The NXR Podcast - BONUS LIVESTREAM - Civil War!？ Governor Abbott Vs. Traitor Joe Biden

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00:00:30 All right, welcome back to the Wednesday live stream.

00:00:32 If you're new here, this is Right Response Ministries.

00:00:34 I'm the primary host, Pastor Joel Webbin.

00:00:36 I've got with me today, well, every Wednesday at 4 p.m. Central Time,

00:00:40 we live stream once a week on Wednesdays.

00:00:42 I've got Wesley Todd.

00:00:43 I also have Michael Belch.

00:00:45 They're both members in good standing in our local church in Central Texas.

00:00:48 We're in Georgetown, Texas, Covenant Bible Church.

00:00:51 And we do this every single Wednesday at 4 p.m.

00:00:53 And we had an episode that was lined up for today,

00:00:56 but we're deciding to go ahead and push that back

00:00:58 because there's big breaking news that's going on right now.

00:01:01 The news is that our governor in the state of Texas,

00:01:04 Governor Abbott, who has, you know, he's fairly conservative.

00:01:08 He's certainly one of the better governors in the nation as a whole.

00:01:11 But to be honest, in many instances,

00:01:13 he's kind of, his best moves have been following suit

00:01:17 of guys like Ron DeSantis in Florida.

00:01:19 You know, so somebody else will take a stand

00:01:21 and then he'll follow, you know, their example.

00:01:23 He hasn't really been an original leader, you know,

00:01:26 coming out with a strong conservative stance all on his own. But this is his battle. We have had a

00:01:32 full-blown invasion. That is the proper term for a long time. I mean, immigration has gone up,

00:01:38 legal immigration and legal immigration has gone up steadily for the past few years, even before

00:01:44 Biden taking office. But since the Biden administration over these past three years,

00:01:48 I believe it's 6 million that we've had crossing the southern border. I believe just the border of

00:01:54 Texas is what Governor Abbott said. Six million. And these are not just women with their toddlers

00:02:00 and babies. A predominant amount of them. There are some women. There are some children. I'm not

00:02:05 saying there's nothing. But the dominant amount of people who are crossing the border are military

00:02:10 aged fighting young men. Instead of carrying an AR, they're carrying a cell phone videoing it as

00:02:18 they're flying their national flag, which is today's warfare. It's a media warfare. It's a

00:02:22 warfare of politics to destroy our nation. And so what we're going to be talking about,

00:02:26 we're going to show Abbott's letter. We're going to read it for you guys. But the reason why it's

00:02:30 a big deal is because the Supreme Court just ruled, and I'm going to say this, and some of

00:02:34 you won't like it, but it matters because I think one of the things that we have to stand as

00:02:38 Christians, we have to stand for right now is the importance of nature, that grace does not

00:02:43 eradicate nature. It doesn't erase nature or replace nature, but it elevates and restores

00:02:48 nature. Natural affections matter. These things are ingrained in us. It's not a part of the curse.

00:02:56 We actually misprioritize some natural affections because of the curse of sin.

00:03:01 Natural affections, that was in a pre-lapsarian world before sin entered the world. Adam would

00:03:06 have had a greater devotion to his wife, Eve, than he would have his great-great-great-great-great-

00:03:11 great-great-granddaughter. That's natural. And so it's not a coincidence that the Supreme Court

00:03:17 just ruled i believe this was yesterday they're ruling monday monday so the supreme court just

00:03:23 ruled uh in a five four majority um you've got the usual suspects you've got roberts and you've

00:03:28 got three other women katanji brown jackson being one of them uh but then one surprise was a fourth

00:03:33 woman on the court so you have five women you know one of both sexes so one one you know um

00:03:38 effeminate man and then four women um but the surprise was that you know amy coney barrett was 0.90

00:03:43 a trump appointee uh she has uh governed and ruled not governed but ruled um conservatively

00:03:49 for the most part which is awesome uh but uh on this one she folded and and i just have to say

00:03:55 with this nature paradigm grace and nature i i think we are being naive as christians if we don't

00:04:00 think uh if we think it's merely a coincidence that a woman folded the conservative woman folded

00:04:05 and it happens to be a woman who has um several children and multiple of them are adopted adoption

00:04:11 is great. Just for the record, I was adopted. I'm a big fan of adoption. I think adoption is a

00:04:15 beautiful picture of the gospel. That's what God does with us. Spiritually, he takes those of us

00:04:20 who were once children of his wrath and actually children of the devil. That's John chapter 8,

00:04:25 right? That if you're not a Christian, then you are actually, you have a father, but you're a 0.86

00:04:31 child of the devil. That's what Jesus says to the Pharisees. So God takes someone else's children, 0.66

00:04:35 in this case, namely the devil's, and makes them his own and adopts us as his beloved children.

00:04:40 were no longer his enemies or children of his wrath or children of Satan, but we become beloved

00:04:44 children of God. Adoption is near to the heart of God. It's a picture of the gospel. It's wonderful.

