The NXR Podcast - QUESTIONS - How Do I Start A Christian Podcast On Politics？

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00:00:43.720 Forge and Hanvoom. All right. Any advice for a newish podcaster covering politics?

00:00:49.560 it's a good question uh newish podcasts are covering politics uh my my best advice

00:00:57.260 uh would be you know and this gets to my theology um but my best advice is that uh

00:01:06.600 that you would be a theonomist um meaning that uh and that you would be kyperian

00:01:13.540 and that you would be post-millennial and that you would be deeply and robustly reformed

00:01:19.540 um, that you would be presuppositional, that you would be patriarchal. Um, I'm listing, you know,

00:01:27.520 some of the primary tenants of my own theology. Um, and what I'm saying is if you're going to do

00:01:35.740 a podcast on anything really, but, but especially, you know, in line with the question, if you're

00:01:41.200 going to do a political commentary from a Christian worldview, my advice is first to have,

00:01:47.840 actually have a christian worldview if you're going to do a podcast on politics as a christian

00:01:53.380 then um have good theology please please we do not need another classical liberal

00:02:02.400 uh soft big eva barely christian podcast on politics that talks about you know well

00:02:12.480 you know they're trans and kids again yeah yeah they are what's the solution well if we could

00:02:18.160 just get back to classical liberalism you know and and just a total free speech where you know

00:02:24.320 and and principled pluralism you know you know pluralism right which is just a placeholder and

00:02:30.160 euphemism for polytheism where we we just we worship many gods so christians can keep their 0.91

00:02:36.020 god and the pagans can have their gods and you know like we don't need that get that garbage out 0.96

00:02:41.900 of here, right? If that's your podcast, and I mean, no disrespect, I'm not trying to be harsh, 0.60

00:02:46.380 but if that's your podcast, do the world a favor and delete it. We don't need that. So my best

00:02:51.960 advice to a Christian who is trying to apply the scripture to the civil realm, to the political

00:02:59.920 realm, do it with good theology. And for those who are listening and say, well, we just don't

00:03:05.960 need podcasts about politics from a Christian worldview at all. You're wrong. You just, you're

00:03:10.500 wrong. And you need to repent because you're really wrong. And you're hurting. You are hurting

00:03:15.680 the church. You're doing us no favors. No, it's all of Christ for all of life. There's not one

00:03:24.560 square inch of all the world that Christ Jesus doesn't cry out, mine. It's a blood-bought world.

00:03:32.820 It all belongs to King Jesus, right? It's not like the Lion King in Disney where Simba wakes up early

00:03:38.780 in the morning, right? Excited for his dad, the King Mufasa to show him all the extent of his

00:03:46.020 kingdom. And they walk up to the edge of pride rock and Mufasa says, Simba, everything the light

00:03:53.040 touches is your kingdom. All of this will be yours. And Simba says, but what about that dark

00:03:57.840 shadowy place over there, right? To which big Eva answers, well, that's the realm of politics.

00:04:03.200 and Jesus' kingdom is not of this world. 1.00

00:04:05.620 Stop that garbage. 0.99

00:04:08.020 Jesus' kingdom is not of this world. 0.99

00:04:10.400 The Bible never said that Jesus' kingdom

00:04:12.360 is not in this world.

00:04:14.620 When the Bible says, when Christ says,

00:04:16.720 my kingdom is not of this world,

00:04:18.140 what he's saying is that I don't do business.

00:04:20.660 I don't rule in the same way, in the same methods,

00:04:23.960 in the same manner that the rulers of this earth do, right? 1.00

00:04:27.760 Like the Gentiles who lord it over you, 1.00

00:04:30.120 the Gentile rulers, I don't rule like that. 1.00

00:04:32.500 I have a kingdom that operates on different principles, where the last are first, and 1.00

00:04:38.380 the first shall be last.

00:04:40.180 If you want to be great in my kingdom, become the servant of all.

00:04:43.980 Notice Jesus doesn't say, I don't have a kingdom, or my kingdom is somewhere else in the 17th

00:04:48.520 dimension, and it doesn't apply here.

00:04:50.280 No, Jesus has a kingdom.

00:04:52.240 He is the king.

00:04:53.400 He is ruling now, not just eventually.

00:04:56.020 Right now, he is subjecting one by one his enemies under his feet.

00:04:59.400 He's doing all this through the battering ram of the church, which he didn't merely promise

00:05:04.560 to sustain, but he promised that he would build his church, that is grow, increase his

00:05:10.840 church, that it would be the battering ram of Christ and that hell is not on the offense

00:05:15.940 and we're just shaking the corner, hoping that we can make it to the end of the bottom

00:05:21.740 of the ninth when Christ comes back, or all 12 rounds hanging on the ropes to be saved

00:05:26.860 by the bell.

