The NXR Podcast - THE LIVESTREAM - White Boy Summer & The 5th Commandment

00:00:00.000 welcome it's june 19th it's a notable day charles spurgeon's birthday it's also notable in the sense

00:00:09.480 that uh we are at high noon here in white boy summer a familiar feeling is in the air as white

00:00:16.060 boy summer returns once again for some it's a humorous and enjoyable way to commemorate and

00:00:22.720 celebrate the anglo-saxon heritage of the west but for others it's viewed as a harbinger of

00:00:29.320 immaturity and needless race essentialism. So which one is it? A psyop in a grift or a good

00:00:36.640 and godly way to obey the fifth commandment? Enjoy this video for your viewing pleasure. 0.51

00:00:59.320 Blew down the doors to let me in.

00:01:02.360 Shattered windows and the sound of drums.

00:01:06.720 People couldn't believe what I'd become.

00:01:11.040 Revolutionaries wait for my head on a silver plate.

00:01:16.120 Just a bucket on a long history.

00:01:20.280 Or who would ever want to be king.

00:01:24.280 I hear cherished little bells ringing.

00:01:27.480 Roman cavalry choirs to sing it

00:01:31.260 Be my mirror, my sword and shield 0.71

00:01:34.500 My missionaries in a foreign field

00:01:38.020 For some reason I can't explain

00:01:41.360 I know Saint Peter won't call my name

00:01:44.740 Never an honest word

00:01:47.860 But that was when I ruled the world

00:01:57.480 Thank you.

00:02:27.480 I'm there on my soul and shield

00:02:30.100 I'm missionaries and I fall in fear

00:02:33.620 There's some reason I can't explain

00:02:36.860 I know a saint Peter won't call my name

00:02:40.360 Never an honest word

00:02:43.520 But that was when I ruled the world

00:02:57.480 all right well hope you guys enjoyed that video i certainly did i feel like i probably honestly

00:03:08.520 watch it about just once a month honestly it's it's motivating it's christmas music you know

00:03:13.700 it could be mid-july and i find myself listening to frank sinatra a christmas album and so too it

00:03:18.600 could be mid-december and every now and then you just gotta need some pre-workout you're out of

00:03:23.420 out of monster energy drinks so so welcome we're going to be discussing white boy summer i'm going

00:03:27.500 to lay out some some definitions uh we're also going to talk about natural affection as a category

00:03:31.920 so natural affection honoring then the fifth commandment but first of all uh maybe for some

00:03:36.860 of you who are online less than we are you're saying what is white boy summer i've never heard

00:03:41.340 this term before white supremacy summer is that what you're talking about well there's three words

00:03:45.600 in there and there's two of them that i don't think people have a lot of concern with it's the

00:03:49.880 white part that they're okay with boy they're okay with summer boy and summer that sounds great

00:03:53.480 cannot stand whitey white boy summer so white boy summer i'm going to borrow a definition this is

00:03:59.000 from youtuber james anderson white he puts out some good stuff he said this so you're brand new

00:04:03.480 to white boy summer you clicked on this video because you love us but you have no idea what

00:04:06.680 the topic is let me lay out a definition white boy summer a mindset which is uniquely christian

00:04:12.360 and european and culture that promotes male fellowship competition and self-improvement

00:04:18.280 primarily in but not limited to the summer season and again credit for that goes to james

00:04:23.500 anderson white uh so broadly speaking this is 2021 there's a song it's like tom hanks's son

00:04:29.660 he riffed off of the idea of hot girl summer and put out a song did some promotional stuff on

00:04:34.660 white boy summer it's crass i mean frat culture is cringe if you're partying and drinking like

00:04:40.600 what's the move tonight bro the move is go start a family enough of this drinking enough this

00:04:44.340 partying so the source material i would say though has been quickly eclipsed nobody references that

00:04:48.520 song anymore that's not what we're we're talking about but what's been adopted uh by by certain

00:04:53.380 members and i would say our tribe come to our conferences they're christian and they say there's

00:04:59.140 a positive aspect again christian and european culture that during the summer season we want

00:05:05.200 to celebrate now certainly there are individuals that have taken it made memes or different ideas

00:05:10.260 out of it that are not Christian. And to those, we would reject them. When we're talking about

00:05:14.400 White Boy Summer, as far as we're talking about it, as far as others in our camp would talk about

00:05:18.160 it, we're talking about a positive expression of Christian European Western culture and the

00:05:24.700 celebration of our fathers, of our heritage, of the good that they left us. Not everything about it,

00:05:29.900 but the good that they left us and hope for the continuance of it, the continuance of the West, 0.70

00:05:35.060 the continuance of European culture, and most essentially Christianity. 0.94

00:05:38.640 Right. Right out of the gate, like in the comments, I'm looking here. Will Nelson says, I don't think it's wise. And for the record, I'm not going to pick on you, Will. I don't think it's terrible what you're saying. But he says, I don't think it's wise for a church to use this. It's too easily misunderstood.

00:05:52.580 do it. One thing to address that, one thing that I learned fairly early on in preaching was, you

00:05:59.780 know, every now and then I would make a short, brief reference to something that, you know,

00:06:06.920 on the surface might be, you know, too spicy, too controversial. People might take it the wrong way.

00:06:13.860 And what I realized is, you know what, it's perfectly fine to do that. Number one, an argument

00:06:19.060 it can be made for just saying something brief that's controversial. And it may be permissible

00:06:23.700 in some cases. But beyond that, what I realized is if I'm going to peel back something that's

00:06:31.960 going to wow people, shock people, there's going to be a shock appeal, I need to make sure that in

00:06:37.060 the sermon that I actually have time to address that so that it's not just a fly-by, like a

00:06:43.460 drive-by shooting. So it's just like, bam, white boy summer. So we thought about that. 0.81

00:06:49.060 So to be real clear here for Will, who said, I don't think it's wise for a church to do the white boy summer thing, it's too easily misunderstood.

00:06:56.600 So let me counter that by saying, number one, I have not done any reference to white boy summer in a sermon ever, and probably never will.

00:07:07.320 I've never done it even in a podcast or anything.

00:07:10.560 The closest that I got to it wasn't volitional, but I spoke at the New Christendom Conference and some other, you know, generous gentlemen, some anons, you know, not to be named, decided to go ahead and take a picture of me and Stephen Wolfe and Brian Sauve and Joe Rigney and Chase Davis and put us in pit vipers, you know, and do the 80s kind of, you know, style with the background and say, you know, peak white boy summer.

00:07:33.740 But the point is, even that I didn't do. It was just done by somebody else. And so this is

00:07:39.000 actually the first time with Right Response Ministries, as far as I'm pretty sure I would

00:07:43.800 have remembered if it had been done before. But this is the first time that there's been any

00:07:47.620 reference to White Boy Summer. And take that in for a moment. It's been what, three years now,

00:07:53.200 four years? 2021, three years. So it's been three years. This is the first reference that there's

00:07:57.860 ever been. And what you'll notice is we did not play the White Boy Summer video, you know, in mid

00:08:03.760 May, the beginning of summer or the beginning of June and throw on, you know, pit vipers. That's,

00:08:08.460 you know, that's immature. We want to wear pit vipers. And so, you know, so if you're listening 0.99

00:08:11.940 on podcasts, you know, Spotify or Apple, I promise you, we are not wearing pit vipers.

00:08:17.300 Don't imagine us like that at all.

00:08:18.580 Don't imagine that. That would be racist. Don't do that. So, but the point is, the point is that

00:08:23.500 we didn't have a random podcast on post-millennialism or whatever. And, and then

00:08:28.100 just throw on pit vipers for 30 seconds and play the white boy summer video that we just played for

00:08:33.000 you and then move on with another episode. That would be, I think the, what, what I would like

00:08:37.540 into like the drive by shooting again, doesn't mean it's always wrong. So I'm not saying if

00:08:42.080 anybody does that, it's immoral, but I'm just saying for right response ministries, um, our 0.84

00:08:46.600 first showcasing of white boy summer is yeah. A little humor. Yeah. A video, you know, and, uh, 0.73

00:08:52.380 but then also, and not pit vipers, we wouldn't do that, but a video, a little bit of humor.