00:04:51 And I personally, I've been adopted twice, once by God in the spiritual sense, and once by my

00:04:55 parents who are members in our church. You guys know, love my mom and dad. I was adopted as a

00:05:00 baby. We are pro-adoption. That said, there are cases. You may have remembered, for those of you

00:05:05 in the reformed world eric khan uh who tends to upset the masses a couple months ago on twitter

00:05:10 um you know i i think of him as like vlad the impaler um you know the impaler like so that's

00:05:15 kind of his his strategy on twitter he sent out this tweet about saying hey not everyone should

00:05:19 adopt um and adoption has been like a sacred cow it's been like a mark of of how do you know this

00:05:25 person is spiritually legit uh because they've adopted a bunch of children you know and and it's

00:05:29 it's like a weird mystical badge of, of honor and status within the church.

00:05:34 This person is very spiritual. They're very good. Um, and,

00:05:38 and he just tweeted out saying adoption is wonderful.

00:05:40 There's nothing wrong with it, but there are cases, for instance,

00:05:43 adopting out of the foster care system, which is a wonderful thing to do.

00:05:45 But if you're adopting a 13 year old boy out of the foster care system,

00:05:49 who's been in it his whole life and you currently have, you know, um,

00:05:52 three young girls under the age of six, uh,

00:05:55 that there may be real reasons not to do that. Um,

00:05:59 And he wasn't saying, don't love your adopted child.

00:06:02 He was saying, no, no, he's talking about the child who is a prospect for adoption.

00:06:06 They're not yet your child.

00:06:07 This child is not yet your child. 0.95

00:06:08 And the point is, the internet, and I'm talking about Christians, lost their mind. 0.88

00:06:13 Christians were like, how could you? 0.96

00:06:14 How dare you? 1.00

00:06:15 This is evil. 0.99

00:06:16 You are sinister. 1.00

00:06:17 You're a bad man. 1.00

00:06:18 Well, here you go.

00:06:19 This is Eric Kahn's point, giving him some props.

00:06:22 Eric Kahn's point now played out in real life.

00:06:26 five four decision with the supreme court barely a majority a conservative otherwise normally

00:06:32 conservative uh a female supreme court justice votes um for for what what does she vote for 0.99

00:06:39 she votes for uh the stranger the alien the foreigner because she's thinking like a mother 1.00

00:06:46 and an adoptive mother so she's thinking in in the framework of nurturing the way that women 0.61

00:06:51 were designed by god it's a wonderful thing yeah i just don't think you should be on the supreme

00:06:55 court um and and not because i'm talking about in this case women period not not adopt mothers uh

00:07:00 women who happen to be mothers of adopted children i i do believe that that that is a position um in

00:07:05 the civil magistrate that should be held by uh qualified men but but you know you have a woman 0.90

00:07:10 who her her gear is towards being nurturing if if anything she's more nurturing than kataji brown 1.00

00:07:15 jackson by virtue of being a conservative mother um and and then and not just a mother but she

00:07:20 actually has adopted children um you know children who were not her own but who are now

00:07:26 the adoption makes it legally her children and biblically spiritually they are her children um

00:07:31 but but then the fact that that woman on this issue um sides with other nations that are not

00:07:38 actually her native nation it's not uh the children of america but the children of the

00:07:42 foreigner uh that is not a coincidence and so that's what happens and governor abbott i'll be

00:07:47 honest, I am surprised, albeit pleasantly surprised, but I didn't think he would battle this.

00:07:53 You've got the Federal National Guard versus the Texas National Guard. They came in and said,

00:07:59 Texas, you've got to remove the razor wire that you're wrapping around the necks of two-year-olds,

00:08:04 which is just absolutely, it's barbed wire that's in the river, that's visible to deter people,

00:08:12 not to hurt people, but to say, don't do this. If you do this, you're hurting yourself. We are not

00:08:17 hurting you. You are hurting yourself. It is to deter people from breaking the law, from illegally

00:08:21 entering into the country. But you have Biden sent in his goons to slice the wire, remove it,

00:08:30 and Governor Abbott is now using the Texas National Guard in defiance of the Supreme Court

00:08:35 and our current presidential administration saying, no, this is a constitutional issue.

