The NXR Podcast - THE CONFERENCE - Biblical Patriarchy - Session 4 - Eric Conn ｜ Blueprints for Christendom 2.0 2024

00:00:00.180 Thank you, Pastor Joel. I appreciate the height of this podium.

00:00:05.720 We have some pastors at our church who are about 6'5", and normally I'm reaching and leaning in so that I can get to the microphone.

00:00:13.940 But they made this one short. Joel actually has to lean down, which is also quite interesting.

00:00:20.860 As we look at everything that's going on in our culture, it's an encouragement to me.

00:00:24.960 You know, we've heard Dusty speak, we've heard Joel, we've heard Pastor Brian.

00:00:29.240 And what an encouragement that God has not left his church in the dark without teachers or alone.

00:00:35.740 Amen?

00:00:37.300 At this point, let's pray.

00:00:39.220 I want to pray for us and then we'll get started on today's talk,

00:00:41.760 which will be recovering a vision for biblical patriarchy.

00:00:46.720 Let's pray.

00:00:48.840 Father, we thank you so much for the souls gathered here.

00:00:51.700 We thank you that you are faithful to your bride, to the church.

00:00:56.160 God, we ask that you would continue to build her up in faithfulness.

00:01:00.800 Lord, we thank you, especially for the men gathered here, that you have made them bold.

00:01:06.440 We thank you for Dusty Devers, for his faith that he's willing to put into action.

00:01:10.780 We pray for his family as well.

00:01:12.760 God, would you give them courage as they are fighting literally demonic powers?

00:01:17.060 Would you put your arms and your angels around them?

00:01:20.720 Would you protect them?

00:01:22.420 Father, would you also inspire other men to be raised up, that they too may be courageous,

00:01:27.680 that they may fight the good fight of the faith.

00:01:30.700 Lord, and help us to see that our generations are brought to you.

00:01:35.560 God, we ask all these things in the high name of Jesus Christ, our King.

00:01:39.440 Amen.

00:01:41.260 Amen.

00:01:41.860 Well, I want to begin this talk again on biblical patriarchy, everybody's favorite doctrine.

00:01:46.760 particularly if you're a feminist on Twitter you you probably hate me you might know who I am

00:01:52.980 maybe you blocked me that's okay but I want to start this talk with actually a talk that comes

00:01:59.460 from the year 2000 or rather in the 2000s this talk is what I think is fantastically good one

00:02:08.920 theologian stood at the Evangelical Theological Society to deliver a scathing indictment of the

00:02:14.840 American church. And a feminist followed him, so you know how brave he was actually being in this 0.77

00:02:21.240 situation. And he specifically addressed the failure of complementarianism to make much of a

00:02:26.880 dent in the orthodoxy or the orthopraxy of the church, right? The complementarian doctrines,

00:02:33.060 which had been around since the early 90s, 1989 and following, had made little impact, both on

00:02:38.500 the teaching of the church, but worse, on the practice of the church. Complementarianism had

00:02:44.880 become, he said, a weak compromise with feminist teachings. As such, it had resulted in a church 0.73

00:02:50.880 that was softly patriarchal, he said on paper, but fundamentally egalitarian in practice.

00:02:57.720 Wasn't that what we find in the church so much today? We use words like headship,

00:03:02.080 but they mean nothing, right? For all intents and purposes, he said, the conservative

00:03:07.380 and the complementarian wing of the church was pragmatically egalitarian. 0.79

00:03:13.180 Now, among other signs of demise, the speaker noted how many wives are encouraged to work outside the home

00:03:19.400 and how child care is relegated to daycares and public schools. 0.72

00:03:25.100 You know how excited people get when you talk about women working outside the home,

00:03:29.500 particularly in our secular spaces on Twitter.

00:03:33.300 Now, this brave speaker told the story of one complementarian wife who sent her husband to promise keepers.

00:03:40.320 She sent him to promise keepers. 0.94

00:03:42.920 Thank you for laughing because that is ridiculous. 0.72

00:03:45.940 She said she did it. 0.93

00:03:47.460 She told this to a sociologist so that her husband could, quote, reconnect with other men his age.

00:03:54.280 Of this incident, the speaker said this, and I find this fitting.

00:03:58.200 He said, this complementarian woman does not seem to recognize that she is sending her husband off to be with one his own age as though she were a mother sending her grade school son off to summer youth camp. 0.85

00:04:11.660 How often does this sort of thing happen in the church today?

00:04:15.380 Well, quite frequently.

00:04:17.740 Likewise, our speaker said, because the church had blindly adopted psychotherapeutic practices, which he said, and he's right,

00:04:26.120 They're inherently Marxist and anti-hierarchical.

00:04:30.280 Think of Freud.

00:04:32.200 Because of this, evangelicals had neutered headship of any meaningful authority.

00:04:37.800 Instead, the church had foolishly adopted a servant-leader model.

00:04:41.820 This comes largely out of the Promise Keeper's movement.

00:04:46.220 Servant leadership is what we got.

00:04:48.100 And what it did was empty the concept of virtually all its authoritative character of actual biblical headship.

00:04:56.120 So the speaker, also being brave, he said, what should we do about this?

00:05:00.880 And this is actually when I think it gets really good.

00:05:03.960 We had a simple and clear solution for the church moving forward.

00:05:07.940 It was not appeasement, as you see from so many people today.

00:05:12.340 No, but he said that the church needed to recover biblical patriarchy.

00:05:16.920 And I want to quote from him.

00:05:18.960 He said, quote, unless evangelical churches are willing to be countercultural

00:05:23.880 against not just the secular culture, and here's the thing I want to underline, not just against

00:05:30.020 the secular culture, but also against the evangelical establishment itself. That's what

00:05:37.000 we're facing. He said, unless we do that, the future of complementarian Christianity is in fact

00:05:43.140 bleak. He went on to say, more patriarchal complementarianism will resonate among a

00:05:49.560 generation seeking stability in a family-fractured Western culture in ways that soft-bellied, big-tent

00:05:56.500 complementarianism never can. So he's advocating we need to be bold. We need to oppose all the

00:06:03.760 sexual craziness that's going on in our culture and specifically in our churches. Well, he rightly

00:06:09.540 pointed out that patriarchy is not a secondary issue within Christian theology. It's a matter

00:06:15.520 of vital importance. Many of you, rightly so, would ask the question, as you come to a conference

00:06:21.100 like this, okay, covenant succession, I get that one, that's important. Post-millennialism, I get

00:06:26.300 that, that's important, but really patriarchy. Why is that in this series of talks for building

00:06:33.920 Christendom 2.0? Well, C.S. Lewis was wise to this, and our speaker pointed it out. In fact, C.S. Lewis

00:06:41.760 included male headship as part of his book, Mere Christianity. Well, why did he do that?

