The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Conservatives Always Lose Because They Never Finish The Fight

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00:00:25.480 God placed dragons and giants in this world

00:00:32.960 Precisely so that we can slay them

00:00:37.220 That's why they're here 0.99

00:00:39.680 Like sometimes, I forget who said it

00:00:43.700 I think it was at a Grace Agenda conference

00:00:46.060 At Christchurch

00:00:47.400 But somebody was talking about education

00:00:50.320 And classical education

00:00:51.480 And training children

00:00:52.780 and they said, you know, it's nerve-wracking as a parent

00:00:56.640 thinking that the world that we grew up in

00:00:59.560 is not the world that our children are growing up in.

00:01:04.180 Things were, you know, there was always sin,

00:01:06.800 but things are far less safe today

00:01:09.080 than they were 50 years ago,

00:01:11.680 than they were even just 20 years ago.

00:01:14.560 I mean, even with your children playing outside,

00:01:16.920 there's certain precautions you have to take

00:01:18.800 that when you were a kid, your parents didn't take.

00:01:21.160 And it's not because your parents were negligent.

00:01:22.560 It's not because they didn't love you.

00:01:23.740 It's because the world was safer.

00:01:26.080 So you just go out and run around and do this and do that

00:01:28.680 and be home by, you know, the mom comes out

00:01:31.060 with a dinner bell or whatever.

00:01:32.440 You're home by five and nobody's worried.

00:01:35.600 Nobody's worried about kidnapping or this

00:01:37.600 or, you know, God forbid, you know, whatever.

00:01:39.880 But the world is different.

00:01:41.840 The world has become dangerous.

00:01:43.740 And in this conference and talking about, you know,

00:01:46.220 training children and classical education,

00:01:48.160 it was really encouraging

00:01:49.360 because it's easy to just be hopeless, right?

00:01:52.180 The first option that you have, kind of like red pill, blue pill, and I'm talking about

00:01:57.180 like the matrix analogy, Neo, you know, you can take the blue pill and you'll go back

00:02:00.540 to sleep, get plugged back up into the matrix and, you know, and just ignore all the problems

00:02:05.120 in the world, right?

00:02:06.460 That's if you take the blue pill.

00:02:07.420 The red pill is you're going to get unplugged from the matrix and you're going to know all

00:02:10.900 the problems.

00:02:11.800 And that's been happening these last few years.

00:02:14.040 In a proverbial sense, a lot of people are taking that red pill and waking up and they're

00:02:17.980 like, oh my goodness.

00:02:18.960 like we were we were asleep at the wheel for a long time but there's some nefarious um players

00:02:24.880 in this game and this is happening that's happening we were lied to about this the

00:02:28.440 difference between a conspiracy and the truth is approximately three to six months like people

00:02:32.800 are waking up people are waking up here's the problem though people are taking this red pill

00:02:37.900 and waking up it's quickly followed by a black pill a lot of people are waking up you you talk

00:02:44.420 to them or you read them on social media or whatever and all they talk about is just how

00:02:48.340 things are hopeless. And if they have any hope at all, it's in a rapture. Jesus is going to come

00:02:54.880 back and rapture us. And it's probably going to be in the next, you know, 20 to 30 minutes.

00:02:59.360 And that's it. That's the only hope. Everything that they say, this is happening. It's going to

00:03:04.140 happen. There's nothing you can do to stop it. It's going to get really bad. In fact, it's going

00:03:07.980 to get worse. And it's like, but we just, but we pat ourselves on our back and we pride ourselves

00:03:12.860 not because we're strong, not because we have a plan, not because we could win, but just because

00:03:17.940 we know. Like, I'm, hey, follow me. Why? You have a plan for victory? No, because I know

00:03:24.860 how bad things are, and I know the most bad things. Like, the entire ministries,

00:03:32.180 entire organizations, entire social media pages, all websites and institutes, all geared around

00:03:38.520 that. That's just the conservative play, but what do the conservatives do? Conservatives boast

00:03:43.640 and being fully aware about how we're going to lose.

00:03:47.600 Oh, we're losing now.

00:03:48.580 We're also going to lose a little bit later

00:03:50.580 and we're going to lose precisely in this way

00:03:52.420 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:03:53.660 And we don't build.

00:03:55.460 We beg.

00:03:56.880 We beg for donations.

00:03:58.980 We sound the alarm for boycotts.

00:04:02.540 So the playbook for conservatives is this.

00:04:06.020 Number one, and you can't skip this step.

00:04:07.880 It's imperative to the conservative playbook.

00:04:09.980 Get beat, lose.

00:04:11.700 And conservatives are fantastic at that.

