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Can you wear a Rosary around your neck? Was Christ's birth like ours? Will Jesus return a third time? and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. (Originally aired on 11/22/23)
Can you wear a Rosary around your neck? Was Christ's birth like ours? Will Jesus return a third time? and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. (Originally aired on 11/22/23)
On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank shares on the ABCs of spiritual growth so that Christians can become reproducing disciple-makers.Hank also answers the following questions:When we get to heaven will we still need to study the Bible, or will there be new things to study? Randy - Fairfield, CA (3:20)I know Doug Batchelor is a Seventh-day Adventist. Should I be listening to him? Randy - Fairfield, CA (4:45)What is your opinion of Pastor Melissa Scott? Sylvia - Fresno, CA (7:25)Was Christ's sacrifice on the cross for all people or only for those who believe? Brad - Kansas City, MO (8:41)The church I attend has people who say they can see demons. They say my son has about 12 to 15 demons. What are your views on this? Albert - Tyler, TX (15:11)I am wondering about the cost of being a disciple. How can you know when you need to give your possessions away? Robert - Wright City, MO (19:32)What happens to pets in the afterlife? Beverley - Miles, OH (23:25)
On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast (01/30/25), Hank shares on the ABCs of spiritual growth so that Christians can become reproducing disciple-makers.Hank also answers the following questions: When we get to heaven will we still need to study the Bible, or will there be new things to study? Randy - Fairfield, CA (3:19)I know Doug Batchelor is a Seventh-day Adventist. Should I be listening to him? Randy - Fairfield, CA (4:45)What is your opinion of Pastor Melissa Scott? Sylvia - Fresno, CA (7:25)Was Christ's sacrifice on the cross for all people or only for those who believe? Brad - Kansas City, MO (8:41)Does God allow bad things to happen such as injuries, or does God cause them to happen? Dan - Pittsburgh, PA (15:12)Are those who remarry after a divorce living in a perpetual state of adultery? Timothy - St. Louis, MO (20:06)
Rituals and ceremonies of Christ; Feeding hungry, healing sick, explaining doctrine (logos); Bible studies; Critical thinking; Freedom of speech; Non-fact facts; Bible translation; Context; Changing word definitions; FEMA?; California fires; Protecting your home; Sloth; Relying on neighbors; Volunteerism vs tax-funded; Preparation; Returning responsibility to the people; Welfare in Christ's time; "Assurance"; Paganism; Col 3:8; Gathering in a network; Tens; Daily ministration; Caring for needy of society; Forced sacrifice; Was Christ political?; Taking kingdom from Pharisees; "Religion"; Rightly dividing resources; Dearths; F.E.M.A.; Charity = Love; Objectives of Christ; Setting the captive free; Saving the whole world; Societal degeneration; Breaking system addiction; Social relationships; Fervent charity; Pure republic; vs Democracy; Socialism; Fixing abuse; Cultivating care; Legal charity?; Polity Article 9; Preaching the gospel; Manifesting the real Kingdom of God; "His" Church; Covetous practices; Isa 9:7; Isa 61:1; Understanding where we went wrong; Repentance; Christ's kingdom "at hand"; Corruption; Lk 9:2; Self-governance; Sodom and Gomorrah; Loving your fellow man; Judging others; Government of, for and by the people; Defining lies; Tytler cycle; Caring for the lazy?; Selling brothers into slavery; Burdens of bondage; Courage; Liberty brings responsibility; Selfishness - the problem; Dependence; Born into bondage; Needing the poor?; Supporting police; Free bread; What made America great; Danger of anger; Communists; "Notes"; History in school; Whole gospel of the kingdom; Doctrine; Believing lies; Article 10 - caring with charity alone; What Jesus do you believe in?; Fathers of the Earth; Guaranteeing safety?; Statutes of Moses; Social Security; Corvee; Tribute; "No king but Caesar"; Social bonds; "Kingdom tracks"; Christ's only "command"; Sheep example; Nu 11:6; Rejecting God for a central ruler; Wrath of God; Restoring your rights; John the Baptist; Modern churches riding the beast; Praying to government for your salvation; "Son of God"; What Early Christians were really doing; Having protection from God; Assemble Christ's puzzle.
The Grace Message is making the world a better place! Was Christ born in a manger or a place of slaughter? Why did Jesus have to become human? To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1258/29
The Grace Message is making the world a better place! Was Christ born in a manger or a place of slaughter? Why did Jesus have to become human? To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/1258/29
The Roman Catholic Church did not have a problem with the person of Christ, but with the works of Christ. Was Christ's work on the cross enough, or was it merely an opening to other things needed unto salvation? For the Reformers, the answer was clear: solus Christus, Christ alone!
Can you wear a Rosary around your neck? Was Christ's birth like ours? Will Jesus return a third time? and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. (Originally aired on 11/22/23).
Can you wear a Rosary around your neck? Was Christ's birth like ours? Will Jesus return a third time? and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. (Originally aired on 11/22/23).
Questions Covered: 02:48 – What is the difference between a Church and a temple? 08:19 – Why do baptism and confirmation happen at the same time in Maronite rite? 14:45 What's the best answer for why Jesus died for our sins? 17:01 – Will a 3-month-old who passed away remain a baby in heaven? 20:22 – Did the apostles who were illiterate use scribes? Why would Jesus wait till 30 to start his ministry? 25:45 – Was Christ silent for 500 years before Christ’s birth? 32:38 – Why does Genesis genealogy not include mothers? 35:10 – What does it mean to be in communion with the Pope of Rome? How would an Orthodox want to be in communion, what must they do? 37:20 – What is the morality in engaging in sexual acts with a spouse who is incapable due to loss of organs, cripple, etc. What would be permissible? Which sexual actions would one be able to perform? 43:25 – What is the rule on the elevation of the host during the “Behold the Lamb of God?” Why do some only elevate a fragment and others, the entire host? 45:56 – If you could choose 1 non-Catholic apologist to debate or convert, who would it be? 47:45 – How do Catholics compete with the people who say that they get more from a protestant preacher over a priest’s homily 51:02 – referencing a previous question on genealogy, how do you respond to the Jewish claim that one’s Jewishness comes from the mother, and why is it only men referenced in the genealogy? 52:07 – I light on John 14:12, why aren't there a lot more miracles? …
Was Christ's virgin birth prophesied over 700 years before it happened? Find out with Nathan Jones and Vic Batista on the podcast, The Truth Will Set You Free!
Send us a Text Message.Was Christ the Lamb slain before or from the foundation of the world? This seemingly simple translation question carries profound theological implications. Join us as we challenge conventional wisdom and dive deep into the intricate debates surrounding Revelation 13:8. We dissect the views of the Wadester, a gospel sharer who opposes the pre-creation sacrifice of Christ, and offer a robust critique grounded in scriptural references, including Paul's teachings in Ephesians. We'll reaffirm that God's choice of His followers predates the world's creation, solidifying the doctrines of election, predestination, and determinism.Ever wondered about the timing of the Lamb's sacrifice and its significance for the Lamb's Book of Life? We explore Revelation 17:8 and 1 Peter 1:18-20 to uncover the divine foreordination of salvation. By analyzing these passages, we highlight God's sovereign role in salvation and refute the Arminian view of equal opportunity without divine intervention. Our discussion provides clarity on the predestination of the elect, ensuring that those destined for salvation were known to God long before creation, offering believers a foundation in theological certainty.In a world swayed by human logic and celebrity, we underscore the necessity of divine intervention for true salvation. Through biblical references like Matthew 7 and the conversion of Paul, we emphasize that salvation is a divine initiative, not a result of human choice. We'll critique modern Christianity's tendency to prioritize human reasoning over God's sovereignty and discuss the urgency and authenticity required in preaching the gospel. Finally, we delve into the profound assurance found in the Lamb's Book of Life, while acknowledging the bittersweet reality that not everyone will come to faith. This episode is a call to engage deeply with the eternal truths of God.Ashley T Lee PodcastAshley T. Lee Podcast will cover many life issues such as overcoming stress, anxiety...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Support the Show.
It's in the cross that we glory. But our eyes are often drawn to secondary things such as political advantage. In this message from Acts 4, Pastor Lutzer looks at the cross from the standpoint of history and even eternity past. Was Christ's death on the cross a divine gamble? To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29
It's in the cross that we glory. But our eyes are often drawn to secondary things such as political advantage. In this message from Acts 4, Pastor Lutzer looks at the cross from the standpoint of history and even eternity past. Was Christ's death on the cross a divine gamble? This month's special offer is available for a donation of any amount. Get yours at rtwoffer.com or call us at 1-888-218-9337.
With much of the world seeking to combine the Bible and science at the expense of changing the truth, we must ask the question, what does the Bible say about creation? Was Christ a created being? Do the days of creation leave room for evolution? Join Haston on this study of creation.