00:06:48.700 The speaker says this, male headship has been asserted and assumed by the Christian church

00:06:54.660 with virtual unanimity from the first century until the rise of contemporary feminism.

00:07:01.500 That's a bold statement in the church today. Patriarchy has been the baseline for 2,000 years,

00:07:07.760 and only recently have we abandoned it. He went on to say this, if we are to reclaim the debate,

00:07:14.840 we must not fear making a claim that is disturbingly counter-cultural, and yet,

00:07:20.940 he said, strikingly biblical, patriarchy. Patriarchy is a claim that the less than

00:07:27.360 evangelical feminists understand increasingly. Indeed, he said Christianity is undergirded by 0.98

00:07:33.860 a vision of patriarchy. Now, finally, our speaker concluded by saying this, patriarchy for the

00:07:41.420 Christian is essential. Egalitarians are winning the evangelical gender debate, not because their

00:07:47.900 arguments are stronger, but because in some sense, we are all egalitarian now. That's the reality we

00:07:55.660 have to face in the church. Practically speaking, most people are egalitarian or feminist. He went 0.98

00:08:02.620 on to say this, our response must be more than simply a reaction. It must instead present an

00:08:09.800 alternative vision, a vision that sums up the burden of male headship under the cosmic rubric

00:08:15.600 of the gospel of Christ and the restoration of all things in him. It must produce churches that

00:08:20.820 are not embarrassed. We cannot be embarrassed that when we say our father, we mean that we

00:08:27.040 are patriarchs of the oldest kind. Amen indeed. What a great speech, right? It's phenomenally

00:08:35.780 accurate. The majority of Christians today really are functionally egalitarian. Headship has been

00:08:42.800 robbed of its authority. Why? Because we have ignored scripture for too long. We have ignored

00:08:48.560 the faith of our fathers on this issue of biblical sexuality, and we've let the woke sociologists do

00:08:55.280 are theologizing for us. Now, despite having greater power and influence than ever, think

00:09:00.680 about this. How many churches are on every street corner in the South? How much money does the

00:09:07.060 gospel coalition have in these major conference circuits? How much money is represented? And yet

00:09:13.440 for all that, the church is being more shaped by the world than it is shaping the world. Why is this?

00:09:20.300 why is it that evangelical leadership has in mass betrayed us on the issue of biblical sexuality

00:09:28.220 well this failure of church leadership is i think typified most by the speaker himself

00:09:35.720 well who was this brave speaker oh it was none other than dr russell moore

00:09:41.080 right russell moore the now leftist editor-in-chief at christianity yesterday

00:09:47.300 right his speech if you try to find this has been scrubbed from almost every major publication

00:09:54.880 in which it was linked denny burke cbmw ets it's all gone you can't find it

00:10:01.480 and in 2023 russell moore said this in an article for christianity today he said i put more trust

00:10:10.800 in Beth Moore today, that is the Anglican lady priestrics, right? I put more trust in Beth Moore

00:10:19.300 today than Russell Moore when I delivered that speech. This is where we are as evangelical

00:10:25.640 leadership has left us, right? The patriarchy he once defended was, he said in the article,

00:10:32.620 more John Wayne than Jesus, right? An obvious nod to the evangelical left and Kristen Kobaz Dumas.

00:10:40.800 Now, why do I bring this up in this talk? I want to illustrate by this example just how far the

00:10:48.440 church has fallen in just 20 years. I mean, think about this today. If you talk about patriarchy

00:10:54.800 at all, who gets mad on Twitter? It's the conservative Christians. A dark cloud, so it

00:11:02.360 seems, looms over the church, which seems to have all but abandoned these historic doctrines

00:11:07.620 of patriarchy. And so I think we are in a desperate lurch. Again, I think as you look at

00:11:15.160 leaders like Russell Moore, what you see is something like in The Lord of Rings, Saruman.

00:11:20.880 You exchange the truth for a lie, and what do you get in return? Money, power, power among the

00:11:27.780 leftist elites especially. But I think as Moore said 20 years ago, our task remains the same.

00:11:34.680 It's not simply to fight a feminist culture, but to oppose the evangelical establishment itself.

00:11:42.720 Now, this is a daunting task, no doubt.

00:11:45.680 It's encouraging to see everybody here, but I wonder if you've ever thought about the fact that maybe there's 800 of us here.

00:11:51.380 How many Christians are in America?

00:11:54.500 We really seem to be up against it. 1.00

00:11:58.000 It's a desperate situation.

00:12:00.280 and a lot of times people ask me, Eric, do you actually think, do you actually believe

00:12:05.580 that patriarchy could be recovered? Absolutely. That's my answer as well. Yes, absolutely it can

00:12:13.600 be recovered. But the more important question is, what is true? As we look at the scriptures,

00:12:19.640 are we convicted about the clarity of God's word on this issue? So many people have not even looked

00:12:25.320 at the historic commentaries, the confessions, or the church fathers on these issues.

00:12:32.100 We listen more to sociologists and psychologists. But there's encouragement for us as well, and I

00:12:38.540 want to give that to you today. This is not the first time the church has been badly on the ropes.

00:12:47.160 I love this quote from G.K. Chesterton. Someone asked him about the church, and again, in his time,

00:12:54.320 there's been lots of times where the church seems to be doing poorly. He said this,

00:12:59.080 on five occasions in church history, the church has gone to the dogs, but on every occasion it

00:13:05.280 was the dog that died. This is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. He conquered the grave. He is

00:13:12.740 the risen Lord. And so for us, as we seek out his word, and we want to do that today and ask the

00:13:18.700 question, what is biblical patriarchy? We do so fundamentally from a position of hope.

00:13:25.300 So if we look at this question, how is patriarchy to be recovered?

00:13:30.280 Where do we begin with this project?

00:13:33.580 Well, I love what Dr. Joe Boot, who's here with Ezra Institute,

00:13:37.140 what he says in his book, The Mission of God.

