The NXR Podcast - BONUS - Takeaways from the Midterm Election for Christians

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00:00:18.000 All right, welcome to another live episode, live Q&A with myself, Pastor Joel Webin,

00:00:22.500 host of Right Response Ministries. Today, I wanted to start off talking about

00:00:26.540 the election that we just recently had, the midterm election that was, well, it was forecasted

00:00:33.580 to be a red wave, perhaps even a red tsunami. And the reality is there were some good things

00:00:39.380 that came about out of this election, but it really wasn't a red wave. And you could argue

00:00:44.800 that it wasn't even a red tide. It was more of a red trickle. And we noticed some very clear

00:00:52.300 reasons for that. One of them having to do with the way that women vote, particularly single

00:00:57.240 women, the way that marriage and gender affects people's political views, their priorities,

00:01:03.800 their values, and the way that they ultimately are influenced by their status as man or woman,

00:01:11.800 married or single when they enter into the voting booth. And so we'll talk about that here in just

00:01:16.540 a moment. But first, I wanted to kind of backtrack and talk just a little bit. I know it seems kind

00:01:22.060 of, uh, out of place. Why are you doing this? What's the purpose? Um, I think there's a really

00:01:26.840 strong point that needs to be made in light of this midterm election. Um, also looking back on

00:01:32.920 the 2020 presidential election that we had between Trump and Biden. Um, I think that there's something

00:01:38.780 that we just keep missing as Christians. I've banged on this drum a little bit, and I'm going

00:01:43.640 to do it again a little bit today, but real quick, before I jump into it, let me just remind you guys,

00:01:47.960 this live Q&A with Pastor Joel Webman. I hope to get to a couple questions towards the end of

00:01:53.640 today's episode, but it's usually an hour, hour and a half, and it's every Monday at 12 p.m.

00:01:59.440 Central Time. That's every Monday at 12 p.m. Central Time, live Q&A with Pastor Joel Webman.

00:02:05.120 All right, so that being said, let's go ahead and pull up. We've got a couple pictures. Let's go

00:02:09.700 ahead and start with the first one, Nathan. This is from the Trump-Biden election, 2020,

00:02:14.560 presidential election. And this shows you which states went for Biden. And it also shows you

00:02:19.200 which, well, the exact numerical value within the electoral college that each of these states

00:02:26.640 are worth, right? So you see California has a large population. It's worth 55 points,

00:02:31.600 or at least it was. We'll see, you know, in 2024, some of these things are going to have

00:02:35.920 to be reconfigured because there actually has been a mass exodus out of some of these liberal

00:02:41.320 blue states, California being one of them. I was one of the individuals who left California

00:02:46.040 towards the end of 2020 and moved to Texas for a number of reasons, a host of reasons,

00:02:52.100 but one of them being political reasons. And so I'll get to that here in just a moment.

00:02:57.140 But what you'll notice is this. All right. So ultimately what happened was I think it was 306

00:03:03.200 electoral college for Biden, and it was 232 for Trump, or 308 versus 232. I can't remember.

00:03:13.720 I can't exactly remember. Let's go ahead and pull up the next picture.

00:03:18.560 The point is this, you have to have over 270 in the electoral college in order to win

00:03:22.860 the presidency. Now, these are the battleground states. You guys will probably remember this.

00:03:28.840 there was a lot of talk about the election in 2020. But it's worth reminding ourselves, okay?

00:03:35.100 These are states that were close, okay? But Trump didn't need to win all these states to be

00:03:40.520 president. He was 232. I know that for a fact. 232 in the Electoral College. Let me pull,

00:03:47.020 I got a picture on my phone. I'll just pull that up real quick just to confirm.

00:03:51.120 Yep. He was 232. Biden was 306. That's right. So 306 for Biden and the Electoral College,

00:03:56.520 232 for Trump. Okay. Now, um, in order to win, you've got to have 270 is, um, kind of the halfway

00:04:03.740 point. Um, and so you've got to have 270 plus, um, in order to win the presidency. Okay. So let's

00:04:10.700 just look at, you know, all these States that went for Biden, three of them went for Trump and

00:04:14.560 seven of them went for Biden. These are 10 of the more contested battleground States in the United

00:04:20.040 States of America. Um, Trump didn't need to win all 10 of them. He needed to hold the three that

00:04:24.420 he had, Florida and North Carolina, Ohio, but he actually could have won the presidency with just

00:04:29.440 four more of these other seven states that went for Biden. Here are four states that if Trump had

00:04:35.420 won, he would still be president. Okay. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Arizona, Georgia,

00:04:43.380 Nevada, and Wisconsin. Go back real quick now, Nathan, to the earlier picture. Oh, you know,

00:04:47.980 it's right there. It shows. So Arizona is worth 11. Trump had 232, 270 to win. Okay. 11 for

00:04:54.760 Arizona, 16 for Georgia. That's 27 plus Nevada is six. That puts you at 33 plus Wisconsin is 10.

00:05:02.060 That puts you at 43, 43 plus 232 puts you at 275. You're the president. He'd be at 275. Joe Biden

00:05:09.760 would be at 265. Trump would still be president by winning four more states. And now notice the

00:05:15.860 reason why I picked these four states is because they were incredibly thin margins that Biden won

00:05:21.520 them by. So in the case of Arizona, it's 10,457. Georgia, 11,779. Nevada, 33,596. And then Wisconsin,

00:05:33.160 20,682. You add it all up and it's, you know, give or take, this is rounding, but it's about

00:05:40.460 76,500. 76,500. Now think about that for a second. I think it was, what was it? I think it

00:05:53.140 was over 150 million votes in 2020 for the presidential election. 150, not thousand,

00:06:01.060 million. Million. And Biden won the presidency by winning these four states, Arizona, Georgia,

00:06:09.520 Nevada, and Wisconsin. And each of these states combined in terms of the popular vote

00:06:16.300 in each of these states combined was about 76,500. So 150 million votes cast

00:06:23.900 and 76,500 made the difference. And I just want to remind you real quick what that difference was.

00:06:32.300 That difference was Afghanistan being absolutely destroyed, right? I'm just going to give you some

00:06:37.740 of the hallmark, you know, key moments of the last two years Biden administration, right? So

00:06:43.020 Afghanistan, Russia and Ukraine. It's like, well, that's not Biden's fault. Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

00:06:49.600 That would be completely different if Trump was in office. And I'm not saying Trump was the best

00:06:53.080 man ever. I would prefer Ron DeSantis running for president 2024 than Trump. If Trump runs and he

00:06:59.840 gets the candidacy and all those kinds of, then yeah, if he's the nominee, then he'll have my

00:07:04.000 vote. Trump, his policies and what he did for his four years in office, I'm incredibly grateful for

00:07:09.060 Trump as a man and some of the, I don't know, his rhetoric and certainly his rhetoric most recently

00:07:16.060 and trying to just bash Ron DeSantis and being petty and having Kenneth Copeland pray, you know,

00:07:21.840 at one of his rallies and all these different things. I think, yeah, that's foolish. Ron DeSantis 0.99

00:07:26.340 had Tom Askell from Founders Ministry. Yeah, I'd much prefer that than, you know, than Trump and

00:07:32.880 Kenneth Copeland or Paula White and these kinds of things. That being said, I still appreciate

00:07:37.700 Trump and what he did for our nation. He's the best president, bar none, by far the best president

00:07:43.680 of the United States of America in my lifetime. And I'm going to be grateful for that. And his

00:07:49.740 appointment of over 300, I think it was 300 judges throughout the United States on lesser courts and

00:07:56.140 all these things, including his three appointments on the Supreme Court. And the fact that that is

00:08:01.260 the reason why Roe has been overturned. Every Christian who loves God and loves his image

00:08:06.640 bearers, namely, especially his image bearers in the womb and the sanctity of life, should

00:08:13.120 have some measure of respect and honor and appreciation for Donald J. Trump, period.

00:08:19.280 I don't care if you like him. I don't care what you think about his personality and his rhetoric

00:08:24.060 most recently and some of the ways that he may be hurting conservatives and blah, blah, blah.

00:08:29.320 I get it. I get it. I get it. Again, I prefer Ron DeSantis in 2024 than Trump. And part of that

00:08:34.940 is not just personality and character and things like that. Part of that is just because I'm tired

00:08:39.140 of living in a nation that is ruled by people who are 90 years old. I'm just kind of tired of that. 1.00

00:08:47.180 We are in a nation that is ruled by women and particularly women who are literally taped 1.00

00:08:55.260 together. Nancy Pelosi looks like, I don't know, she looks like they discovered some kind of 1.00

00:09:03.220 perfectly preserved, embalmed mummy in a pyramid, and it came back to life, barely. And it's now

00:09:10.400 running the United States of America. So yeah, I just would like to see somebody under the age of 1.00

00:09:17.220 80. And I know Trump would be 78, but you get my point. So I think one of the elections that

00:09:24.720 just happened in the midterm. Um, an individual, I can't remember the name, but, uh, was elected

00:09:28.760 for a six year term and they are currently 89 years old. They will finish their term at 95 years

00:09:36.400 old. Our nation has, uh, we've allowed people who are 80 and 90 years old to rule us people who are

00:09:44.720 women instead of men to rule us. And then whenever that fails, our, our other preference, um, as a

00:09:50.980 nation seems to be. If we can't find a 90-year-old to rule us, 80-year-old to rule us, then we'll go

00:09:57.240 to Greta Thunberg and have a 16-year-old with a Swedish accent yell at us for driving our cars. 0.99

00:10:07.320 That's just so foolish. We're just so foolish as a nation. But that's one of God's judgments. 1.00

00:10:13.340 God's judgment over a nation is that he gives them lousy rulers, right? I mean, the Bible literally

00:10:18.460 says he'll have children rule over them and women rule over them. And although it's not explicitly 0.62

00:10:23.220 said, I think that you could also, you could by way of inference, necessary inference, you could

00:10:28.500 say that having geriatric, you know, people with dementia like Joe Biden, you know, so old that

00:10:34.360 they could die any second ruling over you is also a form of God's judgment. And if you ask God's

00:10:40.080 judgment for what, well, there's a lot of things that America could be judged for. But one of those

00:10:43.520 things, of course, would be the 63 million babies murdered by their own mothers in the womb over the

00:10:50.560 last 49 years. So all that being said, the point is Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin, those

00:10:59.600 four states would have given Trump 275 in the electoral college over Biden at 265. He would

00:11:05.340 have had the presidency. And in the last two years, what would that mean? Well, it would mean

00:11:10.520 something for vax mandates. Trump is definitely pro-vaccine. That's the problem. One of the

00:11:16.260 problems with Trump, when he's right, he's right, and he will not back down. Praise God. When he's

00:11:21.520 wrong, he's wrong, and he will not back down. Trump doesn't understand that a lot of his base

00:11:26.860 does not appreciate the vaccine, but because it was his, he's still bragging about a vaccine that

00:11:31.880 has horrific side effects, that has no long-term testing, and that was forcibly injected into

00:11:38.340 people's arms and is now being added to the list of mandatory child vaccines in order for children

00:11:43.580 to go to school. And Trump doesn't recognize that that's a bad thing. Conservatives don't like that.

