The NXR Podcast - BONUS - A Primer On Christian Government ｜ Dominion - Part 2 of 6

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00:00:18.000 Hi, and welcome to a bonus edition of Theology Applied. I'm joined in this

00:00:22.580 episode by Toby Sumter, again discussing his 50-question

00:00:27.060 Catechism on the Governments. This episode deals with the government of the self, or what scripture

00:00:34.240 would call self-control. We have no business leading others if we cannot first master ourselves.

00:00:42.660 Applying God's Word to every aspect of life. This is Theology Applied.

00:00:48.400 All right. So let's go to, um, to part two now. So this is, uh, going to be, uh, the self, um,

00:01:01.100 talking about self-government and Jesus being Lord of the self. So, uh, you go ahead and start,

00:01:07.400 let's just do the same thing. So question seven. Seven. What is the sphere and assignment given

00:01:12.780 by god to individuals in self-government answer god has graciously assigned the dominion mandate

00:01:19.360 to all human beings which is part of what it means to be made in god's image question eight

00:01:25.320 what is the dominion mandate answer the dominion mandate is found in genesis chapter 1 verse 28

00:01:31.400 and it is the command and blessing with the corresponding authority to be fruitful multiply

00:01:38.260 fill the earth subdue it and rule over all of creation nine how is self-government possible

00:01:46.280 because of sin and the fall of adam self-government has been distorted and become

00:01:52.520 and has become a means of tyranny harm and misuse therefore true self-government is only possible

00:02:00.120 through the regeneration of human hearts brought about by the preaching of the gospel and the

00:02:05.040 renewing grace of the Holy Spirit 10 what is self-government also called in the

00:02:10.460 New Testament answer in the New Testament self-government is also called

00:02:14.860 self-control one of the fruits of the Spirit 11 why is self-government the

00:02:21.600 foundation for all other governments self-government is the foundation of all

00:02:26.800 other governments because all other governments are made up of individuals

00:02:30.560 who either serve themselves and their lusts or else they serve others in love through obedience

00:02:37.560 to the authority of christ 12 what is the duty of all people with regard to self-government

00:02:43.600 answer it is the duty of all people to rule their entire lives in this world to be fruitful

00:02:49.580 multiply and fill the earth with good things in praise and imitation of their maker and savior

00:02:56.140 and for his glory. All right. Let's talk about that for a little bit. So that's all about self

00:03:03.240 government and your, I love just, you know, I mean, it kind of goes without saying, but it really

00:03:07.300 doesn't. And that's why you added it in there. But I think it was question number 10, what is

00:03:10.940 self government also called in the new Testament, right? Give me a verse for that, right? And the

00:03:15.580 verse is self-control. It's a fruit of the spirit. You want to talk about that for a little bit?

00:03:21.320 Yeah, absolutely.

00:03:21.980 Well, I think it's, I think, I don't know about you, Joel, or our audience, our listeners,

00:03:27.980 but when I hear the word, when I think growing up in the blessing of a Christian home,

00:03:34.200 I remember learning the fruits of the Spirit as a little kid, probably singing jingles,

00:03:39.180 you know, memorizing them, which I'm really grateful for.

00:03:41.180 But I think it's really easy to sort of over-spiritualize the fruits of the Spirit.

00:03:48.020 They are spirit-wrought virtues.

00:03:50.740 They are spirit powers.

00:03:52.680 They are the work of the Holy Spirit.

00:03:54.680 But I think you can over-spiritualize it and think of self-control as only something that's happening inside of you.

00:04:00.880 And, of course, it has to happen inside of you.

00:04:03.460 You need to control your thoughts and your emotions and so on, your desires.

00:04:07.820 but I think it's helpful to to pair it with this notion of self-government

00:04:15.140 because it's as soon as you say self-government I think of something I

00:04:19.400 think of something far broader than that it includes internal self-control

00:04:24.500 obedience to Christ in your thoughts obedience to Christ in what you're

00:04:29.140 thinking about and meditating on and so on what you love and what you hate but

00:04:33.620 But it's so much more than that.

00:04:35.600 And again, I think of maybe one way to frame it would be, so what would the fruit of the

00:04:40.700 spirit self-control look like in the garden with Adam and Eve?

