The NXR Podcast - February 11, 2023


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

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Matt Walsh Abraham Kuyper Simba Kuyperianism Kuyperian Sarah Notice Jesus King Jesus Joe Biden Gentiles Hanvoom
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In this episode, we talk about political commentary from a Christian worldview and why we don't need more liberal political commentary. We also talk about why Jesus' kingdom is not of this world and why you should be the servant of all great in His kingdom.

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00:00:43 Forge and Hanvoom. All right. Any advice for a newish podcaster covering politics?
00:00:49 it's a good question uh newish podcasts are covering politics uh my my best advice
00:00:57 uh would be you know and this gets to my theology um but my best advice is that uh
00:01:06 that you would be a theonomist um meaning that uh and that you would be kyperian
00:01:13 and that you would be post-millennial and that you would be deeply and robustly reformed
00:01:19 um, that you would be presuppositional, that you would be patriarchal. Um, I'm listing, you know,
00:01:27 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 a podcast on anything really, but, but especially, you know, in line with the question, if you're
00:01:41 going to do a political commentary from a Christian worldview, my advice is first to have,
00:01:47 actually have a christian worldview if you're going to do a podcast on politics as a christian
00:01:53 then um have good theology please please we do not need another classical liberal
00:02:02 uh soft big eva barely christian podcast on politics that talks about you know well
00:02:12 you know they're trans and kids again yeah yeah they are what's the solution well if we could
00:02:18 just get back to classical liberalism you know and and just a total free speech where you know
00:02:24 and and principled pluralism you know you know pluralism right which is just a placeholder and
00:02:30 euphemism for polytheism where we we just we worship many gods so christians can keep their 0.91
00:02:36 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 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 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 advice to a Christian who is trying to apply the scripture to the civil realm, to the political
00:02:59 realm, do it with good theology. And for those who are listening and say, well, we just don't
00:03:05 need podcasts about politics from a Christian worldview at all. You're wrong. You just, you're
00:03:10 wrong. And you need to repent because you're really wrong. And you're hurting. You are hurting
00:03:15 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 square inch of all the world that Christ Jesus doesn't cry out, mine. It's a blood-bought world.
00:03:32 It all belongs to King Jesus, right? It's not like the Lion King in Disney where Simba wakes up early
00:03:38 in the morning, right? Excited for his dad, the King Mufasa to show him all the extent of his
00:03:46 kingdom. And they walk up to the edge of pride rock and Mufasa says, Simba, everything the light
00:03:53 touches is your kingdom. All of this will be yours. And Simba says, but what about that dark
00:03:57 shadowy place over there, right? To which big Eva answers, well, that's the realm of politics.
00:04:03 and Jesus' kingdom is not of this world. 1.00
00:04:05 Stop that garbage. 0.99
00:04:08 Jesus' kingdom is not of this world. 0.99
00:04:10 The Bible never said that Jesus' kingdom
00:04:12 is not in this world.
00:04:14 When the Bible says, when Christ says,
00:04:16 my kingdom is not of this world,
00:04:18 what he's saying is that I don't do business.
00:04:20 I don't rule in the same way, in the same methods,
00:04:23 in the same manner that the rulers of this earth do, right? 1.00
00:04:27 Like the Gentiles who lord it over you, 1.00
00:04:30 the Gentile rulers, I don't rule like that. 1.00
00:04:32 I have a kingdom that operates on different principles, where the last are first, and 1.00
00:04:38 the first shall be last.
00:04:40 If you want to be great in my kingdom, become the servant of all.
00:04:43 Notice Jesus doesn't say, I don't have a kingdom, or my kingdom is somewhere else in the 17th
00:04:48 dimension, and it doesn't apply here.
00:04:50 No, Jesus has a kingdom.
00:04:52 He is the king.
00:04:53 He is ruling now, not just eventually.
00:04:56 Right now, he is subjecting one by one his enemies under his feet.
00:04:59 He's doing all this through the battering ram of the church, which he didn't merely promise
00:05:04 to sustain, but he promised that he would build his church, that is grow, increase his
00:05:10 church, that it would be the battering ram of Christ and that hell is not on the offense
00:05:15 and we're just shaking the corner, hoping that we can make it to the end of the bottom
00:05:21 of the ninth when Christ comes back, or all 12 rounds hanging on the ropes to be saved
00:05:26 by the bell.