00:11:49.240 Christians don't like that. And he should probably stop bragging about that, but he still does.

00:11:54.460 All right. But the point is we'd still have the vaccine, but Trump would not have pushed the

00:11:58.320 vaccine the way that Biden and his administration have, period. You would not have seen the vax

00:12:03.120 mandates, at least not nearly as many of them that we've had. So you would have people being

00:12:08.260 able to keep their jobs. People who were government employees keeping their jobs,

00:12:13.020 people in the military keeping their jobs, people in the private sector keeping their jobs. You

00:12:17.060 would have seen schools opened more quickly. And so you would not see the learning hindrance,

00:12:26.320 massive, massive decline in children's development and learning that we have. 0.96

00:12:32.240 Afghanistan, Russia and Ukraine. It's at least unlikely, not a guarantee, but far more

00:12:40.340 unlikely that Putin would have invaded Ukraine. And so these kinds of things, and then how that

00:12:47.340 affects the global stage economically with the energy crisis and all these European nations that

00:12:53.700 are in dire straits as we're heading into the winter now in terms of energy. You also have

00:13:00.360 Nordstrom pipeline, you know, and Biden, his regulations on drilling and fracking and all

00:13:06.080 these different kinds of things. So you're talking about inflation. I mean, inflation has been global,

00:13:11.020 but Biden has exasperated it here in America. It's not Putin's gas spike, it's Biden's gas spike. So

00:13:18.900 you think of inflation, the economy, energy crisis, the threat of nuclear war between Russia and

00:13:27.660 Ukraine and things that are happening in Europe. You think about Afghanistan, the people there,

00:13:31.780 and American citizens and American allies, and then 13 service members that died.

00:13:39.060 The list goes on and on. And many of these things would not have happened at all,

00:13:44.140 or they at least would have happened to a much less severe degree if Trump had been elected

00:13:49.940 president. And what would that have required? Four states, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin,

00:13:55.940 in order for him to have the electoral advantage and win the presidency. And what is the combined

00:14:00.720 popular vote that Trump would have needed to get that he lost by in these four states combined

00:14:06.460 about 76,500. Here's the point. You know how many people voted for Trump in California?

00:14:14.280 Six million. Six million in the state of California voted for Donald J. Trump in 2020.

00:14:23.120 I was one of them. Six million. And he needed, again, if they had moved these Californians to

00:14:34.760 the right states, to the right places, thinking like a general in a war, thinking strategically,

00:14:41.340 trying to hold the line, going to battleground states to fight the good fight.

00:14:45.920 out of the 6 million votes for Trump in California, if half of them would have left

00:14:54.280 California? No. 10% of them? No. 10% would be 600,000. No, you only need 76,500. About 1%,

00:15:09.640 let's say, just to be fair, about 1.5%. If 1.5%, not half of them, not 10% of them,

00:15:17.900 20% of them, not even 5%, if 1.5% of the people in California who voted for Trump

00:15:25.000 would have left California and moved to one of these four battleground states and cast their

00:15:31.540 vote there for Trump, Biden would not have been president and the entire world would be better.

00:15:37.600 the entire world would be better. That's such a, that's just a, such a massive statement. You can't

00:15:44.180 say that. Okay. Let me say it again. The entire world would be better without Joe Biden as the

00:15:49.660 president of the United States of America. I make no apology and I'm not even going to give a

00:15:53.800 disclaimer. We don't need it. We don't need it. We know that the world would be better. So all that

00:16:00.440 being said, where you live matters. All right, let's go ahead and get now to the most recent

00:16:05.980 election, the midterms that we've just experienced. But before we do, quick announcement. Number one

00:16:11.780 is this. We've got our conference. Now, here's the deal. I told you guys, let's go ahead and

00:16:17.700 pull that up on the screen. This is the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference. It's next year,

00:16:22.620 May 5th, 6th, and 7th in Georgetown, Texas. That's right outside of Austin. You just go north. So

00:16:28.200 you fly into Austin and you go north about 40 minute drive, give or take, and boom, you will

00:16:33.360 be in Georgetown, Texas. It's May 5th, 6th and 7th, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We've got James

00:16:39.600 White, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours too, truly, Joel Webbin, speaking at this

00:16:45.960 conference. It's going to be fantastic. We're catering in a barbecue dinner for Friday that's

00:16:50.400 covered in your registration costs. And we have charged for this conference one of the lowest

00:16:54.620 amounts of any comparable conference that you could find. There's no other conference at this

00:16:59.240 level with these types of speakers that charges the amount that we have charged. So we're charging

00:17:06.160 $100. Now, a lot of you guys registered because you knew that starting November 1st, we were going

00:17:12.980 to actually raise our rate from $100 for an adult to $130. And that's what we did. November 1st,

00:17:20.460 it is now $130. Now, here's the deal. I didn't want to push, you know, I didn't want to do another

00:17:25.580 price hike. I didn't want to try to create this artificial sense of urgency and push people into

00:17:34.960 registering again and again and again. We had our early bird rate. Pretty much every conference

00:17:41.040 does that. Early bird rate all the way till November 1st was $100 for an adult. And then

00:17:46.740 we've raised it to, this is our second and final rate, $130. We're not raising it again.

00:17:53.380 Here's the problem though.

00:17:54.820 The problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again

00:17:56.620 and that you only have a week to get in at this rate

00:17:59.380 or we're going to raise it to 150 or 170.

00:18:02.580 We're done.

00:18:03.400 We have the early bird rate and this is the normal rate.

00:18:06.220 Early bird was 100, this is 130.

00:18:07.900 The problem is that we had so many people

00:18:10.680 register for this conference on Reformation Day,

00:18:13.000 October 31st, right before us raising the rate

00:18:15.780 to 130 on November 1st,

00:18:18.140 that we actually only have about 100

00:18:20.860 And if we push, maybe if we set up extra seats and really make it almost uncomfortably crowded

00:18:28.880 in the venue that we have, maybe we could do 130, 130.

00:18:34.480 We have 100 to maybe 130, really more like 120 seats left because we are currently six

00:18:40.980 months out from this conference and we just haven't really done this before.

00:18:44.960 So we didn't know what to expect.

00:18:46.900 I've been told that ReformCon with Jeff Durbin, that they had 400 people registered two weeks

00:18:52.380 before ReformCon. And then ReformCon had about 900 or 1,000 people at that conference. And I

00:18:57.740 heard it was fantastic. And I hope by God's grace, maybe I'll get to go and join you guys next year.

00:19:02.200 But again, 400 people were registered two weeks before ReformCon took place. And then

00:19:06.700 at the actual conference, two weeks later, you go from 400 people that were registered to 900 to 1,000.

00:19:12.180 Well, here's the deal. We're at 450 people registered today and we're six months out

00:19:19.820 and we've got a hundred to 120 seats left. 450 people are registered for the Theonomy and

00:19:26.640 Postmillennialism Conference. That's not even happening until six months from now. 450 people

00:19:31.680 already signed up, ready to go. And we can seat, our venue actually seats about 500 people,

00:19:38.440 but we're willing to push it to 550, maybe 570.

00:19:42.040 That's it.

00:19:43.020 That's what we got.

00:19:43.920 That's our venue.

00:19:44.560 That's what the Lord's provided.

00:19:45.980 That's what we've got.

00:19:46.860 We've got 100 to 120 seats left.

00:19:48.820 So here's my point.

00:19:49.920 You need to register today, today,

00:19:52.600 because I'm gonna raise the price on you.

00:19:54.340 No, we're not gonna do that.

00:19:55.740 We're not gonna do all this PSYOP,

00:19:57.340 you know, psychological technique of,

00:19:59.820 you know, every month we're raising the rate,

00:20:01.380 you know, and by the time we get to the conference,

00:20:02.840 it's $300 a ticket.

00:20:03.920 No, we had our early bird rate for 100

00:20:05.580 and our final rate for 130.

00:20:07.800 It's going to cost $130 from here

00:20:09.760 all the way up until the conference.

00:20:11.120 For the next six months, it'll be $130.

00:20:12.980 Here's the problem though.

00:20:15.120 There will not be seats for this conference

00:20:16.920 for the next six months.

00:20:19.040 My prediction is there will be seats

00:20:20.720 available for this conference.

00:20:21.940 The way that people are registering,

00:20:23.440 the way that it's filling up,

00:20:25.080 I think there will be seats for this conference

00:20:27.540 for probably about two more weeks.

00:20:29.960 If you want to be really safe,

00:20:31.440 I think you got to register in the next two weeks.

00:20:33.080 By the end of the year, six weeks from now,

00:20:35.020 end of the year, we're sold out. Guaranteed. There's no way. So yeah, you'll still have

00:20:40.100 four months, January, February, March, and April of 2023 before the conference actually happens,

00:20:45.380 but it won't matter because we'll be sold out. By the end of the year, there's no way we will

00:20:49.700 not be sold out. And it's possible that we could be sold out as early as two weeks from now.

00:20:55.380 So if you want a seat, there's not a threat of a price hike, but there is a promise of us simply

00:21:02.660 running out of seats. So you need to register in the next couple of weeks. And ideally,

00:21:09.140 if you definitely want to insure your spot, you should register today. So go to

00:21:12.800 rightresponseconference.com. Again, it's rightresponseconference, not rightresponseministries

00:21:18.620 forward slash conference, rightresponseconference.com, rightresponseconference.com. Go ahead

00:21:24.960 and register today. Register your whole family. Kids who are 10 and under are free. And then big

00:21:31.240 kids 11 to 17 years old are $50. That's what it was before. We're going to keep the teenagers at

00:21:37.340 the same rate. So kids 10 and under, free. And then you've got 11-year-olds through 17-year-olds

00:21:42.580 are $50. And adults now, instead of 100, are $130. Register your whole family. Come and join us for

00:21:48.320 this conference. If you're flying from out of state, if you're not going to drive, then look

00:21:52.560 at flying into the Austin airport. Feel free to email me at joel at rightresponseministries.com.

00:21:58.480 joel at rightresponseministries.com. If you want recommendations for hotels and things like that,

00:22:03.840 remember Friday, we are going to cater in as a part of your registration fee, a Texas style

00:22:09.560 barbecue dinner. So we can all be together. Everybody at the conference, eating a meal

00:22:14.080 together Friday night. We're going to have some hymns and Psalms that we sing, and we're going

00:22:18.960 to have multiple sessions. James White is going to speak twice. Joe Boot is going to speak twice.

00:22:24.040 Gary DeMar, myself, Dale Partridge,

00:22:26.160 we're each gonna speak once instead of twice,

00:22:28.640 but that's so that we can allow time,

00:22:30.460 Friday night and Saturday night,

00:22:32.280 to do a live Q&A panel,

00:22:35.340 taking questions from you,

00:22:37.060 the attendees at the conference.

00:22:38.700 That's gonna be after dinner on Friday

00:22:40.520 and after dinner on Saturday.

00:22:42.680 So I think, I believe it's like from 7.30 to nine,

00:22:47.540 an hour and a half each time.