00:08:40 You have declared treason of sorts on the United States of America and certainly on the state of

00:08:45 texas because this is an invasion level crossing that's going on with military aged men it's 0.98

00:08:52 endangering our citizens and so he's taking a stand and hold he's going to hold them off we'll 0.73

00:08:57 see i hope i pray but hold off uh the federal goons and the texas national guard is putting

00:09:02 the wire back in and if biden stands his ground which he probably won't because it's an election

00:09:08 year and like 80 of the country even if you're democrat 80 of the country is like okay the

00:09:13 border is a problem uh the border is right up there with the uh economy and the polls in terms

00:09:17 of what people think is uh is most under fire most severe the biggest urgent problem and so

00:09:23 biden may not take a stand for electing purposes but if he does this does have the seeds i'm not

00:09:30 saying this is it but this has the seeds for uh your your classic texas succession that everybody's

00:09:36 been talking or civil war those kinds of things so with all that being said we'll talk about it

00:09:40 more. We'll talk about nature, natural affections. We'll talk about the civil and political aspects

00:09:45 and the potential of civil war, all those kinds of things, or state succession. But first,

00:09:50 let's read the letter. Michael, could you do the honors? All right. This is the letter that

00:09:55 Governor Abbott posted in response to the Supreme Court decision. And to be fair, the Supreme Court

00:09:59 decision was a temporary one. The whole case is being heard. This was specifically on cutting

00:10:05 down the razor wire, right? So there's a whole lot more that's even going to be coming down the pike

00:10:10 potentially. Here's the letter. The federal government has broken the compact between the 0.83

00:10:15 United States and the states. The executive branch of the United States has a constitutional duty

00:10:20 to enforce federal laws protecting states, including immigration laws on the books right now.

00:10:26 President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. The result is that he

00:10:33 has smashed records for illegal immigration despite having been put on notice in a series

00:10:38 of letters one of which i delivered to him by hand president biden has ignored texas's demand

00:10:44 that he perform his constitutional duties president biden has violated his oath to

00:10:50 faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by congress instead of prosecuting immigrants for

00:10:55 the federal crime of illegal entry president biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts

00:11:01 to sue texas for taking action to secure the border president biden has instructed his agencies

00:11:07 to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants the effect is

00:11:13 to illegally allow their en masse parole in the united states by wasting tax dollars taxpayer

00:11:21 dollars to tear open texas's border security infrastructure president biden has enticed

00:11:25 illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points along this this state's southern border

00:11:32 bridges where nobody drowns and into the dangerous waters of the rio grande under president biden's

00:11:39 lawless border policies more than six million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern

00:11:44 border in just three years this is more than the population of 33 different states in this country

00:11:50 This illegal refusal to protect the states has influenced unprecedented harm on the people all across the United States.

00:12:00 James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that states should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border.

00:12:16 That is why the framers included both Article 5, Section 4, which promises that the federal government, quote, shall protect each state against invasion, end quote, and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges, quote, the state's sovereign interest in protecting their borders.

00:12:35 Arizona of the United States, you can see the ruling there.

00:12:38 The failure of the Biden administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article 4, Section 4, has triggered Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this state the right of self-defense.

00:12:53 For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself.

00:13:04 That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.

00:13:11 The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as the state law, to secure the Texas border.

00:13:21 Signed, Governor Abbott.

00:13:23 Talk about the lesser magistrate.

00:13:24 Yeah, that's the doctrine of the lesser magistrate, going through the right channels and using God's law, first and foremost, but also the Constitution and state constitution, federal constitution and standing up to treason.

00:13:39 I mean, it's absolutely Joe Biden is a traitor of the United States and what he's been doing with the border.

00:13:43 Wes?

00:13:44 Yeah, you mentioned it.

00:13:45 It was in the letter.

00:13:46 Six million illegal immigrants, greater than the population of 33 states.

00:13:51 the reason this matters so much the reason you mentioned it's such a high issue there comes a

00:13:55 point with immigration where you actually don't have a country anymore where literally the the

00:13:59 fate has already it's been decided where there's a certain point where your own replacement level

00:14:04 so americans that replacement fertility how many kids on average where when there's so many people

00:14:08 that don't have allegiance to this country some of them even unregistered whatever it may be

00:14:12 where literally you could reach the tipping point and then pretty much the story is written in the

00:14:17 stars. There's no going back from it. There's no like, oh, we actually, we would like to walk back

00:14:21 from this cliff we walked up to the edge of. You don't get that. We're talking about not just,

00:14:26 I don't think, in 50 years or 70 years, we could reach the point where we don't have a nation

00:14:29 anymore. In under five years, we could reach the point where it's lost. And that's not to say like,

00:14:35 oh, these poor dispossessed people, they have a nation too, that they could have allegiance to, 1.00

00:14:39 they could work to perfect, to work to build up, but they're coming into ours. And the result is 1.00

00:14:45 none of us have a nation then they don't have a nation or allegiance ours is lost

00:14:49 and everyone is worse for the wear right and uh and for the record in terms of asylum

00:14:54 claims of seeking asylum if you're going through 14 other nations right on your way to seek asylum

00:15:00 then you're not seeking asylum what you're seeking is uh you're seeking prosperity and there is a

00:15:05 difference and that's fine i understand that everybody would like to be prosperous but if

00:15:09 you'd like to be prosperous then you have to go through the proper channels you need to be

00:15:13 um, a legal immigrant, not an illegal immigrant. Um, so if you're, if you're coming for, from a 0.65