Singleness and The Christian. What Did Jesus Do? How did Christ live His life? Are we commanded to marry? What does the Bible demand of the single individual? Does a spouse “complete” you? Introduction Theology: How Did Christ Live His Life? Philosophy: What is the Purpose of Marriage? Culture: What pressures are on the individual to marry? Politics: How does singleness provide opportunities for one to serve the Lord with more focus? Economics: Millennials and Gen Z are avoiding marriage, but many are even avoiding relationships and sex. How does the economic reasoning reveal the motivations of these generations and how we as a culture have failed to inculcate selflessness? Theology Segment: Was Jesus Married? Was He Single? We'll address the content of these articles: https://bib.irr.org/how-do-we-know-jesus-was-not-married https://www.gotquestions.org/why-didnt-Jesus-marry.html Through innuendo, many have claimed that Christ was married to Mary Magdalene. The Burden of Proof resides on these people as there are no eye witnesses claiming such a wife. (The Davinci Code styled theories have less Historical evidence than the Lochness Monster, and by that we mean 0 evidence, only wild conjecture and Christian Fan Fiction in the form of the 2nd Century Gospel of Mary or 3rd Century Gospel of Phillip, neither written by the proposed authors) We have 2 genealogies of Christ, and neither mention His Children, a common occurrence from marital intimacy. Jesus was here on a mission that would leave a widow: Isaiah 52:13-53:12, 1 Peter 1:19-20, and Luke 18:31-33. He gave the duty of a son to care for His mother to John. Why would He not do something similar to His widow? Such a widow would have been idolized and very likely been a salient feature in the Church, yet we only hear of other women like Pricilla and likely Junia. Such a relationship, where two become one flesh would likely compete with Christ's meticulously prepared image of His Bridegroom of the Church. The Church is His Bride, not a hypothetical 1st century wife with no evidence to her existence. Philosophy: What is the Purpose of Marriage? Can one fulfill God's Purpose as a Single? God has 3 purposes for Marriage: Companionship Procreation/Discipleship Glorious Purpose in Image Bearing Obviously Companionship is at the heart of romance and marriage. But there is something interesting in the soul of the human heart that longs for a specific relationship, that which results in creating a new life. This facilitates not only the creation of a new life, but also the chain reaction resulting in biological and spiritual drive to disciple and protect the new life. In all of this, there is a Glorious Purpose in that we are a reflection of our Creator, creating life and nurturing it, as He does every day. Can a Single Person be a part of this image and fulfill this as Single? In short, yes, but in a different way. We as Singles are obligated to spend time discipling others. In such, we can experience a different sort of Companionship (with Christ as we can only successfully disciple when in communion with Him). We also see a different type of duplication or discipleship with the unbeliever, or newer believer. In such actions, we may carry out our Glorious Purpose in Image Bearing Christ to the world and other believers. So yes, yes you can be effective for Christ as a Single. In fact it's required of you. Culture: Should the Church Pressure Kids to Get Married? What is happening in our culture in regards to marriage? From BGSU: “The U.S. marriage rate (the number of women's marriages per 1,000 unmarried women 15 years and older) is the lowest it has been in over a century at 31.1—that is, roughly 31 marriages per 1,000 unmarried women. • The marriage rate was highest in 1920 at 92.3. • Since 1970, the marriage rate has declined by almost 60%” https://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/FP-13-13.pdf From Axios: “Even as the marriage rate is falling, the institution still holds value in the U.S., said Susan Brown, co-director of the National Center for Family & Marriage Research. Case in point: High school seniors' attitudes toward marriage have remained relatively stable over the past several decades. In 1976, 74% of seniors said they expected to get married, and in 2020, 71% said so, according to an ongoing University of Michigan study.” But the way we think about marriage is changing. "It used to be a basic institution that everyone had to buy into in early adulthood," Cherlin said. "You got married, then you moved in together, and then you got a job." "Marriage is now becoming the last step into adulthood." And it's an optional step. People are more likely to want to finish their education, find a job and pay off debt before getting hitched. As a result, many are delaying marriage. The number of women entering their first marriage between the ages of 40 and 59 has jumped 75% since 1990, Brown said. The bottom line: Expect far fewer 50th anniversary parties in the future.” https://www.axios.com/2023/02/25/marriage-declining-single-dating-taxes-relationships Also note that 60-90% of divorces, are initiated by women, depending on whose studies you're going by. This also adds to the cultural resistance towards marriage. We used to be pressured into marriage, now we're pressured out of it. One issue we need to take care of, however, is the assumption that one is not complete unless they are married. Is this biblical? Is Christ not our Bridegroom? Was Christ incomplete? Or is it rather that our family is completed by a spouse that the children grow the family? It is important to not add extra-biblical hoops for the Christian to jump through. Politics: What opportunities exist for the Single to serve the Lord? How should we be affecting the world as Singles? (Not very political, but more in a cultural strain, what power does Singleness provide the Christian to exert influence on the world?) What do we often spend our time on when single? From PsychologyToday.com: “1. Every day, single people spend an average 52 minutes more on educational activities than married people do. 2. Single people spend 43 minutes more per day on sleeping and personal care. 3. Every day, married people spend an average of 41 minutes more on household activities than single people do. 4. Single people spend an average of 40 more minutes per day on leisure and sports. 5. Married people spend an average of 38 minutes more per day working.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-single/201901/how-do-single-and-married-people-spend-their-time Economics: Gen Z, when polled had this to say about marriage, via the Hill: “While the traditional ideas surrounding marriage may be shifting, 83 percent of participants said they would like to get married at some point. Though, 85 percent also reported that they don't feel marriage is needed to “have a fulfilling and committed relationship.” “The report found over three in five unmarried couples live with their partners, though more millennials live with their partner than Gen Z — with a difference of 65 percent to 35 percent. As for what motivates couples to move in together, over half — 54 percent — said it was related to finances, while 85 percent said they moved in because they wanted to. Sixty percent of participants moved in together after dating a year or less. Nearly one in five share a back account with the partner they live with and around one in six share a credit card, although living costs aren't always split equal with half of participants stating they don't split their mortgage or rent equally, the survey said. Thirty-seven percent said they find their relationship is financially unequal.” https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/4107946-2-in-5-young-adults-surveyed-say-marriage-an-outdated-tradition/ What does this say about the culture's value of commitment? How have we as a church failed to prove the value of marriage? Closing thoughts Final Question: Have you ever had a celebrity crush? If so, who?
As we journey together through the solemn days of Lent, the Alliance for Catholic Education and ThinkND invite you to join us as we walk toward the light that our faith tells us lies ahead.Join us for Grace Period, a weekly series of audio reflections by Fr. Lou DelFra, C.S.C. '92, M. Div. '03, designed to meet your busy schedule and help you pause, listen for God's voice in your life, and begin anew.How we can persevere with hope when it seems like Christ is absent during our time of need?We look to the Gospel of Mark, when a furious squall threatens to sink the disciples' boat as Jesus sleeps.Was Christ powerless against the squall? Did he not care?Jesus was showing them (and us) what it's like to trust, even in a storm, that we have a God who has our lives—and all that happens within them — securely in hand.The more we can allow this bedrock spiritual reality to settle into our souls, the more calm and hopeful we can be in the midst of life's storms.Thanks for listening! The ThinkND Podcast is brought to you by ThinkND, the University of Notre Dame's online learning community. We connect you with videos, podcasts, articles, courses, and other resources to inspire minds and spark conversations on topics that matter to you — everything from faith and politics, to science, technology, and your career. Learn more about ThinkND and register for upcoming live events at think.nd.edu. Join our LinkedIn community for updates, episode clips, and more.
Disagree, agree, or have a question: Contact us through the contact page on our website; http://www.biblebulldog.com PASTOR WILLIAM'S BOOKS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William... Matthew 27:27-44 - Jesus Is Mocked 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. 28 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. 31 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him. Let us observe in the first place, the extent and reality of our Lord's sufferings. “Jesus had a real human body, was it a body exactly like our own, just as sensitive, just as vulnerable, just as capable of feeling intense pain?“ Our Lord, we must remember, had already passed a night without sleep, and endured excessive fatigue. They spit upon Him. They smote Him on the head. And finally they led Him out of the city, to a place called Golgotha, and there crucified Him between two thieves. What was a crucifixion? How can we realize it and understand its misery? Let us meditate frequently on these things. Let us often read over the story of Christ's cross and passion. Let us remember, not least, that all these horrible sufferings were borne without a murmur. No word of impatience crossed our Lord's lips. To the very last, Satan found nothing in Him. (John 14:30-31.) I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, 31 but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here. Was Christ in His death, as He was in His life, perfect? Let us observe, in the second place, that all our Lord Jesus Christ's sufferings were vicarious. He suffered not for His own sins, but for ours. He was eminently our substitute in all His passion. Was He scourged? It was that "through His stripes we might be healed." Was he condemned, though innocent? It was that we might be acquitted though guilty. Did He wear a crown of thorns? It was that we might wear the crown of glory. Was He stripped of His clothing? It was that we might be clothed in everlasting righteousness. Was he mocked and reviled? It was that we might be honored and blessed. Was He reckoned a malefactor, and numbered among transgressors? It was that we might be reckoned innocent, and justified from all sin. Was he declared unable to save Himself? It was that He might be able to save others to the uttermost. Did He die at last, and that the most painful and disgraceful of deaths? It was that we might live for evermore and be exalted to the highest glory. Let us ponder these things well. Are they are worth remembering? Is the key to peace a right understanding of the vicarious sufferings of Christ? Last, but not least, let us ever learn from the story of the passion, to hate sin with a great hatred. Sin was the cause of all our Savior's suffering. Our sins platted the crown of thorns. Our sins drove the nails into His hands and feet. On account of our sins His blood was shed. Surely the thought of Christ crucified should make us loathe all sin. Well says the Homily of the Passion, "Let this image of Christ crucified be always printed in our hearts. Let it stir us up to the hatred of sin, and provoke our minds to the earnest love of Almighty God." Is the Christian life a life of only love? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biblebulldog/message
Can you wear a Rosary around your neck? Was Christ's birth like ours? Will Jesus return a third time? and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
Can you wear a Rosary around your neck? Was Christ's birth like ours? Will Jesus return a third time? and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
1) Can you explain how the New Testament uses the word church, as in Christ's comment on this rock I will build my church? 2) I recently found out that my nephew claims to be a homosexual. His sister is having a hard time with it. What should be her response as a Christian? 3) What is the relationship of the Jews' return to Israel and Ezekiel 37? 4) Was Christ's death required by Satan?
A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion by Father Joseph Deharbe, S.J. was originally written in German, was very popular in the 19th century, and was translated into English. Bishop Donald Sanborn finds the Deharbe Catechism to be the most complete to convert and instruct people in the Catholic Faith. Join Bishop Donald Sanborn and host Stephen Heiner on this episode of This is Catholicism. Part I On Faith (continued) Chapter II. Chief Truths of Faith (continued) The Fourth Article. 'Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried.' 1. What does the Fourth Article of the Creed teach us? 2. Did Christ really die? 3. Why did Christ will to be buried? 4. Did Christ suffer as God or as man? 5. Was Christ compelled to suffer death? 6. Why was it the will of Christ to suffer and die? 7. For what sins has Christ given satisfaction? 8. Why could no one but Christ make full reparation for our sins? 9. Why is the satisfaction of Christ of infinite value? 10. Was it necessary for a perfect satisfaction that Christ should suffer such indescribable torments? 11. Why, then, would He suffer so much? 12. From what has Christ redeemed us by His sufferings and death? 13. What more has Christ gained for us through His sufferings and death? 14. Has Christ merited grace and eternal salvation for those only who are really saved? 15. If Christ has merited eternal salvation for all men, why, then, are not all saved? Episode Notes: The text is available in the public domain for free online as a PDF. Used copies and reprint versions can still be found and purchased. “A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion” by Father Joseph Deharbe SJ on Archive.org. Original Air Date: April 14, 2016 Show Run Time: 30 minutes Show Guest(s): Bishop Donald Sanborn Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner (guest host) novusordowatch.org/ Episode: https://www.truerestoration.org/season-5-this-is-catholicism-episode-9-the-incarnation-of-the-son-of-god/ This is Catholicism: https://www.truerestoration.org/category/radio/this-is-catholicism/ Subscribe: www.truerestoration.org/member-signup/ This is Catholicism ℗ is a production of the Restoration Radio Network. Copyright 2016. All Rights are Reserved.
Was #Christ #asleep on the #Cross?, #Catholic belief in the #Eucharist, and what's the #Church's stand on #dispensationalism?
Was #Christ #asleep on the #Cross?, #Catholic belief in the #Eucharist, and what's the #Church's stand on #dispensationalism?
Was Christ both priest and victim?
Bible Study: (2:57) Ex 1:8-14, 22 Father discusses the world demographic problem Mt 10:34—11:1 Didn't Jesus come to bring peace? Letters (22:28) Differences between dicastries and congregations (25:15) - Church Fathers & and letting your peace return to you (https://www.ecatholic2000.com/catena/untitled-111.shtml) (30:37) - David and stones (31:45) - Difference between angels and saints Word of the Day: Household (34:13) Callers (35:42) - Trinity and Holy Spirit: Where was the Holy Spirit before Jesus sent him? (38:43) - What are your thoughts on the Neocatechumenal way? (47:01) - Was Christ nailed on the wrist or the palms? (49:07) - What language was spoken before the Tower of Babel?
Paul concluded his letter to the Corinthians by doubling down on the fact that the church, by listening to the false apostles, were acting against the authority of Christ. In opposing Paul, they were opposing God. The Lord would correct the situation because He had many people in that city, as He assured Paul in Acts 18. Paul warned them and instructed them to examine themselves -13-5-. Was Christ truly residing in them by His Spirit-- If so they would respond to Paul properly, since he was working on their behalf. Their restoration was his prayer and goal. Being like Corinth, so worldly minded and divided, many modern churches today need this spirit.
