The NXR Podcast - April 09, 2023


SUNDAY SERMON - How The Resurrection Destroys Marxism, Communism, & Envy

Topics
resurrection of Jesus envy
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Paul Muhammad Mary William Wallace William Tyndale Kenneth Gintry Jesus Christ John Bunyan Rush Dooney Joe Biden Valhalla Hebrews Beowulf Sabbath Joshua George Joseph David Adam Noah and 1 more
QUESTIONS - Are Hip Pastors Who Wear Hats At Church In Sin？ DAILY TRUTH - You’ll NEVER Get Rid Of Your Anxiety, Unless You Do THIS ONE SIMPLE THING!

Episode Stats


Length

58 minutes

Words per minute

120.48

Word count

7,008

Sentence count

310

Harmful content

Misogyny

5

sentences flagged

Toxicity

29

sentences flagged

Hate speech

48

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

If Christ has not been raised, then our faith is empty and useless. If it is true that the dead are not raised from the dead, then there is no hope in this life, and if Christ is not raised then we are of all people most to be pitied.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Topics generated with Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct.
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
00:00:02 Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
00:00:04 because you're spending your cash and your lives
00:00:07 on raising young children
00:00:08 in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
00:00:10 Praise God for you and that endeavor.
00:00:13 However, algorithms are a thing.
00:00:16 Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing.
00:00:18 And one major way that you can help to expand
00:00:21 the reach and effectiveness of this ministry
00:00:24 that doesn't cost you a dime
00:00:25 is by spending just a few moments
00:00:28 leaving us a five-star review.
00:00:31 Also, perhaps even more effective than that,
00:00:34 you can share our podcast with a friend.
00:00:36 We hope you'll take the time to do so.
00:00:38 Thank you so much.
00:00:39 God bless.
00:00:41 Please join me in standing for the reading of God's word.
00:00:44 Our text for today is 1 Corinthians chapter 15,
00:00:47 verses 12 through 19.
00:00:50 If you're joining us for the first time,
00:00:52 our plan, starting next Lord's Day,
00:00:54 Lord willing, is to begin an expositional preaching series through the book of Joshua.
00:01:00 But for today, our text is 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verses 12 through 19. I'll read our text for
00:01:07 us in its entirety. When I finish reading the text, I'm going to say, this is the word of the
00:01:11 Lord, at which point I would appreciate very much if you would respond by saying, thanks be to God.
00:01:16 One final time, 1 Corinthians 15, verses 12 through 19, the Bible says this,
00:01:22 but if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead how can some of you say that there is no
00:01:29 resurrection of the dead but if there is no resurrection of the dead then not even Christ
00:01:34 has been raised and if Christ has not been raised then our preaching is in vain and your faith is
00:01:41 in vain we are even found to be misrepresenting God because we testified about God that he raised
00:01:48 Christ whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised for if the dead are not
00:01:55 raised not even Christ has been raised and if Christ has not been raised your faith is futile
00:02:01 and you are still in your sins then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished
00:02:08 if in Christ we have hope in this life only then we are of all people most to be pitied this is
00:02:17 the word of the Lord. Please be seated. In your notes dealing with verses 14 and 15 of our text
00:02:26 I've written the following. If Christ has not been raised then our preaching is both empty and a false
00:02:31 witness against God. And if Christ is not raised our faith is empty and useless. So what were these
00:02:40 people in Corinth then putting their faith in? It should be assumed that many of the Corinthians
00:02:47 trusted in Christ fully. After all, the Apostle Paul, inspired by the Holy Spirit, is writing to
00:02:54 the church. However, it appears that at least some of the Corinthians were like many people today,
00:03:01 who merely believe that Jesus was a great teacher and a worthy example of the way of love. They
00:03:09 believe that the stories of Jesus's resurrection were merely symbols pointing to the triumph
00:03:14 of the human spirit, and that Jesus's influence is what was resurrected and would live on after
00:03:22 his death. They did not say, in other words, they did not say, the resurrection is all a myth,
00:03:30 therefore we must reject it. Rather, like many professing Christians today, they said the 0.61
00:03:37 resurrection is a myth therefore we must reinterpret it. That is where we find ourselves
00:03:45 today with many professing Christians. They simply attempt to reinterpret the resurrection 0.96
00:03:55 of Jesus rather than saying the resurrection of Jesus is not literal it is not physical
00:04:01 it did not actually happen within human history therefore it is of no value they simply attempt
00:04:10 to reinterpret the resurrection to say it doesn't have to be literal it doesn't have to be actual
00:04:16 historical physical in order to have value the value is simply the symbol the metaphor
00:04:24 the value is what we make of it but brothers and sisters if this is the case we do not need
00:04:33 christ we have william wallace for that we have joan of arc for that we have polycarp