00:15:18 war torn nation and you're passing through, you know, seven other nations on the way that may not

00:15:22 be the United States of America, they may not have the opportunity for prosperity that we do here,

00:15:27 praise God by his grace. Um, but, but they're not, uh, at war, then, then, you know, you're going

00:15:33 through peaceful, not prosperous, but peaceful nations on the way. Um, then you're not seeking

00:15:37 asylum. What you're seeking is to invade a country and better magistrates and a better

00:15:45 country wouldn't allow it. Unfortunately, we don't have a good country. You think of like

00:15:50 Benjamin Franklin, what did you achieve? What did you give us? I gave you a republic if you can

00:15:55 keep it. And we've proven that unfortunately we can't. And so in terms of what angle, what

00:16:02 incentive uh joe biden and democrats for the most part have when it comes to uh immigrants um

00:16:08 democrats cannot win an election apart from immigrants um and so democrats uh i'm just

00:16:14 going to speak frankly here uh democrats win elections uh through uh immigrants um also uh

00:16:20 women um voting and also uh you know if they could they would lower the age of voting uh making

00:16:26 marijuana legal so you have guys you know who are high going into voting booths at every single

00:16:31 They want a population that's mostly women voting and not men.

00:16:37 The men who are voting, they want them to have low testosterone levels. 0.99

00:16:40 They want them to be sickly and dying and high. 1.00

00:16:45 And then they want illegal immigrants to be able to vote. 0.98

00:16:48 And you might say, well, illegal immigrants in the country isn't the same as voting.

00:16:50 Well, it effectively becomes the same when you have individual cities like New York City and other places saying that you don't have to provide any documentation. 0.57

00:16:58 And then outright even saying we're going to let people who are not citizens vote in national elections.

00:17:05 And so that's the direction.

00:17:08 Basically, anybody who has a vested interest in the nation, a tax-paying national citizen, clear-thinking, somebody who loves America, they don't vote for Democrats.

00:17:20 They don't.

00:17:21 They don't.

00:17:22 I have an analogy of this to help us understand a little bit.

00:17:25 Imagine that there's a father and a mother who are divorced, and the mother has primary

00:17:30 custody of the kids, and she's doing her best.

00:17:34 She has them on a strict schedule, bedtime, eat your vegetables, things like this, right?

00:17:38 Now, when the kids go see the father, the father buys them ice cream and McDonald's

00:17:43 and lets them stay up as late as they want, play video games all night, et cetera.

00:17:48 It's not just what you're saying, Joel, that the Democrats need these votes.

00:17:51 It's that they also have to lie about what is loving to these people.

00:17:54 They say, we are going to give you all of this stuff.

00:17:58 We are going to ensure that you get money.

00:18:01 I mean, we're talking $3,000 ATM cards when they cross the border and a cell phone.

00:18:05 And I just saw today that there is talking that the UN is going to be donating $1.5 billion

00:18:12 to fund immigrants, illegal immigrants who cross the U.S. southern border.

00:18:16 and so the democrats have to play like they're this father who's giving everything when really

00:18:25 it's bad it's bad for the people just to be given unlimited you know uh access to health care

00:18:33 scholarships housing without having to work for it and it's bad for the rest of the country and

00:18:38 then what they do is they say well mom is really the bad guy right right mom is really the bad guy

00:18:43 because she makes you go to bed and the next time we get a custody hearing kids make sure you tell 0.99

00:18:48 the judge who you want to have more custody it's me i'm the fun guy she's the bad guy she's the

00:18:54 meanie right that dichotomy between it tough love is a good word for it like this is it's not

00:19:00 enjoyable uh to do this but it's better for you so it's not as though we could love immigrants or

00:19:05 we couldn't by loving quote unquote which really isn't loving you're actually not loving your own

00:19:11 people. So you are not loving your own people by letting in gang members that will spread drugs

00:19:15 and violence. I know not all of them will do that. You're not loving your people by subverting

00:19:19 their workforce or the people that have lived in this nation, that pay their taxes, can't have

00:19:23 jobs. That's not loving to your people. So it's not as though I could love or I couldn't. After

00:19:27 all, love is a good thing. And we want to be kind and welcoming. By so doing, you will hate your own

00:19:32 people. And you just got to get to a second level of thinking like, okay, on the surface, well,

00:19:36 that is a good thing to be welcoming. Hospitality is a real virtue. For the right people, the

00:19:41 safe people in the right place in the right time not spread broadly but you got to get to the second

00:19:45 level say who am i not loving by doing this let me expand on that for a minute because i was just

00:19:49 talking to someone i'm not going to say who but i was talking to someone just within the last week

00:19:54 who's in the construction area and who knows a little bit about construction here in texas we're

00:19:59 in texas and he said that he's he's come to find out recently that there are whole groups and

00:20:06 organizations of um construction companies who will send representatives down to honduras guatemala