00:05:27 No, the church is increasing.
00:05:29 And the gates of hell, that's hell on the defense, are going to be bust down by Christ
00:05:35 wielding the battering ram of the church, which he's not just sustaining, but he's building
00:05:40 and increasing.
00:05:41 The most political statement that's ever been made in all the universe is Christ is Lord.
00:05:48 Jesus is Lord.
00:05:50 Think about the statement that he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
00:05:54 Have you ever wondered who those other Lords are? 0.83
00:05:57 Have you ever wondered who those other lowercase k kings are? 0.85
00:06:02 Jesus is not just king, but he's king of kings. 0.81
00:06:05 Which kings?
00:06:07 Jesus is not just king of other kings in heaven.
00:06:11 He's the king of other kings on earth.
00:06:15 He's the Lord of lords, not just lesser lords of heaven, but the lords on earth, right?
00:06:21 This gets a bit spicy for a moment.
00:06:23 But remember 1 Peter 3, talking about husbands and wives and the importance of husbands living
00:06:28 with their wives in an understanding manner, recognizing that they are the weaker vessel,
00:06:33 weaker in one sense, but also equal in terms of value and dignity.
00:06:37 They are co-heirs of grace, right?
00:06:40 But then he speaks to the wives and talks about the importance of submission and uses
00:06:45 as a case study that Christian women today should follow.
00:06:48 this example uses Sarah, that she called her husband her Lord. Now, aside from the fact that
00:06:57 wives should submit to their husbands at the same way that Sarah submitted to her husband, Abraham,
00:07:03 calling him Lord, aside from that spicy little tidbit, my main point is this. Abraham was a Lord.
00:07:12 So when the Bible says lowercase l, Lord. So when the Bible says that Jesus is Lord of Lords,
00:07:18 and one of the kinds of lords that the Bible is talking about
00:07:22 that Jesus is Lord over are husbands.
00:07:26 Husbands and fathers are heads of their wives
00:07:30 and heads of their children, head of household, right?
00:07:35 In the same way that Christ is head of the church, 0.86
00:07:37 the husband is the head of his wife 0.66
00:07:39 and head of the children.
00:07:41 He is a Lord of his home, lowercase l,
00:07:45 a lesser, but Lord nonetheless. He is a Lord over his home. So when the Bible says that Jesus is
00:07:53 Lord of Lords, one of the kinds or types of Lords that the Bible is talking about is that Jesus is
00:07:59 Lord over fathers and husbands. He's also Lord over civil Lords, familial Lords and households
00:08:07 and ecclesiastical Lords, elders and deacons ruling in the church realm. Jesus is Lord of Lords. So
00:08:15 his kingdom is not of this world. That is, he doesn't operate on their principles and their
00:08:21 ways, but his kingdom is in this world. Jesus' Lord is a political statement, the most political
00:08:28 statement, and he is Lord of lords. That means that he is reigning over earthly lords and king
00:08:34 of kings, reigning over earthly kings. And Jesus, his kingdom is growing by leaps and bounds. He is
00:08:41 building his church and he doesn't fail. Christ doesn't fail. And it is progressively growing as
00:08:49 he subjects his enemies one by one, even now under his feet and his last enemy to defeat is death.
00:08:56 It is not as though the church loses, right? It is not as though the godless culture continues to
00:09:05 to just win and win and win. It becomes bigger and stronger. And the church just dwindles,
00:09:12 this little remnant hanging on, you know, barely making it in the world. And then Jesus comes back
00:09:18 and conquers death and then conquers all his other enemies too. Now, see, that's the reverse 0.87
00:09:22 order. Death is the last. The Bible says the last enemy is death, which means, and death we know is
00:09:31 conquered upon Jesus' final physical return. So when he returns, Jesus is going to conquer death
00:09:38 and death is his last enemy to conquer, which means that the other enemies are being conquered
00:09:45 in this church age through the power of the gospel and the expanse of the church, right?
