DAILY TRUTH - Baptists Need To Start Thinking Covenantally
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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches us about the Christian family, marriage, and the Christian nation. Is marriage a Christian contract between one biological man and one female? Or is it a neutral Christian contract?
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. A part of the problem in the evangelical church today,
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we have no theological framework for corporate truths,
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I do think in terms of individuals at least in one sense.
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And that one sense, again, is in terms of the new covenant.
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I believe that the new covenant is a covenant of grace,
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not just one particular administration of a larger banner of the covenant of grace
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but that the new covenant is synonymous with the covenant of grace
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and it is therefore the only eternally saving covenant
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and that that particular covenant is established with individual people
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all the rest of my thinking, my theological thinking, political thinking, cultural thinking
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is corporate. And I think that the problem, if I might be so bold to say, with my Presbyterian
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brothers and sisters is that they attempt to stretch the new covenant to encompass every
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single scenario that we could possibly think of. Christian nationalism, let me just stretch that
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new covenant. A mere Christendom, let's stretch it a little bit further. Now the problem with
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Baptists is that Baptists pretend as though they won't stretch the new covenant. They're very
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committed to the new covenant being only what it's meant to be. And I agree in that sense.
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But I disagree with my Baptist brothers in the sense that although I think they have the proper
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view of the new covenant. The problem is that they pretend that that's the only covenant that
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currently exists. They think that there's a new covenant that has been established by Christ,
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with Christ appointed by God as the federal head, the representative, the head of this covenant,
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and it's with individuals, and the only access, the entrance, the door into this new covenant
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Now to that, I would say that Baptists are stupid.
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So I don't think that we need to use the new covenant
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and rearrange its theological parameters and definitions
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I think that we can simply speak of other covenants.
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And here's the one example that I would provide.
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And I think all I need is one in order to make my case.
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One covenant that I would provide as an example would be marriage.
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I'm talking about human marriage between one biological man, a.k.a. one man.
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Now, this is not merely an arrangement, a civil arrangement, a business contract, but according to Scripture, it is a covenant.
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My next question would be this, that in the case of two Christians who are married, in this marriage covenant, should it be viewed as a Christian covenant?
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Do you have a Christian marriage, or is it a neutral covenant?
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Is it a neutral marriage in which you simply seek to live out Christian faithfulness,
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They seem foreign within the realm of Scripture.
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If you are a Christian and you're married,
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In fact, I'll see your point and raise you one further.
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However, according to the Apostle Paul, you don't even need two Christians in the marriage to make it a Christian marriage.
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In fact, even further, according to the Apostle Paul, who I might add was a big fan of patriarchy,
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you could actually have even the woman who is not actually head of the marriage being a Christian and her husband not being a Christian.
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in terms of what it means for children to be holy,
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I don't believe that what the Apostle Paul is saying
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their position is that Paul is merely saying that that if you have a marriage with at least
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one Christian spouse, that this makes the marriage legitimate and therefore the children
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are legitimate. Well, that can't be what the apostle Paul is saying, because if it is,
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then in any marriage that has zero Christians, like a marriage between two atheists or a marriage
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between two Muslims, still in terms of biblical marriage, a man and a woman, you would have to
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say that the children of those marriages are bastards. And I don't believe that that's true.
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That even children born into a marriage between two Muslims are still legitimate children,
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and that marriage between two Muslims, man and wife, is a legitimate marriage. A Christian
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marriage no but a legitimate marriage because marriage is given as an institution by God not
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just to Christian people but to all people and so what Paul must mean in terms of the children
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being holy is not just that the children are legitimate because a marriage between two people
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with at least one of them being a Christian makes the marriage legitimate and therefore their
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offspring are legitimate as well. Now, I don't believe that's what he's saying. Holy, I'll at
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leave you with this to ponder, holy must mean more than that. The children being holy, if that's what
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he means, legitimate children, then he should have said that the husband can be an unbeliever and the
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wife can be an unbeliever. But so long as it's a man and a woman joined in marriage, the children
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are holy, if holy merely means legitimate. But the apostle says, no, there has to at least be
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one of them that's redeemed. And if one of them is redeemed, that one redeemed spouse is enough
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to, in a sense, redeem the other so that their offspring and the fruit of that marriage would be
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redeemed, using redeemed in quotation marks now, but redeemed holy offspring, sanctified offspring.
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So all this being said, marriage would be an example not of a contract, not of a mere civil
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arrangement, but a covenant, and it is not the covenant of works, and it is not the new covenant
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either so there are such a thing as covenants outside of those two so when we think in terms
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of nations being christian we can use covenant theology to encompass that paradigm
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fight by flight why leaving godless places is loving godless places i've had a lot of people
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tell me recently, Pastor Joel, you're post-millennial. You claim to believe that Jesus
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is king of every square inch, but apparently you don't think he's king of California because I've
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heard your personal story that you used to be a pastor there and that you left for the state of
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Texas. Notice the title, not fight or flight, but fight by flight. Think of the prodigal son.
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He's longing to be fed with the pods given to the pigs.
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No member of the father's house tracked him down to give him a handout.
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He had to lie in the bed that he had made for himself by his foolish choices.
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You know what the next words in that parable are?
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No one gave him anything and he came to his senses.
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he began to repent there are 10 million professing christians currently living in the state of
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california what if they're fighting but at the same time while well-intentioned they're also
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funding what if california could be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there
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but leaving there and forcing gavin newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to
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