Paul concluded his letter to the Corinthians by doubling down on the fact that the church, by listening to the false apostles, were acting against the authority of Christ. In opposing Paul, they were opposing God. The Lord would correct the situation because He had many people in that city, as He assured Paul in Acts 18. Paul warned them and instructed them to examine themselves -13-5-. Was Christ truly residing in them by His Spirit-- If so they would respond to Paul properly, since he was working on their behalf. Their restoration was his prayer and goal. Being like Corinth, so worldly minded and divided, many modern churches today need this spirit.
Do religious sisters have to take a saint's name?, Is Uriel a canonical archangel?, Does Catholicism stand on the shoulders of Judaism?, Was Christ buried like a mummy?, and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
Do religious sisters have to take a saint's name?, Is Uriel a canonical archangel?, Does Catholicism stand on the shoulders of Judaism?, Was Christ buried like a mummy?, and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
Do religious sisters have to take a saint's name?, Is Uriel a canonical archangel?, Does Catholicism stand on the shoulders of Judaism?, Was Christ buried like a mummy?, and more on today's Open Line with Fr. Mitch Pacwa.
If you appreciate this work, consider supporting it - https://www.patreon.com/seekgodtogether Today we will read Matthew 1:21 which says, “She will give birth to a son, and you are to name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.” Merry Christmas! The word “Christmas” is a combination of two words: Christ and mass. Christ being the greek translation of the Hebrew Messiah. And mass being a celebration of the eucharist. It's literally Christ's mass. Fun fact: the shortened word Xmas, while seen as some as a way to remove Christ from Christmas is actually just the use the letter X or chi, which is the first letter of the Greek Kristos. X is a perfectly acceptable and ancient moniker for Christ. Was Christ born on December 25th? Probably not. As a date it's tied to the winter solstice. But scripture isn't interested in a precise birthdate. It is however very interested in why He was born. The Christ is the long-prophesied culmination of all scripture. He is the Hero of the entire story. He is the beautiful Creator/Savior of the world. He is perfect humanity and deity brought together for the first time and forever. He is the soaring beauty of God wrapped up in a baby for all to see. And He has a specific name - Jesus. Jesus is the greek form of the Hebrew name “Joshua.” Jo - or Yah for Yahweh, saves. Jesus means “Yahweh saves.” Quit a fitting name. What will He save us from? Death? Disease? Oppression? Sure. He will do all of that. And more. That terrible thing that leads to death, that destroys us. Ultimately that thing that keeps us from the God who loves us, that shrinks and eats us alive until we're truly dead. That horrible cancer is sin. And Jesus has come to save you from it. Merry Christmas. “Thank You Jesus for saving me from my sin. Thank you for saving us from our sin.”
Jeremy and Kenn discuss two hot-button issues that generate heated debates in the world of conservative evangelicalism. Was Christ's death intended to provide satisfaction for sins for the whole world or just the elect? What are the distinctions betw...
Jeremy and Kenn discuss two hot-button issues that generate heated debates in the world of conservative evangelicalism. Was Christ's death intended to provide satisfaction for sins for the whole world or just the elect? What are the distinctions between preterism and partial preterism and do those distinctions matter? Jeremy's Debate on Preterism: https://youtu.be/C299whBN6jo Info on how to get Jeremy's new book for free: https://www.jeremyhoward.net/2022/12/my-new-book.html https://dotheology.com https://store.dotheology.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/DoTheology Contact Us: show@dotheology.com https://twitter.com/dotheology https://facebook.com/dotheology Subscribe to the podcast: https://linktr.ee/DoTheology
Some questions are answered such as; Was Christ's humanity different from ours? Was he truly sinless? Was Christ's humanity a creation of God? In today's message “Christ in Humanity,” God encourages us that Christ put on humanity and experienced weakness, pain, and suffering so that he could relate with us. We no longer have to go through situations alone, we have One who has been through it all. To purchase booklets please visit this link. https://www.awordofgrace.org/booklets To support this ministry and help us continue to reach people all around the world click here: https://www.awordofgrace.org/support Scripture References: Hebrews 4:3 Isaiah 2:3 Joel 3:10 Luke 1:26-35 2 Corinthians 13:4; 14:14-18
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"To Every Man an Answer 10/25/2022" from October 25, 2022 by CSN International. 1. Thoughts on medical marijuana use by Christians? 2. Will we be doing any activities in heaven? 3. Are head coverings in 1st Corinthians 11 a custom or a law? 4. Is Baptism necessary for being saved? 5. How to approach sexually immoral family members? 6. Was Christ born on Christmas?
In todays episode, Rick and I discuss the problem with Fear within the church body, as seen by the actions of the last 2yrs and the approaching evil days. Why was the spirit of fear so prevalent in the church and why are we not raising up a generation that know how to Bind and Loose as Matthew 16:19 tells us. Bible puts it, “Whatever you bind [forbid, declare to be improper and unlawful] on earth will have [already] been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose [permit, declare lawful] on earth will have [already] been loosed in heaven.”www.ricknorrismusic.nethttps://rumble.com/vofn0t-where-has-christs-authority-gone.html?mref=ijkk3&mc=a98jb-His Books are available at:Restoration Preparing for His Fullness https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud https://amzn.to/3k1pj5vFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rick.norris.1694 Gary Duncan 0:39 All right. Welcome back to remnant Revolution podcast with your host, Gary Duncan. I'm here again with my friend, good friend, Rick Norris. Rick is an author of a book called restoration, preparing for his fullness, and wanted to get his thoughts on where we are with the church and the world that we're living in, right in this day. And if you're listening to this five years down the road, or whatever, this is 2022 in July, and we're coming off the back end of a pandemic, per se, vaccines and all kinds of stuff going on war and in Ukraine and Russia, and just a lot of stuff in other countries in our country that are happening. And so I wanted to talk to him today, Rick, about fear. Because I know fear has been one of the things that to me, this country has been gripped with, especially the last couple of years. But even the church has been gripped in fear. And so you're, again, your book you wrote this years ago, but it is so pinpoint for where we're at right now. Everything that we're going through has some piece in that book, it seems like, give us your thoughts on that. Rick Norris 1:52 Well, you know, for someone like me, if you ask a question, like, where are we at now? It's just like, it couldn't get scattershot, I'll just try and give a panoramic view. Gary Duncan 2:05 What is your what do you see as fear? Rick Norris 2:07 Yeah, that's what I was gonna give you a pin since you started. Yeah. And you wanted to pinpoint the fear issue. And as we should, that, that's a major, major priority, much more than people realize. And the reason is, it's the only remaining weapon, if you think about it, it's the only remaining weapon that the adversary had. And we get a progress if we allow ourselves to be taught correctly. And we don't cling to the old we don't cling to the old wineskin, of going to a comfortable church and making sure that nobody's confronted with anything, nobody gets their feelings hurt, and sin is not confronted. And a new understandings of the word that are still true to the word are still rejected, because we have our status quo, or the leadership has their status quo, and they're controlling everybody, blah, blah, blah, you know, if we're if we're afraid of, in something new, it's still fear. Right? So the only weapon that Satan and his minions have left is fear. And God uses us uses that fear against us. For us, you know, he uses all the attacks of the enemy, he works at all for good, that's the way he is. That's his thing. That's just, you know, He's God. And, man, there's several chapters devoted to this when you when you think about it, but some of them are direct, some are indirect. But so the progression of our growth or maturity in Christ is supposed to be built on predicated on a revelation of the fact that our enemies are defeated. All of them. He said, Behold, I give you that means us all of us. authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and nothing shall by any means harm you. And elsewhere he said, similar things, and that word, all the power of the enemy. Over all what you know, please, whoever's listening, stop and think of that for a minute. You know, don't just brush over scriptures like this. All does not have a synonym in the original language all means all. So we have authority over all the power of the enemy, right? And it's a progressive revelation, sometimes you get a sovereign revelation of it, I had to have that. Because you know, sometimes he'll want you if he wants you to learn to swim, he'll throw you in the pool. If he wants you to learn warfare, he'll throw you in the arena. And that's what he did with me. And I had learned fast. And he was there, of course, you know, early on, boy, was he there. You read the second book, it'll blow your mind. And is Christianity is either supernatural, or it's a fairy tale. Right? So they can really get scary I've had, I know what Paul meant when he said he wrestled with demons. at Ephesus, I know exactly what he meant. And other there are other people who, you know, they might have a bent or an emphasis in their calling where they have to be on the frontlines all the time. Or a great deal of the time. Usually intercessors, mature intercessors will break through and suddenly they're dealing with principality. And I want to come back to I'm headed somewhere with this answer. It's not the scenic route, it's definitely important for us to understand. And so we get this progressive revelation of the fact that we're fighting a defeated foe, but there's so as you progress, and as you get deeper into the Lord, and as the supernatural, you get, you start getting your breakthroughs and the gifts start happening and the miracles start happening and stuff like that you're a bigger threat to the kingdom of darkness, and they're gonna break out the big guns. And the big guns still only have fear. So I've had them show up in the most heinous manifestations you can imagine. Most people, you know, some people have heart attack. Some people just pee their pants, and run seriously. Gary Duncan 7:11 And do but most people actually even see that Rick Norris 7:14 well, they don't press in far enough to be a threat. They're too afraid. That's the point. Right? We we've allowed? Well, okay, I'll give you an example. I was saving this. Because I was Lee, I was headed there, I better cut to the chase. I'll give you an example. Example of where that progressive revelation of how defeated our foes are and how endowed we are. That's the other thing. We're blessed with all spiritual blessings. I mean, you could sit and meditate on that for days. What all spiritual blessings we don't even know that's eternally big. And it's going to take eternity to step into that and understand it. But so here's a picture, if you will, this actually happened to, and I'm sorry, I can't remember if it's Spurgeon or Luther, one of the early preachers that came out of, you know, stepped away from the Vatican and got persecuted. He was in jail for preaching the gospel in a place he wasn't supposed to. And he was asleep facing the wall. and an evil so powerful that, you know, it's you can't hardly describe it, it was glowing evil, you know, emanating evil, and it was so palpable and powerful in the cell. He was in that it woke him up and he rolled over and looked and here was the, again the most heinous manifestation, fangs drooling picture, the scariest, you know, demon face, whatever you could come up with. And he rolled over and he looked at it, Oh, it's you. And he rolled over and went back to sleep. Now, what does it take to get a revelation of the fact that you know when Satan obviously that was Satan himself. And that shows how important that man's destiny was because Satan is not omnipresent. Right? So he singled this guy out of all the people on the planet to try and scare away that but but my point is this. The man again, I think it might have been Luther now I dug on it. I embarrassed it. I can't remember which one is so many church fathers. I've studied out there. And some of them really got some testimony, man you don't hear about Got a bit Whoa. Anyway. So he, he knew that this was this was a scare tactic. And this was the last ditch, last best effort. So it was really he was saying sorry, we're out of candy, they're triggered treat. Sorry, we're out of candy and I don't play. Gary Duncan 10:21 So it's more about identity and understanding your place in your identity. I mean, I think back about, you know, if we lived in King Arthur's day, and we're the son of the king, you know, the prestige and the power that we would yield because of our father. How that how different that would be, or if you were coming to a king, and you're not of the king, but you're coming to him? Because you have treated somebody poorly. And the king didn't like it. Can you imagine the difference? The difference is gonna, it's there. I mean, the think thought about that many times you feel what when we say, King, we can Americans? We can't, we can't really picture that. A monarchy. Yeah, because we're not we didn't grow up in that and all that kind of stuff. But I mean, we see the movies with kings and King Arthur, and all this gladiators and all that. But when you really think about, okay, get down to the nitty gritty of it. There is some power behind the authority of that King. And so if we're the Son of God, and he's our King and our Lord, then it seems that we need to understand how our, the way