00:04:42 we have william tyndale history is rife with examples of men and women predominantly men
00:04:53 who died a martyr's death a loving sacrificial death on behalf of their fellow man people who
00:05:02 paid the ultimate price we have well we have all sorts of individuals just within american history
00:05:11 people who die that's what memorial day is all about someone laying down their life
00:05:18 in the pursuit of duty and freedom and prosperity so that others might live.
00:05:26 But what the Apostle Paul is saying in 1 Corinthians 15 verses 12 through 19
00:05:31 is that Christ's resurrection is much more than merely an example of sacrificial love.
00:05:39 Jesus himself says,
00:05:41 a man has no greater love than this that a man would lay down his life for his friends
00:05:48 it is true scripturally that the cross the crucifixion of jesus is a moral example
00:05:57 of sacrificial love but that is not all that the crucifixion is if that is all that the
00:06:06 crucifixion is, then there is no gospel and there is no salvation. And you and I are still dead in
00:06:14 our sins underneath the white hot wrath of God. Christus Victor is an appropriate view of the
00:06:23 crucifixion. The moral example is an appropriate view of the crucifixion. The ransom atonement
00:06:32 is not an appropriate view of the crucifixion because it raises Satan to a pedestal in height
00:06:41 that he does not deserve, nor does he in actuality achieve. The idea that God would have to pay a
00:06:49 ransom to his enemy in order to take us back. God doesn't have to pay a ransom to Satan in order to
00:06:57 redeem us. God can just crush Satan. You only pay a ransom when you're not able to overcome
00:07:04 your threat. But that is not the case. Jesus is put forward as a ransom of sorts.
00:07:12 The better word would be propitiation, but not to pay Satan, but to pay God.
00:07:19 god the father puts forward god the son as payment to god the father for the atonement
00:07:30 of our sin it is god who needed to be satisfied not the devil it is god's justice that demanded
00:07:41 recompense. There is no forgiveness of sin apart from blood. The book of Hebrews teaches that.
00:07:51 The book of Hebrews also teaches us that the blood of bulls and goats will never take away sin.
00:07:58 So it must be blood, but it cannot be merely the blood of animals. It is the blood of Christ.
00:08:07 It is his atonement, his propitiation, satiating sacrifice, his death, his payment that satisfies
00:08:18 not Satan's wickedness, but rather God's justice so that God who is thrice holy can pardon sinners
00:08:28 without compromising his righteousness. The cross at Calvary in the death of Jesus
00:08:36 is where both the perfect righteousness and justice
00:08:40 as well as mercy and grace of God kiss, as it were,
00:08:46 neither compromising the other.
00:08:50 This is the view of penal substitutionary atonement.
00:08:55 The death of Jesus is an example,
00:08:58 a moral example which we as his disciples
00:09:01 should seek to follow,
00:09:03 that we should be willing to sacrifice our very lives for others.
00:09:10 Sacrificial love, the moral example.
00:09:16 Christus victor, that Christ is raised and ruling and conquering.
00:09:21 This is also true and biblical.
00:09:25 But apart from penal substitutionary atonement,
00:09:28 we lose the entirety of the Christian faith.
00:09:31 It is the heart of the gospel. 0.99
00:09:35 Christ is our substitute.
00:09:37 He did not merely die as example.
00:09:41 He died in our place.
00:09:44 He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
00:09:49 He died as a substitute in your place for your sin.
00:09:55 His death should have been your death.
00:09:57 and his life is not a life that you and I deserve but rather because of God's mercy and grace
00:10:07 we have been granted eternal life and he paid the penalty the wages of our sin which is
00:10:16 death so that we might live forevermore with him. Paul is addressing some I do not believe the
00:10:25 majority but some of the corinthians perhaps in the church but certainly in the broader society
00:10:31 who are saying that the resurrection is a myth that there is no resurrection from the dead
00:10:38 that once you die that's it they are saying this not realizing the implications of that statement
00:10:48 that if the dead are not raised then Christ is not raised and if Christ is not raised
00:10:55 then not only do we not have hope after this life for a life to come but even within this life we
00:11:03 are underneath God's condemnation rather than his forgiveness the apostle Paul links the
00:11:10 resurrection of Jesus to the forgiveness of sins. He links the resurrection of Jesus to the
00:11:19 forgiveness of sins. Now how is this theologically possible? Is it not the death of Jesus that
00:11:27 satisfies the wrath of God? Is it not the shed blood of Jesus in his crucifixion that atones
00:11:34 for sin yes it is however the scripture says that he died for the forgiveness of sins but was raised
00:11:45 for our justification that we might be declared righteous in the court of God what is it about
00:11:54 the resurrection of Jesus that deals with the forgiveness of sins and the justification of
00:12:02 sinners. Going on in your notes, I've written the following. If Christ was not raised, then his
00:12:08 death accomplished nothing for the forgiveness of our sins. And if Christ accomplished nothing to
00:12:14 remove the guilt and condemnation of our sins, then we are still dead in our sins and under the wrath