00:05:27.360 No, the church is increasing.

00:05:29.400 And the gates of hell, that's hell on the defense, are going to be bust down by Christ

00:05:35.640 wielding the battering ram of the church, which he's not just sustaining, but he's building

00:05:40.180 and increasing.

00:05:41.700 The most political statement that's ever been made in all the universe is Christ is Lord.

00:05:48.440 Jesus is Lord.

00:05:50.140 Think about the statement that he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

00:05:54.980 Have you ever wondered who those other Lords are? 0.83

00:05:57.140 Have you ever wondered who those other lowercase k kings are? 0.85

00:06:02.200 Jesus is not just king, but he's king of kings. 0.81

00:06:05.700 Which kings?

00:06:07.620 Jesus is not just king of other kings in heaven.

00:06:11.500 He's the king of other kings on earth.

00:06:15.080 He's the Lord of lords, not just lesser lords of heaven, but the lords on earth, right?

00:06:21.540 This gets a bit spicy for a moment.

00:06:23.080 But remember 1 Peter 3, talking about husbands and wives and the importance of husbands living

00:06:28.640 with their wives in an understanding manner, recognizing that they are the weaker vessel,

00:06:33.520 weaker in one sense, but also equal in terms of value and dignity.

00:06:37.720 They are co-heirs of grace, right?

00:06:40.720 But then he speaks to the wives and talks about the importance of submission and uses

00:06:45.180 as a case study that Christian women today should follow.

00:06:48.660 this example uses Sarah, that she called her husband her Lord. Now, aside from the fact that

00:06:57.500 wives should submit to their husbands at the same way that Sarah submitted to her husband, Abraham,

00:07:03.580 calling him Lord, aside from that spicy little tidbit, my main point is this. Abraham was a Lord.

00:07:12.100 So when the Bible says lowercase l, Lord. So when the Bible says that Jesus is Lord of Lords,

00:07:18.040 and one of the kinds of lords that the Bible is talking about

00:07:22.300 that Jesus is Lord over are husbands.

00:07:26.200 Husbands and fathers are heads of their wives

00:07:30.260 and heads of their children, head of household, right?

00:07:35.540 In the same way that Christ is head of the church, 0.86

00:07:37.320 the husband is the head of his wife 0.66

00:07:39.540 and head of the children.

00:07:41.420 He is a Lord of his home, lowercase l,

00:07:45.840 a lesser, but Lord nonetheless. He is a Lord over his home. So when the Bible says that Jesus is

00:07:53.320 Lord of Lords, one of the kinds or types of Lords that the Bible is talking about is that Jesus is

00:07:59.580 Lord over fathers and husbands. He's also Lord over civil Lords, familial Lords and households

00:08:07.340 and ecclesiastical Lords, elders and deacons ruling in the church realm. Jesus is Lord of Lords. So

00:08:15.600 his kingdom is not of this world. That is, he doesn't operate on their principles and their

00:08:21.080 ways, but his kingdom is in this world. Jesus' Lord is a political statement, the most political

00:08:28.320 statement, and he is Lord of lords. That means that he is reigning over earthly lords and king

00:08:34.040 of kings, reigning over earthly kings. And Jesus, his kingdom is growing by leaps and bounds. He is

00:08:41.620 building his church and he doesn't fail. Christ doesn't fail. And it is progressively growing as

00:08:49.140 he subjects his enemies one by one, even now under his feet and his last enemy to defeat is death.

00:08:56.080 It is not as though the church loses, right? It is not as though the godless culture continues to

00:09:05.520 to just win and win and win. It becomes bigger and stronger. And the church just dwindles,

00:09:12.860 this little remnant hanging on, you know, barely making it in the world. And then Jesus comes back

00:09:18.340 and conquers death and then conquers all his other enemies too. Now, see, that's the reverse 0.87

00:09:22.280 order. Death is the last. The Bible says the last enemy is death, which means, and death we know is

00:09:31.340 conquered upon Jesus' final physical return. So when he returns, Jesus is going to conquer death

00:09:38.500 and death is his last enemy to conquer, which means that the other enemies are being conquered

00:09:45.880 in this church age through the power of the gospel and the expanse of the church, right?

