Podcasts about lex rex

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 55:00

Covenanters are not anti-government people. We are not violent revolutionaries. We do not hate-lawful authority -whether in the family, church, or state-. We believe that all lawful authority is appointed by-God -within these various spheres- in order to promote His glory and the welfare of those made in His image.-To the contrary, we love our homeland, the land of our birth. We are peace-loving people who seek to follow-God's Word in Romans 12- 18- -If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.--However, we do grieve over the gross treason and tyranny committed by the Divine ordinance of civil-government in nations throughout the world. We mourn that civil magistrates have flagrantly and obstinately--abused God's authority in order to protect and defend idolatry, false religion, heresy, blasphemy, covenant--breaking, Sabbath-breaking, the murder of unborn children, sexual perversion of every kind, and legalized--theft through oppressive taxation. We humbly pray that God will by His Gospel and Spirit grant faith and-repentance to civil rulers that they might rule according to the lawful duties that are theirs as articulated in-God's Law and summarized in our Solemn League and Covenant. We will stand upon God's Word and the-faithful witnesses of Christ from the past, like the godly and learned Samuel Rutherford who was assailed with-the same false allegations, but who responded with these words--Truth to Christ cannot be treason to Caesar . . . -Lex Rex or The Law and the Prince, cited from Mr.-Rutherford's -Preface--.

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Render unto Caesar What Is Lawfully Caesar's

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 55:48

Covenanters are not anti-government people. We are not violent revolutionaries. We do not hatelawful authority (whether in the family, church, or state). We believe that all lawful authority is appointed byGod (within these various spheres) in order to promote His glory and the welfare of those made in His image.To the contrary, we love our homeland, the land of our birth. We are peace-loving people who seek to followGod's Word in Romans 12: 18: "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men."However, we do grieve over the gross treason and tyranny committed by the Divine ordinance of civilgovernment in nations throughout the world. We mourn that civil magistrates have flagrantly and obstinatelyabused God's authority in order to protect and defend idolatry, false religion, heresy, blasphemy, covenant-breaking, Sabbath-breaking, the murder of unborn children, sexual perversion of every kind, and legalizedtheft through oppressive taxation. We humbly pray that God will by His Gospel and Spirit grant faith andrepentance to civil rulers that they might rule according to the lawful duties that are theirs as articulated inGod's Law and summarized in our Solemn League and Covenant. We will stand upon God's Word and thefaithful witnesses of Christ from the past, like the godly and learned Samuel Rutherford who was assailed withthe same false allegations, but who responded with these words:Truth to Christ cannot be treason to Caesar . . . (Lex Rex or The Law and the Prince, cited from Mr.Rutherford's "Preface").

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Render unto Caesar what is Lawfully Caesar's

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 55:00

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Lex Rex | Navigating the Classics

Behold Your God Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2023 167:53

If you have listened to The Whole Counsel for any length of time or gone through the Behold Your God studies, you know that Dr. John Snyder has great appreciation and affection for Samuel Rutherford. But he doesn't appreciate of Rutherford's work equally. In fact, there is one book that he calls, “My least favorite book from my favorite Puritan.” That work is Lex Rex. Lex Rex: The Law and the Prince, though John's least favorite, is an incredibly important work by the Scottish minister. It was influential not just in his own day (published in 1644) but also in today's legal realm. Many lawyers and legal practictioners have found the content to be incredibly helpful in defining, description, and developing the proper boundaries for government and individual liberty. With John not being well versed in this book, we have called into two men who have both read, benefited, and used this work in their professions. Those who have followed The Whole Counsel have already met Steve Crampton. Steve is a lawyer who has argued cases before the Supreme Court. He specializes in religious liberty litigation and has worked with several organizations across his storied career. But new to our listeners this week is Chris Green. Chris is a Professor of Law and Jame L. Whitten Char in Law and Government at the University of Mississippi. He was educated at Notre Dame, Yale, and Princeton. He is the author of several books focuses on constitutional law. In this episode of Navigating the Classics, the trio walk through the historical setting of Lex Rex, the biblical philosophis that undergird the work, and lastly they bring this 500-year-old work into current events helping us see how we as contemporary Christians are to both submit to and, when necessary, stand against governing powers. If you want to step into reading Samuel Rutherford, but aren't quite ready to the giant work that is Lex Rex, we recommend “The Loveliness of Christ:” https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/devotionalsdaily-readings/the-loveliness-of-christ/ If you would like to read through Lex Rex: Physical and ebook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BHKNF88/ref=x_gr_bb_kindle?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_kindle-20 Free ebook: https://www.monergism.com/lex-rex-ebook

Discover the Revolutionary Idea Behind LEX REX with Dr. Michael A. Milton!

Bibletheory

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2023 37:14

#westminster #Law #church#SamuelRutherford #presbyterian #LexRex #Law #puritan #church #MichaelAMilton #DrMilton #westminster Discover the Revolutionary Idea Behind LEX REX with Dr. Michael A. Milton! Episode 4- Interview with Dr. Michael A. Milton Lex Rex means "The law is king" and it transformed the world especially the United States. We bring Dr. Milton who is the Distinguished Professor of Missions and Evangelism at Erskine Theological Seminary. Dr. Milton is probably the leading expert on Lex Rex and he explains it to us in this video. Buy a T-Shirt- https://www.teepublic.com/user/thread... ____________________________ Buy me a Coffee-https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Thechica... ____________________________ Please subscribe to Bibletheory Podcast on YouTube- / @bibletheorypodcast ____________________________ Follow me on Rumble-https://rumble.com/c/c-1513035 ___________________________ Listen on Apple- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... ____________________________ Find me on Social media- Facebook, IG, Gettr, Twitter @thechicanoknox @chicanoknox ___________________________ Learn more about Dr. Michael A. Milton- https://michaelmilton.org/about/ __________________________ Resources mentioned in the video 1. Lex Rex (Foundations of a Moral Government)- https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Mo... 2. A History of the American People-https://www.amazon.com/History-Americ... 3. The Magna Carta- https://www.amazon.com/Magna-Carta-Ki... 4. The Divine Right of Kings- https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Right-K... 5. John Locke and The Social Contract-https://www.amazon.com/Locke-Social-C...

Season 2 Episode 5 - Dear Justice Kagan

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Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 75:56

In this episode, we bring you up to speed on the latest activities of the Lex Rex Institute before diving into Groff v. DeJoy, a Title VII religious discrimination case that produced some... interesting... questions from certain Supreme Court justices. We'll explain why religious obligations aren't just a nice bonus you get for being a good person and, for the umpteenth time, explain how stare decisis works and wonder why Justice Elena Kagan seems to struggle with the concept.After that, we'll take a minute to address David's biggest pet peeve in legal interpretation: acting like the Constitution is just another law. Finally, we return to Captain Kangaroo Court to discuss a bankruptcy judge who writes pulp fiction and hear from a Twitter user impersonating the mistress of King Louis XV about why you don't have rights at school.0:01:45 - Lex Rex updates0:12:50 - Groff v. DeJoy0:45:10 - statutory law vs. constitutional law1:01:35 - Captain Kangaroo CourtLinksLRI's primer on paper ballotsAmicus brief on voting in San Francisco county

April 29, 2023 – 2 Samuel 9 – 12 – Is it lex rex or rex lex?

Let’s Find Out Together

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2023 19:47

All through the centuries countries that have a monarchy have asked, is it lex rex (the law is king) or rex lex (the king is law)? Let's find out together how Israel answered that as we read 2 Samuel 9 – 12.

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Steve Babb and Hannah Pryor of Prog Rock's 'Glass Hammer' Exclusive Interview!

Interviewing the Legends: Rock Stars & Celebs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2023 71:20

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Interviewing the Legends I'm your host Ray Shasho Glass Hammer is an American progressive rock band from Chattanooga, Tennessee. They formed in 1992 when multi-instrumentalists Steve Babb and Fred Schendel began to write and record “Journey of the Dunadan”, a concept album based on the story of Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings. Glass Hammer is Progressive rock at its finest! First came Dreaming City (2021), followed by Skallagrim – Into the Breach (2022). Now Glass Hammer returns to the cursed realm of Andorath with Part III of their Skallagrim trilogy, AT THE GATE their most recent release. The album's narrative concludes the sword and sorcery-inspired tale of the thief with the screaming sword, a “desperate man” who lost his lover and his memory. Lead vocalist, Hannah Pryor, joins Steve Babb, Fred Schendel, and Aaron Raulston. Singer John Beagley and former Glass Hammer vocalist Jon Davison (now of YES) make guest appearances. Musically Glass Hammer's most apparent influences are Yes, Kansas, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and to a less noticeable extent, Genesis. While Glass Hammer has, for the most part, combined those influences into a characteristic style of their own. PLEASE WELCOME BASSIST/KEYBOARDIST SINGER/SONGWRITER/AUTHOR/ STEVE BABB AND SINGER HANNAH PRYOR OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP GLASS HAMMER TO INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS …. PURCHASE THE LATEST RELEASE BY GLASS HAMMER Entitled AT THE GATE At https://glasshammer.com/official-store/ and amazon.com ALSO PURCHASE STEVEN BABB'S BOOK SKALLAGRIM IN THE VALUES OF PAGARNA BOOK ONE At amazon.com “And those monsters saw not a young man with a sword but a scarred and screaming horror with the rising red doom of the sun at his back and a hellishly shrieking, flashing, living sword in his hands.” Skallagrim wakes in the middle of a fight for his life with only the vaguest idea of who he is. Facing an angry mob of murderous cutthroats, he watches helplessly while the love of his life is abducted before his eyes. Finally, with a crushing sense of despair, he realizes he's going to die without even knowing her name. But he doesn't die. To find the girl and take his revenge upon the fiend who took her, Skallagrim, wounded and exhausted, must endure a journey like no other. He'll face madmen, ghouls, tentacled horrors, and witches, both foul and fair, as he races toward a final showdown that will have readers on the edge of their seats. An awe-inspiring tale of adventure, triumph, and tragedy, set in a brutal, unforgiving wilderness and packed with heart-stopping action, Skallagrim – In The Vales Of Pagarna marks the first installment of an outstanding new series. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GLASS HAMMER VISIT www.glasshammer.com Official website https://twitter.com/GlassHammerProg Twitter www.facebook.com/glasshammerband Facebook www.youtube.com/user/ghprog YouTube https://stephenrbabb.com/about/ Steve Babb author website Discography Studio albums Journey of the Dunadan (1993) Perelandra (1995) On to Evermore (1998) Chronometree (2000) The Middle-Earth Album (2001) Lex Rex (2002) Shadowlands (2004) The Inconsolable Secret (2005, re-recorded in 2013) Culture of Ascent (2007) Three Cheers for the Broken-Hearted (2009) If (2010) Cor Cordium (2011) Perilous (2012) Ode to Echo (2014) The Breaking of the World (2015) Valkyrie (2016) Chronomonaut (2018) Dreaming City (2020) Skallagrim - Into the Breach (2021) "At the Gate" (2022) Live albums Live and Revived (1997; also a compilation of previously unreleased tracks) Live at Nearfest (2004) Double Live (2015) Mostly Live (2018) Live DVDs Lex Live (2004) Live at Belmont (2006) Live at the Tivoli (2008) Double Live (2015) Support us!

18Apr23 International Organizations Push "Children's Right" to Consent to Sex

The David Knight Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 181:13

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESUN legal RECOMMENDATIONS to normalize sex with minors. 2:16A big Republican donor who gave nearly $8 million in this last election doesn't like conservative stands on abortion and removing pornographic books from schools (he calls it "book banning"). 5:56 As society crashes, what does Jeremiah say to us?10:14 Criminal law signals which groups are worthy of protection. UN judge wants to turn the table upside down. Christians will be vilified, ostracized as transgenders and pedophiles are elevated & celebrated. 13:02 International Planned Parenthood Federation joins UN Council on Human Rights in pushing pedophilia. 15:54 "All children are sexual beings." The right to seek pleasure, autonomy from your parents, but not from the government. 21:40 Forget about transgender Bud Light — look at what Build-A-Bear is doing 39:09 SNL "non-binary" actress illustrates the classic DARVO tactic (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) 45:29 And as I said, I've been doing videos and talking about this subject for 13 years. WATCH one of those videos on the "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" — "Self Evident" 48:15 Washington State to remove parental rights 51:50 Connecticut Planned Parenthood honcho commits suicide as net closes on him for child pornography 52:59 "Stop the Steal" leader, Ali Alexander (Ali Akbar), allegations from 2 minors of sexual grooming and child porn. I knew he was a convicted felon of credit card fraud and financial fraud (perfect person to run Stop the Steal for Alex Jones) but didn't know this. Milo, Fuentes, Kanye, and Roger "it's better to be infamous than never famous" 1:04:38 Breakpoint Commentaries. Why NOT Using Preferred Pronouns is a Loving Act Is using someone's non-biological pronouns a "loving thing to do"? Should we choose "pronoun hospitality"? Or is important for both them and us that we refuse? A former lesbian believes "the truth will set you free" 1:10:46 One California church has been ordered to pay $1.2 million in plandemic fines while 5 other churches fines were dismissed. Why is this one church being targeted? 1:21:41 We don't have an emperor in spite of what the maga crowd thinks. "Lex Rex", the law is king, specifically the Constitution. 1:29:25 CDC under Trump paid an ad firm nearly $100 MILLION to write PRETEND NEWS ARTICLES promoting flu shots for kids and elderly. 1:47:27 The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) "Project Icebreaker", International Monetary Fund (IMF) "Unicoin", Federal Reserve "FedNow, FedCoin" 1:52:11 INTERVIEW - Operation Sandman, Dollar Melt Down — Then What? Why the entire western fiat system is about to implodeWill CBDC fail? How do we fight it? Crypto is in the crosshairs and here's what makes it vulnerable.What is a safe haven for money in this unstable time? 2:00:18 Elon musk admits feds had full access to private twitter messages. Twitter gave (still?) private DM's to government (and who else?). 2:48:44 Elon Musk's hypocrisy and transhumanism. Musk's AI, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), etc is not about supporting humans, but Transhumanism. Not about free elections but technocracy 2:55:54Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver

