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

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00:00:18 All right, welcome to another live episode, live Q&A with myself, Pastor Joel Webin,

00:00:22 host of Right Response Ministries. Today, I wanted to start off talking about

00:00:26 the election that we just recently had, the midterm election that was, well, it was forecasted

00:00:33 to be a red wave, perhaps even a red tsunami. And the reality is there were some good things

00:00:39 that came about out of this election, but it really wasn't a red wave. And you could argue

00:00:44 that it wasn't even a red tide. It was more of a red trickle. And we noticed some very clear

00:00:52 reasons for that. One of them having to do with the way that women vote, particularly single

00:00:57 women, the way that marriage and gender affects people's political views, their priorities,

00:01:03 their values, and the way that they ultimately are influenced by their status as man or woman,

00:01:11 married or single when they enter into the voting booth. And so we'll talk about that here in just

00:01:16 a moment. But first, I wanted to kind of backtrack and talk just a little bit. I know it seems kind

00:01:22 of, uh, out of place. Why are you doing this? What's the purpose? Um, I think there's a really

00:01:26 strong point that needs to be made in light of this midterm election. Um, also looking back on

00:01:32 the 2020 presidential election that we had between Trump and Biden. Um, I think that there's something

00:01:38 that we just keep missing as Christians. I've banged on this drum a little bit, and I'm going

00:01:43 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 this live Q&A with Pastor Joel Webman. I hope to get to a couple questions towards the end of

00:01:53 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 Central Time. That's every Monday at 12 p.m. Central Time, live Q&A with Pastor Joel Webman.

00:02:05 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 ahead and start with the first one, Nathan. This is from the Trump-Biden election, 2020,

00:02:14 presidential election. And this shows you which states went for Biden. And it also shows you

00:02:19 which, well, the exact numerical value within the electoral college that each of these states

00:02:26 are worth, right? So you see California has a large population. It's worth 55 points,

00:02:31 or at least it was. We'll see, you know, in 2024, some of these things are going to have

00:02:35 to be reconfigured because there actually has been a mass exodus out of some of these liberal

00:02:41 blue states, California being one of them. I was one of the individuals who left California

00:02:46 towards the end of 2020 and moved to Texas for a number of reasons, a host of reasons,

00:02:52 but one of them being political reasons. And so I'll get to that here in just a moment.

00:02:57 But what you'll notice is this. All right. So ultimately what happened was I think it was 306

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

00:03:13 I can't exactly remember. Let's go ahead and pull up the next picture.

00:03:18 The point is this, you have to have over 270 in the electoral college in order to win

00:03:22 the presidency. Now, these are the battleground states. You guys will probably remember this.

00:03:28 there was a lot of talk about the election in 2020. But it's worth reminding ourselves, okay?

00:03:35 These are states that were close, okay? But Trump didn't need to win all these states to be

00:03:40 president. He was 232. I know that for a fact. 232 in the Electoral College. Let me pull,

00:03:47 I got a picture on my phone. I'll just pull that up real quick just to confirm.

00:03:51 Yep. He was 232. Biden was 306. That's right. So 306 for Biden and the Electoral College,

00:03:56 232 for Trump. Okay. Now, um, in order to win, you've got to have 270 is, um, kind of the halfway

00:04:03 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 just look at, you know, all these States that went for Biden, three of them went for Trump and

00:04:14 seven of them went for Biden. These are 10 of the more contested battleground States in the United

00:04:20 States of America. Um, Trump didn't need to win all 10 of them. He needed to hold the three that

00:04:24 he had, Florida and North Carolina, Ohio, but he actually could have won the presidency with just

00:04:29 four more of these other seven states that went for Biden. Here are four states that if Trump had

00:04:35 won, he would still be president. Okay. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Arizona, Georgia,

00:04:43 Nevada, and Wisconsin. Go back real quick now, Nathan, to the earlier picture. Oh, you know,

00:04:47 it's right there. It shows. So Arizona is worth 11. Trump had 232, 270 to win. Okay. 11 for

00:04:54 Arizona, 16 for Georgia. That's 27 plus Nevada is six. That puts you at 33 plus Wisconsin is 10.

00:05:02 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 would be at 265. Trump would still be president by winning four more states. And now notice the

00:05:15 reason why I picked these four states is because they were incredibly thin margins that Biden won

00:05:21 them by. So in the case of Arizona, it's 10,457. Georgia, 11,779. Nevada, 33,596. And then Wisconsin,

00:05:33 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 76,500. 76,500. Now think about that for a second. I think it was, what was it? I think it

00:05:53 was over 150 million votes in 2020 for the presidential election. 150, not thousand,

00:06:01 million. Million. And Biden won the presidency by winning these four states, Arizona, Georgia,

00:06:09 Nevada, and Wisconsin. And each of these states combined in terms of the popular vote

00:06:16 in each of these states combined was about 76,500. So 150 million votes cast

00:06:23 and 76,500 made the difference. And I just want to remind you real quick what that difference was.

00:06:32 That difference was Afghanistan being absolutely destroyed, right? I'm just going to give you some

00:06:37 of the hallmark, you know, key moments of the last two years Biden administration, right? So

00:06:43 Afghanistan, Russia and Ukraine. It's like, well, that's not Biden's fault. Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

00:06:49 That would be completely different if Trump was in office. And I'm not saying Trump was the best

00:06:53 man ever. I would prefer Ron DeSantis running for president 2024 than Trump. If Trump runs and he

00:06:59 gets the candidacy and all those kinds of, then yeah, if he's the nominee, then he'll have my

00:07:04 vote. Trump, his policies and what he did for his four years in office, I'm incredibly grateful for

00:07:09 Trump as a man and some of the, I don't know, his rhetoric and certainly his rhetoric most recently

00:07:16 and trying to just bash Ron DeSantis and being petty and having Kenneth Copeland pray, you know,

00:07:21 at one of his rallies and all these different things. I think, yeah, that's foolish. Ron DeSantis 0.99

00:07:26 had Tom Askell from Founders Ministry. Yeah, I'd much prefer that than, you know, than Trump and

00:07:32 Kenneth Copeland or Paula White and these kinds of things. That being said, I still appreciate

00:07:37 Trump and what he did for our nation. He's the best president, bar none, by far the best president

00:07:43 of the United States of America in my lifetime. And I'm going to be grateful for that. And his

00:07:49 appointment of over 300, I think it was 300 judges throughout the United States on lesser courts and

00:07:56 all these things, including his three appointments on the Supreme Court. And the fact that that is

00:08:01 the reason why Roe has been overturned. Every Christian who loves God and loves his image

00:08:06 bearers, namely, especially his image bearers in the womb and the sanctity of life, should

00:08:13 have some measure of respect and honor and appreciation for Donald J. Trump, period.

00:08:19 I don't care if you like him. I don't care what you think about his personality and his rhetoric

00:08:24 most recently and some of the ways that he may be hurting conservatives and blah, blah, blah.

00:08:29 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 is not just personality and character and things like that. Part of that is just because I'm tired

00:08:39 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 We are in a nation that is ruled by women and particularly women who are literally taped 1.00

00:08:55 together. Nancy Pelosi looks like, I don't know, she looks like they discovered some kind of 1.00

00:09:03 perfectly preserved, embalmed mummy in a pyramid, and it came back to life, barely. And it's now

00:09:10 running the United States of America. So yeah, I just would like to see somebody under the age of 1.00

00:09:17 80. And I know Trump would be 78, but you get my point. So I think one of the elections that

00:09:24 just happened in the midterm. Um, an individual, I can't remember the name, but, uh, was elected

00:09:28 for a six year term and they are currently 89 years old. They will finish their term at 95 years

00:09:36 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 women instead of men to rule us. And then whenever that fails, our, our other preference, um, as a

00:09:50 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 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 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 God's judgment over a nation is that he gives them lousy rulers, right? I mean, the Bible literally

00:10:18 says he'll have children rule over them and women rule over them. And although it's not explicitly 0.62

00:10:23 said, I think that you could also, you could by way of inference, necessary inference, you could

00:10:28 say that having geriatric, you know, people with dementia like Joe Biden, you know, so old that

00:10:34 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 judgment for what, well, there's a lot of things that America could be judged for. But one of those

00:10:43 things, of course, would be the 63 million babies murdered by their own mothers in the womb over the

00:10:50 last 49 years. So all that being said, the point is Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin, those

00:10:59 four states would have given Trump 275 in the electoral college over Biden at 265. He would

00:11:05 have had the presidency. And in the last two years, what would that mean? Well, it would mean

00:11:10 something for vax mandates. Trump is definitely pro-vaccine. That's the problem. One of the

00:11:16 problems with Trump, when he's right, he's right, and he will not back down. Praise God. When he's

00:11:21 wrong, he's wrong, and he will not back down. Trump doesn't understand that a lot of his base

00:11:26 does not appreciate the vaccine, but because it was his, he's still bragging about a vaccine that

00:11:31 has horrific side effects, that has no long-term testing, and that was forcibly injected into

00:11:38 people's arms and is now being added to the list of mandatory child vaccines in order for children

00:11:43 to go to school. And Trump doesn't recognize that that's a bad thing. Conservatives don't like that.

00:11:49 Christians don't like that. And he should probably stop bragging about that, but he still does.

