildoers. 0.62
00:56:59.160 God's people need to know how to curse as the scriptures curse.
00:57:04.460 In fact, you can't even probably understand divine mercy if you don't understand divine
00:57:10.380 retribution and justice.
00:57:12.560 This is also one way to protect the people from sinfully seeking personal vengeance when
00:57:18.060 they ought not to.
00:57:19.540 You teach them one of the ways God's people ought to deal with great evils, which is to
00:57:24.820 pray to God for his justice to come.
00:57:27.540 Okay, now I agree. We live in a time of incredible evil with little practical solution.
00:57:38.320 And that creates resentment and frustration. It also creates a sense of betrayal and depression.
00:57:46.600 And we also know that the retribution of man often is imperfect. So praying that God might
00:57:54.020 crush your enemies with perfect justice is best. And I think if you pray it with humility, you know,
00:57:59.780 Lord, take these people out. If it is your will, you say that it is your will. Maybe there's things
00:58:05.740 that I don't know about the situation, but crush their teeth. Like he might use you. He might use
00:58:13.900 others. He might use armies. He might use police. He might, we don't know. But God is, we want to
00:58:22.540 be praying that God is willing to serve justice to the evildoers. And you should read some of
00:58:30.420 those imprecatory prayers because it is, again, a model from scripture. Now, the next thing that
00:58:36.060 we're going to look at is, it's an older video from Paul Washer. Now, Paul Washer, he's a strict
00:58:43.900 Reformed Baptist preacher, Bible preacher. And I'm sure, I don't even know if he would be a big fan
00:58:51.360 of my approach to ministry. But I've always appreciated his masculinity in preaching the
00:58:57.200 gospel, his evangelism, his missionary work. And the guy loves the Lord, and I think he gets it
00:59:01.860 right in this video. Let's take a look. What do you think the greatest threat is
00:59:05.080 to the church in our generation?
00:59:07.560 it's pastors
00:59:15.800 honestly the pastors anywhere god has given three offices i believe to the church
00:59:29.980 evangelist pastor and teacher wherever you see a weak church you see these weak men
00:59:35.460 either they're non-existent they're unbiblical or they're unconverted and all this talk about
00:59:44.760 the judgment on our country because of its immoralities and everything else never forget
00:59:50.220 judgment always begins with the household of God and I am astounded at the lack of the fear
00:59:59.220 of the Lord and the lack of biblical knowledge among those who would call themselves the ministers
01:00:08.080 of Christ. What do you think? Yeah, so this is, I think he nails it on the head right there.
01:00:18.140 The culture follows the church. Why is Europe being destroyed? Because it's a judgment on the
01:00:24.740 church, on the people of God there. They are weak, impotent Christians. And if you want to see a 1.00
01:00:30.800 strong church rise up, God sends trials. And that's what God is doing to the West right now.
01:00:37.880 So we need to be in a state of honest, national repentance for our wickedness for abortion,
01:00:44.340 our wickedness for homosexuality, our wickedness for our cowardice, our wickedness for feminism, 0.73
01:00:50.580 our wickedness for Zionism, all of these things. And then we need to be looking for strong wartime 0.87
01:00:58.420 churches. We need to be discipling our children in the faith, raising them up in the nurture and
01:01:02.780 admonition of the Lord. And by God, we'll have our home again. So that's a wrap for this episode.