00:04:45.700 Well, you know, the fruit of self-control in the garden before there was sin would have

00:04:51.120 been using their strength and creativity and life to obey Christ, to obey God, to be fruitful,

00:04:59.180 multiply, fill the earth, subdue it, guard the garden, tend it, and to begin exploring the world

00:05:04.800 and making the whole world glorious and beautiful like the garden had begun to be.

00:05:12.200 And so I want to, you know, sort of push those things together because I think that's absolutely

00:05:18.340 what Christ came to do. Again, we were just singing Christmas carols in the last section,

00:05:23.420 And if I can go back to joy to the world, he comes to make his blessings flow as far as the curse is found.

00:05:33.700 And so the whole, the mission of Christ, you can think of the great commission, all authority in heaven and earth has been given to me, therefore go.

00:05:42.280 I think rightly as a renewal of the dominion mandate.

00:05:46.120 it's because of christ because he's conquered sin and death that we have access to the father

00:05:53.300 access back to the garden well the whole point of that access isn't just so that we would go

00:05:59.300 there and stay there the whole point of that access is so that we might know the father

00:06:03.880 know his glory know his will and then take that glory out into the world um that was the point

00:06:10.340 of the garden the garden was the yeah well the garden was this place where the tree of life was

00:06:15.100 where God met with Adam and Eve, where they had fellowship, where Adam can learn from his maker,

00:06:19.880 his God, about the way that his wisdom, his glory, and then take that communion, that fellowship,

00:06:26.700 that glory out into the world and fill the whole world with that glory. That's the point of the

00:06:30.840 Great Commission. And that's what's been renewed through the death, burial, and resurrection of

00:06:36.120 Jesus. Amen. Yeah, I think it's important for Christians to understand that the Great Commission

00:06:41.180 does not come as a substitute, a replacement for the cultural mandate, but rather the Great

00:06:47.440 Commission comes right alongside the cultural mandate and really more of just like an exposition,

00:06:53.720 a further exposition and clarifying of the cultural mandate in the sense that it's saying

00:06:58.660 because of Christ, because of the second Adam, where the first Adam has failed, the second Adam

00:07:04.000 has now made possible that we can fulfill this cultural mandate and here is its truest sense.

00:07:09.300 here was what was always intended by it. And it's funny because, you know, Christians will say, 0.60

00:07:15.360 well, we're just fulfilling the Great Commission and the cultural mandate. That's, you know, that 0.74

00:07:19.020 was for another time or, you know, mission accomplished, right? We've got, you know,

00:07:24.640 8.2 billion people, whatever it is, 7.8 billion people. I think we can call it quits. We're done

00:07:30.020 with that. And it's just to pit them against one another. It's like, the best disciples I'm ever

00:07:38.020 going to make, Lord willing, by God's grace, are my children. So go and make disciples of all

00:07:45.000 nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey all my commandments. And the sad thing is,

00:07:51.260 I think one of the reasons why the church in America, especially evangelicals, are losing

00:07:55.520 is because in the name of the Great Commission, what we did is in order to accomplish the Great

00:08:02.660 commission what we put on the altar as our sacrifice was the cultural mandate aka our kids

00:08:08.220 so we sent our kids to public school so we'd have more money to give to desiring god and missions

00:08:13.240 right we put our kids in and this and we failed in this and we failed in that with our own families

00:08:19.200 with our own children um you know we we use birth control and we did you know all these different

00:08:24.080 things we we limited you know and and we viewed children as a burden although we would never

00:08:28.560 really say it but that that's what we did all in the name of the great commission so we had all

00:08:32.440 these gospel conversations with people, and we were very gospel-centered, and we gave towards

00:08:36.720 the International Mission Board, the IMB with the Southern Baptists, and all this kind of stuff in

00:08:43.540 the name of discipling the nation so that Jesus would come back. And meanwhile, what we did at

00:08:51.740 home was we seated every major institution, we gave up the culture, we gave up politics,

00:08:59.900 And tragically, most of all, we gave up our children.

00:09:04.000 Yeah, absolutely.

00:09:05.020 And I think all of that goes back to, again, the Great Commission says, make disciples, baptizing them, and then teaching them everything I have commanded you.

00:09:16.360 And I think that's, if we failed miserably, it's there.

00:09:21.240 It's in the teaching.

00:09:22.880 We failed to teach all that Christ has commanded.