00:11:54 All right. But the point is we'd still have the vaccine, but Trump would not have pushed the

00:11:58 vaccine the way that Biden and his administration have, period. You would not have seen the vax

00:12:03 mandates, at least not nearly as many of them that we've had. So you would have people being

00:12:08 able to keep their jobs. People who were government employees keeping their jobs,

00:12:13 people in the military keeping their jobs, people in the private sector keeping their jobs. You

00:12:17 would have seen schools opened more quickly. And so you would not see the learning hindrance,

00:12:26 massive, massive decline in children's development and learning that we have. 0.96

00:12:32 Afghanistan, Russia and Ukraine. It's at least unlikely, not a guarantee, but far more

00:12:40 unlikely that Putin would have invaded Ukraine. And so these kinds of things, and then how that

00:12:47 affects the global stage economically with the energy crisis and all these European nations that

00:12:53 are in dire straits as we're heading into the winter now in terms of energy. You also have

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

00:13:06 these different kinds of things. So you're talking about inflation. I mean, inflation has been global,

00:13:11 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 you think of inflation, the economy, energy crisis, the threat of nuclear war between Russia and

00:13:27 Ukraine and things that are happening in Europe. You think about Afghanistan, the people there,

00:13:31 and American citizens and American allies, and then 13 service members that died.

00:13:39 The list goes on and on. And many of these things would not have happened at all,

00:13:44 or they at least would have happened to a much less severe degree if Trump had been elected

00:13:49 president. And what would that have required? Four states, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin,

00:13:55 in order for him to have the electoral advantage and win the presidency. And what is the combined

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

00:14:06 about 76,500. Here's the point. You know how many people voted for Trump in California?

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

00:14:23 I was one of them. Six million. And he needed, again, if they had moved these Californians to

00:14:34 the right states, to the right places, thinking like a general in a war, thinking strategically,

00:14:41 trying to hold the line, going to battleground states to fight the good fight.

00:14:45 out of the 6 million votes for Trump in California, if half of them would have left

00:14:54 California? No. 10% of them? No. 10% would be 600,000. No, you only need 76,500. About 1%,

00:15:09 let's say, just to be fair, about 1.5%. If 1.5%, not half of them, not 10% of them,

00:15:17 20% of them, not even 5%, if 1.5% of the people in California who voted for Trump

00:15:25 would have left California and moved to one of these four battleground states and cast their

00:15:31 vote there for Trump, Biden would not have been president and the entire world would be better.

00:15:37 the entire world would be better. That's such a, that's just a, such a massive statement. You can't

00:15:44 say that. Okay. Let me say it again. The entire world would be better without Joe Biden as the

00:15:49 president of the United States of America. I make no apology and I'm not even going to give a

00:15:53 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 being said, where you live matters. All right, let's go ahead and get now to the most recent

00:16:05 election, the midterms that we've just experienced. But before we do, quick announcement. Number one

00:16:11 is this. We've got our conference. Now, here's the deal. I told you guys, let's go ahead and

00:16:17 pull that up on the screen. This is the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference. It's next year,

00:16:22 May 5th, 6th, and 7th in Georgetown, Texas. That's right outside of Austin. You just go north. So

00:16:28 you fly into Austin and you go north about 40 minute drive, give or take, and boom, you will

00:16:33 be in Georgetown, Texas. It's May 5th, 6th and 7th, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We've got James

00:16:39 White, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours too, truly, Joel Webbin, speaking at this

00:16:45 conference. It's going to be fantastic. We're catering in a barbecue dinner for Friday that's

00:16:50 covered in your registration costs. And we have charged for this conference one of the lowest

00:16:54 amounts of any comparable conference that you could find. There's no other conference at this

00:16:59 level with these types of speakers that charges the amount that we have charged. So we're charging

00:17:06 $100. Now, a lot of you guys registered because you knew that starting November 1st, we were going

00:17:12 to actually raise our rate from $100 for an adult to $130. And that's what we did. November 1st,

00:17:20 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 price hike. I didn't want to try to create this artificial sense of urgency and push people into

00:17:34 registering again and again and again. We had our early bird rate. Pretty much every conference

00:17:41 does that. Early bird rate all the way till November 1st was $100 for an adult. And then

00:17:46 we've raised it to, this is our second and final rate, $130. We're not raising it again.

00:17:53 Here's the problem though.

00:17:54 The problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again

00:17:56 and that you only have a week to get in at this rate

00:17:59 or we're going to raise it to 150 or 170.

00:18:02 We're done.

00:18:03 We have the early bird rate and this is the normal rate.

00:18:06 Early bird was 100, this is 130.

00:18:07 The problem is that we had so many people

00:18:10 register for this conference on Reformation Day,

00:18:13 October 31st, right before us raising the rate

00:18:15 to 130 on November 1st,

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

00:18:20 And if we push, maybe if we set up extra seats and really make it almost uncomfortably crowded

00:18:28 in the venue that we have, maybe we could do 130, 130.

00:18:34 We have 100 to maybe 130, really more like 120 seats left because we are currently six

00:18:40 months out from this conference and we just haven't really done this before.

00:18:44 So we didn't know what to expect.

00:18:46 I've been told that ReformCon with Jeff Durbin, that they had 400 people registered two weeks

00:18:52 before ReformCon. And then ReformCon had about 900 or 1,000 people at that conference. And I

00:18:57 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 But again, 400 people were registered two weeks before ReformCon took place. And then

00:19:06 at the actual conference, two weeks later, you go from 400 people that were registered to 900 to 1,000.

00:19:12 Well, here's the deal. We're at 450 people registered today and we're six months out

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

00:19:26 Postmillennialism Conference. That's not even happening until six months from now. 450 people

00:19:31 already signed up, ready to go. And we can seat, our venue actually seats about 500 people,

00:19:38 but we're willing to push it to 550, maybe 570.

00:19:42 That's it.

00:19:43 That's what we got.

00:19:43 That's our venue.

00:19:44 That's what the Lord's provided.

00:19:45 That's what we've got.

00:19:46 We've got 100 to 120 seats left.

00:19:48 So here's my point.

00:19:49 You need to register today, today,

00:19:52 because I'm gonna raise the price on you.

00:19:54 No, we're not gonna do that.

00:19:55 We're not gonna do all this PSYOP,

00:19:57 you know, psychological technique of,

00:19:59 you know, every month we're raising the rate,

00:20:01 you know, and by the time we get to the conference,

00:20:02 it's $300 a ticket.

00:20:03 No, we had our early bird rate for 100

00:20:05 and our final rate for 130.

00:20:07 It's going to cost $130 from here

00:20:09 all the way up until the conference.

00:20:11 For the next six months, it'll be $130.

00:20:12 Here's the problem though.

00:20:15 There will not be seats for this conference

00:20:16 for the next six months.

00:20:19 My prediction is there will be seats

00:20:20 available for this conference.

00:20:21 The way that people are registering,

00:20:23 the way that it's filling up,

00:20:25 I think there will be seats for this conference

00:20:27 for probably about two more weeks.

00:20:29 If you want to be really safe,

00:20:31 I think you got to register in the next two weeks.

00:20:33 By the end of the year, six weeks from now,

00:20:35 end of the year, we're sold out. Guaranteed. There's no way. So yeah, you'll still have

00:20:40 four months, January, February, March, and April of 2023 before the conference actually happens,

00:20:45 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 not be sold out. And it's possible that we could be sold out as early as two weeks from now.

00:20:55 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 running out of seats. So you need to register in the next couple of weeks. And ideally,

00:21:09 if you definitely want to insure your spot, you should register today. So go to

00:21:12 rightresponseconference.com. Again, it's rightresponseconference, not rightresponseministries

00:21:18 forward slash conference, rightresponseconference.com, rightresponseconference.com. Go ahead

00:21:24 and register today. Register your whole family. Kids who are 10 and under are free. And then big

00:21:31 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 the same rate. So kids 10 and under, free. And then you've got 11-year-olds through 17-year-olds

00:21:42 are $50. And adults now, instead of 100, are $130. Register your whole family. Come and join us for

00:21:48 this conference. If you're flying from out of state, if you're not going to drive, then look

00:21:52 at flying into the Austin airport. Feel free to email me at joel at rightresponseministries.com.

00:21:58 joel at rightresponseministries.com. If you want recommendations for hotels and things like that,

00:22:03 remember Friday, we are going to cater in as a part of your registration fee, a Texas style

00:22:09 barbecue dinner. So we can all be together. Everybody at the conference, eating a meal

00:22:14 together Friday night. We're going to have some hymns and Psalms that we sing, and we're going

00:22:18 to have multiple sessions. James White is going to speak twice. Joe Boot is going to speak twice.

00:22:24 Gary DeMar, myself, Dale Partridge,

00:22:26 we're each gonna speak once instead of twice,

00:22:28 but that's so that we can allow time,

00:22:30 Friday night and Saturday night,

00:22:32 to do a live Q&A panel,

00:22:35 taking questions from you,

00:22:37 the attendees at the conference.

00:22:38 That's gonna be after dinner on Friday

00:22:40 and after dinner on Saturday.

00:22:42 So I think, I believe it's like from 7.30 to nine,

00:22:47 an hour and a half each time.

00:22:48 So you got a total of three hours of live Q&A panel

00:22:52 where all the speakers are up on the stage

00:22:53 taking questions from you, the audience,

00:22:55 an hour and a half Friday night,

00:22:56 hour and a half Saturday night.

