WEBVTT 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:39.440 Welcome to the Stone Choir Podcast. 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:40.480 I am Corey J. 00:00:40.480 --> 00:00:42.400 Mahler. And I'm Wo. 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:46.400 Today we are going to be talking about Satan's playbook. 00:00:46.400 --> 00:00:52.560 Uh we're going to discuss the strategies that are used in this 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.880 world across the board, in in all the various realms of life, 00:00:56.880 --> 00:00:59.200 that seem to keep coming up over and over again. 00:00:59.440 --> 00:01:03.280 we see these patterns repeated so often that at some point you 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:06.800 have to recognize the pattern and realize, as Corey has said in 00:01:06.800 --> 00:01:11.920 past episodes, there's clearly an animating intelligence behind what's going on. 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.840 The consistency and the precision with which certain strategies are employed, it's 00:01:17.840 --> 00:01:22.480 more than y can be believed from just normal conscious people doing 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:24.640 what they feel like doing in the moment. 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:28.240 Uh so today we're going to be talking about a few of 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:33.440 the strategies that are used by evil, by Satan in the world, 00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:36.880 both in what we call the political realm, the left hand kingdom, 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:38.800 and in the in the church. 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:41.840 And there are two initial points that I want to make before 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:43.280 we met get into it. 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.560 One, again, we're talking about Satan, and we're gonna be talking about 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:49.680 demons, and that is strident talk. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:53.600 to speak in such terms is inherently polarizing. 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:55.840 Uh it makes people uncomfortable. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.760 The fact that we would be talking about overt evil as having 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:03.760 an animating intelligence behind it, it's not something that people want to 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:04.400 think about. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:06.960 Uh so I want to make up clear up front that this 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:09.280 is not something that we spend a lot of time thinking about. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:12.800 It's not what we think the Christian life is. 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:13.120 But 00:02:14.480 --> 00:02:18.320 scripture warns that Satan prowls as a roaring lion seeking whom he 00:02:18.720 --> 00:02:19.920 may devour. 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:23.040 And if there's a lion in the woods or in the jungle 00:02:23.200 --> 00:02:27.120 or w the tall grass, wherever your your local f flora is 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.160 like, you wanna know he's there and you wanna know where he 00:02:30.160 --> 00:02:32.480 is. And so that requires consciousness. 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:35.760 you must be aware of the enemy and and of the manner 00:02:35.760 --> 00:02:38.560 in which it's seeking to devour you. 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.560 So that's why we're talking about it. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.000 It's not to be dramatic and it's not to name call. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.520 Uh we're going to talk some in this about demons and about 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:48.880 the voice of demons. 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:55.520 animating certain conversations in the church, which again seems very confrontational. 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:58.320 We're not doing it to be dramatic or to to be name 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:02.320 calling. That's the chief thing that that we hope will be believed 00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:03.920 when we're discussing this. 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:07.440 When Cory and I say this is demonic, it is in light 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:11.600 of First Timothy four, which as we've said before, sets the bar 00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:15.120 for teachings of demons as incredibly low. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:21.600 It's not that only the very most central tenets of theology can 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:23.920 possibly be attacked by Satan. 00:03:23.920 --> 00:03:26.800 He who is the father of lies will use any lie he 00:03:26.800 --> 00:03:28.320 can get to you with. 00:03:28.320 --> 00:03:32.800 And so when we talk about these things in terms of evil 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:38.640 and in terms of the demonic, it's deliberat we're deliberately shining a 00:03:38.640 --> 00:03:43.200 bright light on areas where frankly evil has been permitted to maneuver 00:03:43.200 --> 00:03:44.080 in the dark. 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:47.520 And so this episode today is to help people learn how can 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:50.560 you identify when evil is maneuvering. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.960 Because as we said, there's a playbook. 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.600 There with there are patterns that play out over and over. 00:03:56.720 --> 00:04:01.680 And the intelligent, honest Christian at some point must acknowledge what's going 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.600 on here is not a coincidence. 00:04:03.600 --> 00:04:06.240 The fact the same the fact that the same thing that happened 00:04:06.880 --> 00:04:13.120 to what became public schools in the nineteenth century is today culminating 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:16.960 in the absolute destruction of human bodies and minds and souls in 00:04:16.960 --> 00:04:19.840 the twenty first is not a coincidence. 00:04:19.840 --> 00:04:23.600 And the fact that Christian schools even are the same thing except 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:24.880 in slow motion. 00:04:24.880 --> 00:04:28.720 They're twenty years behind, but they're following the same path. 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:30.480 That's not a coincidence. 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.960 Uh so the we're gonna give an overview of kind of three 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:39.520 main categories of attack that Satan uses, and then we're gonna give 00:04:39.520 --> 00:04:45.200 some specific examples from the Missouri Synod recently where the newly annotated 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:49.200 and released large cataclysm, uh which I'll mostly refer to as the 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:54.000 large cataclysm because that's really what it is, how the strategies that 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:57.600 we're going to describe up front were played out in particular in 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:01.840 that scenario, not to say that it is special, but just to 00:05:01.840 --> 00:05:06.800 give a recent current example of how these overall strategies play out. 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:10.800 So the three tools that we're going to focus on principally are 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:13.680 the long march through the in institutions. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:18.000 Uh this is something that uh originated obviously in the political realm. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.280 Uh China today has a an I C B M called Long 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:25.920 March. Uh someday ICBM's name long march may well land in North 00:05:25.920 --> 00:05:30.880 America. So it's very important in communism that that is a tool 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:32.960 that they love and that they celebrate. 00:05:32.960 --> 00:05:37.040 And it's something that's been successfully employed on our shores again for 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:41.360 nearly two centuries now, and is being employed in the past century 00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.000 very effectively in our own churches. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.160 So the march through the institutions, co-opting them, turning the things that 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:52.640 we're trained to trust into things that are used against us. 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:55.520 Then the second phase, we're going to be talking about once those 00:05:55.520 --> 00:05:58.800 people are in those positions of power, what do they say when 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:00.960 someone objects to something they're doing? 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:02.480 We're just being reasonable. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:04.000 Why are you guys so mad? 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:05.360 You don't understand. 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.800 You're confused by the words that we're using, but what we're doing 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.640 is just like what we've always done. 00:06:10.640 --> 00:06:13.440 Sure it sounds a little bit different because it's modern. 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:16.320 We're dealing with the modern world, so we have to use these 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:18.320 modern ideas. 00:06:18.320 --> 00:06:21.920 Again, that is the second key element of Satan's playbook. 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:25.200 Once he gets the institution, he changes how it talks and it 00:06:25.200 --> 00:06:28.560 says look, what we're doing is what we've always done, and we're 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:29.440 being reasonable. 00:06:29.440 --> 00:06:32.080 And if you get mad at what we're doing, if you don't 00:06:32.080 --> 00:06:34.160 like it, you're unreasonable. 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:36.080 And we'll talk about how that plays out. 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:39.600 And third, we'll talk about when they get past the point of 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:46.240 accusing those who object of unreasonableness, they employ Alinsky's thirteen rules, the 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:50.720 rules for radicals from Saul Alinsky, who dedicated his book by that 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:54.400 name to Satan, whom he called the the first rebel, the great 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:56.080 Rebel, which was true. 00:06:56.080 --> 00:06:57.760 And that was that was his hero. 00:06:57.760 --> 00:07:01.040 And so we're not making a stretch by saying this is pla 00:07:01.200 --> 00:07:05.440 Satan's playbook when one of the men involved in writing it gave 00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:06.480 him credit. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:07.680 Uh so 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:12.960 the reason that the rules for radicals are important is that that 00:07:12.960 --> 00:07:17.040 is when institutional power, which is a Marxist term, but you can't 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:22.160 avoid using some of them, when the power that exists over 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:28.160 structures that we believe are for our own benefit, when it is 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:32.880 used against those underneath, it's used to single out, to pick off, 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:38.160 to isolate, and to delegitimize so that it's not a question of 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:43.600 what someone is saying in opposition to the now co-opted power structure, 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:47.440 but it's a question of well you can't like or trust that 00:07:47.440 --> 00:07:52.240 person at all because they possess X, Y, and Z unacceptable uh 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:56.960 characteristics. You know, it's they're mean, they're hateful, they're racist, whatever. 