00:12:21 of God. To be dead in your sins is the opposite of being alive in Christ. When a person is in Christ,
00:12:30 they get what Christ can do for them, namely eternal life. However, when a person is in their
00:12:37 sins, they get what sin can do for them, namely eternal condemnation and death. But if the
00:12:46 resurrection, or if the death of Jesus rather, completely satisfied the Father's wrath towards
00:12:52 sin then why does our text say that we are still in our sins if Jesus did not rise from the dead
00:13:02 the answer is that the resurrection of Jesus was the reward for his sacrifice if the reward
00:13:10 is withheld it is because the sacrifice was deficient if God will not let his own son go
00:13:20 free from the grave and take his seat at his right hand in glory, it can only be because
00:13:27 his son's sacrifice for our sins was defective. It was not sufficient. It is not enough. The
00:13:37 resurrection of Jesus is what validates the infinite value of the blood of Jesus. If Christ
00:13:45 is raised, then his sacrifice is sufficient. As one theologian once said, the resurrection
00:13:54 is the exclamation point to the crucifixion and more particularly to the statement of Christ
00:14:01 himself as he was being crucified when he says, it is finished. The empty tomb is the confirmation,
00:14:10 god's stamp of approval the seal the promise that christ's statement on the cross it is finished
00:14:20 was true that it is indeed finished that the wrath of god has indeed been fully satisfied on our
00:14:30 behalf that the punishment you and i deserve as sinners for the wages of sin is death that
00:14:38 punishment has been dealt with in full the empty tomb is the proof as david said in the psalms
00:14:48 you will not let your holy one see decay why because everything he did was holy everything
00:14:57 he is is holy and everything he did is perfect final complete including his payment for sin
00:15:07 on the cross. The resurrection is the confirmation of the crucifixion. That penal substitutionary
00:15:17 atonement is sufficient. That Christ's death as substitute in our place actually worked. 0.66
00:15:26 The resurrection says that the cross worked. Jesus was delivered up for our trespasses
00:15:35 and raised for our justification. Romans 4, 25. The late great Puritan, a Baptist, I might add,
00:15:47 one of the few good Puritan Baptists, but a Baptist nonetheless, God bless him.
00:15:52 John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, fantastic allegorical story writer.
00:16:01 not as fantastic in his poetry but this one is good run john run the law commands but gives us
00:16:11 neither feet nor hands far better news the gospel brings it bids us fly and gives us wings doubt not
00:16:19 his sacrifice can save god sealed it that is he proved it with an empty grave he was raised for
00:16:30 our justification the resurrection is God's confirmation that the son's statement it is
00:16:38 finished it's true eternally true for all who believe lastly dealing with verses 18 and 19
00:16:48 of our text I'll read them once more so they're fresh in our minds then those also who have
00:16:55 fallen asleep. Paul continues his argument, a day in the life of no resurrection. It's almost like
00:17:03 the movie A Wonderful Life, if George had never been born. We hear the apostle Paul deals with
00:17:10 all of human life if Christ had never been raised. He says also those who have fallen asleep in
00:17:18 Christ, that is those who have died, even those who died in faith in Christ have perished. If in
00:17:26 Christ we have hope in this life only, then we are of all people most to be pitied. And this brothers
00:17:35 and sisters is quite a statement because there are many pitiful people in our world. Muslims are to 1.00
00:17:43 be pitied. Jews are to be pitied. Agnostics and atheists are to be pitied. Democrats are to be 1.00
00:17:54 pitied. Feminists are to be pitied. The LGBT jihad is to be pitied. All of these are pitiful people, 1.00
00:18:05 but none of them compare to the most pitiful people of all which is christians if christ was
00:18:14 not raised if there is no resurrection for christ then there is no resurrection for us
00:18:22 once someone is dead they forever cease to exist if jesus did not rise from the dead
00:18:29 then the christian faith is utterly worthless it does not maintain some value it is not worth
00:18:39 any value it is not worth showing up to church even just one day a year much less 52 times
00:18:49 c.s lewis once said this christianity more particularly in light of our topic today
00:18:57 the resurrection of Jesus, if false, is of no importance. And if true, of infinite importance.
00:19:07 The only thing it cannot be is of moderate importance. The Christian faith is not 0.87
00:19:17 somewhat important it is not partially significant it either has no value or it has
00:19:29 infinite value and again some might say well i think there's value even if it's not literally
00:19:36 true that christ rose from the dead the principles within the christian tradition have value in and
00:19:44 of themselves pastor yeah but you don't need the christian faith for those principles apart from
00:19:52 the person of jesus you can arrive at those principles in other ways apart from the person
00:20:02 of christ the principles of christ will not ever produce the peace of christ i'll say that again
00:20:11 Apart from the person of Christ, the living, resurrected person of Christ,
00:20:18 the mere principles of Christ will never produce the peace of Christ.