00:20:13 these places and they'll go down there and they'll just start talking to men able-bodied men and say

00:20:18 look i'll take you back to the states and they'll tell them the dollar amount that they'll pay them

00:20:22 per hour which sounds like a fortune in guatemala or honduras but which is barely livable here

00:20:29 so they say okay i can get you there i can get you working it's going to be a coyote to get you

00:20:35 across the border would be $10,000. I will do it for $12,000, but you can pay it in installments

00:20:41 once you start working. And this is actually happening where they're bringing across dozens

00:20:47 and dozens and hundreds and hundreds of able-bodied men promising what sounds like a fortune. When they

00:20:53 get here, they realize with the cost of living in the States, that's actually not going to go very

00:20:58 far. So now they're enslaved to this debt that they have to pay off and they can't afford to

00:21:04 live anywhere so they're literally putting 20 guys in one apartment building for them to live

00:21:10 they go out and they work they make their next to nothing wage they go back they live in this

00:21:16 apartment they have years months and months and years and years of paying off this debt that is 0.98

00:21:20 not loving although a liberal would say it's loving to let an immigrant come across and

00:21:25 i'm sure they would love them as their neighbor i would hope that that group moves in right next

00:21:29 door to me right yeah oh wait they live in in gated communities let me get to a couple of the

00:21:33 comments real quick. So if you guys have questions or something like that, put it in the comments.

00:21:36 We'll try to address it today. This is from two minutes to midnight. They say the church is doing

00:21:41 this also. I thought this was a good point. Good job, two minutes to midnight. The church is doing 0.63

00:21:46 this also. We are not serving the needy in the church and rather throwing money and time at

00:21:51 unbelievers. That's the same principle, right? So that we have clear verses where the apostle Paul 1.00

00:21:55 in Galatians, for instance, I believe it's chapter six, it might be chapter five. But what he says

00:22:01 is as often as you have opportunity, do good to all, but especially the household of faith,

00:22:06 aka he's saying, especially meaning, but prioritize the household of faith. Here's the deal. Jesus

00:22:12 is God and therefore infinite, and he is the head of the church. But the church on earth,

00:22:17 Christ's body, his hands and feet, the church is finite. It's made up of people, and people have

00:22:23 a limited amount of gifts and time and resources and money and all those kinds of things. So the

00:22:29 church is not infinite in its resources, which means as often as we, the church, the people of

00:22:34 God have opportunity, we should seek to do good to all people, but we have a mandate in Scripture

00:22:39 to prioritize the household of faith. So if we're doing good to the unbeliever at the cost of our 0.97

00:22:46 brother or sister in Christ, then we've messed up. If we're doing good to even another local church 0.86

00:22:52 on the other side of the world filled with brothers and sisters in Christ, but at the cost

00:22:56 of our local church, brothers and sisters in Christ at home, then we've messed up.

00:23:02 Another passage would be Jesus, and this is always used out of context, and I absolutely

00:23:07 hate it, so we've got to do a little Christian Bible myth busters here. 0.53

00:23:10 But it's the verse, the passage where Jesus says, whatever you've done for the least of 0.76

00:23:17 these, you've done for me.

00:23:18 Well, you know, if you've clothed someone, if you fed someone, when they were in prison,

00:23:22 you visited them.

00:23:23 You brought them water when they were thirsty.

00:23:25 you know all those kinds of things and then you know and and you know on the last day I'll separate

00:23:30 you know the from the sheep on the right and the goats on the left and and I will say you did this

00:23:34 for me and and they will say to me you will say to me when did we do this when did we see you

00:23:39 Jesus naked and clothe you when did you then we see you hungry and feed you when did we see you

00:23:45 thirsty and give you something to drink and Jesus says he says I tell you the truth whatever you've

00:23:51 done for the least of these you've done for me now that's the myth buster right there i left out 0.78

00:23:56 one important phrase um so people then they'll go so this is your libtard christians um in america

00:24:02 libtard evangelicals the usual suspects your david french's your russell moore's your beth

00:24:06 moore your you know any more will do uh they're basically there's very little difference from

00:24:10 michael moore and beth moore and russell moore at this point so the but but what they'll do is

00:24:14 they'll say uh oh whatever you do for the least of these well who are the least of these oh that

00:24:17 The people in our society who are the least of these are those on the margins.

00:24:20 And so it's people who are poor, or it's people of the LGBT community, or it's the illegal immigrant.

00:24:26 I remember Stephen Colbert, this was years ago, but doing the same thing, quoting this passage as a professed Christian, a Catholic, and saying, you know, I look at the least of these, and then he cited, he said, I don't know anybody who's more the least of these than immigrants.

00:24:39 And he cited immigrants.

00:24:40 Well, here's what Jesus actually says.

00:24:42 Whatever you do, right?

00:24:43 When did we clothe you, Jesus?

00:24:44 When did we feed you?