00:08:55.780 And then, um, what you're about to buckle up for 45 minutes plus of explaining, defining terms,

00:09:04.980 why we think not only a white boy summer is permissible, but, but actually, um, a general

00:09:10.240 overall good. Um, and, uh, why no matter what ethnicity you are, number one, no matter what

00:09:16.560 ethnicity you are, welcome to white boy summer. I think that you're, you're included. You're

00:09:20.900 welcome to join Clarence Thomas. You know, he could be the mascot of White Boy Summer. I would 0.61

00:09:26.120 invite him to do that. But beyond that, even not just with all ethnicities, welcome to White Boy 0.95

00:09:32.320 Summer, but also more importantly, from a biblical standpoint, this is what we want to get into with

00:09:36.560 natural affections, with honoring fathers in the fifth commandment. All ethnicities are also welcome

00:09:41.800 to honor their fathers and their heritage and their culture with one caveat, one disclaimer,

00:09:47.920 insofar as those specific elements of their culture honor Christ. And that's one of the

00:09:55.540 things that we're going to get into with White Boy Summer and this whole, you know,

00:09:58.820 Fifth Commandment and natural affections and Heritage America and all these things

00:10:02.380 is I hope that by this point, conservatives, now sadly, many conservatives are, you know,

00:10:08.280 air quote, conservatives. They're not really conservative. They're conserving nothing,

00:10:12.200 but a true conservative, biblical, you know, Bible-loving Christian, hopefully by this point 0.95

00:10:17.120 has recognized that all cultures are not equal. Hopefully that's not shocking for anybody. All

00:10:23.580 cultures are not equal. Like I remember, you know, doing a mission trip that I shouldn't have been 1.00

00:10:27.740 on. All right. So I'll get that out of the way. I was 16, right? So, you know, short-term youth

00:10:33.600 group missions trips. If your church does that, feel free to stop immediately. That's an absolute,

00:10:39.380 you do not need 16-year-olds to make balloon animals, you know, at an orphanage. You could

00:10:43.740 just take all the money that I wasted on a flight for my ignorant, you know, teenage self to go,

00:10:49.380 you know, to Kenya and Tanzania, could have taken that money and actually, you know, put it to use,

00:10:54.460 give it to Voti Bakum and Conrad Mbewe in Zimbabwe with their seminary, whatever.

00:10:58.660 But I was on this mission trip, although I probably shouldn't have been. I was on it

00:11:01.760 nonetheless. And I quickly realized, hey, it's not just that Kenya and Tanzania have different

00:11:09.140 cultures. They have worse cultures. Worse. We could barely, the minister that I was with, 1.00

00:11:16.260 he could barely preach a sermon because there was no clear time when people showed up on Sunday to

00:11:22.040 church. And not because a clear time hadn't been stated. The church had a time, and we had done

00:11:27.660 door-to-door evangelism that whole week leading up to the revival event and telling people

00:11:33.200 the time, not just telling them where it is and what it is, but when it is. We told them,

00:11:37.900 this place at this time, and nobody, and it wasn't that people didn't desire to be there. So it

00:11:43.580 wasn't like, well, nobody came, you know, because they're not interested. No, everybody was

00:11:46.940 interested, and real serious interest in the preaching of the gospel, what it looked like was

00:11:51.980 arriving three hours late. That's what it looked like in that culture. Now, that's not a difference

00:11:56.720 of culture. That's an inferior culture, at least in that specific regard. Showing up on time, 1.00

00:12:04.280 if that's whiteness, well, no, no, no, hold up. That's Christian. And insofar as Anglo-Protestants, 0.98

00:12:10.880 which are predominantly, historically were predominantly white Western culture, insofar

00:12:15.760 as they modeled timeliness and promptness, well, what does that signify? It signifies respect for

00:12:21.180 others, respect towards others. And insofar as that is esteemed within a culture, respect for

00:12:28.600 others through promptness and timeliness, well, then what you have ultimately being esteemed is

00:12:33.460 a Christian characteristic. And so you can say that in this particular culture, it is mirroring

00:12:39.160 a Christian worldview. And so that particular characteristic of that culture is something that

00:12:44.880 you can say, that's great. And so again, all ethnicities feel free to celebrate white boy 0.67

00:12:50.220 summer, but also from a biblical standpoint, don't just feel free like it's allowed, but you should

00:12:55.740 be compelled by the fifth commandment, not just suggestion, but commandment to honor your fathers

00:13:01.760 and you have spiritual fathers, which means if you're black, your spiritual father, John Calvin

00:13:06.940 is one of your spiritual fathers. So honor him. But you also have not just spiritual fathers,

00:13:12.560 but there are ancient fathers and there are also ethnic familial fathers and for you to honor them.

00:13:19.140 But here's the thing about honoring them. When it comes to honoring our fathers,

00:13:22.820 there is no honor through flattery. Flattery is a sin. So you cannot look at your father,

00:13:30.120 whether it be your actual father. You cannot look at your father who's a boomer, and let's say that

00:13:35.300 he really messed up in some of the stereotypical boomer ways that are stereotypes for a reason.

00:13:41.680 Let's say he did some things that were really good, right? He was a lone bulwark along with

00:13:45.380 all the rest of the boomers against gay rights and against whatever, liberal politics. But there 0.85

00:13:53.440 were some other areas where he missed the boat and fell short. You are not allowed, it is not

00:13:59.580 honoring, and it is a sin to tell your father, I really respect blank about you, and that thing

00:14:06.700 that you list is something that he actually did poorly. He didn't do. When Noah, his two sons,

00:14:13.100 one of them was a deadbeat, but the two sons that were righteous, when they honor their father,

00:14:18.300 they're obeying the fifth commandment, when he's passed out drunk in the tent because he drank too

00:14:22.680 much wine and he's naked, they don't honor him by waking him up and saying, Dad, you look really

00:14:28.220 distinguished today, right? That would be lying, flattering, and flattering is not honoring.

00:14:34.080 Instead, what do you do with your fathers when it comes to the shameful elements of your fathers?

00:14:39.240 The way you honor your father in the arena of his shame is that you don't flatter and call shame

00:14:46.220 glorious because it's not, but instead you cover the shame and then you give credence. You make

00:14:51.780 the shame a footnote, and you cover it, and you give credence and headline to whatever was good

00:14:58.580 about your father. And so with White Boy Summer, part of it, there's a lot, but part of it is

00:15:03.580 honoring the Western Anglo-Protestant heritage, and the reality is this, there is a lot to honor.

00:15:14.280 So we don't want to flatter and say that certain things that were bad were actually really good,

00:15:18.300 But here's the deal.

00:15:21.140 Without getting technical, just on its face, Anglo-Protestant culture has a ton to honor,

00:15:27.420 and I would argue that at least in the last 500 years, so I'm not talking about pre-flood,

00:15:32.580 antediluvian world, or before Christ, or who knows, but at least in the last 500 years,

00:15:37.220 and I technically would argue the last 1,500 years, Constantine, and then, you know, that'd

00:15:41.640 be 1,500 years, and then from King Alfred, that'd be 1,000 years, the last 500 years

00:15:45.700 would be the Reformation, at least 500, probably 1,000, probably 1,500. I would say not only is

00:15:52.000 it a particularly honorable culture, but I would argue that it's the best culture. And here's the

00:15:58.000 deal, and we're going to get into this. It's not merely the best culture, in my opinion, because

00:16:02.940 it's my culture or my heritage. No, it is the best culture, historically speaking, because it is the

00:16:09.660 one that for these last 500 to 1,500 years has most closely modeled the Christian worldview.

00:16:16.920 That's what made it great. You want to make America great again, make it Christian again, 0.82

00:16:22.240 bringing back the Christian roots. That's what's so glorious about all the cathedrals that were

00:16:27.280 built and all the art that was produced and all these things were right alongside and not by

00:16:32.500 coincidence, but by design, they were right alongside preaching, revival, wholesome families.

00:16:40.000 And like that's, it mirrored Christ. And so it should be honored. This is a fifth commandment.

00:16:45.960 Not only, I'll leave it with this and I'll go back to you guys. Not only is it okay to be white, 0.98

00:16:51.560 it is good to be white. And the same way that Michael Foster wrote a book saying, 0.87

00:16:55.440 it's not just permissible to be a man, right? There's a war on masculinity. So somebody needs

00:16:59.860 to say it's okay to be a man, but you know what? Let's do one better. Biblically speaking,

00:17:03.600 it's not just permissible or okay to be a man. It's good. It's good to be a man if you're a man.

00:17:09.800 Likewise, it's not just okay or permissible to be white. It's good to be white. And you might be 0.78

00:17:14.280 saying, again, you're making it about race. What does that matter? Think of what Paul says in

00:17:18.100 Romans chapter nine. He says, look, when it comes to salvation and eternal value and merit,

00:17:23.300 the flesh is of no account, right? So it's covenant. It's not blood. It's not ethnicity.