00:20:25 The problem in our world is that many in our nation specifically have abandoned the principles of Christ.
00:20:32 And there are others still trying to cling to some of those principles, 1.00
00:20:37 but doing so arbitrarily we'll keep this one but not that one gaze against groomers how stupid is 0.99
00:20:48 that perverts against other greater perverts no you don't need a renegade of perverts to stop 0.98
00:20:59 an onslaught of perversion that doesn't work you don't cast out utter darkness with kind of
00:21:05 darkness you cast it out with light and only light to say that the principles of christ
00:21:15 somehow save our nation which ones and who decides
00:21:22 see the reason why we can say all of them is because it's not a statement that hinges upon
00:21:30 our own authority the reason why we can say all of god's commandments are righteous and holy
00:21:39 and good is because christ is the authority and he is alive we don't just say hey this book
00:21:49 we recognize it's special it's kind of like the spring head the start of the river's source
00:21:57 and from it come all these other branching off lesser streams, right?
00:22:02 We see good principles and good virtues in Beowulf
00:22:06 and the Odyssey and the Iliad and all these other things,
00:22:11 but they all find their source in this special book.
00:22:16 And it's a really great book,
00:22:18 but I'm not going to say that it's in the infallible Word of God.
00:22:22 And I'm not going to say that Jesus is literally, physically risen from the dead.
00:22:29 Then you have no hope.
00:22:32 You have no hope.
00:22:34 And you have no basis.
00:22:36 You have no credible authority for recommending some of this book to people.
00:22:42 It's either all or nothing.
00:22:44 And the only reason that you can make such a significant and weighty and conscious binding claim, an authoritative, incredible claim that this book, every jot and tittle is morally binding on every conscience of every person in every place and in every time.
00:23:05 The only way that you can make that statement with weight and authority
00:23:11 is if you are merely echoing that statement as made by Christ.
00:23:19 It is the person and work of Jesus that is the basis for all we believe.
00:23:28 Societies that reject Christ, His person and His work,
00:23:33 those societies crumble it is not a matter of if but merely when they slowly spiral into oblivion
00:23:43 they slowly dissolve into their own lawlessness a rejection of christ is a rejection of the peace
00:23:53 that he brings peace is found in a person it cannot be severed from christ there is no peace
00:24:03 apart from Christ. A nation that exalts Christ will be exalted. The nation that fears the Lord
00:24:12 will be exalted, the Psalms say. But when the foundations are eroded and destroyed,
00:24:19 what can the righteous do? Our nation has no hope apart from repentance. You've heard me often say
00:24:28 a conservative resurgence is not sufficient.
00:24:32 It must be a distinctly Christian reformation and revival.
00:24:38 And this does not come by repenting in part, but in full.
00:24:44 It is not enough to say, you know what?
00:24:48 We'll be of the party that walks to hell just a little slower.
00:24:54 No.
00:24:54 No, we are turning 180 degrees by grace through faith in Christ
00:25:02 and following Him in the opposite direction.
00:25:08 I think many of us today subconsciously believe
00:25:12 that societies can only decline in terms of virtue. 0.99
00:25:18 And this is naive and ignorant 0.89
00:25:22 because it cannot account for how we got here in the first place. 0.97
00:25:28 You look around our nation and Western societies as a whole
00:25:33 and you think it's dissolving into chaos and sin and rebellion so quickly.
00:25:41 But if that were the case, if that was the only mode of humanity,
00:25:46 just compromising virtue for vice and spiraling so quickly,
00:25:51 the human race would have ended thousands of years ago how did we last so long do you think
00:26:00 that humanity was just perfect and and and then has slowly spiraled for about 6 000 years give
00:26:09 or take and then really ramped up in its rebellion over the last 50 and especially the last 15
00:26:18 and then you haven't read any history that's simply not true i mean very quickly
00:26:28 very quickly god after creating man in a state of integrity or some theologians would say a state
00:26:36 of innocence able to not fall but also able to fall very quickly man chose to fall some have
00:26:46 debated when the fall took place. I would agree with Rush Dooney, North, and others.
00:26:56 Kenneth Gintry would be an example. But Adam and Eve fell on the eighth day.
00:27:04 They did not last for years or decades or months or even weeks. But they were created on the sixth
00:27:12 day, celebrated the Sabbath on the seventh, and rebelled on the eighth, which is in part
00:27:20 why within the Jewish Old Testament tradition, a Hebrew boy would be circumcised on the eighth
00:27:26 day. Blood and cutting and falling away. Very quickly within human history, sin entered
00:27:36 the world. And immediately, shortly after that, we see the first murder take place. We have an
00:27:46 entire line, namely the line of Cain, an entire half of humanity that devolves into further and
00:27:55 further moral rebellion. And we see this culminate even more so in the days of Noah, when God decides
00:28:04 to cleanse the world, lovingly cleanse his creation
00:28:08 by drowning wicked people.
00:28:13 And we see things get better for a while