we act, and then we're how we treat each other and how we walk on this earth should reflect that. But I don't see that at least in myself, I don't know, I'm sure. You just don't see that, in general, from the church from Christians, because we don't really get our identity. If we did, we would walk in that power all the time. Rick Norris 12:13 The real, the Yes. And the real word is authority. The power behind the authority is another issue. And there's another word when it says, you know, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. That's a different word from power. That's its cause, which means the original Greek as is coos, which means, you know, the full fullness of the might of God, which is, you know, we can't even remotely get our head around that but but that gives you an idea how powerful those words are. And of course, you we've heard sermon after sermon and teaching about, I heard when yesterday about dunamis. You know, the power word dunamis in the original language, which we get dynamite from, but the other word that gets kind of ignored, is Kratos. Kratt, tosses dominion. Now, we are kind of tangent here. But it's not really a tangent because the authority of the believer is the issue. And you're right, if we had a full revelation, of who we are in Christ, and and what was delegated to us, which is his sword. It's his sword, the sword of the of the living God is in our mouth. When we bring, you know, whatever we buy, he says whatsoever things you, that you folks, that's us, you bind right on earth shall be bound in heaven. He said that Jesus said that, he said, What's your things you? That's you that's us, loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. And so yeah, our identity is a big part of that. And nowadays we have, at least well, I would say we have two generations now. that have not been taught spiritual warfare. That's why I wrote the first book, restoration, preparing for his fullness. Now, if you think of the subtitle preparing for his fullness, what think about that, you know, and I know I say this a lot, but you put the fullness of God in somebody and they're not ready for it. Right? They'll short circuit and either puff up and start the first church or what's happening now. obey me, or self destruct with, you know, any number of grandiose projects that God didn't ordain. So, you know, we have to be prepared to walk in that. But even before we get to fullness which we're not even close, I don't think so. But we, if you'll notice, take heart. Because the people that Jesus said that too, I'd send you out, you know, among wolves. And he said, you know, what's everything's you I give you authority, whatever things you bind, our nerves should be bound in heaven. They came back member, they were rejoined. They said, Lord, even the spirits are subject to us now. And he says, Now, don't get hung up on that. Now, was Gary Duncan 15:47 it the 77 777? It went out? Rick Norris 15:52 Yeah. And and they said, uh, we, you know, even though he said, Don't get hung up on that. I mean, we got people all over the country saying, Oh, I have a deliverance ministry. I've started the new big deal, deliverance ministry. Well, no, you don't have a deliverance ministry, you have ministry. And the demons are subject to you don't get hung up on that. And you've made it a big deal. Because when you were young, you cast out a demon or two, he said, these signs shall follow them that believe that can mean a child. If a child has a revelation of the authority, which I've seen him, do it and healing, God will use the foolish things of the world to confound the so called wise, right. But, you know, he said, Don't get hung up on that, because he knew we were going to, you know, start the first deliverance, big deal thingy, you know, we just can't help ourselves, we have to find an identity and be somebody. It's just, that's not what ministry is, Jesus left the throne of the universe, and came down and allowed himself to be humiliated, over and over, and then ultimately humiliated at the cross and mutilated. You know, he was greatest among us serves the rest. So that's all I'm gonna say about, like, for us, we say it's all sorry, but not for us. Because we're, you know, identity is only part of the equation here. And one of the chapters in my book is know your enemy. Right? If you know how your enemy thinks, you know, how your enemy operates, you know, there are subtle without that you don't have any advantage. Gary Duncan 17:48 But some people would say, Well, I don't want to focus on the negative. Rick Norris 17:52 Well, sure, and that's fine. Too much attention on the devil. But what I understand and that I hear that kind of dunghill all the time, right. And the and the fact of the matter is, is that's not what I'm doing what I'm trying to say is all he has is fear. I was going somewhere and that is his arsenal is all about the Boogeyman. And he Yes, he can physically manifest stuff. I a lot of that stuff that you see that have real which not one of those, you know, want to be witches, but a full on real grand witch or Warlock that's been at it, their astral projecting they're levitating. They're doing all kinds of stuff. That's by the power of Satan. And it's real, because he's a counterfeit. Well, yeah, well, no, he was given power. And you know, the gifts and callings that Gods are without Gary Duncan 18:50 repent. Everything he does is like the opposite of what God? Well, yeah, of course. So he's like, I heard it the other day. Somebody was saying these. The devil has his own Trinity. Rick Norris 19:03 Yeah, he mimics everything God does. Gary Duncan 19:05 Yeah. So he's got his own train. He's got the he's got off guy. But it was interesting. I was like, oh, never thought about, hey, mimics everything. It's got his demons. He's got himself as the Grandmaster and as witches and stuff on it. Rick Norris 19:21 So but the point is, it's real and people get, you know? Well, let me let me Gary Duncan 19:29 believe it's real. They just think it's Marvel movies and DC movies. Rick Norris 19:32 Well, they kind of do or some are that far gone. Some are just as far gone. But in a different slant. It's more subtle, and that's where we get into trouble. Let me share an example what I mean by that. I recently was asked the to join a prayer team. That is the elite of the elite intercessors supposed to be in a high place in In the city. And when I say high place, literally, you can see all of the midsection of the state. And, and I got there. And I've always wondered to so many promises over the that region, I was always wondering, why is it still being held back? Right? Well, I get there and I find out, God tells me shows me plainly that the high places still matter, not because they matter to him or matter in the spirit to us, but because they matter to the evil ones. Because there is when Satan fell, I mean, when mankind fell, and when the angels who followed Satan fell, we all inherited Satan's God sized ego. And they especially because they were sons of God, whatever that meant, then are meant meant meant for them. You know, the fallen ones, it's in their genesis, right? That they, you know, they had power before they were worshipped in heaven. To some degree, not like, you know, our God, the Trinity. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, but there was something like that going on even even Satan was it was glorious beyond where he was the covering. He was the glory over and canopy over the throne of God. That's how he got puffed up. I mean, you know, he was in charge. He was a rock star in heaven. He was the big deal. Right? As far as appearance goes, but he was a little creative being you know, he just didn't know that. Or he forgot. But my point is this. I get there. And and I'm doing this kind of like a my first time out with this crew. And it's really, really young people. Unknown Speaker 22:01 Millennials that because you're really really old. Older. Rick Norris 22:08 Yeah, I'm a relic. Yeah, yeah, I'm a relic. So I was there with in the Jesus people days with, you know, the likes of Keith melody Green. And, you know, back in the day with all the Jesus bands, and everybody, and a lot of those folks are friends. And so but anyway, so I'm old. And but that's not the point. The point is, when you're old, you know, stuff. And when I was young, I knew stuff. It's just I couldn't handle that kind of knowledge, they got puffed up and went sideways. God had to bring me back in. That's why I call seminary cemetery, because knowledge really does puff people talk about your rabbit trail. But so the point is, they said, well, we don't do binding and loosing here. Now this is the high places. And when Satan fell to the earth, he didn't eat, they set up in the second heaven. We've shared this. I've shared this many times. This is in both books. But the second heaven is where they set up because they could block this prayers of the saints going forward and prolong the inevitable, which we're coming up on. He's going to be judged, so he knows it. But, and I'll wrap this up, they said we don't do binding and loosing here. This is the one place it should be done. Because when you're praising when you're binding, and you're losing, you're coming against the powers and principalities, and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. And they said, well, we don't believe you're supposed to be going after the principalities and powers because they're the big deal. And you'll stir things up. It'll, it'll get messy. They literally said that. And my jaw dropped. And I had a person that came with me. And I didn't say anything to that person. And later they called and said, I can't believe it. Well, now I know why the strongholds. Remember. Paul said, we're tearing down the strongholds and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and what certain things you bind on earth and buy down in heaven? Why would he say heaven? What is binding here have to do with binding in heaven? And why did David say when I send the heavens were like brass. Right? There's a lot of little hints and pictures, you spin up time to where you start to put this thing together. And so and they're saying, No, we don't want to stir up any problems. That's like, Okay. The first time one of them came to me before and I did I realized that he was being coached later, but he came in he said, Look, man, we had people coming in here, trying to take over Same with this binding and loosing thing. And we don't want to do any of that because you're stirring stuff up. And even, you know, we don't want we've had enough problems and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So fear he's Yeah. And I said, I said, I said, and he's, you know, 2425 Maybe. And he said, and I said, You know what you call that he was what? I said, Fear. And he stopped. He couldn't say anything, because he's got a good heart harder goal. And he's just kind of looked around, he went, you know, it caught him completely flat footed. And I said, you know, we son, you got to get some skin on. We're in a war. Whether you fight or not, you're gonna get shot right out of the saddle. If you don't stand up and fight. So you're in a war, Satan hates your guts and wants to kill you. And he's saying, well, we don't want to fight back because we don't want them to be angry with it. It's kind of like the woke crowd. Right? Well, don't be islamophobe. Gary Duncan 26:03 Let's still speak truth. Yeah, let's get yelled at. Rick Norris 26:07 Yeah, let's not be an Islamophobe. To the terrorist, because they might get mad. Gary Duncan 26:15 Yeah, well, no. And that's a real fear. I mean, I remember years ago, when they were really the ISIS and everything was going on. And it's like, somebody and I think Europe, England, wrote just did a comic and they firebomb their, their building. And it's like, that's the there's a reason they call it terrorists. But if you think about, you know, how many churches would stand up and speak truth about Islam? I don't think none of them would, because they don't have the backbone to do it. Yeah. Because the fear that Islam has perpetuated within society, and they'll just kill you. Rick Norris 26:58 Yeah. And the fear of rejection of those around them that are so mushy, Gary Duncan 27:03 right, because we're trying to give a good witness. We want to be a good witness for Jesus. And we don't want to project meanness or the truth, which might offend them. Rick Norris 27:13 Yeah. That's all predicated on fear. Gary Duncan 27:17 What do you mean, I can't speak truth. Yeah. No, and that's kind of where we've, we've come out of the last two years is this fear mongering of a of a cold that developed and it turned into something big because nobody wanted to use simple solutions. They wanted to push an agenda. A boy did and now that now we've got vaccines that do the same thing. Yeah. And I mean, I was just that was looking at some people yesterday, I mean, they were two years later, okay. And we've got 20 Somethings still walk around with masks. So I'm like, dude, Rick Norris 27:59 well, and the, you know, the mainstream media I don't know how they have continued to be have any credibility at all. Because it's so blatant what they're doing. They've become an extension of CCP and the who and the NH now national health institution Gary Duncan 28:21 is to be system the whole system are part of that's it. Rick Norris 28:25 Yeah. And there really is a cabal and I like somebody the other day said, I'm gonna have to get some new conspiracy theories because all my other true all the other ones came through. I love that. This that's a whacked our world is this stuff's really happening. Gary Duncan 28:44 And it's all it's all pepper. Dee Dee. It's all Rick Norris 28:50 perpetuated. There Gary Duncan 28:52 you go. It's all perpetuated on fear. Oh, predicate, predicate, predicate all built on fear. Yeah. And, I mean, I'm affected by there's things that I won't say or do because I'm fearful. I haven't broke through that level yet. But my biggest, you know, my biggest issue has been about how the church went through this whole thing. And, you know, it's, it's just over fear. It's fear of turning people away offending people, because we're not wearing masks during the time that all the higher beings are telling us to wear masks and, and, you know, all this kind of the more think about how we didn't, how we shut down and closed up. And there was nobody bold enough with courage to stand up who there was one or two. Yeah, in my city, there was one or