00:22:58 And then what we're gonna do is the Lord's Day for Sunday,

00:23:02 we're just gonna hold that venue

00:23:03 and my church that I pastor,

00:23:05 Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas,

00:23:08 instead of meeting in our normal location

00:23:10 that we meet in each Lord's Day as a church,

00:23:12 we're gonna meet in our conference venue, our church,

00:23:14 along with any of the conference attendees

00:23:16 who are gonna be with us.

00:23:18 And James White is going to preach

00:23:20 and I'll be leading the liturgy

00:23:22 and we'll have wonderful worship through hymns and psalms.

00:23:25 We will serve the Lord's Supper for a lot of people

00:23:29 because we expect to have hundreds of people in attendance

00:23:31 and it's gonna be a glorious time together.

00:23:34 So you don't wanna miss this conference,

00:23:36 but you will miss this conference.

00:23:37 That's my point.

00:23:38 You will miss this conference

00:23:39 if you don't sign up really, really quick.

00:23:41 Okay, I know that was long,

00:23:43 but I've heard a lot of people saying,

00:23:46 I'm coming, I'm excited to come,

00:23:48 but I don't think a lot of the people

00:23:50 who are reaching out to me have an accurate sense of, of the fact that you don't have six months

00:23:56 to wait on this one. Okay. All right, here we go. One last announcement and then we'll hop into the

00:24:01 midterm election. Here we go. How to plant a church since your last church went woke. If you're

00:24:04 looking for a really long title for something, there it is. How to plant a church. And that's

00:24:09 not even the whole title. Let me read the whole title. How to plant a church since your last

00:24:13 church went woke, a four week online workshop. There you go. That's the full title. Basically,

00:24:19 there's a lot of people who read this one, probably the most common email that I get is

00:24:22 people say, I can't find a biblically faithful church. I'll either find a church that has like

00:24:26 Orthodox, uh, conservative theology, the reform, these kinds of things. Um, but they're pietist 0.97

00:24:33 and cowards, right? Like, like COVID happened and the government said, uh, uh, shut your doors. 0.99

00:24:39 And the pastor said, uh, how long Caesar, you know, and they shut their doors, not for a few

00:24:45 weeks. A lot of people shut their doors for a few weeks. They didn't know what was happening, but

00:24:48 I'm talking about guys who are reformed. They allegedly have good doctrine, but they don't

00:24:53 apply it, right? And they shut their doors for four months, five months, six months, seven months,

00:24:58 right? And then, you know, with different variants that came out, you know, they opened back up with

00:25:03 all these precautions, no singing allowed, right? Even though the Bible commands us to sing to God

00:25:08 and to address one another with hymns and psalms and spiritual songs, there was no singing allowed. 0.55

00:25:13 They made mass required, not optional, but required. So what does it take to come to the

00:25:18 Lord's table. It takes faith plus a mask, right? They even segregated, you know, based off of Vax

00:25:23 status. And then other, you know, Omicron and different, you know, variations came out and

00:25:29 they shut down again, you know, and, and all the while you can see your pastor, you know, he won't

00:25:34 let you come to church because of COVID. The church is shut down, but on his Instagram page,

00:25:38 you can see pictures of him, you know, at the George Floyd rallies. And yeah, he's, he's a

00:25:44 Calvinist. Sure. He's reformed. Sure. He went to RTS. Great. You know, he's buddies with Ligon

00:25:51 Duncan, you know, whatever it might be. But he's not a son of Issachar. He doesn't know what time

00:25:57 it is. He's bought. He's a traitor. He's woke. He's cowardly. He's pietistic and progressive

00:26:04 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 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 find another one. You can either find churches with good theology on the books, but they won't

00:26:20 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 a stand. Maybe it's a Calvary Chapel church or something like that. And you've been going to

00:26:30 that church, but you're like, I still, I'm not Arminian, right? Like this church, I appreciate

00:26:36 that the pastor here is actually a man and actually has a spine and has some courage,

00:26:41 but the church isn't reformed. The church isn't this, it's not covenantal. It's not, you know,

00:26:45 it's not post-millennial. It's not, you know, um, what do I do? You know, and people are saying

00:26:50 within a two hour driving radius, I just can't find a good church. Um, and right now in God's

00:26:56 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 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 White, you know, or Ogden, Utah with, uh, with Brian Sauve and Eric Kahn and Dan Burkholder,

00:27:10 you know, the Kings Hall guys. And like, there's some guys out there. There's not a lot, but there

00:27:14 are some guys out there that are doing some really great work. But in God's providence right now,

00:27:18 financially, or because we have in-laws that we're taking care of that are sick, that need our help,

00:27:23 that aren't able to make a move for whatever reason, we're stuck geographically. So we can't

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

00:27:37 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 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 but as a faithful Christian, as a layman, you can still be pivotal in planting that church,

00:27:53 that God appoints someone else to be the pastor. So this isn't just for people who feel, I feel

00:27:57 called to be a pastor. This is for people who feel called to join with just one or two other

00:28:02 like-minded, courageous, faithful, theologically stout Christians to plant a church, covenant a

00:28:10 church in their home, in their living room, but to do it biblically. And there are clear biblical

00:28:15 criteria that are necessary. And they may not be the pastor. God may send them a pastor,

00:28:21 but there is a way for them to actually not just watch videos on YouTube, but to actually have

00:28:25 bona fide biblical church on the Lord's day, on the Lord's day, as they're waiting for somebody

00:28:31 to be the pastor. And there is a way of doing this within the 1689 Second London Baptist

00:28:35 Confession of Faith from a Reformed Baptist standpoint. This workshop will be helpful

00:28:39 for Presbyterians. It'll be helpful for all sorts of people, but I make no apology and I want to be

00:28:44 clear up front. I am Reformed Baptist and so I'm going to be doing it within that lens of church

00:28:50 polity. It'll be a Reformed Baptist church polity. So it's going to be four weeks long. It's four

00:28:56 Mondays in a row. It's Monday at 8 p.m. starting November 28th. Some of you guys have already

00:29:02 signed up. You've reached out to me and said, hey, when is it starting? I'm just reminding you

00:29:05 we haven't forgotten about it. It's happening. We told you it's going to happen. It's going to

00:29:10 happen. And it starts November 28th. So not this Monday, not the next Monday. Today, I believe,

00:29:16 is the 14th. Yep, the 14th. And so then it's the 21st. Yeah. So two weeks from today, two weeks

00:29:22 from today, November 28th, and it'll be the first three Mondays in December, the 5th, the 12th,

00:29:27 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 time, trying to do it at a time where people who have children can log on after they put their kids

00:29:38 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 lecture on the front end of each of these hour and a half workshops, then 45 minutes of taking

00:29:49 your questions in the chat room and answering those questions. And I'm also going to be giving

00:29:55 everybody who signs up for this, I'm going to be giving them some of the official covenanting

00:30:01 church documents that my church, Covenant Bible Church, uses that I've written over the years,

00:30:06 even when I was pastoring in California, that have been refined as I've grown in my theology,

00:30:11 but basically a general statement of faith, but also our bylaws and church constitution,

00:30:16 also pages that I've written out on the duties and responsibilities of elders and deacons,

00:30:22 defining the diaconate. There's a lot of confusion about what is a deacon. Is it the

00:30:26 lead parking attendant or is it something a little bit more? So a lot of those kinds of

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

00:30:36 between kind of bullet points and manuscripting. So I kind of have a unique method, personal method

00:30:41 that I use for writing my sermons. And so I'm going to give you a sample of multiple sermon

00:30:46 notes that I've preached that you'll be able to say, oh, this is what Joel's notes look like.

00:30:50 And this is how to prepare a sermon and all those kinds of things. I think it would be really

00:30:53 helpful. I won't waste your time anymore with the announcements. Let's go ahead and move on. But

00:30:57 sign up. If you want to sign up, it's Right Response Ministries, right? So the conference,

00:31:01 it's rightresponseconference.com. This one is a forward slash, rightresponseministries.com

00:31:06 forward slash church plan, rightresponseministries.com forward slash church plan. All right,

00:31:13 go ahead and sign up today. You got two more weeks and we probably have space for, I'd say,

00:31:17 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 than 75. I think that that'll be enough. Okay. But if you missed this round, just for the record,

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

00:31:36 doing it twice next year, because this is a need that's not going away.

00:31:41 The church has so discredited itself.

00:31:44 We're gonna need a lot of new leaders

00:31:46 and a lot of new churches being planted.

00:31:48 And so I plan to do this more than once is my point.

00:31:51 I plan to do it, Lord willing,

00:31:53 once in the spring of next year

00:31:55 and once in the fall of next year.

00:31:56 So if you miss this boat,

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

00:32:02 I hope to do it again.

00:32:03 All right, so let's go ahead and pull up this picture.

00:32:06 So this is some of the takeaways for Christians

00:32:09 with this most recent midterm election.

00:32:12 I wanna address some basic takeaways,

00:32:15 some lessons learned, or at least they should be learned.

00:32:18 If we don't learn these lessons, then shame on us.

00:32:19 We can't afford to miss the lessons

00:32:22 that God has provided for us in his providence

00:32:25 over this past week with the midterm election.

00:32:27 So lessons or takeaways that Christians 0.77

00:32:29 gotta get coming from this last election, all right? 0.85

00:32:34 This is one of the lessons.