00:13:39.800 Every revival, every reformation is fundamentally looking back to the law of God

00:13:44.260 and to our fathers and doing the deep work of repentance.

00:13:49.440 I also love what Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones said about this

00:13:53.140 when preaching a sermon on Genesis 26.

00:13:57.140 You'll remember in that passage, Isaac had departed to Gerar,

00:14:01.520 and the land was without water.

00:14:04.160 Why was the land without water, I wonder?

00:14:07.280 Well, the Philistines had stopped the wells of Abraham, Isaac's father.

00:14:11.660 And so he realized Isaac did his desperate situation.

00:14:16.300 He realized that his people's survival depended upon him,

00:14:19.700 and so Isaac re-dug the wells of his father.

00:14:23.140 Isaac re-dug these ancient wells.

00:14:26.580 He didn't send for the diviners.

00:14:28.420 He didn't send for the technocratic experts of his day.

00:14:32.040 He didn't take a straw poll.

00:14:34.160 No, he went back to his father's wisdom and he said,

00:14:36.600 if I know anything about my father, it's that he knows where the water is.

00:14:42.400 Right?

00:14:42.780 Abraham knew where to find the living water.

00:14:45.880 This is what Lloyd-Jones says about that passage in his sermon.

00:14:51.480 He says, 1.00

00:14:51.780 the man who experiments in the midst of a crisis is a fool. There is great value in the readings 0.99

00:14:58.120 of church history and the study of the past, and nothing surely is more important for us

00:15:03.420 at this present time than to read the history of the past and to discover its message afresh.

00:15:11.300 The issue today, he said, is that we think that our problems are new and that we think that they

00:15:17.220 are unique. And the church and the world have never been confronted by such problems before.

00:15:23.880 But Lloyd-Jones said, and I find this quite helpful, every time you get one of these great

00:15:28.380 and glorious and mighty periods of true revival, you will find that in every instance it seems to

00:15:34.100 be a returning to something that had been obtained before. Every time the church is thus revived,

00:15:40.220 she seems to be doing what Isaac did. She is going back to something that had happened before,

00:15:45.300 rediscovering it and finding that ancient supply and so there is nothing that I know of Lloyd

00:15:50.960 Jones writes that is more striking in the history of the church than just this principle

00:15:56.240 all right so as we discuss patriarchy we'll lay out some points general principles and points for

00:16:02.840 what is biblical patriarchy we have to face the fact that our need is not something novel or new

00:16:08.640 or faddish, right? How many times do we have to read a new sociological study or read from a

00:16:15.480 professor at the University of Oklahoma or wherever else? Sorry, Oklahoma, right? We have to read from

00:16:22.920 these professors that we now know that the word effeminacy doesn't mean effeminacy because

00:16:28.020 somebody in 2024 found out that the church fathers and everybody else for 2,000 years was

00:16:33.760 quite simply wrong, right? That is, of course, nonsense. We don't need a new definition from

00:16:40.620 Rachel Hollis about motherhood or womanhood. We don't need a new defense of lady pastors 0.99

00:16:46.900 from an up-and-coming lady pastorics in training at a reform denomination. And we're all going to

00:16:54.460 pretend, by the way, along the way that she won't ever become a preacher, even though that's what

00:16:59.300 keeps happening, right? Our starting point, most of all, cannot be appeasement of our culture.

00:17:07.180 I appreciate so much what Dusty Devers had to say because I think that is the heart of the issue. 0.58

00:17:12.280 When you look at biblical sexuality in the church today, I think what you should notice

00:17:16.480 is that our theology is developed more from cowardice than from the Word of God.

00:17:22.140 We are simply embarrassed about what Scripture teaches. It was interesting to me that when

00:17:28.140 Russell Moore in 2023 completely flip-flopped on his position, it wasn't because he came up with a

00:17:33.920 new interpretation of the text. And so what do we need to do in this moment and in this time is to

00:17:40.920 go back to our fathers, to Genesis and Abraham, to the patriarchs, to the Puritans, to the reformers.

00:17:49.060 All right, these are the men who built the first Christendom. And what we need to do is re-dig

00:17:54.040 their wells and go back and study what our fathers said, right? I think it's fitting that as we go

00:18:01.760 back and we study them, that we should truly learn what it means to rule well as a king and as a

00:18:08.260 father. Fundamentally, what we have to do is we have to put the ancient landmark back where it

00:18:14.580 was moved. And this means that we have to go back and we have to read the old dead guys. Because the

00:18:21.160 one thing about it is they had problems, but they're not our problems. They weren't enmeshed

00:18:26.320 in 1960s liberation sexual theology. They had problems, but not those. So what I want to do

00:18:34.900 now is give just a brief defense of biblical patriarchy. And as we jump into this, I want to

00:18:41.980 make a couple baseline recommendations. A talk like this is bound to bring many questions.

00:18:47.640 and so as you have questions it's good to talk to your husbands it's good to talk to pastors

00:18:53.540 but it's also good to read so i want to recommend to you a book that has been most helpful to me on

00:18:59.240 this issue which is masculine christianity by mr zach garris he's actually a pca pastor

00:19:05.320 and he's done a phenomenal job outlining the biblical historical doctrine of patriarchy

00:19:12.820 This book, by the way, you can get it in hard copy, also Canon, the Canon app.

00:19:17.040 They have this in audio book.

00:19:18.440 If you already have the app, you can listen to it there.

00:19:20.920 But this is a phenomenal book.

00:19:22.860 The other book I want to recommend is also by Zach Garris.

00:19:26.840 And this is titled Honor Thy Fathers, Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers.

00:19:33.520 And this will be released this summer, Lord willing, from New Christendom Press.

00:19:38.640 He essentially goes through Calvin, Vermigley, Luther.

00:19:42.740 He says, what do they have to say about women, biblical sexuality, pertaining to what is now feminism?

00:19:49.920 The final recommendation I want to give to you, particularly if you're a pastor, 0.73

00:19:54.180 but anyone studying God's word, is that you rely on the older guys.

00:20:00.240 So when you're going through commentaries, it was very common, at least for me,

00:20:03.540 in seminary that we're reading new commentaries.

00:20:05.820 commentaries. You read R.T. France on the Gospels, and guess what? He has a very egalitarian view

00:20:11.800 when you get to sexuality. And an older and a wiser pastor told me, he said, really what you

00:20:17.760 ought to do is your bedrock for sermon preparation should be John Calvin. It should be Matthew Henry.