18Apr23 International Organizations Push "Children's Right" to Consent to Sex

The REAL David Knight Show

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2023 181:13

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODESUN legal RECOMMENDATIONS to normalize sex with minors. 2:16A big Republican donor who gave nearly $8 million in this last election doesn't like conservative stands on abortion and removing pornographic books from schools (he calls it "book banning"). 5:56 As society crashes, what does Jeremiah say to us?10:14Criminal law signals which groups are worthy of protection. UN judge wants to turn the table upside down. Christians will be vilified, ostracized as transgenders and pedophiles are elevated & celebrated. 13:02International Planned Parenthood Federation joins UN Council on Human Rights in pushing pedophilia. 15:54 "All children are sexual beings." The right to seek pleasure, autonomy from your parents, but not from the government. 21:40 Forget about transgender Bud Light — look at what Build-A-Bear is doing 39:09 SNL "non-binary" actress illustrates the classic DARVO tactic (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender) 45:29 And as I said, I've been doing videos and talking about this subject for 13 years. WATCH one of those videos on the "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child" — "Self Evident" 48:15 Washington State to remove parental rights 51:50Connecticut Planned Parenthood honcho commits suicide as net closes on him for child pornography 52:59 "Stop the Steal" leader, Ali Alexander (Ali Akbar), allegations from 2 minors of sexual grooming and child porn. I knew he was a convicted felon of credit card fraud and financial fraud (perfect person to run Stop the Steal for Alex Jones) but didn't know this. Milo, Fuentes, Kanye, and Roger "it's better to be infamous than never famous" 1:04:38 Breakpoint Commentaries. Why NOT Using Preferred Pronouns is a Loving Act Is using someone's non-biological pronouns a "loving thing to do"? Should we choose "pronoun hospitality"? Or is important for both them and us that we refuse? A former lesbian believes "the truth will set you free" 1:10:46 One California church has been ordered to pay $1.2 million in plandemic fines while 5 other churches fines were dismissed. Why is this one church being targeted? 1:21:41 We don't have an emperor in spite of what the maga crowd thinks. "Lex Rex", the law is king, specifically the Constitution. 1:29:25 CDC under Trump paid an ad firm nearly $100 MILLION to write PRETEND NEWS ARTICLES promoting flu shots for kids and elderly. 1:47:27 The Bank of International Settlement (BIS) "Project Icebreaker", International Monetary Fund (IMF) "Unicoin", Federal Reserve "FedNow, FedCoin" 1:52:11 INTERVIEW - Operation Sandman, Dollar Melt Down — Then What? Why the entire western fiat system is about to implodeWill CBDC fail? How do we fight it? Crypto is in the crosshairs and here's what makes it vulnerable.What is a safe haven for money in this unstable time? 2:00:18 Elon musk admits feds had full access to private twitter messages. Twitter gave (still?) private DM's to government (and who else?). 2:48:44Elon Musk's hypocrisy and transhumanism. Musk's AI, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), etc is not about supporting humans, but Transhumanism. Not about free elections but technocracy 2:55:54Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver

Alex Newman - The Deep State: Fact or Fiction?

Hearts of Oak Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2023 48:57 Transcription Available