00:32:35 This is a breakdown of four different categories,

00:32:38 married men, single men, married women, single women, a breakdown of who voted conservative

00:32:45 and who voted blue. Now, this is actually not particularly helpful. I don't think that this

00:32:52 is what I was looking for. I mean, it makes the same point. But I think that the more recent

00:32:57 numbers are sadly even more dire because what I'm noticing, Nathan, is it says Trump and Biden.

00:33:04 is this from 2022 or is this 2020? Yeah, it might, it might be 2020. I mean, it's still,

00:33:13 you know, clearly makes the same point. Um, yeah, go ahead and look real quick. See if you can find

00:33:19 another one. Um, you know what? I might even have, have it on my phone. Cause I've, I've

00:33:26 addressed it a few times now. Let's see. Let's see. Let's see. Bear with me for one moment.

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

00:33:40 2020, because this has been a problem for a while, but it's exasperated. What we've seen

00:33:45 is in the last couple of years, as we've come now to 2022, the problem has been exasperated.

00:33:52 Okay. I tweeted it recently. So if I just look through my recent tweets,

00:33:57 as i look through my recent tweets i'm reminded how many people hate me

00:34:02 that's always helpful yeah that person hates me that person hates me that person really hates me

00:34:11 let's see oh here we go nope that's not it that's not gonna do it

00:34:18 did you

00:34:28 okay

00:34:31 yeah the only problem is that that's just two categories can you pull it so it's two pictures

00:34:40 can you pull up the other picture too so that gives us men um and and women that gives us the

00:34:45 married. Married men, married women. We just need the single ones beside it. I think it's two 1.00

00:34:49 pictures. Are you able to get that? Great. Okay, Nathan's getting it. I'm hopping back in.

00:34:59 Hopping right back in, guys. It's coming. It's coming. Believe, believe. All right. And then

00:35:02 make it a little bit smaller because people are really going to see, they're just going to want

00:35:05 to see my beautiful face. So we'll make it just a little bit smaller here. All right. So this is

00:35:11 gender by marital status. Um, this is the most recent midterm elections. All right. So married

00:35:19 men, um, they voted Republican at 59% and 39% Democrat, right? And you'll notice there's 2%,

00:35:26 I guess that's missing there. Uh, because there's, you know, third party votes, independent,

00:35:30 those kinds of things. Uh, married women is not as conservative, but it's pretty close. Um, 1.00

00:35:37 married women it's 56 percent for republican and 42 percent democrat now see if you can do this

00:35:44 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 only my face we're going to pull up multiple pictures go back and pull up the the other

00:35:53 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 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 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 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 So married men in 2020 was 56% Republican and 42% for Biden Democrat. Whereas now notice how,

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

00:36:43 what you would expect. You'd expect even more than that. But after our two year, you know,

00:36:46 trial run of communism, thanks to, you know, the Biden administration, you would imagine that

00:36:50 everybody would be voting for anybody but Biden, you know, and in his administration,

00:36:54 that people would be like, Democrats are not the way to go. And that is what we saw, not maybe as

00:37:01 much as we want, but that is what we saw in the married men department, right? 56 in 2020 voted

00:37:06 for Trump, 42 for Biden. Well, in 2022, it's 59% that voted Republican and 39% that voted Democrat,

00:37:14 right? So it became more conservative, more conservative in the married men category.

00:37:18 All right, let's look at married women. Married women in 2020 was 52% for Trump and 47%

00:37:24 for Biden. Well, that has, again, shifted more conservative. 56% now for Republican in 2022

00:37:33 and 42% Democrat. Unmarried men, unmarried men were 46, right? So if you look at the 2020 election, 0.66

00:37:40 if you were single as a woman or as a man, you were going Democrat. Now, obviously,

00:37:45 single women went much more for Democrat, but even the men, the unmarried men were 46% for Trump

00:37:51 and 52% for Biden. That's in 2020. But if you look at unmarried men in this most recent midterm

00:37:58 election, 2022, it's 52% Republican and 45% Democrat. And some of that could be in relation

00:38:04 to it because it's not just voting conservative two years ago and then voting conservative two

00:38:09 years later, because there is one massive variable in this equation, namely Donald J. Trump. And so

00:38:16 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 so take it with a grain of salt. But notice unmarried women, they voted 62%. And this is, 0.99

00:38:27 and this is the presidential election in 2020. Unmarried women hate Trump. A lot of people don't 1.00

00:38:32 like Trump. Unmarried women hate Trump. And still though, unmarried women with Donald Trump on the

00:38:40 ballot, with Donald Trump on the ballot, still 37% of them voted for Trump in 2020. Unmarried women.

00:38:47 But only 31% voted for any Republican in 2022. You see that? 31% of unmarried women voted for

00:38:58 a Republican in 2022, whereas 37%, six percentage points higher, voted for not just a Republican,

00:39:06 not just the Republican party in general, but for Donald J. Trump specifically in 2020.

00:39:12 So unmarried women, even without the Trump factor in the mix, unmarried women have become

00:39:19 incredibly, I mean, that's a stark change right there from 62% for Biden, 68%, that's 2020,

00:39:26 68% now for Democrats in 2022, 37% for Trump in 2020, unmarried women, and then 31% for just

00:39:37 Republicans in general in 2022. How do we account for that? First, one of the men in my church,

00:39:45 he said, one of the clear takeaways that Christians should have from this 2022 midterm

00:39:52 election is that Eve needs to be rescued. And I thought that that was incredibly insightful.

00:39:57 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 rescued. Eve has a bit of a habit for being deceived by serpents. And in this case, with 1.00

00:40:10 the civil state and the Democrat party, instead of a serpent, it's just Leviathan. Same thing,

00:40:15 serpent, leviathan, dragon. The story stays the same. Eve gets suckered by dragons and leviathans

00:40:25 and serpents. Tale as old as time. That's the first story that we find. And that's the story

00:40:30 that we found last week. That story is going to continue to happen, by the way, throughout all

00:40:35 of human history, which is why we need Adam. We need Adam. Adam can't be standing there in the

00:40:42 garden with Eve, letting her be deceived. Adam needs to step in. We say, hey, you know, make

00:40:48 America great again, you know, MAGA. Let's make marriage great again. That's one of the takeaways 0.64

00:40:54 that we should have from this is we need marriage to be great again. There's been a stark decline

00:41:01 among Americans in the United States when it comes to marriage. And part of that is a

00:41:08 Bergefell. When a Bergefell came into play, that eroded a lot of the validity and credibility of

00:41:16 the institution of marriage, right? If love is love, right? That was the mantra. Love is love.

00:41:23 Okay, well, fine. If love is love, then why do we need marriage? Let's just have partners that

00:41:29 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 an actual lifelong till death do us part kind of covenant agreement, if love is love. And so with

00:41:46 the Bergefell, we have, you know, with the increase of sexual immorality and particularly sodomy, 1.00

00:41:51 with transgenderism, the whole LGBT jihad, you know, like as that continues to be on the rise, 0.99

00:41:59 the sanctity and validity and credibility of marriage is on the decline. And as marriage 1.00

00:42:04 declines, and less people get married, what we're finding is, as less people get married,

00:42:11 they tend to vote more progressively, especially the women. Unmarried women vote for Democrats.

00:42:18 Now, you might think, well, why is that? We know why that is. Why do all the single ladies, 0.99

00:42:26 all the single ladies voting for Democrats? Why? Because they want to kill their babies. 1.00

00:42:30 that's why why do single women vote for democrats because they want to murder their kids 1.00

00:42:38 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 five issues it's not even you know it's abortion yeah yeah the overturning of roe and those kinds

00:42:49 of things yeah there was an uprising for a while but that's calmed down you know the biggest issue

00:42:53 in americans minds the biggest you know top three issues abortion is doesn't even make the list it's

00:42:59 it's um the border right it's immigration it's inflation that's number one inflation uh the

00:43:05 border and then i don't know maybe energy crisis you know or the threat of you know nuclear war

00:43:12 world war three or you know it's these or crime you know i think that's those were the literal

00:43:17 top three i think in that order it was inflation uh immigration and crime that's what people care

00:43:22 about. No, not single women. Single women don't care about that. Like single women don't care 1.00

00:43:31 about inflation. Yeah, they don't. They don't. Because single women can get a job easier than 1.00

00:43:37 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 getting paid just as much, if not more. And single women who have no responsibility except for their 1.00

00:43:48 cats, they can handle, you know, they can take some inflation in stride. And then when it comes 1.00

00:43:55 to immigration, well, just they move out of a border state, right? That's problems for them,

00:44:01 but not a problem for me, right? Like Martha's Vineyard, like the first time, like we love,

00:44:05 we're a sanctuary place, you know, for immigrants. And then immigrants actually come and I think it

00:44:11 was like less than 48 hours and they're flighted out of Martha's Vineyard, right? And so you can

00:44:17 avoid the immigration problems and fentanyl and all the things that come with that by simply just

00:44:22 not living in a border city in Texas, right? And you can avoid, I mean, you're going to feel

00:44:29 inflation, but you can take it in stride. You can survive inflation by just not having any

00:44:36 dependence. Nobody's financially relying on you, right? That's what singleness tends to do,

00:44:41 whether you're a single man or single woman. And then in terms of crime, I think women are 1.00

00:44:46 afraid of that, that's hard to avoid because a lot of these single liberal women, they're living 1.00

00:44:53 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 result of that. And the Democrat governing policies that are there, Democrat mayors and

00:45:07 Democrat governors and all these different things. So that might be a fear, but it's not as big of a

00:45:12 fear. The fear of potential crime, a crime being committed against you, isn't as big of a fear.