00:20:24.380 It should be John Gill. It should be William Gouge. And as I started making that transition in pulpit

00:20:29.840 ministry, what I started to notice was how backwards we actually are today. I said, wait a

00:20:36.040 minute, these guys would get canceled on Twitter if they put these things on there. So then I

00:20:40.600 thought to myself, what if I did it for them? And that's actually one of the most interesting

00:20:47.140 things. I often get charged with this, but people say, you're just trying to be a shock jock, Eric.

00:20:52.980 And I say, actually, I was reading William Gouge on the fifth commandment and he's got some burners.

00:20:58.860 And so here they are for everybody's enjoyment.

00:21:03.000 So now as we turn to this question of biblical patriarchy, I want to lay this out in nine

00:21:08.180 basic points.

00:21:09.900 And again, I want to just emphasize this, the question, so often you'll see this among

00:21:14.820 reformed pastors even, but people will say things like, well, yeah, that's a cool principle

00:21:18.640 from Deuteronomy.

00:21:19.700 And I think it's true, but I just don't think today that's practical, right?

00:21:23.320 I don't, I just, in my experience, I don't know if that could actually happen.

00:21:26.460 the fundamental question that you ought to be asking again particularly for pastors

00:21:31.300 but fathers and husbands the question is not is this popular the question is not is this going

00:21:38.200 to be practical are the feminists going to like it is taylor swift going to like it that's not

00:21:42.940 what we're asking right again we're saying is this true and so we begin with clarity

00:21:49.460 about what the scripture teaches and from clarity we move to courage and then courage means that

00:21:56.920 somewhere along the lines we're actually going to have to assert these principles we're actually

00:22:01.860 going to have to live them we're actually going to have to say to a transgender family member 0.56

00:22:06.520 i'm not going to that wedding and the reason i'm not going is because this is a public

00:22:11.920 statement and i know that because i've read william gooch

00:22:14.800 right so in this talk we're tying together confessionalism post-millennial vision and

00:22:22.160 all the rest hopefully as we go about it the the final thing i'll say as we jump in now and i

00:22:28.920 promise we're going to jump in right these are general principles and i don't know if you've

00:22:34.920 ever noticed this pastors probably have definitely when you give general principles in today's

00:22:40.320 culture, people's minds like short circuit, right? Well, what about the exceptions? I'm going to give

00:22:47.320 you a general rule that is good for women to be mothers. This is the glory of women, right, is to 1.00

00:22:53.980 be mothers. And people will say, what about my triple amputee? Well, yeah, that's an exception. 0.75

00:23:02.000 But we don't make the rules based off the exceptions.

00:23:04.640 so it's a good practice that as you hear these again if you have questions by all means talk

00:23:11.640 to your husbands talk to your pastors talk to your friends point number one what is biblical

00:23:19.180 patriarchy first of all patriarchy simply means father rule right patriarchy means father rule

00:23:26.140 in our culture patriarchy is obviously a dirty word it's supposedly responsible for every evil

00:23:33.440 that has ever happened, right? The patriarchy has actually been smashed, so they tell us,

00:23:40.800 and yet the women who are in charge are killing more babies than ever, if that's in fact what's 0.99

00:23:45.360 happening, right? Feminists run the day, and yet they tell us it's still the patriarchy's fault, 1.00

00:23:52.640 right? It's thought that before 1960, pretty much all women were treated like dirt, 1.00

00:23:58.940 right but again patriarchy means father rule it comes from the greek word patriarches

00:24:04.020 and is a combination of the words potter for father and arco for rule as zach garris says

00:24:10.500 in his book it describes the practice of men providing for and protecting women and children

00:24:15.800 as well as men leading in church and in society right in its simplest form patriarchy means that

00:24:23.360 father's rule in home church and in society. Now, it's also interesting that Peter and Paul both

00:24:30.960 use this word, patriarches, and it's always positive. So Acts 2.29, for example, Peter refers

00:24:37.980 to David the patriarch. They don't seem to be embarrassed about this language. And so if you

00:24:43.240 ask the question, well, why are we going to use that word? Number one, because it's a lot easier

00:24:47.800 to say than complementarianism. But number two, I think it is the biblical word that's used to

00:24:54.180 describe the interplay between the sexes and particularly men leading in these three spheres.

00:25:00.560 It's a biblical word. We should use the biblical word. I don't really care what the feminists

00:25:04.160 think about it. So that's number one. Number two, patriarchy is about a multi-generational 1.00

00:25:10.320 covenantal vision, right? This is what separates Andrew Tate masculinity from what we're talking

00:25:17.820 about here. Yes, men should be strong, but for what, right? They have to have what Brian just

00:25:23.360 talked about with a vision for generations and legacy. I don't have strength so that I can spend

00:25:30.740 it on myself doing the sort of buy a Bugatti and have 30 women in your harem thing that Andrew Tate

00:25:37.480 does, right? This is a man who has no vision. That's the fundamental problem, among many other

00:25:43.800 problems. So patriarchy has to be about this multi-generational and covenantal vision that

00:25:51.460 husbands and fathers have for their families. The Lord is known, by the way, in the Old Testament

00:25:57.940 as the God of your fathers, right? God meant to impart this vision upon his people and in their

00:26:03.600 hearts. And when he visited Abraham in Genesis 15, what did he do? Well, he told him to look at the

00:26:10.080 stars and envision his sons, both numerous and ruling the cosmos, right? This is what Dusty was

00:26:17.040 talking about. What we want to fill our men with is this hope. Look at your life. Someone did this

00:26:24.260 with Jonathan Edwards, by the way, and they looked at like 200 years after his life, and it's like

00:26:30.520 dozens and dozens of his sons are lawyers and senators, probably back when senators were a

00:26:35.980 better thing, right? They impacted their society. All these people came from him.

00:26:42.900 This is actually a similar thing, what we find in Virgil's Aeneid. Aeneas descends into the grave,

00:26:49.060 and what does he do? He meets his father, and before him is paraded all the future generations

00:26:54.240 of his sons. That's the sort of vision that gives you hope. And God told Abraham, this is what is

00:27:02.220 going to happen, ultimately to bring Christ from your loins. This God-given and patriarchal vision 0.81

00:27:10.740 calls each of us to look down through the generations and by faith start building because

00:27:15.660 we believe God's promises. Number three, the scriptures themselves are patriarchal.