Alex Newman returns to Hearts of Oak to help us to unpack The Deep State. Alex has his finger on the pulse like few others, his daily show and regular pieces in publications like Epoch Times cover so many current issues but four years ago he wrote a book on our topic this episode. What is the Deep State and why is there such a backlash against those who seek to expose it? Join us as Alex answers these questions and illuminates this clear and very present danger. Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does. In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc, he has written for a wide array of publications in the United States and abroad. He currently serves as a contributor to the Epoch Times, a correspondent for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief, foreign correspondent and senior editor for The New American magazine, a writer for WND (World Net Daily), an education writer for FreedomProject Media, a columnist for the Illinois Family Institute, and much more. Over his career as a journalist, Alex has interviewed current and former heads of state, members of Congress, royalty, and countless other fascinating people. His work, which has received numerous awards, has been repeatedly highlighted by Drudge, Breitbart, Fox News, and many other outlets. His writing has been published in major newspapers across America, and his PR work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, and more. In addition, Alex has authored and co-authored several books. One of his major works was an exposé of government schools with internationally renowned Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld called Crimes of the Educators published by WND Books. It was endorsed by conservative leaders ranging from Phyllis Schlafly to Ron Paul. Across multiple platforms and with tens of millions of views on his videos so far, Alex also hosts and co-hosts a number of shows. Alex hosts The Sentinel Report on the Frank Speech network which reaches many millions worldwide. Separately, he hosts Behind The Deep State and Conversations That Matter. Finally, he co-hosts Unravelling the Narrative. Alex is on the Leadership Council of Freedom Force International, one of the premier liberty organizations in the world. He also serves as a director for the organization Bear Witness Central, which works to protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution by educating the public in partnership with other conservative organizations. Alex is a Leadership Fellow at the James Madison Institute, Florida's premier free-market think tank. And he serves on the advisory board of Citizens for Free Speech. Alex has a B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Florida with an emphasis on economics and international relations, as well as an A.A. degree in foreign languages from Miami-Dade College. He also studied international relations at the Institute Français des Alpes in France. Follow and support Alex at the links below... The Sentinel Report TV show: https://frankspeech.com/shows/sentinel-report-tv-show-alex-newman Liberty Sentinel: https://libertysentinel.org/ GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/AlexNewman Twitter: https://twitter.com/ALEXNEWMAN_JOU?s=20&t=evt_r4vYv-FbhWUa2yqkxA Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexjnewman86 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-newman-9109845/ 'Deep State: The Invisible Government Behind the Scenes' and 'The Deep State: Pulling Strings From Behind the Scenes' available on e-book from Amazon... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-State-Government-Constitutional-Principles-ebook/dp/B08LHH4HGZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=alex+newman+the+deep+state&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-State-Pulling-Strings-American-ebook/dp/B079QFPM9H/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=alex+newman+the+deep+state&sr=8-2 Interview recorded 14.3.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more... https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share! [0:22] Hello, Hearts of Oak, and thank you for joining us for another interview with Alex Newman, just coming up. Alex was with us back in July, and he's joined us to talk about the Deep State, Fact or Fiction. He has written a book five years ago on the Deep State, and it's a massive term, one that's misunderstood, one that there's a lot of pushback when you address, which always makes me curious. So we delve deeper into it, and Alex was able to share his input, his knowledge on what the Deep State is and look at some of those organizations and institutions that are using, how the media engage with it. Alex of course writes everywhere, he is on so many channels, he is the founder and president of Liberty Sentinel Media Inc, he writes for Epoch Times along with many other organizations, appears on many programs and is on Lindell TV every Monday to Friday at 4.30 Eastern Time which would be 9.30 p.m. UK time. You can catch him there. I know you'll enjoy listening to Alex as much as I did speaking with him. Here he is. Alex Newman, it's wonderful to have you back. Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be here. Thank you so much for having me Peter. Thank you for having me yesterday on your show. The first time on your show it's great to be on it and I've watched it. I've watched it on on Lindell TV and obviously the website. So it was great to join you. Thank you for that. I was an honour to have you. Thank you very much. It's great to have a British perspective sometimes. [1:50] I think Americans are very inward focused. We just focus on America, but it's really great to hear from somebody who is in another place, who's dealing with the same kind of things, only a little bit further advanced. It's a good warning, I think, that Americans need to hear more often. No, absolutely. [2:07] Well, Alex was with us back in July after I met him at the AFA conference over in LA. He is the founder and president of Liberty Sentinel Media Inc. And there the link is underneath there, libertysentinel.org. And I think today we're gonna look at the deep state. I put it, fact or fiction, a lot is written about it. And I know Alex, you have written about this and people can get that on the website. We'll put the link in the description, the deep state exposed. We'll touch on that a little bit. And so of course I need to let the viewers know if they're not watching Lindell TV, they can catch you on Monday evenings. Is it once a week you're on? No, it's actually a daily, every weekday. Yep, every weekday from 4.30 to 5 New York time. So. Liberty Sentinel, they can get you on that. Maybe just go back, what was your vision? [3:08] You set up Liberty Sentinel what was your vision for it? What did you want that to actually achieve? What was your idea behind this? Actually, we set it up as a college newspaper, believe it or not. I was in college, this was 2007. And I got together with a group of, we got liberty minded people, liberty minded guys. And we decided, you know, all the newspapers are fake. It's all propaganda. We need something for this community and for the surrounding area to have good information. So we created that. It started off just a once a month print publication with an online component and very rapidly grew. And pretty soon we were distributing, you know, 15,000 copies a month throughout, what was it, eight or nine counties. After college, we didn't really prepare successors. So we kind of shut down the paper. I kept the company. And the thinking was, you know, I don't know what I'll need this company for in the future, but today it's a lot of different things. We produce content for a lot of the biggest and greatest media outlets out there. I write a lot for the Epoch Times. I serve as senior editor for the New American. I do five or six other shows. We work with all kinds of different people. [4:20] Just trying to get reliable, accurate, truthful information out there from a biblical perspective, from in our country, we have our constitution, from a constitutional perspective, for the purpose of informing, educating, and activating, especially Americans, but also people around the world on these issues. Yeah, absolutely. Well, if I can bring up where people can get, or when they go on the website, That's what you'll get. It's packed full of articles with the videos there as well. So make sure and make use of it that that's not on your list of places you have a look at each day. It is well worthwhile. [4:58] Now, the book, it was five years ago, actually, you were at the Deep State Exposed. And that I think has become a term that encompasses a lot of the control, the agenda, the attack on truth, reduction of value of the individual. And it's a term that's actually not used that much in the UK. [5:19] So maybe we can go back to that point and you wrote a book on the deep state. Do you wanna just unpack the meaning of that? Because two thirds of our viewers will be UK, a third will be US. And it may be a term which isn't deep inside people's minds in the UK. Yeah, thank you, Peter. And so I actually chose the term because it was starting to become part of the popular lexicon in America. There had been a poll commissioned by one of the universities, the Monmouth University Polling Institute early on during Donald Trump's presidency. And they found that 75% of Americans, and this was pretty evenly distributed across both parties, believed in what the pollsters described as a deep state. Now, they defined the deep state in the poll as a group of unelected military government and other individuals who were seeking to control the national policy of the United States outside of democratic means. It was some, you know, don't quote me on that, but it's a rough paraphrase of how they define the deep state. And I think that is actually a decent definition. And so we were at the point already in America, actually the, I first did a special report in the New American Magazine on the deep state. That was about five years ago. And then about two and a half years ago, we turned it into a book. Deep State, the invisible government behind the scenes. I probably have a copy here. [6:39] I do. And I went all over the country doing talks on this subject as well, on the Deep State because it was really coming out of the closet, right? And this was something I had been exposing my entire career as a journalist, this unelected secretive network. I go a little bit deeper. You know, yeah, there are the forces in Washington, DC, the permanent bureaucracy, you know, some of the forces within the intelligence community, things like that that have been caught over and over again, doing things they shouldn't do. But there's also another layer behind that. And in the book, I define it as the deep state behind the deep state. And these are the organizations that are less known. Some of them are technically secret. Others actually have a website. They publish membership lists, like the Council on Foreign Relations. The counterpart in the United Kingdom would be the Royal Institute for International Affairs. These are very, very powerful organizations. That don't necessarily operate in the shadows, but people don't really understand what they do. Of course, you have the Bilderberg group, you know, 120 plus weirdos and their minions come together. And I actually snuck into one one time, that was fun. [7:42] You've got genuine secret societies like Skull and Bones, we have at Yale University here. We've got the Bohemian Grove out in Northern California. I'm sure you guys have your own in the United Kingdom. And, you know, I started noticing a pattern as I started investigating these things. I started noticing that they were all moving us generally in the same direction, all moving us away, from the concept of nation states toward first regional and then global governance, moving us away from individual liberty, God-given rights protected by the constitution toward this more utilitarian technocratic view of government that the individual is more of a cog in the machine. [8:20] So, that was very disturbing to me. And I actually related directly into the Bible. In this book, I actually outline that what I think is going on here is we're dealing with a struggle against evil. The Apostle Paul describes it in Ephesians chapter 6 as a battle against powers, principalities, the rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places. And so, is every member of the Council on Foreign Relations working for Satan? No. Well, maybe, but not consciously necessarily. I was brainwashed with this stuff too. I was taught in school that countries are bad and that's why we have wars and if we want to get rid of wars we got to get rid of religion we got to get rid of nations and just move to this one world kumbaya United Nations so I think that really is ultimately my understanding of the deep state I used the term because it was already in the popular lexicon but I take it a step further than say your average person walking down the street might understand And of course there is a [9:16] backlash, which always intrigues me whenever when you speak in something you suddenly find there is this backlash, not a backlash of engagement or discussion, but of ridicule, of smearing. Do you want to kind of touch on that? And certainly we've seen it the last three years on COVID, but it goes back further than that. Whenever you touch on certain things, you find you're told you're not supposed to discuss that. Yeah, and what we're seeing here is actually just a more advanced form of what Pavlov did with the dogs. And actually, they start training the children for this very early on in their so-called education, which is really a fraud. There's very little education actually happening in public schools in the United States. But this is a conditioned response. It's a conditioned behaviour. So just like the dogs start drooling, you know, when they hear the little bell ringing. And so the people start drooling when they hear the term conspiracy, right? And they actually don't even know what the word means. They just, conspiracy, that just means something stupid that's not true. No, get a dictionary, conspiracy means two or more people working together in secret for immoral, illegal or wicked intent. [10:22] And so there are conspiracies everywhere. Your average person understands this very well. Businessmen conspire, right? If you ask an average person walking down the street, do you think businessmen might conspire to extort you out of money or raise their price? Well, of course they would, right? We all understand that. Might politicians also, oh no, that's a conspiracy theory, right? And they start drooling. So this is not actually a result of logic or reason. It's not that they're processing evidence. It's that they have been conditioned, first in the schools and then later through the media, to just start drooling. And of course, I'm using drooling as a proverbial, right? But, well, that's silly or whatever buzzword of the day. That's racist or that's homophobic. Or that, you know, just pick your buzzword that they've been trained to spout when they're exposed to the stimuli. [11:06] And that's what you get. That's a conspiracy. And so you end up with a large segment of the population that is actually impervious to reason, logic, or evidence. And I think that's how the deep state likes it. You know, more and more, this is falling by the wayside. I think more and more Americans, especially, and I think it's probably true in Britain as well and in other parts of Europe. I spent a big part of my life in Europe, but Latin America, Africa, you know, I have people that I speak with regularly all around the world. I think people all across the planet are starting to realize that, you know, they may not know all the details, but they're starting to realize that, wow, there really are people who want to undermine our nation states and undermine our individual freedoms and move us toward a system that at the very least we never consented to, and at the very least we haven't voted on, right? And so I'm encouraged by that. But yeah, there has been a very deliberate process of trying to ridicule and marginalize people who point this out, which of course is exactly what you would do if you were trying to secretly undermine institutions and values that people cherish. No, I think whenever watching Trump from afar running and winning in 2016, [12:13] The vitriol against him was one thing, but it seemed to be something more than that. And certainly I hadn't, from being a student of politics, had not seen anything on that scale before. I mean, what were your thoughts around that time? Because it seemed as if there was something bigger against this individual who was standing than we'd seen ever before. There absolutely was. And that's because the deep state, to borrow the term, to continue at this term, understood that Trump was not necessarily part of them. He was not controllable by them. And you know, you don't have to agree with everything that Trump ever did or said to recognize that he was kind of like a human wrecking ball, right? He had his own ideas. He was going to go in there and do those things. And he didn't care what the fake media or anybody else thought. And you know, for many years in his life, he was actually close to some of this machinery. But he also came from a background that I think deeply disturbed them, right? Early on in Trump's presidency. In fact, it might have even been before he was elected. I went to Roger Stone's house and to Roger Stone's office and we filmed some interviews. And this was for public, right? This was not a one-on-one conversation. This was for the public. And Roger Stone tells me, yeah, Donald Trump, he comes from an amazing background. His dad was a good friend of Robert Welch, the founder of the John Birch Society. His dad was one of the major funders of the John Birch Society. [13:32] John Birch Society is like kryptonite for the deep state. They start freaking out. It's like throwing water on the wicked witch of the West. Because the John Birch Society has been trying to fight this for 60 plus years. And so when you have Roger Stone, a very close aide and advisor to Donald Trump, saying that Trump's dad was John Birch Society. Trump, of course, was mentored and worked very closely for decades with Roy Cohn, who was on the board of the Western Goals Foundation, which was founded by Congressman Larry McDonald, who, in addition to being the chairman of the John Birch Society, was the most conservative, the most anti-communist, the most anti-deep state member of the US Congress. So much so that the Soviets ended up shooting down his airplane in 1983. You know, he really made a lot of people mad. And so Roy Cohn was on the board with Congressman Larry McDonald. Congressman Larry McDonald was kind of like a Donald Trump, you know, just a human wrecking ball when it came to stopping the machinations and the plans of the establishment. And so Donald Trump came from this background. [14:28] It was very obvious that he wasn't going to be a conventional politician. It was very obvious that he wasn't going to be taking marching orders from the Council on Foreign Relations. Or he actually was the only Republican president in the last hundred years who hadn't gone to go visit these clowns at the Bohemian Grove with their weirdo rituals that they do. And actually, apparently they had talked about him there. Some emails were leaked from Stephen Harper, who was the Prime Minister of Canada and Colin Powell. And Colin Powell had written to Stephen Harper, no, sorry, to the former Defense Minister of Canada. He said, I got to sit next to Stephen Harper And, you know, we had some nice chats and we all agreed Donald Trump is terrible. You know, we got to stop Donald Trump. So within the kind of organizations and networks that we kind of broadly classify as the deep state, Donald Trump was viewed as very dangerous. And even after he was elected, they continued to come out of the woodwork and say this. I've got a video that I used in my presentations across the country on the deep state of the former head of the CIA, John McLaughlin. Saying he was asked on a panel discussion. So Donald Trump is whining that there's a deep state out to get him and that they want to remove him. Is that true? And I think she was expecting the guy to say like, what an idiot, what a conspiracy theorist. And he actually says, thank God for the deep state. [15:41] Wait, what? You're thanking God for a deep state trying to take out the elected president of the United States? Did we just hear that? You had Senator Chuckie Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, said on Rachel Maddow, this weird guy who's got a TV show on MSLSD, Asked him, you know, about Donald Trump. And Chuckie Schumer says, yeah, you know, the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So Donald Trump better be really careful. Who says that? What's that supposed to mean? Are you going to shoot the guy? Are you going to, you know, put fake news about him in the media? What tools, what six ways from Sunday does the intelligence community have to get back at the elected president of the United States? And so I think it was very obvious. Again, you don't have to agree with everything Donald Trump said or did during his presidency or before to realize that there was a very powerful network, not just American, but global, that absolutely hated the guy. And even though every once in a while he'd throw him a bone, you know, he'd meet with Henry Kissinger, he'd pursue some policy that they were pleased with, ultimately he was a human wrecking ball to their agenda. He got us out of the UNESCO. He got us out of the World Health Organization. He got us out of the Paris Agreement. I mean, these are all critical policies that the deep state has been working on for a long time. And here comes this guy, and in just a period of a few years is destroying the whole architecture that they'd spent all these decades building. So they'll never forgive him for that. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw, you know, another SWAT raid on Mar-a-Lago and they bring the CNNs and stuff to drag them out in chains. [17:10] But yeah, they hate him. And I think the reason why is obvious. Because I think every president really up to that point kind of fitted in the jigsaw. They fit it neatly in. They were in one of two parties that stayed in their lane. And then you have someone coming, an enigma that blows out of the water. And it was interesting to see the, I guess, the split in the Republican Party of a fear that someone was coming in that was maybe uncontrollable and they were losing that control of their own party. [17:44] Yeah and you know there's always been this struggle within the conservative movement and the Republican Party. It's been going on for many many decades. You had kind of the establishment faction and the grassroots faction and the establishment faction really has been primarily represented by I would say National Review and William Buckley. You know if you actually go back and read William Buckley's position, I mean the guy has a lot of troubling connections. He was a member of the Secret Society. I mentioned Skull and Bones at Yale. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He worked for years for the Central Intelligence Agency in Mexico City. He was okay with abortions. He was okay with what he described as a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores to supposedly deal with the Soviet Union. So, you know, on a traditional political spectrum of where Americans are at, William Buckley didn't really fit very well in the conservative side of the spectrum. And yet, the New York Times and the and the Washington Compost and PBS, they all trotted him out as the conservative. He was the representative of responsible conservatism and anyone who didn't line up behind William Buckley was somehow irresponsible or extreme. And so we saw this in the 2016 election, right? National Review did a whole issue about stopping Trump and they brought all their clown car out and everybody wrote the article about why Donald Trump is so scary and so dangerous. And the conservative movement and the Republican Party laughed at them. They said, you guys are clowns, right? We don't care what you think. You're not the leaders of the conservative movement. [19:07] And so at that point, I think the establishment wing of the Republican Party really was destroyed. I mean, a lot of them are still there, but they've had to camouflage themselves. They've had to pretend to be conservative. They've had to pretend to be MAGA, if you will, to borrow a term from the modern lexicon. [19:22] But a lot of them were just pushed clear out, right? Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard, another leading figure within what was the establishment Republican. I mean, there's no genuine grassroots Republican conservative today in America who seriously cares what Bill Kristol thinks. I mean, the guy's a joke to the extent that anybody knows him, he's a joke. Same thing now today with National Review. National Review hasn't been to CPAC since Trump won the presidency, because they realize they're not really part of any actual movement anymore. They're kind of this fringe, you know, they don't quite fit in with the Democrats, because they like more war than I think the Democrats are comfortable with. But they certainly don't fit in with the Republicans. So they're kind of out in the wilderness. And that was all a result of Trump's presidency. He was the first one that was able to really. [20:07] communicate this to the American people in a way that they would understand, in a way where the media couldn't suppress it, [20:13] Because it happened very rapidly, the discrediting of the media completely among conservatives. Because it used to be, you know, the media could come in and play air support and kind of do damage control whenever the truth started leaking out. But with Trump, Americans, and this became very clear after the election, Americans who supported him were inclined to believe almost the opposite of what the fake media said. So if the media said, well, National Review said Trump is bad, and National review is the standard bearer of the conservative movement, conservative Americans would say, okay, I guess the conservative movement is actually not led by National Review, National Review must be a joke. And so you saw this really big rift in conservatism that was there for decades and decades. There was always this power struggle within the party. Do we want constitutional, Christian, limited government, God-given rights, or do we want this kind of establishment brand of neoconservatism, right? Irving Kristol, Bill Kristol's father was kind of one of the founders of neoconservatism. And he actually admitted once that it was kind of Trotskyite in orientation. [21:10] So this struggle existed for decades and decades. And then Trump's presidency kind of finally blew up that struggle. You know, and I think the final contest there was Liz Cheney running for office in Wyoming. I guess really somebody that was a political newcomer. I mean, I knew Harriet Hageman. She's been in some of my talks. I've known her for years. You know, nice lady. But National America Republican Party had not heard of Harriet Hageman and yet she crushed Liz Cheney like a bug. I mean, it wasn't even a contest. And I think at that point it was clear to everybody, all the analysts, everybody that the what was used to be the establishment wing of the Republican Party was basically not just impotent, but ground into dust. [21:50] Yeah, well, I'm just back from CPAC, which was a, I don't know if I dreamed about CPAC, certainly daydreamed about it. And you compare it to what we have in the UK, and it's got that energy, that razzmatazz, that showbiz, that, and it was great to be there and to the energy there. Obviously, Trump spoke at the end for, I think, an hour and a half, and really good speech, although didn't raise it to high decibels as such, but bang on so many of the topics. But I kind of look when you look, you're wondering whether, I mean when he got in in 2016, whether actually people know him much better, they are even more afraid of him, in many parts of the country, and whether that fight for this time will be even worse, even harder, even more brutal than it was before. [22:48] I think it will be. And it's very interesting now. The establishment has realized that they're not gonna be able to run one of the regular milk toast fake Republicans. I mean, the idea of Jeb Bush seriously running in a Republican Party, nobody can take that seriously. It's a laughing matter. Nobody would seriously consider running an establishment Republican. And so what's happening is the establishment Republicans now coalescing behind Ron DeSantis. And, um, you know, I, I spent hours and hours in Ron DeSantis's office. He used to be my Congressman, always, you know, pestering him about the votes that were less than ideal. [23:22] He's my governor. Of course, you know, he was at the meeting we were at just a few weeks ago, had a chance to speak with him briefly there. And so, you know, I really don't have a personal problem with Ron DeSantis. He's been a great governor. He's my governor. He's certainly the best in the whole country. But I think the reason the establishment wing of