00:09:26.500 And we know from 2 Timothy 3 that all that Christ has commanded is all of God's Word, which is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, correcting, rebuking, and training in righteousness.

00:09:39.200 And then alongside that –

00:09:40.140 Which includes the law.

00:09:41.440 It's not just the gospel.

00:09:42.960 It's the whole Bible.

00:09:44.180 I mean, when Paul's writing that to Timothy, all he's got is the Old Testament.

00:09:49.640 When he says all scripture is God-breathed, like that's all he's got so far.

00:09:53.140 Now, he probably has an inkling that there's a new covenant canon being assembled as he writes.

00:10:00.420 But the main thing that Timothy's got in hand, all those scriptures that he was trained in as a child, was the Old Testament.

00:10:07.300 That's the scriptures that he says are so useful.

00:10:10.600 On top of that, if we accept that, then I think you're absolutely right.

00:10:15.920 We've failed to listen to God where he says, here's what's potent.

00:10:21.900 Here's what's potent.

00:10:22.900 you want to take the the culture for christ he says here i'm going to give you arrows 0.77

00:10:30.980 i'm going to give you weapons they're called your kids 0.69

00:10:35.220 um psalm 127 like like arrows in the hand of a mighty warrior so are the children of one's youth

00:10:41.780 happy is the man who has his quiver full of them he will not be ashamed they will speak with his

00:10:46.660 enemies in the gate right and when his uh when their dad is still in the fray right children of

00:10:52.660 the youth. That's right. And, and we, we as a culture and particularly the Christian church,

00:10:59.440 modern evangelical church in North America said, no, we've got a better idea. We'll do it our own

00:11:05.260 way. And you're right. We shuffled the kids off. We gave them to government schools. Even when we

00:11:10.820 brought them to church, we sent them down into the basement to play stupid games. We put them 1.00

00:11:15.320 in nurseries and we basically taught them that they're not real Christians. We don't think they 1.00

00:11:19.600 are. They certainly can't be until they get old and they've done drugs for a while. And rather

00:11:27.460 than saying, no, these are our weapons, we want them with us in church, we want them to be growing

00:11:31.200 up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, as we were explicitly commanded to do. Deuteronomy 6

00:11:38.060 says that we are to teach our children to love God with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength

00:11:41.880 when we rise up, when we go by the way, when we lie down, all the time, everywhere. We're to bind

00:11:49.280 god's law on our hands and on our foreheads uh we're going to we're supposed to put it on our

00:11:53.180 city gates um the you you can't read deuteronomy 6 and say but i guess sending them to places that

00:11:59.560 hate god for six hours or eight hours a day would be okay no he said teach them all day long to love

00:12:05.840 me everywhere you go there should be reminders of me um and this is how you fill the earth uh with

00:12:15.060 my glory. And this is how you're potent. And we basically rejected that and said, no, we've got

00:12:21.620 an idea. We're going to do a big extravaganza outreach with explosions and light shows and

00:12:28.280 smoke, and it'll be a real kicking rock band. And that's what we're going to do. And that's just

00:12:35.520 plain disobedient. Christ said, train up your children. Raise them in the nurture and admonition

00:12:42.740 of the lord this is how you raise sharp arrows who will stand with you in the gates um and um but

00:12:48.740 one last thing joel i'm sorry i'm rambling but no it's good i just also think in terms of this

00:12:54.680 um self-government thing in terms of um uh and then the cultural mandate is the potency of hard

00:13:02.320 work and good work in this world uh we're we're in we're being um we've seen anything in the last

00:13:09.780 couple of years, we've seen how so many of the industries in our country and our land are run

00:13:14.860 by people who hate God. Yes. And so the whole cancel culture thing, if you don't, you know,

00:13:19.840 put the rainbow flag in your desk or put it on, you know, the pin on your shirt, you might lose

00:13:24.240 your job. If you say you think that sodomy is an abomination, that the murder of babies in their

00:13:29.920 mother's wombs is wicked and evil. If you don't celebrate the debauchery, you can lose your job, 0.96

00:13:36.460 You can get fired. You can get demoted, all those things. And then, you know, now they're coming for the banks. They're coming for, you know, all kinds of things in our life. And we realize, I mean, what have Christians been doing? We've not been taking dominion.

00:13:51.660 We've not been saying, you know what, by the grace of God, I want in my field, in my industry, I want to provide the best possible products, the best possible services, so that by my serving the world, I can bless them, but also I can protect the gospel.