two to stand up and just say, No, you know, we're not shutting down. We never shut our doors. We've been through wars and we've never showed doors. But if you want to come to or you can come if you don't want to come to church, you can stay at church, you know, at home, we will have a zoom, but we're gonna have in service no matter what. And that's not a Western thing. That's that's a God ordained thing that we're to gather. Does it is there anywhere in the Bible tells us not to gather out of fear? That we might catch a cold or catch a virus? Or, Rick Norris 30:22 or and Don't? Don't? Don't battle the principalities because they might get upset at you? Yeah, he might Gary Duncan 30:31 just wonder where in the Bible does it tell us to not assemble, to worship Him and to edify the church when the Bible doesn't say for us not to symbol, and that anywhere, anywhere? I mean, if people are listening, and you can find it in the Bible, please. Yeah, it's not there. So. So why would we do it now? Rick Norris 30:56 Why did we do it? Yeah. Well, it's fear. Yeah, that's unambiguous. But Gary Duncan 31:00 I'm showing because I talk about that. I want to I want to get answers. I want to hear reasoning and understanding of why do we do that? And they have yet to hear churches repent because of that. Yeah. We're even having a discussion about Rick Norris 31:14 Yep. Yep. And that's, that's why I have several chapters dedicated to the fear factor. In fact, that's the name of one of the chapters, the fear factor, all right, because that which is not a faith is sin. And faith is the opposite, exact opposite of fear. And vice versa, obviously, so. So we have the here we have coming back to that experience I just had recently with those young folks well, because they were never taught true spiritual warfare, spiritual warfare for them as Oh, Lord, just bless what's his name? And, and what's your name and cause them to, to come to know you more deeply and, and Kumbaya. That, you know, they might sing some praise, which is always good, because, you know, praise inhabits the praises of his people, he isn't thrown on the praises of His people. I recently was walking down, driving down 14th Street, and well, it doesn't matter where I live and cast a demon out of a young man. I mean, one of the most dramatic changes in human being before and after. Gary Duncan 32:39 That's the one where you screaming out the window. Yeah, I love to see that. Rick Norris 32:44 Oh, it was amazing. And the changes what was amazing. I mean, I've seen a great deal of that in my life. Because it's just part of my calling, and it's not all deliverance ministry, it just, you know, whatever, you know, we're also these signs shall follow them that bully in my name, they will cast out demons. All right, people are afraid to step out into this isn't that fear? In my name, Jesus said this, they will cast out demons, right. If you believe that middle cast out demons will speak with new tongues. You know, Gary Duncan 33:21 laying drink, poison will not harm you. Yeah, Rick Norris 33:24 you'll lay hands on the sick, they shall recover, and so on. So, so here's Gary Duncan 33:29 what was that just for the Jews that wasn't for Gentile. Rick Norris 33:33 So, and, and people I literally have people all times that will I just don't believe that? Well, I just tell them say, well, it's not for you. You know, it says it. It's for those who believe those who believe in my name. Those who believe Yeah, and if you don't believe, I'm sorry, you're out of luck. You just don't get them. You know, and they'll turn around, you know, the next week and say, you know, I can't understand why I don't have any miracles in my life. What? You know, but anyway, so that's a little bit of a humorous tangent, Gary Duncan 34:05 for those that believe humorous, but it's just, you know, for those who believe, but fear, I believe it. But I'm gonna, I'm not walking around, casting demons out. And well, Rick Norris 34:21 that's another subject Pete, you can appropriate that kind of power. That's the other thing that nobody's getting taught. And then another reason why I wrote that book. There's, I've had three people come to me on occasions, and say, I've been in the church for 40 years. Right? And I'm repeating this for a reason, because it's so appropriate to what you just said. And they'll say I, you know, I've never even had a prophetic word, a vision, much less a miracle or a healing or cast out a demon. What am I doing wrong? And these are people that you know, really want God and really are seeking God? Or they wouldn't have asked for one thing? I said when's the last time I asked him to rhetorical questions when the last time you spent three hours praying in tongues? All right. And by the way, if you're one of those people that doesn't believe in tongues, go do some homework. It's an idiom, praying in the Spirit is not what the liberal theologians have tried to play it down to be it's an idiom from the first century, it means praying in tongues. And and it says right there in the word, do not despise praying and tongue. So are prophesying, which is another idiom, but we won't go into that. So now Gary Duncan 35:47 our gun at Paul said that Paul was telling us, yeah, you know, he'd rather pray I'd rather prophesy than Rick Norris 35:57 Well, that's yeah, no, that's a different question. Correct? What's the kind of stuff that does quote to you when you say that? And it's a mis representation of the context, you know, you're taking it out of context, the context there that you just mentioned is, hey, if you're going to stand up and give a word in tongues, you better have an interpretation. Or you're out of order, because the idea is to edify the bride. And if if everybody was to get the interpretation, that'd be fine. But I've never seen that happen. I've seen interpretations, many times back, and especially back in the day, but not so much these days. But and that's part of the plan. Some Gary Duncan 36:39 of them say, well, that's not for the church. That was that was just for back then. And now that's Rick Norris 36:43 denominational. Yeah, that's John MacArthur's Gary Duncan 36:45 that way. Rick Norris 36:45 And, well, there's a lot of old school denominations that believe they've had to say that because their theologians that went to cemetery, as I call it, started playing games with the words because they didn't have that in their life. So they had to find a way to justify the fact that that wasn't in their life. It's Christianity, again, is either supernatural, or it's a fairy tale. And if you haven't broken through it to the point where you're starting to get into the miraculous that and be a threat to the darkness, so it manifests, and all and you can deal with that and bind all that. If you haven't had miracles in your life, if you haven't had the gifts manifest in your life wins is coming back to what I was saying. In all three cases, I said when's the last time I came it down, brought it down to one thing, when's the last time you spent one hour praying in tongues? That's all you did. And and, and they said, I've never done that. And I said, try that and get back to me. And shortly thereafter, they had a breakthrough. And into the supernatural was like something happened that they knew was supernatural. And it was for them so that they would do and it was incentive to encourage them to make the time. See, we're not supposed to take the time to do this. We're supposed to make the time to do this. Gary Duncan 38:10 Even Jesus said, you know, about those 70 that came back or, you know, some things only happen because of prayer and fasting and fasting. Yeah, that's a tough one for me. We're gonna have to do a podcast on fasting because I like to eat. Rick Norris 38:27 Okay, err, hands on my ears, la La, la, la, la, la, la, la. Yeah, no, I don't want to talk about that. So I'm kidding. Of course. Yeah. It's, it's tough at my age, and I have, you know, dealing with the effects of carbohydrates at my age. And so, you know, fasting is really, Gary Duncan 38:50 you know, prayer and fasting and praying in tongues as prayer. Yeah. Yeah. So, Rick Norris 38:56 okay, so what are we in? We're talking about spiritual warfare. And how fear negates it. Fear will allow the adversary to come in and kick your butt. All right. So why did why did he say prayer and fasting? Well, it's an actually an act of violence. And, and the Lord said, Remember the word says the kingdom of God suffers violent and violent men take it by force. Gary Duncan 39:30 Yeah, explain that because I always get a little bit confused because I'm thinking the enemy is the violent one and the violent take it by storm but yeah, speak to that a little reason Rick Norris 39:40 you think your brain goes there? Yeah. Is because the what you've been taught and not taught the back of back page of my first book, it addresses that in a basically a rebuke and it's a rebuke mostly to leadership. I know that sounds heavy, but I feel called to rebuke leadership. Because we aren't we have two generations that are anemic. And the devil is handing them their butt and popping the bag and eating their lunch arrive with all those cliches. And the reason is, is there. They didn't teach them the other side of who Jesus is. Jesus is not squeamish about drawing a sword, or drawing blood and we have no concept of that part of him Gary Duncan 40:33 or chocolates, chocolate soldiers. per day. Rick Norris 40:38 Yeah. Well, and so the devil comes in and, and he, he's not like us, he always knows what he's gonna get, like a box of chocolate soldier, and he's gonna eat Yeah. Right. So unless you stand up and fight, you know, and what's funny is about those young people that told me, you know, I, that we don't do binding and loosing because it stirs up trouble. That's an indication that you realize that there's a real supernatural effect in the spirit realm. Hello, right. So wake up to what you're saying. And they'll say, Well, yeah, but you know, we're, what it is, here's an example. I'm gonna have to say, this is gonna go, this is gonna make some folks upset. Well, I'll tell you what, I won't use his name out of love and respect. Because we all make mistakes. He's gone. Now. It was a man that a prophet, you know, some call them the problem is a lot of self proclaimed prophets out there these days. And he wrote a book, and that claimed, and I'm not even gonna use the title of a whale, maybe? Well, the title of the book was needless casualties. Right? And his premise was, well, you don't want to fight against the big boys. You know, don't fight against the, you know, the principalities and stuff, because I mean, they're just too big for us. And he does it in, you know, subtle ways. But that's the premise. And the fact of the matter is, is only one area that I agree with him on that, and that's if you're right out of the box, you're a brand new baby Christian, you don't, you know, you might start to get a revelation of the authority of God and you go out and pick a fight with something that four out of your weight class, you could get in trouble. Now, I've also seen God intervene. In my life, I was a brand new baby Christian and three of my friends took me out in the vehicle in the boonies to have a debate. And, and they were seducing me. I mean, they were actually good. You know, Hey, man, like, you know, they were like, into the new age and drugs and everything. You can Yeah, man. God's cool. You know, you can like have both worlds. And, and, and you can get in and God was showed up defendant and nearly took that vehicle apart. The girls were screaming stuff that's in my second book. I didn't share some of that stuff for 50 years, because I didn't want to end up in a funny farm. You know, miracles of biblical proportion in my life. And it's only because of these revelations, not because I'm all that, not because I'm spiritual and special. Or it's just, you know, in fact, he, Rick rhymes with thick. He had to work me over man. I spent so much time in the wilderness. I got some friends in California that call me the park ranger. So the bottom line is, these kids were saying that we don't want to battle against the principalities and powers because they're too big in them. We don't want to bind and loose because it'll stir stuff up. Well, Paul says, we don't battle against anybody else. That's exactly what we are battling. We battle against powers, principalities, and spiritual wickedness darkness in heavenly places. Well, the question is, what is spiritual wickedness doing and heavenly breezes? And why are we told to tear down the strongholds? And why does it say that the principalities are already defeated? Right. Well, I have people say, Well, where does it say that? Well, it says in Ephesians. Also in Ephesians, it says, Having disarmed Are you listening folk, Having disarmed Prince abou apologies? Look at the wording there, you know, and powers. He made a public spectacle of them. triumphing over them in it. That's Ephesians. All right. So what that depicts is, you know, when a king would conquer another king and back in the day, they would put them in chains and marching through the streets of the town to show their victory. And so that's what that's alluding to, you know, Jesus openly publicly shamed. Satan and his minions defeated them utterly, completely. Hello. Sound like I'm preaching here. And so, so they're saying, we don't want to fight the principalities. And that's the very ones that we're supposed to be fighting. And they're disarmed. Having disarmed principalities and powers. Right? So but they have some power. So they'll show up and, and scary it, you know. And if you if you're like most folks, your hair stands up, get goosebumps all over again, you can't hardly move. Gary Duncan 46:03 The thing that I'm seeing, I mean, I'm not seeing demons flying around and all this kind of stuff. I'm seeing people that are demon eyes, that are attacking us. Rick Norris 46:15 best weapon. That's, Gary Duncan 46:16 that's the thing. We're in a culture right now that I was listening to. Yeah, I was just listening to a Senate hearing. Just a clip of it, where Senator Holly was interviewing some some woman. I'm listening to it. And it's so basically it means if you have any disagreement with my belief that people drank chant transgender people. Rick Norris 47:36 Oh, that Congressman was yes. Oh Gary Duncan 47:39 my gosh, it was like he's like, Ma'am, are you saying that? Are Rick Norris 47:43 you insane? Gary Duncan 47:44 Are you Yeah, it was crazy. And it was