the Republican Party is coalescing behind Ron DeSantis, and this is a really good sign to me, is because they realize there's nobody else who doesn't have credentials as a hardcore conservative willing to punch these clowns in the nose that has any chance of winning against Donald Trump. And I think that they're more terrified of Donald Trump than they are of Ron DeSantis, because Ron DeSantis is still, you know, something more of a conventional politician. He doesn't throw out like insults that are gonna embarrass these people for the rest of their lives, right? And so I think they're like, you know what? Maybe Ron DeSantis isn't the policy guy that we like, but at least he's not Trump, and he has a chance of beating Trump. And so, you know, let's marshal our forces behind him. So it's gonna be really interesting. But I think just the fact that this is where the Republican Party at is a really good sign. [24:21] You know, Ron DeSantis has been a standard bearer for the freedom movement, actually. And he could have done better. Of course, he's a human being like anybody, but he did, early on he succumbed to some of the hysteria and did a few of the little mandates, but very rapidly he turned that around. And he actually protected the people of Florida from the craziness that was affecting most of the rest of the country. And I know, cause I live here, you know, we really didn't have mandates from the local, from the county or from the state level where I live. Life just pretty much continued as normal. Never did anyone here tell me to put on a face diaper, never did anyone tell me I couldn't do something if I wouldn't take the thing. And so, and I thank Ron DeSantis for that, you know, he really led the way. And so I'm frankly pleased that I know a lot of conservatives are very worried about the possibility of Trump and Ron DeSantis kind of of destroying each other and dividing the conservative movement. And I think that's a fair concern. [25:11] And I share it, but I also think there's a silver lining here. And this shows you that the American people are breaking free of the fake, you know, uni-party, the fake two-party system where they really all agree. And they're demanding somebody who's going to actually be bold and courageous and standing up for the rights of Americans against the tyranny that has really run almost unchecked for so many decades now. So I think that's encouraging. And actually, at the meeting we were at just a few weeks ago in Miami, I spent a little time with Anthony Sabatini, a lot of time with Anthony Sabatini. I would say he was our best legislator here in the state of Florida by far, took on all the crazy COVID stuff. And he planted a seed in my mind that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. He said, you know what? This is really gonna be good to have Ron DeSantis and Trump running because they're gonna both have to run to the right. They're both gonna have to run as real conservatives. That's gonna change the Overton window in this country. The fake media is no longer gonna be able to keep the debate confined within this dumb little box. They're gonna smash it wide open. And yeah, it's gonna be interesting. But yeah, the media is gonna do everything they can to attack Trump like they did last time, the deep state will as well. I think potentially even including criminal charges that we may see soon. [26:22] But it's a fascinating time to be alive. Well, it is. And you talk about the media and it's interesting to see how, with Trump, the media coalesced against him, but generally how they've come together against many of the values. And I don't know whether that means the media just a useful idiom, a pawn used by others, or whether they're more part and parcel of the evil we're seeing? Well, I think at the highest levels they are absolutely part and parcel of what we're seeing. In fact, I mentioned the Council on Foreign Relations several times. That's the sister organization of your Royal Institute for International Affairs. Actually, Cecil Rhodes set up this huge global network, and it's described in a book I have behind me. It's called Tragedy and Hope, Cecil Rhodes, of course, the mining magnate who made his fortune in South African mining. And when he died, he left a will and he created this whole global network. And he really was interested in globalism. He kind of talked about we want to spread English civilization around the world, but I think that was really not his primary objective. But in this book, the historian who writes it explains that actually in the United States, the chief outpost of this international operation is the Council on Foreign Relations. [27:39] So you have the CFR. Now, CFR has corporate members, right, which is interesting. And what you'll find is that a lot of the major media organizations in this country, the conglomerates that own, you know, massive media holdings, in addition to other things, right, not just media, they're corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations. In fact, until not too long ago, News Corporation, which owns Fox News and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, was a corporate member. Some of the Murdochs have been members. In fact, I think some of some of the Murdoch children still are members. And so, yes, the media is absolutely a part of that. Now that doesn't mean that your average bozo who's reading a script on the television is consciously participating in the subversion of American values, but at the highest levels of these companies, absolutely they are. [28:24] And I think the American people have started to see through this. They might not know all the details, but we've been getting poll after poll after poll now that shows the overwhelming majority of Americans realize that the media is not just biased, right? Bias was one thing, everybody's biased. I think even the concept of unbiased media is rather unrealistic. You can be fair, but everybody's got a bias and it shows up in who you're gonna interview, what stories you're gonna choose to write. I mean, we just need to be honest and say that. [28:48] But this is not bias. This is an issue of dishonesty. And the latest poll that I saw, I think this came out within a month or so, was that the overwhelming majority of Americans now recognize that the media is consciously deceiving us. They're lying to us. And that's way beyond bias. And I think, again, the 2016 election showed that pretty clearly. You had the mainstream media absolutely united in lockstep. There was no major media outlet in this country that came out in favour of Donald Trump. Of the big networks, the Media Research Centre did an analysis. It was 92 or 93% negative coverage of Donald Trump. When he was mentioned, it was in some negative context. Of the top 100 newspapers in this country, I think two endorsed Donald Trump. So with all the media united against Donald Trump, What happened? [29:34] He won in a landslide. And so, you know, obviously Americans are not paying as much attention to this nonsense as they used to. And I think in many cases, and I think a lot of the people who control the media realize this, in many cases, when the media says something, Americans are just automatically inclined to disagree with it. Like with Ukraine is a good example. A lot of Americans could have been brought to bear to support Ukraine, but when they see the media supporting and when they see Joe Biden supporting, they're like, no, I don't want anything to do with that. And that's where we are now as a nation. I think the majority of Americans now completely reject the media. Many of them, even to borrow a term from Donald Trump, as enemies of the people, which I think that's a dangerous term, that's a communist term when you start calling people enemies of the people. But I think a lot of Americans are there now. They say, CNN, CBS, ABC, they are enemies of the people, and they might not be wrong. [30:24] One thing that excites me, and if it was all up to, the hope of America being in Fox media wise on the right. That would be depressing, especially as we've seen what's happened to it. But the proliferation of other alternative media outlets, you're obviously very much part of that in the US. And it was great going to CPAC, walking along media row and seeing so many different podcasts, different TV shows. And of course, in the corner, you've got, you couldn't even get past because Real America Voice, Steve Bannon was there, Lindell TV next door. There's so much, and that seems to be more difficult, I guess, to control when it's all independent. And I think for me, that's one thing that it excites me looking ahead. [31:17] Yeah, and I think this trend has been emerging for a long time. The internet really broke it. You know, when I was in journalism school, I was at the University of Florida, which is considered one of the top journalism schools, and they were always telling us, I mean, in class, you know, these professors who had been executive editors of major, you know, left-wing propaganda machines called newspapers in the big cities, they'd always tell us, I mean, just drill it into your head, you all are the gatekeepers. You're gonna control what people are gonna say. And I would just laugh, like, I guess these guys haven't figured out that the internet exists now, right? Because, I mean, already YouTube was out there back before it was owned by the totalitarians at Google, the fascists at Google. You could find anything you wanted, right? And so I think these people were still living like decades earlier, where the media actually was the gatekeepers that had already ended. They just hadn't realized it. And it's taken a while for this to develop. But I do think we're at the point now where probably the politically dominant forces in this country are now largely informed by alternative media. And if you go from state to state, right? You turn off CNN, you turn off Fox and you go just to different state capitals. What you'll find is that the state legislators, the people who are making the decisions that impact our lives, our County commissioners, our mayor, [32:26] they're getting their information from these sources that used to be alternative media or conservative media. Now they're just the media. That's just where people go to get their information. CNN is a joke. CNN has less viewers at prime time than ancient freaking aliens, right? I mean, CNN is a joke. They really, they've lost their viewership. At prime time, they often get less than a million people watching. And most of these people that are watching are not really politically active. It's like people in a nursing home that are forced to watch a CNN or people that are trapped in an airport that have no interest in watching what's on the screens up there. [33:00] You know, these are not the people that are going out and working their hineys off for candidates. These are not the people that are donating to political parties, right? And so I'm really encouraged by this. The media monopoly has been broken. And you saw it so clearly in 2016. I think this is why the fascists at YouTube freaked out. And again, you know, you don't have to agree with everything Alex Jones has ever said. I like Alex Jones. I go on his program sometimes. But, you know, what we saw in the 2016 election, he was absolutely mopping the floor with the fake media. His YouTube channel was getting more views than ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, New York Slimes, Washington Compost combined just on his YouTube channel. And so they saw this and they're freaking out. [33:39] They're like, wow, the people who actually vote, the people who actually determine elections, they're not getting their news from us. We have billions of dollars, but they're getting their news from this guy in Texas, Alex Jones has got a radio show in a TV studio and they panic. And so, you know, the YouTube, it wasn't enough to just shadow ban him, right? Because in a free marketplace of ideas, that the new media was absolutely crushing these people. So they couldn't have a marketplace of ideas, even in a rigged marketplace of ideas. Because first they tried the shadow banning, you know, they tried to break their algorithms so you couldn't find what you were looking for. And still the new media, the alternative media was crushing the legacy fake media. And so they finally said, well, we just can't do this anymore. We just have to delete these people from the internet so that no matter how hard you look, you can't find them. And that still didn't work. And it's not going to work. There's a hunger for truth out there among Americans that no matter how hard the fascists in Silicon Valley [34:32] try to suppress this information. It's not gonna be suppressed and we're seeing that we're gonna continue to see that There are too many millions of Americans who are awake to this now They're gonna have to do something much more drastic than shadow ban us or kick us off of Twitter to stop this information from coming, Out. I do love how Alex Jones triggers there everyone and it is a joy to behold and how they've gone after him makes you think actually there is something there if they're going after him with such verocity and aggression and beyond anything we've seen before. But you're on, people can watch show on Lindell TV and that's another platform by Mike Lindell who also is vilified by the media at large by the left. And I mean, I love the way someone who in effect is kind of the American dream, where he's come from a back road of addiction. And then now has pulled himself up, has built a business in my pillow, and then also has a TV station. And that kind of the American dream, that's what is needed across the US, across Europe, really. [35:38] It is, it is. And yeah, the media has demonized him like crazy. And guess what? Just recently they did polling to see who was gonna be the most popular candidate to lead the Republican party, to serve as chairman of the RNC. And Mike Lindell was far and away the biggest one, the most popular candidate. So, you know, we're at the point now in America where if the media demonizes you, people like you. If the media says you're bad or you're a conspiracy theorist or you're extreme or whatever, people automatically say, well, that guy must be good. And so this is a good spot to be in, you know? And I don't want people to get the impression that I think everything is just rainbows and unicorns and we're just a clear path to freedom now. I'm not saying that, but we are at a point now where the media has been totally discredited, totally defanged, and now new voices are rising to the top and that's as it should be. And you are one in the United Kingdom and even here in the United States. And there are just this whole new ecosystem of voices and platforms and shows and blogs and websites and magazines. The Epoch Times is another good example. I mean, this was completely unknown two decades ago. Today, it's one of the biggest newspapers in America. It's a number four, if I'm not mistaken, in subscriptions behind the New York Slimes, the Washington Compost and the Wall Street Journal. Last I checked, they're at like 1.7 million subscribers. [36:54] And that happened very, very rapidly. And I write for the Epoch Times. I love the Epoch Times, but how did that happen? It's because they're telling the truth. People are hungry for the truth. And so, you get a newspaper that tells the truth, guess what, people will flock toward it. So this is extremely encouraging in my opinion, Peter. And I think one of the things, obviously, you writing the book on the deep state and discussing it and bringing it out in the open, but then I think over the last three years that's been sped up with many people beginning to question what is happening, question organizations and organizations which were maybe in the shadows have been brought into the light. I mean, I mean, what are your thoughts then on the last three years on how it has exposed what is happening under the deep state? [37:43] I'll tell you what, Peter, everywhere I go in America, and I'm constantly on the road, everywhere I go, I'm meeting people who are like, you know what, before COVID, I was just a mom. I was just, you know, I was worried about getting my kids fed and clothed, you know, had none of this stuff on my radar. And then COVID hit, and they said my kid had to wear a diaper on his face. And they said I couldn't go eat at a restaurant unless I would take this experimental thing. And they woke up. And not only did they wake up, not only did they start saying, what's going on here? Who's behind this? What is really happening? Not only did they do that, After they got educated, they said. [38:17] I'm going to work on stopping this. And so they're forming groups and they're getting together with other moms, they're getting together with other patriots, they're getting together with other Republicans and they're getting involved politically. They're joining Republican executive committees. They're running for office. They're lobbying their state legislators. They're running for Congress. And so we're in a really unique moment, I think, in American history. A lot of people are starting to call it a great awakening and that has very strong Christian overtones. So, you know, I don't know that I'm ready to say that we're quite there yet, but something is happening. You know, a lot of people who just a few years ago were not paying any attention, they really didn't care. They've suddenly realized that they're now in a battle for the heart and soul of their nation, in an existential battle for the very future of their family, for the future of their country, for the future of their church, for the future of their liberties. And you know, once people realize that, once people realize that like, there's been a war declared on you, and if you don't do something, it's gonna end really badly, people get activated. And I would submit to you, and I don't have any numbers on this, but I would submit to you that there are many millions, millions of Americans who within the last three years, they were completely out of the fight before and they are now very active participants. [39:29] And they're gonna grow and they're gonna develop and they're gonna move up the ranks and they're gonna get higher and higher in elected office. And so, my big concern now is that, and the deep state recognizes this, they've got wonderful forecasting models, they've got people like Peter Schwab or Peter Schwartz, excuse me, over at the World Economic Forum, that do a future scenario planning. I mean, they've charted this all out. They realize that we're on a trajectory now where if people keep waking up at this rate, they're gonna be in big trouble. And so my concern is we may see something wild, something dramatic to try to put a stop to this. Something like, you know, the World Economic Forum not too long ago did the cyber polygon exercises that were the communications and the grid would go down. You know, so I think the deep state recognizes that they're in a very vulnerable position right now. They've completely lost the support of the public. And you saw this on YouTube. I think that's why YouTube had to get rid of the thumbs down. Every time World Economic Forum would put up one of their dumb propaganda videos, it'd get like two thumbs up, right? It's the guys on stage. And then a million thumbs down. So, oh, wow, people woke up. So they're in a very dangerous place. And just like a dangerous animal. Once you get them in the corner, you know, they're liable to lash out and behave all crazy. [40:37] That's where we are right now. Too many people are waking up too quickly, thanks to what happened with COVID, thanks to what happened with the 2016 election, thanks to what happened with the 2020 election. And, you know, they're going to need something a lot bigger than a January 6th PSYOP to try to put this toothpaste back into the tube. Yeah. You mentioned the Great Awakening in that biblical context. And when I was with you yesterday you had mentioned that you'd been preaching a church on Sunday. And that link, I mean, growing up as a pastor's kid, very involved in my local church, and that is the most important thing to us as Christians, that Jesus is the most important thing. It's intriguing that mix in the States, and especially with this pushback, that there are churches, not necessarily across the board, but maybe who were more passively involved, there is that spark. What is that like for you, kind of in two different camps, a media camp, a church camp? Tell us about that mix. [41:41] Yeah, what I'm seeing is just, it's really encouraging. It's wonderful. And in fact, I think COVID had a profound effect on the churches. You know, what the enemy meant for evil, God absolutely is using for good, right? The enemy wanted to shut down all the schools so that all the kids could be forced online so they could gather all the data. Well, what actually happened? Parents started of seeing what was happening in their kids' schools and they're yanked their kids out of public schools. Millions of families have fled the government's indoctrination systems. And something similar happened with churches. The enemy thought, hey, this is gonna be a great way to attack the church. We're gonna force these Christians to stop meeting and stop praying and stop singing. And what actually happened? A lot of pastors grew a backbone. A lot of pastors that were basically out of the fight, you know, just, you know, preaching 18,000 different versions of a John 3, 16 sermon, largely out of context. [42:24] They were like, wait a minute here, what's going on? This is like, wow, this is serious. And so a lot of the fake churches actually crumbled. I read somewhere that one in five churches shuttered and didn't open again. And you know, that sounds terrible. It makes you want to cry. And then you realize that the overwhelming majority of those churches were not Bible believing churches. They were not. Truly preaching the word of God. The people in that congregation did not truly have a relationship with Jesus Christ. And what happened? The people who did actually went to the good churches. This church that I just preached at, I preached all four morning services at this wonderful church in Idaho. [42:58] The Christian Candlelight Fellowship in Coeur d'Alene. It's now the biggest church in the region. And what happened during COVID is they just absolutely exploded. They became huge. People were coming from everywhere to the point where they've massively outgrown their church. They're having to do four different, I've never been to a church with four services in one morning. That's how rapidly that church grew. And this is happening, I mean, I just mentioned that one because it was last weekend, but this was happening all over the country, Peter. [43:22] The churches that remained faithful to the word of God, the churches that said, like John MacArthur in California, you know, just brilliant. The guy had always been, you know, Romans 13 means you must submit to the government and everything, don't ever ask any questions, don't even be involved politically, right? And then this comes along and he says, wait a minute, Sorry, Governor Newsom, but you're not the head of the church. You can't order us to shut down. Jesus Christ is the head of the church and we're gonna have to stay open. You know, we respect you, we honour you as the government authority, but you don't have that authority. We're gonna have to stay open. And so now this pastor who, you know, influences tens of thousands of other pastors across this country is preaching sermons on how governments are making themselves illegitimate by doing the opposite of what government was instituted by God to do. Instead of punishing evil and protecting good, They're punishing good and protecting evil. So you have this huge awakening happening in the church and it's extraordinary to see, it's amazing. I think God is doing something hugely significant in this country. Yeah, I think one of the big reasons that we're in this mess, Peter, is because churches and pastors have not been preaching the whole counsel of God. [44:30] I've been working in, we've been doing pastors summits all across the country. They're called the Liberty Pastors Summits and we're doing them all over the country. We're bringing hundreds of pastors. We've done thousands of pastors now all over the country, bringing them together and teaching them a series of different things just straight out of the Bible. So I've been teaching on globalism and education. Pastor Paul Blair, who's kind of leading and Dan Fisher, who are kind of organizing, leading this, are pastors out of Oklahoma. They're teaching, you know, what does the Bible say on government? What does the Bible say on all these critical issues? And I love what Pastor Paul Blair always says. Jesus cannot just be the Lord of your Sunday morning. Jesus needs to be the Lord of every single area of your life. That includes your family, that includes your business, that includes your politics, that includes your government. Every area of your life needs to be in submission to Christ. And that has profound implications. And that's something that's been largely lost in our country. the reason our country was born. Is because the pastors were preaching the truth from the pulpit. [45:26] And this has been largely forgotten, but we had the Black Robe Regiment. Without the Black Robe Regiment, we probably, and I know this is a sensitive subject for Brits, so I won't rub it in, but we never would have actually declared independence. It was because the pastors were saying, this king is acting out of line. He doesn't have the authority to do these things. This is ungodly. We are not going to be okay with that. And that's why our country was born. It was because the pastors were preaching in their pulpits. And that's the history of our nation. And this was, you know, shortly after the great awakening when John Edwards and others were preaching these fiery sermons and just the spirit of God was moving across this country. Our founding fathers were kids listening in the pulpits to this. Of course, they were inspired by the great Christians of Britain, right? Oliver Cromwell, of course, you know, our founding fathers had him in mind where he said, you know, Lex Rex, the law is king and who ultimately establishes the law, that's God. And even the king has to submit to the laws of God, right? The king cannot ignore the laws and the commands of God. The king must be in submission to them as well. So all of the ideas that are at the centre of our country, that are at the centre of our constitution, that are at the centre of our civilization, have been lost now through multiple generations of indoctrination in the public schools, through multiple generations of pastors being too scared to preach the truth. [46:39] Because the IRS threatens they're gonna go after anybody who says anything that they don't like for their tax exemption. And now that's all crumbling. Now we're seeing pastors and congregations and Christians realizing that no, this all, the Bible is the answer to these things. And that's how our country was born. That's how Western civilization was born. If there's gonna be any hope of reclaiming it, it's gonna have to be through reacquainting ourselves with the word of God and through courage in our pulpits, in our churches and among the body of Christ. [47:09] I think we'll end on that. That's absolutely perfect. Alex, I really appreciate you coming along. Thank you for joining us today. Thank you so much, Peter. It's an honour and a pleasure. Really appreciate all that you're doing. Hopefully we'll meet again very soon. I hope you get back to the United States or maybe I'll be on the other side of the pond this summer. So let's keep in touch. Either or. And can I just finish here, obviously on gab GETTR truth and I know libertycentral.org. Just remind the viewers kind of what is the best place to find you and what can they find on the website? Well, thank you so much. So my personal website is libertysentinel.org. I put up a really eclectic mix of things there, everything from some of my shows, podcasts, articles that I and others write. I'm the volunteer executive director of a ministry called Public School Exit. We're actually helping churches and families, not just across the United States, but around the world, figure out how to get God's people out of the government schools and into the safe sanctuary of home schools, Christian schools, private schools, et cetera. You can find that at publicschoolexit.com. I'm senior editor of the New American Magazine. You can find us at thenewamerican.com. Even if you don't subscribe to the print magazine, you can get the daily headlines for free in your inbox by email. [48:15] I write for the Epoch Times. And yeah, I do a lot of other things. I write for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief. It goes out to every police chief and sheriff in the country, but people are welcome to get that as well if they want. So a lot of different things, but you can find me on Twitter or post a big mix of stuff there, at Alex Newman underscore J-O-U. And of course, Gab GETTR. I'm still on Fascist Book, although I don't use it all that much. But thanks again, Peter. Really, it's an honour to be here with you. Thank you for all that you're doing and God bless you, sir. God bless. joining us today, Alex.