00:14:09.140 I can protect Christians by, you know, running the best social media platforms, by running the best, you know, whatever, oil companies, the best clothing companies, the best advertising firms, the best banking firms.

00:14:25.040 Christians should be running all those things.

00:14:26.980 Amen. 1.00

00:14:27.900 Because real quick.

00:14:29.100 The world belongs to Christ. 0.61

00:14:30.380 Amen. 0.91

00:14:31.140 Right. 1.00

00:14:31.660 So the meek will inherit the earth, right? 0.97

00:14:33.280 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. 0.99

00:14:35.100 And we've forfeited our inheritance. 0.67

00:14:36.360 and so so everything you're talking about yes and amen a hundred times and i've learned a lot

00:14:40.100 of this stuff from guys like you primarily um and and i've been on you know for the last you know

00:14:44.680 two three years now this you know post-millennial kyperian kind of journey i you know when i was

00:14:50.100 next 29 i started to kind of resist kyperianism but then i started to realize okay this actually

00:14:54.200 isn't kyperianism this is a neo kyper because because they were very much about like let's

00:14:57.720 get involved in the culture but but when you ask like what is a gospel issue that affects politics

00:15:02.100 and the culture, it's synonymous with the Democrat platform. So how do you know if it's a gospel

00:15:07.980 issue? Ending abortion, is that a gospel issue? No, no, no. But wealth redistribution, that's a

00:15:13.920 gospel issue. So I was like, all right, well then just forget this. I'm going the two kingdom route,

00:15:18.760 you know, and I was, you know, close proximity in San Diego to Escondido and so, you know, 0.96

00:15:22.740 the R2K radical too. And so my point is theology impacts all of this, right? So is the earth going 0.87

00:15:28.620 to dissolve like snow, literally? Or is this this sense of like Gary DeMar and some of these guys

00:15:33.140 talking, you know, like the old, you know, the old covenant and some of its promises wrapping up

00:15:38.060 like a rug and, you know, like is the creation itself groaning with eager expectations for the

00:15:44.400 sons of God to be revealed because at that time the creation is going to receive a mercy killing

00:15:49.920 from the Lord and be annihilated and disintegrated? Or does creation know something that many human

00:15:57.020 beings made in the image of God don't even know themselves. Does creation know that Christ is

00:16:01.820 restoring not only his image bearers, but that Christ is going to restore the entirety of the

00:16:06.920 cosmos, that the trees are going to be restored, that the new heavens will be on the new earth,

00:16:12.400 that when Jesus returns, this rapture idea is the idea of, you know, the 10 virgins and five of them 0.94

00:16:18.840 are foolish and five of them are wise, right? And when the bridegroom is coming, the five wise who

00:16:23.500 had enough oil to where they could light their lamps and see the bridegroom as they run out to

00:16:28.440 him, but not to go somewhere else. They run out to him as this welcoming party to greet him,

00:16:33.860 to meet him halfway and usher him back. This idea that the dead will rise, first those who are dead

00:16:39.540 in Christ and then the living, and we will be caught up together with him in the sky as Jesus

00:16:44.380 is going somewhere. He's coming somewhere. Where? To earth. And we're the welcoming committee that

00:16:49.200 meets him and then comes back down with him to the world that he's king of, that he is ruling and

00:16:55.400 reigning now, but is now returned to physically and the new heavens now on the new earth. And what

00:17:01.640 we see is we see this eschaton unraveling before our very eyes, but it's, it's not, it's not some

00:17:08.020 entirely new independent separate creation. No, it is a redeemed glorified Alps. Those Alps that I

00:17:16.680 remember, you know, going and visiting when, you know, in my earthly life and seeing, and now it is

00:17:21.880 the eschatological Alps and that river is, that river is still here, but now it's beautiful. And

00:17:28.160 it's, and so my point is when you, when you have bad theology and bad eschatology, when you're

00:17:33.640 two kingdom, when you're pre-mill, when you're dispensational, I'll just, you know, these kinds

00:17:37.480 of things. And I'm saying it not because I've been on the right side of this theological battle for

00:17:42.260 20 years. No, I've been on the right side by God's grace for about two years. And I say it

00:17:46.580 with passion and gusto because I've been on the wrong side, not because I've earned my stripes,