00:17:28.780 it's covenant and after making all those arguments then what does paul say so what advantage is there

00:17:34.340 in being a jew and you would expect him to say this none none but he doesn't say that instead

00:17:39.480 he says what advantage there is there in being a jew much in every way for theirs are the patriarchs

00:17:45.160 the prophets and the law so what advantage is there and being an anglo-protestant much in every 0.66

00:17:50.920 way for theirs are the reformers theirs are the puritans theirs is aquinas theirs is calvin 0.92

00:17:55.940 theirs is luther there's yeah and we should be proud of that and everyone who's not white can 0.53

00:18:02.620 also be proud of that saying yeah but covenantally these are my people in the same way that ruth

00:18:07.280 said to her mother-in-law naomi uh from now on i know i'm a moabitess but from from now on

00:18:13.260 covenantally speaking and familial speaking uh your people will be my people and your god

00:18:17.820 my god and so everyone is welcome to celebrate white boy summer which i do believe uh it may

00:18:24.040 have started off with not the best intentions. I don't think it was nefarious, but it wasn't

00:18:27.600 particularly righteous. But it has been sufficiently, and the true spirit of the

00:18:33.040 post-millennial hope, it has been sufficiently hijacked by the Christian right. God bless it. 0.95

00:18:38.280 And so in the same way that Charles Dickens, you know, he would say, Bob Cratchit, you know,

00:18:42.420 I say that this Christmas is merry, and I wish you a merry Christmas. I say that this white boy 1.00

00:18:46.340 summer is a glorious and righteous white boy summer, and I wish you to be happy and merry

00:18:51.100 upon it all right that's my spiel amen michael any thoughts well i yes i there is a certain sense

00:19:00.320 where um what has gone what has come out of the angle protestant tradition is quickly being lost

00:19:09.660 and some people will blame it on modernity but it's it's not just modernity there is a sense

00:19:14.940 where brave, courageous, competent, virtuous men that the Anglo-Protestant culture produced

00:19:23.920 are not only the most effective for stewarding the world, for fighting back evil, and for

00:19:30.740 advancing the kingdom of Christ, but also it's not a coincidence that that kind of man produced

00:19:40.340 the most prosperous, evangelical, godly society that has existed before. And in that video where

00:19:48.040 you quoted the definition from earlier, Wes, he said, sometimes we talk about white privilege. 0.98

00:19:53.100 And he said, that's true in one sense. White male privilege has been traditionally the privilege 0.88

00:20:01.260 of fighting the global homo jihad communist marxist godless efforts to replace christianity 0.98

00:20:11.840 as the dominant perspective in the west and so when we talk about white boy summer there's 0.90

00:20:16.320 there's both a carefree tom sawyer aspect to it huckleberry finn of going out and having an

00:20:23.520 adventure, being a little bit reckless. Rambunctious. Rambunctious is a better word than

00:20:31.280 reckless. But there's also a very serious side of it of wanting to be part of a fraternity of men

00:20:38.580 who seek competence, virtue, and righteousness, and who want to do it publicly in a way that

00:20:45.560 honors the competent, virtuous men who came before us and made us who we are now. And that's why,

00:20:51.660 to me i i'm a little late to the game with with white boy summer but it's a really interesting

00:20:55.560 idea to me because it has that careless outdoor adventure you know the tradition of going to the

00:21:01.380 lake right um not the the the resort on the lake but really going out and roughing it right with

00:21:06.200 your family with your dad tying together some some sticks and trying to build a little raft

00:21:10.340 and bringing your your net with you and trying to catch snakes you know on the bank and like

00:21:14.260 yeah that's but also of of serious reflection and being thankful and honoring where we've come from

00:21:20.800 i think i said this to you about a year ago we were talking about this video and i said notice

00:21:25.100 in the video so it's christians making a video and they're celebrating but not everyone on there

00:21:29.320 is a pastor i mean there's rock stars there's sports sports team members blanking on it there's

00:21:36.020 wrestlers there's competition there's a whole kaleidoscope of great men and it's not just the

00:21:41.100 greatest thing that the west has to offer was these academics and these theologians and these

00:21:45.160 pastors there's a kaleidoscope of generals of leaders all across that and that's something

00:21:50.420 else that white boy summer does really well personal fitness is a great thing to strive for

00:21:55.300 to be strong to master your body to be disciplined it has families we saw kids i want to live again

00:22:01.460 he's coming down the stairs i think it's from a wonderful life right he's reunited with his family

00:22:05.840 so it emphasizes family and competition and striving and physical fitness those are some

00:22:10.980 other things you mentioned some good things to take away from it those are the other things too

00:22:14.340 you don't just have to be a pastor or a theologian locked in an ivory tower uh to be a part of this

00:22:20.000 and our history is not just those men.

00:22:22.580 Yeah.

00:22:22.820 Yep.

00:22:23.580 All right.

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00:24:35.780 free bag of coffee today all right well welcome back so talked about white boy summer really love

00:24:43.220 what you said joel it's honoring our fathers i'm going to fit that into the broader category of

00:24:47.820 what would be historically called natural affection so we have an affection for our

00:24:52.120 fathers racist but it sounds scary of course spelled r-a-a-a it's three a's and then y

00:24:59.560 c-i-s-t the listener needs to know too that term racist you would have very late in the 1800s

00:25:05.460 racizine would be the french term it really doesn't come into use until about the 1940s

00:25:10.140 it's a very new term so why the 1940s what happened in the 1940s nothing it was a really

00:25:15.620 quiet quiet decade honestly so you're saying something significant changed in the 1940s

00:25:21.080 group of people that needed to be labeled a bad word oh okay all right so that is a new term so

00:25:27.280 if you're accusing christians with that you you have to do the legwork not us on the exegesis of

00:25:31.020 the bible um so we're going to talk about natural affection i'm going to get into some stats here

00:25:35.600 uh so this is my background so what i do for a living now if you could pull up the first graph

00:25:39.220 we have so this is a study published in the nature journal nature is a very prestigious journal this

00:25:46.020 is not joe the intern cranked out some numbers posted them on four champs so this is nature

00:25:50.460 journal they did a large study with a couple hundred a couple hundred subjects a couple

00:25:54.440 hundred patients and they identified them on their political leanings so it ranged from very

00:25:59.460 liberal somewhat liberal neutral conservative very conservative so five different categories

00:26:05.280 across the political continuum left to right progressive to conservative and they asked them

00:26:10.760 on where do you owe your greatest duty so your greatest responsibility who do you identify

00:26:16.020 most with is it those closest to you is it those uh maybe in a little bit broader circle or with

00:26:22.040 all of mankind universally is that who you feel most identified with this graph right here if

00:26:26.780 you're maybe listening i'll do my best to describe it shows the allocation members and the participants

00:26:32.220 we're given basically 20 units of saying, who matters most? I want you to take these 20 so you

00:26:36.860 have a limited number and distribute them across immediate family, your extended family, your 0.97

00:26:42.180 relatives, your town and your community, your nation, all of mankind, then even to non-human

00:26:47.700 lives of plants and animals. Where is it that the most of your affection, most of your love,

00:26:52.820 most of your devotion, who do you most closely identify with? So the graph on the left, you see

00:26:57.580 where conservatives allocated. Conservatives allocated mostly family, your immediate family,

00:27:03.900 your extended family. It was those that they felt the greatest devotion with. But on the right,

00:27:08.160 you have how liberals allocated that. And they allocated much closer, not to the family,

00:27:12.980 but to universal mankind. As in, they felt their devotion, where I should give the most of myself,

00:27:18.860 of my resources, my time, my energy, my love, they were oriented much more universally than

00:27:25.320 conservatives so you're telling me that the guys who think i'm just a citizen of the world

00:27:29.900 no borders man peace and love also happen to be the guys who think that sodomy is cool

00:27:35.500 and we're supposed to think that there's no correlation there the venn diagram between

00:27:40.280 those two groups is a circle and then the guys and then the guys who most most associate with

00:27:48.040 not just this view of natural affections but conservative morals stemming primarily from

00:27:53.520 the word of god they also happen to be the people who think instinctively that natural affections is

00:27:59.040 a thing that my first devotion is to my father my mother my brother my sister my children and

00:28:04.100 it stems out from there huh hmm you can go to the next one nate we'll just hit two more really

00:28:09.100 quickly this one is compelling so this is a graph and again same source same source same study same

00:28:16.420 same group of people very liberal on the far left very conservative on the on the far right there

00:28:21.100 this is a graph of how closely um again devotion responsibility liberals the very liberal group