00:04:13.320 so first you lose you get beat then then you bemoan you complain about how bad the world

00:04:20.000 then you beg right you beg for donations you boycott right and and then and then you get

00:04:27.280 beat again and you just and it's a cycle and starts back over that's that's it but for those

00:04:34.280 of us who have a hopeful eschatology those of us who believe that christ wins and not winning

00:04:39.220 despite a weak, shriveling church,

00:04:41.480 but that he wins actually progressively

00:04:43.460 throughout human history through his church,

00:04:46.460 that I will build, not just sustain my church

00:04:48.840 as it's on the ropes,

00:04:49.860 but I'll actually build, advance, increase my church.

00:04:52.860 And the gates of Hades, meaning hell is on the defensive.

00:04:55.960 Gates are not weaponry.

00:04:57.060 They're defensive measures.

00:04:58.500 The church is on the offense.

00:05:00.080 It's building and growing and hell on the defense.

00:05:03.320 Its gates will not be able to sustain

00:05:05.560 the battering ram of the church of Jesus Christ 0.90

00:05:08.920 as he builds it. Those of us who believe that way, that the church, Christ is victorious through the

00:05:14.940 church. We all, if you're a Christian, you believe Christ wins. The question is this, do you believe

00:05:18.700 Christ wins despite a losing church or Christ wins progressively throughout human history through

00:05:24.060 a building church? I believe the latter. So for us, we've taken the red pill. We don't believe

00:05:31.060 this because we're naive. We don't think, hey, we're winning because we're ostriches with our

00:05:35.380 head in the sand and we we don't know about you know the world economic forum and we don't know

00:05:39.880 about this and we don't know no we know we're aware things are bad we get it but at a certain

00:05:46.500 point you got to move the conversation from things are bad to how do we win how do we win

00:05:53.140 the red pill is necessary don't take a blue pill and go to sleep again get plugged back you got to

00:05:59.380 take the red pill but here's here's the vital piece of information that a lot of evangelicals

00:06:03.980 are missing. You follow up the red pill, not with the black pill of despair, but with the white pill

00:06:09.620 of hope that Christ wins through his church. And that's what we see with Israel. Israel doesn't 0.54

00:06:16.980 just attack, but they run them down. They finish the fight. They don't just leave in the name of 0.94

00:06:22.820 empathy, in the name of love, in the name of inclusion, in the name of this, in the name of

00:06:26.780 that. They don't leave their enemies to regroup and regather and re-multiply and strengthen and

00:06:32.600 then take them out at a future time. No, they finish the fight. And God, the whole reason why

00:06:38.120 the sun, I don't want us to miss this, the reason why God actually answers a man, it's a big deal.

00:06:44.040 Joshua, the Lord, it says, never since that day has the Lord heeded the word of a man. Think about

00:06:49.040 why. The whole reason God, the God of the universe, heeded the word of a man to stop the sun and the

00:06:55.320 moon and the sky, to lengthen the day, there's one reason, so that his enemies could be further

00:07:01.120 slaughtered. So we're talking about a miraculous, unique event in all of biblical history with the

00:07:09.320 sole purpose of more killing of bad guys. That's the purpose. Why? Because God is glorious and he

00:07:18.880 loves his people. That's why. God is glorious and he loves his people. And he does not want his

00:07:24.880 people to be slaughtered in the future because they wounded the snake but didn't cut off its head.

00:07:31.120 because they gave certain blows, but not the death blow.

00:07:36.680 And I'm not advocating to take this in a literal sense.

00:07:39.460 I'm not talking about taking up arms.

00:07:41.140 Again, disclaimer, disclaimer.

00:07:42.520 What I'm saying, though, is that as Christians,

00:07:45.460 when it comes to legislation, when it comes to culture,

00:07:48.720 when it comes to education, when it comes to family,

00:07:51.440 when it comes to doctrine,

00:07:52.740 when it comes to sin in our own individual lives,

00:07:55.120 as we seek to mortify sin in sanctification at every level,

00:07:59.740 let's give the death blow don't be satisfied to sequester and subdue and quarantine sin

00:08:08.380 kill it don't be satisfied to say well we've got a heartbeat law no no no abolish abortion 0.72

00:08:16.580 don't be satisfied to say well our public school is not too bad i mean they teach some evolution 0.57

00:08:21.800 and there's no mention of jesus and the last teacher that mentioned jesus she got fired but

00:08:25.960 No, no, no, no. Christian education. There is no neutral. At every level, run them down.

00:08:34.260 That's what the Israelites did. That's why God stopped the day, simply so there would be more 1.00

00:08:40.080 time for his children to run down their adversaries, to thoroughly defeat them, so that his people might

00:08:47.320 flourish in the land. And that's what we're called to do in a political sense, a cultural sense,

00:08:53.800 a spiritual sense, a moral sense in our own lives and sanctification at every level.

00:08:59.460 That is a lesson for us not to miss.

The NXR Podcast - September 01, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Conservatives Always Lose Because They Never Finish The Fight

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