00:27:22.600 and somewhere a feminist brain just like short-circuited again she had a meltdown

00:27:28.200 right but all of us i mean even when i first started looking into this i said i don't know

00:27:33.660 are the scriptures really patriarchal this is like 10 years ago well let's look at it even

00:27:38.620 elizabeth caddy stanton you remember her she was the first wave feminist she is the one that said

00:27:45.520 that christianity i'm quoting christianity is inherently patriarchal and that's why i hate it

00:27:50.640 when the feminists say it's patriarchal and then you read the scripture and you say 1.00

00:27:55.700 she's she's right not that she hated it obviously so what did she do she published her woman's bible 0.81

00:28:03.300 which deleted all references to patriarchal rule right this is what the scripture teaches

00:28:10.480 biblical patriarchy scripture is actually quite clear on this issue in the scriptures for example

00:28:17.400 we learn things like this. Adam was created before Eve, and she was made to be his helper on his

00:28:22.760 mission. Genesis 2.15. God named mankind after the man, not the woman. Genesis 5.1-2. Adam was the

00:28:31.560 one who, as ruler, named his wife Eve, mother of all living. Even though Eve sinned first, what did

00:28:37.860 God do? He called Adam to, first and foremost, to be accountable. And this makes sense when you

00:28:43.380 consider that Adam ruled and had authority over his wife, and thus he was responsible. He was the

00:28:49.600 responsible agent for Eve's sin. In fact, Adam was responsible covenantally for all humanity.

00:28:57.040 This is what patriarchy means. Later, we learn that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would be referred

00:29:03.680 to as the patriarchs. Why? Because they ruled their families. Abraham was promised land and

00:29:09.140 offspring and given the covenant of circumcision, which applied to who? Male offspring. These 0.95

00:29:15.080 promises were inherited by his descendants, but specifically by his sons. And the Apostle Paul

00:29:21.100 includes Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as patriarchs in Romans 15.8 when he says, Christ became a

00:29:28.260 servant to Jews. Why? To confirm the promises given to the patriarchs. So the New Testament

00:29:35.600 doesn't seem to have a problem with patriarchy. In the Old Testament, we think about the civil

00:29:41.180 structures. Well, elders, prophets, judges, priests, kings, all men. We do have the one case of

00:29:47.500 Athalia being the queen, but she is a usurper. Judgment falls upon her head. The heads of 1.00

00:29:54.540 families, men, were chosen for civil government, Exodus 4.29. Of the old covenant structure,

00:30:01.180 Herman Boving says this, quote, the entire organization of the nation was along patriarchal

00:30:07.760 lines. You see, what's important to read the old guys, right? It's along patriarchal lines in clans, 1.00

00:30:15.500 families, and households. Each group had a head or representative or prince, a man. All these heads

00:30:21.400 or princes together formed the members of the assembly. When they gathered, the congregation

00:30:25.820 of Israel was thus gathered, end quote. Well, what about Jesus? This is one that I get a lot

00:30:33.680 on Twitter, social media, but also in email. Wasn't Jesus like a modern-day hippie? Didn't

00:30:40.520 he have like really long hair and flip-flops? Hung out at coffee shops in Boulder, Colorado?

00:30:48.760 Well, that's not actually what we find from the biblical record. Jesus not only had shorter hair

00:30:53.400 like the Jewish men of his day, but he exercised manly authority. What did he do? He applauded John 0.57

00:31:00.100 the Baptist because he wasn't soft. And this is from Matthew 11. The Greek word that's used there

00:31:07.000 is malikos, which means effeminacy. He's applauding John for not being effeminate.

00:31:13.520 God sent Christ in the flesh as a man. That seems obvious, but again, as previous speakers have said,

00:31:20.080 we're not even sure what men are anymore. Christ came as a man. He was resurrected with a male

00:31:26.720 body. He taught with authority, and he overturned the tables in the temple. God's people, in fact,

00:31:33.400 expected a male Messiah because the prophecies were about a man, and God's leaders had always

00:31:38.820 been men. Point number four, gender rules are rooted in creation. Gender rules are rooted 0.97

00:31:46.860 in creation. Now modern feminists like to claim that gender rules are just cultural, right? These 1.00

00:31:53.300 are things that we made up because of John Wayne, not Genesis 1 through 3, which is in fact where

00:31:58.680 they come from, right? The New Testament authors, including Jesus, root these teachings continually

00:32:04.160 in creation. So for example, when Jesus is asked about marriage in Matthew 19, what does he do?

00:32:11.660 He makes a beeline for Genesis and for the creation account.

00:32:16.500 When Paul says in 1 Timothy 2 that he does not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man,

00:32:21.920 he ties it specifically to the creation account.

00:32:25.920 Adam was created first, therefore Adam is to rule.

00:32:29.240 Creation order matters, in other words.

00:32:31.780 While he was created second, it is Adam's helper.

00:32:34.860 She was made for the man.

00:32:36.920 Paul tells us this in Corinthians. 0.94

00:32:39.420 This was one that I had the most enjoyment over on Twitter

00:32:42.680 because I quoted Paul without telling people where it was from,

00:32:46.680 and they said, you're twisting the word of God.

00:32:49.520 I said, no, this is literally word for word what the text says.

00:32:53.280 You just don't like it.

00:32:55.340 Here's the point in talking about our natures being rooted in creation and in God's design. 0.82

00:33:01.720 If God made a woman a certain way, everywhere she goes, every sphere,

00:33:06.200 she takes the same nature with her. 0.98

00:33:09.140 It's not just that she's easily deceived when we're talking about the church, but not the family.

00:33:15.240 And then the sphere that nobody likes to talk about because it's so controversial is society, the public sphere.

00:33:23.020 God did not arbitrarily assign tasks to men and women apart from the sexual nature that he gave them.

00:33:30.440 Zach Garris writes this.

00:33:33.120 Contrary to modern thought, these physical and biological differences affect a person's entire being.

00:33:39.200 Men and women have different bodies, different minds, different personalities, and different dispositions.

00:33:44.900 Men and women have different natures.

00:33:46.880 I read an article recently in a newspaper, and this is how you know it's a good newspaper.

00:33:51.820 They said there's a new sociological study, and it proves a fundamental reality. 1.00

00:33:57.160 They said men and women are different. 0.99

00:33:59.740 Like, I did not need this article to know that that was true.