00:28:27.760 ranked humans and non-humans so plants animals you can maybe even include ai in that as worthy

00:28:33.440 of equal responsibility equal devotion humans as humans so humans non-humans 50 50 we have a great

00:28:40.440 responsibility to both that was the very liberal position then you get all the way out to very

00:28:44.920 conservative on the far right if you're just tuning in this is a study from nature magazine

00:28:48.780 nature journal 2019 conservatives to a much greater degree said no no first priority human

00:28:55.780 beings human beings are who we owe the greatest love our greatest devotion greatest care for and

00:29:00.880 then last last graph oh and then there's one more it just ranked nation community and universal

00:29:09.820 mankind and again liberals ranked their belonging their association with universal mankind is the

00:29:15.480 highest conservatives ranked the nation the principle in all of this the way we illustrate

00:29:20.820 with these studies what we're getting at we're going to go to scripture here in a minute

00:29:23.600 we owe the most to those that are closest to us the greatest measure of duty that we have

00:29:31.160 there's even a principle of similitude as in looking like or being like my children are the

00:29:37.040 people in the world that are most like me so it'd be my children my parents real quick west we read

00:29:42.120 that shire uh shire pill super insightful uh uh telescopic uh philosophy telescopic philanthropy

00:29:49.640 is just cope from doing nothing right and absolutely like part of the reason just if

00:29:55.220 you're wondering well why why liberals make such a big deal of like i'm just a you know i'm a citizen

00:29:59.260 of the world you know and i don't care about my country i don't care about my people i don't care

00:30:04.040 about my father or my family um you know or uh we're all just you know there's no difference

00:30:09.620 between the amoeba and the human being we love them both and we have it you know um it here's 0.97

00:30:15.840 the deal if you're wondering okay i i know that's their view i i recognize that they're dumb um but 0.98

00:30:21.080 why what's the angle are they just dumb or is there was their malice here is their wickedness 0.95

00:30:25.180 here and the answer is yes it's it's unfortunately i would love to be charitable and say that the 1.00

00:30:29.220 liberal is just stupid um but i i can't be charitable because we know better the verdict 0.94

00:30:33.280 has already come back in we know the answer we know these things definitively not only are they 1.00

00:30:37.120 stupid they're wicked and the wickedness is this um whenever somebody says well i'm just a citizen 0.99

00:30:42.380 of the world or i love i love humanity i love the whole world um that the whole point the angle in 1.00

00:30:48.400 that is uh by loving everybody uh you don't have to love anybody right say it again by loving

00:30:53.440 everybody you don't have to love anybody this is like your stereotypical blue-haired you know um

00:30:59.460 this 19-year-old chick who's getting her degrees and gender studies. And she's like, 1.00

00:31:07.160 I love the children in Uganda, right? But she has to every single semester change roommates

00:31:12.400 because she can't get along with anybody who's within a 15-foot radius of her. So the reality

00:31:18.020 is this. I love humanity. What it is, is love in theory. But Jesus condemns us all throughout

00:31:25.160 the scripture again and again, what it said is, if you wish your neighbor, hey, go be well and

00:31:30.900 be warm and well fed and I wish you well. That's meaningless. What the scripture speaks to again

00:31:38.640 and again is that real love is defined by meeting people's tangible needs. And it begins first with

00:31:46.680 the house of God. So it is covenantal and not just by blood, but it is covenantal. It begins

00:31:52.420 with the house of God, Galatians 6, as often as you have opportunity, do good to all, but especially

00:31:57.640 that is prioritize the household of faith. But the scripture also prioritizes, it doesn't just

00:32:02.560 prioritize the spiritual covenantal connection of love for fellow Christians. But first, to make my

00:32:10.760 first point, that is then fleshed out. So this is who to love, but now how to love, you love them

00:32:14.960 indeed. Not just word, not just theory, but in practice, it's by feeding them. Or like Jesus

00:32:20.300 says this, whoever gives a small cup of water to someone in my name, or whenever you visited me in

00:32:27.120 prison, well, when did I visit you in prison? When you visited the least of these, my brothers. And

00:32:32.060 the least of these, even that is specified. It's not the least of these, just whoever's the least

00:32:36.500 in the world, in humanity at large. No, the key phrase there, when Jesus is talking about who's

00:32:42.840 greatest in the kingdom of heaven, you visited me when I was in prison, you clothed me when I was

00:32:47.560 naked. You fed me when I was hungry. And the disciples said, when did we see you naked or in

00:32:52.160 prison or hungry and do these things for you? And Jesus says, I tell you the truth, whenever you did

00:32:57.820 these for, whenever you did this for these, my brothers, you did it for me. And so what he's

00:33:03.620 saying by my brothers there is he's not saying my brothers and I, you know, that's everyone in the

00:33:08.060 world. I'm a citizen of the world. No, he's saying my brothers, that is whenever you did it for

00:33:12.680 Christians, fellow Christians, those who have union with Christ by the Spirit, by grace through

00:33:18.200 faith in Christ alone. So they're loving tangibly, not just theoretically loving everybody, but in

00:33:24.120 practice loving somebody. Not theoretically loving everyone, but practically loving someone.

00:33:30.660 And loving Christians, in a covenantal sense, is to love Christ. To love Christians who are hard

00:33:36.020 repressed and downtrodden, and to love them tangibly is to love Christ himself, but also, 0.97

00:33:43.000 and I know you're going to get here, Wes, so I'll turn it back to you, but it's not just loving

00:33:46.680 Christians, so we want to include that, but it's also loving members of our own household.

00:33:51.860 I'll give you a great example. I'm going to misquote a little bit of the details because

00:33:54.940 it's been a while. There was a CEO in San Francisco of a very woke upstart tech company,

00:33:59.540 and he just all over the place just virtue signaled. Oh, we pay a living wage. We're

00:34:05.860 pro-women this that or the other so he did all this signaling of like we're a great organization

00:34:10.460 to work for we actually push for equality well he got rung up on charges for trying to date rape

00:34:15.640 multiple women so publicly he's putting on this face of love and this is what ceos should do and

00:34:21.060 this is how generosity looks privately he's trying to follow girls home in an uber and and do terrible

00:34:27.640 things and over and over again you see that i love the children in uganda and we we find out what you

00:34:34.000 did, you know, the skeletons that are in your closet. They use that as an excuse. So great

00:34:38.460 comment. Go ahead. They don't just use it as an excuse. They use it as a cover, right? Because

00:34:44.180 we are all condemned by our own lack of love. And so Jesus says, they did not come to me because

00:34:52.560 I'm the light and their deeds are evil. And it's easier to be self-righteous. And, you know,

00:35:01.940 this is all of us it doesn't matter if you're rich or poor it's easier to be self-righteous

00:35:05.440 than to deal with your own depravity and yet we live in a time where public self-righteousness

00:35:12.860 partly because of the internet social media is easier i think than at any other time because

00:35:18.320 there's no one that can call you out right if you're in a twitter account and you say oh you

00:35:24.540 know i did this or i love the poor or i gave to children in uganda you put the black square up or

00:35:30.220 the rainbow flag up or whatever i support the current thing i support the current thing if you

00:35:35.040 had if you did that in a small town before social media try that in a small town your neighbor your

00:35:40.500 mom your the person across the street from you would say wait i what are you talking about yeah

00:35:45.500 i saw you yelling at your kids last week right you're not virtuous right but we have the ability

00:35:50.540 to be quite fake publicly virtuous right like no other time in history right yep all right so

00:35:58.080 universalism bad and two reasons so the bible first of all but there's also an argument from

00:36:04.040 nature i'm going to get to but the bible just for a minute there's someone in the comments

00:36:07.460 are saying like well jesus said you know well my brothers and sisters my mother who are they but

00:36:11.700 those who do my will uh first of all jesus the son of god it is true but he's not invalidating

00:36:17.900 so she's then oh mary jesus only refers to mary uh as woman not mother do you think jesus the son

00:36:23.860 of God who came to fulfill the law just broke the fifth commandment regularly by not honoring his

00:36:28.620 earthly mother? Well, what was the last earthly thing he did before he died? He was on the cross

00:36:33.000 taking his final breaths, and he said to his disciples, take care of all widows on the planet

00:36:37.040 equally. No. John, the disciple that he loved, he said, behold your mother. Mother, behold your son.