00:09:53.060 That's what the great commission is. It's to make disciples of nations, baptizing them into the name

00:09:59.800 of the triune God, the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and we always forget

00:10:04.760 this part, teaching them not just the gospel, not just making converts, not just the work of an

00:10:09.440 evangelist, but also teaching them to obey all my commands. Do the commands of Christ have civil

00:10:16.300 applications? Do obeying the commands of Christ have application in the civil realm? Do they have

00:10:25.940 economic applications, right? Can I obey the commands of Christ and disciple others and teach

00:10:31.180 others to obey the commands of Christ, but tell them that when it comes to markets, when it comes

00:10:35.160 to economies, the commands of Christ are irrelevant. The economy is a neutral realm

00:10:41.260 where the commands of Christ aren't applicable. And so you can steal and rob. You can put together

00:10:50.360 certain economies and certain systems in the political realm, like socialism, that actually

00:10:55.280 that actually legislates civil theft

00:10:58.820 where I can, out of envy,

00:11:00.400 I can take what belongs to my neighbor

00:11:02.060 that he's earned and take it for myself

00:11:04.440 and say, but because it's in the economic

00:11:07.400 and political realm and it's not in my household,

00:11:10.880 you know, in my home, you know,

00:11:12.900 we obey the commands of Christ.

00:11:14.820 And in the church, we obey the commands of Christ

00:11:17.480 and teach others to do likewise.

00:11:19.460 But over here, it doesn't count.

00:11:22.540 It's just bad theology.

00:11:24.060 Of course that's wrong.

00:11:25.280 Of course that's wrong. So how do you have a good podcast on politics? Well, the first thing is I

00:11:31.100 don't want to hear your political take if you're not good with theology. And that's part of the

00:11:37.800 problem. I'll say this, like the Daily Wire, people will tease me and say, that guy looks

00:11:44.020 like Matt Walsh. And what I'll say is, well, I'm Matt Walsh, except there's two differences. One,

00:11:48.440 I'm the budget version of Matt Walsh. So you can get me for a lot cheaper and I can build a studio

00:11:53.900 for 15 grand instead of, you know, a million. But not only am I the budget version, you know,

00:11:59.020 I say this tongue in cheek, but I'm also the Protestant version of Matt Walsh, aka I'm Matt

00:12:06.100 Walsh, but with good theology. And I like Matt Walsh. I'm grateful for, you know, what is a

00:12:11.280 woman and some of the things that he's done, you know, and he does some things I agree with. Not 1.00

00:12:17.560 all of his theology is whack, but his theology is still kind of whack. He's a Roman Catholic. 1.00

00:12:25.640 He doesn't have great theology. And so, he's got some really good, and I praise God for his common

00:12:31.780 grace in that regard. He's got some really good, Matt Walsh has some really good common sense

00:12:36.380 takes on politics. And in a world that's gone completely insane and lost its mind, you know,

00:12:44.180 i'll take it praise god i'll take what we can get um but matt walsh can only get us so far

00:12:51.540 because he doesn't have sound really truly biblically sound doctrine and so if you want

00:12:59.880 a good podcast it's beneficial um for people it's not wasting their time on politics before you

00:13:07.840 focus on being up to date with all the latest political affairs and being a good politician

00:13:12.620 be a good theologian be a good theologian be patriarchal don't be a feminist

00:13:20.540 be able when they talk about drafting women and that's a political issue be able to say

00:13:26.820 why that's wrong why this political event is morally wrong because of this theological reason

00:13:33.920 because of patriarchy because men are called to protect and provide and be able to go further

00:13:41.820 and talk about some of the privileges of those who can be drafted. If you can be drafted

00:13:48.180 to defend your nation, then you have certain rights that others who cannot be drafted,

00:13:54.340 but rather will be protected, that they should not have. There's another 19th Amendment thing

00:14:01.200 for you. All that being said, all that being said, my point is, if you want to have a good

00:14:06.400 political podcast, be a good theologian, be patriarchal, be presuppositional, be Kuyperian.

00:14:13.720 What I mean by Kuyperian, Abraham Kuyper, he's the guy who has the famous line that I cited

00:14:18.860 earlier, not a single square inch of all the world that Christ doesn't cry out, mine. So Kuyperianism 0.75

00:14:25.580 in a nutshell is the idea that we want to apply the whole counsel of God to the whole of human

00:14:30.860 society, not just the church in the home, but every realm, economics, politics, art, all these

00:14:36.160 different things. So Kuyperianism in a sentence is all of Christ for all of life, right? So be

00:14:42.620 Kuyperian, be presuppositional, be patriarchal, be post-millennial. Everything I said about the 0.98

00:14:49.640 battering ram of the church and Christ building his church and the gates of hell, hell is on the

00:14:54.660 defense, will not prevail against it. If you want to do a good political podcast, be a good theologian.

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The NXR Podcast - February 11, 2023

QUESTIONS - How Do I Start A Christian Podcast On Politics？

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