The NXR Podcast - BONUS EPISODE - Are Christian Parents In California At Risk Of Losing Their Children？

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00:00:42.640 All right, welcome back to another Monday Live. I am your host, Pastor Joel Webin with Right

00:00:47.240 Response Ministries. And in this particular episode, what I want to cover is the words

00:00:52.620 that were recently issued at a hearing on a particular bill dealing with parents of

00:01:00.400 minors who are transitioning in terms of their gender. This is a state senator in the state of

00:01:07.640 California, and he does what you would not necessarily expect a state senator to do. He

00:01:12.780 actually urges parents to leave the state. He says that he's been a state senator for 11 years

00:01:19.780 in California, and his entire lifetime, born and raised in the state of California, he has always

00:01:25.320 urged people to stay and fight the good fight, but that he himself, when he finishes his term,

00:01:30.740 he plans to leave, and he's encouraging parents to do the same. He said that it's not worth

00:01:35.120 staying and fighting any longer, but that the best thing that you can do for the sake of the

00:01:40.640 protection of your children is that if you are a parent with Christian orthodoxy, with conservative,

00:01:48.480 traditional values, then the best thing that you can do for your children is leave. So that's a 0.92

00:01:53.900 clip that I'm going to be playing and dissecting and really just drawing out some of the implications.

00:02:00.040 I'm also in this video going to plug shamelessly some of my own content because it deals with this

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00:02:10.680 little bit of the content from my book, Fight by Flight, Why Leaving Godless Places is Loving

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00:09:27.740 all right so i want to try to take some questions today okay i understand the reason why i want to

00:09:34.680 make time for that is because i understand it's a controversial topic right should christians stay

00:09:39.200 or should they go when it comes to the state of california that's what we're going to focus on

00:09:42.860 but really this is a principle that's much broader it applies to progressive nations it applies to

00:09:48.220 progressive states california being a prime example but there are others right if you live

00:09:53.120 in New York, you know, and it also applies not just to progressive nations and states, but also

00:09:58.440 cities, right? If you live in Washington, D.C., should a Christian stay or go? And usually that's 0.90

00:10:03.880 the question between, you know, fight or flight. Should I flee or should I stay and fight the good

00:10:08.480 fight? And, you know, my whole premise, for those of you who are aware of the book that I recently

00:10:13.700 published, Fight by Flight, the whole premise is that I reject that what I see as being a false

00:10:20.660 dichotomy, that it's either stay and fight or tuck your tail between your legs and flee. I think that

00:10:26.740 fleeing is actually one of the best and most effective ways to fight. I think that one of

00:10:31.380 the ways that you bring godless places to their knees is that the salt of the earth, Christians

00:10:36.580 especially, but then also conservatives and other people who hold their traditional

00:10:40.540 values and virtues, that we stop propping these places up with our hard-earned cash, that we stop

00:10:47.960 paying these state taxes, that we stop paying for these failed, godless, wicked policies. That a lot

00:10:55.300 of times, if we're honest, that the Christian, their choice to stay and fight, I think they need 1.00

00:11:00.240 to give a fair look at whether or not their mere presence in a progressive, godless place, 1.00

00:11:09.560 is that producing more fighting or is it actually producing more funding? Are you fighting more

00:11:16.280 than your funding, right? What are you paying in property taxes? What are you paying in state

00:11:20.360 taxes? What does that go towards? What is being accomplished? Also just your presence, not just

00:11:25.740 in tax dollars, not just in money, but your presence just as an individual person, your

00:11:29.960 household as a resident, right? That you're boosting the numbers of the population of that

00:11:35.560 particular state, which allows for more representatives at the federal level of

00:11:39.500 government, all these different things. We know that a couple of years ago that California lost

00:11:44.300 and it was historic but they lost actually a seat in terms of state representatives and because

00:11:51.240 their population historically for the first time in a very long time had decreased rather than

00:11:56.080 increased and so it's not just that they're losing tax revenue but they're actually losing

00:12:00.600 their overall population of residents which affects their representation at the federal level

00:12:06.700 so there's a lot of ways i believe that christians can actually make a difference

00:12:11.080 not by just staying and fighting, but that actually the fleeing is a form of fighting.

00:12:16.880 So that's the premise of my book.

00:12:18.380 I'm actually going to be going on the Steve Day show on the Blaze Network this week,

00:12:22.760 I believe on Thursday, to talk about the book, Fight by Flight.

00:12:26.620 And he agrees with this sentiment.

00:12:28.340 He has said it publicly many times. 0.99

00:12:30.040 He said, you know, I understand that some of you Christians in California had a sick pawpaw, 0.75

00:12:34.440 but really, you know, like six million of you, right?

00:12:37.620 Because that's how many voted for Trump in 2020.

00:12:39.580 six million of you have sick pawpaws like you all have to stay i understand there are exceptions

00:12:43.820 um but but are six million professing christians you know six million that voted for trump there's

00:12:50.060 actually 16 million that profess christ in a state of 42 million people in california really 16

00:12:55.920 million of you professing christians have sick pawpaws is is that really what you're trying to

00:13:01.580 tell me and so steve days has spoken about this i'm going to talk about it this week on his show

00:13:05.860 the whole premise, again, is that I think it's a false dichotomy to say it's either fight,

00:13:12.220 stay and fight, or flee, and that fleeing is somehow not fighting. I actually would advocate

00:13:18.180 that fleeing is one of the most effective and profound ways that Christians can fight against 0.98

00:13:23.240 the godless ideology in progressive states. So, without further ado, let's go ahead and play the 1.00

00:13:28.440 clip, and then I'll dissect it a little bit, and if you have a question on this topic, all right,

00:13:34.080 Some of you guys in the chat, you get cute, that's fine, whatever, you know, you're right,

00:13:38.640 do whatever you want in the chat, but I'm probably not going to address your question

00:13:43.360 if it doesn't have anything to do with this topic.

00:13:47.140 But if you have a particular question, because again, I know it's controversial, I know that 0.71

00:13:51.100 Christians disagree, there are a lot of Christians like, no, no, no, no, no, we need to stay.

00:13:54.920 And Christians like me who say, no, no, no, no, we need to leave.

00:13:57.380 So if you have a legitimate question surrounding this topic of whether or not Christians should

00:14:01.460 stay in godless places or whether or not they should leave if you have a question write it in

00:14:06.440 the chat now as we play this video as i dissect it and i will do my best to get to it here in a

00:14:11.820 moment all right so without further ado let's go ahead and play the i'm now in year 11 sorry in

00:14:16.580 the state legislature and all the time we're proposing policies to protect children after

00:14:22.540 11 years i've come to a conclusion that we need to start protecting parents that's just not

00:14:27.280 happening. I've been here witness a full frontal assault on charter schools taking

00:14:33.500 away parents choice and how their children and you'd be educated to the

00:14:38.920 detriment particularly of children of color. In recent years we have put 0.99

00:14:43.660 government bureaucrats between parents children and doctors when it comes to

00:14:48.100 medical care and now we have this where if a parent does not support the

00:14:52.360 ideology of the government they're gonna be taken away from the home. Now I agree

00:14:56.980 with both Senator Wiener and Senator Laird that today it only involves divorce proceedings and

00:15:03.060 frankly a judge can already factor factor this in but I can assure you it's not going to end

00:15:08.660 with divorce proceedings in the past when we've had these discussions and I've seen parental rights

00:15:15.780 atrophied but I've encouraged people to keep fighting I've changed my mind on that if you

00:15:21.940 love your children, you need to flee California. You need to flee. We are moving towards the

00:15:29.080 pathway of the hands-made tale. California is becoming the new Juilliard, and it just breaks

00:15:35.000 my heart. I'm born and raised in this state. I love this state. I'm not going to stay in this state

00:15:39.360 because it's just too oppressive, and I believe in freedom, and so I'm going to move to America

00:15:45.340 when I leave the legislature. There you have it. I've said some of the same things myself.

00:15:51.940 You know, when people are asking, why are you, you know, you planted a church in Southern California and you're the founding pastor and, you know, you built a community there and started a church from scratch and now you're leaving.

00:16:03.360 Why are you leaving?

00:16:05.380 You know, and I would say, well, there's a lot of reasons, but the short answer, if you want just a, you know, a short answer on the short answer is I have children and I love them.

00:16:14.000 Now, I understand that people are bothered by that because they're like, well, are you implying that Christians that have children that choose to stay in California don't love their children?

00:16:21.160 no, I know that you love your kids. But I just want to say that Senator Scott Wilk, who is a

00:16:26.980 state, you know, a state senator in California, he used the exact same rhetoric. He said, you know,

00:16:32.420 if you love your children, you need to flee. You need to flee. And I think that he's right. I've

00:16:38.240 also said the same thing that he said for a few years now, saying, you know, I've lived in

00:16:43.240 California, but I miss Texas. No, I miss America. I'd like to move back to America. And so that's

00:16:49.580 what i did and i am happier for it so all that being said let me let me just present a couple

00:16:55.840 i don't know you could call these you know faqs right the frequently asked questions uh some of

00:17:01.800 you may ask this in the chat and i'll try to get to it but i think that i can probably head off

00:17:05.740 some of these questions because they're the most common objections that i've gotten over the last

00:17:10.680 few years as i've spoken on this topic and been an advocate for christians to leave the state

00:17:16.600 Here are some of the most common objections that I've gotten.

00:17:19.120 People say, well, but what about missionaries?

00:17:21.400 I'm going to read a small portion from my book here.

00:17:25.120 But what about missionaries?

00:17:26.400 Some of you may be wondering, what about Christians who live in places that California so greatly aspires to become?

00:17:32.000 You know, places like Venezuela, North Korea, or China.

00:17:36.080 This is a perfectly reasonable question that deserves a thoughtful response. 0.77

00:17:40.500 To determine whether or not a Christian should choose to live in California,

00:17:43.620 we must recognize that countries such as Venezuela, North Korea, and China

00:17:47.740 differ from California in at least one key respect.

00:17:51.800 The vast majority of Christians living under these oppressive regimes

00:17:55.140 do not have the option of leaving.