00:22:48.900 So you got a total of three hours of live Q&A panel

00:22:52.380 where all the speakers are up on the stage

00:22:53.880 taking questions from you, the audience,

00:22:55.480 an hour and a half Friday night,

00:22:56.940 hour and a half Saturday night.

00:22:58.460 And then what we're gonna do is the Lord's Day for Sunday,

00:23:02.280 we're just gonna hold that venue

00:23:03.740 and my church that I pastor,

00:23:05.320 Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas,

00:23:08.060 instead of meeting in our normal location

00:23:10.040 that we meet in each Lord's Day as a church,

00:23:12.220 we're gonna meet in our conference venue, our church,

00:23:14.700 along with any of the conference attendees

00:23:16.900 who are gonna be with us.

00:23:18.040 And James White is going to preach

00:23:20.420 and I'll be leading the liturgy

00:23:22.040 and we'll have wonderful worship through hymns and psalms.

00:23:25.500 We will serve the Lord's Supper for a lot of people

00:23:29.260 because we expect to have hundreds of people in attendance

00:23:31.400 and it's gonna be a glorious time together.

00:23:34.440 So you don't wanna miss this conference,

00:23:36.040 but you will miss this conference.

00:23:37.760 That's my point.

00:23:38.320 You will miss this conference

00:23:39.300 if you don't sign up really, really quick.

00:23:41.800 Okay, I know that was long,

00:23:43.720 but I've heard a lot of people saying,

00:23:46.300 I'm coming, I'm excited to come,

00:23:48.480 but I don't think a lot of the people

00:23:50.380 who are reaching out to me have an accurate sense of, of the fact that you don't have six months

00:23:56.680 to wait on this one. Okay. All right, here we go. One last announcement and then we'll hop into the

00:24:01.020 midterm election. Here we go. How to plant a church since your last church went woke. If you're

00:24:04.960 looking for a really long title for something, there it is. How to plant a church. And that's

00:24:09.800 not even the whole title. Let me read the whole title. How to plant a church since your last

00:24:13.460 church went woke, a four week online workshop. There you go. That's the full title. Basically,

00:24:19.180 there's a lot of people who read this one, probably the most common email that I get is

00:24:22.560 people say, I can't find a biblically faithful church. I'll either find a church that has like

00:24:26.760 Orthodox, uh, conservative theology, the reform, these kinds of things. Um, but they're pietist 0.97

00:24:33.900 and cowards, right? Like, like COVID happened and the government said, uh, uh, shut your doors. 0.99

00:24:39.800 And the pastor said, uh, how long Caesar, you know, and they shut their doors, not for a few

00:24:45.220 weeks. A lot of people shut their doors for a few weeks. They didn't know what was happening, but

00:24:48.900 I'm talking about guys who are reformed. They allegedly have good doctrine, but they don't

00:24:53.260 apply it, right? And they shut their doors for four months, five months, six months, seven months,

00:24:58.480 right? And then, you know, with different variants that came out, you know, they opened back up with

00:25:03.480 all these precautions, no singing allowed, right? Even though the Bible commands us to sing to God

00:25:08.920 and to address one another with hymns and psalms and spiritual songs, there was no singing allowed. 0.55

00:25:13.200 They made mass required, not optional, but required. So what does it take to come to the

00:25:18.380 Lord's table. It takes faith plus a mask, right? They even segregated, you know, based off of Vax

00:25:23.900 status. And then other, you know, Omicron and different, you know, variations came out and

00:25:29.260 they shut down again, you know, and, and all the while you can see your pastor, you know, he won't

00:25:34.700 let you come to church because of COVID. The church is shut down, but on his Instagram page,

00:25:38.940 you can see pictures of him, you know, at the George Floyd rallies. And yeah, he's, he's a

00:25:44.900 Calvinist. Sure. He's reformed. Sure. He went to RTS. Great. You know, he's buddies with Ligon

00:25:51.340 Duncan, you know, whatever it might be. But he's not a son of Issachar. He doesn't know what time

00:25:57.180 it is. He's bought. He's a traitor. He's woke. He's cowardly. He's pietistic and progressive

00:26:04.240 all at the same time. He doesn't know what time it is. You can't go to that church. You cannot go

00:26:09.680 to that church. And you know that. You don't need me to tell you that. But the problem is you can't

00:26:13.740 find another one. You can either find churches with good theology on the books, but they won't

00:26:20.000 apply it. They're either woke or they're cowards with COVID stuff. Or you find a church that took 0.93

00:26:26.900 a stand. Maybe it's a Calvary Chapel church or something like that. And you've been going to

00:26:30.920 that church, but you're like, I still, I'm not Arminian, right? Like this church, I appreciate

00:26:36.620 that the pastor here is actually a man and actually has a spine and has some courage,

00:26:41.100 but the church isn't reformed. The church isn't this, it's not covenantal. It's not, you know,

00:26:45.960 it's not post-millennial. It's not, you know, um, what do I do? You know, and people are saying

00:26:50.240 within a two hour driving radius, I just can't find a good church. Um, and right now in God's

00:26:56.380 providence, I'm just not able to move to a church. Joel, I'd love to go to Texas with you. I'd love

00:27:00.720 to go to Moscow with Doug, or I'd love to go to Arizona with, you know, uh, Jeff Durbin and James

00:27:05.100 White, you know, or Ogden, Utah with, uh, with Brian Sauve and Eric Kahn and Dan Burkholder,

00:27:10.040 you know, the Kings Hall guys. And like, there's some guys out there. There's not a lot, but there

00:27:14.220 are some guys out there that are doing some really great work. But in God's providence right now,

00:27:18.680 financially, or because we have in-laws that we're taking care of that are sick, that need our help,

00:27:23.460 that aren't able to make a move for whatever reason, we're stuck geographically. So we can't

00:27:27.220 find a church and we can't move to a church. Well, not having church is not an option. So in God's

00:27:34.200 providence, what he's telling you, essentially, if you can't find a church where you live and you

00:27:37.740 can't move to a church, you can't leave where you live, then God is calling you to plant a church.

00:27:42.660 And here's the deal. You may not be called by God to be the pastor of the church that you plant,

00:27:47.880 but as a faithful Christian, as a layman, you can still be pivotal in planting that church,

00:27:53.280 that God appoints someone else to be the pastor. So this isn't just for people who feel, I feel

00:27:57.760 called to be a pastor. This is for people who feel called to join with just one or two other

00:28:02.660 like-minded, courageous, faithful, theologically stout Christians to plant a church, covenant a

00:28:10.180 church in their home, in their living room, but to do it biblically. And there are clear biblical

00:28:15.760 criteria that are necessary. And they may not be the pastor. God may send them a pastor,

00:28:21.000 but there is a way for them to actually not just watch videos on YouTube, but to actually have

00:28:25.380 bona fide biblical church on the Lord's day, on the Lord's day, as they're waiting for somebody

00:28:31.420 to be the pastor. And there is a way of doing this within the 1689 Second London Baptist

00:28:35.880 Confession of Faith from a Reformed Baptist standpoint. This workshop will be helpful

00:28:39.900 for Presbyterians. It'll be helpful for all sorts of people, but I make no apology and I want to be

00:28:44.460 clear up front. I am Reformed Baptist and so I'm going to be doing it within that lens of church

00:28:50.760 polity. It'll be a Reformed Baptist church polity. So it's going to be four weeks long. It's four

00:28:56.620 Mondays in a row. It's Monday at 8 p.m. starting November 28th. Some of you guys have already

00:29:02.120 signed up. You've reached out to me and said, hey, when is it starting? I'm just reminding you

00:29:05.660 we haven't forgotten about it. It's happening. We told you it's going to happen. It's going to

00:29:10.800 happen. And it starts November 28th. So not this Monday, not the next Monday. Today, I believe,

00:29:16.860 is the 14th. Yep, the 14th. And so then it's the 21st. Yeah. So two weeks from today, two weeks

00:29:22.360 from today, November 28th, and it'll be the first three Mondays in December, the 5th, the 12th,

00:29:27.640 and the 19th, all four of them at 8 p.m. That's central time, Texas time where I'm at, central

00:29:32.960 time, trying to do it at a time where people who have children can log on after they put their kids

00:29:38.840 to bed. So four Mondays, and it'll be an hour and a half length each time, about 45 minutes of a

00:29:44.320 lecture on the front end of each of these hour and a half workshops, then 45 minutes of taking

00:29:49.200 your questions in the chat room and answering those questions. And I'm also going to be giving

00:29:55.580 everybody who signs up for this, I'm going to be giving them some of the official covenanting

00:30:01.100 church documents that my church, Covenant Bible Church, uses that I've written over the years,

00:30:06.400 even when I was pastoring in California, that have been refined as I've grown in my theology,

00:30:11.120 but basically a general statement of faith, but also our bylaws and church constitution,

00:30:16.440 also pages that I've written out on the duties and responsibilities of elders and deacons,

00:30:22.040 defining the diaconate. There's a lot of confusion about what is a deacon. Is it the

00:30:26.220 lead parking attendant or is it something a little bit more? So a lot of those kinds of

00:30:30.960 documents. I'll also give you some of my sermon notes. I don't exactly manuscript. I use a hybrid

00:30:36.440 between kind of bullet points and manuscripting. So I kind of have a unique method, personal method

00:30:41.120 that I use for writing my sermons. And so I'm going to give you a sample of multiple sermon

00:30:46.020 notes that I've preached that you'll be able to say, oh, this is what Joel's notes look like.

00:30:50.020 And this is how to prepare a sermon and all those kinds of things. I think it would be really

00:30:53.320 helpful. I won't waste your time anymore with the announcements. Let's go ahead and move on. But

00:30:57.740 sign up. If you want to sign up, it's Right Response Ministries, right? So the conference,

00:31:01.600 it's rightresponseconference.com. This one is a forward slash, rightresponseministries.com

00:31:06.600 forward slash church plan, rightresponseministries.com forward slash church plan. All right,

00:31:13.960 go ahead and sign up today. You got two more weeks and we probably have space for, I'd say,

00:31:17.960 another 10 to 15 people to sign up. We currently have about 60 and I don't want to have any more

00:31:25.600 than 75. I think that that'll be enough. Okay. But if you missed this round, just for the record,

00:31:31.220 I plan on, Lord willing, I plan on trying to do it at least twice next year instead of just once

00:31:36.520 doing it twice next year, because this is a need that's not going away.

00:31:41.360 The church has so discredited itself.

00:31:44.560 We're gonna need a lot of new leaders

00:31:46.020 and a lot of new churches being planted.

00:31:48.700 And so I plan to do this more than once is my point.

00:31:51.820 I plan to do it, Lord willing,

00:31:53.360 once in the spring of next year

00:31:55.460 and once in the fall of next year.

00:31:56.980 So if you miss this boat,

00:32:00.000 don't be depressed, don't despair.

00:32:02.840 I hope to do it again.

00:32:03.900 All right, so let's go ahead and pull up this picture.

00:32:06.500 So this is some of the takeaways for Christians

00:32:09.460 with this most recent midterm election.