00:45:16 as the fear of losing your perceived right to murder your unborn children. We didn't think

00:45:23 abortion was going to come out to play in this last election. It did, right? Because what we 0.99

00:45:30 were looking at is people, you know, people in the public that abortion isn't the biggest issue for,

00:45:35 like married men, married women, even single men. But the single women, it was a big deal.

00:45:44 Pull up those pictures one more time. Last time. Okay. It's coming. It's coming. It's coming. 1.00

00:45:52 Because I think what I wanted to see here is that, oh, yep. Yep. So unmarried men,

00:45:57 when it came to voting on the presidential election in 2020 between Trump and Biden,

00:46:01 unmarried men were 46% for Trump and 52% for Biden. But in 2022, it was for unmarried men,

00:46:09 52% for Republicans, and 45% for Democrats. So what you'll notice is every single of the four

00:46:19 brackets, married men, married women, unmarried men, unmarried women, out of those four different

00:46:24 categories, three of them voted, the majority voted for Republicans, and only one of those

00:46:31 categories voted for Democrats as a majority. But it was a stark majority, 59% married men,

00:46:38 Republican, 56% married women Republican, 52% unmarried men Republican, but 68% for unmarried

00:46:50 women Democrat. And there you have it. There you have it. That's what happened to the red wave.

00:46:58 What happened to the red wave? Um, a burger fell. It's not, seriously, it's, it's not just what

00:47:04 happened in the last couple of weeks or that's no, it's, it's what's been happening over the

00:47:08 course of years. What happened to the red wave? What happened is that we spit on marriage as a

00:47:15 nation. And then also what happened is that, praise God for a more conservative Supreme Court,

00:47:22 but they overturned Roe and I praise God for that. But in doing so, the people who feel like

00:47:29 that's their right, that feel the most entitled to abortion, namely single women, they're really

00:47:36 upset about that. And so what you have is really, it's the issue of Roe and Obergefell, marriage 0.80

00:47:42 and children, marriage and children. That's what it comes down to, marriage and children.

00:47:48 And single women don't like marriage and they don't like children. And they're going to want 1.00

00:47:57 the party, the political party that says, you don't need a man because we'll be your husband,

00:48:03 The state will be your husband, and you don't need children because we, as the state, we 0.95

00:48:10 will allow you to murder them, or if you don't want to murder them, we'll be a husband to

00:48:16 you and a father to your child through the welfare state and all these different things. 0.98

00:48:21 And so basically, the civil state has come in in our nation and said, we can do a better

00:48:27 job.

00:48:28 We can fill the role of husband and father better than men. 0.99

00:48:33 The state can do that.

00:48:35 And the reality is, of course they can't.

00:48:38 Of course they can't.

00:48:39 The state's not a good father. 1.00

00:48:40 The state helps women provide for their children by sucking them out of their womb with a vacuum cleaner. 1.00

00:48:47 That's how they father children. 1.00

00:48:50 They father children by erasing the children so they don't need a father.

00:48:53 Or if the children actually are born, then they have all these different state programs.

00:48:57 But the children, they don't thrive on those.

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

00:49:05 home.

00:49:05 And many of them wind up in prison if there's not a father, a familial biological father

00:49:10 in the home.

00:49:11 The state doesn't cut it.

00:49:12 It's not a good dad and it's not a good husband. 1.00

00:49:16 But women think that they're independent and they think that they don't need a husband. 1.00

00:49:20 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 Obergefell and Roe.

00:49:29 And that's what we've been doing, not for the last few weeks or months.

00:49:33 I mean, that's been decades.

00:49:34 That's been decades.

00:49:35 And it's just all of it's just culminating now. 0.53

00:49:38 And so now, you know, it's not like the Republican Party is the party of white people.

00:49:43 There may have been a time when that's kind of how things were, right?

00:49:46 The Democrats, their voting bloc was minorities, right?

00:49:50 It was the black community.

00:49:52 It was Latinos. 1.00

00:49:54 That's shifting. 1.00

00:49:56 That's shifting.

00:49:57 Certainly more black people still vote for Democrats, but even that has shifted some,

00:50:01 still the vast majority that vote for Democrat out of the black community.

00:50:05 But with Latinos, I think the Latino community between Mexican, and obviously that's a diverse

00:50:11 group, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, all different.

00:50:16 But taken as a whole, the Latino voting bloc, I think in this most recent election, I think

00:50:22 it was like 40% for Republican, 40%.

00:50:25 So almost it's getting close to where it's half and half.

00:50:28 That's not a Democrat base anymore that they can counter.

00:50:31 So what's the new Democrat coalition?

00:50:34 What's their voting bloc?

00:50:36 What's their base? 1.00

00:50:38 Single women. 1.00

00:50:40 Their base is not minorities.

00:50:43 It's not ethnic minorities.

00:50:45 It's not even the poor, right?

00:50:47 You know, you can't even draw a line between rich people vote conservative and poor people

00:50:51 vote Democrat.

00:50:52 These things have been true in the past.

00:50:54 but people, you know, the veil has been lifted. It's been torn. You know, people are starting

00:50:58 to see more clearly, especially after the last two and a half years with COVID and with inflation 0.95

00:51:02 and with, um, with black lives matter, you know, pocketing millions of dollars and running off as 0.81

00:51:08 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 to think like, yeah, Democrats care for the poor. You like you can, Don Lemon can't say he couldn't

00:51:17 even say Democrats care for the poor without probably having to, you know, cut to commercial

00:51:21 break, run out to the bathroom, and then laughing hysterically, right? It's such a joke. Everyone

00:51:26 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 just so obvious, right? Because inflation crushes the poor. It crushes the poor. And they're not the

00:51:37 party of ethnic minorities who are oppressed. We know that's not the case. They never have been,

00:51:42 right? They're actually the party of slavery. Remember history. So they've never been the party 0.78

00:51:48 of the ethnic minority groups

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

00:51:54 That's not what party they are.

00:51:56 They never were, but people now know they're not.

00:51:59 People now know they're not.

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

00:52:02 They're the party of single women 1.00

00:52:03 who want to kill their kids. 1.00

00:52:09 So let me read a scripture, right?

00:52:11 Because after that, I just think we need some Bible.

00:52:14 I feel like I need some Bible.

00:52:16 Now, this isn't the most encouraging scripture,

00:52:18 but there are some encouraging things in it.

00:52:21 But it's scripture nonetheless.

00:52:23 And so it revives the soul.

00:52:25 This is John chapter three.

00:52:26 You guys know it.

00:52:28 We'll start with verse 16.

00:52:30 John 3, 16, everybody knows that.

00:52:32 But I want us to read John 3, 16 through,

00:52:34 let's read through verse 21.

00:52:37 John 3, 16 through 21.

00:52:42 Almost got it.

00:52:44 Here we go.

00:52:45 John 3, starting in verse 16.

00:52:48 says this. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him

00:52:55 should not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn

00:53:02 the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him,

00:53:08 that is in Jesus, is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already,

00:53:14 already, because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God. And this is the judgment.

00:53:22 The light, Jesus is the light of the world. The light has come into the world and people loved

00:53:31 the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked

00:53:38 things hates the light and does not come to the light lest his work should be exposed if you like

00:53:45 doing wicked things you want to do them in darkness because you don't want it to be publicly known

00:53:48 that you're doing wicked things you want to be able to hide your sin verse 21 but whoever does

00:53:55 what is true comes to the light that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out

00:54:01 in god right the person who does good he wants to be publicly known as doing good because his works

00:54:06 are good, but also if he's a Christian, he's humble and recognizes that he's only doing good

00:54:12 things because God, by his grace, is bringing those things about, right? God has predestined

00:54:16 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 good and pleasing in his sight, right? He's predestined good works for us to do that we should

00:54:26 walk in them, but it's the grace of God that brings those things about. So the Christian

00:54:30 who loves Jesus, therefore loves the light of the world, the Christian desires to walk in the light

00:54:35 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 because we want our good deeds to be exposed. And we want our good deeds to be exposed, not from

00:54:45 prideful motives, but we want our good deeds to be exposed because our good deeds are only there

00:54:50 because of the grace of God. And so our good deeds bring God, not ourselves, but God glory,

00:54:56 right? Elsewhere, you know, the scripture says, let your good deeds shine before men, be seen

00:55:01 before men that they may glorify your father in heaven. But by way of contrast, the sinner,

00:55:08 the wicked, the vile, the wretch, that person has bad deeds and therefore does not want to be

00:55:15 publicly seen for the shameful deeds they do. Therefore, they prefer the context of darkness,

00:55:22 which is the absence of Christ. They want to be away from Christ where there is darkness,

00:55:27 like a bunch of cockroaches that Jesus steps into the room and they scatter under the bed.

00:55:31 they want to be away from Christ in the darkness to conceal and veil their evil deeds because they

00:55:38 know that those evil deeds have not been brought about by God, but rather they themselves are

00:55:43 responsible for the wickedness that they do. Yes, God is sovereign over it all. He's sovereign over

00:55:48 righteous deeds and he's sovereign over sinful deeds, but the sinner remains morally responsible

00:55:53 for the sinful deeds he does. Okay. So all that being said, here's the point.