00:17:58.120 In God's providence, He determines both when and where people will live.

00:18:02.920 For much of human history, and still even much today,

00:18:06.440 many people have very little say in the matter.

00:18:08.980 However, for those of us who are citizens of the United States of America, as well as citizens of other first world countries, we have an unparalleled freedom in determining where we raise our family.

00:18:22.660 A further inquiry might be this. What about the concept of missionaries? Certainly that's a biblical premise or principle.

00:18:29.860 What about those who choose to forsake their liberties to go into the darkest places of our world and make disciples for Jesus?

00:18:37.140 To this, I will respond by simply reminding the reader of what a missionary is.

00:18:42.500 A missionary is someone who is committed to fulfilling the Great Commission.

00:18:46.640 That is, go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

00:18:50.300 baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

00:18:54.460 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

00:18:58.220 Matthew 28, verses 19 and 20.

00:19:01.660 See, we tend to forget that last part.

00:19:04.420 The Great Commission involves more than merely conversions and baptisms.

00:19:09.360 It involves discipleship, teaching people to obey all of Christ's commands.

00:19:14.920 Fortunately, Jesus was kind enough not to leave the task of defining discipleship up to us.

00:19:21.280 So, what is discipleship according to Jesus?

00:19:24.140 Discipleship is teaching those who we baptize into the name of the triune God to obey all of Christ's commandments.

00:19:32.500 So, missionaries, and all Christians for that matter,

00:19:35.960 have been tasked with teaching others how to submit to the complete lordship of Jesus in every area of life.

00:19:42.600 So, how do we teach people about the goodness of Christ's lordship over the family

00:19:47.120 if we deliberately prolong singleness, delay childbearing,

00:19:51.200 and abdicate our parental duties by shipping our children off to the state

00:19:55.340 so that our wives can provide a second income to cover the high cost of living?

00:20:00.200 The answer is, we don't.

00:20:02.800 Are there some Christians who are spiritually and financially fit for being missionaries in California?

00:20:08.520 Certainly. 0.92

00:20:09.560 Just as there are some Christians who are fit to be missionaries in a place like China. 0.99

00:20:13.500 But to pretend that this is the norm, simply because what I'm suggesting is controversial, is incredibly foolish.

00:20:21.380 So that's the first objection that I often get when I say, I think that in general, there are exceptions,

00:20:26.740 But in general, Christians should seriously and prayerfully consider taking their household and leaving states like California.

00:20:35.420 The first objection that I get is, well, what about missionaries?

00:20:38.300 And again, what I would say is with the total population, speaking of the state of California, 42 million people,

00:20:44.600 and 16 million of those 42 million being professing Christians,

00:20:48.900 I do not believe that a third of the state qualifies in biblical terms as being missionaries.

00:20:56.740 I don't believe, I'm sorry, I understand it may offend you, but I don't believe that 16 million

00:21:04.300 of those professing Christians in the state of 42 million, California, are actual bona fide

00:21:12.000 missionaries. So if you're saying, well, I think that there are 100,000 legitimate bona fide

00:21:18.900 missionaries in the state of California, great. Then let's go ahead and try to urge and persuade

00:21:25.380 and encourage 15,900,000 of the other professing Christians to leave. The 100,000 true bona fide 0.99

00:21:35.020 missionaries, they can stay. Those who are both spiritually and practically fit for that kind of

00:21:42.120 terrain, they can stay. But everybody else who doesn't fit the bill, I think that they should

00:21:47.820 probably leave, right? Being a missionary is not just evangelism. It's not just doing the work of

00:21:54.080 evangelism it can never be anything less but oh how it is more it is evangelism it is working

00:22:00.080 towards by the spirit of god by grace his sovereign election preaching the gospel working

00:22:04.480 towards conversion and baptizing those who believe right it's baptizing people into the name of the

00:22:09.820 triune god those who believe our gospel proclamation by grace through faith in christ alone but then

00:22:16.020 the latter part and this is not separate from the great commission this is included this jesus says

00:22:21.280 all authority on earth and in heaven so jesus is king he's reigning here and now not just reigning

00:22:27.380 not just someone who is ready to reign later and also not someone who is presently reigning now

00:22:33.460 but reigning in the 17th dimension somewhere else no he's reigning here authority on earth

00:22:39.180 and in heaven so reigning here but also reigning now he says all authority it's not that it will

00:22:44.680 be given to me but it has been given to me now so he has authority now he's reigning now and he's

00:22:49.860 not just reigning there, he's reigning here. And with that prelude of Jesus saying, I am king here

00:22:55.980 and now, he then gives his great commission. And the great commission involves not only preaching

00:23:01.020 the gospel, evangelism, and baptizing, conversion, but it also includes and teach them to obey all

00:23:10.340 my commands. Teach them to obey all my commands. If we want to get really simple for a moment,

00:23:14.920 we can say, well, how many commands does Jesus have? Well, all the commands in the Bible. It's

00:23:19.300 We're not red-letter Christians, right?

00:23:21.580 Everything that the Bible says is God speaking, right?

00:23:25.200 So whether Paul's writing it or whether Isaiah's writing it,

00:23:27.920 they are inspired by the Holy Spirit.

00:23:29.760 And the Holy Spirit is not the third member of the Trinity.

00:23:32.600 He is not at odds with the first and the second member of the Trinity.

00:23:36.060 If the Holy Spirit inspires it, right?

00:23:38.320 So if an Old Testament author says it and it's in Scripture,

00:23:42.080 it's inspired by the Holy Spirit.

00:23:43.840 So if the man inscripturated, whether it be New or Old Testament, says it,

00:23:48.560 the spirit is saying it and if the spirit's saying it then we know that the father and the son agree

00:23:53.700 with what the spirit says and so all of the commandments are jesus commandments but if we

00:23:58.340 want to get a little bit cute with with new testament red letter christianity well then

00:24:03.140 all right i'll give you this argument how many commandments does jesus have well at least two

00:24:06.980 love the lord your god the greatest the first and greatest commandment love the lord your god with

00:24:12.060 all your heart with all your soul and all your mind and all your strength as he says elsewhere

00:24:16.240 and the second greatest commandment is like it that you should love your neighbor as you as

00:24:20.520 yourself this is matthew 22 verse 37 through 40 the first and greatest commandment is to love the

00:24:25.500 lord your god with everything and then the second greatest commandment which is like it is to love

00:24:30.380 your neighbor as yourself now the very next question you say well that's it just love god

00:24:34.460 and love people okay here's the problem what people assume what christians assume is that

00:24:40.500 the commandments of christ are only two and these two commandments is to love god and love people

00:24:45.460 And then what we eisegete into that text is we say, and we get to be the governing power

00:24:51.760 for determining what love for God and love for people looks like.

00:24:55.540 No, you don't, right? 0.97

00:24:56.900 That's where you get clown world.

00:24:58.460 That's where you get 2020.

00:24:59.620 Love your neighbor by getting the jab of wearing a mask.

00:25:03.200 Well, wait a second.

00:25:04.620 God gets to define what's loving to your neighbor.

00:25:07.120 God gets to define what's loving to him.

00:25:09.520 So yeah, you could argue Jesus only has two commandments.

00:25:11.940 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor

00:25:15.080 as yourself. But then the next question should be, how do I love the Lord my God? And how do I love

00:25:20.600 my neighbor? Well, Christianity has argued for 2,000 years of church history that if you want

00:25:26.160 to better understand, more thoroughly understand what it is to love the Lord your God, you look at

00:25:31.340 the Decalogue. Exodus chapter 20, the Ten Commandments, namely the first table of the

00:25:35.980 Decalogue, the first table of the law, Commandments 1 through 4. How do I love the Lord my God?

00:25:40.680 Well, the first four of the Ten Commandments deal expressly with what love, our duty, our

00:25:46.040 moral obligation in love for God looks like.

00:25:48.640 So have no other gods before him.

00:25:50.040 You want to love God?

00:25:51.340 The first thing is stop being an idolater.

00:25:54.420 You cannot love God rightly while loving other gods, lesser gods, false gods.

00:26:00.840 So love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

00:26:04.500 Well, the first thing that you do is have no other gods.

00:26:06.780 The second thing that you do is do not make any graven images.

00:26:09.980 The third thing you do is you don't cheapen God's reputation.

00:26:13.860 You don't detract from his glory.

00:26:16.280 You don't count his name as trivial and trite.

00:26:20.400 Do not take my name in vain.

00:26:22.480 That's the third commandment.

00:26:23.380 The fourth is we love the Lord our God by devoting one day in seven for rest and worship.

00:26:30.640 Worship of the triune God.

00:26:32.060 Giving to the Lord the Lord's day.

00:26:33.960 Not just the Lord's hour, but the Lord's day.