00:07:56.960 --> 00:07:58.160 You know all the words that are used. 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:02.160 They're that are killing words to eliminate people from conversation. 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.960 So that's going to be the basic structure of this episode. 00:08:04.960 --> 00:08:07.920 Uh so to begin, let's let's talk about the the long march 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:09.680 through the institutions. 00:08:09.840 --> 00:08:10.080 So the 00:08:10.080 --> 00:08:12.080 long march through the institutions 00:08:12.960 --> 00:08:16.560 essentially it the name really tells you exactly what they're doing. 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:20.640 The goal is to capture existing institutions and then wear them as 00:08:20.640 --> 00:08:22.160 a skin suit. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.800 And the reason you wear them as a skin suit is then 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.080 you can take the legitimacy and the influence that institution had from 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:33.360 what it used to be and wield that for yourself. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.040 And that's how you can change what the institution says and the 00:08:37.040 --> 00:08:42.320 gravitas, the influence of that institution remains because people don't update their 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:43.920 mental frame quickly enough. 00:08:43.920 --> 00:08:47.280 They don't realize this has been co-opted, and so I shouldn't listen 00:08:47.280 --> 00:08:48.000 to it anymore. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.560 They look at it and say, this is an institution that has 00:08:50.560 --> 00:08:55.520 been trusted for a hundred, two hundred, three hundred, however many years 00:08:55.520 --> 00:09:00.160 it's been trusted, and so what it's saying must carry some weight. 00:09:00.160 --> 00:09:03.040 But what they don't realize is that the institution has been co 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.360 opted. And how this is typically done is through the building of 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:10.320 small networks that become larger networks. 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:14.080 So one Marxist gets hired somewhere. 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:18.160 Of course, the best place to get hired is HR or the 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.560 hiring department, whatever it used to be. 00:09:20.560 --> 00:09:23.920 Today it would be HR, because then you can hire all your 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:30.560 friends. And you have significantly more power with each additional individual you 00:09:30.560 --> 00:09:34.880 hire. Because now, oh, it's not just me, it's this panel made 00:09:34.880 --> 00:09:38.240 the decision, or this board made the decision, or this person signed 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:39.040 off on it. 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:42.320 And so you slowly hollow out the institution and fill it with 00:09:42.320 --> 00:09:47.680 your own people until it is 100% in opposition to what it 00:09:47.680 --> 00:09:48.720 used to be. 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:53.040 And that is what the Marxists did with many institutions. 00:09:53.040 --> 00:09:56.880 One of the best examples would be academia. 00:09:56.880 --> 00:10:00.960 The Marxist hollowed out our universities, and this is the entirety of 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:01.360 the West. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.040 This is not just in the US. 00:10:03.040 --> 00:10:07.520 They hollowed out the universities by getting their own people into positions 00:10:07.520 --> 00:10:10.800 of power and then filling all of the roles in the university 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:13.440 with nothing but their own people. 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:18.000 And so if you hold a contrary view, if you speak in 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:21.840 a contrary way, you will simply be silenced, you'll be shouted down, 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:23.680 you'll probably be terminated. 00:10:23.680 --> 00:10:26.240 And you may be thinking, Well, what about tenure? 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:28.640 Tenure doesn't actually mean as much as you may think. 00:10:28.640 --> 00:10:30.560 You can still be fired. 00:10:30.560 --> 00:10:32.880 And good luck suing. 00:10:32.880 --> 00:10:36.880 So that's what happened with our universities, but this also happened with 00:10:36.880 --> 00:10:40.960 our media, and it happened with the media in a number of 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.240 different ways. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:45.360 There's of course the common way I just spoke of when it 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:49.120 comes to academia, hiring your own people, but you can do the 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:52.960 same thing if you happen to have money at your disposal. 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:58.800 Because what you do is you concentrate the various voices, the power 00:10:58.800 --> 00:11:00.560 structures, and how you do that is 00:11:01.520 --> 00:11:04.880 you buy up all the small newspapers, or you buy up all 00:11:04.880 --> 00:11:09.200 the small producers of television media, you buy up the studios. 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:13.360 If you own all of these things, then you can control the 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.040 narrative. You can make them all say the same things, often in 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:18.160 the exact same words. 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:24.400 There are some particularly damning clips of media personalities across the country 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:28.720 and even in other countries using the exact same words. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.760 You can layer them over each other, and it just sounds like 00:11:31.760 --> 00:11:34.080 there's a slight echo. 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:36.880 That's how you take over something like the media and then you 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:41.360 can control the narrative in society and Because ultimately, of course, your 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.600 goal is to take over the government. 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.880 And if you can take over the academy and you can take 00:11:46.880 --> 00:11:49.280 over the media, you can take the government. 00:11:49.280 --> 00:11:52.480 Because with the media you control the narrative, you control what people 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.040 think, you control the demands people make. 00:11:55.040 --> 00:11:59.760 And with the academia, with that side of things, you are producing 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:05.120 the next generation of bureaucrats and politicians and doctors and lawyers and 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:08.960 all of these people who will be running your managerial society. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:13.200 So that is how the Marxists manage their long march through the 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:17.120 institutions, and today they basically own all of the things I mentioned. 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:19.360 The control of the government is not complete. 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:23.760 In the US, they are largely doing the long march through the 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:26.480 various executive agencies. 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:29.680 So I mean, yes, there's the FBI and the CIA where there's 00:12:29.680 --> 00:12:33.760 a competition between Mormons and Marxists, that's a topic for another day. 00:12:33.760 --> 00:12:37.920 But they are attempting to take over all of these institutions because 00:12:38.160 --> 00:12:42.480 those have very real power in our government, the way our government 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:48.080 works. Because you have a very high churn rate, obviously, for congressmen, 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:51.920 even since senators are six years. 00:12:51.920 --> 00:12:55.280 A president is a maximum of eight. 00:12:55.280 --> 00:12:56.800 So where is the real power? 00:12:56.800 --> 00:12:59.920 The real power lies with those who don't have to give up 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:03.600 their offices, don't have to give up their control, their power, and 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:08.400 simply gain more as they gain tenure and longevity. 00:13:08.400 --> 00:13:13.120 That would be the executive institutions, the executive agencies, and of course 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:15.520 the courts. 00:13:15.520 --> 00:13:19.600 And as you said, the the reason that this strategy is so 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.480 effective is that people are trusting. 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.680 people get locked into a moment in time from at some point 00:13:27.680 --> 00:13:31.040 in their lives when they're being brought up where they will perceive 00:13:31.040 --> 00:13:37.040 things like school and newspapers and government as serving one end or 00:13:37.040 --> 00:13:40.560 another. And maybe you have a cynical view, maybe you have a 00:13:40.880 --> 00:13:42.240 a welcoming view. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:45.440 It's largely going to be f based on early in early in 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.560 your life when you first formed an opinion about what was going 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:50.240 on in those places. 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:50.560 But 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:56.960 the term institution I think is important because it it it intimates 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:02.400 the question by whom was this instituted and for what purpose? 00:14:02.400 --> 00:14:05.680 And that's precisely why institutions are targeted. 00:14:05.680 --> 00:14:13.120 Because, for example, academia, universities and and lesser schools are instituted historically 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:20.480 by local communities to educate their young, to inculcate sound knowledge 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:22.480 and the ability to reason. 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:25.760 And that's still the skin suit that they wear to this day. 00:14:25.760 --> 00:14:28.000 You want to learn how to think, you want to learn more 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:30.000 about subjects, you go to school. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:32.000 That's where you learn those things. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.520 And so by targeting the place where people think the learning is 00:14:35.520 --> 00:14:39.600 occurring, all they have to do is hollow that out and cause 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.720 it to inculcate a different sort of thing. 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:46.880 And if you say, Well, that's indoctrination, that's brainwashing. 00:14:46.880 --> 00:14:49.040 That doesn't have anything to do with learning. 00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:51.600 In fact, that's the opposite of learning now. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:53.680 They will just shine you down and say, Well, that's ridiculous. 00:14:53.680 --> 00:14:54.720 It's a school. 00:14:54.880 --> 00:14:57.840 how could a university possibly not teach people? 00:14:57.840 --> 00:14:59.200 I mean, look how much it costs. 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:00.800 It must be valuable. 00:15:00.800 --> 00:15:04.640 And it's usually enough to confuse most people that they'll just sort 00:15:04.640 --> 00:15:06.240 of wander away because you don't want to think about it in 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:07.760 the first place. 00:15:07.760 --> 00:15:10.560 And you know the the other examples you gave were spot on. 00:15:10.560 --> 00:15:11.760 Media works the same way. 00:15:11.760 --> 00:15:14.080 You know, if if someone is old enough that they grew up 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:18.560 with Walter Cronkite, you probably have a pretty high trust in media, 00:15:18.560 --> 00:15:19.760 even to this day. 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:23.680 Certainly relative to someone who's a Zoomer who has only ever seen 00:15:23.680 --> 00:15:26.960 just a complete parody of nonsense. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.280 Like the the media in the twenty-first century has been such a 00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:35.280 joke on its face, and yet people still keep gobbling it up 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:38.480 because it still has the same name and some of the same 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:44.480 logos and some of the same historical trappings that came along from 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:48.640 an era when one might think that it was more trustworthy. 00:15:48.640 --> 00:15:51.920 I would say that I would argue it was probably never trustworthy 00:15:51.920 --> 00:15:55.680 in the slightest, but even if that were the case, it's far 00:15:55.680 --> 00:15:56.640 worse today. 00:15:56.640 --> 00:15:59.760 So when you lock in an idea of what one of these 00:15:59.760 --> 00:16:03.280 things is for, you stick to it even in the face of 00:16:03.280 --> 00:16:07.440 evidence. And so like many of our episodes, the reason that we're 00:16:07.440 --> 00:16:11.760 talking about this and highlighting these is that I I don't want 00:16:11.760 --> 00:16:14.960 to say you must become suspicious, but I don't know how else 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:15.760 to say it. 00:16:15.760 --> 00:16:18.320 You got you have to look out for your own soul and 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:19.440 your own mind. 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:22.560 It's a lot of this really goes back to the genealogy of 00:16:22.560 --> 00:16:26.240 ideas episode where we talked about checking your inputs. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:29.360 When someone comes to you with new words and new new concepts 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.400 you've never heard before, where did they get them? 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:35.600 Why are they talking in some weird way that you've never heard 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.240 before? What is their upstream source? 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.600 Because they may be coming to you from an institution that you 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.880 trust. It may be your own church's publishing house. 00:16:44.880 --> 00:16:48.560 And you should implicitly be able to entrust to trust that. 00:16:48.560 --> 00:16:52.320 And yet, if they're talking in a way that you have reason 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:57.760 to believe could possibly do harm, you need to dial the trust 00:16:57.760 --> 00:16:59.840 back and you need to start verifying. 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:03.040 You need to verify where did this stuff come from? 00:17:03.040 --> 00:17:05.120 And so a lot of this is going to be about that 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:09.680 because when the institutions are co-opted and they're hollowed out and they're 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:13.680 turned into something else, people continue to believe that they're doing what 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.960 they originally were sold as, and that's simply not the case. 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:21.440 And that's one of the really difficult hurdles for people, especially older 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:22.880 people, to get over. 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:26.240 Because you just you don't want to admit that you've been lied 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:27.760 to and that you fell for it. 00:17:27.760 --> 00:17:30.640 Like it's one thing if someone tries to lie to you, especially 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:36.240 systematically. It's a second more difficult thing for you to suddenly realize 00:17:36.480 --> 00:17:40.800 I've been lied to for 50 years and I didn't realize it 00:17:40.800 --> 00:17:41.200 the whole time. 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:43.200 I didn't see through it. 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:44.800 it makes you feel stupid. 00:17:44.800 --> 00:17:47.360 It makes you feel like a dupe and you look back over 00:17:47.360 --> 00:17:51.120 the things that you've said and done that maybe were informed by 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.360 sources that you now realize didn't have didn't have the intent in 00:17:55.360 --> 00:17:59.360 mind that you thought they did when you regurgit regurgitated the things 00:17:59.360 --> 00:18:00.560 that they're saying. 00:18:00.560 --> 00:18:01.040 And so 00:18:02.320 --> 00:18:06.960 it's a it's a big ask to suggest to someone: look at 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.320 something that you trust and see if you can still trust it. 00:18:10.320 --> 00:18:13.680 That's a it's a scary thing and it's not something one people 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:14.640 want to hear about. 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.640 And then for us to s additionally connect it to, well this 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.120 isn't just a political strategy. 00:18:21.120 --> 00:18:24.560 This isn't just Marx or Popper giving a playbook to say, oh, 00:18:24.560 --> 00:18:27.200 well, let's do this and see, because we think it's going to 00:18:27.200 --> 00:18:29.520 be better for the world. 00:18:29.520 --> 00:18:33.360 When the fundamental point that must be recognized as you're As you're 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:37.280 looking at these things, is that there's an animating intelligence behind it 00:18:37.280 --> 00:18:41.120 that's more evil than any of the people involved and has ultimate 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:42.960 evil ends in mind. 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:46.880 That's it's something that most people I think are probably not equipped 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:48.960 even to handle mentally. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:53.440 We're not given the tools to recognize that there there is evil 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:57.680 and there is a there's temptation in the world beyond just my 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:58.640 own personal self. 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:04.400 Yeah, when we talk about Satan coming to us in these ways, 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:09.920 it's different than Satan coming to you and tempting you with whatever 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.520 you're vulnerable to. 00:19:11.520 --> 00:19:15.680 Maybe it's sex, maybe it's gluttony, maybe it's laziness. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.160 You can go down the list of things that are different hooks 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:19.360 for different people. 00:19:19.360 --> 00:19:24.160 Some people are largely impervious to some sins and very easily felled 00:19:24.160 --> 00:19:24.960 by others. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:27.440 And so you tend to have your guard up when it's your 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.280 own personal sins. 00:19:29.280 --> 00:19:31.680 And you don't really have to worry about the others because that's 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:33.280 not your weakness. 00:19:33.280 --> 00:19:36.160 And so I think when we think about Satan acting in the 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:39.520 world, especially in our lives, we want to think about it in 00:19:39.520 --> 00:19:40.720 those narrow terms. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.360 Is he coming to me and trying to tempt me? 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:47.760 The reason we're doing these episodes is to point out that there 00:19:47.760 --> 00:19:51.040 are other ways that Satan comes to you, and chief among them 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:55.200 is as deceiver, because if he can get you to believe something 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:00.080 different, now that's different than tempting you with something seductive, something you 00:20:00.080 --> 00:20:01.120 already want. 00:20:01.120 --> 00:20:05.760 When Satan deceives you, he's tricking you into loving and believing and 00:20:05.760 --> 00:20:10.160 adoring and seeking out something new, something you didn't know you needed. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:12.560 And then it gets packaged up and marketed in such a way 00:20:12.560 --> 00:20:14.480 that you're like, oh wow, I need that. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:16.640 that's that's really important. 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.960 And Christians are so vulnerable to it because when it's our own 00:20:20.960 --> 00:20:25.840 institutions that are co-opted, when it's our churches and our seminaries and 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:29.600 the group of men who are going to be going into them, 00:20:29.600 --> 00:20:33.520 when they're the ones who are seduced by these worldly ideas. 00:20:33.520 --> 00:20:38.080 The problem moves far upstream sufficiently that you as the person sitting 00:20:38.080 --> 00:20:40.880 in the pew can't see where it's coming from. 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.680 All you see is your pastor who's trying to preach faithfully up 00:20:43.680 --> 00:20:46.480 in the pulpit and he's saying some things that are a little 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:47.200 bit strange. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:50.560 You know, maybe it's stuff that you've actually heard a work before. 00:20:50.560 --> 00:20:53.840 You're hearing terms in the pulpit that you've also heard in your 00:20:53.840 --> 00:20:57.440 div diversity, equity, and inclusion training at work. 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:01.680 And that kind of makes you uncomfortable because how is it that 00:21:02.320 --> 00:21:06.160 scripture is saying the same thing as my pagan boss who's trying 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:09.600 to brainwash me into something that no one believed 20 years ago? 00:21:09.600 --> 00:21:11.440 And that's the right question. 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:14.720 It's not fundamentally a question of is my pastor evil. 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.160 It's a question of are these words deceptive? 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:21.760 Because it's the origin of the words that matter, not the man 00:21:21.760 --> 00:21:23.280 who's speaking them. 00:21:23.280 --> 00:21:29.040 If something has an inherent nature that is contrary to scripture, that's 00:21:29.040 --> 00:21:32.480 the end of the discussion as far as evaluating what to do 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.280 with it. 00:21:33.280 --> 00:21:36.960 The second order effect is: what do we do with this pastor? 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:38.880 What do we do with this septic? 