00:36:45.080 What is he doing? It's not just pietism, because Jesus is not a pietist. What he's doing is he is

00:36:50.720 spending his last gasping breaths in agony to take care of his mother because his earthly father,

00:36:59.140 Joseph, his actual mother, not just the one who did his will. She did also happen to do his will,

00:37:04.120 but there were a lot of older women who were his disciples by this point. And there were other

00:37:08.060 women who were there at the cross, disciples who were even willing to follow him all the way to

00:37:11.740 his death at great risk to themselves. And yet Jesus intentionally makes special provisions for

00:37:17.560 his earthly biological mother. Why? Because it is right to do so. Because he came not only to avoid

00:37:26.100 sin, maintaining innocence, but he came as John the Baptist. What he says to John the Baptist,

00:37:32.060 he's like, why do you want me to baptize you? So that the scriptures might be fulfilled,

00:37:35.680 so that all righteousness might be fulfilled. This is what we speak of. Owen would talk about

00:37:40.440 this, the Puritans, the act of obedience of Christ. The passive obedience of Christ is that 1.00

00:37:44.900 he was obedient to the Father unto death, that he went to the cross and died for our sins,

00:37:48.940 penal substitutionary atonement. But the act of obedience of Christ is not just that he died in

00:37:53.140 my place. And people, if you don't get this, you don't get the gospel. It's not just that Jesus

00:37:56.760 died in your place, taking the wrath of God that you deserved, but Jesus lived in your place,

00:38:01.860 fulfilling all righteousness, not just avoiding all sin, but fulfilling every good work, not just

00:38:06.520 avoiding every bad work, but fulfilling and obeying every good work so that when God looks at you,

00:38:11.080 it's not only that Jesus has taken your penalty through his death, but Jesus has stored up for

00:38:16.820 you an inheritance, a reward through his obedient life, his act of obedience. And part of that act

00:38:22.620 of obedience was all 10 commandments, including the fifth commandment, which is honoring his

00:38:27.200 earthly mother, not every universal widow, but his widowed mom. And he does so with his last

00:38:33.000 gasping breath. So yes, all those who do his will are covenantally his mother and brothers,

00:38:38.740 the family of Christ, union with him by the Spirit through faith.

00:38:42.260 Yes and amen, Owen Strand, we get it.

00:38:44.860 But also, let's just put on your big boy pants, grow up,

00:38:50.260 and you're supposed to be a theologian.

00:38:53.180 Owen Strand is far more studied than I am.

00:38:56.060 I can't be the guy.

00:38:57.760 This is ridiculous that I have to be the guy who didn't even go to seminary

00:39:00.920 to give this kind of theological discourse. 0.95

00:39:05.420 That's what makes me mad.

00:39:06.600 These guys know.

00:39:07.340 They know better than I do.

00:39:08.740 I know they know better than I do.

00:39:11.160 They have the accolades that I don't have.

00:39:13.980 They have the credentials that I don't have.

00:39:15.500 They went the right path.

00:39:17.480 They got the right attaboys from the right guys and the right letters behind their name.

00:39:24.460 And yet, you know, everything is just the Jesus juke.

00:39:27.560 The Jesus, well, well, it's just spiritual.

00:39:30.180 It's just, no, no.

00:39:31.860 You are the family of Christ if you obey his will.

00:39:35.300 and you will never obey his will apart from regeneration by the spirit and the gift of faith,

00:39:40.500 which is not conjured up by man, but given sovereignly by God. Yes, you need to be a

00:39:44.140 Christian to be the brother, the family of Christ. And also Jesus fulfills the fifth commandment to

00:39:51.240 his particular widowed mother, not universal widows, but his biological mother, because he

00:39:57.220 came to fulfill all righteousness and Jesus was fully God, but also fully man. Yeah. Yeah. Amen.

00:40:03.180 I'm going to do one other, there's so many other Bible passages, but verse from Paul,

00:40:07.620 this is well cited, 1 Timothy chapter 5 verse 8, he who does not provide for his relatives,

00:40:13.560 especially his own household, has denied the faith, the King James renders it as is worse

00:40:18.360 than an infidel.

00:40:19.520 So notice what Paul's saying here, he says, he who does not provide for his relatives, 0.96

00:40:22.880 that'd be extended family, cousins, in-laws, something like that, and then especially to

00:40:27.200 a greater degree his own household, his children, his wife, perhaps his aging parents. So he who

00:40:33.660 does not provide for his relatives and especially his household, he doesn't say is equivalent to an

00:40:38.420 unbeliever that's pretty good outwardly morally. He doesn't even say he's equivalent to a raging

00:40:43.700 atheist. He says he who does not provide for his relatives and his household, and he almost

00:40:49.580 says it as a given, almost as like you should know this, he who does not provide for them is worse 0.70

00:40:54.540 than an infidel he has denied the faith and is worse than the raging atheist the person that 0.59

00:41:00.420 would take the duty that he has to his children to his broader family to have the means to do so

00:41:06.900 and to do nothing about it that person has categorically this is paul paul's words i'm not

00:41:10.780 even interpreting or putting my spin on it i don't like the way you exegeted that i just i just read

00:41:15.660 it i just read it this is what the bible says if you have a problem with it um and i mean yeah

00:41:20.400 fathers that that choose to be absent fathers and i know there are situations where the court

00:41:24.800 has made it so you can't do anything right but this would be fathers that choose to be absent

00:41:28.480 uh if you would even claim to be a christian that claim is categorically denied on the basis of

00:41:33.540 just a single verse your confession is bunk you are to provide as much as you can again things

00:41:38.500 happen regimes throw people in prison we get that but the man who will not provide not for everyone

00:41:43.820 not for any orphan but for his own family but here's the question here's the question why has

00:41:49.940 he denied the faith. Why is that so egregious in Paul's mind? Paul is supporting the idea that

00:41:58.180 Augustine later on coined of natural affections. Paul is saying you cannot even do the natural

00:42:06.500 duty that in some senses is obvious. I mean, you even look to the animal kingdom, right? And

00:42:12.980 by and large, you're going to find something where the black widow eats the husband and 0.73

00:42:17.380 you know, the father and all that, but by and large, yeah, this is just something that is so

00:42:22.880 obvious that parents, fathers provide for their children. And so to call yourself a Christian

00:42:29.760 and then to go so far as to deny that very obvious natural order, the testimony of nature, 0.94

00:42:37.060 which agrees with the testimony of the scripture, you are so backwards that you're worse even than

00:42:45.120 an unbeliever right we say it a lot but grace does not destroy nature right grace does not 0.96

00:42:51.080 eliminate grace does not abrogate grace takes those natural duties and makes us capable of

00:42:56.640 doing them and perfects nature so it takes those natural duties to the family to those that you

00:43:01.720 care for and elevates them so you can do them well do them with integrity right to get up for

00:43:06.340 a 60-hour work week when you're tired uh that's what grace empowers instead of just alleviating

00:43:11.240 you of the responsibility what you should do all of that grace restores nature um it does not

00:43:16.640 eradicate it and and real quick i i really do think because it's it is so scriptural um like

00:43:22.460 you know you're worse than you've denied the faith and worse than unbeliever if you don't care for 0.53

00:43:26.300 uh not only your immediate household that would be your wife and children but then your relatives 0.87

00:43:30.940 beyond that and outside of that um and because it is so scriptural and so clear um i i really

00:43:37.300 god knows better than we do uh so anybody who is uh attempting to substitute interchange and say

00:43:43.920 um anybody who is failing to love those closest to him that he's commanded most particularly to

00:43:49.880 love and care for in tangible ways who anyone who is failing to do that but uh but claims to

00:43:55.900 be an advocate of the world you know and this universal love um that person uh it's not just

00:44:01.720 that he's chosen to love the stranger above his own. It's that he's loving no one. Biblically

00:44:08.460 speaking, in biblical categories, there's no such thing as someone who truly, according to God's

00:44:14.060 standard, loves the stranger, but chooses not to love his own. That doesn't exist because it's sin.

00:44:21.920 If I am tangibly loving, not just saying it, not just virtue signaling on social media,

00:44:27.420 But if I am tangibly loving children of the world at the expense or at the cost in place, the place of loving my own children, then I don't really love the children of the world.

00:44:40.180 It's not that I'm loving them instead of my own.

00:44:43.060 It's that in real terms, I'm loveless.

00:44:45.700 I'm not loving anyone.

00:44:47.720 If anything, I'm only loving myself.

00:44:49.960 What would motivate a man to do that, to love a stranger instead of his own wife and children, is ultimately a love for himself.