00:26:35.880 the christian sabbath the first day of the week the day that christ jesus himself was raised from

00:26:40.360 the dead remember the sabbath and keep it holy six days you shall work but the seventh day is

00:26:45.720 a day devoted to the lord for worship and so that's how we love the lord our god so jesus only

00:26:52.100 has uh you know jesus says you need to go you need to make disciples you need to baptize them

00:26:56.640 in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit that's all we could say uh in the banner

00:27:00.920 of gospel work gospel proclamation the work of an evangelist conversion but the great commission is

00:27:06.800 not only that it also includes and teach them to obey all my commandments that's where the law

00:27:11.500 comes in giving it you know steel manning not straw manning but steel manning any opponent

00:27:16.940 objecting to what i'm saying they might say well jesus only has two commandments okay fine i'll

00:27:21.020 work with that premise faulty albeit but i'll work with it are what are his two commandments

00:27:25.580 love the lord your god and love your neighbor okay great the next thing is how does god have

00:27:30.140 something to say is it just uh so you love god and people and now you oh man you get to decide

00:27:36.780 what love for god and love for people looks like or does god get to decide that right is loving god

00:27:42.020 and loving people a blank canvas for our own creative license and and freedom or does god

00:27:48.380 explicitly describe for us spell out for us what love for him and love for people looks like i would

00:27:54.180 argue the latter that god defines that and he defines that in the 10 commandments so the two

00:27:58.840 commandments of Christ, love God, love people, gets you to the 10 commandments. The first table

00:28:03.020 of the law, how to love God, commandments one through four. Second table of the law, commandments

00:28:07.800 namely five through 10, tells us how to love our neighbor. Who is our neighbor? Well, your mother

00:28:13.000 and father, they're your neighbors. Honor thy mother and thy father, that it may go well with

00:28:17.920 you and that you may live a long life in the earth, in the land that you're inheriting. The

00:28:22.380 next commandment, that's the fifth. The sixth commandment is do not murder. It's not loving

00:28:26.220 your neighbor to kill him so do not murder okay and that's where people would say well that's why

00:28:31.440 you need to wear a mask that's why you need to get to the jab well wait a second what about the ninth

00:28:36.200 commandment that says it's also not loving your neighbor to bear false witness right so you're not

00:28:41.760 you're not allowed to kill your neighbor you're also not allowed to lie to your neighbor you're

00:28:45.440 not allowed to lie to your neighbor so you're not allowed to go around for three years telling your

00:28:50.160 neighbor he should be scared to death that he should let his parents die alone at the nursing

00:28:54.720 home and not visit them. He should be scared to death. He should give up his business. He should 0.58

00:29:00.200 let his kids fall behind in terms of their development, intellectual, flourishing, academic

00:29:06.660 prowess, and all these different things. He should not love his kids by making them suffer.

00:29:11.740 There are countless studies done about how toddlers, their speech was greatly delayed

00:29:16.480 because of people wearing masks. They couldn't see their own parents physically articulating

00:29:20.940 words, enunciation. So they were greatly delayed in their speech development. Older folks died

00:29:29.120 not being able to see their family alone in nursing homes. So, okay, yeah, don't kill your

00:29:33.820 neighbor. So thou shall not murder. That's the sixth commandment. That's one way to love your

00:29:37.180 neighbor. Another way to love your neighbor is thou shall not lie to your neighbor, bear false

00:29:41.680 witness, wearing a mask and going around scaring, you know, the life out of people for three years

00:29:49.440 saying this is the bubonic plague when it's not it's not the bubonic plague regardless of your

00:29:55.740 thoughts on on on covid um it was not nearly as deadly as we were led to believe and yet people

00:30:01.800 did not drop the false narratives and lies and deceitful narratives were perpetuated and it did

00:30:07.940 countless harm to our neighbor it hurt our neighbor it hurt his his um his the economy it hurt his

00:30:14.820 livelihood his business uh the old testament says you shall not take a man's millstone um as as a

00:30:21.720 collateral and not give it back to him it says for it is his livelihood no the text explicitly says

00:30:27.340 for it is his life according to god's standard a man's livelihood is equivalent to his very life

00:30:33.960 so so thou shall not murder your neighbor take his physical life but you also can't take his

00:30:39.160 livelihood because it's the same as taking his life so all these things being said if we're

00:30:44.060 going to make disciples, if we're going to be missionaries, we need to recognize it's not just

00:30:47.860 evangelism. Discipleship is evangelism and teaching people the commandments of Christ.

00:30:52.300 The commandments of Christ gets you to the 10 commandments. And then those 10 commandments,

00:30:57.780 those are hard to follow depending on what context you're living in. We can't say, well,

00:31:03.860 I'm sacrificing because I'm on mission in California to be a missionary for Jesus.

00:31:09.100 But in being a missionary, I'm not just foregoing my personal pleasure and comforts,

00:31:13.960 but I'm actually foregoing practical, meaningful obedience to some of the clearest commandments in Scripture.

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00:32:54.700 All right, so here are five commandments.

00:32:57.560 five commandments uh that particularly i'm going to be speaking to men for a moment as heads of

00:33:02.980 households as husbands and fathers five very clear explicit commandments in the bible um

00:33:08.440 that again there are exceptions to the rule it is possible i believe to be obedient faithfully

00:33:13.560 obedient to these commandments as a christian in california you can be a missionary but i don't

00:33:17.680 think six uh 16 million of the professing christians in california are currently meeting

00:33:22.360 the standard okay um and i think there's a lot of people that in the name of being a missionary

00:33:27.060 they're there what they're sacrificing is not their own personal comforts or liberties but what

00:33:32.560 they're actually sacrificing is obedience to christ the basic overarching premise from scripture

00:33:37.680 for this uh this principle that i'm going to be breaking down to five different biblical

00:33:41.640 commandments would be the discourse between uh saul king saul the first uh king in israel

00:33:47.540 and the prophet samuel where saul was supposed to um to completely destroy um all the amalekites

00:33:55.460 and um and and he doesn't he spares some of them he gives in to the people and and samuel goes and

00:34:02.220 he confronts him and challenges him and saul says i've gone he literally uses the word mission

00:34:06.900 mission i'm a missionary samuel i've gone on the mission to which the lord assigned me and i've

00:34:12.780 done this and i've done that and samuel says well if you did it all then what is the believing of

00:34:17.240 of sheep and and and goats that i hear you obviously didn't um you obviously didn't destroy

00:34:22.740 everything because I can see all this livestock over there in the corner. Oh, well, that's going

00:34:26.700 to be a sacrifice to the Lord. And right there, Samuel nails him and he says, does the Lord desire

00:34:32.120 sacrifice as much as he does obedience? And that's where we get the famous line from this discourse

00:34:38.160 between Saul and Samuel, where Samuel says, obedience is better than sacrifice. Obedience

00:34:43.380 is better than sacrifice. So all that being said, sacrificing personal pleasures and comforts

00:34:49.040 for the sake of mission, is not only permissible, but I believe commendable.

00:34:55.600 That is a truly missionary mentality.

00:34:59.040 But some of us, we're not just sacrificing our personal pleasures and comforts.

00:35:05.400 If we really get down to it at the end of the day,

00:35:08.020 what's being sacrificed is obedience to the clear commandments of Scripture.

00:35:13.020 And God desires obedience more than sacrifice, is what the Bible teaches us.

00:35:19.860 So what are some clear commandments that obedience to these commandments, I believe,

00:35:25.140 is being sacrificed in the name of a missionary mentality in progressive, godless places?

00:35:30.780 The first is this, men as sons.

00:35:34.280 Exodus 20.12 says,

00:35:35.780 Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

00:35:41.060 although obedience to our parents is a temporary command issued to younger children while they

00:35:45.840 remain at home the command to honor our father and mother i believe is a lifelong command that

00:35:52.380 continues even for adult children for quite some time in my case my parents were doing everything

00:35:57.860 they could to transition from bay city texas to san diego california where i was located

00:36:02.700 they desperately wanted to be closer to their adult children and grandchildren although my

00:36:07.760 parents were diligently trying their best to achieve this goal, it was doubtful that

00:36:11.880 the two individuals who had lived most of their adult lives in one of the poorest counties

00:36:16.600 of Texas would be able to successfully retire in one of the most expensive cities in the

00:36:21.280 world.

00:36:22.020 Over time, I became convinced that I had an obligation to help provide for my aging parents

00:36:26.780 by ensuring that they were able to fulfill their heart's desires.

00:36:30.000 1 Timothy 5, verse 4 says this,

00:36:32.600 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household

00:36:38.780 and make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

00:36:44.000 Although this biblical text specifically references elderly widows,

00:36:48.160 I have come to believe that it is pleasing in the sight of God when adult children earnestly seek to make some return to their parents,

00:36:56.580 even when both their father and mother are still living.

00:36:59.260 For those of you who are just tuning in, I'm using some excerpts from my book, Fight by Flight.

00:37:04.060 The foreword is by Doug Wilson.

00:37:05.540 The subtitle is Why Leaving Godless Places is Loving Godless Places.

00:37:10.380 Not fight or flight.

00:37:11.660 I'm arguing that you can actually fight the godlessness, the godless pagan ideologies of some of the most progressive places in the world,

00:37:19.640 not by staying and fighting, but actually you're leaving, you're departing from those places is a method, an effective method of fighting.

00:37:28.140 So the first commandment, there's no explicit commandment in the scripture that says,

00:37:33.120 Joel Webin, thou shalt be a missionary to California.

00:37:36.600 But there is an explicit commandment for me that I would honor my father and mother.

00:37:42.200 And again, what I'm arguing is that obedience, raw obedience to the commandments of father

00:37:48.140 and mother is a temporary commandment issued to younger children while under their father's

00:37:52.260 roof.

00:37:52.900 But I do believe that a general honoring of father and mother is not temporary, but a

00:37:57.700 lifelong commandment that we are called over the course of our lives even as adult children to

00:38:02.260 honor our father and mother and one of the things that that practically entails is caring for our

00:38:07.540 parents as they age in the same way that evangelicals have been notorious for shipping

00:38:13.080 their children off to public school to the state we also have been notorious for shipping our 0.50

00:38:18.300 parents off to the glue factory when they age rather than taking them into our home that's a

00:38:24.360 foreign concept for the vast majority of human history not just within christian cultures but

00:38:29.680 but universally virtually universally until very very recently uh when when parents began to age

00:38:38.500 their adult children would take them into their home and care for them um over the course of their

00:38:43.160 last few years of life they wouldn't just ship them off but they would actually bring them in

00:38:47.780 if they needed special medical attention then sure then they would hire maybe a

00:38:51.660 a hospice nurse or something like that, but they wouldn't just put them somewhere else for someone

00:38:56.920 else to deal with. They would actually bring the parents in and care for them themselves. This is

00:39:03.000 practically speaking, this is one of the reasons why there's a host of reasons, but just one reason

00:39:07.340 why our generation, if you're a millennial, I'm an old millennial, but a lot of Gen Xers and

00:39:14.840 millennials have not received as much of a monetary inheritance as generations past,

00:39:21.060 in part because of a wicked shift in virtues and people being selfish, older generations,

00:39:27.760 and thinking, oh, I don't want to give it to my kids. I want to teach them. They need to

00:39:31.520 pull themselves up by their bootstraps, which goes completely against scripture.