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:41.200 What do we do with the fact that we're letting these men 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:43.760 in who are subject to these deceptions? 00:21:43.760 --> 00:21:47.600 And that's a that's a much bigger problem in terms of retaking 00:21:47.600 --> 00:21:51.040 the institutions, but the first thing that we have to deal with 00:21:51.040 --> 00:21:55.760 today on the ground is identifying when our own institutions have um 00:21:55.840 --> 00:21:59.040 been damaged to the point that suddenly some of the things that 00:21:59.040 --> 00:22:01.920 they're saying are not true anymore. 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:06.720 And they're lies that are being imported from a world that seeks 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:08.000 our destruction. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:12.640 And the reason that co-opting the institution is so important is that 00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:13.920 you trust it. 00:22:13.920 --> 00:22:17.680 You trust that when your your church's publishing house puts out a 00:22:17.680 --> 00:22:21.120 book that's gone through doctrinal review, that it's going to be sound 00:22:21.120 --> 00:22:23.760 doctrine. that's the sell. 00:22:23.760 --> 00:22:25.040 That's what they're giving you. 00:22:25.040 --> 00:22:26.960 It's not just a book that they're selling. 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.640 They're giving you its imprim, you're their imprimatur on the book to 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:35.840 say, This is sound doctrine you can trust, trust us. 00:22:35.840 --> 00:22:40.320 If that's the extent of your analysis and your skepticism, you're going 00:22:40.320 --> 00:22:43.920 to be devouring things that did not come from God. 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:48.800 And again, this is a it's a scary, challenging subject because it 00:22:48.800 --> 00:22:50.640 undermines faith. 00:22:50.800 --> 00:22:55.520 It does undermine faith when you suddenly realize maybe not every pastor 00:22:55.520 --> 00:22:57.760 can be trusted to speak faithfully. 00:22:57.760 --> 00:23:00.000 Maybe about some things they get it right, but if there are 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.760 other things are getting wrong, that's what you need to worry about. 00:23:03.760 --> 00:23:06.000 And it's a very scary thing. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:12.320 And co-opting the institutions is how how Satan anesthetizes us against feeling 00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:16.720 the pinch when this is inserted into our lives. 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:19.360 Because even if the even if the words coming from the pastor 00:23:19.840 --> 00:23:23.200 that you're reading in the book sound a little weird, if you 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.200 know that you can trust where they came from, you ignore where 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:30.080 the words came from because you trust the messenger. 00:23:30.080 --> 00:23:35.040 And so if the institution is corrupted, the messenger can be corrupted 00:23:35.040 --> 00:23:39.920 by giving the messengers false words that again they're not temptation to 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:42.160 sin in the way we typically think of sin. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:46.880 They're not temptation to look at pornography or to steal or to 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:52.160 lie. They're temptation to believe something that doesn't immediately seem to have 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:54.080 any negative effect. 00:23:54.080 --> 00:23:57.440 And that's the hardest thing of all about this is that on 00:23:57.440 --> 00:23:59.600 the surface it seems okay. 00:23:59.600 --> 00:24:02.080 Even if it's a different way of talking about something, if it 00:24:02.080 --> 00:24:06.560 seems okay and if it's juiced up so it sounds really Christian, 00:24:06.560 --> 00:24:06.880 then 00:24:07.840 --> 00:24:08.960 who are you to judge? 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:12.160 Who are you to say that these things and these Christian sounding 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:13.840 words aren't Christian? 00:24:13.840 --> 00:24:17.840 Well, that's why we did the episode on the perspicuity of Scripture. 00:24:17.840 --> 00:24:20.880 Can you believe what Scripture says and is it clear? 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:22.880 Satan wants you to believe that's not true. 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:26.800 So that when these other things they come down from the institutions 00:24:26.800 --> 00:24:29.360 that have been co-opted, you're disarmed. 00:24:29.360 --> 00:24:32.640 You think, well, I maybe I was wrong about the Bible, but 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:35.600 I gotta trust my pastor and I gotta trust my church's publishing 00:24:35.600 --> 00:24:41.040 house. When that happens, you're already sunk because it's not going to 00:24:41.040 --> 00:24:43.920 stop with the one little lie and the one little deception. 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:47.280 They will continue to pile up and pile up until ultimately there's 00:24:47.280 --> 00:24:49.200 a danger that your soul will be separated from God. 00:25:01.840 --> 00:25:02.000 Aaron 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:02.160 Powell 00:25:02.320 --> 00:25:05.200 Looking at the messenger is actually a very good frame for this 00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:08.320 because that is exactly what we're telling people to do. 00:25:08.320 --> 00:25:11.200 We are telling you to look at the ultimate messenger. 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:13.600 Because again, genealogy of ideas. 00:25:13.600 --> 00:25:20.160 You can trace any of these ideas back to an ultimate root. 00:25:20.160 --> 00:25:24.160 We are telling you don't just look at the man who is 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:27.440 in front of you speaking the words. 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:28.960 Where did he get them? 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:31.120 Who told him those words? 00:25:31.120 --> 00:25:32.720 And who told him? 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.080 We are pointing out that many of these things you are hearing, 00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:41.520 in fact, from pastors and others today, ultimately are from Satan. 00:25:41.520 --> 00:25:45.360 And as has been mentioned, that is not something the average person 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:49.200 wants to realize, even wants to think about that. 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:53.360 Because that could be your pastor speaking the words of Satan to 00:25:53.360 --> 00:25:55.760 you and telling you they're the words of God. 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:58.880 He may not be doing that maliciously, he probably is not doing 00:25:58.880 --> 00:26:01.200 it maliciously. 00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:03.120 But it doesn't matter. 00:26:03.120 --> 00:26:05.840 Yes, it is worse if he is doing it maliciously, but that 00:26:05.840 --> 00:26:07.680 is a second problem. 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:11.120 We are talking about the prime problem of whether or not you 00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:15.280 are hearing the words of God or the words of Satan. 00:26:15.280 --> 00:26:18.160 And so again, this is one of those times where it is 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:23.440 worth worth looking at the meaning of actual terms. 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:29.760 Indoctrination was mentioned, and most people today, when they hear indoctrination, they 00:26:29.760 --> 00:26:31.040 think, Oh, that's bad. 00:26:31.040 --> 00:26:34.880 Indoctrination is someone telling me how to think. 00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:41.440 Well that's that's a deep well, but indoctrination is not actually bad. 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:43.680 It is a neutral term. 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:48.240 Because indoctrination simply to means to bring into the doctrine of. 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.480 Doctrine is simply teaching, because it comes from the Latin word for 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.640 teacher, docare, to teach. 00:26:54.640 --> 00:26:59.360 And so indoctrination can be good or bad, it depends on the 00:26:59.360 --> 00:27:02.240 thing into which you are being indoctrinated. 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.560 And so for instance, when we teach the catechisms in the Lutheran 00:27:06.560 --> 00:27:09.360 Church, that is indoctrination. 00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:13.920 When you teach your children scripture at home, that is indoctrination. 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:17.600 That is good indoctrination, you are bringing them into the doctrine of 00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:19.440 the church, that's good. 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:23.200 What is bad is when they are being indoctrinated into the doctrines 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:23.920 of Satan. 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:28.080 Which happens at most universities today. 00:27:28.080 --> 00:27:32.560 And that's the universities are a particularly heinous example because many of 00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:37.200 our universities and basically all of our great universities were started essentially 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:38.240 as seminaries. 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:43.040 They were started with the specific intent of training men to take 00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:47.680 on roles of leadership, teaching, and preaching in the church, and Satan 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:51.280 has co opted them and is now teaching his doctrine to many 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:54.640 of the men who will wind up in pulpits. 00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:54.960 That 00:27:54.960 --> 00:27:56.160 was the case with Harvard. 00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:57.280 It was Harvard Divinity. 00:27:57.280 --> 00:27:58.480 It was a divinity school. 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:02.720 Yeah, Harvard Divinity School was founded in sixteen thirty-six, and you can 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:07.200 find online the the original uh admission exam, you had to be 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:09.280 fluent Greek and Hebrew and Latin. 00:28:09.280 --> 00:28:14.720 And it wasn't simply because that was the general level of knowledge 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.200 at that day, although it was much closer than what we have 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:20.400 today. But it was specifically because they were there to train pastors. 00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:23.200 Harvard was founded because this was the new world. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:27.280 There was the to get a pastor from thousands of miles away 00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:28.720 wasn't gonna scale. 00:28:29.040 --> 00:28:30.160 Yeah. Yeah, dude. 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:32.000 So Yeah. 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.880 And I I think William and Mary was the same. 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:38.400 Like the all all the earliest institutions that are today the most 00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:43.040 depraved and evil ones leading the charge in all these areas were 00:28:43.040 --> 00:28:47.520 themselves instituted in the name of God and for good purposes. 00:28:47.520 --> 00:28:50.240 And obviously as Lutherans we have some disagreements about some of the 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:53.120 doctrines that they taught, but I I don't question that for the 00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:54.640 most part they were Christians. 