00:55:58 there are a ton of problems with the Republican party. There are plenty of people who will

00:56:03 run on the Republican platform with an R next to their name that a Christian cannot vote for. 1.00

00:56:10 Okay. Republicanism is not synonymous with scripture. It's not by any stretch of the means. 0.52

00:56:18 But here's the deal. This is the problem, right? This is the whole Timothy Keller thing,

00:56:22 Third way-ism. See, because I used to believe this because I liked Timothy Keller and I was

00:56:30 listening to John Piper and I was listening to this person. And here's the problem. And this

00:56:35 is why I say this. People would be like, Joel, you're hating on Democrats and I'm with you with

00:56:39 that, but you're not hating on Republicans equally. And if you were really a solid Bible guy, you

00:56:44 would hate on both of them equally. No, stop that. That's why we lose. Stop that. That's why kids,

00:56:51 That's part of the reason why kids are being murdered in their mother's wombs. 1.00

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

00:56:58 We've got to stop being ideologues. 0.66

00:57:00 Stop that idealistic thinking.

00:57:02 Be honest.

00:57:04 Be honest.

00:57:05 And the honest truth is this.

00:57:06 The Republican Party is a far cry from biblical truth.

00:57:10 There is so much sin and corruption in the Republican Party that you can hardly even 0.99

00:57:15 look at it without vomiting in your mouth. 0.96

00:57:18 And yet, it is squeaky clean by comparison to the Democrat Party.

00:57:25 These things are not equal.

00:57:27 And that's the trick that's been played on us by guys like Tim Keller, guys like Russell

00:57:32 Moore, right?

00:57:33 They punch right and then tickle left, right?

00:57:36 Oh, yeah, well, I'm pro-life, you know, but man, you know, Republicans do this and this

00:57:40 and this and this and this.

00:57:42 And so what guys will do is they'll say, well, here's Republicans and here's Democrats and

00:57:46 here's Jesus.

00:57:47 And here's the implication.

00:57:48 This is what it implies.

00:57:49 It implies that the distance between Christ and Democrats 0.62

00:57:54 and Christ and Republicans is an equal distance,

00:57:57 and it's not.

00:57:59 There are major problems with both,

00:58:01 but not equally, not equally major problems. 0.99

00:58:04 Democrats are worse, way worse. 0.97

00:58:11 Way, way, way, way, way, way. 0.99

00:58:12 No comparison, not even close.

00:58:14 Way, way worse.

00:58:16 way worse are there problems with republicans yes are there plenty of things that they do that is 0.62

00:58:23 is absolutely atrocious yes yes but democrats are worse so all that being said now that that's been

00:58:30 said republicans have sinned i gave the disclaimer okay but in general between the two parties because 0.81

00:58:37 they are both sinful but not equally sinful that's my point the democrat party in general

00:58:44 This is their platform.

00:58:45 Vote for us and you get to have your sin.

00:58:49 It's John 3.16 through John 3.21.

00:58:53 Christ is the light of the world,

00:58:55 but men love the darkness because their deeds were evil.

00:58:58 You want to smoke weed?

00:58:59 Vote for Democrats. 1.00

00:59:02 You want to get your family members illegally into the country? 0.98

00:59:07 Vote for Democrats. 1.00

00:59:11 You want to trans kids? 1.00

00:59:13 vote for Democrats. You want to have two men in thongs thrusting one another on a parade float 1.00

00:59:21 in the middle of a crowded city while children are watching? Vote for Democrats. 0.98

00:59:29 You want to murder 63 million children in their mother's womb? Vote for Democrats. 1.00

00:59:35 That's literally, that is the Democrat party. It's vote for us, we'll let you have your sin.

00:59:40 You want to steal from other people who made good choices and worked hard?

00:59:45 You want to steal from them to pay off your debt with student loans?

00:59:49 Vote for Democrats. 0.88

00:59:53 Theft, the lack of being sober-minded, murder with abortion, adultery, sexual immorality, 0.92

01:00:04 sodomy, all these things.

01:00:06 Vote for Democrats.

01:00:07 Can we find these things in the Republican Party as well?

01:00:10 Yeah.

01:00:10 Of course. I think it was 47 Republicans. 47 Republicans voted basically to be on the side

01:00:21 of Obergefell, saying, yeah, we're good with that now. We're good with that. So yeah, so the

01:00:26 Republican Party is the Democrat Party. Just anywhere given what current cultural moment

01:00:33 you're in, the Republican Party is either five to 15 years behind the Democrats. But the point is,

01:00:38 they're still behind. The Democrats are leading the way in sin. Now, Republicans are following

01:00:44 as closely behind as they possibly can, it seems sometimes, but still, there's an uncontested

01:00:50 forerunner in the race for sin, and that is the Democrat Party. So, people who love darkness

01:00:58 because their deeds are evil, vote for Democrats. Of course they do. Of course they do. We know they

01:01:08 do. And right now, when we think of taking the public and breaking it up into four primary

01:01:14 categories of married men, married women, unmarried men, unmarried women, who really, really loves 0.61

01:01:23 their sin and needs to vote for darkness so that sin can be sustained, that sin can continue,

01:01:34 and that sin can be called a virtue. It can be concealed. Single women. Single women.

01:01:43 So Christian takeaways from the 2022 midterm election. Number one, make marriage great again. 1.00

01:01:48 Christian men need to esteem the beauty of marriage like never before.

01:01:57 Marriage is a picture of the gospel, of the eternal marriage between Christ and his church,

01:02:03 that marriage is wonderful, that marriage is not shackling, it's not imprisonment. Marriage

01:02:10 um, marriage calls men and women to a glorious, a glorious endeavor, uh, that marriage provides

01:02:18 the necessary biblical covenantal context for men and women to thrive, uh, to, to the utmost

01:02:25 and what God's called them to be. Uh, marriage is glorious. Children are glorious. Uh, that these

01:02:34 are some of the things that a takeaway that we need to have make marriage great again. Here's

01:02:38 another one. Storytelling. Oh my goodness. I was thinking about this the other day and just praying

01:02:44 about this. Conservatives and Christians, we are so bad at telling stories. Because here's the deal.

01:02:53 We have forfeited media. We have forfeited film and the arts and all those kinds of things.

01:03:00 We have said that the good, true, and beautiful isn't really necessary. The true is necessary.

01:03:08 The good is somewhat necessary, but the beautiful is not necessary at all.

01:03:14 Christians have said that, you know, ultimately at the end of the day, right?

01:03:18 It's, you know, it's just give me the hard truth.

01:03:21 I don't need, I don't need art.

01:03:23 I don't need film.

01:03:25 I don't need media. 0.99

01:03:25 You know, if all the TV shows are bad, the Christian solution is just stop watching TV.

01:03:32 And if you even suggest as a Christian within a post-millennial Kuyperian framework, what 0.77

01:03:37 if Christians started making really great TV shows? You get a lot of pietists that would come 1.00

01:03:41 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 for seven hours and think really romantic, effeminate thoughts about God, like John Piper?

01:03:55 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 Abraham Piper is not following Jesus right now. Yeah, I said that. No, no, no. We need to be

01:04:06 called to a glorious vision, and not everybody's going to be called to be a pastor. Like, is there

01:04:10 room, is there framework in the Bible, in the Christian faith for starting businesses, for

01:04:17 running for local political office, for being a cartoonist, for being an artist, for being

01:04:23 a filmmaker? Is there room, or is everything really just settling, unless you're a pastor?

01:04:33 one of the things that i hope to do with right response ministries and with covenant bible church

01:04:38 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 conversations we are not talking about who here feels called to be a pastor and you know in doing

01:04:48 elder training programs all the time like and that's not because i don't want successors and

01:04:53 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 the pulpit and all that no it's not because of any of those things it's because for decades now

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

01:05:08 tell him, you must be called to be a pastor. Not because he's actually called to be a pastor,

01:05:13 but because the bar has been so low in the church that if somebody actually just cares about

01:05:19 theology, it must mean that they're called to be the leader of a church instead of,

01:05:25 no, maybe this is just what it looks like to be a Christian. Voddie Bauckham, I think, said that,

01:05:30 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 You need to be a pastor.

01:05:47 Where he's like, no, maybe he's just a Christian.

01:05:50 Maybe he's just a Christian.

01:05:51 And then guys who, you know, who are out in the work field.

01:05:54 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 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 And then you've got a lot of guys doing what the Hobby Lobby guy just did or is going to

01:06:21 do.

01:06:21 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 Because that's what Christians do, you know, just give it away, right? 0.85

01:06:30 Charity, generosity. 0.98

01:06:32 And I'm sitting here thinking like, why don't you just keep building that empire for the

01:06:37 glory of God and give it to your kids?

01:06:40 Why don't you give it to your kids like you're commanded in scripture to do?

01:06:43 Why don't you give it to your children?

01:06:45 lay up an inheritance, not just for your children, but your children's children, as the scripture

01:06:48 also tells you to do, and teach them how to do these things wisely and make good products that

01:06:53 are true and good and beautiful with ethical business practices at affordable prices,

01:07:00 which is, it actually is a loving of all your neighbors. It is. It loves your neighbors.

01:07:08 Did you know that giving money away, charity, is not the only way to love your neighbor?

01:07:12 the Bible talks about charity. There is a place for that. But giving money away is not the only

01:07:18 way to love your neighbor. Regardless of what you think about his character as a man,

01:07:26 Rockefeller, and in coming up with a way to actually provide light, literal light for the

01:07:33 world. He became the richest guy on the planet for his time. But the bottom line is that even

01:07:42 though he didn't just give it away, give his invention away, or I'm going to give electricity

01:07:47 and light away to everybody for free. But what he did was he sold it at an affordable price

01:07:55 and everyone was raised up, right?