00:28:16 and then get worse again. 1.00
00:28:18 Israel and its history is always one step forward 0.93
00:28:21 and two to seven steps back. 0.93
00:28:29 Many of us cannot logically account
00:28:32 for the blessings and prosperity that we have experienced in our lifetimes, in our generation,
00:28:40 in our culture, in our society. We think it just always was that God started it that way
00:28:48 and we've only declined from there. No. Western society was pagan. The Irish were pagan.
00:29:00 The English were pagan. 0.77
00:29:04 The Scots were pagan.
00:29:09 We once were painting our faces blue, 1.00
00:29:13 sailing on the high seas,
00:29:16 and destroying whole villages and women and children.
00:29:20 That's our origin story.
00:29:23 That's our heritage.
00:29:25 But then the gospel came.
00:29:27 And it changed not just individual, private, pietistic little hearts, but it changed the world.
00:29:39 It changed governments, laws, nations, cultures, holidays, the calendar, history, everything.
00:29:49 and if the west will not repent and pay homage to the one who saved us and gave us every blessing
00:29:58 we have every good and perfect gift comes down from the father of lights if we will not repent
00:30:06 and call upon his name then i've said before and i'll say again now it won't be long until zambia
00:30:16 and uganda have commercials on their tv programs that say for just a dollar a day
00:30:23 you can feed a little white kid and give them a christian education
00:30:29 there's nothing inherent in skin pigment but there is something very potent in the gospel 0.77
00:30:40 of Jesus Christ he brings people high and he decimates them when they rebel against him
00:30:49 and brings them low I don't have a crystal ball I'm not a prophet nor the son of a prophet
00:30:57 but with common sense in an open bible you can pick up on a lot and it seems as though if the
00:31:06 West will not repent, then Christendom may spend the next thousand years in Africa, in parts of
00:31:14 Asia, in South America. And a thousand years from now, there'll be a rise of wokeness again.
00:31:26 Some liberal, progressive, blue-haired feminist theologian saying this is racist against white 1.00
00:31:34 people they're all poor and you're making christianity just all about being colored 0.98
00:31:41 that rhetoric has never been against whiteness 0.78
00:31:46 all the rhetoric from the left it's only communism it's only marxism they only picked race because
00:31:59 it's unique to American history. They couldn't pick economic classes. You know why? It wouldn't
00:32:07 work because the blessings of Christ are too prosperous. You can't get the peasants to rise 0.99
00:32:15 up against the bourgeoisie when the peasants have two weeks vacation, work five days a week,
00:32:22 own a home and a car, and their kids can afford to go to school. They just don't have that much
00:32:29 to get angry about class warfare in the economic sense which was mark's true belief didn't work
00:32:38 because capitalism eradicated poverty why because it has its principled roots in the bible
00:32:47 so they made it about slavery racism and that works
00:32:56 because we have no shortage of ignorance among young people in our nation today
00:33:04 but you look behind every single one of these organizations and at the top 0.96
00:33:10 you don't find an oppressed black person you find a marxist white person
00:33:16 who picks the three women of Black Lives Matter 1.00
00:33:21 because they're useful idiots 1.00
00:33:23 to get across their ultimate goal, 1.00
00:33:28 which is to eradicate capitalism,
00:33:31 eradicate the patriarchy, 0.94
00:33:34 eradicate Western civilization, 0.82
00:33:37 the scientific method,
00:33:39 all these different things,
00:33:40 and what ultimately is the nucleus source
00:33:43 of everything that I've just listed?
00:33:45 the Christian faith.
00:33:49 Marx said that his highest goal
00:33:52 was to dethrone God.
00:33:54 He also said that the only way 0.95
00:33:56 to kill the Heavenly Father 0.98
00:33:59 is to destroy the earthly Father.
00:34:05 And if our nation continues 0.90
00:34:07 in its foolishness, 1.00
00:34:09 being useful idiots, 1.00
00:34:12 getting angry about silly things 1.00
00:34:15 if that continues it ultimately is not a war on white people or a war on black people 0.92
00:34:24 or a war on men or a war on women it's a war on christ it's a war on christ
00:34:33 and if the enemy is permitted to win that war we will devolve into the same pagan roots from which
00:34:43 we came. And whether it's 50 years from now, or 500, we'll be the same pagan Vikings talking
00:34:56 about Valhalla, going and decimating and destroying people, living for ourselves, no order, no 0.97
00:35:09 civilization, no virtue, nothing. Because none of that was ever inherent to us. It always rightfully
00:35:18 belonged to Christ. And he graciously gave it to us, so long as we submitted to his kingship
00:35:25 and lordship. But Christ will bless any man who submits to him.
00:35:32 whether that's an american whether that's a scott whether that's an irish man an english man
00:35:42 whether that's a man from zambia uganda the sudan whether that's a man from china
00:35:50 or brazil wherever submission to christ can be found and wherever that submission begins to
00:35:58 permeate cultures and customs and societies, there the blessings of God follow. And wherever
00:36:05 rebellion against Christ and his lordship, wherever that takes place, only darkness,