00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:56.720 and that their intention was pure. 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:59.520 They wanted to stick to the word of God as as they 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:01.680 understood it even when they were in error. 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:06.240 But those institutions, like to, to tell someone that Harvard was a 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:10.240 was a Christian school, I mean, it would be illegal to say 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:11.200 that today. 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:14.400 And yet nearly four hundred years ago when it was founded, that 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:18.240 was its it not its sole purpose, but v overwhelmingly its principal 00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:21.840 purpose. And it served that purpose vitally for a gr a great 00:29:21.840 --> 00:29:23.120 many years. 00:29:23.280 --> 00:29:25.840 and breaking down institutions 00:29:26.800 --> 00:29:30.640 is is what Satan does to kill things. 00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:33.440 He doesn't just make frontal assaults. 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:36.080 He he'll find any vulnerability. 00:29:36.080 --> 00:29:39.520 And if that means sneaking in the back door or changing the 00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:44.240 locks or any, you know, metaphors fall apart, but the destruction is 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.360 the ultimate goal. 00:29:45.360 --> 00:29:47.920 And he doesn't care how he does it. 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:48.400 And And 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:53.520 Christians have long understood the value of of institutions. 00:29:53.520 --> 00:29:59.440 The uh Lutheran fact the Lutherans, Lutheran Melanchthon were among the first 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:02.320 to push greater education for 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:09.280 children, for the lay children of of laymen, specifically to increase their 00:30:09.280 --> 00:30:12.400 their knowledge and wisdom in in godly things. 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:17.920 When Luther realized how ignorant the masses were, it wasn't simply a 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:22.720 failing of teaching in the in the church, but it was also 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:27.440 just generally a failing of the Christian society to value the teaching 00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:29.360 of its own. 00:30:29.360 --> 00:30:34.320 And so Christian churches, Lutheran schools have been an inextricable part of 00:30:34.320 --> 00:30:38.960 Lutheran churches throughout the entire period of of the Reformation. 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:40.080 And it's for this very important thing. 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:40.400 It was 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:42.000 required by our synod initially. 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:46.880 That was part of if you were a Lutheran church Missouri Synod, 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:50.320 if you were a member, you had to have a school. 00:30:50.320 --> 00:30:53.040 In fact, there were times where it was more important to set 00:30:53.040 --> 00:30:53.520 up the school 00:30:54.800 --> 00:30:59.040 before you set up the church building, because they recognized that it 00:30:59.040 --> 00:31:03.760 was absolutely vital to train the next generation, because at a bare 00:31:03.760 --> 00:31:08.560 minimum they have to have the education necessary to read scripture, to 00:31:08.560 --> 00:31:12.800 understand scripture, to actually listen to a sermon and understand what is 00:31:12.800 --> 00:31:14.240 being said. 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:17.280 Unfortunately that's fallen by the wayside today, but 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.680 So when Satan in targets the institutions, it's particularly because they're so 00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:26.080 effective at doing God's work. 00:31:26.080 --> 00:31:30.000 And rather than making a frontal assault on them, rather than saying, 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:32.400 I'm going to attack this directly. 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:34.880 As Corey said, he hollows it out and he wears it as 00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:35.680 a skin suit. 00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:39.200 And then it's doing his job in God's name. 00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:43.120 And the Christian today who has not been engaged, who's not been 00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:48.080 paying careful attention The Christian who remembers the good old days when 00:31:48.080 --> 00:31:51.360 things weren't so bad and wants to trust that they're not really 00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:55.680 as bad as they seem or that they'll get better, that man 00:31:56.000 --> 00:32:01.840 is fundamentally disarmed by his own naivete to look and think, well, 00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:04.240 I I I want to I still want to trust this thing 00:32:04.400 --> 00:32:07.680 because you know I I have my Latterman jacket or whatever. 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:11.440 You know, it's you have some fondness for the past, which is 00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:13.120 really it's nostalgia. 00:32:13.120 --> 00:32:16.400 It's remembering a thing that no longer exists. 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.880 And I think that as Christians, we are going to begin to 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:24.800 need to take a long, hard look At which part of any 00:32:24.800 --> 00:32:27.440 existing institutions today 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:33.840 should remain, whether they should be allowed to continue to exist as 00:32:33.840 --> 00:32:37.760 they do with the cruft that has built up, whether it's in 00:32:37.760 --> 00:32:41.600 our bylaws or as Corey mentioned with the FBI and the CIA, 00:32:41.600 --> 00:32:44.480 this happens in our churches too, when you have 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:51.520 employees who stay there for decades and lifetimes in these unelected, invisible 00:32:51.520 --> 00:32:51.840 positions 00:32:52.800 --> 00:32:55.840 that continue to shape the future. 00:32:55.840 --> 00:32:58.400 If they're being faithful, that's a blessing. 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:03.520 If they cease to be faithful, that's like having a radioactive substance 00:33:03.520 --> 00:33:04.240 inside your body. 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:08.800 It's going to continue to produce cancer cells no mut no matter 00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:12.000 how hard your body fights to try to repair the damage. 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.360 As long as there's that radioactive substance inside you, you're going to 00:33:15.840 --> 00:33:17.680 keep slowly dying. 00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:23.760 And the institutional rot caused by this institutional corruption is such that 00:33:23.760 --> 00:33:27.200 when we start looking at what do we have to deal with 00:33:27.360 --> 00:33:30.720 here? There are going to be some hard questions that every church 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.840 is going to have to face about its own beloved trusted institutions. 00:33:35.840 --> 00:33:39.920 You know, the LCMS just celebrated its 175th anniversary or is about 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:40.720 to, I can't remember which. 00:33:41.280 --> 00:33:42.640 I think it just did. 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:43.200 And so 00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:47.280 we like to say that we stand on the shoulders of Walther 00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:51.200 and a hundred and seventy-five years of Missouri Senate Lutherans. 00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:55.680 Well, Corey made a point, uh tweet a couple days ago that 00:33:56.480 --> 00:34:03.280 opposition to polygony, opposition to slavery, opposition to patriarchy in the name 00:34:03.280 --> 00:34:07.840 of God as moral matters is a novelty. 00:34:07.840 --> 00:34:11.680 And amazingly, there was one of the pastors who generally doesn't like 00:34:11.680 --> 00:34:16.640 us very much who defended the position in so far as he 00:34:16.640 --> 00:34:20.640 confirmed to someone that said that Corey should be excommunicated from the 00:34:20.640 --> 00:34:24.640 church and declared to the whole world to be damned for eternity. 00:34:24.640 --> 00:34:28.080 This pastor said, Well, you know, the LCMS actually did believe those 00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:29.760 things once upon a time. 00:34:29.760 --> 00:34:32.960 Now, I don't believe this pastor was doing it because he agrees 00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:33.680 with scripture. 00:34:33.680 --> 00:34:37.680 He was simply making the point that yeah, we used to believe 00:34:37.680 --> 00:34:39.760 one thing and then we got better. 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:43.280 The point that I made based on that interaction was that we 00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:46.800 claim to have a hundred and seventy five year legacy of Missouri 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:53.440 Synod Lutheranism and a five hundred year legacy of Lutheranism by borrowing 00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:56.800 names from men who would not agree with many of the theological 00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:58.000 points that we teach today. 00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:03.840 And that is also a symptom of institutions being co-opted. 00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:04.960 If you have 00:35:06.560 --> 00:35:11.840 a church body that taught one thing historically, and then today it 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:16.480 teaches a new doctrine that is not consistent with the historic doctrine. 00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:18.640 One of those is heresy. 00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:22.560 One of those is lying in God's name, which is the second 00:35:22.560 --> 00:35:24.400 worst sin that you can commit after 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:27.360 saying that God is not your God. 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:30.000 And one follows right after the other. 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:30.880 And so 00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:36.240 the identification of these errors is not simply a matter of of 00:35:36.560 --> 00:35:38.720 winning fights on the internet. 00:35:38.720 --> 00:35:42.320 It's about making sure that the subversion and the damage that's being 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:48.080 done in all of our churches in these modern terms by sources 00:35:48.080 --> 00:35:50.400 and words and ideas that are imported 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.360 from atheism into the church sprinkled with Jesus dust so that it 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.560 goes down easy when when Christians hear it. 00:36:00.560 --> 00:36:03.040 That's how Satan is getting us. 00:36:03.040 --> 00:36:06.640 He's making his words sound Christian. 00:36:06.640 --> 00:36:11.440 And so for the second part of this strategy, once this institutions 00:36:11.600 --> 00:36:16.080 are co-opted, what do these guys say again when anyone objects We're 00:36:16.080 --> 00:36:17.360 just being reasonable. 00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:20.960 This is the this is a normal, reasonable way to talk about 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.560 these things today. 