The NXR Podcast - February 11, 2023


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


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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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00:00:00.000 All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
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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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