00:32:12.200 I wanna address some basic takeaways,

00:32:15.480 some lessons learned, or at least they should be learned.

00:32:18.000 If we don't learn these lessons, then shame on us.

00:32:19.760 We can't afford to miss the lessons

00:32:22.220 that God has provided for us in his providence

00:32:25.500 over this past week with the midterm election.

00:32:27.680 So lessons or takeaways that Christians 0.77

00:32:29.600 gotta get coming from this last election, all right? 0.85

00:32:34.160 This is one of the lessons.

00:32:35.740 This is a breakdown of four different categories,

00:32:38.140 married men, single men, married women, single women, a breakdown of who voted conservative

00:32:45.220 and who voted blue. Now, this is actually not particularly helpful. I don't think that this

00:32:52.220 is what I was looking for. I mean, it makes the same point. But I think that the more recent

00:32:57.520 numbers are sadly even more dire because what I'm noticing, Nathan, is it says Trump and Biden.

00:33:04.040 is this from 2022 or is this 2020? Yeah, it might, it might be 2020. I mean, it's still,

00:33:13.620 you know, clearly makes the same point. Um, yeah, go ahead and look real quick. See if you can find

00:33:19.400 another one. Um, you know what? I might even have, have it on my phone. Cause I've, I've

00:33:26.580 addressed it a few times now. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Bear with me for one moment.

00:33:33.700 Sorry, guys. One moment. I just want to have the most accurate numbers and not just from

00:33:40.640 2020, because this has been a problem for a while, but it's exasperated. What we've seen

00:33:45.380 is in the last couple of years, as we've come now to 2022, the problem has been exasperated.

00:33:52.760 Okay. I tweeted it recently. So if I just look through my recent tweets,

00:33:57.060 as i look through my recent tweets i'm reminded how many people hate me

00:34:02.860 that's always helpful yeah that person hates me that person hates me that person really hates me

00:34:11.060 let's see oh here we go nope that's not it that's not gonna do it

00:34:18.300 did you

00:34:28.680 okay

00:34:31.980 yeah the only problem is that that's just two categories can you pull it so it's two pictures

00:34:40.220 can you pull up the other picture too so that gives us men um and and women that gives us the

00:34:45.280 married. Married men, married women. We just need the single ones beside it. I think it's two 1.00

00:34:49.560 pictures. Are you able to get that? Great. Okay, Nathan's getting it. I'm hopping back in.

00:34:59.100 Hopping right back in, guys. It's coming. It's coming. Believe, believe. All right. And then

00:35:02.640 make it a little bit smaller because people are really going to see, they're just going to want

00:35:05.760 to see my beautiful face. So we'll make it just a little bit smaller here. All right. So this is

00:35:11.760 gender by marital status. Um, this is the most recent midterm elections. All right. So married

00:35:19.200 men, um, they voted Republican at 59% and 39% Democrat, right? And you'll notice there's 2%,

00:35:26.640 I guess that's missing there. Uh, because there's, you know, third party votes, independent,

00:35:30.740 those kinds of things. Uh, married women is not as conservative, but it's pretty close. Um, 1.00

00:35:37.200 married women it's 56 percent for republican and 42 percent democrat now see if you can do this

00:35:44.540 for me nathan see if you know my face is it's just we're going to get like a block where there's

00:35:49.000 only my face we're going to pull up multiple pictures go back and pull up the the other

00:35:53.440 picture that we had that i think is from the 2020 election go ahead and pull that up and put it next

00:35:58.260 to my head so i can see both at the same time because it may be the same numbers but i think

00:36:02.720 i think it'll be different you know what i'm talking about i know it's i know it's ridiculous 0.98

00:36:06.880 It's ridiculous. He's laughing at me in the other room. There you go. There you go. Put it over to my, I guess it would be my right. Okay, that's good. All right, leave it there. Here we go. So, yep, 56 versus 42. So notice, married men. So this was, yeah, these were different years. That was 2020. 0.95

00:36:27.700 So married men in 2020 was 56% Republican and 42% for Biden Democrat. Whereas now notice how,

00:36:36.980 how it's become, you know, more conservative, 59% Republican after two years, right? And that's

00:36:43.100 what you would expect. You'd expect even more than that. But after our two year, you know,

00:36:46.600 trial run of communism, thanks to, you know, the Biden administration, you would imagine that

00:36:50.200 everybody would be voting for anybody but Biden, you know, and in his administration,

00:36:54.640 that people would be like, Democrats are not the way to go. And that is what we saw, not maybe as

00:37:01.000 much as we want, but that is what we saw in the married men department, right? 56 in 2020 voted

00:37:06.440 for Trump, 42 for Biden. Well, in 2022, it's 59% that voted Republican and 39% that voted Democrat,

00:37:14.100 right? So it became more conservative, more conservative in the married men category.

00:37:18.620 All right, let's look at married women. Married women in 2020 was 52% for Trump and 47%

00:37:24.720 for Biden. Well, that has, again, shifted more conservative. 56% now for Republican in 2022

00:37:33.040 and 42% Democrat. Unmarried men, unmarried men were 46, right? So if you look at the 2020 election, 0.66

00:37:40.460 if you were single as a woman or as a man, you were going Democrat. Now, obviously,

00:37:45.140 single women went much more for Democrat, but even the men, the unmarried men were 46% for Trump

00:37:51.200 and 52% for Biden. That's in 2020. But if you look at unmarried men in this most recent midterm

00:37:58.240 election, 2022, it's 52% Republican and 45% Democrat. And some of that could be in relation

00:38:04.600 to it because it's not just voting conservative two years ago and then voting conservative two

00:38:09.700 years later, because there is one massive variable in this equation, namely Donald J. Trump. And so

00:38:16.380 there are some people who just, I just can't do it. I just don't, you know, but anyways, take that,

00:38:21.620 so take it with a grain of salt. But notice unmarried women, they voted 62%. And this is, 0.99

00:38:27.540 and this is the presidential election in 2020. Unmarried women hate Trump. A lot of people don't 1.00

00:38:32.940 like Trump. Unmarried women hate Trump. And still though, unmarried women with Donald Trump on the

00:38:40.260 ballot, with Donald Trump on the ballot, still 37% of them voted for Trump in 2020. Unmarried women.

00:38:47.440 But only 31% voted for any Republican in 2022. You see that? 31% of unmarried women voted for

00:38:58.960 a Republican in 2022, whereas 37%, six percentage points higher, voted for not just a Republican,

00:39:06.100 not just the Republican party in general, but for Donald J. Trump specifically in 2020.

00:39:12.220 So unmarried women, even without the Trump factor in the mix, unmarried women have become

00:39:19.640 incredibly, I mean, that's a stark change right there from 62% for Biden, 68%, that's 2020,

00:39:26.960 68% now for Democrats in 2022, 37% for Trump in 2020, unmarried women, and then 31% for just

00:39:37.760 Republicans in general in 2022. How do we account for that? First, one of the men in my church,

00:39:45.580 he said, one of the clear takeaways that Christians should have from this 2022 midterm

00:39:52.120 election is that Eve needs to be rescued. And I thought that that was incredibly insightful.

00:39:57.260 That's how we should look at it, right? It's not that women are enemy, but it's Eve needs to be

00:40:02.160 rescued. Eve has a bit of a habit for being deceived by serpents. And in this case, with 1.00

00:40:10.100 the civil state and the Democrat party, instead of a serpent, it's just Leviathan. Same thing,

00:40:15.440 serpent, leviathan, dragon. The story stays the same. Eve gets suckered by dragons and leviathans

00:40:25.240 and serpents. Tale as old as time. That's the first story that we find. And that's the story

00:40:30.380 that we found last week. That story is going to continue to happen, by the way, throughout all

00:40:35.060 of human history, which is why we need Adam. We need Adam. Adam can't be standing there in the

00:40:42.920 garden with Eve, letting her be deceived. Adam needs to step in. We say, hey, you know, make

00:40:48.380 America great again, you know, MAGA. Let's make marriage great again. That's one of the takeaways 0.64

00:40:54.180 that we should have from this is we need marriage to be great again. There's been a stark decline

00:41:01.960 among Americans in the United States when it comes to marriage. And part of that is a

00:41:08.100 Bergefell. When a Bergefell came into play, that eroded a lot of the validity and credibility of

00:41:16.460 the institution of marriage, right? If love is love, right? That was the mantra. Love is love.

00:41:23.200 Okay, well, fine. If love is love, then why do we need marriage? Let's just have partners that

00:41:29.520 we live with, right? Why do I need to get married? Why do I need a covenant? Why does it need to be

00:41:37.300 an actual lifelong till death do us part kind of covenant agreement, if love is love. And so with

00:41:46.340 the Bergefell, we have, you know, with the increase of sexual immorality and particularly sodomy, 1.00

00:41:51.980 with transgenderism, the whole LGBT jihad, you know, like as that continues to be on the rise, 0.99

00:41:59.120 the sanctity and validity and credibility of marriage is on the decline. And as marriage 1.00

00:42:04.680 declines, and less people get married, what we're finding is, as less people get married,

00:42:11.560 they tend to vote more progressively, especially the women. Unmarried women vote for Democrats.

00:42:18.840 Now, you might think, well, why is that? We know why that is. Why do all the single ladies, 0.99

00:42:26.600 all the single ladies voting for Democrats? Why? Because they want to kill their babies. 1.00

00:42:30.840 that's why why do single women vote for democrats because they want to murder their kids 1.00

00:42:38.660 you know it you know that's why and we thought that abortion you know well it's not in the top 0.83

00:42:45.360 five issues it's not even you know it's abortion yeah yeah the overturning of roe and those kinds

00:42:49.800 of things yeah there was an uprising for a while but that's calmed down you know the biggest issue

00:42:53.620 in americans minds the biggest you know top three issues abortion is doesn't even make the list it's

00:42:59.560 it's um the border right it's immigration it's inflation that's number one inflation uh the

00:43:05.600 border and then i don't know maybe energy crisis you know or the threat of you know nuclear war

00:43:12.520 world war three or you know it's these or crime you know i think that's those were the literal

00:43:17.420 top three i think in that order it was inflation uh immigration and crime that's what people care

00:43:22.720 about. No, not single women. Single women don't care about that. Like single women don't care 1.00

00:43:31.460 about inflation. Yeah, they don't. They don't. Because single women can get a job easier than 1.00

00:43:37.060 a man these days. And the pay gap is a myth and always was. That's a joke. So we know that they're 1.00

00:43:42.780 getting paid just as much, if not more. And single women who have no responsibility except for their 1.00

00:43:48.380 cats, they can handle, you know, they can take some inflation in stride. And then when it comes 1.00

00:43:55.620 to immigration, well, just they move out of a border state, right? That's problems for them,

00:44:01.520 but not a problem for me, right? Like Martha's Vineyard, like the first time, like we love,

00:44:05.280 we're a sanctuary place, you know, for immigrants. And then immigrants actually come and I think it

00:44:11.560 was like less than 48 hours and they're flighted out of Martha's Vineyard, right? And so you can

00:44:17.420 avoid the immigration problems and fentanyl and all the things that come with that by simply just

00:44:22.420 not living in a border city in Texas, right? And you can avoid, I mean, you're going to feel

00:44:29.060 inflation, but you can take it in stride. You can survive inflation by just not having any

00:44:36.100 dependence. Nobody's financially relying on you, right? That's what singleness tends to do,

00:44:41.140 whether you're a single man or single woman. And then in terms of crime, I think women are 1.00

00:44:46.600 afraid of that, that's hard to avoid because a lot of these single liberal women, they're living 1.00

00:44:53.180 in very blue cities where there is soft on crime policies and there is a rise in crime as a direct 1.00

00:45:00.520 result of that. And the Democrat governing policies that are there, Democrat mayors and

00:45:07.420 Democrat governors and all these different things. So that might be a fear, but it's not as big of a

00:45:12.300 fear. The fear of potential crime, a crime being committed against you, isn't as big of a fear.