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Lex Rex

The Kingdom Perspective

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2023 1:57

Transcript:Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective.The notion of the rule of law is not something that just happened in the history of Western civilization. It was not accidental. Rather, just as ideas have consequences, so ideas also have antecedents. There's always something that comes before.Most clearly, this notion can be traced to writings of Scottish thinker Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-1661). In his famous book Lex Rex (1644), as the Latin title would suggest, Rutherford was proposing that nations be ruled by law and not merely by kings. This means that the power of the governing authorities should be limited by something objective, something outside themselves—by a law or constitution. In other words, a government should not be a pure monarchy, oligarchy, dictatorship or even a pure democracy. Rather, we should be governed by objective law that restrains both master and mob, limiting both the prince and the people from having all the power.Now, where did he get this idea? Well, he got it from the Bible. He was, after all, a Presbyterian minister. The Bible teaches that human beings and human society were designed to operate best under the dictates of God's Eternal Law. For example, all throughout the Old Testament books of Kings and Chronicles, the peace and stability of the nation of Judah is correlated to their faithfulness to the Law of God. When the Law of God is revered, the king and the people flourish. But when the Law of God is ignored, evil and chaos ensue.Now, as Christians, we ought not sit back and say, “Yeah, that's what's wrong with the world! People aren't obeying God!” Rather, we should be more self-reflective. Are we and our churches marked by obedience to God's Law?Something to think about from The Kingdom Perspective.2 Chronicles 12 (NASB)1 When the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and strong, he and all Israel with him abandoned the Law of the Lord….13 So King Rehoboam became powerful in Jerusalem and reigned there. For Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 14 But he did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord.2 Chronicles 15 (NASB)1 Now the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded, 2 and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you when you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you abandon Him, He will abandon you. 3 For many days Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without the Law. 4 But in their distress they turned to the Lord God of Israel, and they sought Him, and He let them find Him.2 Chronicles 17 (ESV)3 The Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, 4 but sought the God of his father and walked in his commandments, and not according to the practices of Israel. 5 Therefore the Lord established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor. 6 His heart was courageous in the ways of the Lord. And furthermore, he took the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.7 In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; 8 and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram. 9 And they taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

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Divine Aggression Radio #510

Divine Aggression Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2023 61:00

The best Christian rock & metal on the net. Artists include: Saint, Lex Rex, Flames of Fire, Zahna and more.