00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:26.480 And the reason that they do that is framing. 00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:28.240 It's very powerful framing. 00:36:28.240 --> 00:36:29.920 And it's the reason we did the framing episode. 00:36:30.160 --> 00:36:32.960 I hope you start to see that the more we go into 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:37.600 this series, the more we refer back to specific episodes. 00:36:37.600 --> 00:36:41.200 We're doing that not for narcissistic reasons, but because this is a 00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:44.480 This is a framework for understanding everything that's going on. 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:47.520 If you ignore the genealogy of the ideas that are coming to 00:36:47.520 --> 00:36:50.640 you, and if you accept the framing of those who are trying 00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:54.960 to feed those false ideas to you, you're fundamentally disarmed. 00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:58.400 Even if you might have the theological chops to push back, you're 00:36:58.400 --> 00:37:00.560 not going to have the willingness to because you're not going to 00:37:00.560 --> 00:37:04.080 be confident that what is confronting you is actually something that needs 00:37:04.080 --> 00:37:05.360 to be confronted. 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:09.200 So when these guys insert this stuff, and you know, when when 00:37:09.200 --> 00:37:13.040 Corey and I use terms like sprinkle with Jesus dust or slather 00:37:13.040 --> 00:37:17.120 with Jesus butter, I hope that people don't think that we're being 00:37:17.120 --> 00:37:20.240 blasphemous against God because it's precisely the opposite person. 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:21.680 purpose we have in mind. 00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:27.040 What we are saying is that these foreign radioactive substances that are 00:37:27.040 --> 00:37:31.600 coming from Satan's realm, that are teachings of demons, when these men 00:37:31.680 --> 00:37:36.240 bring these things into our churches, they don't bring them in their 00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:37.600 original clothing. 00:37:37.600 --> 00:37:39.440 They put a new costume on them. 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:42.320 They put Lutheran words on them in our church. 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:46.880 In other churches, it's it's gonna be whatever Christian vernacular you use. 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:51.120 So that the Shibbolus, the you are programmed and indoctrinated to respond 00:37:51.120 --> 00:37:55.040 to will cause you to accept what they're saying even though it 00:37:55.040 --> 00:37:57.200 doesn't sound like anything you've ever heard. 00:37:57.200 --> 00:37:59.920 And even though it might be contrary to things that you've been 00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:04.640 taught in the past correctly, because because you bent off scripture. 00:38:04.640 --> 00:38:09.280 When th they sprinkle Jesus dust on it, you as a Christian 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:13.360 who trusts the institution and who loves Jesus and wants to obey 00:38:13.360 --> 00:38:17.840 his commands, when a pastor says to you, I command you in 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:20.400 the name of God to believe this because I'm a pastor and 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:26.880 this is from God, that's an impossible situation for the average layman 00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:28.880 when what they're teaching is false. 00:38:29.200 --> 00:38:34.720 And unfortunately, we feel that we must arm people today to understand 00:38:34.720 --> 00:38:38.160 when that's happening because they're always going to say they're just being 00:38:38.160 --> 00:38:41.760 reasonable. They're always going to say this is what Christians have always 00:38:41.760 --> 00:38:46.160 taught. And it's really interesting when when they make that play, they 00:38:46.160 --> 00:38:48.880 will maybe they'll point back to some document that was written in 00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:51.520 1994 or maybe as late as the 60s. 00:38:51.520 --> 00:38:54.240 But then you know the next document that they look at, it's 00:38:54.240 --> 00:38:55.680 gonna be scripture. 00:38:55.680 --> 00:38:59.680 Now we talked about that in in several read in several episodes. 00:38:59.680 --> 00:39:03.360 What happened to the other nineteen hundred years of Christian history? 00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:05.360 If you say that you found something in the Bible 00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.600 and then you found it in the 60s and in the 90s, 00:39:09.600 --> 00:39:13.040 and you're telling us today that we have to believe it, where's 00:39:13.040 --> 00:39:15.680 the rest of Christian history believing the same thing? 00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:19.600 Because if you can't make that case, then you must either accuse 00:39:19.600 --> 00:39:23.920 all Christians before us of being heretics, of lying in God's name 00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:28.880 and believing falsely, and risking damnation, or you have to admit that 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:30.640 you're teaching a new doctrine. 00:39:30.640 --> 00:39:34.560 And these guys will say, oh, we're being reasonable while they're teaching 00:39:34.560 --> 00:39:36.800 things that are fundamentally new to the church. 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.200 And that's incredibly dangerous. 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:39.520 And 00:39:39.520 --> 00:39:44.640 this, of course, ties right into the issue of politics. 00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:50.400 Because many Christians have been trained, and they should probably investigate the 00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:53.440 source of that training, but they have been trained to believe that, 00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:58.480 oh well there's politics, and then the church is something else. 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:03.520 That there's this division between a political realm where apparently Christ is 00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:07.600 not king and the church where Christ is of course king. 00:40:07.600 --> 00:40:09.440 And that's just false. 00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:13.040 Yes, as long as Lutherans, we do have a sort of two 00:40:13.200 --> 00:40:17.920 kingdoms doctrine, but so many misunderstand what that means. 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.400 Because it's always rendered in a shorthand instead of the fullness of 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:26.000 what the terms actually are because it is the kingdom of the 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:31.040 right hand of Christ is the church, and the kingdom of the 00:40:31.040 --> 00:40:34.720 left hand of Christ is the state. 00:40:34.720 --> 00:40:38.800 And our confessions are very clear that those who rule in the 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:42.960 state also have a duty to ensure that the scriptures are rightly 00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:45.040 taught in their realms. 00:40:45.040 --> 00:40:47.920 The head of state will have to answer what he did with 00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:50.880 the sheep God gave him the same as a pastor will have 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:52.080 to answer. 00:40:52.080 --> 00:40:56.400 Yes, they have different duties, but the duty of the prince or 00:40:56.400 --> 00:41:02.880 the king is not exclusively secular to use a term that is 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:06.240 not a very good term, but people will understand what is meant. 00:41:06.240 --> 00:41:10.080 The prince still has a duty with regard to the things of 00:41:10.080 --> 00:41:14.400 God, because he has been given his position of authority and power 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:19.760 by God, and that comes with certain duties. 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:24.160 But there's also the issue of hierarchy, just to quickly talk about 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:28.160 institutions and what happens when they're co-opted again. 00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:34.080 When an institution is co opted, Satan achieves two victories. 00:41:34.080 --> 00:41:38.160 For a period of time he gets to use that institution to 00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:44.160 teach his doctrines what With the authority the institution has because of 00:41:44.160 --> 00:41:46.480 its history, what it used to be. 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:52.800 And then additionally, he has destroyed an institution that probably took generations 00:41:52.800 --> 00:41:56.400 to build, and any replacement will also take generations to build. 00:41:56.400 --> 00:41:58.720 So that's a twofold victory. 00:41:58.720 --> 00:42:02.320 And then of course the problem that flows from that is how 00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:07.040 does a layman or a parish pastor deal with that problem? 00:42:07.040 --> 00:42:10.320 Because if things get corrupted at the highest level and that filters 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:13.040 down, by the time it gets into the parish and is taught 00:42:13.040 --> 00:42:19.280 to layman, the corruption has probably existed for generations. 00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.720 Because Satan doesn't tend to move very quickly with these things. 00:42:22.720 --> 00:42:25.520 He's not patient, but at the same time he is because he 00:42:25.520 --> 00:42:27.440 has a lot of time on his hands. 00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:30.800 He doesn't live for eighty or eighty-five years and then have to 00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:33.040 pass things off to the next generation. 00:42:33.040 --> 00:42:33.760 Humans do. 00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.400 We have to do things generationally. 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.120 He doesn't have that limitation. 00:42:39.120 --> 00:42:42.240 And so by the time it gets down into the parish, you 00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:45.920 have generations of rot you have to deal with, you may very 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.000 well have to rebuild your institutions from the ground up, because they 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:54.320 may have been so thoroughly corrupted that you cannot salvage them. 00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:57.280 I'm not saying that our institutions are necessarily that far That far 00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.640 gone at this point. 00:43:00.560 --> 00:43:05.920 But they are certainly far gone in some regards, even in the 00:43:05.920 --> 00:43:09.200 Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. 00:43:09.200 --> 00:43:09.760 And so 00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:17.120 Speaking of how these things are sold, it's really a difference between 00:43:17.120 --> 00:43:18.640 the soft sell and the hard sell. 00:43:18.640 --> 00:43:22.960 Anyone who's familiar with marketing and advertising and related things. 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:25.520 We'll understand the difference between a soft cell and a hard cell. 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:27.600 And basically it's just the type of approach. 00:43:27.600 --> 00:43:32.400 The soft sell is the easier approach you sort of subtly influence 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:35.760 someone to come around to your position to sell them on something. 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:41.280 The hard cell is very much more upfront, blunt, forceful. 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:44.160 Christianity is more of the hard cell. 00:43:44.160 --> 00:43:47.280 Because you start with the law, and the law is a hard 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.240 cell. Satan is the exact opposite. 