like, You have no argument against them. You can't say anything? Or else you'll be labeled as a terrorist a bigot transpose transphobic. Wow, that is such fear that she was propagating to him which he was going to take. Yeah, just a normal person totally exposed. Oh, guy did but but that that's just a subtleness of what Rick Norris 48:09 this defining subtle, it's so stupid. Well, yeah. Insane. She Gary Duncan 48:13 was just a total idiot. Yeah. But she was possessed had to be possessed, because of the ludicrous of what she was saying. Yeah. And so looking at that they're using that ludicrous see, to put fear in people's hearts to just even to a question. Yeah. Did God really make man and woman? Yeah, even the question. And what was interesting, and I'll go off track here for saying, we went and saw the newest Thor movie. And, and I'm sitting there watching this, and this really, you know, demonic looking guy, the bad guy, of course, you know, you got your good guy and your bad guy, your evil eye. And it was all about how the gods really didn't care about the minions. The people. Yeah. And I thought sounds like politics. And so it was really this guy is up and won't tell the story. Because people probably me if you see those movies, fine. But it was saying that God's and so you could just take that and go, the God, Jehovah, Jesus God, the Holy Spirit. You could take that and replace it with what this movie is preaching. Or, you know, fantasizing about is that you can't trust Gods because they won't take care of you. Yeah, they'll let your children die. And they'll let this happen. And he went on a war war page to kill all the gods. And I thought Hollywood, Hollywood likes to mimic what they believe. So is Hollywood, trying to implant in people's minds, of course, that God will not take care of you. God does not like you he lets you perish. And because the God that set this whole thing up in the movie He was was a real jerk, you know? And this guy was worshipping this God all the way to his last breath. And then when he met the guy in heaven wherever that the God just laughed it. So it's like, oh, I can see how Hollywood would do that. Yep. Anything against God so that just that, you know setting up well against God. Yeah. So anyway that mean that's the way I was thinking as I was watching the movie and, you know, improperly reinforcing the reinforcing what they believe Rick Norris 50:32 the fear, the fear the insecurity is Gary Duncan 50:35 but if you're not paying attention to what the enemy is doing, you don't know your enemy, you're not going to realize that they're trying to implant fear into your heart while you're being entertained. And some people say, Well, why do you even waste your time and go to those movies? I asked myself that question a lot. Why don't I entertain myself? Rick Norris 50:56 Yeah, I, I don't I had to get away from television and movies and stuff, because I really enjoy a good one. Now that all of that is coming back to what you were talking about is predictive programming. That's what that's cool. And it's always been there. It started with Fantasia Fantasia was the first real animated Big Deal production. Gary Duncan 51:21 Now you're getting into conspiracies? Rick Norris 51:24 Yeah. Well, I have a new one, like I said, because the other ones all came true. Gary Duncan 51:29 In case six, I'll it early, Rick Norris 51:34 all that stuff happening, man. What anyway, so we got to stay on track. Because what's happening right now is we have two generations that have not been taught that Jesus has a sword in his hand. And when He returns, he returned, it says he will. The Lord comes with fire. And every man's work will be every man work will be tested. Right? This is real. And, and the so you know, read Isaiah 30 You know, the voice of the Lord comes from afar bring in his anger and his Furies and it's like a turret torrent of fire up to the neck. You look at the Hebrew there, it's amazing. And he's bringing his sifting the nations in his seeds of death, see the destruction but isn't that the old guy and but right in the middle of that I want you to bring me back to them. Very important. Right in the middle of the most fire and brimstone you know, scriptures in probably the Bible, but definitely Isaiah, right in the middle of it says but you will have a song as in the night when one goes to the mountain of the Lord for a festival with a flute and joy of heart. And then it goes back and the Lord's gonna burn all of us in your back into this, you know, fire damnation and he's gonna, you know, do all this and that and judge the nations and fury and blah, blah, blah. And then it says an everywhere that the rod of His punishment passes will be to the sound of stringed instruments, and timbrels. So there's your praise and worship element again. He inhabits the praises of His people remember in that one battle in Israel, where they went, they said, you know, send in the Levites singing, you know, singing, His mercy endures forever. Well, I know I'm a veteran, I know a little bit about combat, you don't send singers in against even small arms. Because small arms are moving about 2300 feet per second. And when they go through, I had a buddy that got shot through the hand and he was in shock, of course. And he looked it was daylight right through the middle of his hand. And it was smoking. You know, that's how hot those rounds are. Right? It was smoking. And so you the point is we are we're in a war. I can't really it's so hard for me. It's so frustrating, because I can't make people understand the reality of where we are now. You said something a second ago Gary Duncan 54:43 about Well, that was the old god. Okay. Yeah, this is really what we're talking about Jesus, Rick Norris 54:47 this is really important. And this again, is in the first book and very, very important. Alright, so this is, this is a real Your eye opener and I know we're going long, but it's so important. Alright, so who is the real Jesus? Right? He's a priest and a king. We've been taught till we're blue in the face about the priests because that's comfortable. And love. It's safe. It's safe, and it's loving. And it's comfortable. And it's don't offend anybody that and unless they're in the temple doing making it all about Gary Duncan 55:30 money makes it everybody feel good? Yeah. Rick Norris 55:33 So okay, so they'll say, Well, why do you why do you always teach about this warfare thing? Well, I don't, I most often don't. But now we're at a crisis point, because we have a war, an onslaught of Satan, a defeated enemy that everybody's afraid of. And it's a wave. It's like a tsunami coming out of hell on the earth right now. And Christians are clueless, they don't know they can bind. They can defend themselves, they can defend their families, they can defend their church, they can bind it and render that stuff powerless. They have no clue. And they get a little pain right here and the demon starts whispering in their ear and they buy into like all kinds of diseases and sickness and it's real. This is how we operate. Now it's it says in Scripture, the spiritual rock that led them in the wilderness was Christ. That that hang for a minute, I'll repeat it. The spiritual rock rock of ages remember that song? The spiritual rock that led them in the wilderness? Right? Was Christ. Okay, so here we Gary Duncan 56:56 are Old Testament. Yeah, that's the Old Rick Norris 56:58 Testament. I mean, I mean, the account is in is in Hebrews. But it's saying the word of God the Bible's that that was Christ leading them in the wilderness, or what did he lead them to do? Everything from warfare to genocide. So he's, he's a warrior's warrior. That's why he said, You asked David, hey, what do you do? I kill people. What? Well, I'm a soldier. I mean, just what Gary Duncan 57:33 God Yes. Like, how do they reconcile? Rick Norris 57:35 And, and so I'll lose my train of thought. Gary Duncan 57:40 I'll lose my do. Rick Norris 57:42 We always do this one retired. So, so this, so the spirit, you know, what I'm trying to say is, he's a warrior. And we don't know that side of him at all. Right? So why would he leave? Why would Jesus Jesus meek and mild, right? lead somebody to, you know, nail, an entire culture, you know, do what is the equivalent today of genocide? Well, the reason was, is because those cultures were part of the Nephilim bloodline. We don't know about that. Member. Well, when the spies went in, they said, they're giants in the land. So there's the there's the confirmation, all those cultures were tainted with the blood of the Nephilim were the sons of God went into the daughters of man's son of God means the Fallen One. If you do some real heavy homework, you'll find the word Anunnaki. In the earliest gret early cultures, and that word means the Fallen month. So they when they had sex, they weren't supposed to have sex with women because they weren't of human full human origin. Had I don't know how to put that. Yeah, we don't really understand that they were angels. They were angels, and many ways not entirely. Meaning there had to be some, some other stuff going on there. But I, I don't know how that work. Gary Duncan 59:12 You were there mixing they mixed to namely different species species. Rick Norris 59:17 Yes. So. So here, you have women that are having babies that grew up to be giants, some, you know, the Smithsonian keeps hiding the bones, but the cats out of the bag there too. Now, you know, some are like 15 to 20 feet tall. And we you know, they're they were all over North America and all that and I won't get into all that. But you do enough archeological homework on that issue. And it's overwhelming evidence is just that they keep. They don't want to have anything that would mess with the vindicate the biblical narrative. So they started that early, really early. All of a sudden, all those bones they had just disappeared. All right. That's why they won't let them dig up the mounds, those big mounds in wherever that is Ohio. I think it is. Because they'll just oh, well, that's sacred ground for the American Native. That's not American Native grant. Even the American natives say that's not ours. And, um, but they won't let them go in there. That's a bit of a tangent also. But the point is conspiracy. Yeah. Oh, there's another conspiracy thing, conspiracy alert. And that, and that cats out of the bag, the evidence, is there empirical evidence. So anyway, the reason I share that is because that's why he had those cultures eradicated. Because they were that bloodline was demonic. The bloodline was actually going to was an attempt of the adversary to take the worldwide bloodline, so there wouldn't be a bloodline like marriage. It was preempted. And so anyway, I won't go into that, except that people say, Well, that's an exception to the rule. Well, not really, because if you want to see the Jesus, the same Jesus in the New Testament, you can go to the letters to what was not Smyrna. One of the seven letters like right now, I can't remember which one of the seven letters to the churches is Jesus speaking? You ask people, What is the book of Revelation about, oh, man, it's about like prophesy, and in times and stuff? No, it's a revelation of Jesus Christ. And those other things, he's showing what's going to happen in the process. And there's a lot of breaking it down, well, how it's going to happen. Bring me back to the white horse. And I'll share some of that. And I guess we'll have several pots, again, but it's important stuff. So you want to see that same Jesus, that is the spiritual rock that led them in the wilderness. Look at the seven letters. He says to one of the churches, in one of the letters, he says, I, you know, He commends him a little bit, but then he says, But I have this against you, that you have allowed this Jezebel in your church. And she's a witch, by the way, Jezebel is a witch. And it's a it's a controlling spirit that's rampant in all just about every church. And we're unaware of it. People, you know, it's like, doesn't mean church lady, it usually is, but it can mean just as easily. There's a guy with control issues, it becomes a demonic stronghold, and lot of your really big churches where there's a lot of accountability, function, technically function like a call. Because if you stand up, go, hey, you know, your scripture here wasn't quite lining up with, you know, something in the Word. They'll they'll blacklist you running out of dodge. Right. And I won't go into that. Gary Duncan 1:03:15 Yeah, that's another podcast. Yeah. Rick Norris 1:03:16 But here's the deal. Gary Duncan 1:03:19 Oh, fear? Well, that's Rick Norris 1:03:21 what I'm saying is that we fear that Jesus is a little more monarch than we care for. He scares us. And we worry about him being arbitrary. That's us doing using a big word, anthropomorphizing. We're projecting human attributes on the God. Right. But that's not who he is. He's He's the same yesterday, today and forever. And part of them is the soldier Warren King. We've never been taught because it's uncomfortable. And so here we find Jesus saying, Okay, you have that Jezebel, I'm going to throw her on a bed of sickness. Wait a minute. You know, one minute he's raising them off a Betta sickness next minute, he's throwing them on one. Right? And he says that I will kill her children with death. That's Jesus speaking, folks. Now, the reason you never heard that is because it's uncomfortable. And not a pastor out here wants to jeopardize his budget. And there's a few that are bold. But and truthful, true to the word. Now you say Well, Jesus would never kill children. Well, again, remember what he did when he led them in the wilderness? Well, these children from Jezebel are the Jew direct, demonic and or satanic progeny. They are the children of the devil. She's in the devil's bed. spiritually. She is a Any guy, any guy in the church that she happened to have sex with? Is that progeny? That child is got, technically spiritually 50% Demon bloodline, say, Satan's bloodline, because she's a full blown dedicated, blood sacrificed. In other words, she's like necromancy, and I hate to use that word, but I mean, it's it's a gross as it gets, but she has given herself totally over to Satan and death and is a plant, if you will, she's a spy from hell. So, and there's bunches of that in the churches and nobody's even as a clue, man. But the point is, Jesus is not afraid to do warfare, and he hates fear. And to wrap us up on fear. In Revelation, I believe it's 21 He lists who's going to the