00:34:03.420 right that's how crazy our society is and that's how far even the church has fallen

00:34:09.820 so this means that when we talk of roles that men and women occupy they're not arbitrary

00:34:17.280 this is why God gave women certain physical components right they have breasts and womb

00:34:25.900 men have more muscle mass on average than women right there's a reason for this and it's related

00:34:32.180 to their purpose. This is also why, if you understand nature rooted in creation, this is 0.96

00:34:39.440 why it's a problem when a woman says, I could preach a better sermon than most men. No, in fact, 1.00

00:34:45.580 you could not. That's as equally absurd as if I said, I could give birth better than most women. 0.99

00:34:53.040 You cannot do the thing. It is not rooted in your nature. No matter how many crazy articles 1.00

00:34:59.980 that we read about men lactating.

00:35:03.420 They don't.

00:35:06.160 But this is where we are.

00:35:07.320 This is literally where we are.

00:35:08.540 We talk about it all the time as pastors.

00:35:10.380 We're in a position now in our culture

00:35:11.980 where we say, you're a man, you're a woman,

00:35:16.160 and people get angry.

00:35:17.420 But this is what you have to do.

00:35:19.820 You have to be courageous. 0.99

00:35:22.140 Number five, women are made for motherhood. 1.00

00:35:26.240 One of the primary aims of the feminist movement, 1.00

00:35:28.560 they're outspoken about this, is to push women into the workforce. 0.83

00:35:34.140 Frederick Engels wrote about this before and after the Communist Manifesto. 0.95

00:35:39.600 They said, what we want to do is destroy the middle class of working people.

00:35:43.120 If we do that, then we can push our communist aims.

00:35:46.340 The only way we can do that is by destroying patriarchy. 0.96

00:35:50.720 There's a reason that Betty Friedan was a Marxist. 0.70

00:35:55.000 She fabricated her study about how miserable women were in the 1950s.

00:35:59.560 It was completely not true.

00:36:03.160 We moderns have a hard time fathoming that it's been atypical across history 0.95

00:36:08.900 to have women so prominent in the workforce as today.

00:36:13.920 But you look at 1950 and before, it simply wasn't happening.

00:36:18.420 Not in American history, but in world history. 1.00

00:36:21.880 For thousands of years, women were seen as naturally caretakers in the home. 0.98

00:36:28.640 That's, in fact, what Scripture tells us. 0.87

00:36:31.380 Creation tells us that women are made to help the man. 0.97

00:36:34.880 She does this, get this, she makes immortal souls in her womb. 0.95

00:36:40.040 And you're trying to tell me that spreadsheets are better. 1.00

00:36:44.700 She makes immortal souls in her womb, and the home is her proper sphere. 0.98

00:36:51.240 the church fathers said this for thousands of years a woman can put on pantsuits she can occupy 1.00

00:36:58.180 a corner office she can sterilize her body for decades via the pill but all the while her 0.98

00:37:03.320 biology screams out she is made to be a mother her menstrual cycle her breasts her womb they sing

00:37:11.900 the song of her creation her glory is motherhood it was chesterton i think who so aptly put it this

00:37:19.720 way. He said, feminism is the muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers, 1.00

00:37:25.740 but slaves when they help their husbands. You have to understand that's what our women are 0.86

00:37:31.660 being inundated with. All the feminists and the crypto feminists on Twitter, you know who they 1.00

00:37:38.020 attack the most? Moms who stay home. And as men, we have to be the protectors to say, no, 1.00

00:37:46.760 my wife is not going to take that because I'm going to stand in the gap

00:37:52.660 point number six men are made to be courageous warriors and workers if you ask me why is

00:38:00.940 patriarchy so important for this project of rebuilding christendom it's for this reason

00:38:05.980 christendom simply cannot be recovered without recovering biblical masculinity when you look 0.89

00:38:12.260 at the first Christendom. Men like Charlemagne and Alfred the Great and Jan Sobieski. Well newsflash 0.78

00:38:19.740 they were not pietistic effeminate versions of men that we have today. They saddled up their horses

00:38:25.700 and they defeated an enemy that outnumbered them 200 to 1. This is what we need if we're going to

00:38:33.620 defend the perimeter. Genesis 2 15 says that man was put in the garden to work and to keep. Why?

00:38:40.760 Because man was designed for vocational work, right? 0.73

00:38:44.880 Our culture doesn't even know this.

00:38:46.220 There's a term for this, you know.

00:38:47.300 It's called a fami.

00:38:48.700 It's called a father-mommy, right?

00:38:51.700 A dad who stays at home while his wife works.

00:38:55.080 This ought not to be. 0.94

00:38:56.540 Why?

00:38:56.860 Genesis 2.15, it's very clear.

00:38:58.960 It's always been clear. 1.00

00:39:00.660 The man who doesn't provide for his family is worse than an unbeliever. 1.00

00:39:05.440 Men are made to be warriors for the sake of their people, right? 1.00

00:39:10.660 Leon Pottles was correct.

00:39:12.660 He said this,

00:39:13.320 A man who has not bled, a man who has not suffered, a man without scars, is no man at all. 1.00

00:39:21.600 Women will bleed in childbirth and menstruation. 0.88

00:39:24.900 Men will bleed on the battlefield. 1.00

00:39:27.600 They were made for this.

00:39:29.640 Among other things, this means that a man must have a capacity for violence, for the good of his people.

00:39:36.820 He has to be meek in the sense that he knows how to restrain it,

00:39:40.400 but he has a capacity for danger.

00:39:44.120 So when Paul says in 1 Corinthians 16, act like men,

00:39:49.520 it's clear he means that men must be physically courageous.

00:39:53.200 Men must be bold, even heroic.

00:39:56.120 They must defend the perimeter.

00:39:58.480 But what does the church do today?

00:39:59.820 The church tends to over-spiritualize this element of masculinity

00:40:02.820 as though Paul were merely calling for spiritual strength.

00:40:06.720 They think when Paul says act like man, they mean have a really good quiet time.

00:40:11.980 That's not what builds Christendom.

00:40:14.540 Quiet times are important, but you have to do far more than that if you're going to be competent and capable as a man.

00:40:22.080 The reality here is clear.

00:40:23.720 God gave men chests and muscles and deep voices so that they would learn how to command respect and act with gravitas and auctoritas or manly authority.