00:45:16.600 as the fear of losing your perceived right to murder your unborn children. We didn't think

00:45:23.100 abortion was going to come out to play in this last election. It did, right? Because what we 0.99

00:45:30.220 were looking at is people, you know, people in the public that abortion isn't the biggest issue for,

00:45:35.080 like married men, married women, even single men. But the single women, it was a big deal.

00:45:44.060 Pull up those pictures one more time. Last time. Okay. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. 1.00

00:45:52.400 Because I think what I wanted to see here is that, oh, yep. Yep. So unmarried men,

00:45:57.580 when it came to voting on the presidential election in 2020 between Trump and Biden,

00:46:01.960 unmarried men were 46% for Trump and 52% for Biden. But in 2022, it was for unmarried men,

00:46:09.960 52% for Republicans, and 45% for Democrats. So what you'll notice is every single of the four

00:46:19.280 brackets, married men, married women, unmarried men, unmarried women, out of those four different

00:46:24.100 categories, three of them voted, the majority voted for Republicans, and only one of those

00:46:31.820 categories voted for Democrats as a majority. But it was a stark majority, 59% married men,

00:46:38.920 Republican, 56% married women Republican, 52% unmarried men Republican, but 68% for unmarried

00:46:50.780 women Democrat. And there you have it. There you have it. That's what happened to the red wave.

00:46:58.420 What happened to the red wave? Um, a burger fell. It's not, seriously, it's, it's not just what

00:47:04.940 happened in the last couple of weeks or that's no, it's, it's what's been happening over the

00:47:08.340 course of years. What happened to the red wave? What happened is that we spit on marriage as a

00:47:15.240 nation. And then also what happened is that, praise God for a more conservative Supreme Court,

00:47:22.220 but they overturned Roe and I praise God for that. But in doing so, the people who feel like

00:47:29.300 that's their right, that feel the most entitled to abortion, namely single women, they're really

00:47:36.020 upset about that. And so what you have is really, it's the issue of Roe and Obergefell, marriage 0.80

00:47:42.840 and children, marriage and children. That's what it comes down to, marriage and children.

00:47:48.220 And single women don't like marriage and they don't like children. And they're going to want 1.00

00:47:57.100 the party, the political party that says, you don't need a man because we'll be your husband,

00:48:03.560 The state will be your husband, and you don't need children because we, as the state, we 0.95

00:48:10.940 will allow you to murder them, or if you don't want to murder them, we'll be a husband to

00:48:16.860 you and a father to your child through the welfare state and all these different things. 0.98

00:48:21.520 And so basically, the civil state has come in in our nation and said, we can do a better

00:48:27.280 job.

00:48:28.160 We can fill the role of husband and father better than men. 0.99

00:48:33.080 The state can do that.

00:48:35.480 And the reality is, of course they can't.

00:48:38.040 Of course they can't.

00:48:39.220 The state's not a good father. 1.00

00:48:40.660 The state helps women provide for their children by sucking them out of their womb with a vacuum cleaner. 1.00

00:48:47.360 That's how they father children. 1.00

00:48:50.120 They father children by erasing the children so they don't need a father.

00:48:53.680 Or if the children actually are born, then they have all these different state programs.

00:48:57.700 But the children, they don't thrive on those.

00:49:00.280 The children, many of them barely even graduate high school if there's not a father in the

00:49:05.680 home.

00:49:05.920 And many of them wind up in prison if there's not a father, a familial biological father

00:49:10.760 in the home.

00:49:11.740 The state doesn't cut it.

00:49:12.960 It's not a good dad and it's not a good husband. 1.00

00:49:16.560 But women think that they're independent and they think that they don't need a husband. 1.00

00:49:20.620 They think that they don't need children because we've spit on marriage and we've spit on children, 1.00

00:49:27.520 Obergefell and Roe.

00:49:29.560 And that's what we've been doing, not for the last few weeks or months.

00:49:33.020 I mean, that's been decades.

00:49:34.620 That's been decades.

00:49:35.860 And it's just all of it's just culminating now. 0.53

00:49:38.520 And so now, you know, it's not like the Republican Party is the party of white people.

00:49:43.000 There may have been a time when that's kind of how things were, right?

00:49:46.020 The Democrats, their voting bloc was minorities, right?

00:49:50.820 It was the black community.

00:49:52.540 It was Latinos. 1.00

00:49:54.880 That's shifting. 1.00

00:49:56.360 That's shifting.

00:49:57.080 Certainly more black people still vote for Democrats, but even that has shifted some,

00:50:01.720 still the vast majority that vote for Democrat out of the black community.

00:50:05.060 But with Latinos, I think the Latino community between Mexican, and obviously that's a diverse

00:50:11.260 group, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, all different.

00:50:16.420 But taken as a whole, the Latino voting bloc, I think in this most recent election, I think

00:50:22.440 it was like 40% for Republican, 40%.

00:50:25.420 So almost it's getting close to where it's half and half.

00:50:28.120 That's not a Democrat base anymore that they can counter.

00:50:31.260 So what's the new Democrat coalition?

00:50:34.160 What's their voting bloc?

00:50:36.140 What's their base? 1.00

00:50:38.680 Single women. 1.00

00:50:40.680 Their base is not minorities.

00:50:43.320 It's not ethnic minorities.

00:50:45.340 It's not even the poor, right?

00:50:47.340 You know, you can't even draw a line between rich people vote conservative and poor people

00:50:51.480 vote Democrat.

00:50:52.800 These things have been true in the past.

00:50:54.360 but people, you know, the veil has been lifted. It's been torn. You know, people are starting

00:50:58.420 to see more clearly, especially after the last two and a half years with COVID and with inflation 0.95

00:51:02.580 and with, um, with black lives matter, you know, pocketing millions of dollars and running off as 0.81

00:51:08.020 this, you know, like these kinds of things. I mean, it's, it's just, it's a joke. It is a joke 1.00

00:51:12.280 to think like, yeah, Democrats care for the poor. You like you can, Don Lemon can't say he couldn't

00:51:17.740 even say Democrats care for the poor without probably having to, you know, cut to commercial

00:51:21.320 break, run out to the bathroom, and then laughing hysterically, right? It's such a joke. Everyone

00:51:26.240 knows it's a joke. So Democrats, they're not the party of the poor. They never were, but now it's

00:51:30.780 just so obvious, right? Because inflation crushes the poor. It crushes the poor. And they're not the

00:51:37.320 party of ethnic minorities who are oppressed. We know that's not the case. They never have been,

00:51:42.600 right? They're actually the party of slavery. Remember history. So they've never been the party 0.78

00:51:48.320 of the ethnic minority groups

00:51:51.300 that are oppressed by the regional hegemony.

00:51:54.800 That's not what party they are.

00:51:56.840 They never were, but people now know they're not.

00:51:59.240 People now know they're not.

00:52:00.220 So what party are they? 1.00

00:52:02.060 They're the party of single women 1.00

00:52:03.360 who want to kill their kids. 1.00

00:52:09.060 So let me read a scripture, right?

00:52:11.920 Because after that, I just think we need some Bible.

00:52:14.340 I feel like I need some Bible.

00:52:16.580 Now, this isn't the most encouraging scripture,

00:52:18.320 but there are some encouraging things in it.

00:52:21.560 But it's scripture nonetheless.

00:52:23.340 And so it revives the soul.

00:52:25.140 This is John chapter three.

00:52:26.980 You guys know it.

00:52:28.240 We'll start with verse 16.

00:52:30.140 John 3, 16, everybody knows that.

00:52:32.040 But I want us to read John 3, 16 through,

00:52:34.680 let's read through verse 21.

00:52:37.860 John 3, 16 through 21.

00:52:42.400 Almost got it.

00:52:44.180 Here we go.

00:52:45.080 John 3, starting in verse 16.

00:52:48.320 says this. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him

00:52:55.720 should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn

00:53:02.220 the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him,

00:53:08.840 that is in Jesus, is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already,

00:53:14.900 already, because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God. And this is the judgment.

00:53:22.260 The light, Jesus is the light of the world. The light has come into the world and people loved

00:53:31.260 the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked

00:53:38.680 things hates the light and does not come to the light lest his work should be exposed if you like

00:53:45.260 doing wicked things you want to do them in darkness because you don't want it to be publicly known

00:53:48.900 that you're doing wicked things you want to be able to hide your sin verse 21 but whoever does

00:53:55.180 what is true comes to the light that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out

00:54:01.260 in god right the person who does good he wants to be publicly known as doing good because his works

00:54:06.580 are good, but also if he's a Christian, he's humble and recognizes that he's only doing good

00:54:12.000 things because God, by his grace, is bringing those things about, right? God has predestined

00:54:16.980 good deeds for us to do, right? And it's he who wills and works in and through us that which is

00:54:22.260 good and pleasing in his sight, right? He's predestined good works for us to do that we should

00:54:26.340 walk in them, but it's the grace of God that brings those things about. So the Christian

00:54:30.000 who loves Jesus, therefore loves the light of the world, the Christian desires to walk in the light

00:54:35.320 as he is in the light, as Christ is the light and is in the light. We want to walk in the light

00:54:40.140 because we want our good deeds to be exposed. And we want our good deeds to be exposed, not from

00:54:45.800 prideful motives, but we want our good deeds to be exposed because our good deeds are only there

00:54:50.760 because of the grace of God. And so our good deeds bring God, not ourselves, but God glory,

00:54:56.540 right? Elsewhere, you know, the scripture says, let your good deeds shine before men, be seen

00:55:01.660 before men that they may glorify your father in heaven. But by way of contrast, the sinner,

00:55:08.140 the wicked, the vile, the wretch, that person has bad deeds and therefore does not want to be

00:55:15.980 publicly seen for the shameful deeds they do. Therefore, they prefer the context of darkness,

00:55:22.000 which is the absence of Christ. They want to be away from Christ where there is darkness,

00:55:27.460 like a bunch of cockroaches that Jesus steps into the room and they scatter under the bed.

00:55:31.660 they want to be away from Christ in the darkness to conceal and veil their evil deeds because they

00:55:38.940 know that those evil deeds have not been brought about by God, but rather they themselves are

00:55:43.900 responsible for the wickedness that they do. Yes, God is sovereign over it all. He's sovereign over

00:55:48.200 righteous deeds and he's sovereign over sinful deeds, but the sinner remains morally responsible

00:55:53.700 for the sinful deeds he does. Okay. So all that being said, here's the point.