00:43:50.240 --> 00:43:52.560 Satan is the soft sell. 00:43:52.560 --> 00:43:57.440 Because Satan is going to tell you what you're doing is fine, 00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:01.200 but, and if you're currently sinning and ignoring God, he's just going 00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:02.160 to tell you what you're doing is fine. 00:44:02.160 --> 00:44:04.320 Keep doing it, have fun. 00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:09.360 But if you're a Christian or you're trying to follow God, he'll 00:44:09.360 --> 00:44:13.040 tell you what you're doing is good, but it could be a 00:44:13.040 --> 00:44:13.920 little better. 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:15.280 So maybe do this. 00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:16.640 And it'll be a small change. 00:44:16.640 --> 00:44:19.520 And it seems like a small innocuous change. 00:44:19.520 --> 00:44:22.480 It doesn't seem like something that is big, it doesn't seem like 00:44:22.480 --> 00:44:26.160 you've set your foot down on the wrong path, but then there'll 00:44:26.160 --> 00:44:28.720 be another one, and another one, and another one. 00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:33.360 And if you're on the wrong path, well it actually only takes 00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:35.760 that one first step to be on the wrong path, and every 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:39.840 additional step down that path is worse because you are still heading 00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:41.520 down the wrong path. 00:44:41.520 --> 00:44:43.680 That's the way that Satan works. 00:44:43.680 --> 00:44:48.880 It's small, it's incrementalism, it's ratcheting, and that's where the reasonableness comes 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:53.040 in. Because as soon as you've accepted step one and step two 00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:57.280 and step three, then there comes the argument, well step four is 00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:00.480 just reasonable as an extension of these others. 00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:04.080 And obviously you can't go backward, there's your ratchet, because if you 00:45:04.080 --> 00:45:08.800 go backward, well, that would be unreasonable because we've made progress with 00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.720 these steps, so we have to keep going in the same direction. 00:45:12.720 --> 00:45:15.440 And that's how this reasonableness works. 00:45:15.440 --> 00:45:20.480 It makes it so that it's unthinkable to turn around and look 00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:24.080 at the path and look at where you actually made your error, 00:45:24.080 --> 00:45:26.720 where you actually went astray, because it would be unreasonable to do 00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:30.000 that. No, we have to forge forward and keep going and take 00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:32.080 these additional steps. 00:45:32.080 --> 00:45:33.280 That's what Satan wants to do. 00:45:33.520 --> 00:45:36.640 Satan does not want you to look at the source of these 00:45:36.640 --> 00:45:40.880 things. Because if you look at the source, you'll see him eventually 00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:43.840 standing behind one of the men in that line. 00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:44.400 And 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:49.200 that's the greatest trick that these men play in the church when 00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:51.520 they sprinkle the Jesus dust. 00:45:51.520 --> 00:45:55.280 Because again, they have a brand new idea, it's brand new doctrine. 00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:58.880 In some cases in the 21st century, some of the examples we're 00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:01.840 going to get into when we talk about the large cataclysm are 00:46:01.840 --> 00:46:03.520 cutting edge evil. 00:46:03.680 --> 00:46:06.480 We're not even in the we're not 20 years behind like we 00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:07.280 typically are. 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:10.400 The things that are happening in our church today are cutting edge. 00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:13.200 And so when these guys try to say, oh well I found 00:46:13.200 --> 00:46:16.640 it in scripture, again, how did you find it in scripture when 00:46:16.640 --> 00:46:19.120 it was missed for two thousand years? 00:46:19.120 --> 00:46:22.640 How did you find it today in twenty twenty-three? 00:46:22.640 --> 00:46:25.280 Why was it missed all of that time? 00:46:26.080 --> 00:46:26.400 And 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:32.160 the as Corey said, there's there's the ratcheting effect where the one 00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:35.440 small thing, the first little thing that they want to change, where 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:37.360 they're using wording that if you're familiar 00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:39.600 with the 00:46:40.640 --> 00:46:44.240 the left hand kingdom activity that is well ahead of the right 00:46:44.240 --> 00:46:46.160 hand for most of this stuff. 00:46:46.160 --> 00:46:50.560 The world has been going to hell in Marxist terms for 150 00:46:50.560 --> 00:46:55.280 years. The church is now rapidly catching up, and the same words 00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.080 are being used by the same people to the same ends, with 00:47:00.080 --> 00:47:04.000 the same malevolent animating force. 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:08.560 And the way the reason that the reasonableness argument is so effective 00:47:08.560 --> 00:47:12.640 in the church is that again, you're not supposed to hate, you're 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:16.160 not supposed to even disagree, you're not supposed to dislike, you must 00:47:16.160 --> 00:47:17.600 have peace in church. 00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:22.320 We're told that peace is a sign of God's presence. 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.240 That's not what Scripture says. 00:47:24.240 --> 00:47:27.920 Jesus says, I came to divide two against three, the households will 00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:28.880 be divided. 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:33.200 Scripture says that false doctrine will be taught among you so the 00:47:33.200 --> 00:47:36.080 true doctrine may be known. 00:47:36.080 --> 00:47:42.480 Conflict is inherent in the Word of God because Satan opposes it. 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:44.720 That's the inherent conflict. 00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:49.680 God speaks truth, Satan speaks lies, and men will choose one or 00:47:49.680 --> 00:47:50.480 the other. 00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:55.760 And so when the very first little debauchery is introduced inside the 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:59.280 church, the man The man who can smell it when no one 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:03.760 else can is going to do what everyone else thinks is overreacting. 00:48:03.760 --> 00:48:05.600 It's going to look unreasonable. 00:48:05.600 --> 00:48:09.440 How can you possibly say that this one small wording change is 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:10.400 a big deal? 00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:12.800 It's just a few words, and if you would just read it 00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.360 in context, it would seem just fine. 00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:16.800 You're overreacting. 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:19.840 You're not being reasonable. 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:23.920 The reason that God needs men to appear unreasonable and to be 00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:25.120 slandered with those words is 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:29.440 because God and man who is faithful to him knows that the 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.160 next step is the same next step that we see in the 00:48:32.160 --> 00:48:36.160 world, and that when you legitimize, even in the name of Jesus, 00:48:36.160 --> 00:48:40.320 some sin and say, Well, hate the sin, but love the sinner, 00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:46.080 there's an and then that's hidden in the periphery of that sentence. 00:48:46.080 --> 00:48:47.920 It's unspoken, but it's there. 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.640 And Satan knows what is next move because he's already done it 00:48:50.640 --> 00:48:51.520 everywhere else. 00:48:51.520 --> 00:48:54.320 And so if a man has been paying attention to the world 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:58.160 and then he sees the world encroaching on his church, he's going 00:48:58.160 --> 00:49:02.800 to look extremely unreasonable when he says, not on my watch. 00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:04.720 You're not going to start any of that here. 00:49:04.720 --> 00:49:07.280 We're not having any of it. 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:10.880 When the institutions are captured and the men in those in those 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:14.240 institutions speak in soothing tones and they tell you, let's just be 00:49:14.240 --> 00:49:15.520 reasonable about this. 00:49:15.520 --> 00:49:18.400 Maybe we should have worded a little bit differently, but it's still 00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:21.440 okay. Our intentions were good. 00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:23.120 That's the second problem. 00:49:23.120 --> 00:49:26.080 It's not simply that it was a lie, but that it was 00:49:26.080 --> 00:49:30.160 a lie that was accepted at an institutional level because when you 00:49:30.160 --> 00:49:33.920 know the source and the genesis and the genealogy of the lie, 00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:36.640 you know they cannot possibly have come from scripture. 00:49:36.640 --> 00:49:40.800 And so either we as a church have men who can no 00:49:40.800 --> 00:49:44.160 longer read scripture scripture and hear God's voice, or we have men 00:49:44.640 --> 00:49:46.960 who simply don't care to. 00:49:46.960 --> 00:49:49.520 Either way we have a problem that needs to be solved. 00:49:49.520 --> 00:49:51.280 And that's not just an LCMS problem. 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:52.720 It's a problem for every church. 00:49:52.720 --> 00:49:56.160 We're not as far down this path as many, but there are 00:49:56.240 --> 00:49:58.960 a lot of men in this co in in this synod who 00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:00.960 are trying really hard to catch us up. 00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:03.280 And there are also a lot of men in this synod who 00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:05.280 are trying really hard to fight it. 00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:07.920 Unfortunately, the men who are trying to fight it are by and 00:50:07.920 --> 00:50:11.840 large not equipped for this particular battle. 00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:15.360 Over and over we see guys who they're not going to fall 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:16.720 for the reasonableness thing. 00:50:16.720 --> 00:50:19.520 They're willing to fight, but they want to fight the same fight 00:50:19.520 --> 00:50:22.160 that they fought 10 years ago or 20 years ago or 30 00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:22.960 years ago. 00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:28.560 So So you see framing that's done by the good guys who 00:50:28.560 --> 00:50:32.720 want to oppose the evil, but it's not framing in the terms 00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:35.520 that of battle that Satan is giving us today. 00:50:35.520 --> 00:50:38.640 They're trying to pick a bat to pick a fight to win 00:50:38.640 --> 00:50:41.040 a battle that they know how to win. 00:50:41.040 --> 00:50:42.720 You can't do that. 00:50:42.720 --> 00:50:44.000 Satan gets a vote. 