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God and Government

Mosaic Boston

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2022 42:42

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic BostonChurch. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Bostonand our neighborhood churches, or donate to this ministry, please visitmosaicboston.com. Heavenly Father, as we find ourselves in a text that speaks about submission to the governing authorities, we also find ourselves as a nation the Sunday after an election. Lord, we thank you for this sovereign timing. We pray that you speak to us now and continue to shape our minds by the renewing of your Word, with the washing of water with the Word. Lord, there are manmade categories in our minds. I pray that you break through them with the power of your holy Word. For each one of us, Lord, we pray that you give us an extra measure of grace to continue to humble ourselves before your kingship so that we do submit every single aspect of our lives to King Jesus. We pray all this in Christ's name, amen. On this November 13th, we find ourselves in Romans 13:1-7. The historical context is this is a few decades after Pentecost. The church has started. The Apostle Paul is the apostle to the Gentiles. He's preaching wherever he goes, planting churches. Part of the reason why he had the freedom to plant church for a few decades is because the imperial authorities didn't distinguish between Christians and Jews. They said, "Oh, Christians are just a sect, just another stripe of Judaism." Left them alone. For several decades, there was no systemic persecution of Christians by the Roman state. Things turned bad, and they turned bad fast. Eventually, in the Book of Acts, we see Paul on the run from the governing authorities, spent several years in prison, eventually put to death by the Roman government. For what? For resisting the state. The state told him, "Stop preaching the gospel." He said, "I will not." Continued to preach even to the death. Same thing with Peter and the other apostles. When Paul wrote Romans, the situation wasn't as severe as it would become. Even then, no one thought that the Roman state was a friend. They just crucified Jesus, although at the instigation of the Jewish Sanhedrin. It's important for us to recognize that the issues raised by this paragraph have been largely theoretical to believers in the United States. In the United States, for the last few centuries, we have experienced relative freedom to preach the gospel, partially why this land has been blessed. Other Christians in other nations at other times have had to ask serious questions, adult questions, sober-minded questions, "Well, what if the government is forbidding me from worshiping God? What if the government is forcing me to do that which is against God? What if the government is preventing me from speaking truth? What about at those moments?" We'll get into all of this. Just to set the context, before the theme of civil government, Paul talks about vengeance. This is in Romans 12:18-21. The passage right before ours, "If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, 'Vengeance is mine. I will repay,' says the Lord." "To the contrary, 'If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him something to drink. For by so doing, you will keep burning coals on his head.' Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." This is a precursor for Paul's treatment of the civil government. He starts with God has the prerogative for vengeance. "Vengeance is mine," says the Lord. Then he tells the personal Christian, "Your personal duty is not to take vengeance." Take not vengeance, and leave it up to the Lord. God has vengeance. You can't take vengeance. Between this, He gives us His command about the civil government, that the civil government has been entrusted by God with a sword in order to curb which is evil, to bring down the sword on the evil person. That's the context. God keeps for Himself the prerogative of vengeance. He establishes order on earth with the civil magistrate to carry out justice under the authority of God. There are different spheres that we're talking about here. That's the civil sphere. We went from the personal sphere, "No, you don't have the right to take... " to the civil sphere. This is all in the context, this conversation, of the church, that God has established the church with its redemptive mission. Our job is to go make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. The government is also given special task by God for common grace ministry, to further their common good, to further shalom. The church dispenses elements of special grace. That has to do with salvation, whereas the civil government attends to the common good of the human race, not just for Christians but for all people. Both church and state are established and governed by God. This conversation about separation of church and state, well, that... originally, a division of labor. State, you focus on what you focus on, your God-given duty to promote good and curb evil, and we're going to focus on what we need to focus on, which is preaching the Word of God. That's the division of labor. Today church and state means a church that is separated from God completely, divorced from God. Don't even mention. God don't speak about God in public sphere, public schools, or anywhere. No, keep your religion to yourself. That's private. It's true that when the state declares independence from God and seeks autonomous rule apart from Him, well, that government... Be it the United States, or Russia, or any other nation, it becomes demonized and exists as an agent of opposition to God Himself. Such nations truly become godless. That's the context of Romans 13:1-7. Would you look at the text with me? "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct but to bad." "Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer." "Therefore, one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this, you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them, taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed." This is the reading of God's holy, inerrant, infallible, authoritative Word. May He write these eternal truths upon our hearts. Three points. First, submit to the governing authorities. *Second, to a point. Third, submit to King Jesus always. First, the principle is given to us that we should submit, submit to the governing authorities. This is verse 1, "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God." Paul begins with the basic rationale for Christian subjection to the state. The scriptures testifies that it's God who sets up governments. Even the bad ones, it's all under His sovereignty. Who elected the person in power? It doesn't matter who put that person into power. It was God Himself. God allowed for this to happen. When there's a wicked ruler ruling over people, scripture is clear. It's judgment from God over the people. At those moments, if we don't like our rulers, yeah, vote. Yeah, yeah. We get on our knees as a nation, and we beg God, "God, please assuage your wrath. Remove your judgment from this nation." It only happens with the people who are humble before God. Yes, God puts them in control, even the bad ones. When Daniel gave the prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar's fall, he began by saying, in Daniel 2:20, "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and... He changes times and seasons. He removes kings and sets up kingdoms. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding." Later, he summarized what Nebuchadnezzar had learned through his well-deserved humiliation. God punished him because he wouldn't give glory to God. Then Daniel 5:21, "Until he," Nebuchadnezzar, "knew that the Most High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will." Christians are to recognize that God is sovereign over whoever He puts in charge of me. Christians should be models of civil obedience. That's where we start. This should be the natural spirit fill... We'll get to the disobedience part. Point two is spicy. I like it. First, we start here. We start with, yes, we want to obey. We want to do everything. Jesus was the model of this for us. In Micah, it's prophesied that Jesus will be born in Bethlehem. How did he end up in Bethlehem when His parents were from Nazareth, where Joseph and Mary were following the order of the emperor to go back to your hometown to be counted for the census. For what purpose? So that the emperor gets the most tax amount that he can. Jesus in Mary's womb... Joseph and Mary taking the arduous journey at the risk of the unborn. They're risking the unborn child, all in obedience to the civil magistrate. In the second century, the apologist, Justin Martyr, gave a defense of the faith to the emperor, Antoninus Pius, in which he argued. He's like, "Look, emperor. You want Christians. Leave the Christians alone. That's all they want. They want to be left alone, so they can preach the Word and build up their households and their churches. That's all they want. Leave them alone." What he wrote was, "Compare them to any other citizens in the empire. The Christians pay their taxes in full, scrupulously, and they're in obedience to the civil magistrate. They're a humble people. Leave them alone." The reason Christians must obey the state is because it has been instituted by God, and its authority derives from the Christian's own heavenly Father. All throughout the history of the church, we see God's people suffering to a phenomenal degree. Beautifully, they heeded the council of this great and important text from the earliest days. They also heeded other injunctions from scripture. The St. Paul tells us, "Pray for those who persecute you. Pray for them." Even as they are about to slaughter you, you're praying for them. It was martyrdom of the Christian Church. Their blood was the seed for the church because there's no more powerful testimony. Yes, these people really believe that the second that you slaughter them, they will meet Jesus Christ. They're dying with smiles. They refuse to lift up arms against their rulers. They're often mistreated above any other group of citizens. They remain obedient and dutiful citizens. To be sure, they refused to do wrong when it was demanded of them. They refused to worship Caesar as God, but their refusal was made all the more powerful because they had shown themselves so ready to be obedient and loyal citizens in every way that they could. Then martyrdom was their ultimate resistance. "I obeyed you in absolutely everything, but in this, I will not. No, Caesar, you are not God over me. I will give onto God's what is God's, which is ultimate allegiance, ultimate authority. Government, you are not God over me." The one thing the Roman government could count on was that Christians would pay their taxes, keep the laws. As Augustine would later explain in The City of God, "The patience and faith of the saints wore down the fury of the churches' persecutors." He continues in Romans 13:2, "Therefore, whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment." This is a sober warning, and you have to take it at face value. If we resist the authorities that God has appointed, we might be regarded as heroes by some, but we can expect the visitation of God's judgment. That's on face value. Verse 3, "For rulers are not a terror to good conduct but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you'll receive his approval. For he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer." Oh, this is masterful. Paul, this is masterful. Along with giving Christians our charge, "Submit to the authorities," he gives God's charge to the authorities. He's saying, "Government or anyone in a position of authority, this is your job." The government has two roles. Promote good, bring down the sword on wrongdoers. Promote good and restrain those who are evil by force, if necessary. That's why God gave you the sword. In Romans 13:4, we read of the state as an avenger who carries out God's wrath on wrongdoers. That same verb was used in 12:19, talking about vengeance. Yes, this is God's sort of government. You are God's servant to wield God's sword upon the evildoer as you promote good. That's your job. The state is to do a private individuals, and Christians in particular are never told to do. The state has a different function in the economy of God. It has different callings and authorities. The government's job is to protect us from evil. That is, they are to preserve the security of people. They are to protect us from attack from without and crime from within. For that purpose, governments properly have armies, and police systems, and courts of justice to preserve us from evil in our midst. Submit to governing authorities but never blindly, never blindly, just like you don't submit to anybody blindly, except for Jesus Christ and God's Word. As soon as those in authority over you contradict God's Word, they lost all authority over you, completely. That's a point. To a point, we submit to governing authorities to a point. We must realize what the passage does not tell us. It does not directly say what we ought to do when a government departs from the role God has given them. What if the government starts using the sword to promote evil and bring down the sword upon those who do good? Wait, what about those cases? It doesn't specifically explain what to do when the government is committing a moral wrong. Neither are we told what to do in the midst of a revolution. What if evil people came into the government, and evil people infiltrated, and now evil people are using the government for evil means? You got to ask hard questions. It also does not show us which form of government is best. It doesn't even commend democracy. I'm mentioning these things because many of the difficulties found in this chapter result not from what we read in the text, but they result from what we read into the text. For example, Samuel Rutherford, in his classic 17th century work of political philosophy called Lex Rex: The Law Is King... He was arrested for writing the book by the king's men. He would've been executed had he not died of natural causes while seized by them. He explained why Romans 13 does not prohibit Christians from rising in violent resistance to a tyrant. He goes through the scriptures and scholastic theologians. Basically, his point... This is what Lex Rex means in Latin: law is king. God's law is king. God's law is above the king. When the king starts promoting evil and curbing that which is good, we got to ask some heavy questions. I say this because, look, it's a heavy text, and it's a heavy subject. It's important because we no longer look at the government as benign. I do not. You should not either. My family immigrated from the Soviet Union to get away from tyrants that wouldn't let us preach the gospel. That's how we got here, on religious refugee status. We got here in 1989. I'm telling you, the '90s were the glory days. If you did not grow up in the '90s, man, you missed out. It was a different America. It was tremendous. No, no, no, no, no. The things have changed: the way we're raising our children, what they're being taught. We now have to ask, will our children or grandchildren face a state overtly hostile to our Christian convictions, to our Christian way of life? Will our children be taken from us, as children have been taken from Christians before by rogue states, hostile governments determined to ensure that our children are not raised with our principles? What do we do in those moments? What do we do in those moments when the state encroaches on the church, encroaches on even my family and my household? What do I do? Well, you got to recognize that Romans 13 is to be interpreted in the whole council of God. This text, as so many biblical texts, must be interpreted according to the principle of ceteris paribus. In the Latin, ceteris paribus means all things being equal. I take that from equal, as in from the whole perspective of the council of God. You can't just take one text by itself in isolation and use that as a proof text for theology. No. How does this text read in light of all of the canon? We do not have the teaching of the scripture on any subject unless we have examined all of the relevant passages. Not all the qualifications of a complex subject are to be found in any one passage. The principle that one must obey, the existing government, and that it is God's will that the government shall exist, and that lawless person is resisting this government that was ordained... In that context, yeah, that makes all the sense in the world. When the government is doing its job, and, yes, it punishes bad people for doing bad things, and it approves of good people for doing good things, when all of that is function... Yeah, all things being equal, yes, submit to the governing authorities. But there are also exceptions. The Apostle Peter and the Apostle John are preaching the gospel. All of a sudden, the Jewish leaders are like, "Stop." They said, "No, no, we must obey God rather than men." Well, that's an exception. If there's an exception to a moral rule, then it's not a moral absolute. A moral absolute... This is true always. That's the Ten Commandments. True always, there's no exceptions. This is not a moral absolute. You submit, but if Caesar calls you to do something that God's Word prohibits or against God's Word, no, no, no, we're not submitting. If authority commands us to do something that God forbids or forbids us from doing something God commands, we must obey. I'll repeat that. If authority commands us to do something God forbids or forbids us from doing something God commands, we must disobey. If the civil magistrate calls us to sin, we must say no. History is replete with examples of governments that have commanded the citizens to do evil, right? This is the Nuremberg trials, right? If fascists after... Now all these Nazi lieutenants and high-ranking members, their whole case, justification-wise, "I was following orders." You know what they said? "That's not enough." No, you should have followed your conscience that told you that this was evil. What were they appealing to? They were appealing... the moral law in the heart. You knew. You knew this was evil. When you know this is evil, whoever in authority tells you to do it, say, "No, no." It wasn't an excuse then, and it won't be. I'll bring this example. Ephesians 5, "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." Oh yeah, tremendous text. Keep going. Then, "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord in everything." My wife and I have had very extensive theological conversations on what the word, everything, means. What does everything mean? Let's go to the original. Let's go into the dictionary. It means everything. It means everything. We know. We know there are exceptions. What if your husband is abusive, huh? In everything? What if your husband is telling you not to worship Jesus, not to go to church? In everything? No, of course not. At that moment, when he goes against God's Word, he's lost all authority. No, there are exceptions. At some point, yes, divorce is actually encouraged. Well, apply that to the nation. What if the government is an abusive spouse? You can't speak. You can't believe. You can't say things that are true about gender and about sexuality. What about those moments? It can happen in any country, even our own. We must know that God has the highest authority. This comes from not just our text, but also Matthew 22:15-22. "Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him," Christ, "in his words. And they sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians, saying, 'Teacher, we know that you were true and teach the way of God truthfully. You do not care about anyone's opinion.'" Sad. "'For you are not swayed by appearances. Tell us then what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?' But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, 'Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.' And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, 'Whose likeness and inscription is this?' They said, 'Caesar's.'" "Then he said to them, 'Therefore, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.' When they heard this, they marveled. They left him and went away." They're trying to trap Him. Bring a coin. It says inscription in the Greek's icon. Whose icon is on this coin? It's Caesar's. Okay, give onto Caesar's. What He's saying is, "It's not that important. Give unto God's what is God's. That which is created in the image of the government, give them that. That which is created in the image of God, give that to God. Who's created in the image of God? That's you." Meaning, ultimately, it's not the government that owns you. The government has no jurisdiction over your soul. It has no jurisdiction over your mind. It can't tell you what to think. It can't tell you what to believe, what to love. No. We are to love God with our highest affections, heart, soul, strength, and mind. God has stamped His own image on us through our intellect, our will, the soul. It all bears the divine stamp. Thus, man may give outward things to Caesar but never inner loyalty, never inner allegiance, never hope. Don't put your hope in people. Don't put your ultimate trust in people. The coin's use is determined by its likeness, and your use is to be determined by the likeness you bear, that of the Lord. 1 Peter 2:17, look at the order. "Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor." Before we get the emperor, yeah, yeah. It was Nero. Yeah. We'll give you the honor that your offices do even if you don't deserve the honor. We'll honor you. First, we fear God. Here in the text, he talks about a sword, that God's sword is given to civil authorities as restrain. The first sword that we see in scripture is the angelic sword at the Garden of Eden. When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, God puts the sword there as restrain. I am restraining you. I'm restraining your depravity. In the Old Testament, several offenses were considered so heinous that God in the civil code of Israel required the death penalty. Death penalty wasn't just from the Mosaic Law. It was actually grounded in creation. We get that from Genesis 9... Excuse me, 1-6. "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to him, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.' The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand, they are delivered." "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I gave you everything, but you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood, I will require a reckoning. From every beast, I will require it, and from man. From his fellow man, I will require a reckoning for the life of man. 'Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.'" God, rooted in creation, requires the death penalty for murder. Distinctions are made in the law code of the Old Testament that corresponds to our distinctions between first and second-degree murder or murder and manslaughter. In the case of manslaughter, the penalty was not death but banishment to cities of refuge. If someone kills someone by accident, that was different than first-degree murder. When it was committed, the civil magistrates of Israel were commanded to execute the guilty one. The law of capital punishment for murder isn't restricted to law code of the civil penalties of Israel. No, it was grounded in creation. Here I pause, and I want to deal with an abjection that you hear all the time. Christians are so inconsistent. How are you pro-life by being against abortion, but you're for capital punishment? That doesn't make any sense to people. That's inconsistent. I would submit to you, it's absolutely consistent because at the heart of it, of our worldview, is the sanctity of human life. Human life is so sacred that if you rise up without just cause and kill your neighbor, you forfeit all your rights and privileges to your own. That makes all the sense in the world. It's not consistent. It's not consistent. You're right. It's not consistent to say, "Abortion is murder, but we're not going to do anything about it." If we were to be consistent, if we would truly be consistent, we would say abortion is murder because life begins at conception. That's the Word of God. We should, or to make it illegal. Anyone who participates in abortion deserves capital punishment. That would be consistent, including the man. The man that fathered the baby, you commit the abortion. That should be a capital offense. I'm telling you, that law would absolutely transform this country. Men would actually start taking responsibility. People wouldn't be so flippant about sexuality anymore. Yes, it creates life. When we go against God's law, obviously, God's going to pour out His judgment on this nation. That's if we were truly consistent. Then this also brings up the just war theory. The same verse, Romans 13:4, serves as a locus classic. It's in historic Christian ethics concerning just war theory. What is the fundamental principle of just war theory? If a nation or a people aggressively invades or attacks another nation, the attacked nation is the victim of external aggression, so has the right and responsibility to protect itself from the invading aggressor. Yes, it's the sanctity of life that's at the heart of just war theory. Human life is so sacred that the civil magistrates have been given the sword to protect the innocent from the evildoer. When the civil magistrate uses reasonable force to restrain the evildoer, he serves not only the community but also God. In terms of just war, those principles are simply elevated to a larger domain of national security. Also, I would say, Christian, we must be sure that whatever cause that we're picking up a gun or sword for is truly just. You got to ask the hard questions because it's silly to assume that the government can be trusted to engage in only just military activity. No, history proven that that's not true. I remember I was 22 years old. One of my first jobs out of college was to work for the CIA as a Russian analyst. I hadn't thought through any of this. It was a job. I remember I had the Holy Spirit. I remember driving into the compound in Langley, and I remember just a darkness would come over me. All day, I was walking around in darkness as I'm writing these little reports about people. I'm showing up. A week later, I find out that that person I wrote a report on is dead. Well, that forces you to ask some questions. Is this a just organization that I'm working for? Are the causes just? I was led by the Lord to believe, "No, it's not." I peaced out. There are more important things to do like building the church of Christ. No, when the government turns its back on its primary responsibility, it's acting in utter defiance of the law of God and is exposing itself and the nation it governs to the judgment of God. The sword is necessary because there's sin in the world, and the sword is given to work against evildoers and restrain them. The primary responsibility of any civil government is to protect, defend, and maintain human life. Third... This is where I land on all of this. I don't like talking about politics or any of that. Submit to King Jesus always because at the end of the day, look, you can only control what you can control. You are responsible for what God has entrusted you to bring all of what you influence, to bring it all in submission to Jesus Christ. That's your mind. That's your soul. That's your body. That's your relationships. That's your finances. That's sexuality, everything. You are to bring in order unto the law of Jesus Christ. Submit to King Jesus always. By the way, this is the posture of God. Remember when Israel was like, "Yeah, I think we want to be like other people. God, send us a king." God's like, "You don't want a king. You don't want a king. Trust me, you don't want a king. You want to pay taxes? You don't want to pay taxes." God literally had that conversation with them. He said, "Look, the king's going to take your daughter. He's going to take your sons. You don't want a king." They said, "We want to be like everyone else. We want a king." God's like, "All right." This is what God told the prophet, "They rejected me, not you." They rejected the ultimate rule of God. This is why God gives us scripture, that we are to be independently dependent on God, independently submissive to God's Word. When you do that, when you get a faithful populace of people who are submitting to God, you don't need as much government as we have. This is my plan to take over the world. You tell everyone to submit to Jesus Christ. "Everybody, let's just submit our lives to Jesus Christ." The more of us there are, like democracy... Let's just use it. The more of us there are, we just vote our own people into power, and then we just dismantle the government. Just dismantle it. No more taxes. Because I want Christians to pay fewer taxes and more to the church, so we can build up the kingdom of God. That's just me. This is verse 5, "Therefore, we must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience." Why does he bring this in? Why not just stand back and say, "I said everything there is. Submit to the authorities." He brings in conscience. We're not to submit simply because we're afraid of law enforcement agencies in our nation. We're to submit because it's a matter of conscience. Jesus told us to. If magistrates are oppressive and we disagree radically with them, we're still to render obedience because our consciences are held captive to the Word of God. This is how God initially ruled, through His Word. Now what if your conscience is in submission to the Word of God, and the government calls you to something that is against your conscience? Well, if your conscience is to submit to the Word of God, at that point, believers must never go against their Christian conscience in order to obey the government. This is crucial. If the Holy Spirit through your conscience and in God's Word is calling you a certain way... I bring the conscious part in because there's some things that it's not just black and white. It's not right or wrong. Those are morality issues. There are questions, discernment and wisdom. Which way is right or left? Which way should we go? I'll bring you an example. For example, COVID, in 2020, March, we have to make a decision as a church. As the elders of the church, what do we do? By the way, we were one of the first churches to shut down because we got the data from the doctors, and they're like, "Yeah, this is going to be crazy." All right, two weeks to flatten the curve. Let's do it. We just stayed closed. I remember we wrestled. The elders were wrestling. This is a question of discernment. It's not a question of law. We're wrestling. My conscience was not easy because in scripture, it says, "Do not forsake the gathering of the saints," the physical gathering of the saints. That wrestling led us, by the Lord, to open up much sooner than most churches. Why? Because we were trying to obey all of these texts. Fundamental to Christian's loyalty to God is his submission to the state at every point possible, but we don't do it blindly. There are limits, of course. We must obey God rather than man. 1 Peter 2:13-14, "Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and praise those who do good." Then in Romans 13:6, everyone's favorite topic, taxes. "For because of this, you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing." I find it interesting that he calls tax collectors, ministers. Also, in the Word, in the Greek, it's deacon. These are deacons of God. They just hired 87,000 more of them. Make sure you're paying your taxes. The Roman government was, in terms of taxation, tribute policies and oppressive government. A lot of Christians are like, "Yeah, but my tax money is going to things that are immoral." Well, so it was during the Roman Empire, right? Jesus still paid the taxes. Paul still said to pay the taxes. We are to pay the taxes. I will say to you, pay as little as possible, legally speaking. You pay as little as possible to Uncle Sam. When you're doing taxes, they're like, "Do you want to pay extra?" No, don't even ask me that. You should pay me extra for having to read. No, no, no, no, no. Pay as little as possible. That's what the rich people do. That's what they do. They figure it out. They get the accountants. You know about foundations. You know about starting businesses and then K-1. You can look into that. Pay as little as possible because a lot of these rules are freaking arbitrary. They are just arbitrary. You cross the border of New Hampshire, from Mass. to New Hampshire, and you go from paying 7% sales tax to nothing. All right? That's just arbitrary. Fake line, arbitrary rules. Manmade rules, you got to obey, but sometimes to an extent. For example, driving, speed limit. I'm not the guy that's going to tell you to obey the speed limit because the governing authorities don't obey the speed limit. If there's exceptions sometimes, then it's not a moral absolute. If my wife's pregnant and I'm in the car, I'm going to be going 120 because we got to get the baby to the hospital, or we're going to heaven together. I don't know. We're going to get her there.At that moment, you're not going to be like, "Romans 13:55." No, of course not. There are things that take precedent over these manmade rules. Okay. One of the great ethical debates in Christian ethics pertains to the sanctity of truth. Are we always in every circumstance obligated to give the unvarnished truth? Rahab lied to protect Joshua and his people, and she made the roll call of saints for her valorous action. The midwives of Egypt were instructed by Pharaoh to kill every male born to Hebrew women. The midwives disobeyed, protected the newborn babies, and then lied about it to the authorities. God commended them for that. Why? Because life takes precedent. Do you always tell the unvarnished truth? Well, here you got to say, "Well, what's the point of truth?" The point of truth is justice. Will this truth be used to further justice or not? Here we got to pause and say, "How do you define justice?" How do you define justice? You wrestle with that. That's hard to define. I think the biblical definition... This is a good shot at it. Justice is giving a person his due. Justice is giving a person his due. What you deserve, that's what you get. That's justice. We deserve because we are condemned because we have transgressed God's law. The justice that we deserve, the celestial justice, is damnation for eternity. We deserve that, but God is a loving God. He wants to forgive us our sins, but He can't just forgive us our sins because He is just. This is why the gospel of Jesus Christ is so powerful because God gets to remain just, and He justifies us because Jesus Christ got what He did not deserve. Jesus Christ on the cross got the sword of God's wrath. He did not deserve it. He was the only flawless one. He was the only sinless one. Never transgressed the law. Through your repentance, and faith in Jesus Christ, and the work of the gospel, that Jesus died on the cross for my sins, bearing the justice that I deserve... The very moment that that sinks into your heart, becomes a reality that you are Christ's follower, you're submitting to Christ, all your sins are wiped out, and Christ's righteousness is counted to you. That's justice. Justice is giving a person his due. The biblical principle is that we should always tell the truth when justice requires it, but righteousness and justice do not always require it. Case in point, a Nazi shows up to your house in the '40s and says, "Are you hiding a Jew?" Right? This is a classic example. If you say, "Oh, Romans 13. Yes, I am. Here they are," no, you'd be just as wicked as the fascist for doing that. You know exactly what this truth will lead to. Yeah, if someone says, "Do I look fat in this dress?" you tell them, "No, you look tremendous." Just make them feel better. It's okay. Pastor Jan said, "It's okay." Everyone feels tremendous. The principle that defines justice and righteousness is that which is due, owed, or obligatory. That's why he tells Roman Christians that we are obliged to pay our taxes. Give him what is due. We must give the state what is due the state. Justice and righteousness require that we submit to taxation. We are to honor the king even if the king isn't honorable. He is to be honored. It's his due. We are to honor our father and mother even if they do not deserve. Because they're our parents, it's due. Romans 13:7, "Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom our honor is owed." I close with this. Hopefully, everyone voted on Tuesday. I voted. I primarily do it to get the sticker. Also, I like writing my name in. There are a bunch of boxes. That's not democracy. Jan Vezikov. A lot of people in the country were hoping for a red wave, right? As we find ourselves in church on Sunday after the midterm elections, people were hoping for a red wave because things are so bad, right? It didn't materialize for reasons. This is what I say to you. This is my pastoral encouragement. Stop hoping in people. Stop hoping in red waves or blue waves. The only red wave that will actually change this country, that will actually save this country, that will actually make a difference is the red wave of the blood of Jesus Christ that needs to pour over like a tsunami over this nation, bring us to our knees, and beg God for grace and mercy. That's the only way I see forward. In the meantime, if you're not a Christian, repent of your sins. Trust in Jesus Christ. Have your sins forgiven, and then submit your life to Jesus Christ. Order your life according to God's Word.For dear Christians, for the rest of us, if there is a place in your life where you are not submitting to Christ, where you know that His Word does not reign in authority, repent. Repent and believe in Jesus Christ. Amen. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the gift of grace. We thank you for the message of the cross. We thank you, Lord, that you remain just and that you became the justifier to all those who trust in Jesus Christ. Lord, pour out your Holy Spirit upon each one of us in a measure that we've never experienced before, and use us powerfully to do what your church is called to do, to make disciples of all those who trust in Jesus Christ. In whose name we pray, amen.