01:07:59 The tide raised all the ships economically.

01:08:03 The poverty threshold went up.

01:08:07 Everybody was better off

01:08:09 because of his contribution for profit.

01:08:12 His for-profit contribution

01:08:14 made the quality of human life for everyone better.

01:08:18 People could produce longer.

01:08:21 They didn't have to just stop because the sun went down.

01:08:24 There were all these different things that came about as ripples and implications from

01:08:28 that one man's for-profit invention that really did love his neighbors.

01:08:34 And we still feel the ripples and ramifications of that tangible love for neighbors even today.

01:08:41 Even today.

01:08:41 And so my point is to say, we can't just take every guy who cares about Jesus and cares

01:08:47 about theology and put them in a pulpit.

01:08:49 We need people in every single realm of life.

01:08:54 We need people in the marketplace, in vocations, in medicine. 1.00

01:09:00 My goodness, we need Christian doctors right now, because we can't trust our doctors anymore. 1.00

01:09:05 A lot of them. 1.00

01:09:07 Every major institution in our society has so discredited itself, and I know we now just

01:09:12 want to say, well, forget it.

01:09:13 We don't need the institutions.

01:09:14 Yes, we do.

01:09:15 Society needs institutions.

01:09:17 It does.

01:09:18 It just needs credible institutions, because we can't, each individual person cannot afford

01:09:23 to be an expert on everything.

01:09:24 I cannot afford to learn everything about medicine.

01:09:30 I have to have someone in my life that I can trust, who has devoted themselves to be an

01:09:35 expert in that field, so that while they're reading all these medical journals, I can

01:09:40 read Jonathan Edwards, because I can't do it all.

01:09:43 I can't.

01:09:44 I can't be a world-class economist and medical physician and this and that and, you know,

01:09:50 political analyst and all.

01:09:52 We can't. 0.95

01:09:53 we can't. We need institutions. We just need credible institutions, which means we need

01:09:59 Christians in institutions. We need an all of Christ for all of life kind of worldview. We need

01:10:05 a Kuyperian worldview. We need this post-millennial eschatology of hope. We need Christians, 0.52

01:10:12 solid Christians with good theology, to not leave their position, to not leave their post

01:10:19 and go to seminary and become pastors. Some, but most should not. Most should not.

01:10:28 And so I say all that to say, I think takeaways, things that we need to do,

01:10:36 is we need to make marriage great again. And we also need people staying in institutions. And the

01:10:46 one that I started with, bringing it all the way back, was storytelling in media. We need good

01:10:52 Christian media. And I don't mean it's Christian because every single film is about Jesus dying

01:10:56 on the cross. No, I mean it's Christian because it's good, it's true, and it's beautiful.

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

01:11:09 And what I'm getting at is this, facts over feelings isn't working.

01:11:16 I'll say that again.

01:11:17 I think that's part of what we saw in 2022.

01:11:20 Facts over feelings isn't working.

01:11:21 It works, but who's it work for? 0.99

01:11:24 It works for men. 0.79

01:11:26 It works for single men, and it works for married men, and it works for married women

01:11:30 because those married women are discipled by their married men, husbands.

01:11:35 Facts over feelings works for men.

01:11:37 And we can sit here and say, well, the truth should matter.

01:11:39 facts should matter more than feelings yeah i i think so um but here's the deal that the bible

01:11:47 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 that god communicates to us god communicates it's always it's never at the expense of truth it is

01:12:01 always and only ever true things that god speaks to us but he speaks a lot of it through story

01:12:07 Now, some of it's just historical accounts.

01:12:10 So-and-so did this and did that, but a lot of it is story.

01:12:15 It's powerful, it's poignant, it captures us.

01:12:20 God conveys truth through story.

01:12:23 Christians have to have that category for good story.

01:12:28 Because you know who listens to stories, who doesn't just want to read charts and doesn't

01:12:34 fall into the category of facts over feelings? 1.00

01:12:36 Women. 0.98

01:12:37 women and and the reality is that progressives uh secular god-hating pagans uh for decades now

01:12:47 they have told better stories than us they have they captured hollywood and they captured through

01:12:55 hollywood they captured hearts of children they've captured people's hearts um and they did it by

01:13:03 telling stories and here's the deal like just being completely honest one of the reasons why

01:13:07 Democrats have to be good at telling stories is because they don't have facts on their side.

01:13:12 So, story is the only avenue they have, right? Because if they were like, well, we're just going

01:13:16 to get really good at facts too, then every argument they made would be against them, right?

01:13:21 Because the facts don't favor liars, right? So, they can't just show facts. What they have to do

01:13:27 instead is they have to take anecdotal evidence and they have to create a heartthrobbing story

01:13:35 around one individual that captures people and like, oh my gosh, I can't, and that's

01:13:41 what they've done.

01:13:42 That's, you know, whether it be Brokeback Mountain or whatever it might be, but that's

01:13:46 for decades now.

01:13:47 That's what they've done is they've taken the minority, where it's like, this isn't

01:13:53 really happening.

01:13:54 Like, sure, there are isolated cases, but this is not the headline.

01:13:57 This is not the big problem going on in our nation.

01:13:59 But they take this little thing on the margins, and then they make a powerful story of how

01:14:05 this person, this individual, this group is being oppressed. And then that takes national stage,

01:14:11 this story, and it wins people over. It wins people over. And they've been doing that for

01:14:19 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 and we need to preach factual truth, the Bible.

01:14:33 But the Bible is also narrative truth.

01:14:36 The Bible is good storytelling truth.

01:14:39 And we need to do both

01:14:40 because it's not enough just to win men,

01:14:44 the hearts of men.

01:14:44 We need to win the hearts of women. 0.79

01:14:47 I think we do that by making marriage great again.

01:14:49 I think we also do that

01:14:50 by making Christian storytelling great again. 0.69

01:14:53 Christians recapturing film and entertainment 0.82

01:14:57 and those kinds of things. 1.00

01:14:58 And so those are just a couple of the takeaways that I had from this last election thinking,

01:15:03 man, I was a bit bummed.

01:15:05 I thought it was going to be better.

01:15:06 The last thing I'll say is this.

01:15:08 There's three things that I thought.

01:15:10 Number one, men love darkness, so they vote for sin that's going to sustain the darkness

01:15:14 so they can keep doing their evil deeds under the veil. 0.99

01:15:19 So one thing that we need is we just need more Christians. 1.00

01:15:21 So I thought, I broke it down like this.

01:15:23 I told my church, we need preaching, teaching, and training.

01:15:26 Preaching, teaching, and training.

01:15:28 Preaching, there just aren't enough regenerate hearts in our nation.

01:15:33 So we need more preaching because the gospel is the only power of God for salvation.

01:15:36 So we need good, dynamite gospel preaching.

01:15:40 So we need more pastors.

01:15:41 We do.

01:15:42 We need more pastors.

01:15:43 We need more churches.

01:15:44 And we need more biblical preaching and gospel preaching because we need more converts.

01:15:50 We simply need more regenerate hearts in our nation.

01:15:54 More preaching.

01:15:55 Teaching.

01:15:56 um the problem is not just that we don't have enough regenerate hearts but the ones that we

01:16:00 actually have have been deceived by the gospel coalition or whatever it is to where they just

01:16:05 they do they cannot actually apply they really are born again um they really are christians and

01:16:11 they really do believe that the bible is the word of god they just have no clue how to apply the

01:16:15 word of god to the realm of politics they just they are politically clueless they have no political

01:16:22 theology. Well, sadly, they do have a political theology, but they got it from Tim Keller,

01:16:27 right? It's a neo-Marxist, you know, progressive, punch right, tickle left, you know,

01:16:33 third wayism. Republicans are wrong, Democrats are wrong, and they're, you know, the fine print,

01:16:39 they're both equally wrong, so you could vote for either one, vote for Democrats, right? That's,

01:16:42 I mean, that's been the gospel coalition, Acts 29, you know, together for the gospel. That has

01:16:49 been the political theology of evangelicals, especially within the Reformed camp, sadly,

01:16:56 for I'd say the last 20 years, maybe longer. So, we need preaching because we need more

01:17:02 regenerate hearts. We need teaching because we need the regenerate hearts that we already have

01:17:07 to not just have regenerate hearts, but also have educated, informed minds, especially on how to

01:17:13 apply theology. Not just to know theology in the abstract, in the realm of the theoretical,

01:17:19 but in the tangible, how to apply the word of God to every realm of life, including the civil

01:17:24 realm, political realm. So preaching, teaching, and then training. We've got to stop raising kids

01:17:30 for liberals, right? Conservatives raise kids and have kids, but they ultimately give them 0.53

01:17:38 to liberals. Liberals don't have kids. They have dogs. They have cats. They have goldfish. They

01:17:44 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 Democrat. I'm just saying, of course, there are exceptions. But in general, just look at the

01:17:55 population, the entire population of America, who votes Republican, who votes Democrat,

01:17:58 and who has more kids. I mean, it's not even a question. But Gen Zers came out in full force

01:18:05 for Democrats. Why? Because conservatives have kids, but we hand them to Caesar to raise those 0.97

01:18:11 kids, to train them. We outsource the training of our children to people who hate God.