00:55:58.380 there are a ton of problems with the Republican party. There are plenty of people who will

00:56:03.720 run on the Republican platform with an R next to their name that a Christian cannot vote for. 1.00

00:56:10.400 Okay. Republicanism is not synonymous with scripture. It's not by any stretch of the means. 0.52

00:56:18.780 But here's the deal. This is the problem, right? This is the whole Timothy Keller thing,

00:56:22.460 Third way-ism. See, because I used to believe this because I liked Timothy Keller and I was

00:56:30.280 listening to John Piper and I was listening to this person. And here's the problem. And this

00:56:35.140 is why I say this. People would be like, Joel, you're hating on Democrats and I'm with you with

00:56:39.280 that, but you're not hating on Republicans equally. And if you were really a solid Bible guy, you

00:56:44.800 would hate on both of them equally. No, stop that. That's why we lose. Stop that. That's why kids,

00:56:51.940 That's part of the reason why kids are being murdered in their mother's wombs. 1.00

00:56:56.080 That's part of the reason why we have Drag Queen Story Hour.

00:56:58.380 We've got to stop being ideologues. 0.66

00:57:00.680 Stop that idealistic thinking.

00:57:02.880 Be honest.

00:57:04.360 Be honest.

00:57:05.240 And the honest truth is this.

00:57:06.480 The Republican Party is a far cry from biblical truth.

00:57:10.720 There is so much sin and corruption in the Republican Party that you can hardly even 0.99

00:57:15.980 look at it without vomiting in your mouth. 0.96

00:57:18.540 And yet, it is squeaky clean by comparison to the Democrat Party.

00:57:25.200 These things are not equal.

00:57:27.080 And that's the trick that's been played on us by guys like Tim Keller, guys like Russell

00:57:32.280 Moore, right?

00:57:33.040 They punch right and then tickle left, right?

00:57:36.660 Oh, yeah, well, I'm pro-life, you know, but man, you know, Republicans do this and this

00:57:40.900 and this and this and this.

00:57:42.120 And so what guys will do is they'll say, well, here's Republicans and here's Democrats and

00:57:46.360 here's Jesus.

00:57:47.140 And here's the implication.

00:57:48.540 This is what it implies.

00:57:49.780 It implies that the distance between Christ and Democrats 0.62

00:57:54.300 and Christ and Republicans is an equal distance,

00:57:57.380 and it's not.

00:57:59.180 There are major problems with both,

00:58:01.100 but not equally, not equally major problems. 0.99

00:58:04.940 Democrats are worse, way worse. 0.97

00:58:11.320 Way, way, way, way, way, way. 0.99

00:58:12.640 No comparison, not even close.

00:58:14.420 Way, way worse.

00:58:16.780 way worse are there problems with republicans yes are there plenty of things that they do that is 0.62

00:58:23.500 is absolutely atrocious yes yes but democrats are worse so all that being said now that that's been

00:58:30.280 said republicans have sinned i gave the disclaimer okay but in general between the two parties because 0.81

00:58:37.660 they are both sinful but not equally sinful that's my point the democrat party in general

00:58:44.080 This is their platform.

00:58:45.600 Vote for us and you get to have your sin.

00:58:49.280 It's John 3.16 through John 3.21.

00:58:53.680 Christ is the light of the world,

00:58:55.000 but men love the darkness because their deeds were evil.

00:58:58.540 You want to smoke weed?

00:58:59.920 Vote for Democrats. 1.00

00:59:02.760 You want to get your family members illegally into the country? 0.98

00:59:07.760 Vote for Democrats. 1.00

00:59:11.820 You want to trans kids? 1.00

00:59:13.040 vote for Democrats. You want to have two men in thongs thrusting one another on a parade float 1.00

00:59:21.040 in the middle of a crowded city while children are watching? Vote for Democrats. 0.98

00:59:29.060 You want to murder 63 million children in their mother's womb? Vote for Democrats. 1.00

00:59:35.680 That's literally, that is the Democrat party. It's vote for us, we'll let you have your sin.

00:59:40.940 You want to steal from other people who made good choices and worked hard?

00:59:45.420 You want to steal from them to pay off your debt with student loans?

00:59:49.640 Vote for Democrats. 0.88

00:59:53.100 Theft, the lack of being sober-minded, murder with abortion, adultery, sexual immorality, 0.92

01:00:04.280 sodomy, all these things.

01:00:06.760 Vote for Democrats.

01:00:07.720 Can we find these things in the Republican Party as well?

01:00:10.240 Yeah.

01:00:10.940 Of course. I think it was 47 Republicans. 47 Republicans voted basically to be on the side

01:00:21.760 of Obergefell, saying, yeah, we're good with that now. We're good with that. So yeah, so the

01:00:26.840 Republican Party is the Democrat Party. Just anywhere given what current cultural moment

01:00:33.480 you're in, the Republican Party is either five to 15 years behind the Democrats. But the point is,

01:00:38.440 they're still behind. The Democrats are leading the way in sin. Now, Republicans are following

01:00:44.400 as closely behind as they possibly can, it seems sometimes, but still, there's an uncontested

01:00:50.540 forerunner in the race for sin, and that is the Democrat Party. So, people who love darkness

01:00:58.880 because their deeds are evil, vote for Democrats. Of course they do. Of course they do. We know they

01:01:08.480 do. And right now, when we think of taking the public and breaking it up into four primary

01:01:14.860 categories of married men, married women, unmarried men, unmarried women, who really, really loves 0.61

01:01:23.340 their sin and needs to vote for darkness so that sin can be sustained, that sin can continue,

01:01:34.280 and that sin can be called a virtue. It can be concealed. Single women. Single women.

01:01:43.540 So Christian takeaways from the 2022 midterm election. Number one, make marriage great again. 1.00

01:01:48.980 Christian men need to esteem the beauty of marriage like never before.

01:01:57.340 Marriage is a picture of the gospel, of the eternal marriage between Christ and his church,

01:02:03.220 that marriage is wonderful, that marriage is not shackling, it's not imprisonment. Marriage

01:02:10.560 um, marriage calls men and women to a glorious, a glorious endeavor, uh, that marriage provides

01:02:18.800 the necessary biblical covenantal context for men and women to thrive, uh, to, to the utmost

01:02:25.740 and what God's called them to be. Uh, marriage is glorious. Children are glorious. Uh, that these

01:02:34.520 are some of the things that a takeaway that we need to have make marriage great again. Here's

01:02:38.800 another one. Storytelling. Oh my goodness. I was thinking about this the other day and just praying

01:02:44.920 about this. Conservatives and Christians, we are so bad at telling stories. Because here's the deal.

01:02:53.000 We have forfeited media. We have forfeited film and the arts and all those kinds of things.

01:03:00.660 We have said that the good, true, and beautiful isn't really necessary. The true is necessary.

01:03:08.800 The good is somewhat necessary, but the beautiful is not necessary at all.

01:03:14.700 Christians have said that, you know, ultimately at the end of the day, right?

01:03:18.260 It's, you know, it's just give me the hard truth.

01:03:21.160 I don't need, I don't need art.

01:03:23.740 I don't need film.

01:03:25.080 I don't need media. 0.99

01:03:25.840 You know, if all the TV shows are bad, the Christian solution is just stop watching TV.

01:03:32.720 And if you even suggest as a Christian within a post-millennial Kuyperian framework, what 0.77

01:03:37.340 if Christians started making really great TV shows? You get a lot of pietists that would come 1.00

01:03:41.280 out and say, well, why do you need TV shows? Why do you need entertainment? Why don't you just sit 0.98

01:03:46.600 for seven hours and think really romantic, effeminate thoughts about God, like John Piper?

01:03:55.260 Well, not a lot of guys want to do that. Not a lot of guys want to do that. Maybe that's why

01:04:00.420 Abraham Piper is not following Jesus right now. Yeah, I said that. No, no, no. We need to be

01:04:06.640 called to a glorious vision, and not everybody's going to be called to be a pastor. Like, is there

01:04:10.880 room, is there framework in the Bible, in the Christian faith for starting businesses, for

01:04:17.780 running for local political office, for being a cartoonist, for being an artist, for being

01:04:23.760 a filmmaker? Is there room, or is everything really just settling, unless you're a pastor?

01:04:33.680 one of the things that i hope to do with right response ministries and with covenant bible church

01:04:38.820 that i pass one of the things that i'm doing all the time with the men in my church as we have

01:04:42.380 conversations we are not talking about who here feels called to be a pastor and you know in doing

01:04:48.360 elder training programs all the time like and that's not because i don't want successors and

01:04:53.060 that's not because i don't want a plurality of elders and it's not because i don't want to share

01:04:56.320 the pulpit and all that no it's not because of any of those things it's because for decades now

01:05:01.380 whenever we find a Christian man who loves theology, who loves the word of God, we immediately

01:05:08.560 tell him, you must be called to be a pastor. Not because he's actually called to be a pastor,

01:05:13.960 but because the bar has been so low in the church that if somebody actually just cares about

01:05:19.040 theology, it must mean that they're called to be the leader of a church instead of,

01:05:25.940 no, maybe this is just what it looks like to be a Christian. Voddie Bauckham, I think, said that,

01:05:30.360 You know, where he's like, every time we find a young man who's excited about theology and has, you know, a hunger and a desire to just, you know, ravenously read and study the word of God, we immediately think, you need to go to seminary.

01:05:46.000 You need to be a pastor.

01:05:47.480 Where he's like, no, maybe he's just a Christian.

01:05:50.480 Maybe he's just a Christian.

01:05:51.820 And then guys who, you know, who are out in the work field.

01:05:54.880 We have done, what we've done is anytime there's a guy in the work field who's successful in his work, successful in his business, his vocation, but he also has strong Christian faith, the Lord gets a hold of him, then what do we do?

01:06:07.400 Guys, pastors come alongside that guy and begin telling him, you know what, I think the Lord may be calling you to leave your business and to become a pastor, right?

01:06:17.120 And then you've got a lot of guys doing what the Hobby Lobby guy just did or is going to

01:06:21.100 do.

01:06:21.500 I don't know if you read the article on that, but he's going to give away Hobby Lobby, right? 1.00

01:06:26.500 Because that's what Christians do, you know, just give it away, right? 0.85

01:06:30.820 Charity, generosity. 0.98

01:06:32.980 And I'm sitting here thinking like, why don't you just keep building that empire for the

01:06:37.960 glory of God and give it to your kids?

01:06:40.760 Why don't you give it to your kids like you're commanded in scripture to do?

01:06:43.780 Why don't you give it to your children?

01:06:45.060 lay up an inheritance, not just for your children, but your children's children, as the scripture

01:06:48.580 also tells you to do, and teach them how to do these things wisely and make good products that

01:06:53.820 are true and good and beautiful with ethical business practices at affordable prices,

01:07:00.560 which is, it actually is a loving of all your neighbors. It is. It loves your neighbors.