00:36:13 tragedy, destruction, and poverty follow. Principles are not enough. Politics are not enough.
00:36:23 it must be a person
00:36:29 a living person
00:36:31 a resurrected person
00:36:34 and not just a man
00:36:37 but the God man
00:36:39 Christ Jesus
00:36:42 he changed the world
00:36:44 he is still changing the world
00:36:49 and all of the father's covenant promises and blessings flow through him just as the oil
00:36:59 when anointing the levitical priesthood would fall upon the head first and then run down to the body
00:37:07 the robes and tassels and arms and legs so too all the blessings of god first pour out on the head
00:37:16 who is Christ. And they only reach those who are his body, who have union with him through faith.
00:37:27 We have been that people before. We can be that people again. But for the sake of clarity,
00:37:36 let me say, many of you are aware that I hold to a post-millennial eschatology.
00:37:41 that post-millennial eschatology means that i believe in a victorious progressively and
00:37:49 ultimately victorious america no church and that that church is so potent with christ's gospel
00:37:59 and his law that it will change and transform not only churches on sunday but whole societies and
00:38:07 nations. But for God to bring about his decreative will and his progressive victory throughout human
00:38:15 history through the spearhead, which is the church on earth, he does not have to do it through this
00:38:24 nation. If Christ tarries for 10,000 years, I believe he will come back to a Christianized 0.94
00:38:33 world, but that world may or may not have the nation of the United States of America 0.95
00:38:40 in it. Many nations have risen and fallen. Many nations have come and gone.
00:38:51 that's why by god's grace you homestead
00:38:59 you plant a garden you work hard you take a second job and you save up enough money to where
00:39:06 your grandchildren when we're gone they can move their families to zambia that might be the new
00:39:15 beachhead of Christendom, if this falls. But if it falls, let this nation fall over our dead bodies
00:39:24 after having done everything we can, because this republic is worth preserving.
00:39:31 There's a heritage here, but it's all rooted in Christ. It is not libertarianism. It is not
00:39:41 classical liberalism it is not principled pluralism it is not polytheism that is our strength
00:39:49 it is not even diversity that is our strength it is unity in faith in the triune god
00:40:00 that is the source of our blessing and the rejection of christ and his resurrection
00:40:07 will be the source of our destruction. Let us turn back to him. The last thing I'll say is this.
00:40:18 I find it interesting, and I think that you should notice this as well. I find it interesting that
00:40:24 secularism, secular humanism, is merely a placeholder. Secular humanism is not viable.
00:40:33 islam is viable not indefinitely but it is viable in the sense that islam is a counterfeit 1.00
00:40:43 christian heresy muhammad very clearly the author of the quran you can see him copying the christian 1.00
00:40:53 tradition in ad 700 give or take and certain things right because the best lie the most
00:41:00 believable one it carries 90 truth that's what makes it believable and so what you see Muhammad
00:41:07 doing is trying to sprinkle in Christian truth into his book of heresies so that it might have
00:41:14 credibility it might be believable now Muhammad wasn't a good Christian theologian so he didn't
00:41:19 know which Christian stories narratives circulating around at the time were actually true and which
00:41:25 ones were heresies and so the Quran finds certain Christian heresies and stories docetism and
00:41:32 Arianism and things stories about you know Jesus preaching a sermon as an infant that he stopped
00:41:40 nursing for a little while to go ahead and rebuke people who are saying bad things about his mommy
00:41:45 you know or the story that when Joseph and and Mary were fleeing to Egypt that Jesus spoke from
00:41:51 Mary's womb because she was hungry and tired and caused a tree to supernaturally bend over so that
00:41:58 she could grab a piece of fruit. Muhammad is trying to make the Quran sound true by including 0.83
00:42:05 Christian stories. He just didn't know which Christian stories were true because he was not 0.95
00:42:10 a Christian. But Islam, nonetheless, it is a counterfeit worldview. 1.00
00:42:15 meaning that that it has some of the same kinds of foundations now ultimately ultimately it 0.97
00:42:26 collapses it is not true it's a perversion a twisting of the truth but that's different
00:42:33 the Judaism would be another example that's different though from secular humanism 0.98
00:42:40 secular humanism is not an alternative host from christian faith secular humanism is a parasite 0.52
00:42:51 it is not viable it has nothing sustainable it only lasts and appears viable so long as the host 0.99
00:43:03 is strong and healthy but the irony of all parasites is that eventually they kill the host
00:43:09 which is the very source of their own life so that once they've killed the host they die out
00:43:16 as well secularism is on its last leg sadly though part of the reason that secularism is
00:43:24 on its last leg is because christendom in the west is not faring well she has a fever
00:43:33 she's in a coma she's on life support and the parasite is starving but that's because the host
00:43:42 is currently all but a corpse 0.99
00:43:45 but the religions that will endure i believe till the end of the age 0.94