00:24:45 whenever you did it for the least of these my brothers you did it for me that's what's actually

00:24:51 in the text so jesus and and it goes that goes perfectly in cross-referencing the whole biblical

00:24:56 theology with other texts whoever receives a prophet in my name receives a prophet's reward

00:25:01 whoever receives this in my name receive an evangelist receives uh you know that reward

00:25:06 um the point is this uh jesus says whatever you do for the least of these my brothers you visit 0.61

00:25:10 someone in prison because they're an unbelieving, atheistic child molester? No, that's not what

00:25:17 Jesus is saying. When he says, you visited me in prison, what Jesus has in mind is that you visited

00:25:23 a Christian who's been wrongfully imprisoned for preaching the gospel of Jesus. You've clothed

00:25:29 the naked. What Jesus has in mind is a brother, a sister in Christ who is impoverished and can't

00:25:34 afford clothing, or someone who has had their possessions robbed in persecution for their

00:25:39 Christian faith, and then another Christian who has not been persecuted comes to their aid

00:25:43 and helps team Jesus. It's my brother. So as often as you have opportunity, do good to all,

00:25:48 going back to Galatians, the Apostle Paul, but especially that is prioritized as a first

00:25:52 priority, the household of faith, and that clause of as often as you have opportunity,

00:25:58 well, here's the bottom line. It's time to wake up, Peter Pan. We can't forgive everybody's

00:26:03 student debt. We can't feed everyone and give them all free lunch. We can't let everyone into

00:26:10 our country. We, as often as you have opportunity, what you should read in there as just a common 1.00

00:26:15 sense, you know, brain functioning individual person, whether you're even a Christian or not,

00:26:19 is opportunity in this life with finite people is always limited. Of course it's limited. We

00:26:26 only have so much opportunity. Now, there are plenty of arguments that can be made to say,

00:26:31 well, but don't you maybe have more opportunity? Couldn't you be content to live on? Sure. So I'm

00:26:37 not saying that greed doesn't factor in. I'm not saying that gauging our opportunity as Western

00:26:43 Christians can't be skewed. How much opportunity we have to give to others can't be skewed by our

00:26:51 idolatry of pleasure or comfort or greed. I'm not saying that at all, but I'm just saying the facts

00:26:55 are even if you remove every ounce of greed eventually uh you i only have so uh so many

00:27:01 dollars in my bank account right now i only can put uh fit so many people in my house and give

00:27:05 them a place to sleep i only have so much uh food in my refrigerator and as it pertains to an

00:27:10 individual or a household so it is with a nation um and and so to say listen uh we want to protect

00:27:17 our borders because we have a responsibility to our people as often as we have opportunity we'll

00:27:22 do our best to love all people, but especially our people. When you start loving someone else's

00:27:28 kids, if I clothe every kid in my neighborhood, but I don't buy clothes for my kids, not only is

00:27:34 that wrong or misprioritization, the Bible has strong words for that. The apostle Paul says that

00:27:39 you've denied the faith. If a man won't provide for his own house, the members of his own house,

00:27:45 he's worse than an unbeliever. He has denied the faith. And so too, I believe that the general 1.00

00:27:51 equity of that command apply to the civil magistrate who is called to be within the

00:27:55 reform tradition and the ancient church fathers called to be a nurturing father to his people,

00:28:00 the citizens underneath his rule. If he is helping others, but to the cost of fulfilling his own

00:28:08 duty to clothe and provide and help his own people, his own citizens, then he is worse than 0.98

00:28:14 an unbeliever and he is denied the faith. And I mean, obviously we know that Joe Biden is not a 1.00

00:28:20 believer. Unless God works a miracle and saves him, some of the most tormenting places in hell

00:28:25 are reserved for that man. He is a terrible, terrible man. But there are far worse men who 0.99

00:28:30 are pulling the strings and using him as a puppet. But the point is this, there's plenty

00:28:35 of evidences. You can watch the new documentary that came out about Joe Biden's parenting. It's

00:28:40 called A Beekeeper. It's a documentary about Hunter Biden, you know, being the president,

00:28:44 having a son that's a complete drug. I'm being facetious, but it might as well have been a

00:28:48 documentary it's literally the whole premise i hate you know spoiler alert here but the whole

00:28:52 premise is you got a a woman president so there you go joe biden and then you've got uh her son

00:28:57 is just this deadbeat uh he's stealing from people he's a drug addict and doing drugs you

00:29:02 know in the white house and all these kinds of things and i literally thought man this is on the

00:29:05 nose uh but anyways all that being said the point is if you didn't have all the other evidence of

00:29:09 joe biden being pro-abortion being this being that and the other uh one evidence that he is not a

00:29:14 Christian and that he should be removed from office is that he is not a nurturing father. 0.99

00:29:19 He is worse than an unbeliever. He has denied the faith that he personally professes by caring for 1.00

00:29:24 the children of the world over the citizens that he has been entrusted to God. Any other thoughts?