00:39:36.820 So that's not a righteous endeavor. But part of the reason why we don't receive an inheritance

00:39:41.340 is because whatever savings and investments parents have stored up,

00:39:47.840 usually every single penny is milked over the last few years of their life

00:39:52.740 by very expensive health care being provided somewhere else

00:39:57.160 because their children, they want the inheritance,

00:39:59.360 but they're also at the same time, here's the contradiction,

00:40:01.560 they're not willing to take their parents into their home and care for them.

00:40:05.180 See, they could actually save on a lot of those expenses

00:40:07.520 by caring for their parents themselves,

00:40:09.700 not having strangers do it but them uh caring for their parents i'm not a certified doctor or

00:40:15.800 anything like that so you're going to have to outsource some of this to be sure but but a lot

00:40:19.940 of it housing your parents as they age saying you're going to live with us you cared for us

00:40:24.600 and and changed our diapers when we were babies and if we have to change some of your diapers here

00:40:29.160 at the end of life it would be our honor to do so children first timothy right this is first timothy

00:40:34.700 chapter five, verse four, it is good and pleasing to the Lord in his sight when children give some

00:40:39.940 return. Parents have given so much to us, but now giving a return to our parents in their later

00:40:46.620 years of life. And by giving that return, one practical effect of that is that there's more

00:40:51.960 of a likelihood that the parents don't have to drain all their accounts on expensive health care

00:40:57.600 being housed 24 seven somewhere else. And so maybe there might actually be an inheritance there. So

00:41:02.740 that's one commandment men as sons right now you just draw out the practical implications it is

00:41:09.400 much easier for me as my parents age to care for them in a state like texas politically culturally

00:41:16.280 economically cost of living the whole nine yards in in every single regard in a practical standpoint

00:41:22.680 it is easier for me to care for my aging parents here in the state of texas than it would have been

00:41:27.980 for me to do so in Southern California. Okay. So I don't have an explicit commandment that says

00:41:33.060 in the scripture, Joel Webb and thou shalt be a missionary to California, but I do have very

00:41:37.620 clear commandment to me as a son to care for my aging parents. And it is much easier to do that

00:41:42.720 in one context rather than another. All right. Here's another commandment, men, not just as

00:41:47.220 sons, but now men as fathers. Genesis 128, be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue

00:41:53.560 it as scripture testifies children are a blessing from the lord that's psalm 127 verse 3 i will

00:41:59.860 maintain that scripture allows for some measure of careful and ethical family planning that would

00:42:04.720 be contraceptives that do not impose any abortive risks however i'm still convinced in general that

00:42:12.080 in most circumstances married couples do well to have several children children are a heritage from

00:42:17.480 the Lord and blesses the man, Psalm 127.5, whose quiver is full. So children are a blessing. Lots

00:42:24.680 of children is even more so a blessing. However, procreation is just one small part of the task

00:42:31.240 which the Lord has assigned to parents. In addition to producing children, a father must

00:42:35.680 both protect and provide for his children. A significant component of this provision includes

00:42:41.920 the children's education this is ephesians 6 4 fathers do not provoke your children to anger but

00:42:48.120 bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the lord in light of biblical texts such as this

00:42:53.980 it appears evident that a christian man cannot merely abdicate his fatherly duty by handing his

00:42:59.160 children over to the secular state to be educated this is especially true in a state that is godless

00:43:05.780 like new york or california this means that a husband and wife will be required to homeschool

00:43:11.300 their children or to pay a significant amount to place each of their children in a private

00:43:16.560 christian school and here's another text matthew 12 16 and 17 and they brought jesus a denarius

00:43:23.860 and he said to them whose image is this they said to him caesar's and jesus said to them render to

00:43:30.880 caesar the things that are caesar's and to god the things that are god's still to this day the image

00:43:37.660 on our currency is the image of man but whose image do we see in our children surely it is god's

00:43:44.180 so if we are to render unto caesar what is caesar's but unto god what is god's why do we keep

00:43:50.380 handing our children over to caesar the state why did christian parents continue to insist that

00:43:56.480 their 15 minutes of daily family worship will somehow be able to compete with the 15 000 hours

00:44:02.580 of state indoctrination they willingly subject their children to?

00:44:06.900 Ignorance is the answer for some parents, but for most, the answer is practicality.

00:44:12.520 It's money.

00:44:13.700 Enrolling our children in a private Christian school is expensive, and a father's choice 0.68

00:44:17.740 to homeschool his children means that he will not be able to rely upon his wife to provide

00:44:22.860 a second income.

00:44:23.740 So how will parents who come under these biblical convictions continue to afford to live in

00:44:28.920 a state like california without succumbing to the temptation to utilize public schools the answer is

00:44:34.820 simple they won't they'll probably give into the temptation now not all christians have but again

00:44:41.180 i'm talking i'm not talking about the hundred thousand christians in california that are

00:44:47.740 thoroughly reformed and super conservative and starting christian classical schools and working

00:44:53.160 hard and dad's taking two jobs and doing that i'm not talking about there are exceptions to the rule

00:44:58.080 I've said it before, I'll say it again, there are exceptions.

00:45:01.320 But again, 42 million people, total population, state of California, 16 million of them profess

00:45:07.540 to be Christians.

00:45:08.660 And I do not believe whatsoever that 16 million of these professing Christians are not utilizing

00:45:15.340 public school.

00:45:16.080 They are.

00:45:17.320 And many of them would say, well, we're in California because we're missionaries.

00:45:21.060 Okay, well, a missionary, as I've already said, for those who are just tuning in, a

00:45:24.440 missionary doesn't just just preach the gospel and do the work of an evangelist working towards

00:45:28.260 conversion and baptism but according to the great commission given by jesus himself the end of the

00:45:33.560 great commission is that we teach disciples these disciples to obey all christ's commandments

00:45:38.220 and one of christ's commandments is that we love the lord our god and love our neighbor as ourself

00:45:44.480 well our neighbor includes our parents it also includes our children and when it comes to loving

00:45:48.600 our children now cross-referencing to other biblical commandments one of the commandments

00:45:53.000 for fathers in their moral obligation to love their neighbor, which is their children, is not

00:45:59.140 to exasperate your sons, but rather to raise them up in the fear and admonition of the Lord. That's

00:46:04.600 the paideia, the curriculum, the all-encompassing, immersive curriculum and environment of the 0.99

00:46:14.660 Christian worldview. So fathers have been tasked by God to train and teach their children. Provision 0.92

00:46:22.100 is not just a roof over the head clothes for the body and food for the stomach provision also

00:46:27.500 includes the education of our children and that of course necessitates a distinctly christian

00:46:34.400 education which you're going to get one of two ways you cannot get that in a public school you

00:46:40.260 will get it by doing christian homeschooling which means you can't as a man as a father rely

00:46:46.220 on your wife to provide a second income. So that has monetary implications, or it's by sending

00:46:53.000 your kids to a private Christian school, which has tuition, which means you're now paying for

00:46:57.640 the public school. You're paying for two schools, the public school through your taxes, which you're

00:47:01.980 not even using because you can't in good conscience as a Christian. And you're now paying for the 0.72

00:47:07.000 second school you actually do use, namely the private Christian school that has an expensive

00:47:11.600 tuition so men as sons caring for your aging parents there are monetary implications practical

00:47:19.300 implications men as fathers providing for your children including the education of your children

00:47:24.520 and not just having two children because it's expensive but saying no we want to have as many

00:47:29.820 children as the lord would give us ethically we want to do it wisely sure there's some exceptions

00:47:34.460 but overall the general rule of thumb is that children are a blessing from the lord and if they

00:47:39.120 are then blesses the man whose quiver is half full no full lots of children are a good thing

00:47:44.100 so if i'm gonna if i'm gonna say i'm a missionary and i'm gonna live out the gospel and i'm gonna

00:47:49.460 teach people to obey not just teach them the gospel for evangelism but in the realm of

00:47:53.840 discipleship teach them to obey biblical commandments then that's going to involve

00:47:58.200 the commandments for me to honor my father and mother in practical ways that's going to involve

00:48:03.520 the commandment for me to uh to love my children and to provide for them and to provide for their

00:48:08.620 education and to have lots of children because i'm i'm agreeing with the lord and what he says

00:48:14.100 about children that they're a blessing and not a burden that has financial implications another

00:48:19.020 one is men as husbands titus chapter 2 verse 3 through 4 says older women likewise are to be

00:48:25.160 reverent and behavior not slanderers or slaves to much wine they are to teach what is good and so

00:48:31.240 train younger women to love their husbands and children it goes on and then says keepers of home

00:48:37.360 or working at home now although i do not believe it is inherently immoral for women with children

00:48:44.340 to work outside of their homes in some capacity i have determined that as the lord increases my

00:48:51.100 household and our oldest child olive reaches schooling age i wanted to do everything i could

00:48:57.800 to allow for my wife to devote more of her time to the godly work at home which the lord has

00:49:03.680 called her to and by god's grace today as we sit currently my wife is now officially in our home

00:49:10.640 full time so men as as sons honoring father and mother caring for them as they age as fathers

00:49:17.640 providing for children having lots of children providing for those children including their 0.73

00:49:22.320 education men as husbands allowing for your wife to be a keeper at home which means you can't rely 0.75

00:49:28.720 on her for a second income. There may be some ways that she's able to generate revenue. The 1.00

00:49:34.140 Proverbs 31 wife, she's doing some things. She's doing some trade. She's investing in a field, 0.97

00:49:39.040 a plot of land, selling that. So I'm not saying that women are not industrious. Certainly they 1.00

00:49:43.620 can be, but you are going to be the primary breadwinner as the husband, as the head of your

00:49:49.460 home. And just for the record, for anybody who would say Proverbs 31, and they would use it as

00:49:54.840 as a biblical pseudo defense for women working 40 hours out of the home first the proverbs 31 woman

00:50:01.620 is not working out of the home industry historically it is not until the industrial

00:50:06.780 revolution very recently in human history that work became something that was segregated and

00:50:12.680 separated from the household the household was the bedrock of industry so whether it was