01:18:20 So it's not enough for conservatives to be fruitful, multiply, and procreate. We do need

01:18:26 to do that. But we also need to raise the children that we have. We actually have to

01:18:31 raise them. Doug Wilson says it like this in the case of Samuel. Samuel had two sons who took

01:18:36 bribes. And Doug Wilson says, you know, Samuel would have not been any better off by having

01:18:42 five sons that took bribes, right? Well, he had a quiver full. You know, the problem with Samuel

01:18:47 is he only had two sons. He needed a quiver full. Well, five sons who take bribes doesn't really

01:18:52 help. What you need is lots of sons and lots of daughters, but good sons and good daughters,

01:19:00 right? It's not just having many arrows, but having good arrows. And I would say two things,

01:19:07 sharp arrows and straight arrows. We cannot produce dull arrows that are just pietists. 0.99

01:19:13 They don't do anything. They don't actually puncture the enemy. And we can't produce bent 0.99

01:19:19 arrows, crooked arrows that actually function more like boomerangs than arrows. When we shoot them

01:19:25 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 been seeing, is that you've got a bunch of kids who grew up, apostatized, denied the faith,

01:19:37 and now are spitting in the face of their parents, like Abraham Piper.

01:19:43 So, we need straight arrows, so they don't function as boomerangs and come back and hit us.

01:19:47 And we need sharp arrows, so that even if they are actually biblically conservative and holding

01:19:52 to the truth, they actually apply that theology. They're not just two-kingdom radical, two-kingdom

01:19:57 pietists, but they see how biblical conservative theology applies to every realm of life,

01:20:01 including a political theology. And we have to do that at the level of children so that the next

01:20:07 generation isn't Zoomers, Gen Z, that's kind of lost its mind. One of the best generations that 1.00

01:20:18 we found in this last election was millennials, believe it or not. And, you know, the best was

01:20:24 actually Gen X. Gen X was the most conservative bar none. And probably in part because they were

01:20:31 just ignored. The forgotten generation, passed over generation. And so they really like looked

01:20:37 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 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 state. So we need to start schools. We've got to teach the Christians we already have about how to

01:20:54 apply the theology in every realm, including politics. So that means we need media and

01:20:59 podcasts and all these different things. And then we also need preaching because we just need more

01:21:02 regenerate people. And only the gospel does that. So we need more churches, more pulpits. So more

01:21:07 churches for preaching for conference. And then more media for teaching, for taking the conference

01:21:15 we already have and helping them to see how their theology, how the Bible applies to actual life,

01:21:21 including how you vote. And then more schools because we need training, because we need

01:21:25 children, because conservatives and Christians have to stop having kids, but handing them over 0.97

01:21:31 to Caesar and the state. And then being shocked, as Votie Bakken would say, when they come back as 0.99

01:21:36 Romans. So those are my thoughts. But let me just say this one more time, because I really think 1.00

01:21:42 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 Put it back on the screen. Here we go. Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference. This is 2023,

01:21:51 May 5th, 6th, and 7th. That's a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The problem, if you're just now

01:21:56 tuning in, if you didn't watch the beginning of this video, because we're doing it live,

01:21:59 here's the problem. We're not going to raise the rate again. Okay, so this isn't a register now,

01:22:04 with the prices. No, we had the early bird price, $100 for an adult. And then the actual price,

01:22:08 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 at $130. We're not raising it again. We're six months out, a little less than six months,

01:22:16 five and a half months out from the conference. We're not raising the rate again. I'm not saying

01:22:20 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 that we had no clue this was going to happen. But on October 31st, the last day where the rate was

01:22:31 a hundred dollars, our early bird rate. We had like a couple hundred people registered for this

01:22:36 conference. And we now currently have 450 people registered. And we have a venue that seats about

01:22:42 500 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 have 100 to 120 seats. So you got to register. You got to register. If you're planning on going,

01:22:56 if you hate it and you don't want to go, then fine. You know, you just disregard everything

01:23:00 I'm saying right now, but for anybody who is saying, yeah, I'm planning on going. I just

01:23:03 haven't gotten around to registering, right? Because a hundred to $130, that doesn't make a

01:23:06 deal. That doesn't matter to me. That's insignificant. Um, and so I'll, you know,

01:23:10 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 work. Um, it's not because we're going to price hike. It's because we're going to sell out.

01:23:18 We have literally, as of today, we have 450 people who are registered for this conference and we have

01:23:24 100 to about 120, 125 tops seats that are left. It will be sold out by the end of the year.

01:23:33 Six weeks, month and a half from now, it will be sold out by the end of the year.

01:23:37 It could be sold out as early as two weeks from now. So if you want to come to this conference,

01:23:42 May 5th, 6th, and 7th, Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference with James White,

01:23:46 Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Pastor Joel Webin,

01:23:50 you got to register and your best bet is just to go ahead and register today. So you can do that

01:23:57 by going to rightresponseconference.com, rightresponseconference.com. All right, that's

01:24:03 all the time that we have today because as you probably could hear on the recording,

01:24:07 my kids and mama just got home. By the way, this is the first time I've recorded since

01:24:13 this last week where we had to go to the hospital with my youngest, my son Franklin, who's only,

01:24:18 now he's about 11 weeks old, but he was 10 weeks old last week when this took place. But

01:24:23 he just got slammed with RSV, pneumonia, and rhinovirus. I get just a cold. But three things

01:24:31 simultaneously all at once. His lungs were just filled with mucus and he just couldn't breathe.

01:24:38 You know, he was in the, for anybody who's medically savvy, he was in the low 80s,

01:24:43 his oxygen level. We had to take him to the ER. He also had a fever at like 103.

01:24:48 And, you know, being 10 weeks old, that's really concerning.

01:24:52 And we had to stay in the hospital Monday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday night.

01:24:56 I put something out on YouTube, just a message asking you guys to pray for us and something

01:25:00 out on Twitter as well.

01:25:02 Many of you guys, like over a hundred of you guys between Twitter and YouTube reached out

01:25:08 and said that you were praying for us.

01:25:09 And I just want to say, I cannot tell you how grateful I am for that.

01:25:13 That meant so much to me.

01:25:15 And it meant so much to my wife, Megan.

01:25:16 She was so blessed by that.

01:25:18 She was like, there's all these people we don't even know who love Franklin, you know?

01:25:22 And she was like almost in tears as we're sitting there in the hospital.

01:25:25 But by God's grace, Franklin got stronger and stronger.

01:25:28 And on Thursday, we were able to come home.

01:25:30 He's breathing great.

01:25:31 His lungs are clearing out.

01:25:33 He's still got a little bit of a cold and a sniffly nose, you know, which I've got my

01:25:37 tube.

01:25:38 And this is just part of being a parent.

01:25:39 You love your kids.

01:25:40 I'm sucking snot out of his nose as any loving parent is willing to do.

01:25:44 But Franklin is doing so much better.

01:25:45 So thank you for praying.

01:25:47 That's an update for Franklin.

01:25:48 If he was still in the hospital or something,

01:25:49 then I wouldn't be recording today.

01:25:51 So I'm doing this because God is faithful

01:25:54 and you guys were faithful as well

01:25:56 and praying for my boy and God has healed him.

01:25:58 So that's it.

01:26:01 Yeah, the best way to get your question is

01:26:05 you gotta try to get it in early.

01:26:08 And some of you guys have,

01:26:09 and I've done my best to email you guys back.

01:26:11 When you email me a question,

01:26:12 I'm trying to answer it through email.

01:26:14 If you could specify,

01:26:15 maybe in the subject line of the email for Monday, live Q&A, because I went into this

01:26:21 Monday with, yes, I had been asked some questions, but a lot of them I had already addressed offline

01:26:25 and I had already answered.

01:26:26 And so I didn't really have any big, unanswered question that somebody had asked me.

01:26:30 So I was like, I'm going to do the midterm thing.

01:26:32 I'm going to do election and talk about that, where people live, why geography matters,

01:26:36 and each state and all this different stuff, and single women, and making marriage great

01:26:40 again, and Christians telling stories.

01:26:41 I'm gonna do that whole thing

01:26:42 because I just didn't really have a ton of questions

01:26:45 that you guys, that I didn't already answer

01:26:47 that you guys specify.

01:26:48 Could you do this on a Monday live Q&A?

01:26:50 So if you got something, you're like,

01:26:52 next week, Joel, we want you to get to our questions.

01:26:54 Fair, that's a fair point.

01:26:57 I will do my best to do that.

01:26:58 Could you just, not just in the chat,

01:27:00 because I'm sure there's stuff in the chat.

01:27:01 I'll look at it as soon as we're done here.

01:27:03 But could you take that, just copy and paste it

01:27:06 and email it to me and in the subject line,

01:27:08 say for next Monday, Joel, for next Monday, we know that you can talk. We know you have things

01:27:13 you want to say, but talk about our things. So in the subject line, you can just say for next

01:27:18 Monday, live Q&A, and then give me your question. And I promise, Lord willing, to do my very best

01:27:24 to just do nothing but questions next week. I think the midterms mattered. A lot of people

01:27:31 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 it for us for this week. Again, register for the Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference,

01:27:41 rightresponseconference.com. If you don't register in the next 14 days, I really think

01:27:47 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 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 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 I thought you had time too, but you don't.

01:28:04 So, all right, love you guys.

01:28:05 Thanks for tuning in.

01:28:06 God bless.

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The NXR Podcast - November 16, 2022

BONUS - Takeaways from the Midterm Election for Christians

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