00:43:52 are not parasites but viable hosts themselves counterfeit host albeit but host 0.91
00:44:01 Islam is much more viable than secular humanism, 0.96
00:44:05 if for no other reason, simply because Islam has a rule of law, 0.90
00:44:11 harsh, albeit, and it also believes in households and having children. 0.54
00:44:18 Any worldview that doesn't include procreation is not a viable worldview. 0.91
00:44:26 Islam will endure. 1.00
00:44:30 Much longer than secularism will. 1.00
00:44:35 Personally, I believe, per Romans 11, 1.00
00:44:39 that Islam will be actually the greatest enemy, 1.00
00:44:42 other than death itself, which Christ will defeat upon his return, 0.98
00:44:46 and that Islam will be defeated before Christ's return, 0.96
00:44:50 the Christianizing of all nations,
00:44:53 but in part because the Christians in the final hour will gain a great ally
00:44:59 namely a revival among the jews that the older brother who's been pouting outside as a younger
00:45:08 brother the gentiles have come in to the party that older brother will eventually stop pouting
00:45:15 and believe what the younger brother has believed humble himself and come in and the two brothers
00:45:22 together, now both Christians, with one root, not two trees, but one, who is Christ, will then finish
00:45:31 the Christianizing of the world. There's some sci-fi, post-mill theology for you. 0.85
00:45:39 All that being said, the point is this. Every good thing in the world, it ultimately comes from
00:45:49 Christ in his resurrection. Wherever that is believed, blessings follow. And that's not saying
00:45:58 a 100% guarantee for each individual person. I believe Christ was raised from the dead, therefore
00:46:03 I won't be poor. That's not the point. It is a general reality, a general principle that adhering
00:46:12 to god's truth recognizing christ his son not just as allegory not just as metaphor but believing in
00:46:22 the triune god and the bodily raised son of god that these things in society in general
00:46:30 progressively slowly like a mustard seed like leaven over time produce the most powerful
00:46:36 prosperous, and most virtuous societies and cultures in the world.
00:46:46 That's what we've seen for 2,000 years.
00:46:51 And it may be in the decreative will of God, the secret things belong to Him.
00:46:56 Right? This is the revealed will of God.
00:46:59 This book, the Bible, the revealed things belong to us and our children forever.
00:47:04 The secret things, that is the sovereign will of God, the things he has decreed within the
00:47:09 councils of eternity, those belong to him. It is the glory of God to conceal the matter.
00:47:18 It is the glory of kings, earthly kings, to seek it out. So there are certain things that we do
00:47:24 not know. And within the sovereign hidden will of God, one of those things may be to show,
00:47:29 to demonstrate through human history in this earth in this tapestry the stage where god is
00:47:36 displaying his majesty and power he may choose for his own glory to display the beauty of christ
00:47:45 through the west and its flourishing and to also display the terrible judgment of rejecting christ
00:47:52 by decimating the West.
00:47:56 That is not in his revealed will.
00:47:59 That belongs to his secret sovereign will.
00:48:02 We hold that as a very real possibility.
00:48:06 But we don't work towards that.
00:48:09 As Christians, we do not work
00:48:11 towards self-fulfilling prophecies.
00:48:14 We are not dispensationalists.
00:48:19 We are covenant theologians.
00:48:22 That God works in the world through covenant, through promise, through federal headship.
00:48:30 And for those who have union with Christ, we know what to expect.
00:48:36 Inmity, persecution, but in God's sovereign will, if he should so choose.
00:48:44 Immense blessings, immense kindness, virtue, and transformation of the world.
00:48:52 We keep fighting. We keep working. We keep preaching Christ and him crucified and Christ
00:49:00 and him risen. The hope of humanity, the only hope of the world. But we as the church should
00:49:08 be the first to recognize where judgment comes from, where judgment begins, namely the house
00:49:15 of God and where blessings come from and all of it is bound up not in a mere principle but in a
00:49:25 person the risen Lord Jesus his resurrection is so powerful so poignant so profound
00:49:35 that because he rose from the dead,
00:49:38 he is reviving and restoring all things.
00:49:46 All things are being raised.
00:49:49 Some things more quickly than others.
00:49:52 Some people more quickly than others.
00:49:56 And just as a tree goes through seasons,
00:49:59 seasons of growth, seasons of pruning, withering,
00:50:03 certain branches whole branches might die rot and fall away but the tree and its root continues
00:50:12 and its overall trajectory not a perfect steady never dipping line of incline but dips and spikes
00:50:21 along the way some of these spikes long and severe but so too a healthy tree with its root
00:50:28 as Christ, it endures and it grows. And that is not merely a Western tree or an American tree.
00:50:39 It is a Christian tree. It is a global tree. And our branch may be about to die,
00:50:48 or our branch may be going through severe pruning so that the healthy twigs might get more rain and
00:50:55 sunlight and eventually take over. That's a secret thing, belonging to the sovereign will of God.
00:51:03 Either way, our job is to obey the revealed things, the things he's written in this book.