lake of fire. Right, and it's the usual suspects. adulterers, idolaters, liar, liars. You know, extortion or pervert. And what's the first hint right in the middle of that? Yeah, right. Even at the front of that is an all cowards and fearful. I wanted that to soak in for a sec. All the cowardly and fearful will be in the lake of fire with that other lineup. Those other characters. Wait a minute, what? So that's how much God hates fear. And the reason he hates fear is it is the exact demonic opposite. It of faith, it's faith in the devil. Gary Duncan 1:07:01 Because he didn't give us a spirit of fear. Right? Yeah. So if we have fear, then he says like, okay, within you didn't get the spirit of the Holy Spirit because you're in fear. Rick Norris 1:07:14 Well, even if you've got it, give you a spirit of Gary Duncan 1:07:17 fear. Yeah. sound mind. Yeah. Rick Norris 1:07:21 And there's been people I've seen a lot of people you know, digress, regress, died, degenerate, whatever you want to call it. So they don't spend a lot of time alone with the Lord. They don't pray in tongues, and their spirit atrophies. And pretty soon they're right back in fear, having already been baptized in Lagos. And some of them even had a revelation of all of this and just atrophied. Let their faith go weak because they weren't pursuing God. So well, let's wrap this up. And if I can, I pray? No, okay. No, pray. Gary Duncan 1:07:55 Leave this in fear. As you can pray. Rick Norris 1:07:58 Lord, you know the bride, you know your people. And, you know, I've been terribly verbose again, because you've rise in me in that wave of holy love that you have for your people comes through and you you're so passionate about your, your bride knowing how to defend yourself and others for what's about to happen on the earth. I asked, Lord, we asked, Are we intercede from our hearts with tears? Or we ask that you please give your bride the the commensurate Revelation the revelation commensurate to stepping into her new battle dress, armor. Please, Lord God, we're gonna get blindsided. You know that that's why we're having this pod. Lord, you're the only one that can wake your bride up to realize what's coming, and how to defend herself and to do whatever it takes a crash course visitation, dreams, visions, and bring your bride to the place where she realizes we have all the armament, we need all the arms. We need to bind and loose and decree and declare and establish that your word and your kingdom on the earth. Please, Lord, help us. Rescue your bride from all this fear and cause us to remember that you did not give us the spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind. We ask it in Jesus law, according to your great love and mercy, Lord. Gary Duncan 1:09:57 Well Rick again appreciate enjoy conversations with you. And please, folks share this podcast with others that might be going through some times of fear, trepidation and just struggle. And that hit the like button, do all that kind of stuff to help get the word out. And till next time we appreciate it and God bless Transcribed by https://otter.ai
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I've done a significant amount of reflection on politics, voting, and Kingdom living over the past few years, and I have concluded that the option of abstention is something that needs to be on the table for Christians. It may not be something you do in this election, or any future election, but it needs to be a tool you have available to you and one you can respect others using. In this podcast episode I lay out that case for this option, but if you want the summary and don't want to listen to a ninety minute episode, I'll summarize below. https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/se2-abstention-from-political-idolatry1. Many Christians view what James calls true religion as optional (helping orphans, widows, etc), as few Christians judge others for not doing these things. Only people who are "called" to those things are required to do them. Few people in our churches adopt, volunteer at the food pantry, etc. We view those things as optional, and understand if congregants don't have the time to participate. However, many view voting as morally necessary and the responsible thing to do. This mismatch of moral obligations seems to me to be political idolatry. How is it that orphans and widows are optional, while voting is obligatory? The state has replaced the church as the Christian ethic in American Evangelical society, which is why a vote every four years is lauded more vocally than doing the hard work of consistent community interaction and love. 2. When all candidates and/or platforms require our own moral compromises or implicit support of evil, the testimony of Christ should be prioritized and our salt/light to the world maintained over any action which promises perceived effectiveness. When all options are evil (a threshold we may disagree on), a holy example is only maintained through our abstention from evil and subsequent faith in God to accomplish his means through the church. As Daniel resigned himself to prayer, Moses's mother resigned her son to a basket, and Jesus resigned himself to a cross - God may bring us to a moment where following him means throwing off seeming effectiveness and simply resting in God's promise to sovereignly control history not through our subversion of his means, but through our clinging to him and his holy will over human wisdom, methodology, and power..God's express and implied will for our lives is holiness and a growing conformity to Christ. If all political parties and/or candidates require moral compromise, abstention is important to maintain moral holiness in our avoidance of evil. It is only through holy distinction (being salt and light) that incarnation is possible and meaningful. Had Jesus met us where we were, but not maintained his holy distinction from us, his incarnation would have been meaningless because he would have condescended without providing us a hope for our ascension. Christ may have met the prostitutes and tax collectors where they were (literally at their place of work or in their homes), but his maintained holiness and distinctiveness was what gave them hope that they were and could be more. Likewise, the church is to be distinct in our incarnation - being in the world, but not being of it and compromising for it. Without that holy distinction, we are not depicting Christ and have no hope of which to tell the world. Without a two-fold incarnation (condescension and holy distinctiveness), the message of the gospel is unintelligible, disingenuous, and worthless. 3. Even if all candidates and parties are morally acceptable, abstention can be important to avoid personal political idolatry. There are many actions which can be good which are made morally wrong or unwise for someone with certain struggles/proclivities. Those who struggle with pride in regard to their musical ability may refuse to join the praise team at church.While praising God and serving the church are good, good things can be corrupting influences or temptations for some individuals. Even if any particular election has a viable candidate for Christians, it may be personally necessary for an individual to abstain from voting in order to abstain from personal idolatry. 4. Abstention may not only be the best approach for personal and communal moral distinction and holiness, but it may be the best option for long term positive results, as group adherence to such an action could best ensure future candidates and policies will be brought up to standards rather than the voting base be brought down into moral compromise, and a slippery slope of morality ensue both in parties/candidates and the voting base. For example, had the conservative Christian community abstained in the last presidential election, while a Democrat would likely have won, it may be that the Republican party would have seen the need to put forward a morally fit candidate and platform this term who represents Christian values (in policy and example) far better than the current or even previous presidents. Likewise, we may not have such a backlash in response to our current president, and may not have made more far left candidates (like Sanders) viable options for the Left. Rather than a lowering of the bar all-around, abstention could have potentially halted and reversed the degradation of political polarization, immorality, and childishness.5. We recognize abstention in other realms (e.g. the financial) as being not only meaningful (symbolically and actually), but morally necessary in some cases. Most conservative Christian women likely avoid supporting Planned Parenthood even for general procedures not related to abortions. We also see abstention advocated by the most big vocal conservative Christians in the recent outrage against the Superbowl half-time show. They are arguing that Christians boycott (a.k.a. abstain from watching) the Superbowl or the half-time show next year unless changes are made to the program. Christians understand abstention to be a valuable tool in other areas - areas where we can conveniently find alternatives (boycott a clothing manufacturer and you still have plenty of brands to choose from, boycott Planned Parenthood and you can still go to another healthcare provider, or boycott the Superbowl and you can still find other forms of entertainment or watch highlights the next day). However, political power is an idol for us and we think we need it to control the world, so we can't loose our grip on that. Therefore, abstention is condemned in the political sphere while deemed valuable in just about every other area of life. ADDENDUM of ANECDOTE: Having contact with a lot of international people and missionaries, I always love polling that community on political ideas. I find that among missionaries, many break the mold in political thinking from what is stereotypical of their denomination. Here are just a few insights related to voting from the conversations I've had with some expats. 1. Many missionaries I've talked to don't view voting as that big of a deal, and a number don't bother doing absentee voting. They just don't view politics as where lives and hearts are changed. Kingdom work seems to have very little to do with political power. As you experience ministry (especially cross-culturally), the church seems to be the true power of Christ, not politics. 2. Some missionaries and individuals who have ministries and friendships overseas, or who live in diverse communities - in locations like Mexico, Central/South America, and the Middle East, find that voting along American Evangelical lines hinders their testimony. How do you chant "build that wall!" and then preach to your Mexican congregation that we are aliens in this world and there is neither Jew nor Greek... Mexican nor American? Many missionaries find it all too convenient for those living Stateside to have neat parameters for voting "Christianly," but that neat package tends to ostracize and ignore the other 95% of the world who compose the Kingdom from every tribe, tongue, and nation. Abstention not only seems like a possible option for individuals in some cultures, but sometimes the most Christian option which allows expats to love non-Americans and maintain their testimony to those they serve. 3. In many countries, Christians have no option to control the government and they don't really care to change that. They recognize that government isn't how Christianity asserts its power in the world. If Christianity asserted its power through politics, then most of the world, for most of history and through today (and including Jesus) were ineffective Christians. Was Christ's goal really for Christians to grasp at political power to wield their wills over the opposition? I was speaking with a missionary from one country where Christianity isn't persecuted, but neither is it even close to being in power. This person said that the church doesn't care about politics at all. They view it as, "why would I want to be or have part with Caesar?" The grasp at political power is viewed as almost antithetical to Christianity or Christian interests in some cultures. 4. Conservative Evangelical Christians in some cultures are flabbergasted by the political frenzy of American conservatives. While this particular point comes from listening to an international podcast rather than direct conversation (Justin Brierly from "Unbelievable"), I think the point still stands. Conservative Christians overseas just don't understand the compromises American conservatives are willing to make. Brierly said that U.K. conservatives thought the only difference they had with American Christians prior to 2016 was a little bit of language difference, but after 2016 they recognized that our Christianity looked significantly different in regard to its view on politics. It's important to recognize that conservatives from other cultures can provide us with some insights and balances we ought to consider, as it's easy to be blind to your own idols. 5. Finally, the nationalism of the U.S. stands out to so many missionaries returning from overseas. Going to a church and seeing the U.S. flag flown with the Christian flag (with the U.S. flag always in prominence, above and/or to the right), having patriotic services in church where always stoic congregants turn into passionate ones, having missions conferences where the world flags are flown - but with a special entrance for the U.S. flag that is raised above all the others and sung to - it just feels weird. It's weird to be so Kingdom minded only to return and have one kingdom raised above the others, including above THE Kingdom. We call it patriotism here, but a lot of missionaries I've talked to feel it's strange and goes beyond that for Christians.It seems a lot more like nationalism (worship of country) when you step away and return. While this last point isn't directly tied to voting, it does say a lot about how we elevate our nation and government, and therefore how we likely view an act like voting, which is integral to our government's elevation and the narrative of what we're lead to believe about our nation and our responsibility to it. In conclusion, American Evangelicals need to consider moral consistency, faithful action, and holy integrity as more important than becoming drunk on perceived power, security, and control. Holy sacrifice and conformity to Christ is what allowed impoverished peasants to transform pagan, pluralistic Rome, not compromise with the powers that be. Abstaining from evil and trusting in God, while simultaneously putting our money where our mouths are and exemplifying true religion (helping the least at cost to ourselves) is how we change the world, because that's what Christ taught us and showed us. Therefore, abstention in voting is an important tool to consider. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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A huge thanks to Joseph McDade for his generous permission to use his music: https://josephmcdade.com/ Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Discord Discussion Board: https://disboard.org/server/474580298630430751 The 80% (My Book): https://www.amazon.com/80-Conservative-Evangelicals-Prove-Relativists-ebook/dp/B07RDPW2NZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=j.g.+elliot&qid=1573560697&sr=8-1 Various reflections related to consequentialism: https://www.dckreider.com/blog-theological-musings/category/pragmatism-and-consequentialism A great conversation on a philosophy behind abstention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqEc3NNGol8&feature=youtu.be Phil Vischer on abortion and politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvWD7ykNjCc&feature=youtu.be Voting as coercive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiyZsCzP9k&t=1s Voting as an abdication of responsibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBAs9jmanzs&t=9s Christian Sacralism in "Anatomy of a Hybrid:" https://www.gospeltruth.net/verduin/hybrid.htm Electing Not to Vote: https://www.amazon.com/Electing-Not-Vote-Christian-Reflections-ebook/dp/B00YD5D0Z0/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=electing+not+to+vote&qid=1577199172&sr=8-1 Essay on Civil Disobedience (Thoreau): https://users.manchester.edu/Facstaff/SSNaragon/Online/texts/201/Thoreau,%20CivilDisobedience.pdf Kierkegaard Quotes on Politics: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/politics/politics-and-the-state The Myth of a Christian Nation: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Christian-Nation-Political-Destroying/dp/0310267315/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=the+myth+of+a+christian+nation&qid=1583004622&sr=8-2 Consequentialism Series (beginning ep. 24): https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes?utf8=%E2%9C%93&year=2019&month= Romans 13 Part 1 (Biblical Case): https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/rebuttal-romans-13 Romans 13 Part 2 (Practical Case): https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/rebuttal-romans-13-part-2 As Christians in the U.S. start thinking about voting for a commander in chief this fall, I thought I'd throw out an unpopular option for everyone to chew on. I've done a significant amount of reflection on politics, voting, and Kingdom living over the past few years, and I have concluded that the option of abstention is something that needs to be on the table for Christians. It may not be something you do in this election, or any future election, but it needs to be a tool you have available to you and one you can respect others using. In this podcast episode I lay out that case for this option, but if you want the summary and don't want to listen to a ninety minute episode, I'll summarize below. https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/se2-abstention-from-political-idolatry1. Many Christians view what James calls true religion as optional (helping orphans, widows, etc), as few Christians judge others for not doing these things. Only people who are "called" to those things are required to do them. Few people in our churches adopt, volunteer at the food pantry, etc. We view those things as optional, and understand if congregants don't have the time to participate. However, many view voting as morally necessary and the responsible thing to do. This mismatch of moral obligations seems to me to be political idolatry. How is it that orphans and widows are optional, while voting is obligatory? The state has replaced the church as the Christian ethic in American Evangelical society, which is why a vote every four years is lauded more vocally than doing the hard work of consistent community interaction and love. 2. When all candidates and/or platforms require our own moral compromises or implicit support of evil, the testimony of Christ should be prioritized and our salt/light to the world maintained over any action which promises perceived effectiveness. When all options are evil (a threshold we may disagree on), a holy example is only maintained through our abstention from evil and subsequent faith in God to accomplish his means through the church. As Daniel resigned himself to prayer, Moses's mother resigned her son to a basket, and Jesus resigned himself to a cross - God may bring us to a moment where following him means throwing off seeming effectiveness and simply resting in God's promise to sovereignly control history not through our subversion of his means, but through our clinging to him and his holy will over human wisdom, methodology, and power..God's express and implied will for our lives is holiness and a growing conformity to Christ. If all political parties and/or candidates require moral compromise, abstention is important to maintain moral holiness in our avoidance of evil. It is only through holy distinction (being salt and light) that incarnation is possible and meaningful. Had Jesus met us where we were, but not maintained his holy distinction from us, his incarnation would have been meaningless because he would have condescended without providing us a hope for our ascension. Christ may have met the prostitutes and tax collectors where they were (literally at their place of work or in their homes), but his maintained holiness and distinctiveness was what gave them hope that they were and could be more. Likewise, the church is to be distinct in our incarnation - being in the world, but not being of it and compromising for it. Without that holy distinction, we are not depicting Christ and have no hope of which to tell the world. Without a two-fold incarnation (condescension and holy distinctiveness), the message of the gospel is unintelligible, disingenuous, and worthless. 3. Even if all candidates and parties are morally acceptable, abstention can be important to avoid personal political idolatry. There are many actions which can be good which are made morally wrong or unwise for someone with certain struggles/proclivities. Those who struggle with pride in regard to their musical ability may refuse to join the praise team at church.While praising God and serving the church are good, good things can be corrupting influences or temptations for some individuals. Even if any particular election has a viable candidate for Christians, it may be personally necessary for an individual to abstain from voting in order to abstain from personal idolatry. 4. Abstention may not only be the best approach for personal and communal moral distinction and holiness, but it may be the best option for long term positive results, as group adherence to such an action could best ensure future candidates and policies will be brought up to standards rather than the voting base be brought down into moral compromise, and a slippery slope of morality ensue both in parties/candidates and the voting base. For example, had the conservative Christian community abstained in the last presidential election, while a Democrat would likely have won, it may be that the Republican party would have seen the need to put forward a morally fit candidate and platform this term who represents Christian values (in policy and example) far better than the current or even previous presidents. Likewise, we may not have such a backlash in response to our current president, and may not have made more far left candidates (like Sanders) viable options for the Left. Rather than a lowering of the bar all-around, abstention could have potentially halted and reversed the degradation of political polarization, immorality, and childishness.5. We recognize abstention in other realms (e.g. the financial) as being not only meaningful (symbolically and actually), but morally necessary in some cases. Most conservative Christian women likely avoid supporting Planned Parenthood even for general procedures not related to abortions. We also see abstention advocated by the most big vocal conservative Christians in the recent outrage against the Superbowl half-time show. They are arguing that Christians boycott (a.k.a. abstain from watching) the Superbowl or the half-time show next year unless changes are made to the program. Christians understand abstention to be a valuable tool in other areas - areas where we can conveniently find alternatives (boycott a clothing manufacturer and you still have plenty of brands to choose from, boycott Planned Parenthood and you can still go to another healthcare provider, or boycott the Superbowl and you can still find other forms of entertainment or watch highlights the next day). However, political power is an idol for us and we think we need it to control the world, so we can't loose our grip on that. Therefore, abstention is condemned in the political sphere while deemed valuable in just about every other area of life. ADDENDUM of ANECDOTE: Having contact with a lot of international people and missionaries, I always love polling that community on political ideas. I find that among missionaries, many break the mold in political thinking from what is stereotypical of their denomination. Here are just a few insights related to voting from the conversations I've had with some expats. 1. Many missionaries I've talked to don't view voting as that big of a deal, and a number don't bother doing absentee voting. They just don't view politics as where lives and hearts are changed. Kingdom work seems to have very little to do with political power. As you experience ministry (especially cross-culturally), the church seems to be the true power of Christ, not politics. 2. Some missionaries and individuals who have ministries and friendships overseas, or who live in diverse communities - in locations like Mexico, Central/South America, and the Middle East, find that voting along American Evangelical lines hinders their testimony. How do you chant "build that wall!" and then preach to your Mexican congregation that we are aliens in this world and there is neither Jew nor Greek... Mexican nor American? Many missionaries find it all too convenient for those living Stateside to have neat parameters for voting "Christianly," but that neat package tends to ostracize and ignore the other 95% of the world who compose the Kingdom from every tribe, tongue, and nation. Abstention not only seems like a possible option for individuals in some cultures, but sometimes the most Christian option which allows expats to love non-Americans and maintain their testimony to those they serve. 3. In many countries, Christians have no option to control the government and they don't really care to change that. They recognize that government isn't how Christianity asserts its power in the world. If Christianity asserted its power through politics, then most of the world, for most of history and through today (and including Jesus) were ineffective Christians. Was Christ's goal really for Christians to grasp at political power to wield their wills over the opposition? I was speaking with a missionary from one country where Christianity isn't persecuted, but neither is it even close to being in power. This person said that the church doesn't care about politics at all. They view it as, "why would I want to be or have part with Caesar?" The grasp at political power is viewed as almost antithetical to Christianity or Christian interests in some cultures. 4. Conservative Evangelical Christians in some cultures are flabbergasted by the political frenzy of American conservatives. While this particular point comes from listening to an international podcast rather than direct conversation (Justin Brierly from "Unbelievable"), I think the point still stands. Conservative Christians overseas just don't understand the compromises American conservatives are willing to make. Brierly said that U.K. conservatives thought the only difference they had with American Christians prior to 2016 was a little bit of language difference, but after 2016 they recognized that our Christianity looked significantly different in regard to its view on politics. It's important to recognize that conservatives from other cultures can provide us with some insights and balances we ought to consider, as it's easy to be blind to your own idols. 5. Finally, the nationalism of the U.S. stands out to so many missionaries returning from overseas. Going to a church and seeing the U.S. flag flown with the Christian flag (with the U.S. flag always in prominence, above and/or to the right), having patriotic services in church where always stoic congregants turn into passionate ones, having missions conferences where the world flags are flown - but with a special entrance for the U.S. flag that is raised above all the others and sung to - it just feels weird. It's weird to be so Kingdom minded only to return and have one kingdom raised above the others, including above THE Kingdom. We call it patriotism here, but a lot of missionaries I've talked to feel it's strange and goes beyond that for Christians.It seems a lot more like nationalism (worship of country) when you step away and return. While this last point isn't directly tied to voting, it does say a lot about how we elevate our nation and government, and therefore how we likely view an act like voting, which is integral to our government's elevation and the narrative of what we're lead to believe about our nation and our responsibility to it. In conclusion, American Evangelicals need to consider moral consistency, faithful action, and holy integrity as more important than becoming drunk on perceived power, security, and control. Holy sacrifice and conformity to Christ is what allowed impoverished peasants to transform pagan, pluralistic Rome, not compromise with the powers that be. Abstaining from evil and trusting in God, while simultaneously putting our money where our mouths are and exemplifying true religion (helping the least at cost to ourselves) is how we change the world, because that's what Christ taught us and showed us. Therefore, abstention in voting is an important tool to consider. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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