00:44:57.420 his own ego his own image his own approval um it is self-love it is not the love of others if you

00:45:03.280 don't love those closest to you and you've opt to love those who are further away instead of those

00:45:08.540 closest to you it's not because you love the stranger instead of your kin it's because you

00:45:12.980 love no one right yeah i'm gonna preempt the jesus juke here what about the story of the good

00:45:17.900 samaritan what about the parable where the samaritan is walking and he comes across a man

00:45:22.300 a levite who's been beaten here's the deal he's literally two feet away from him that's right it's

00:45:26.900 not that they don't share anything he's not in asia and then the other ones here and in south

00:45:30.760 africa and he somehow picks him to to lavish compassion upon they are sharing the same

00:45:37.160 proximate area right we have to share something and i remember i first heard that theological

00:45:42.500 concept like that like basically the argument of proximity i had never heard that before it was but

00:45:47.360 i heard it maybe 10 years ago from vodhi bacham and and i was absolutely sold he just he made such

00:45:53.120 a good argument and just saying that um that the the moral of this parable of the good samaritan

00:45:58.720 um is not that you uh love the children uganda you know 5 000 miles away the parable um notice

00:46:06.720 like exactly what west just said but the the point that screams out of it is that the reason why the

00:46:11.820 samaritan and for that matter also you know those who came before him but chose to pass over and the

00:46:17.180 reason why all three moved themselves by the way they went to the other side of the road exactly

00:46:22.500 But the reason why all three men, including even the Samaritan, have a moral obligation is because of the proximity, because he's right there.

00:46:32.380 I do not have an obligation to care for, you know, entire nations on the other side of the planet.

00:46:40.420 However, if someone of another nationality is on my front doorstep and bleeding and dying, I do have an obligation to immediately do whatever can be done to save that person's life.

00:46:55.400 Why? Because they share my blood?

00:46:58.040 No, because they share my space.

00:47:01.200 They're right in front of me.

00:47:02.740 And so the moral obligation falls to me because I'm in the providence of God.

00:47:06.680 He saw to it that I was there.

00:47:08.000 But when it comes to, again, natural affections and your wife, your children, and then slowly but surely rippling out further and further from that, your immediate family, then your relatives, and eventually your nation, the obligation there is both an argument of proximity and family ties and natural affection.

00:47:30.540 So it's both.

00:47:31.840 It's all the more so.

00:47:32.580 This is something that is so core to kind of the root of this entire discussion, and

00:47:38.200 I think that people have a problem.

00:47:40.660 It's the same theological problem, but it manifests itself in two ways, and the problem

00:47:45.960 that they have is they are not happy about God's sovereignty.

00:47:50.300 They're not happy about God's sovereignty, and in the story, Jesus was correcting the

00:47:55.760 opposite way that we have to correct today.

00:47:57.900 What he was saying at the time was there were these religious leaders who didn't want to

00:48:02.260 have to care for the undesirables. And Jesus was saying to them, God in his sovereignty

00:48:07.780 is perfectly within his rights to bring anyone into your physical proximity. And if he does that,

00:48:14.960 and that person is in need, and you have the ability to meet that need, God has made that

00:48:19.040 person your neighbor. And that is God's prerogative to do that. And who are you to argue with God,

00:48:24.940 bringing that man into your physical proximity and to then reject God's sovereign decision to

00:48:32.540 do that by not showing love and kindness and compassion to that person. That person's your

00:48:36.900 neighbor because God put him there. And if it were not for God's sovereign will, he would not be

00:48:41.100 there. But in our time, we have the opposite problem, I think. We look and we have been sold

00:48:48.000 this bill of goods that says, well, you ought to hate the nation that God has put you in.

00:48:54.940 Right. And no, God has sovereignly put us in America. He has sovereignly put the people in

00:49:02.640 Uganda. He has sovereignly put the people in the nation that they're in, Acts 17. And we reject

00:49:10.000 that sovereign providential rule of God when we say, I don't have a duty to the people around me.

00:49:16.020 I have a duty to the people over there. That's equally a rejection of God's sovereignty of

00:49:21.580 establishing borders, telling us who our neighbor is and who is not our neighbor. 0.96

00:49:25.960 Yeah, that's good.

00:49:27.260 Notice, too, I was just going to say with this Samaritan story, how long does he sponsor him?

00:49:31.380 A year? Two years?

00:49:32.800 He shares a little bit, the same path with him, and he sponsors about two days in a hotel.

00:49:38.160 He binds them up and then says about two days.

00:49:40.140 So the amount even he gives is proportional to the relation he has.

00:49:43.680 He has no blood relation.

00:49:44.700 They don't share the same community.

00:49:46.220 And so he does share that proximal space that we just talked about.

00:49:49.320 And so he sponsors him for three days,

00:49:51.020 binds up his wounds and cares for him,

00:49:52.740 not on an indefinite basis the way he would his own children.

00:49:56.000 He does say, I'm going to come back,

00:49:57.400 and if it costs above the money that I've already given you

00:50:00.320 in order to make him whole, to save his life,

00:50:03.460 and to make sure he's on the path to physical recovery.

00:50:05.720 So I'm giving you this much, and I will also give you more.

00:50:09.700 I'll foot the bill.

00:50:10.220 If it costs more.

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00:50:12.120 But he's not putting him on his fridge, a picture of him,

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00:52:36.380 welcome back so for this final segment we hammered home the point you have a responsibility to your

00:52:55.860 immediate family then more broader uh to your relatives but we can go even a little bit beyond

00:53:00.620 that i forget who said it but he said uh the people or nation is the family writ large you

00:53:05.860 were not just born into a vacuum you were born to a place a physical place a land that should

00:53:11.920 have borders you were born into a nation and so insofar as you live in that nation insofar as you

00:53:17.680 share a genetic lineage with those people that same level of devotion or that same category of

00:53:23.840 devotion responsibility love and adoration you have for your family and your relatives can be

00:53:29.440 expanded again not universalizing it so you have this responsibility to 350 million americans but

00:53:35.380 You can say there's a special level of respect, of enjoyment, and of care that I have for my

00:53:41.940 nation that I don't have for other nations, and especially as you share a land for a long

00:53:46.160 time.

00:53:46.820 This is not 15 minutes ago.

00:53:48.640 I immigrated to Ireland, and I just love this, people.

00:53:51.240 These bonds take time, and the longer that you spend in a place, the greater affinity

00:53:55.460 that you should feel for it, and the greater responsibility you should feel, for one, to

00:53:59.500 uphold its customs to keep it as it is to to celebrate the good to promote more good so to 0.53

00:54:06.500 improve that nation that you're in and so we talk about white boy summer and as we've we've hammered

00:54:11.880 on the white western culture has done a lot of good and i don't know how the category doesn't

00:54:18.840 exist of countering white boy summer saying it's immature it's this it's that i don't like that

00:54:23.960 word white we can't do anything with it and still honoring the fifth commandment at some level it's

00:54:28.900 very hard to reconcile a complete opposition to it. I don't like this at all. I don't like even

00:54:33.880 the most general, the most vague, the most positive expression of a celebration of Western literature,

00:54:39.600 Western culture, everything that the West has done. But then at the same time, coming back

00:54:43.320 over here and saying, I love the Fifth Commandment. I honor my fathers. At some level, you have to say,

00:54:48.420 George Washington, if you're an Anglo-Saxon, you've lived in this country for a long time,

00:54:52.520 your parents, your grandparents lived here, George Washington and these others who sacrificed

00:54:57.480 greatly for me there is a respect and an honor due to them i just think of valley forge brutal

00:55:02.960 winter george washington he's paying soldiers out of his own pocket because congress is broke

00:55:08.120 and so these men are starving these men are battered by the cold eking it out and not even

00:55:13.460 for themselves they realize that they might die for one and even if they win the war are they left

00:55:19.380 with a beautiful thriving metropolis no then they have to keep eking out in existence in a wilderness

00:55:25.060 but they did it for you if you are anglo-saxon you've been here for a long time then those men

00:55:30.680 did it for their posterity to ensure a better life a better survival for you and that is worthy

00:55:37.440 of honor imagine them them being there in valley forge and seeing the average liberal arts student 0.88

00:55:42.640 today who thinks our founders are racist all of this is dumb america's stain was slavery and i 0.91

00:55:49.720 don't know if they would say it's worth it you know what let's just be another colony of england 0.94

00:55:53.720 And if those who come after us are going to treat us like this, and that's shameful,

00:55:59.360 if you think that way, talk that way, describe them that way, then you are not honoring your

00:56:04.520 fathers, and you should repent of them.

00:56:06.760 They had flaws.

00:56:07.820 They were not perfect, but insofar as there was good, and many of them were good and godly.