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Episode 25 - Dormant Commerce Clause and Whether Trees Can Sue

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2022 60:33

In this episode, we bring you a brief update on some of Lex Rex's real-world legal work and discuss one of the cases before the Supreme Court in the new October term, National Pork Producers Council v. Ross. We'll talk you through what's meant by the “dormant commerce clause” and consider the implications of allowing one state to dictate policies to the rest.After that, we have an extra-special, extra-long edition of Captain Kangaroo Court for you! Alexander relates his experiences defending a client before an actual kangaroo court before we consider the age-old question: what legal rights do trees have? (There's a stealth edition of the Supreme Court Hall of Shame in there, as well, although in this case we're looking at a dissenting opinion.)National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (3:50)Captain Kangaroo Court (26:45)Not-so-secret Supreme Court Hall of Shame: dissent in Sierra Club v. Morton (40:30)

Daniel #19 All Nations Are Religious -- -They Either Serve Christ or Resist Christ

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2022 61:00

A ruler within a nation does not have the right or the authority to legislate what is contrary to God's commandments and to enforce it with penalties-that is tyranny. When he does so, he sets himself upon a pedestal to be honored above God -just as Nebuchadnezzar did with his golden image-. Rulers may not command us to bow down and worship an image -as did Nebuchadnezzar-, but when they legislate what is evil, they usurp the supreme authority of God and His law, and they rebel against Christ, the King of kings. This is essentially what Nebuchadnezzar did also.----The tyranny of rebellious rulers is not morally indifferent or neutral. Tyranny is not just a political debate of one political party's position vs. another political party's position. It is still tyranny even if the majority within a nation supports the tyranny. It is tyranny because wicked rulers no longer rule as God's ministers to us for good, but rather assert their own authority to rule by their own wicked laws rather than submitting themselves to the kingship of Jesus Christ and His righteous laws.----Tyranny is satanic, just as Samuel Rutherford writes -Lex Rex, p.34------Tyranny being a work of Satan, is not from God, because sin, either habitual or actual, is not from God- the power -authority-GLP- that is, must be from God . . . .----We can clearly see the religious issue involved in the tyranny of King Nebuchadnezzar here in Daniel 3 in commanding worship to an idol, but let us not be blind to the religious issue involved in all tyranny-man's resistance to God's authority.