00:50:18.680 agriculture you were a farmer or you were a blacksmith or whatever it might be um your shop

00:50:24.020 your work your vocation was quite literally geographically physically attached to your house 0.76

00:50:29.940 so the proverbs 31 woman she is industrious yes and she is turning a physical monetary profit

00:50:36.680 yes but she's doing it all from her home so in in our culture today this would be the equivalent 1.00

00:50:42.800 of a woman for perhaps being on etsy right she's she's making purses or whatever the cutesy artsy 1.00

00:50:50.260 you know, and, and, and, and selling them for a profit, but it's, it's not coming at the neglect 1.00

00:50:54.900 of the children. It's at home. Secondly, people will say, well, this is a woman who's working

00:50:58.940 out of the home. Nope. We just debunked that Christian myth. But then secondly, so, and this 1.00

00:51:03.740 is also 40 hours a week. No, no. They think people say, oh, the problem is 31 woman. She's, you know,

00:51:10.960 she's an independent woman. No, she's not. She's making a profit. Uh-huh. Yeah. How she bought a

00:51:17.240 field with whose money her husband's that's how her husband is the breadwinner the household

00:51:27.760 the children the servants the revenue the investments the field that she bought it's all 0.88

00:51:34.800 his all right you won't like this feminist aka complementarians but let me go ahead and throw 1.00

00:51:39.240 it at you anyways the 10th commandment it assumes patriarchy you shall not covet what 0.98

00:51:46.620 you shall not covet your neighbor's house or his wife or his livestock his donkey his ox his

00:51:57.700 maid servant his male his the bible assumes that even in the realm of the sin of covetousness

00:52:05.580 the a breach of the 10th commandment that to covet is to covet what belongs to someone else

00:52:11.120 and and and who does it belong to a dude a man it's his does the wife enjoy it yes

00:52:20.120 does she have access to all of it as a co-heir yes do the children enjoy it and benefit by it

00:52:28.980 yes but the head of it all the owner is the man in the ultimate eternal truest sense the owner

00:52:37.000 of the cattle on a thousand hills is god who also is a father a patriarch he the father at every

00:52:45.500 level the human level the eternal divine level it belongs to a man so yes proverbs 31 allows for

00:52:52.480 women to be industrious but titus chapter 2 says women older women who train younger women one of 0.71

00:52:58.860 the things that these older women should encourage younger women in is that they would be keepers at

00:53:03.320 home, not leaving the home to ironically go and work for another man, just a man that's never made 0.69

00:53:10.140 vows to them, a man who won't give his life for her, right? Every, every woman is working for a 0.99

00:53:14.420 man, either a man who loves her as Christ loved the church, AKA her husband, that man, or she's 0.93

00:53:21.360 working for another man, the man, a CEO of some company that doesn't care about her at all. 0.98

00:53:26.980 that just wants to milk her dry, that wants to use her, abuse her, and then they're done with her. 0.99

00:53:33.680 The moment she gets pregnant or something like that, if it weren't for strict laws in certain 1.00

00:53:37.820 places, the employer would let her go. He doesn't care about her. So can a woman be industrious?

00:53:44.300 Can she turn a profit? Yes. But the Proverbs 31 woman, her industry is attached to being a keeper 1.00

00:53:50.480 at home it's it the industry is flowing the place of industry is her home and she's turning this

00:53:57.380 profit by making investments and the original investment is coming from her husband's house 0.99

00:54:03.060 his labor his revenue his resources so yes that's all permissible but the idea that a woman would

00:54:11.160 go out of the home for 40 hours a week working for some other dude uh especially during the

00:54:18.440 stage of life where she has several young children i don't know how to defend it biblically i don't 1.00

00:54:25.360 so then that begs the question are there some places where it's easier for wives to stay at

00:54:31.960 home with the children and other places where it's much more challenging and difficult where 0.76

00:54:38.580 because of the cost of living because of the taxation because of this because of that it is

00:54:43.120 virtually impossible to get by on one income. It's hard to get by on one income anywhere because of

00:54:50.480 our economy and largely the way the economy has been affected by feminism. Feminism has destroyed 1.00

00:54:57.060 single income households. So it's hard anywhere. But if we're going to pretend that it's not harder 1.00

00:55:03.240 in California than it is in Oklahoma, then again, I just think we're being dishonest.

00:55:08.160 So, men as husbands, right?

00:55:10.200 Now, men as church members.

00:55:11.940 That would be another one.

00:55:13.100 Men as church members.

00:55:15.520 In addition to all these commands, Malachi 3.10 says,

00:55:18.220 Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there might be meat in my house, saith the Lord of hosts.

00:55:25.200 And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts,

00:55:28.140 if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and pour out such a blessing until there is no more need.

00:55:34.620 That's Malachi 3.10.

00:55:36.520 There are plenty of Christians today who would reject the idea of a tithe

00:55:39.800 as a continued requirement for the New Testament believer. 0.74

00:55:43.320 Okay, I get that. 0.99

00:55:45.300 I'm with R.C. Sproul on this one.

00:55:47.080 He believes the tithe is still biblical for New Testament Christians. 0.97

00:55:50.380 Instead, these individuals, they tend to promote the concept

00:55:53.000 of what often has been referred to as gospel giving.

00:55:56.040 What seems odd to me is that in practical terms,

00:55:58.920 gospel giving regularly appears to produce less cash in the offering plate

00:56:02.720 than what we might call law-giving, a.k.a. a biblical tithe of 10%.

00:56:07.920 So why do so many Christians, especially in a place like California,

00:56:12.220 seem content to forfeit such a massive portion of their hard-earned income to the state

00:56:16.980 while often failing to give an even smaller portion to the church?

00:56:20.640 This reluctance to generosity undoubtedly reveals certain issues of the heart,

00:56:25.900 according to 2 Corinthians 9, verse 7.

00:56:29.320 Still, perhaps this reluctance also demonstrates the practical challenges

00:56:33.520 associated with high cost of living and exorbitant state taxes.

00:56:37.720 So, in summary, let me say this.

00:56:39.960 To summarize all these biblical commands,

00:56:42.740 a Christian man is called by God to care for his aging parents,

00:56:45.880 1. Produce multiple offspring,

00:56:48.100 2. Provide a distinctly Christian education for his children,

00:56:51.940 3. Ensure that his wife is permitted to work with the children at home, 0.64

00:56:55.960 four lay up an inheritance for both his children and his grandchildren five and accomplish all this

00:57:01.640 on 90 of his income or less that's the tithe six and to do that with undoubtedly far less of his

00:57:09.040 income due to further generosity to those in need and his civic duty to pay taxes wherever he lives 0.98

00:57:14.060 so as ted cruz which is what i wrote in the book before ted cruz started saying stupid stuff on

00:57:19.140 twitter so i'll still just quote what i wrote here but as ted cruz would say try doing that

00:57:23.860 in california it's hard to do anywhere again i admit but especially hard in california so all

00:57:28.660 that being said the basic premise what am i saying the number one objection that i get when i say i

00:57:34.580 think christians should leave a place like california people say well what about missionaries

00:57:39.720 we're missionaries and all i'm saying is well a missionary does the work of an evangelism working

00:57:43.860 towards conversion but in this large manner the the great commission it also includes teaching

00:57:49.100 them to obey christ's commandments and we cannot without being hypocrites teach people to obey

00:57:54.480 christ's commandments if we're not obeying those commandments ourselves there's not an explicit

00:57:58.520 commandment in scripture that says you so and so thou shalt be a missionary in california but there

00:58:05.300 are commandments for all of us general commandments uh that we are called to um fulfill mass a

00:58:13.000 masculine mandate to our parents as they age honor thy father and mother to our wives allowing

00:58:19.360 them to be keepers at home to our children do not exasperate your sons but raise them up in the fear

00:58:24.300 and admonition of the lord providing for them having multiple children children are heritage

00:58:29.000 from the lord blesses the man whose quiver is full that's psalm 127 we have a mandate in proverbs as

00:58:34.720 it pertains to grandchildren even a wise man lays up an inheritance for his children's children that

00:58:40.820 inheritance i believe it is a spiritual inheritance it can't be anything less but oh i believe it is

00:58:45.920 more it's a spiritual inheritance but i also think that it means leaving something physical

00:58:51.240 practical to our children as well and not just our children but our grandchildren and our role as

00:58:56.520 church members as men that we would also be generous to the house of god all these things

00:59:01.920 here's my point these are all spiritual commandments but they have practical implications

00:59:06.140 and even financial implications.

00:59:09.200 And if we are to obey these commandments faithfully,

00:59:13.840 trying to fulfill the Great Commission,

00:59:15.440 I'm a missionary.

00:59:16.280 I've gone on the mission to which the Lord assigned me.

00:59:18.760 If I'm a missionary,

00:59:20.180 I'm not just trying to convert people with the gospel.

00:59:22.660 I'm also trying to disciple them with the law.

00:59:24.860 And I cannot teach them to obey Christ's commandments

00:59:27.380 if I'm not obeying those commandments myself.

00:59:30.400 And practically speaking, monetarily speaking,

00:59:33.100 there are certain contexts where obedience to christ's commandments to the household to the

00:59:37.480 family to wives children grandchildren parents the whole nine yards there are places where it's

00:59:42.340 harder and places where it's easier if you can do it where it's hard and do it faithfully and

00:59:46.760 you're sacrificing certain pleasures and personal comforts but not sacrificing obedience to christ's

00:59:52.520 commands great praise god all power to you but if you're saying i'm a missionary in this progressive

01:00:00.020 state, but you conveniently are using public schools for your kids. Your wife's working 40

01:00:07.300 hours a week out of the home. You've opted to have two kids because the Great Commission has 1.00

01:00:11.700 somehow replaced the cultural mandate. That's your exegesis. Your parents are going to be in

01:00:16.060 a nursing home. The thought has never even crossed your mind to take them into your house to give

01:00:20.060 some return to your parents. You've never given a tithe to the church. You give 2% instead of 10%.