00:40:34.380 so we must reject the false effeminate version of manhood that is so often pushed on us by the

00:40:40.400 church today one of the things that draws the most ire perhaps in the realm of fathers and

00:40:47.960 sons protecting is the issue of modesty right this is uh if you talk about yoga pants people 1.00

00:40:54.800 get really mad i don't know if you know this right there's a coveted thing among feminists 1.00

00:41:01.100 that has been just embedded in the culture that women think they're free when they take all their 1.00

00:41:06.220 clothes off in public. And brothers and fathers and husbands ought not to allow this. Why? Because 1.00

00:41:13.320 they love their daughters. And when daughters are intoxicated and drinking during a Mardi Gras parade

00:41:18.940 and doing all sorts of lewd gyrations, the question we ought to ask is where are the men?

00:41:25.940 Where are these young women's fathers?

00:41:30.420 Men are to protect their women and particularly their sexual purity. 0.88

00:41:36.460 Number seven, women are not made for military or combat.

00:41:41.380 This is incredibly unpopular, and I would say law enforcement is included.

00:41:45.500 Deuteronomy 22.5 tells us, this is actually very clear. 0.99

00:41:48.500 A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak. 0.53

00:41:52.960 for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. Read that again. Whoever

00:41:58.360 does these things is what? An abomination to the Lord your God. That's some pretty weighty

00:42:05.360 language. Not only does this prohibit cross-dressing, but the text refers specifically

00:42:11.440 to a woman who puts on military garb, right? Women are not to serve in the military or combat roles 1.00

00:42:18.000 because it is a violation of their nature, right? 1.00

00:42:22.720 Women are not designed to give or to take punches. 1.00

00:42:25.560 They're not made to enter the arena or the agon. 1.00

00:42:28.180 That's what men do, right?

00:42:30.640 But what do we do? 1.00

00:42:31.160 We continue to push them into these areas, right? 1.00

00:42:35.040 Women in the UFC, I think it's against a woman's nature. 1.00

00:42:39.020 It's disgusting to see women cave each other's faces in, right? 1.00

00:42:43.880 This is against nature. 0.97

00:42:46.080 Paul makes very similar arguments. 0.99

00:42:48.640 But other sports, women in full-contact sports, you see this with the NFL. 0.96

00:42:53.320 They're continually trying to push women into playing. 0.96

00:42:56.900 Australia does this with rugby. 0.99

00:42:59.560 Women have leagues, and you know what they found out? 1.00

00:43:02.160 Cutting sports are notoriously destructive of a woman's ACL, her knee joint, right? 1.00

00:43:08.180 They have such catastrophic rates of knee failure in women that doctors have said, 1.00

00:43:12.640 we need to stop putting women in full-contact sports. 1.00

00:43:15.880 Again, to which we could say, yeah, no kidding. 1.00

00:43:20.920 The other area where we've connected it in Ogden is women and cultural pugilism. 1.00

00:43:26.980 Part of the problem is we have women in politics as well. 1.00

00:43:30.460 We have women all over the place doing things that normally men should be doing. 1.00

00:43:35.800 And while we admit that the world is messed up and there's going to be some imperfect situations, 1.00

00:43:39.560 we also have to stand by the principle that women do not need to be out front even in the culture

00:43:45.420 war fighting for us the thing we should ask ourselves if there are no men to do it why is that 1.00

00:43:52.140 then maybe we should raise some up maybe we should train them but again the woman's role

00:43:59.400 is primarily the home i think i'm crazy on this john gill who served 100 years i believe before

00:44:06.100 Spurgeon in the same church, he applies this principle on Deuteronomy 22.5, and he says this, 0.94

00:44:13.000 it is very unseemly and impudent and contrary to the modesty of her, that is the woman's sex,

00:44:19.340 or there shall not be upon her any instrument of a man, any utensil of which he makes use of in his 1.00

00:44:25.740 trade or in his business. So he's not just saying military, he's also saying trade tools.

00:44:31.360 John Gill says as if she was employed in it that is the trade her business was not to do the work

00:44:37.880 of men but to take care of her house and her family and the apostle Paul says the exact same

00:44:45.160 thing we just don't like it number eight men are made to rule in family in church and in society

00:44:54.580 fathers are called to rule in the family this much is clear of all the controversial things to say

00:45:00.860 this is probably the least, but yet it still doesn't happen. Paul is clear in Ephesians 5.25,

00:45:07.240 for example, that the husband is head of the wife. They are not joint heads of the household.

00:45:13.640 As my friend Pastor Rich Lusk often says, anything with two heads is called a monster.

00:45:20.580 There is one head, which is the husband. He has both authority and responsibility to rule his

00:45:27.440 household. Well, this is the failure of servant leader model. Well, he has the responsibility to

00:45:32.420 serve his wife's every need, but he has no real authority. But that's never leadership. You have

00:45:38.840 to have both, authority and responsibility. And the man is to love his wife as Christ loves the

00:45:44.720 church. She, in turn, is to submit, and here's the part that you all love, she is to submit as one

00:45:52.220 inferior in rank. Let me say that again, as one inferior in rank, right? They're both equally

00:46:01.780 valuable before God, but they have a different hierarchical ranking. Our society hates this.

00:46:09.440 I think this is one reason, this is the language, by the way, of the Westminster Confession,

00:46:14.000 but this is one reason why the complementarians in 1989, when they formulated their statements,

00:46:19.680 This is why they said we're anti-hierarchalist.

00:46:22.720 Well, then you're anti-scripture.

00:46:26.060 This is how God built the system.

00:46:29.260 Gouge, William Gouge, says this. 0.99

00:46:31.700 The necessary subjection of the wife is to that degree of subordination where God has placed all subordinates 0.92

00:46:38.180 and how he has subjected them to their superiors and set them in a lower rank. 1.00

00:46:44.820 A wife is a lower rank. 0.57

00:46:47.540 All that means in hierarchy, it's very, very simple. 1.00

00:46:50.460 She reports to him.

00:46:53.120 That's actually just crystal clear.

00:46:55.160 And the church fathers taught it for millennia. 0.97

00:46:58.460 In the church, men are to rule. 0.92

00:47:00.580 Only men can be pastors. 1.00

00:47:02.200 No lady pastors. 1.00

00:47:03.960 Sorry, not sorry. 1.00

00:47:05.780 Christ has appointed men to lead in his church.

00:47:08.500 And again, 1 Timothy 2 and elsewhere, Paul affirms this.