00:17:51.200 but because I've been on the wrong side and I've been so damaged by bad theology. It wasn't that

00:17:56.480 long ago for me. So I can vividly remember the effects of having the wrong theological foundation

00:18:03.400 and what it lends towards. And all that back to what you're saying, one of the things it lends

00:18:07.180 towards is who cares, right? So your job, your vocation, these kinds of things, at the end of

00:18:13.160 the day, right, you're always thinking, you know, some books like Radical by David Platt, you know,

00:18:16.900 this kind of, you're always thinking in terms of how can I do the least amount of work possible

00:18:21.260 and still make, you know, decent money so that I can leave an inheritance for my children's

00:18:26.980 children, so that I can be a good steward and own property and build wealth rather than building 0.54

00:18:31.920 the pagan's wealth by renting. No, no, no, no, don't own a home and don't do this and don't do 0.93

00:18:35.800 that. No, you want to work as little as possible so you can volunteer at church and you want to

00:18:40.740 make just enough money so you can give everything to the church while limiting your budget as much

00:18:45.520 as, and it's just this, it's this truncated, it's like work doesn't matter, right? You always hear

00:18:50.840 the old adage, you know, everybody in their deathbed. Nobody ever says I should have spent

00:18:54.280 more time at the office. Everyone says I should have spent more time with my family. And there's

00:18:58.820 a truth in that. Yes, we should spend time. We are shepherds and pastors in our homes. We should

00:19:03.480 spend time washing our wives in the word and training up our children the way they should go 0.94

00:19:07.400 and being affectionate and rolling with the little ones and laughing, rolling on the floor

00:19:11.140 and laughing with them. But then we also should, should clock in 50 hour work weeks and, and out

00:19:17.060 work our contemporaries, our pagan contemporaries and do better work. And so to land the plane with 0.95

00:19:21.920 this, I always think of the Luther quote, you know, the, the, the first imperative of the gospel

00:19:26.380 and the cobbler is not that he makes Christian shoes, but that he makes good shoes. However,

00:19:30.820 I think you and I would both say, no, it is that he makes Christian shoes because good shoes are

00:19:36.000 christian shoes so what makes it christian shoes isn't a crappy shoe with john 3 16 written on the

00:19:41.100 bottom of the tongue what makes it a christian shoe is that it's a good shoe it was made with

00:19:45.700 ethical plans it wasn't made in a sweatshop with child labor it's sold at a reasonable price it's

00:19:51.860 durable and lasts and it's aesthetically pleasing and and in even ironically even if a non-christian

00:19:58.120 made that shoe it would be a non-christian making a christian shoe because it it glorifies the lord 0.89

00:20:04.980 And the sad thing is we've had non-Christians producing Christian products, meaning good products and good services, and now the non-Christians are working in their inconsistencies, their inconsistent worldview is finally starting to rear its ugly head in their products, transing your kids through Disney movies. 0.87

00:20:25.120 So now the worldview is getting, because, because, right, it was only, it was inevitable. 0.96

00:20:29.700 It was always a matter of time that their allegiance would work its way into their work.

00:20:34.020 Their work is going to reflect their hearts.

00:20:36.060 So now that their wicked hearts and rebellious hearts is manifesting in their work, they're 0.96

00:20:41.660 no longer making Christian products. 0.78

00:20:43.920 They're now making satanic products. 1.00

00:20:46.460 But then the problem is Christians don't make products at all. 1.00

00:20:50.120 All we do is we go to church and we give to missions. 0.98

00:20:52.860 Yeah.

00:20:53.700 Yeah.

00:20:54.140 As we're recording this, we're getting ready to celebrate Easter.

00:20:58.760 I don't know when the show will drop, but I've been looking at 1 Corinthians 15 and

00:21:02.400 his celebration, this glorious celebration of the resurrection of Jesus and with it,

00:21:07.940 the resurrection of us, our bodies as well.

00:21:11.020 And he closes this whole chapter by saying, therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast,

00:21:16.920 unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your

00:21:21.340 labor is not in vain in the Lord.

00:21:23.880 Amen. Because of the resurrection, because of the hope that Christ came to save this world,

00:21:30.820 that means that our labors are not in vain. They're not worthless. They're not empty.