01:00:24.960 you're robbing God, according to Malachi 3.10, and the inheritance that you're saving up for

01:00:30.400 your grandchildren will be, you know, sitting them on your lap and telling them a couple stories

01:00:34.780 about how you love Jesus and how you were a missionary in California, but they won't get a

01:00:38.240 dime, then I'm telling you right now, you're not a missionary. You're not. Or you are, but you're a

01:00:43.820 lousy one. You're a bad missionary. Missionaries fulfill the Great Commission. Evangelism and 1.00

01:00:50.320 teaching them to obey Christ's commandments. And if you are teaching people to obey Christ's 0.89

01:00:54.280 commandments, you're not doing a good job. You're doing a hypocritical job because you're not 0.71

01:00:58.180 obeying them yourself. Can some people do it? Yes. Are 16 million professing Christians currently 0.88

01:01:04.340 doing it in the state of California? No. And if they were to leave today, I think it would honor

01:01:12.680 the Lord. I think it would be better for their household, better for their families to not

01:01:17.780 sacrifice their own children on the altar of being a missionary. And ironically, that's the

01:01:23.980 whole premise of my book, Fight by Flight, it would be better for a state like California.

01:01:29.440 Because if everybody leaves California, then nobody is left to prop up their godless ideologies.

01:01:35.820 And Governor Gavin Newsom will finally have to lie in the bed that he's been making. He'll

01:01:41.340 finally have to eat a spoonful of his own medicine. And that would be good. So for those of you,

01:01:48.020 again, who are just tuning in, let me play the clip one more time. Okay. This is from a state

01:01:52.460 senator, a California state senator himself. This is Scott Wilk, where he says, hey, as soon as I'm

01:01:59.260 done, I'm getting out of California. This has never been my message. I always told people to

01:02:03.260 stay and fight, but I'm telling parents now, if you love your kids, you need to leave. Let's watch

01:02:07.600 the clip one more time, and then we'll go ahead and start taking some questions. I'm now in year

01:02:11.540 11 in the state legislature, and all the time we're proposing. I'm now in year 11 in the state

01:02:20.120 legislature and all the time we're proposing policies to protect children.

01:02:24.800 After 11 years I've come to a conclusion that we need to start protecting parents.

01:02:29.000 That's just not happening. I've been here witness a full frontal assault on

01:02:35.060 charter schools taking away parents choice and how their children and you'd

01:02:40.820 be educated to the detriment particularly of children of color. In recent years we

01:02:46.400 We have put government bureaucrats between parents, children, and doctors when it comes

01:02:51.040 to medical care.

01:02:52.840 And now we have this where if a parent does not support the ideology of the government,

01:02:57.580 they're going to be taken away from the home.

01:02:59.860 Now I agree with both Senator Wiener and Senator Laird that today it only involves divorce 0.98

01:03:05.540 proceedings.

01:03:06.540 And frankly, a judge can already factor this in.

01:03:10.160 But I can assure you it's not going to end with divorce proceedings.

01:03:14.060 In the past when we've had these discussions and I've seen parental rights atrophied,

01:03:20.600 I've encouraged people to keep fighting.

01:03:23.600 I've changed my mind on that.

01:03:24.960 If you love your children, you need to flee California.

01:03:28.780 You need to flee.

01:03:31.280 We are moving towards the pathway of the hands-made tale.

01:03:35.300 California is becoming the new Gilead and it just breaks my heart.

01:03:38.760 I'm born and raised in this state.

01:03:39.880 I love this state.

01:03:40.920 I'm not going to stay in this state because it's just too oppressive.

01:03:45.480 And I believe in freedom.

01:03:46.600 And so I'm going to move to America when I leave the legislature.

01:03:51.180 Amen.

01:03:53.120 Moving back to America. 1.00

01:03:54.840 Come home, Christians. 1.00

01:03:56.540 America, it's a lot of good things. 1.00

01:03:59.740 Leave the Soviet state of California.

01:04:01.960 Move to the Republic of Texas. 0.99

01:04:04.000 Come back to America. 0.77

01:04:04.860 All right, let's go ahead and take some questions now.

01:04:06.860 Nathan, what do we got?

01:04:08.240 What do you think is a good one? 0.98

01:04:10.920 yeah it's always the missionary objection yep

01:04:17.480 say it again what oh what if your parents are wicked yeah then you do your best okay yeah i'll

01:04:37.220 answer that one real quick. So, um, how do you honor a dishonorable father? Um, I remember doing

01:04:42.500 a video on that, uh, on a father's day, not this, this most recent father's day yesterday, but, um,

01:04:48.020 it was either last year or a year before that two years ago, uh, Noah and his sons would be a good

01:04:53.420 example. So Noah had three sons. One of them was wicked, right? And, uh, Noah curses that son's

01:04:59.300 son, his grandson, Canaan. Cursed be him and his son, Canaan. And the reason why that son was

01:05:08.540 wicked is because Noah, it's not that Noah was innocent and that son was slandering his father,

01:05:13.480 right? Presenting a falsehood, something that was categorically untrue. No, he was, what he was 0.60

01:05:19.060 doing is he was saying something about his father that was wicked, that was actually true. But yet

01:05:25.680 that act of exposing his father's failure, that exposing the failure of his father, the wickedness

01:05:32.620 of his father was wickedness itself. So what I would say is when it comes to honoring wicked

01:05:37.680 parents, a wicked father and a wicked mother, the way that you honor the failure of your father and

01:05:43.820 mother is not by lying about it, not by pretending as though there is no failure. So I'm not saying

01:05:50.200 that we lie, but what I am saying is there is a way of covering their failure. And so what Noah's

01:05:56.160 two righteous sons did when they heard that their father had drank of the vineyard that he had

01:06:01.840 planted and gotten drunk and passed out naked in his tent, instead of exposing the folly of their

01:06:08.520 father, what they did is they walked in backwards, each holding the corner of a sheet so that they

01:06:14.020 would not even look upon their father's nakedness, but they walked into the tent backwards and

01:06:18.640 carried a sheet and covered his nakedness. And so how do we, how do we honor a dishonorable father

01:06:25.580 and mother? I think one of the best ways to do that is by covering their shame. We can't lie

01:06:30.820 about it, right? So we can't, we can't, we definitely should not slander and say things

01:06:38.220 about our parents, negative things about our parents that aren't actually true. So we definitely

01:06:42.440 don't need to make our parents out to be worse than they are. But what do you do, you know,

01:06:46.280 to be fair to the question, what are you doing when they're actually wicked, right? I'm not,

01:06:50.040 I'm not trying to make my parents sound wicked. They know, Joel, they really are wicked. Well, 0.91

01:06:55.340 great. It's not great. It's sad, but fine. Okay. Well, if they really are that wicked,

01:07:02.740 try to look for some of the things that are honorable and highlight those. And then the

01:07:07.640 things that really are wicked, don't lie about them. Don't call evil good, right? Don't lie

01:07:14.040 about it, but you get to decide. What I'm saying is this, you get to decide what the headline of

01:07:18.500 the story is going to be. So your parents, like any human being for that matter, my story is good

01:07:25.420 and bad, right? All of our stories, we're sinners. For those of us who are in Christ by grace,

01:07:31.140 we're also saints. So we're sinners and saints, meaning that there are virtues and vices. There's

01:07:37.640 good and bad. Uh, but when we tell the story of our parents, we get to determine, uh, what makes

01:07:45.960 it into the, the eulogy. We, we get to make, uh, get to determine, um, what, what is going to get

01:07:51.860 the headline in the story and, and what's going to be a footnote. So yeah, we want to tell the

01:07:56.960 whole story. Uh, we want to tell the truthful story, but we get to choose what to showcase,

01:08:02.760 what to emphasize and what to cover. So how do you honor a wicked parent? You don't lie about

01:08:09.060 the dishonorable aspects of that parent, but you do have a choice not to lie about it, not to call

01:08:15.880 evil good, but you can cover it. And that's what Noah's two righteous sons did. All right, let's

01:08:20.380 see. Any other questions? Okay. Let's do this one. Truttle question. Part of a Christian family

01:08:31.300 here i'm part of a christian family here in michigan okay in michigan for decades i don't

01:08:38.120 like where michigan is going but moving would strain those connections especially with parents

01:08:44.160 and i get it how bad does it need to be to outweigh this that's a great question because

01:08:49.760 and that's one of the things that i outline in you know in my book fight by flight is just saying

01:08:53.820 um there are exceptions and one of the exceptions to the rule has to do with extended family

01:08:59.220 especially father and mother. So on one level, you have an obligation. It's really what I would

01:09:07.080 call a four-generation moral obligation in terms of scriptural commandments. So we have a commandment

01:09:14.740 to honor our father and mother. So that's one generation above us. But then also the husband 0.93

01:09:20.460 has the commandment to love his wife as Christ loved the church and willing to lay down his

01:09:27.260 life for her, and also willing to see that she's able to do what God calls godly wives and mothers

01:09:33.860 to do, namely to be keepers at home. And that has a monetary, practical, financial implication

01:09:40.620 of being able to provide so that you're not relying on her for a second income. So that's

01:09:44.340 your wife, that's your own generation, so that's the second generation. The generation above, 0.99

01:09:48.520 the generation, the same generation that you are as husband, your wife, that's two generations now,

01:09:53.900 to provide for your children. And that includes the education of your children, a distinctly

01:09:59.120 Christian education. So you can't use public school. So that's homeschooling, which means 1.00

01:10:03.020 the wife has to be in the home. You can't rely on her to supplement your income or paying, you know, 1.00

01:10:08.100 for tuition for a Christian school that costs money too. So your children, that's the third

01:10:12.580 generation, the generation below, and then two generations below the grandchildren. A wise man

01:10:18.160 leaves an inheritance, not only for his children, but his children's children. So explicitly in the

01:10:22.660 scripture, we have, um, a, uh, commandments given to men, um, uh, explicitly that all involve a

01:10:30.320 monetary aspect, financial aspect for four generations, the parents, the wife, the children,

01:10:36.160 the grandchildren. Now within those generations, um, there is triage. There's a, there's, there's

01:10:44.740 a ranking of prioritization. And what I mean by that is clearly the Bible would say, uh, that,

01:10:50.780 a man's obligation to his children is more important than his obligation to his parents,

01:10:56.500 for instance. So if it came down to it, now obviously I believe that God ordinarily will

01:11:03.240 provide a way and through prudence and prayer and hard work and all these things, you can do both.