00:56:12.120 And it's Washington.

00:56:13.340 It's Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest men this nation has ever produced.

00:56:16.580 It's our authors.

00:56:17.560 It's all of this.

00:56:18.880 There's a certain level of respect and honor.

00:56:21.180 And I like to think at the core of it, at its best, that's what White Boy Summer is about, honoring and loving them and giving them the credit that they deserve for the great, hard things that they did.

00:56:30.320 Yeah, that's good.

00:56:30.740 Yeah, there's a there's a sense where when we talk about wanting to honor your heritage, your lineage, the sacrifice that people made before, it can get a little bit sappy, right?

00:56:46.800 I mean, you kind of imagine Hallmark movies a little bit or holiday special type vibes.

00:56:54.920 But again, I'm going back to the video that you quoted earlier, Wes.

00:57:00.420 One of the lines that he said in that video was, we need to stop being afraid that any time we start talking about true affection between friends who are males, we're going to get labeled gay or homosexual.

00:57:12.440 He said that is a juke to try and discourage true fraternal love between men for each other.

00:57:22.980 In the same way, we need to be careful not to just write off a true honoring of our father and our mother and our national heritage as sappy patriotism.

00:57:36.340 There could be some of that, right?

00:57:37.920 There could be some of that.

00:57:38.540 But I'll tell you what, when I go to a sporting event that that where they sing the national anthem, I tear up every time the national anthem is sung.

00:57:45.920 I'm not going to be embarrassed for that. Right. Like I love our country. I love our heritage.

00:57:51.040 Obviously, like you said, Wes, there are flaws. But but we we need to in white boy summer and always we we need to be OK with feeling some things for our country.

00:58:04.360 We need to be okay feeling shame for the absolute train wreck that has happened to our country over the last, you know, decades.

00:58:13.100 And we need to be okay feeling a real sense of obligation and duty.

00:58:18.920 Like you said, Wes, and you read the founding documents, and it specifically mentions that they pledged their, I forget the order, but their lives, their honor, and their fortune.

00:58:28.920 Their sacred honor, their fortune, and their very lives to the endeavor of fighting for American independence.

00:58:36.900 And their posterity, specifically named in the Declaration, is the blessings of liberty for our posterity.

00:58:43.100 And us and our posterity.

00:58:43.800 And our posterity, yes.

00:58:44.880 Which, you know, I preached that just this last Sunday, but basically saying that as big of an issue as abortion is.

00:58:51.220 And I think that is still the number one issue.

00:58:53.680 So I'm not replacing that.

00:58:55.640 I think that's the number one issue. 0.77

00:58:56.780 but abortion is a breach of the sixth commandment thou shalt not murder but open borders what's

00:59:05.540 happening right now at our southern border and the crisis of immigration and hear me i didn't

00:59:11.580 misspeak immigration not just illegal immigration that is terrible but even the level of legal 0.80

00:59:18.020 immigration right now is terrible it's wicked you cannot legally onboard people somalians 0.57

00:59:26.120 um and at at that number millions of people right um every single year who um are not 0.95

00:59:34.560 compatible compatible with um the the protestant anglo western culture you can have um some

00:59:42.560 reasonable wise mitigated legal um immigration uh that's legal uh but for those willing to

00:59:49.600 assimilate for those who exactly even the idea of the melting pot uh well i won't i you guys some

00:59:55.900 you guys are not ready for that rabbit hole uh but where it actually came from that expression

00:59:59.780 but i'll just let's just assume for the sake of argument that it was actually um not nefarious

01:00:05.220 and i think it was nefarious but let's assume that it was actually positive well still even

01:00:09.540 with that a melting pot is different than a salad bowl salad bowl you throw anything everything in

01:00:14.080 whole and you stir it up but the tomatoes are still tomatoes and the lettuce is still lettuce

01:00:17.920 you know the the cucumbers are still cucumbers um a melting pot the whole idea is everything

01:00:23.040 melt like think of like fondue right you know like it's like you know 17 different cheeses

01:00:28.320 but they're going to melt down and blend and be one um so even if america was meant to be a

01:00:34.720 melting pot and again i don't think it was i don't think that was the view of our founders

01:00:38.720 and i think that that was that that idea was sifted in by some nefarious characters but even

01:00:44.260 if it was um and i'm conceiving a lot there still melting pot not salad bowl so one um should not be

01:00:53.600 illegal immigration right that shouldn't even have to be said no illegal immigration it should be

01:00:57.760 legal number two um it should be far less legal immigration number three um it should be less

01:01:04.240 legal immigration and the few that legally that you are taking each year and doing that wisely

01:01:10.040 and a mitigated approach should be those who um would benefit the country not mere charity but 0.83

01:01:16.300 would benefit the country coming to contribute and most importantly to melt that is to assimilate

01:01:23.180 say um like like ruth did right who was a moabite she doesn't say hey i'm coming with you naomi and 0.92

01:01:30.020 i'm going to start the moabite clan in israel no she's like no i'm i'm leaving that your people

01:01:36.860 will be my people i'm going to change and be one of you uh your god will be my god she's not saying 0.58

01:01:42.320 i'll come with you and you worship yahweh and i'll worship moab great idea principle poism no that

01:01:49.380 was never the idea the founders so all that back my point is that uh abortion is a breach of the

01:01:54.500 sixth commandment thou shall not murder uh but the issue that's going on at the the border is a

01:01:59.640 breach of the fifth commandment thou shalt honor thy father and mother our fathers think about this

01:02:04.820 first that's because i remember for the long time i was like who cares you know like you're just

01:02:08.700 being racist that i mean that's what i thought i was in act 29 you know so of course i thought that

01:02:13.100 that's actually nice you know bunch of liberals so but i that's what i thought i thought like who

01:02:17.220 cares i don't care you know um if if america is made up of a million different you know cultures

01:02:22.300 and a million different ethnicities and religions and this and that and the other um but then i as

01:02:28.180 i got older and part of it was becoming a father now i've got my fifth kid on the way um i realized

01:02:33.380 wait a second the founders they literally said who they did it for right they didn't do it for

01:02:38.400 somalia yeah they didn't they didn't give their blood sweat and tears for uganda or somalia or

01:02:44.700 the ukraine or israel they did it for themselves and their posterity they did it for their great

01:02:52.200 great great great you know what needs to be driven home there is that was a good and godly addendum

01:02:57.540 onto the end of that sentence that was right they did it for them and their posterity and

01:03:01.800 that pleased the lord and that's part of the reason why god gave so much blessing to their

01:03:05.460 efforts because they were doing it for the right reasons for the glory of god first for themselves

01:03:11.640 and their children their household second not just the universal neighbor but the particular

01:03:18.060 neighbor their family their heritage their posterity their great great great great grandchildren

01:03:24.620 and and i'm thinking about that now like i'm working multiple jobs trying to start a business

01:03:29.040 on the side in addition to you know pastoring a church and all this kind of stuff i do write

01:03:33.240 response mainly because i want to get a good biblical theology out to more people besides

01:03:38.220 just the local church setting but i'm trying to do other businesses that has nothing to do with

01:03:42.380 media and and christian theology and those like i'm not teaching it does have everything to do

01:03:47.100 everything the gospel has has to do with everything but i'm not it's the businesses that i'm starting

01:03:52.020 are not a media ministry but i'm trying to start you know a couple business endeavors on the side

01:03:57.740 and with those i want to do a good christian product that will be a blessing to people but

01:04:02.880 also i'm doing those primarily to build wealth and here's the deal um i'm going to work extra

01:04:08.180 hours i'm already working extra hours to build wealth for strangers no for orphans in haiti for

01:04:15.000 no no for my children and my children's children you know why because it's natural number two you

01:04:23.900 know why uh because the bible says so proverbs says that a good man leaves an inheritance for

01:04:29.960 his children's children not someone else's children's children but for his own children's

01:04:35.780 children and so i'm i'm trying to uh work as much as i can um and and save and build as much wealth

01:04:43.560 as i can and i'm not doing it for strangers i'm doing it for my posterity and that's the same

01:04:50.120 thing it's not the same thing that's pales in comparison what i'm doing and take that exponentially

01:04:55.380 way way way higher in terms of the cost and the sacrifice that's what the founders did they did

01:05:02.660 it for their posterity and if they knew hey your great great grandchildren that you're dying for

01:05:08.200 right now they're going to open up the border you're fighting off the british for their freedom

01:05:14.340 but what they're going to do 250 years later is uh your great great great great grandchildren