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Judges (2021)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 63:12

What does the Bible teach about government? Listen to this lesson to begin a study comparing the days of the Judges in Israel with what is happening in America today. Follow a history of how the laws governing countries developed in western civilization and the influence they had on our Founding Fathers. See that when the people of a country slide into paganism and abandon godly principles, their country begins to collapse. Hear a four-part definition of paganism. Books mentioned by Dr. Dean during this class include: • Lex Rex by Samuel Rutherford. • A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance by Zev Chafets. The movie Dr. Dean referenced is God's Not Dead.

Episode 8 - The 17th Amendment, Double Jeopardy, and Habeas Corpus for Elephants

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 74:52

On this episode, we are joined by Attorney Zachary Jones to discuss his recent article for Lex Rex and why the 17th Amendment poses issues for federalism. We also discuss the decision in the recent case Denezpi v. United States and explain why the Supreme Court found that federal courts could try someone twice for the same crime without violating the double jeopardy clause of the Constitution.All this, plus a deep dive into why keeping an elephant in the zoo isn't the same as imprisoning a person without a charge, a romantic guide to the Founding Fathers, and another batch of hot takes from the darkest corner of the internet.Sections:0:03:30 - Happy the Elephant's habeas corpus petition denied0:17:30 - Attorney Zachary Jones joins us for a discussion of the 17th Amendment0:39:00 - Who Wants to Marry a Founding Father?0:47:35 - Denezpi v. United States and double jeopardy1:04:40 - Hot takes

Episode 4 - Ketchup Nerds

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 93:13

In this episode, Lex Rex lead writer David Truschel and president Alexander Haberbush explore the wild, wacky world of state law, talk through the importance of abiding by legal procedure (even in unusual circumstances), and explain why you don't necessarily want to put the guy who knows the most about ketchup in charge of making all your laws.Links we mentioned in this episode:https://www.lexrex.org/news/eastman-lands-blowhttps://www.givesendgo.com/eastmanhttps://www.lexrex.org/media/youre-wrong-about-the-constitution

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Episode 3 - Sizzler Did Not Pay for This Episode

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Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 90:39

In this episode, Lex Rex lead writer David Truschel and president Alexander Haberbush explore the "super super double secret" drone program of the Brockton, MA Police Department, review the latest from the House January 6th Committee, talk First and Second Amendment rights, and tell you why Justice Sonia Sotomayor doesn't get it when it comes to judicial review.All this, plus a discussion of Mexican food at buffet restaurants, how CSI has ruined criminal trials, and why the French Revolution preferred round numbers to sanity.

Episode 1 - Gitmo Barges

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Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 68:41

In our first episode, lead writer David Truschel and Lex Rex president Alexander Haberbush celebrate May Day by highlighting explicit mentions of Communism in California and US law, review cases currently before the Supreme Court dealing with religious freedom and an Oklahoma jurisdiction dispute, explain why Clarence and Ginni Thomas continue to be in the news, and review the hottest of legal hot takes from the internet.

The Evergetinos - Vol. I, Hypothesis XIX, Part II

Philokalia Ministries

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 74:23

Tonight we continued our reading of Hypothesis 19 on obedience, its value, and how is attained. We began with the Fathers' understanding of the value of obedience. In it is realized all of the Commandments because through obedient love one conforms oneself to Christ. In this sense the person who is obedient, who embraces the will of another in whose care they are placed, becomes a “confessor of the Faith”. One who abandons his own will is rewarded more greatly than those who pursue virtue in accord with their own judgment or opinion. The clarity of the Fathers' focus upon emulating Christ is essential for us to understand. Obedience is not a slavishness; it is a self-emptying love that is rooted in the desire to please and serve the other. It is rooted in trust and shaped by self-sacrifice. May we never complicate it so as to make it unrecognizable. Within it is the power to redeem even what seems lost in our families, in our communities, and in life as a whole. It carries within it to seed of divine love that can reshape everything; even that which seems impossible to us. --- Text of chat during the group: 00:10:32 Lyle: Looking forward to another evening where someone may decisively, yet lovingly, dismantle erroneous ecclesiology for those of us catechumens. 00:19:55 Anthony: I'm guessing it was a fig branch or twig. That's one way to propagate figs. In year three, you get figs. 00:21:51 Ambrose: 1 John 2:3-5 ‘And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.' 00:22:18 Ambrose: John 14:15 ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.' 00:28:35 Anthony: This has implications for laity in problem parishes and dioceses and clergy under bishops with issues. 00:28:52 Anthony: Also had political implications against revolutions. 00:42:07 Ren: How does one reclaim the spirit of obedience once it has been lost? Once you have let resentment and even contempt of a particular authority figure to establish itself? 00:42:33 Jos: this was my question too but on the level of family/ generations 00:44:34 Ambrose: This one got me this morning. From lauds intercessions: Forgive us for failing to see Christ in the poor, the distressed and the troublesome, and for our failure to reverence your Son in their persons. (particularly the "troublesome" part) 00:45:22 Carol Nypaver: Amen, Ambrose. 00:45:43 Anthony: We find our identity in the wrong. Yeah, that's not healthy. 00:46:37 Ambrose: and not "sharing" it in social media 00:46:59 Jos: sorry I can't unmute 00:47:23 Carol Nypaver: Can you type it, Jos? 00:48:40 Jos: I wanted to ask about whether when one is born into a culture/ family structure and many generations that is filled with this pattern of resentment, lack of obedience etc, if it is then even possible to really change without enormous amounts of effort. 00:49:22 Lyle: Fr. David, I‘ve always appreciated the way you and some other spiritual directors continually point us to the Lord Jesus as our ultimate example whenever we need an example. 00:49:41 Jos: in our culture and my generation it is very common and it seems for many of us like outside of a very concerted effort it is nearly impossible to break out of the habitual that's been solidified in the unconscious 00:50:09 Anthony: Seeing each others flaws only - it can lead to long term and serious and acute resentments as with antipathy of different Slavic or Balkan peoples - or any of the old rivalries of Europe. 00:50:59 Ren: Agreed Lyle! “He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to death - even death on a cross.” 00:52:11 Ren: I have never been willing to be “obedient to death”

Lex Rex. Dan. 3:23-25 #RTTBROS

RTTBROS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2022 3:12

It is often in the most crushing and excruciating times in life the god reveals himself in a powerful profound way tune in tonight and find out how to meet God in the midst of the hard times

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211: Resisting The Mandates

Plodcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021

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Public Health and the Libertarian Lure

Blog & Mablog

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2021

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Continuing our study of the book of Revelation, we glanced at the Nicolaitans -Revelation 2-6- 2-15-. They may have claimed to be followers of the early deacon, Nicolaus -Acts 6-5-. --Whatever else may be true of them, there appears to be a connection with their beliefs and practices and those of two Old Testament villains- Balaam -Revelation 2-14- and Jezebel -Revelation 2-20-. --Balaam had been unsuccessful in cursing Israel -Numbers 22-5- Deuteronomy 23-4-5- until he persuaded Balak to use the Moabite women to seduce the Israelite men with sexual immorality and worship of Baal -Numbers 25-1-4-.--The same practices are said to be true of Jezebel -Revelation 2-20-22- 1 Kings 16-31-. She was a murderer of godly people -1 Kings 21-7-14-. She did not believe Samuel Rutherford's book, -Lex Rex-, The Law is King. She believed -Rex Rex-, that rulers answer to no one- she was a wicked influence on her husband -1 Kings 21-15-.--Jezebel also is a powerful picture of the influence of a mother- -The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is the Hand That Rules the World.- -2 Kings 8-18, 27-. Queen Athaliah follows her mother's training. When her son dies, this queen from Israel annihilates the royal family of Judah -2 Kings 11-1-. As with Jezebel, Athaliah is an autocrat who believes she has absolute power -2 Kings 11-14-.--What a contrast between her and my dear, praying mother. Had it not been for my mother, I would likely be dead and in hell.

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Lex, Rex

Logansville Church

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 45:19

Pastor Dana Kidder preaching from Titus 3: 1 at Logansville Church in DeGraff, Ohio.

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S1E20 – Holding Rulers Accountable (Lex Rex Part 11)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 29:39

Part I: Law of the Day - "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear." (Deut. 21:18-21) Part II: We finish looking at Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. In the final chapter, Rutherford asks if rulers are accountable to the people. If they are not, then there is no argument against tyranny. If they are, then it is the responsibility of the people to hold them accountable. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

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S1E20 – Holding Rulers Accountable (Lex Rex Part 11)

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2021 29:39

Part I: Law of the Day - "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear." (Deut. 21:18-21) Part II: We finish looking at Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. In the final chapter, Rutherford asks if rulers are accountable to the people. If they are not, then there is no argument against tyranny. If they are, then it is the responsibility of the people to hold them accountable. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

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S1E19 – Defending Against Oppression (Lex Rex Part 10)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2021 23:51

Part I: Law of the Day - "You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people." (Ex. 22:28) Part II: We continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. In chapter twenty, we consider whether people may defend themselves against oppression. In chapter twenty-one, we look at whether the people can wage war without the ruler. Ultimately, the question is one of the right to self-defense and who possesses that right. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E19 – Defending Against Oppression (Lex Rex Part 10)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2021 23:51

S1E18 – Flight or Fight (Lex Rex Part 9)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2021 29:15

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. In chapter eighteen, we consider whether there is a difference between the person and the office. In chapter nineteen, we look at whether we should flee from or fight against tyrants. Furthermore, does it matter whether or not we are being persecuted for Christ? We look at Rutherford's answer to that question as well. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E18 – Flight or Fight (Lex Rex Part 9)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2021 29:15

S1E17 – Resisting a Tyrant (Lex Rex Part 8)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2021 31:39

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. In chapter sixteen, we look at whether the ruler has the final authority to interpret the law. In chapter seventeen, we consider the situation where the people and their representatives may resist a tyrant. These are vital issue issue, for if the ruler is the final interpreter of the law, none may challenge him. And if the people may never resist a tyrant, he can murder them at will. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E17 – Resisting a Tyrant (Lex Rex Part 8)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2021 31:39

S1E16 – The Law is Above the King (Lex Rex Part 7)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2021 28:37

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. In chapter fourteen, we look at whether the safety of the ruler is more important than that of the people. In chapter fifteen, we consider whether the ruler is above the law. These are both key issues, for if the ruler is more important than the people, than the people can be sacrificed for the good of the ruler. And if the ruler is above the law, then the ruler plays the part of God. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

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S1E16 – The Law is Above the King (Lex Rex Part 7)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2021 28:37

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S1E15 – Turning into Tyrants (Lex Rex Part 6)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2020 26:08

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode I look at chapters twelve and thirteen regarding when a ruler becomes a tyrant and whether or not he can be resisted. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E15 – Turning into Tyrants (Lex Rex Part 6)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2020 26:08

S1E14 – The People and the State (Lex Rex Part 5)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 30:47

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode I look at chapters ten and eleven regarding whether or not lesser magistrates have their own legitimate authority and if the people are more important than the state. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E14 – The People and the State (Lex Rex Part 5)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 30:47

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode I look at chapters ten and eleven regarding whether or not lesser magistrates have their own legitimate authority and if the people are more important than the state. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E13 – Rulers and the Ruled (Lex Rex Part 4)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2020 36:47

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode I look at chapters eight and nine regarding whether or not rulers can be given absolute power and if rulers are more important than those they rule. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E13 – Rulers and the Ruled (Lex Rex Part 4)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2020 36:47

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode I look at chapters eight and nine regarding whether or not rulers can be given absolute power and if rulers are more important than those they rule. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E12 – Conquest and Consent (Lex Rex Part 3)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 23:31

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode we look at chapters six and seven regarding whether conquest is a legitimate method for gaining power. We also consider whether or not people are born free. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E12 – Conquest and Consent (Lex Rex Part 3)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 23:31

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode we look at chapters six and seven regarding whether conquest is a legitimate method for gaining power. We also consider whether or not people are born free. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E11 – Revoking the Ruler's Authority (Lex Rex Part 2)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 32:06

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode we look at chapters four and five regarding whether or not the people can revoke the power that they grant to a ruler. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E11 – Revoking the Ruler’s Authority (Lex Rex Part 2)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2020 32:06

On today's episode I continue walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also addresses issues such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that greatly influenced the American War for Independence. On this episode we look at chapters four and five regarding whether or not the people can revoke the power that they grant to a ruler. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

S1E10 – Introduction to Lex Rex

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2020 28:15

On today's episode I begin walking through the book Lex Rex, by Samuel Rutherford. Lex Rex simply means that the law is king. It is a book that very simply and logically looks at the nature and purpose of government. It also includes topics such as civil disobedience and resistance, ideas that led to Rutherford himself being arrested. On this episode we look at the first three chapters and why government exists in the first place. As always, if you have any civic/government related questions, feel free to email me at thegbgpodcast@gmail.com, and I will be happy to address them on the program. Thank you and God bless! Follow me on Facebook or Twitter or go to www.ericluppold.com Please support me on Patreon!

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S1E10 – Introduction to Lex Rex