00:29:32 If not, we're probably going to need to go to a commercial here in a moment.

00:29:35 But you said it well one time a while ago in a sermon, but the church is given to a mission of

00:29:39 mercy, not justice, and the state is given to a mission of justice, not mercy. So like we read,

00:29:44 for example, the Sermon on the Mount. There's many good virtues in it. Blessed are the peacekeeper,

00:29:48 blessed are the meek, blessed are the merciful. Those aren't categories to be applied one-to-one

00:29:52 to the civil state. You wouldn't want a police officer that showed up after your home was robbed

00:29:57 and said, well, you know, blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. We have to think in

00:30:01 categories and what categories God has given to these different, you could say spheres, you could

00:30:05 say institutions. So when you think of the state, don't start thinking of the Sermon on the Mount.

00:30:09 don't start thinking of personal ethics. Think of Romans 13, where it directly says that the

00:30:14 state has been given to protect, to wield a sword, to punish the wicked, to promote righteousness.

00:30:19 Just even an example, it's an interesting one, but in World War I, the U.S. used to have really

00:30:24 strict immigration control. There were strict quotas on how many people could come in, from

00:30:28 what countries, a good vetting system. Because of World War I, they allowed unchecked immigration

00:30:33 from the island of Sicily out near Italy. And what actually came over, so all the mob bosses

00:30:39 that eventually brought about the mafia which for decades plagued the american public with drugs and

00:30:44 with violence and all these different things that came about because they imported the problems

00:30:48 of another nation they they got sympathetic oh man these poor you know 30 year old able-bodied

00:30:54 fighting men they just need a place to retreat to and those men swooped in evil men came in set up

00:30:59 crime scenes set up crime bosses set up systems and networks that i mean cost billions of dollars

00:31:06 cost thousands of lives, and unleashed violence upon the American populace.

00:31:10 What if—

00:31:11 And got us the FBI.

00:31:12 Which might have been even worse, actually, all things considered.

00:31:15 What if everyone—okay, you're in Sicily.

00:31:17 How about you fight for Sicily?

00:31:18 You're in America.

00:31:19 Fight for America. 1.00

00:31:20 You are in Mexico. 0.99

00:31:21 And I can have sympathy for the Christian father that says,

00:31:23 my country is overrun by cartels.

00:31:25 My country is overrun by violent men. 1.00

00:31:27 Well, the Puritans and those who first settled this nation, 1.00

00:31:31 they didn't have a great place to go. 0.83

00:31:32 they had to fight and they had to die and they had to to through strength muster up the will to be a 0.68

00:31:38 people and if every country on their own the christians and non-christians like mustered up

00:31:43 that strength and will for themselves we wouldn't have these problems you have to fight for mexico

00:31:47 you have to fight for sicily these nations are not going away there's not new ones coming up

00:31:51 the line has to be drawn and if you're a citizen you were born there have some love for your

00:31:56 country fight for it each country fights for itself amen all right this is what i want to do

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00:33:52 humbly, live faithfully. All right, well, welcome back. So just to recap, Governor Greg Abbott,

00:33:58 today, the governor of Texas, has declared an invasion at the border of Texas. He has told

00:34:03 the federal government that he will be securing the border, that agents that supposedly are

00:34:07 allowed to come in and cut the wire and let unchecked illegal immigration in, that they're

00:34:12 not allowed to. He's activated the Texas National Guard, declared an invasion, and it looks to be

00:34:16 going to take a stand at the border, take a stand for his citizens, for those that he has a sovereign

00:34:21 duty to protect. And so all that to say, God bless Governor Abbott. And it's funny, he's in a

00:34:27 wheelchair, but he has stood up more than so many other leaders have. The guy in the wheelchair is

00:34:33 standing much taller than the decrepit meatbag in the White House. So Michael, do you have a final

00:34:38 thought? My final thought is simply this. We really are in a situation where the doctrine

00:34:43 of the lesser magistrate applies, because we're not calling for vigilantes. We're not calling for

00:34:48 some sort of just, I'm angry, I'm going to, you know, take out my anger publicly. There is now

00:34:54 a magistrate of the state of Texas who is doing his godly duty, and it is not only good, but it's

00:34:59 necessary for citizens of Texas, which we are in, to submit to that, to come under that umbrella.

00:35:07 it. That is good and godly. That is within the order that God has designed and ordained. And so

00:35:13 when Christians and evangelicals and non-Christians come out and say, this is, you know, anyone who's

00:35:18 supporting Abbott, this is insurrection, and no, this is not. This is how God designed authority

00:35:26 structures to work. And if you are in a state that is not in this situation right now, it's perfectly

00:35:33 appropriate to call on your leaders to act in godly ways so that you can then come under their

00:35:38 good and godly leadership as well. So let's go ahead and land the plane for this episode. For

00:35:43 those of you who are watching, thanks for tuning in. We do this every single Wednesday at 4 p.m.