01:07:08.460 Did you know that giving money away, charity, is not the only way to love your neighbor?

01:07:12.560 the Bible talks about charity. There is a place for that. But giving money away is not the only

01:07:18.660 way to love your neighbor. Regardless of what you think about his character as a man,

01:07:26.580 Rockefeller, and in coming up with a way to actually provide light, literal light for the

01:07:33.860 world. He became the richest guy on the planet for his time. But the bottom line is that even

01:07:42.960 though he didn't just give it away, give his invention away, or I'm going to give electricity

01:07:47.880 and light away to everybody for free. But what he did was he sold it at an affordable price

01:07:55.160 and everyone was raised up, right?

01:07:59.980 The tide raised all the ships economically.

01:08:03.160 The poverty threshold went up.

01:08:07.840 Everybody was better off

01:08:09.780 because of his contribution for profit.

01:08:12.980 His for-profit contribution

01:08:14.720 made the quality of human life for everyone better.

01:08:18.860 People could produce longer.

01:08:21.820 They didn't have to just stop because the sun went down.

01:08:24.360 There were all these different things that came about as ripples and implications from

01:08:28.580 that one man's for-profit invention that really did love his neighbors.

01:08:34.480 And we still feel the ripples and ramifications of that tangible love for neighbors even today.

01:08:41.020 Even today.

01:08:41.980 And so my point is to say, we can't just take every guy who cares about Jesus and cares

01:08:47.780 about theology and put them in a pulpit.

01:08:49.840 We need people in every single realm of life.

01:08:54.360 We need people in the marketplace, in vocations, in medicine. 1.00

01:09:00.720 My goodness, we need Christian doctors right now, because we can't trust our doctors anymore. 1.00

01:09:05.700 A lot of them. 1.00

01:09:07.380 Every major institution in our society has so discredited itself, and I know we now just

01:09:12.420 want to say, well, forget it.

01:09:13.420 We don't need the institutions.

01:09:14.380 Yes, we do.

01:09:15.680 Society needs institutions.

01:09:17.740 It does.

01:09:18.420 It just needs credible institutions, because we can't, each individual person cannot afford

01:09:23.120 to be an expert on everything.

01:09:24.360 I cannot afford to learn everything about medicine.

01:09:30.060 I have to have someone in my life that I can trust, who has devoted themselves to be an

01:09:35.240 expert in that field, so that while they're reading all these medical journals, I can

01:09:40.040 read Jonathan Edwards, because I can't do it all.

01:09:43.820 I can't.

01:09:44.580 I can't be a world-class economist and medical physician and this and that and, you know,

01:09:50.820 political analyst and all.

01:09:52.540 We can't. 0.95

01:09:53.300 we can't. We need institutions. We just need credible institutions, which means we need

01:09:59.780 Christians in institutions. We need an all of Christ for all of life kind of worldview. We need

01:10:05.140 a Kuyperian worldview. We need this post-millennial eschatology of hope. We need Christians, 0.52

01:10:12.900 solid Christians with good theology, to not leave their position, to not leave their post

01:10:19.960 and go to seminary and become pastors. Some, but most should not. Most should not.

01:10:28.360 And so I say all that to say, I think takeaways, things that we need to do,

01:10:36.400 is we need to make marriage great again. And we also need people staying in institutions. And the

01:10:46.840 one that I started with, bringing it all the way back, was storytelling in media. We need good

01:10:52.400 Christian media. And I don't mean it's Christian because every single film is about Jesus dying

01:10:56.500 on the cross. No, I mean it's Christian because it's good, it's true, and it's beautiful.

01:11:01.120 Good Christian media. And we need good, talented, gifted Christians who are able to do these things.

01:11:09.240 And what I'm getting at is this, facts over feelings isn't working.

01:11:16.600 I'll say that again.

01:11:17.640 I think that's part of what we saw in 2022.

01:11:20.180 Facts over feelings isn't working.

01:11:21.940 It works, but who's it work for? 0.99

01:11:24.460 It works for men. 0.79

01:11:26.440 It works for single men, and it works for married men, and it works for married women

01:11:30.840 because those married women are discipled by their married men, husbands.

01:11:35.580 Facts over feelings works for men.

01:11:37.140 And we can sit here and say, well, the truth should matter.

01:11:39.240 facts should matter more than feelings yeah i i think so um but here's the deal that the bible

01:11:47.300 isn't just a book of facts and all of it is truth data and facts and charts are not the only ways

01:11:56.520 that god communicates to us god communicates it's always it's never at the expense of truth it is

01:12:01.420 always and only ever true things that god speaks to us but he speaks a lot of it through story

01:12:07.580 Now, some of it's just historical accounts.

01:12:10.860 So-and-so did this and did that, but a lot of it is story.

01:12:15.680 It's powerful, it's poignant, it captures us.

01:12:20.880 God conveys truth through story.

01:12:23.860 Christians have to have that category for good story.

01:12:28.920 Because you know who listens to stories, who doesn't just want to read charts and doesn't

01:12:34.000 fall into the category of facts over feelings? 1.00

01:12:36.300 Women. 0.98

01:12:37.580 women and and the reality is that progressives uh secular god-hating pagans uh for decades now

01:12:47.840 they have told better stories than us they have they captured hollywood and they captured through

01:12:55.680 hollywood they captured hearts of children they've captured people's hearts um and they did it by

01:13:03.160 telling stories and here's the deal like just being completely honest one of the reasons why

01:13:07.340 Democrats have to be good at telling stories is because they don't have facts on their side.

01:13:12.160 So, story is the only avenue they have, right? Because if they were like, well, we're just going

01:13:16.080 to get really good at facts too, then every argument they made would be against them, right?

01:13:21.400 Because the facts don't favor liars, right? So, they can't just show facts. What they have to do

01:13:27.240 instead is they have to take anecdotal evidence and they have to create a heartthrobbing story

01:13:35.860 around one individual that captures people and like, oh my gosh, I can't, and that's

01:13:41.100 what they've done.

01:13:42.280 That's, you know, whether it be Brokeback Mountain or whatever it might be, but that's

01:13:46.640 for decades now.

01:13:47.920 That's what they've done is they've taken the minority, where it's like, this isn't

01:13:53.000 really happening.

01:13:54.020 Like, sure, there are isolated cases, but this is not the headline.

01:13:57.520 This is not the big problem going on in our nation.

01:13:59.440 But they take this little thing on the margins, and then they make a powerful story of how

01:14:05.760 this person, this individual, this group is being oppressed. And then that takes national stage,

01:14:11.960 this story, and it wins people over. It wins people over. And they've been doing that for

01:14:19.720 a long time. And so my point is, yes, we need to continue to win men for Christ. We need to preach

01:14:29.280 and we need to preach factual truth, the Bible.

01:14:33.100 But the Bible is also narrative truth.

01:14:36.400 The Bible is good storytelling truth.

01:14:39.680 And we need to do both

01:14:40.960 because it's not enough just to win men,

01:14:44.180 the hearts of men.

01:14:44.980 We need to win the hearts of women. 0.79

01:14:47.380 I think we do that by making marriage great again.

01:14:49.380 I think we also do that

01:14:50.320 by making Christian storytelling great again. 0.69

01:14:53.860 Christians recapturing film and entertainment 0.82

01:14:57.640 and those kinds of things. 1.00

01:14:58.880 And so those are just a couple of the takeaways that I had from this last election thinking,

01:15:03.680 man, I was a bit bummed.

01:15:05.300 I thought it was going to be better.

01:15:06.760 The last thing I'll say is this.

01:15:08.000 There's three things that I thought.

01:15:10.080 Number one, men love darkness, so they vote for sin that's going to sustain the darkness

01:15:14.720 so they can keep doing their evil deeds under the veil. 0.99

01:15:19.140 So one thing that we need is we just need more Christians. 1.00

01:15:21.640 So I thought, I broke it down like this.

01:15:23.100 I told my church, we need preaching, teaching, and training.

01:15:26.620 Preaching, teaching, and training.

01:15:28.720 Preaching, there just aren't enough regenerate hearts in our nation.

01:15:33.080 So we need more preaching because the gospel is the only power of God for salvation.

01:15:36.760 So we need good, dynamite gospel preaching.

01:15:40.680 So we need more pastors.

01:15:41.940 We do.

01:15:42.540 We need more pastors.

01:15:43.380 We need more churches.

01:15:44.820 And we need more biblical preaching and gospel preaching because we need more converts.

01:15:50.760 We simply need more regenerate hearts in our nation.

01:15:54.640 More preaching.

01:15:55.740 Teaching.

01:15:56.140 um the problem is not just that we don't have enough regenerate hearts but the ones that we

01:16:00.840 actually have have been deceived by the gospel coalition or whatever it is to where they just

01:16:05.480 they do they cannot actually apply they really are born again um they really are christians and

01:16:11.800 they really do believe that the bible is the word of god they just have no clue how to apply the

01:16:15.660 word of god to the realm of politics they just they are politically clueless they have no political

01:16:22.000 theology. Well, sadly, they do have a political theology, but they got it from Tim Keller,

01:16:27.520 right? It's a neo-Marxist, you know, progressive, punch right, tickle left, you know,

01:16:33.920 third wayism. Republicans are wrong, Democrats are wrong, and they're, you know, the fine print,

01:16:39.100 they're both equally wrong, so you could vote for either one, vote for Democrats, right? That's,

01:16:42.740 I mean, that's been the gospel coalition, Acts 29, you know, together for the gospel. That has

01:16:49.160 been the political theology of evangelicals, especially within the Reformed camp, sadly,

01:16:56.740 for I'd say the last 20 years, maybe longer. So, we need preaching because we need more

01:17:02.900 regenerate hearts. We need teaching because we need the regenerate hearts that we already have

01:17:07.520 to not just have regenerate hearts, but also have educated, informed minds, especially on how to

01:17:13.500 apply theology. Not just to know theology in the abstract, in the realm of the theoretical,

01:17:19.160 but in the tangible, how to apply the word of God to every realm of life, including the civil

01:17:24.120 realm, political realm. So preaching, teaching, and then training. We've got to stop raising kids

01:17:30.300 for liberals, right? Conservatives raise kids and have kids, but they ultimately give them 0.53

01:17:38.460 to liberals. Liberals don't have kids. They have dogs. They have cats. They have goldfish. They

01:17:44.740 don't have kids. They don't. It's like, that's not true. I know so-and-so who, you know, votes

01:17:48.880 Democrat. I'm just saying, of course, there are exceptions. But in general, just look at the

01:17:55.100 population, the entire population of America, who votes Republican, who votes Democrat,

01:17:58.640 and who has more kids. I mean, it's not even a question. But Gen Zers came out in full force

01:18:05.200 for Democrats. Why? Because conservatives have kids, but we hand them to Caesar to raise those 0.97

01:18:11.800 kids, to train them. We outsource the training of our children to people who hate God.