01:11:10.280 But there are times where you may have to choose your moral obligation to your parents or your

01:11:17.600 moral obligation to your children in those cases the children should trump the parents the bible

01:11:24.500 is i believe abundantly clear uh that men as father to your children outweighs your moral

01:11:31.160 obligation as an adult child men as son to his aging parents so if it came down to it to where

01:11:38.840 for instance like california you know looking at passing a law to where you know 0.95

01:11:43.540 kids can be taken from their parents, um, over transgender baloney. Um, if it, if it came down 0.99

01:11:52.240 to, all right, I, I am genuinely concerned for the wellbeing of my children. I cannot stay here

01:11:59.980 without sending my kids to public school. Or if I stay here, I'm worried that my kids are going to

01:12:03.860 be taken or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Um, but if I leave my parents, well, first I would say,

01:12:09.320 uh, mom and dad, I'd have a conversation and say, come with us, please. See, now that's a little

01:12:15.060 bit, it's already, it's different because one, uh, you just, you're, you're called to prioritize

01:12:19.140 your children in love, um, above your, your aging parents. But two, your children don't have a

01:12:25.180 choice. They require an added measure of provision and protection. Your parents as adults, they,

01:12:31.680 they may, as they age, require provision, require help. Um, but as adults, um, they can make the

01:12:38.980 choice to say, okay, we'll come with you. We get it. We love the grandkids. And we know that

01:12:44.960 the grandkids being raised in California, you know, in, in the 2020s, um, is not good for them.

01:12:52.540 And because we love the grandkids, um, we know you got to move for the kids. And so we'll come

01:12:57.160 with you. Where do you want to move? Now, if the grandparents are digging in their heels and saying,

01:13:04.040 we're not going we're not going well then they're the ones who actually have put you between a rock

01:13:10.240 and a hard place they're the ones who have made you have to ultimately choose between the grandparents

01:13:14.460 or the kids in which case the choice is an easy one the kids and in that case the grandparents

01:13:21.520 die alone and your conscience can be clear because it's their fault your conscience can be clear

01:13:27.480 because you and that in that moment you can't you're not omnipresent you can't geographically

01:13:33.360 be in two places at once and so for the sake of the children for their safety for their provision

01:13:39.240 for their christian education all those kinds of things your obligation to the children trumps your

01:13:43.480 obligation to your aging parents and therefore you had to move for the for the children you

01:13:47.380 pleaded with grandma and grandpa to come with you they chose not to and you can sleep at night with

01:13:52.540 a clear conscience so that's how i would argue that so i would say you know to answer the question

01:13:56.460 it's just how bad is it for the kids um are you having to use a public school for the kids

01:14:00.840 are you in a place to where you'll be able to help the kids when they're older you know

01:14:05.640 financially that you're able to store up an inheritance for your children's children

01:14:09.160 and help your children maybe with towards making the down payment on their home when they're in

01:14:13.820 their 20s are you who who are their prospects for marriage right so that where you're currently

01:14:19.100 living what's the culture like there do you have a good church there and and not just a good church

01:14:23.180 of 20 people but do you have a good church of 200 people i'm not against small churches hear me

01:14:27.960 but you need to seriously be thinking your five-year-old when they're 25 um who are they

01:14:33.240 going to marry what what other parents are in your church community is a large church community

01:14:38.480 with with uh with shared scriptural convictions that that the other parents are also not using

01:14:45.000 public school training their children the fear and admonition of the lord so that your son when

01:14:48.740 he's 25 will be able to find a godly wife and not have to choose from a bunch of radical feminists 1.00

01:14:55.500 like who who will your children marry uh what job opportunities will your children have 20 years 1.00

01:15:00.800 from now when they're looking for work to start their own household uh what kind of financial

01:15:04.880 situation will you be in uh 20 years from now how much will you be able to invest and save

01:15:09.600 or how much do you have to pay just just to meet the the the bottom line just to get by

01:15:14.820 are you living paycheck to paycheck do you have any wiggle room to invest for for their future

01:15:19.520 so who who whether the prospects for marriage what kind of community are they going to be able to

01:15:23.640 have what kind of job opportunities are they going to be able to have what's the cost of living for

01:15:27.760 you what's it going to be for them uh what kind of margins you have um in in your in your finances

01:15:33.700 to where you're able to save for your children and children's children and inheritance all those

01:15:37.980 kinds of things and if you determine by asking those questions that your children are doomed if

01:15:41.520 you stay um then you you plead with grandma and grandpa your father and mother to come with you

01:15:47.280 but if they refuse, it's on them. Your conscience should be clear and you move for the children. You

01:15:54.120 pick the children over the parents. The children trump the parents. All right. Any other good 0.92

01:15:59.640 questions, Nate? Jarrell. Okay. For young families, newlyweds that aren't able to stay afloat with a

01:16:11.460 single income, is it permissible for the wife to work outside of the home at least until the husband 1.00

01:16:16.780 is able to make more. You do what you got to do, Jarrell. So yeah, you have to do what you have to

01:16:26.800 do. But what we're saying is we're saying this is the biblical principle and this is what we're

01:16:31.480 trying to work towards. And we're actively trying to work towards that. And we're employing every

01:16:38.360 single method we can think of. Have we considered downsizing? So it's not just the husband making

01:16:44.300 more. He needs to work hard in provision. Uh, but one way of providing is the husband making more

01:16:49.600 money. Another way of providing is the whole family, uh, trusting the Lord and being content

01:16:54.740 with less. So, um, there's a sense in which, you know, in an older economy, you think of the 1950s

01:17:01.240 in America, um, it was single income houses, you know, uh, moms were stay at home. They weren't

01:17:06.520 working there. They were working, but they were working at home. Uh, they weren't providing a

01:17:10.520 second income and the average middle-class family in america was able to own a home and own a car

01:17:17.140 and do vacation maybe one or two weeks a year and uh and have money saved up for retirement

01:17:22.320 and inheritance for the kids and that was the normal single income family now so that's one 0.95

01:17:29.960 side to say the economy is terrible we have gravitated towards a feminist economy where now 0.99

01:17:35.060 women are expected and they have to work in order for a household to survive. And so the economy is 0.89

01:17:43.680 bad and feminism is to blame. There's other factors, but feminism is a big one. So the economy 1.00

01:17:49.400 was better in the 1950s in terms of purchasing power of the dollar, what you could buy.

01:17:56.860 However, the other side of the coin, let's tell the whole story. The other side of the coin is

01:18:01.580 said, uh, people drank Folgers coffee out of the can and they didn't whine about it.

01:18:08.500 Right? Like our, our grandparents, our great grandparents, uh, they weren't spending

01:18:13.340 six 50 a day at a coffee shop for a latte. So yeah, the economy is bad. It's really hard to

01:18:23.760 own a home. It's really hard to have a single income family, but there's also a ton of stuff

01:18:28.720 that we spend money on. Like our, our great grandparents, they had a better job for providing

01:18:33.860 for a family, but they also were far more frugal. And I think we have to admit that latter part.

01:18:38.680 So anyways, all that being said, yeah, it's permissible. You do what you got to do. You

01:18:42.240 don't starve the kids. Um, if you can't put food on the table without your wife supplementing your 0.70

01:18:47.040 income, then, then yeah, your wife's going to have to supplement your income. But what I'm

01:18:50.480 urging you to do is making decisions now that would set you on a trajectory, heading a specific

01:18:56.300 direction to where your wife can be a keeper at home. So even with your wife exploring her gifts,

01:19:01.760 so she's working for some company out of the home 40 hours a week for now, okay? Well, as she's

01:19:08.160 doing that, as much as you can, see if you can cut back in your spending, right? So not just

01:19:13.860 making more, but can we cut back? Can we downsize? Can we stop going to Starbucks, right? Which we

01:19:20.440 probably should stop anyways. Like, can we just buy some coffee grounds, you know? Or can we just

01:19:25.720 not drink coffee um for for the foreseeable future can we figure that out um you know can

01:19:32.440 we do this can we do that can we cut back our expenses also with your wife um are there ways

01:19:37.280 that we can cut back expenses and then and then by cutting back expenses i can get her to work 20

01:19:41.220 hours instead of 40 and it gets 20 more hours in the home but let's even with that 20 hours let's

01:19:45.860 take five of it 15 more in the home and let's take five of it and explore my wife's gifts and 1.00

01:19:52.360 her resources and see if she could develop some kind of industry where she can still supplement 0.97

01:19:57.340 our household income, but not by having to sell her labor to another man, but actually being able 1.00

01:20:03.520 to own her labor as an extension of this man, namely her husband. Is she creative? Can she 0.99

01:20:09.820 start some kind of online business? Can she do this? Can she do that? Or can we together as 0.99

01:20:14.680 husband and wife start a company where she's with the children by and large, the vast majority of

01:20:19.500 the time but she's also able to use her gifts and supplement me and in this company that we're

01:20:24.340 running together as a family and the children can even be a part of it once once our sons and

01:20:29.820 daughters are older they're able to come to work with dad and learn the trade and um that's awesome

01:20:35.480 that's awesome so i'm just saying look at cutting back look at you maybe uh taking on more work as

01:20:41.900 a man so cutting back expenses you taking on more work and with your wife's work see is there a way

01:20:46.900 to take her work and own it attach it to the household bring industry back to the household

01:20:52.820 to where yeah she may be working some but even the work she's doing she's doing from home and 0.97

01:20:57.320 the children have opportunity to be involved in it as a family affair rather than just mom gets 1.00

01:21:02.900 in the car she drives away from the house she works for some other dude who doesn't love her

01:21:07.000 who didn't make vows to her who's not dad and then she comes back home at the end of the day

01:21:11.200 we see her for a couple of hours and we go to bed. That's what we don't want to do. Okay.