00:35:47 And we're actually, this isn't even the live stream that we had prepared because this was

00:35:50 news that dropped just a few hours ago today. So we pulled an audible and we went for it because

00:35:54 we wanted to get it to you as urgently as possible, talk about something that's fresh,

00:35:58 that's happening right now. So we're actually going to do two live streams. As soon as we

00:36:02 close this video. We're going to start our live stream for today. Real quick, Wes, plug it. What

00:36:05 are we talking about? We're talking about low-T pastors, low testosterone. We're talking about

00:36:09 Alistair Begg and how this factors into... No relation. No relation. That's one topic and then

00:36:14 a completely separate topic, Alistair Begg. On that topic and the rise of Donald Trump.

00:36:18 The rise of Donald Trump. Yep. And we're going to be talking about Sean Strickland as a great

00:36:23 godly example. I'm just kidding. He's not a great godly example, but we are going to talk about the

00:36:27 phenomenon of guys like him um who are saying no no no no i'm just not going to play your game i'm

00:36:32 not going to play the woke game i'm not going to uh pander to all the you know the leftists with

00:36:35 their you know cry bully tactics right used to a bully on the playground was was big you actually

00:36:40 had strength now it's whoever can cry the best i remember my dad teaching me that when i was a young

00:36:45 teenager i remember i made a girl cry and in this particular instance it was not my habit to go

00:36:49 around making girls cry but in this particular instance it was something that happened in the

00:36:52 youth group she was absolutely in the wrong and all i did i didn't touch her god forbid i would

00:36:56 never doing anything like that, but with words and carefully spoken, as careful as a young teenager

00:37:02 could, teenage boy. But I said, this is wrong. You can't do that. What you're doing is da-dot,

00:37:08 da-dot, da-dot, da-dot. That's what you're actually saying. That's what your actions are

00:37:11 portraying. And that's wrong. And she cried and went and told some of the adults in the church.

00:37:15 And the adults sat me down, the school marms, and started to try to longhouse me. And my dad,

00:37:20 who was the pastor of the church, he stepped in and stopped them. And then he talked and said,

00:37:24 no no no my son's right um and and he didn't just get my back because i'm his son there's plenty of

00:37:28 times that he was like my son's wrong um but you know he got my back and he shut down the school

00:37:33 marms in the long house and then he told me privately i remember he said uh joel a lesson

00:37:37 that you need to learn uh we live in a world that hates men and this was like this was you know

00:37:40 over 20 years ago he said um and a woman crying is uh is uh it's like a nuclear bomb you cannot

00:37:47 stop it um if uh if she cries she wins um he said i know that's wrong i know that's unjust but you

00:37:53 need to be aware of that right now you're a teenage boy you'll you'll get through it uh but

00:37:57 when you're a grown man if you if you make women cry um you will have tens of thousands of enemies

00:38:02 and uh and that's what i've devoted my life to it's not my cause but as i but as i preach against

00:38:08 feminism and these kinds of things um i have made um you know i i actually you know um actually you

00:38:15 know instead of tens of thousands i've made hundreds of thousands of women cry um and um

00:38:19 um and i you know i'm not trying to it's not my goal but my dad was right it is powerful because

00:38:25 because the white knights immediately come to their age so all that being said sean strickland

00:38:29 you know he's he's a ufc or what is it ufc fighter and you know he's doing the speech and

00:38:34 a lib libtard journalist you know is like well what do you think about you know minorities and 0.87

00:38:40 women and and transgender and he's like shut up and he uses you know lots of cursing so i don't 0.94

00:38:45 endorse the language but he uses lots of but then the big thing is like later in a press conference

00:38:49 he talks to he's given a speech and and the crowd is out there in front of him and he says i'm not

00:38:54 doing this for me i do it for you you're beaten down and and what shocked me is you just hear this

00:38:59 roar of of this this manly massive and they're like yeah and i just thought this isn't just a

00:39:05 bunch of guys who i'm sure some of these guys are degenerates um but it's not just degeneracy like

00:39:11 yeah fighter who's going to be it no no no it's guys who have been told uh for decades that they're 0.99

00:39:16 the scum of the earth, that they're hated, that this country is not for them, that the church is 0.99

00:39:20 not for them, that Jesus is not for them, that nothing is for them, that they're the problem and 1.00

00:39:24 the source of the problem of everything, and a guy stands up for them. That's all it takes,

00:39:28 just a guy. So whether it's standing up at our border and saying, I care about your children,

00:39:33 and I'm not going to let an invasion of 6 million more illegal immigrants, military-age 0.99

00:39:39 fighting men, come into the country and endanger your own posterity. So whether it's Biden at the 0.97

00:39:44 border whether it's sean strickland you know at a ufc you know after match speech um that is the

00:39:49 thing or donald trump the rise of donald trump um those that's what it is that's what it is is guy

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