00:09:53 That's what the great commission is. It's to make disciples of nations, baptizing them into the name
00:09:59 of the triune God, the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and we always forget
00:10:04 this part, teaching them not just the gospel, not just making converts, not just the work of an
00:10:09 evangelist, but also teaching them to obey all my commands. Do the commands of Christ have civil
00:10:16 applications? Do obeying the commands of Christ have application in the civil realm? Do they have
00:10:25 economic applications, right? Can I obey the commands of Christ and disciple others and teach
00:10:31 others to obey the commands of Christ, but tell them that when it comes to markets, when it comes
00:10:35 to economies, the commands of Christ are irrelevant. The economy is a neutral realm
00:10:41 where the commands of Christ aren't applicable. And so you can steal and rob. You can put together
00:10:50 certain economies and certain systems in the political realm, like socialism, that actually
00:10:55 that actually legislates civil theft
00:10:58 where I can, out of envy,
00:11:00 I can take what belongs to my neighbor
00:11:02 that he's earned and take it for myself
00:11:04 and say, but because it's in the economic
00:11:07 and political realm and it's not in my household,
00:11:10 you know, in my home, you know,
00:11:12 we obey the commands of Christ.
00:11:14 And in the church, we obey the commands of Christ
00:11:17 and teach others to do likewise.
00:11:19 But over here, it doesn't count.
00:11:22 It's just bad theology.
00:11:24 Of course that's wrong.
00:11:25 Of course that's wrong. So how do you have a good podcast on politics? Well, the first thing is I
00:11:31 don't want to hear your political take if you're not good with theology. And that's part of the
00:11:37 problem. I'll say this, like the Daily Wire, people will tease me and say, that guy looks
00:11:44 like Matt Walsh. And what I'll say is, well, I'm Matt Walsh, except there's two differences. One,
00:11:48 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 for 15 grand instead of, you know, a million. But not only am I the budget version, you know,
00:11:59 I say this tongue in cheek, but I'm also the Protestant version of Matt Walsh, aka I'm Matt
00:12:06 Walsh, but with good theology. And I like Matt Walsh. I'm grateful for, you know, what is a
00:12:11 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 all of his theology is whack, but his theology is still kind of whack. He's a Roman Catholic. 1.00
00:12:25 He doesn't have great theology. And so, he's got some really good, and I praise God for his common
00:12:31 grace in that regard. He's got some really good, Matt Walsh has some really good common sense
00:12:36 takes on politics. And in a world that's gone completely insane and lost its mind, you know,
00:12:44 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 because he doesn't have sound really truly biblically sound doctrine and so if you want
00:12:59 a good podcast it's beneficial um for people it's not wasting their time on politics before you
00:13:07 focus on being up to date with all the latest political affairs and being a good politician
00:13:12 be a good theologian be a good theologian be patriarchal don't be a feminist
00:13:20 be able when they talk about drafting women and that's a political issue be able to say
00:13:26 why that's wrong why this political event is morally wrong because of this theological reason
00:13:33 because of patriarchy because men are called to protect and provide and be able to go further
00:13:41 and talk about some of the privileges of those who can be drafted. If you can be drafted
00:13:48 to defend your nation, then you have certain rights that others who cannot be drafted,
00:13:54 but rather will be protected, that they should not have. There's another 19th Amendment thing
00:14:01 for you. All that being said, all that being said, my point is, if you want to have a good
00:14:06 political podcast, be a good theologian, be patriarchal, be presuppositional, be Kuyperian.
00:14:13 What I mean by Kuyperian, Abraham Kuyper, he's the guy who has the famous line that I cited
00:14:18 earlier, not a single square inch of all the world that Christ doesn't cry out, mine. So Kuyperianism 0.75
00:14:25 in a nutshell is the idea that we want to apply the whole counsel of God to the whole of human
00:14:30 society, not just the church in the home, but every realm, economics, politics, art, all these
00:14:36 different things. So Kuyperianism in a sentence is all of Christ for all of life, right? So be
00:14:42 Kuyperian, be presuppositional, be patriarchal, be post-millennial. Everything I said about the 0.98
00:14:49 battering ram of the church and Christ building his church and the gates of hell, hell is on the
00:14:54 defense, will not prevail against it. If you want to do a good political podcast, be a good theologian.
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