01:21:17.080 What else do we got? Any other questions?

01:21:23.660 Yeah. Yeah. Email me at joel at right response ministries.com. Joel at right response ministries.com.

01:21:29.460 I saw in the chat earlier, you know, somebody was like, well, let's, you, let's call people

01:21:34.360 the 16, you know, they were saying some of the stuff and then I got to it in the video, you know,

01:21:38.240 and you know but there was yeah they were they were saying like you know well what about

01:21:42.680 missionaries and California needs Christ yeah California does need Christ but that's another

01:21:46.700 objection that I would just address and say we're living in a new world it's it's different

01:21:52.220 California needs Christ but there was a time where if we didn't send missionaries then

01:22:00.640 there just there was no gospel witness but right now I'm able to and I know I have people listening

01:22:07.020 from california because they're the ones who in the comments get angry at me every time i tell

01:22:11.100 them to leave um so i know i have an audience in california but that just proves my point

01:22:15.860 i am continuing to preach the whole counsel of god i'm continuing to preach both law and gospel

01:22:22.400 to californians from texas so there was a time where i i i concede i admit um that in order for

01:22:31.140 a certain place geographic place to have a faithful gospel witness you had to live there

01:22:35.600 it required physical brick and mortar presence um that's not that's not the time that we're

01:22:42.220 currently living in um so i i you know my point is um i'm actually i have more californians aware

01:22:49.840 of my ministry and and and listening to my preaching my sermons my podcasting those kind

01:22:55.740 of things i am i am uh discipling and teaching more christians and non-christians in california

01:23:02.540 today from Texas than I was when I was a pastor in California. And a big part of that was getting

01:23:08.700 out of California, which allowed me to have far more bandwidth to be able to focus on right

01:23:15.280 response ministries and podcasting, these kinds of things, and allowed it to take off. When I was

01:23:20.320 in California, I just, I wasn't able to do that. I was not able to give as much bandwidth to right

01:23:27.400 response or, or, or media kind of stuff. I was doing that in California, but not as much bandwidth

01:23:32.620 and attention, uh, when I was in California, because I, I was spread too thin because just

01:23:39.120 the, the, the bottom line threshold for survival was, was very high. The cliff, it was a high cliff.

01:23:46.260 And so having more bandwidth, having more, um, having, having more extra, right? If you can

01:23:52.840 lower your cost of living, if you can lower your taxes, if you can all that, then, then, I mean,

01:23:57.920 that's at the end of the day, people just don't, they don't understand influence. They don't

01:24:01.420 understand leadership. They don't understand wealth. Um, the difference between somebody

01:24:05.660 who is a multimillionaire and somebody who just gets by initially, in most cases, in most cases,

01:24:12.100 initially, all it was, was like 10, 15, 20% in terms of their monthly income. But then that way,

01:24:18.340 you call that a surplus, right? So that household, right? Uh, it, let's say it costs, you know,

01:24:24.160 $50,000 annually just to get by, just to survive. And one guy's making $50,000 and the other guy,

01:24:30.560 he's making $500,000. No, $50,000. And the other guy's making $56,000. But that guy with $56,000

01:24:38.540 is not, it's not like he's making twice as much as he needs to survive. He's just making a little

01:24:44.140 bit more than he needs, but then if he's wise, having a surplus, having just a little bit extra

01:24:50.140 when that accrues over time and not just goes into the savings account, not just buried in the sand,

01:24:57.000 but that talent is then reinvested and traded to make more than ultimately over the course,

01:25:02.700 not right away. It's 56 grand in a year, 50 grand in a year. And the only difference is $6,000.

01:25:07.700 dollars. But over the course of, of 10 years, 20 years being reinvested and using that little bit

01:25:14.000 of extra bandwidth, that little bit of extra surplus, uh, to invest and do this and do that.

01:25:18.340 Then eventually, um, that little bit of extra can make the difference in millions of dollars.

01:25:24.540 Um, but you can't get ahead. You can't use it. And that's in general, that's where the American

01:25:30.360 people are economically right now is that, uh, just nobody can get ahead. And the reason why

01:25:36.320 people can't get ahead is because, uh, it just costs way too much to live and it costs way too

01:25:42.920 much to live because of progressive godless policies that drive up inflation, that drive up,

01:25:48.700 uh, cost. And so, uh, right now, um, yeah, I mean, yeah, there's still people who are rich,

01:25:55.380 but by and large, what we see kind of falling away is the American middle class. They'll always

01:26:01.540 be the uber-duber rich. And Jesus told us you'll always have the poor. But what was unique for

01:26:08.080 American, first world, Western civilization countries was that the vast majority of the

01:26:13.340 nation's population was neither rich nor poor, but comfortable. Comfortable. That was unique.

01:26:20.040 And that was the product of Christian principles being applied to the realm of law and economics.

01:26:26.380 free the gospel of free grace producing free men who build free markets and and what that produced

01:26:33.160 was yeah exorbitant rich billionaires but it also produced well over 50 of the population being

01:26:41.420 comfortable as middle class but as we turn our back on christ on christ and christian principles

01:26:46.600 that has economic implications and it's not just that the poor are getting poor it's not so much

01:26:53.120 that. It really isn't. The poor are actually getting more handouts. The rich are getting

01:26:58.200 richer, right? COVID made Jeff Bezos richer. So the riches of the rich get richer when freedom

01:27:04.200 is taken away. When godless policies are put in place, the economic implications of that

01:27:11.360 is that the rich get richer and the poor often get poorer. They get a handout, but then the handout

01:27:18.220 doesn't teach them to work. And so they actually, it's actually self-defeating and actually lends

01:27:23.380 towards more generational lifelong poverty. So the rich get richer, the poor get sometimes a

01:27:28.800 little richer from a temporarily from a handout and then ultimately poor. But the biggest thing

01:27:33.940 that's affected is the average person, the average household. The middle class is disappearing in

01:27:40.660 America. There is no nation that hates themselves as much as America. America is a suicidal nation. 0.87

01:27:48.220 Americans don't hate anyone as much as Americans hate Americans, and I'll go, you know, I'll do you

01:27:54.580 one step further. White Americans really, really, really hate themselves, and white male Americans, 0.97

01:28:02.300 and white male heterosexual Americans, we really, really hate ourselves, and the fruit of decades 0.98

01:28:10.340 of fiercely devoted hatred towards ourselves, by golly, it's finally paying off. We're actually

01:28:17.980 suffering now we have hated ourselves so thoroughly and so diligently that now life

01:28:22.840 is not as good as it used to be shocker wow so anyways all right um all that being said

01:28:28.160 i can't even remember the question what was the question nathan

01:28:30.580 i can't remember i it was i was answering just somebody in the chat who was saying hey you know

01:28:40.380 like why don't you just tell people to be better you know like stay and you know stay and fight

01:28:44.200 blah blah blah and um yeah oh one other common objection i guess i'll end it with this but one

01:28:49.360 other common objection that i get is like well there are faithful christians in california are

01:28:53.140 you saying they're wrong and then the person that people always use as an example of course is

01:28:56.640 the protestant pope john mcarthur and god bless john mcarthur a hundred times over

01:29:00.980 but what i say is and none of this is disrespectful of john mcarthur it's not what i always say is

01:29:07.240 john mcarthur he right now is deciding where to finish the race i'm talking primarily to guys in

01:29:12.600 their 20s and 30s, maybe early 40s, who are deciding where to start the race. When John

01:29:17.260 MacArthur decided to take the senior pastor position at Grace Community Church, do you know

01:29:22.360 what year it was? It was 1959. I believe it was 1959. I actually mentioned it in my book. Let me

01:29:29.300 look real quick, just to make sure I got it right. It was 1969. John MacArthur was born in 1939.

01:29:36.740 he began pastoring grace community church in 1969 and uh gavin newsome was uh the governor nope

01:29:43.140 ronald reagan think about that california was once a conservative bastion it was and it really is a

01:29:51.560 shame and i'm not saying hey we're gonna you know surrender california indefinitely no i'm saying

01:29:55.420 let's stop propping it up so that it will implode defeat itself and then we send our grandkids in

01:30:01.720 to take back over the land.

01:30:04.000 Because at the end of the day,

01:30:05.220 I like the Pacific Ocean

01:30:06.340 and it belongs to Christ and his people.

01:30:08.400 So we're going to come back for the Pacific Ocean.

01:30:11.300 The pagans don't get to have it.

01:30:12.800 We're going to let them have it for,

01:30:14.600 you know, 20 to 50 years.

01:30:17.540 Make them end up having to lie in the bed

01:30:19.860 that they've made. 0.71

01:30:21.300 Eat a spoonful of their own poison.

01:30:23.880 And when the pagans defeat the pagans,

01:30:26.340 because that's what sin is,

01:30:27.980 it's self-defeating.

01:30:29.140 When they destroy themselves,

01:30:30.300 then we'll send back in the troops to take over the land what i'm arguing for what i'm advocating

01:30:35.380 is a temporary tactical retreat and advance to the rear for a time ultimately to win a battle

01:30:42.420 over here and also to let the enemy beat itself in a battle over there so that we can go back

01:30:48.360 and win everything because we're going to progressively throughout human history by the

01:30:53.240 grace of god through christ who is head of the church win the war we win down here we win down

01:30:59.120 here. I believe that. So John MacArthur is not a good example of, well, Christians should stay

01:31:04.940 because John MacArthur, he's great and he's staying. Yeah, he's 83 years old. He's deciding 0.88

01:31:10.700 where to finish the race, a race that he's run faithfully, I might add. He's deciding where to

01:31:15.620 finish the race. But for those of you who are younger and you have young children, you're not

01:31:21.000 deciding where to finish the race. You're deciding where to start the race. And when John was making

01:31:24.880 that decision when macarthur was deciding where to start the race it was 1969 and ronald reagan

01:31:31.820 was the governor that is not the state of california today and so you just need to be

01:31:37.580 honest about that all right i feel like i've handled plenty of objections uh seems like i

01:31:42.260 plenty of people were mad in the chat so that's always good and so thanks for tuning in and we

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