01:18:20.500 So it's not enough for conservatives to be fruitful, multiply, and procreate. We do need

01:18:26.360 to do that. But we also need to raise the children that we have. We actually have to

01:18:31.600 raise them. Doug Wilson says it like this in the case of Samuel. Samuel had two sons who took

01:18:36.540 bribes. And Doug Wilson says, you know, Samuel would have not been any better off by having

01:18:42.260 five sons that took bribes, right? Well, he had a quiver full. You know, the problem with Samuel

01:18:47.680 is he only had two sons. He needed a quiver full. Well, five sons who take bribes doesn't really

01:18:52.460 help. What you need is lots of sons and lots of daughters, but good sons and good daughters,

01:19:00.780 right? It's not just having many arrows, but having good arrows. And I would say two things,

01:19:07.400 sharp arrows and straight arrows. We cannot produce dull arrows that are just pietists. 0.99

01:19:13.740 They don't do anything. They don't actually puncture the enemy. And we can't produce bent 0.99

01:19:19.960 arrows, crooked arrows that actually function more like boomerangs than arrows. When we shoot them

01:19:25.720 out, they actually whip around and come back and hit us in the face. That's kind of what we've 0.75

01:19:31.780 been seeing, is that you've got a bunch of kids who grew up, apostatized, denied the faith,

01:19:37.600 and now are spitting in the face of their parents, like Abraham Piper.

01:19:43.220 So, we need straight arrows, so they don't function as boomerangs and come back and hit us.

01:19:47.760 And we need sharp arrows, so that even if they are actually biblically conservative and holding

01:19:52.860 to the truth, they actually apply that theology. They're not just two-kingdom radical, two-kingdom

01:19:57.120 pietists, but they see how biblical conservative theology applies to every realm of life,

01:20:01.880 including a political theology. And we have to do that at the level of children so that the next

01:20:07.320 generation isn't Zoomers, Gen Z, that's kind of lost its mind. One of the best generations that 1.00

01:20:18.360 we found in this last election was millennials, believe it or not. And, you know, the best was

01:20:24.540 actually Gen X. Gen X was the most conservative bar none. And probably in part because they were

01:20:31.000 just ignored. The forgotten generation, passed over generation. And so they really like looked

01:20:37.460 into what's real and what matters and were able to see through the veil. But yeah, Gen Z is not 0.80

01:20:44.360 helping us out. So we need a new batch. So we've got to train kids. Don't hand them over to the 1.00

01:20:49.960 state. So we need to start schools. We've got to teach the Christians we already have about how to

01:20:54.980 apply the theology in every realm, including politics. So that means we need media and

01:20:59.000 podcasts and all these different things. And then we also need preaching because we just need more

01:21:02.920 regenerate people. And only the gospel does that. So we need more churches, more pulpits. So more

01:21:07.680 churches for preaching for conference. And then more media for teaching, for taking the conference

01:21:15.460 we already have and helping them to see how their theology, how the Bible applies to actual life,

01:21:21.380 including how you vote. And then more schools because we need training, because we need

01:21:25.920 children, because conservatives and Christians have to stop having kids, but handing them over 0.97

01:21:31.560 to Caesar and the state. And then being shocked, as Votie Bakken would say, when they come back as 0.99

01:21:36.180 Romans. So those are my thoughts. But let me just say this one more time, because I really think 1.00

01:21:42.440 it's going to sell out in two weeks. So go ahead and put it back on the screen real quick, Nathan.

01:21:46.540 Put it back on the screen. Here we go. Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference. This is 2023,

01:21:51.680 May 5th, 6th, and 7th. That's a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The problem, if you're just now

01:21:56.940 tuning in, if you didn't watch the beginning of this video, because we're doing it live,

01:21:59.700 here's the problem. We're not going to raise the rate again. Okay, so this isn't a register now,

01:22:04.220 with the prices. No, we had the early bird price, $100 for an adult. And then the actual price,

01:22:08.800 which is $130. I'm going to have to go in a second. $130 for an adult. All right. It's staying

01:22:12.880 at $130. We're not raising it again. We're six months out, a little less than six months,

01:22:16.820 five and a half months out from the conference. We're not raising the rate again. I'm not saying

01:22:20.740 you got to register today because if you don't, it's going to cost $165. No, what I'm saying is

01:22:25.260 that we had no clue this was going to happen. But on October 31st, the last day where the rate was

01:22:31.140 a hundred dollars, our early bird rate. We had like a couple hundred people registered for this

01:22:36.380 conference. And we now currently have 450 people registered. And we have a venue that seats about

01:22:42.820 500 and we're willing to push it. It seats 500. We're willing to push it to 550, 570 tops. So we

01:22:50.360 have 100 to 120 seats. So you got to register. You got to register. If you're planning on going,

01:22:56.200 if you hate it and you don't want to go, then fine. You know, you just disregard everything

01:23:00.480 I'm saying right now, but for anybody who is saying, yeah, I'm planning on going. I just

01:23:03.120 haven't gotten around to registering, right? Because a hundred to $130, that doesn't make a

01:23:06.760 deal. That doesn't matter to me. That's insignificant. Um, and so I'll, you know,

01:23:10.360 I've got five and a half months to the conference. I'll register later on. Um, that's not going to

01:23:14.580 work. Um, it's not because we're going to price hike. It's because we're going to sell out.

01:23:18.860 We have literally, as of today, we have 450 people who are registered for this conference and we have

01:23:24.460 100 to about 120, 125 tops seats that are left. It will be sold out by the end of the year.

01:23:33.620 Six weeks, month and a half from now, it will be sold out by the end of the year.

01:23:37.760 It could be sold out as early as two weeks from now. So if you want to come to this conference,

01:23:42.900 May 5th, 6th, and 7th, Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference with James White,

01:23:46.740 Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Pastor Joel Webin,

01:23:50.660 you got to register and your best bet is just to go ahead and register today. So you can do that

01:23:57.200 by going to rightresponseconference.com, rightresponseconference.com. All right, that's

01:24:03.240 all the time that we have today because as you probably could hear on the recording,

01:24:07.360 my kids and mama just got home. By the way, this is the first time I've recorded since

01:24:13.320 this last week where we had to go to the hospital with my youngest, my son Franklin, who's only,

01:24:18.920 now he's about 11 weeks old, but he was 10 weeks old last week when this took place. But

01:24:23.240 he just got slammed with RSV, pneumonia, and rhinovirus. I get just a cold. But three things

01:24:31.500 simultaneously all at once. His lungs were just filled with mucus and he just couldn't breathe.

01:24:38.600 You know, he was in the, for anybody who's medically savvy, he was in the low 80s,

01:24:43.440 his oxygen level. We had to take him to the ER. He also had a fever at like 103.

01:24:48.920 And, you know, being 10 weeks old, that's really concerning.

01:24:52.360 And we had to stay in the hospital Monday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday night.

01:24:56.080 I put something out on YouTube, just a message asking you guys to pray for us and something

01:25:00.700 out on Twitter as well.

01:25:02.560 Many of you guys, like over a hundred of you guys between Twitter and YouTube reached out

01:25:08.300 and said that you were praying for us.

01:25:09.700 And I just want to say, I cannot tell you how grateful I am for that.

01:25:13.620 That meant so much to me.

01:25:15.140 And it meant so much to my wife, Megan.

01:25:16.860 She was so blessed by that.

01:25:18.240 She was like, there's all these people we don't even know who love Franklin, you know?

01:25:22.100 And she was like almost in tears as we're sitting there in the hospital.

01:25:25.260 But by God's grace, Franklin got stronger and stronger.

01:25:28.700 And on Thursday, we were able to come home.

01:25:30.360 He's breathing great.

01:25:31.380 His lungs are clearing out.

01:25:33.220 He's still got a little bit of a cold and a sniffly nose, you know, which I've got my

01:25:37.760 tube.

01:25:38.720 And this is just part of being a parent.

01:25:39.960 You love your kids.

01:25:40.600 I'm sucking snot out of his nose as any loving parent is willing to do.

01:25:44.320 But Franklin is doing so much better.

01:25:45.900 So thank you for praying.

01:25:47.160 That's an update for Franklin.

01:25:48.480 If he was still in the hospital or something,

01:25:49.920 then I wouldn't be recording today.

01:25:51.740 So I'm doing this because God is faithful

01:25:54.500 and you guys were faithful as well

01:25:56.320 and praying for my boy and God has healed him.

01:25:58.700 So that's it.

01:26:01.420 Yeah, the best way to get your question is

01:26:05.020 you gotta try to get it in early.

01:26:08.220 And some of you guys have,

01:26:09.080 and I've done my best to email you guys back.

01:26:11.400 When you email me a question,

01:26:12.280 I'm trying to answer it through email.

01:26:14.120 If you could specify,

01:26:15.160 maybe in the subject line of the email for Monday, live Q&A, because I went into this

01:26:21.200 Monday with, yes, I had been asked some questions, but a lot of them I had already addressed offline

01:26:25.020 and I had already answered.

01:26:26.880 And so I didn't really have any big, unanswered question that somebody had asked me.

01:26:30.720 So I was like, I'm going to do the midterm thing.

01:26:32.240 I'm going to do election and talk about that, where people live, why geography matters,

01:26:36.640 and each state and all this different stuff, and single women, and making marriage great

01:26:40.020 again, and Christians telling stories.

01:26:41.300 I'm gonna do that whole thing

01:26:42.520 because I just didn't really have a ton of questions

01:26:45.600 that you guys, that I didn't already answer

01:26:47.500 that you guys specify.

01:26:48.420 Could you do this on a Monday live Q&A?

01:26:50.640 So if you got something, you're like,

01:26:52.120 next week, Joel, we want you to get to our questions.

01:26:54.440 Fair, that's a fair point.

01:26:57.040 I will do my best to do that.

01:26:58.900 Could you just, not just in the chat,

01:27:00.700 because I'm sure there's stuff in the chat.

01:27:01.780 I'll look at it as soon as we're done here.

01:27:03.120 But could you take that, just copy and paste it

01:27:06.440 and email it to me and in the subject line,

01:27:08.420 say for next Monday, Joel, for next Monday, we know that you can talk. We know you have things

01:27:13.480 you want to say, but talk about our things. So in the subject line, you can just say for next

01:27:18.360 Monday, live Q&A, and then give me your question. And I promise, Lord willing, to do my very best

01:27:24.860 to just do nothing but questions next week. I think the midterms mattered. A lot of people

01:27:31.420 have a lot of thoughts, a lot of takes, and I wanted to share my two cents as well. So that's

01:27:36.080 it for us for this week. Again, register for the Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference,

01:27:41.820 rightresponseconference.com. If you don't register in the next 14 days, I really think

01:27:47.500 I think we'll have sold out. That's my sense. It could be six weeks by the end of the year for

01:27:52.600 sure. But I, you know, I've been trying to kind of predict and my guess is I think 14 days and

01:27:57.940 we'll be sold out. So if you've had a desire to go to that and you've been thinking you had time,

01:28:02.400 I thought you had time too, but you don't.

01:28:04.280 So, all right, love you guys.

01:28:05.800 Thanks for tuning in.

01:28:06.640 God bless.

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The NXR Podcast - November 16, 2022

BONUS - Takeaways from the Midterm Election for Christians

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