00:21:35.640 That's not all going to burn. Our bodies are going to be raised, and in some way, shape,

00:21:40.960 or form, or fashion, even our labors, they're going to be raised. They're going to count

00:21:46.680 for eternity. I was also thinking about Titus. I think the book of Titus is one of the,

00:21:52.040 maybe an area that, you know, if somebody says, well, I mostly stick to the New Testament,

00:21:58.480 obviously I have a problem with that. But check out Titus. The number of times that Paul talks

00:22:04.100 about the necessity of good works is a bunch. We're not saved by good works, but we are saved

00:22:11.140 for good works. We're saved to good works. And those good works are not just giving an offering

00:22:18.660 on Sunday or helping a little old lady across the street. Yes, be kind, be generous, and so on.

00:22:23.700 But a lifestyle of good works means offering your vocation, all of your labors to Christ.

00:22:31.200 Going to your job, going to work, going to school, whatever your labor is in the Lord,

00:22:36.100 that's your sacrifice of praise. You're doing it, it's all an altar. Your car is an altar,

00:22:40.640 your kitchen table is an altar, your desk at work is an altar. And so, ask yourself,

00:22:47.120 Is it a sacrifice of praise?

00:22:48.540 Am I doing this to the Lord, and am I maximizing the glory I can give to God for it?

00:22:53.980 Christians should be the right kind of godly, ambitious.

00:22:58.080 Think of Paul.

00:22:59.240 Again, at the beginning of 1 Corinthians 15, he says, you know, I was the last one to see Jesus.

00:23:04.860 The last one, born out of due time, you know, not worthy to be called an apostle.

00:23:09.480 Yet his grace to me was not in vain.

00:23:12.540 And then he has the audacity to say, and I have worked harder than all of the rest of them.

00:23:16.560 but it was not me it was christ in me right we should have that kind of hunger that like i want

00:23:22.260 to work harder than all the rest of the christians in my field in my business i want to i want to

00:23:26.820 serve christ as a banker as a butcher as a candlestick maker as a mom as a wife as a teacher

00:23:32.000 um and and outrun everybody for the glory of christ amen and the problem is when when you

00:23:38.480 don't see the work itself as as um as valuable in the sight of the lord so then all work becomes

00:23:45.940 is a means towards provision for your family and generosity to the church for the great commission

00:23:51.620 the real thing that really matters and you don't and yeah but but if you see the work itself um as

00:23:58.080 eternal every every everything that is truly good and and and beautiful and and uh and in line with

00:24:07.560 with god's word um has uh not just value but it has an eternal value um that every every cup of

00:24:15.520 cold water you give in the name of Jesus, if that's worthwhile, if that's meaningful, then

00:24:19.780 so is every peanut butter and jelly sandwich you make for your kids. So is every invoice you write

00:24:25.180 for the work you've done. So is every nail you hammer. All of it is serving the Lord because

00:24:31.720 the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. Yeah. And part of the problem, I was talking to

00:24:36.500 Joe Boot about this, but like part of the problem is, you know, whenever we do find a gifted

00:24:40.740 Christian man who's competent and talented and ambitious, what do we tell him he should do with

00:24:46.880 his life? We take him out of any vocation that he might've been in and say, you should be a pastor.

00:24:53.760 You know? And so it's like, so we just don't. Which is interestingly, it's just the opposite

00:24:58.520 of what Charles Spurgeon, I'll give you a Reformed Baptist shout out here. Spurgeon in lectures to

00:25:04.700 his students, one of my favorite lecture he gives, he begins by saying, if you can do anything else

00:25:09.500 besides be a pastor, do it. And I, I start every year with that to my, my, uh, my pastoral

00:25:16.520 training students. I actually give them that talk, uh, you know, my own version of it. And I say,

00:25:20.160 look, you probably shouldn't be here. Right. Right. I think we should, I think we should have

00:25:24.380 the opposite, um, message. We should have, we should have the message of, um, we need pastors,

00:25:29.040 we need evangelists, we need missionaries, but you're probably not called to it. Yep. That's

00:25:33.060 what I've been telling the last couple. And probably you need to do something else. If you

00:25:38.660 can do something else you should do it and it's for the kingdom that is your ministry that's right

00:25:42.820 and it's important it's important you do it amen thanks so much for listening but real quick

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The NXR Podcast - April 27, 2022

BONUS - A Primer On Christian Government ｜ Dominion - Part 2 of 6

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