01:05:21.380 that you're bleeding and sweating for uh they're going to go ahead and open up the border and not

01:05:27.580 to the british that already have their own another anglo-saxon people right to not to the british who

01:05:33.520 is you know christian but there's some some tyranny and some oppression and some some things

01:05:39.460 that are um tyrannies that are things that were unjust no they're going to open it up uh to people

01:05:44.820 who worship Allah to people um who uh who hate Christ Talmudic Judaism they're going to open it

01:05:52.960 up to God hating false pagan religions who have contributed nothing and not only have they 0.91

01:05:59.260 contributed nothing thus far but many of them are coming with the full intent to never contribute 0.90

01:06:04.120 anything um that's who you're dying for right now George Washington like I think he literally

01:06:09.240 he would just fall on his knees and cry like it would be those men would be broken they would be

01:06:14.220 just completely broken um to know like they would lose the will to live live i think they they would

01:06:19.420 have ended the war they would have stopped fighting the british they would have stopped the whole

01:06:22.600 country everything they just would have been that this is all a waste um that we we're and so my

01:06:28.060 point is abortion is a breaking of the sixth commandment murder thou shalt not murder but um

01:06:34.160 but open borders and uh and to and to not have a biblical category for natural affections

01:06:40.700 is a breach of the fifth commandment to honor thy father and mother so why are we doing all this

01:06:46.320 uh because we're racist no uh because um we're christians yeah and we want to obey god's law

01:06:53.840 we see it as good and um honoring your fathers spiritual fathers covenantal fathers ecclesiastical

01:07:02.400 fathers ancient fathers like athanasius but then also honoring your nationalistic and um and

01:07:09.220 familial fathers um that that is part of that's baked into the fifth commandment and every culture

01:07:17.380 and every heritage and every ethnicity or nationality should do that and uh and so why

01:07:23.500 white boy summer for two reasons one because we're the one group of people right now that's

01:07:28.080 told that they can't do that right that's why why white boy summer if it's just on your fathers and

01:07:33.560 every every culture should do it why why um why are you making it about why not call it honor

01:07:38.600 your father's uh summer uh for everybody why white boy summer because let's just be honest for a

01:07:44.000 second there's one group of people right now that's told to hate their fathers that's told

01:07:47.540 that their fathers were terrible their fathers were uh oppressors their fathers were this their

01:07:51.980 fathers were that and you know why it's so easy i'm just going to go here you know why it's so

01:07:55.340 easy to pick on western culture because western culture knew how to write it's easy to pick on

01:08:02.000 western culture because they kept good records right because instead of oral traditions and

01:08:06.520 stories about you know mythical beings and this and that and you know peter pan and fantasy uh

01:08:11.380 you know why it's easy to pick on the west because the west kept historical records of everything

01:08:16.480 they did including not just things that and in hindsight later on retrospectively we look back

01:08:21.940 and see as failures and flaws,

01:08:23.920 but even things that they saw in their own generation

01:08:26.840 as failures and flaws,

01:08:28.300 but they wrote it down because one,

01:08:30.000 they actually built a culture and a heritage

01:08:33.660 that kept records and could write

01:08:35.640 and appreciated history and literature

01:08:37.520 and all these things.

01:08:39.120 And two, because they were honest.

01:08:41.640 They had a culture that was honest

01:08:42.960 and said, no, let's keep the flaws.

01:08:44.900 And I think there's another reason too, Joel.

01:08:46.280 I think it's because they honored their fathers.

01:08:48.260 They honored their fathers.

01:08:48.860 And they could not imagine a time

01:08:50.880 where people would nitpick and tear apart every small, tiny little flaw

01:08:57.700 in order to create a completely reversed image of what had been going on.

01:09:02.940 Right. Right.

01:09:04.320 So let's end this.

01:09:05.660 We're going to look at a tweet from John White.

01:09:08.220 He's a friend and a godly man.

01:09:11.420 And he's an older man.

01:09:13.320 And he's a theonomist.

01:09:14.400 And I'll just say it like I don't know how to say it.

01:09:16.040 But older theonomists are, if we were to take, you know, an average, I would say, like, on average, not fans of White War Summer.

01:09:26.340 I'll just put it that way.

01:09:28.640 But he actually, man, it was so good.

01:09:32.860 He gave kind of his thoughts and kind of a fleshing out of White War Summer, what it is, and why it's positive and good.

01:09:40.960 And I think it expresses a lot of the things we've said today and will help land the plane.

01:09:44.680 So here we go.

01:09:45.380 this is john white i think wbs white boy summer is about forming good cultural space i think it is

01:09:54.960 a lawful form of civil disobedience he means biblically lawful yeah it's a biblically lawful

01:10:00.380 form of civil disobedience to the prevailing wicked ideologies in our society white boy summer

01:10:06.760 doesn't just decry the wickedness of prevailing culture but it is in the early stages of trying

01:10:13.320 to build and put something else in its place. I think this is fundamentally anti-Gnostic in a way 0.71

01:10:21.380 that can be uncomfortable at first for many Christians. Anti-Gnostic, real quick, that just

01:10:26.480 means that this is, it's not just this pietistic, overly spiritualized thing, gospel, you know,

01:10:32.500 Jesus juke, but it's saying we're going to put flesh and blood, we're going to put meat on the

01:10:37.440 bones, the bones being the theological premise, but we're going to give it practice. We're going

01:10:41.680 to give it a practical tangible expression so i think it's fundamentally anti-gnostic not just

01:10:47.540 spiritual jesus juking in a way that can be uncomfortable at first for many christians

01:10:53.020 most over the age of 45 i added that uh in my uh it may fizzle but with sodomite june in our face

01:11:00.940 each year it may also gain steam and build year on year with that in mind i want to share some

01:11:07.500 further reflections. When I heard of White Boy Summer, my first thought was why not something

01:11:12.560 other than race? Why not something explicitly Christian? For the record, that was my thought 0.91

01:11:16.520 too. Joel Webb's thought also. There are so many good things that we could use instead, right?

01:11:22.880 Yet, race is the primary point of attack. It is the very point where so many young men of white 0.98

01:11:29.660 Anglo heritage are browbeaten into accepting the wicked conclusions of critical race theory.

01:11:35.940 so why not resist that cultural attack in a lawful way right at the point of attack why not resist a 0.50

01:11:44.120 cultural attack which bears wicked ideas with cultural resistance which bears with with it

01:11:50.940 the christian view of the world he continues lastly by saying this religion is beneath all

01:11:57.340 culture it is culture externalized and it is always a pathway to religion but religion is not

01:12:04.980 culture itself preaching the gospel in a cultural debate is fine and good but it is not the native

01:12:12.440 language of the cultural debate combating gangster rap which is terrible because it is wicked which

01:12:19.640 it is is a good thing but anyone who has raised children should know that music culture is a

01:12:26.440 dangerous vacuum to leave empty in the hearts of your children you need good music to fill that

01:12:33.760 space. You need psalmody, hymns, classical, bluegrass, country, musicals, etc. You choose

01:12:42.120 carefully as parents, but you need good music to fill the space of bad music, not just preaching

01:12:49.260 the gospel. So why not set forward and celebrate good culture? Why not defend and celebrate

01:12:56.120 something good which the wicked would trample underfoot? Why not create a robust, growing

01:13:02.080 cultural space for anglo heritage not for its own sake but because it is good so oh i was wrong

01:13:10.780 there's a little bit more so why not set forward and celebrate good culture where is it nathan

01:13:15.860 here i recall a recent interchange i had online with a heritage american fellow who said that he

01:13:23.240 would defend his heritage simply because it was his heritage now i countered that he should not

01:13:29.560 support his heritage if it ran on the rails of pagan worship and child rape and sacrifice. Now,

01:13:36.980 he didn't respond any further. That is an important watershed moment in the Christian nationalism

01:13:43.080 debate. Now, we should not celebrate Anglo heritage simply because it's our heritage, 0.87

01:13:49.300 but instead, we should celebrate it because it's ours and because it's good. Our Anglo heritage

01:13:57.340 is a good heritage so why not craft contagious symbols and slogans which celebrate our heritage

01:14:05.180 our heritage christian culture why not carve out and build anglo heritage cultural forms

01:14:11.620 such forms are logically needed by all groups for communion fellowship and strength and the white 0.52

01:14:18.360 male group is the group that is currently under an all-out siege in our society it is logical for

01:14:25.720 them to develop cultural forms to build fellowship and strength. And so, all that being said, 0.65

01:14:34.000 honor your father and happy white boy summer. Thanks for tuning in.

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