00:51:10 To have no other gods before him. To not make any graven images. To not take his name in vain.
00:51:18 To remember the Sabbath, not just once a year, but every week and keep it holy.
00:51:23 to honor our father and our mother
00:51:26 that our days might be long
00:51:28 in the land, the physical land
00:51:31 that we are inheriting. 1.00
00:51:34 The meek shall inherit the earth, 1.00
00:51:36 not just heaven.
00:51:38 Thou shall not murder.
00:51:41 Thou shall not commit adultery.
00:51:43 We should not steal
00:51:45 or support Marxism and socialism
00:51:48 and communism, which is theft.
00:51:50 we shall not bear false witness 0.56
00:51:54 which means Christians need to know history
00:51:58 so that they can be truth tellers
00:52:00 and we shall not covet
00:52:05 envy is the root
00:52:08 it's the root of progressive religious sentiment
00:52:12 it's the root of Marxism, the root of communism 0.81
00:52:15 the root of Black Lives Matter 0.98
00:52:17 the root of every bad thing we've endured. 1.00
00:52:23 Envy is at the root of it all.
00:52:27 The scripture says that coveting is idolatry.
00:52:32 Envy is the root of all kinds of demonic ideology
00:52:36 because envy is coveting and coveting is idolatry.
00:52:41 It is to worship stuff and material
00:52:44 rather than the Creator
00:52:47 who is outside of creation,
00:52:50 a most pure spirit without body parts and passions
00:52:54 who dwells in inapproachable light.
00:52:57 It is the worship of the creature
00:52:59 rather than the Creator
00:53:00 who is to be forever praised.
00:53:03 We do not covet.
00:53:04 We do not envy.
00:53:06 We say, as David says,
00:53:08 the lines have fallen in pleasant places for me.
00:53:12 The Lord is my portion.
00:53:14 my treasure, the strength of my heart forever.
00:53:19 He is my shepherd, and I shall not want.
00:53:24 This is our blueprint.
00:53:26 This is our plan.
00:53:28 These are the commands of God,
00:53:30 which are good and holy and right,
00:53:31 and the fuel for obeying all of them
00:53:34 is the gospel,
00:53:36 that we are saved by grace alone,
00:53:39 through faith alone,
00:53:42 in Christ alone,
00:53:44 A crucified Christ, not just as example, but as substitute dying in our place.
00:53:51 And a risen Christ who was raised for our justification.
00:53:56 Let's pray.
00:53:57 Father God, we thank you for Jesus.
00:53:59 His life, his death, his resurrection.
00:54:03 His ascension.
00:54:05 That he is seated in honor, glory, and power.
00:54:10 And we thank you for his promise that he will return again.
00:54:14 Whether it be soon, or whether he tarry and it be long,
00:54:20 in either case, in the same way you do not let his body see decay,
00:54:26 so too he has not left us as orphans,
00:54:30 but he has promised to come to us.
00:54:33 And not only in his bodily return on the final day,
00:54:37 but he has come to us even now,
00:54:40 through the ministry of the Holy Spirit,
00:54:42 who exudes the spirit of the risen Christ
00:54:47 and who indwells all Christians
00:54:51 all those who believe
00:54:53 we have his presence with us
00:54:58 and we have Christ
00:55:00 our resurrected Lord
00:55:02 his spiritual presence
00:55:03 especially and uniquely with us
00:55:06 on the Lord's day
00:55:08 and not just once a year
00:55:10 but every Sunday
00:55:12 Christians all over the world
00:55:14 gather together because it is the first day of the week 0.98
00:55:17 the Christian Sabbath
00:55:19 the day that Christ rose from the dead
00:55:22 we celebrate the resurrection
00:55:24 every week
00:55:26 not only every year
00:55:27 and we have been given by your grace
00:55:31 and by the power of your spirit
00:55:33 resurrection power as the church
00:55:35 to be the hands and feet of Jesus
00:55:38 to be his body here on earth
00:55:40 baptizing the nations slowly but surely as we seek to be faithful some of us like hebrews 11 says
00:55:52 will experience great victory shut the mouth of lions conquer conquer whole armies
00:56:00 others of us will be sawn in two drawn and courted imprisoned martyred but both through
00:56:09 victory in this life and even through death and great tragedy both advance the church
00:56:17 both advance the glory of the king to the king in the name of jesus we pray amen he is risen
00:56:29 amen can i be frank with you for just a second right here at the end look some of you guys
00:56:37 you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom of my heart, I say, thank you. I
00:56:42 cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you,
00:56:49 you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy.
00:56:56 Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years 0.91
00:57:04 due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people
00:57:11 change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
00:57:18 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
00:57:24 financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
00:57:31 I am asking you, please, if you're willing to do so, take one minute of your time.
00:57:38 Leave us a five-star review on your favorite podcast platform, iTunes, Spotify, whatever
00:57:44 that might be.
00:57:45 This is the way the system works.
00:57:47 We want to be innocent as doves, but shrewd as vipers.
00:57:51 We need to be strategic.
00:57:53 You leave us a five-star review, and our podcast shows up for more people.
00:57:58 and the Word of God and courageous theology applied in practical ways to every realm of life
00:58:05 gets out there. Help us get it out there. Thanks for tuning in.