00:47:12.180 We need to recognize that preaching and pastoral ministry

00:47:15.640 is a form of spiritual combat and spiritual warfare. 1.00

00:47:20.760 And this is one reason why a woman's nature 1.00

00:47:22.460 is not fitted for that task. 1.00

00:47:26.280 Finally, we'll conclude with this as we wrap things up.

00:47:28.900 What about society?

00:47:31.100 Thomas Watson and other Westminster divines

00:47:33.480 taught frequently on the fifth commandment.

00:47:36.200 To Joel's point, it's really hard to do better

00:47:38.840 than these guys, especially in our day.

00:47:41.440 Go back to the confessions and read them.

00:47:43.380 right thomas watson on the fifth commandment taught that the civil sphere just as the church

00:47:50.540 is an extension of the family starts with the family flows outward as such it's clear in this

00:47:57.560 structure and in westminster that only men may rule we see this principle in exodus 3 where the

00:48:04.300 fathers are appointed to rule in the civil sphere but again this is controversial today but actually

00:48:09.360 biblically quite clear. If a woman cannot lawfully rule in her home, which scripture says she cannot, 0.99

00:48:16.560 and in the church, how then is she going to rule other households and churches? 0.94

00:48:21.900 This makes no sense. She is not fitted in her nature for this task. And again, if you think

00:48:28.120 I'm crazy, here's R.L. Dabney. He says this, does not the apostle here assign the home as the proper

00:48:35.280 sphere of the Christian woman. That is her kingdom, and neither the secular nor the ecclesiastical

00:48:42.540 commonwealth. Her duties in her home are to detain her away from the public functions. A wise God,

00:48:49.720 and here's the point, this is in God's wisdom and his goodness and his mercy to us, right? These

00:48:55.280 structures are good. A wise God designs no clashing between his domestic, his political,

00:49:01.780 and his ecclesiastical arrangements.

00:49:06.480 We have to see, it's not just patriarchy,

00:49:09.780 but it's patriarchy in this order that God has set,

00:49:12.000 and it is good.

00:49:13.560 We have to rejoice that God made it this way

00:49:15.980 because it is a good thing for us and for our families

00:49:19.240 upon which Christendom will be built.

00:49:23.460 Finally, I'll close with this.

00:49:25.200 Number nine, patriarchy must be marked by contagious joy. 0.92

00:49:30.820 Everybody thinks, especially on the feminist side, that we're in Ogden and we're just really angry.

00:49:38.720 We're actually a bunch of friends in a really old church basement that probably has mold.

00:49:45.060 And the week before we got here, all Brian did was sing the same songs.

00:49:49.140 I'm so tired of hearing them.

00:49:51.380 All day.

00:49:52.560 We rib each other.

00:49:53.540 We have fun.

00:49:54.220 We love our culture.

00:49:56.400 As Pastor Doug has led the way on so many of these issues for so many years,

00:50:00.420 and we're grateful for him, he said it best.

00:50:02.500 You can't fight a culture war without a culture.

00:50:06.220 Our main task is not drinking liberal tears.

00:50:10.560 We are establishing hardy cultures that are worth defending.

00:50:15.240 We are building cultures that are filled with psalm singing and feasting and robust worship

00:50:20.960 and the study of God's Word and Christian education.

00:50:23.880 and, yes, maybe even a little sourdough.

00:50:29.020 I'm glad you got that.

00:50:30.200 That was good.

00:50:30.880 Put that in there.

00:50:32.380 Only when we have this great culture are we prepared to fight,

00:50:37.600 and joy should mark us.

00:50:39.880 So as we embark on the battle to defend God's design for human sexuality,

00:50:45.040 we must remember what Chesterton said.

00:50:48.200 The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,

00:50:51.380 but because he loves what is behind him.

00:50:55.460 It is not a hatred for feminism or a sexual perversion,

00:50:59.240 a hatred for that that marks us.

00:51:01.740 But it is our love for our people.

00:51:04.300 It's our love for the purity of Christ's church.

00:51:07.820 I love what Joe Rigney has said about this,

00:51:10.200 talking about King Loon from C.S. Lewis and the Horse and His Boy.

00:51:15.260 It's this principle that we talk about often in Ogden.

00:51:18.220 First in, last out, laughing loudest.

00:51:21.380 Right? Quoting from C.S. Lewis, I'll share this with you. He says this,

00:51:26.460 This is what it means to be a king, to be first in every desperate attack, to be last in every

00:51:31.860 desperate retreat, and when there's hunger in the land, as must be now and then in bad years,

00:51:37.280 to wear finer clothes and to laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man in your land.

00:51:44.000 This is a vision, a joyful vision for patriarchy.

00:51:48.500 i want to charge you finally as we close particularly the men dusty spoke at length

00:51:54.860 about this i love what he said i want you to think about your grandsons especially again

00:52:00.240 especially men think about your grandsons

00:52:01.980 what will disappoint them is not that you died in the fight and you gave it your all

00:52:10.080 what will disappoint them in you is that you were a coward and that you didn't fight this fight

00:52:16.000 evangelicals have said this for the last many years this is not a hill to die on 0.94

00:52:22.900 brothers and sisters biblical sexuality and patriarchy is a hill to die on we have to be

00:52:30.340 willing to plant our flag here and we do so because we know what our father's taught

00:52:37.160 we have the confession behind us it may be depressing as you look about we are badly

00:52:44.960 outnumbered by the feminist hordes and the culture and yes even our church institutions

00:52:49.200 to which I say to you what a time to win glory. We have been chosen to stand in the gap as did

00:52:56.320 the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae and we fight not for ourselves but for our progeny not because it

00:53:03.980 is easy but because we look with faith to the future generations of our sons and we come full

00:53:10.600 circle with patriarchy. When we die, let us die spent in the fight for Christendom. Then we may

00:53:17.560 say, as Théoden did on the Pelennor fields, as he lay dying, I go now to my father's, in whose

00:53:24.640 mighty company I shall not now be so ashamed. Amen? Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much

00:53:33.340 for your grace. We thank you for your word. We ask that you would revive and reform and build

00:53:39.440 up your church in such a manner that we crush the gates of hell. Father, build up your kingdom

00:53:45.660 for the sake of your son, Jesus, in whose name we pray. Amen. Amen.

The NXR Podcast - April 02, 2024

THE CONFERENCE - Biblical Patriarchy - Session 4 - Eric Conn ｜ Blueprints for Christendom 2.0 2024

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