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:48.320 The bad guy who's choosing the battleground has already decided what issue 00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:49.680 you're going to fight on next. 00:50:49.680 --> 00:50:54.000 You don't get to try to Aikido that and reverse that momentum 00:50:54.080 --> 00:50:56.560 so that you can fight some other battle. 00:50:56.560 --> 00:50:59.200 If you do that, you're just you're gonna fall on your own 00:50:59.200 --> 00:51:02.400 face because the real battle is in the other room. 00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:06.800 And if you try to change the terms of the fight without 00:51:06.800 --> 00:51:10.960 engaging it where it is, you're still setting yourself up for failure, 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:13.440 even if you have the will to fight. 00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:17.120 So we're talking about these things to equip such men to see 00:51:17.120 --> 00:51:20.880 clearly what is going on, what is the force behind it, what 00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.200 does it sound and smell like, and what do we do about 00:51:23.200 --> 00:51:28.240 it? We're not going to talk so much about solutions because again, 00:51:28.240 --> 00:51:29.920 these are church institutions. 00:51:29.920 --> 00:51:32.960 We have our opinions, but that's all they are. 00:51:33.680 --> 00:51:36.720 Whether or not we even share them, whether or not anyone listens, 00:51:36.720 --> 00:51:42.080 it would still ultimately be the function of the machinery itself to 00:51:42.080 --> 00:51:45.040 auto-correct. Personally, I don't think that's possible. 00:51:45.040 --> 00:51:47.760 I don't think that there's anything there that can be saved. 00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:48.960 Time will tell. 00:51:48.960 --> 00:51:50.480 If I'm wrong, thank God. 00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:53.920 And if I'm right, I pray to God that something will replace 00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:57.040 it that we'll be faithful where we have failed. 00:51:57.040 --> 00:52:01.920 But between here and there, there are men in this church who 00:52:01.920 --> 00:52:06.320 are not going to respond to the let's just be reasonable argument. 00:52:06.320 --> 00:52:09.520 There's a quote that I want to read from uh Mark Quart, 00:52:09.520 --> 00:52:11.280 or sorry, from uh Walther. 00:52:11.280 --> 00:52:13.920 This is again from the Mark Whart paper that we've referred to 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:17.920 a few times that Gottestine's post regarding uh on the question of 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:20.800 theological controversies. 00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:25.360 Walther writes: Never has there been so much talk about love as 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:26.240 in our day. 00:52:26.240 --> 00:52:30.000 Love has become the slogan and watchword of those who claim to 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.960 be Christians, as well as those who do not care to be 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:34.000 called Christians. 00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:37.200 Now what do such Christians mean when they speak about love? 00:52:37.200 --> 00:52:40.800 They mean above all, as they express it, that in matters of 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:46.080 faith one must exhibit tolerance, that is endurance, indulgence, and the spirit 00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:50.000 of compromise, that one must not be so exact in regard to 00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:53.760 purity of doctrine, nor criticize the departure from the Word of God 00:52:53.760 --> 00:52:58.240 as strenuously as was done in olden times, and that we ought, 00:52:58.240 --> 00:53:02.240 therefore, also recognize those as a brethren who are not willing to 00:53:02.240 --> 00:53:05.200 obey the word of God in some points, as long as they 00:53:05.200 --> 00:53:08.720 will accept a few especially important articles of faith. 00:53:08.960 --> 00:53:09.840 But how? 00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:13.200 Should that really be a true description of Christian love? 00:53:13.200 --> 00:53:16.240 Does not the word of God say the very opposite? 00:53:16.240 --> 00:53:21.520 Charity rejoiceth not in the iniquity, but rejoices in the truth. 00:53:21.520 --> 00:53:25.760 Such Christians who out of love tolerate false doctrine are like the 00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:28.720 man who is very liberal and charitable towards the poor. 00:53:28.720 --> 00:53:31.360 What he gave them, however, he did not take from his own 00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:35.680 goods, from what he had secretly stolen from others, that he openly 00:53:35.680 --> 00:53:39.920 gave to the poor, for what are those Christians doing but robbing 00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:43.920 God of His Word, His truth, His glory, and thereby giving the 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:48.240 impression that they have more love than others, who adhere strictly to 00:53:48.240 --> 00:53:49.440 God's word. 00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:53.520 Just how little love such people really possess may be seen by 00:53:53.520 --> 00:53:57.840 their attitude towards those who take them to task for the indifference 00:53:57.840 --> 00:53:59.040 to the truth. 00:53:59.040 --> 00:54:04.720 Again, such true disciples, they are mostly filled with rancor, venom, and 00:54:04.720 --> 00:54:07.200 bitter enmity. 00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:11.840 Now, that was Luther writing or Walther writing in 1933 thirty five, 00:54:11.840 --> 00:54:14.960 but it pretty well describes the fight that we're having today. 00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:19.040 And back to the you know the main thesis of this episode, 00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:20.320 there's a playbook. 00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:25.120 The reason Walthor is describing similar situations, it's not just the human 00:54:25.120 --> 00:54:30.080 nature is consistent, it's that the strategy being employed within the church 00:54:30.080 --> 00:54:34.160 to destroy it has consistency because there's a playbook. 00:54:34.160 --> 00:54:36.000 Satan knows that what works. 00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:39.440 He knows that if you take a lukewarm Christian and give him 00:54:39.440 --> 00:54:44.720 a lukewarm quasi-Christian argument that doesn't actually pass the smell test, but 00:54:44.720 --> 00:54:49.120 has a few of the correct words attached, the lukewarm Christian will 00:54:49.120 --> 00:54:52.000 not hear that it's not his master's voice. 00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:53.120 He'll think, oh yeah, love. 00:54:53.120 --> 00:54:54.000 That that's really important. 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:55.440 I need to do that. 00:54:55.680 --> 00:55:00.160 That's true in some contexts, but the love of God sometimes requires 00:55:00.160 --> 00:55:01.280 the hatred of evil. 00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:03.680 In fact it always requires the hatred of evil. 00:55:03.680 --> 00:55:06.880 The sometimes is that sometimes evil is not present. 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:10.800 And so we don't want to be hyper-reactive or over-reactive, but to 00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:14.640 be precisely reactive when evil is in our midst. 00:55:14.640 --> 00:55:20.880 And when evil is detected, you cannot have a reasonable response, not 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:22.400 in the worldly sense. 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:27.360 The only reasonable response to evil is the response that Christ had 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:32.000 when he overthrew the moneylenders' tables and he drove them out with 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:32.960 a whip. 00:55:32.960 --> 00:55:38.080 Sometimes when evil is in your midst, you do not talk about 00:55:38.080 --> 00:55:40.000 it. You don't try to argue it. 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:41.920 You don't discuss it in their terms. 00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:43.440 You don't try to be reasonable. 00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:45.760 You drive the evil from your midst. 00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:47.840 That's not necessarily step one. 00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:50.800 And it's not necessarily the only st strategy. 00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:53.120 Certainly there are other things that can be done. 00:55:53.120 --> 00:55:55.680 But there are absolutely times where 00:55:56.560 --> 00:56:00.000 making a whip and flipping tables and driving men out of the 00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.080 church is necessary. 00:56:02.080 --> 00:56:06.320 And the men who oppose these words don't want you to believe 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:07.120 that's true. 00:56:07.120 --> 00:56:10.160 They don't want you to believe that Jesus actually did that or 00:56:10.160 --> 00:56:12.640 the the fact that he did it twice, well, maybe it was 00:56:12.640 --> 00:56:16.560 sin, or, you know, Jesus obviously can't sin, so but he's God, 00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:18.240 so whatever he does can't be sin. 00:56:18.240 --> 00:56:21.440 And so God's just capricious and when he does these things we 00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:22.960 just have to live with it. 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:24.640 But we can't ever do that. 00:56:24.720 --> 00:56:26.480 I'm not saying flip tables at church. 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:27.840 That's not something I would never do. 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:28.320 I hope. 00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.080 I hope it never gets that bad. 00:56:30.080 --> 00:56:33.120 But I only say never because I hope it never gets that 00:56:33.120 --> 00:56:36.160 bad. If the day comes when tables need to be flipped 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.160 Okay, I guess that's how it's gonna be. 00:56:40.160 --> 00:56:42.880 That's not my choice, but if it's the choice of those who 00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:47.440 are just saying just be reasonable while they continue to push evil, 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:50.800 then the fight will continue on other by other means. 00:56:51.200 --> 00:56:51.360 You 00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:58.240 mentioned a few examples of the tools that are used for this 00:56:58.240 --> 00:57:00.240 fight by the other side. 00:57:00.240 --> 00:57:04.240 And I'd just like to run through really the the five main 00:57:04.240 --> 00:57:06.880 ones. There are many others, but we're not going to cover all 00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:07.280 of them. 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:09.520 That's not the goal here. 00:57:09.520 --> 00:57:13.440 First is, and these are in no particular order, but first is 00:57:13.440 --> 00:57:15.360 best construction. 00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:20.160 And best construction has been turned into a cudgel that is used 00:57:20.160 --> 00:57:24.560 against anyone who actually wants to be faithful to scripture. 00:57:24.560 --> 00:57:29.280 Anyone who wants to oppose false teaching, false doctrine, false teachers. 00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:34.960 And best construction is first and foremost and primarily something that applies 00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:37.280 to your neighbor. 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:39.600 Not to everyone in the world. 00:57:39.600 --> 00:57:41.680 You can't apply it to everyone in the world. 00:57:41.680 --> 00:57:42.720 That's insane. 00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:44.640 That is not the standard. 00:57:44.640 --> 00:57:48.160 That is not the teaching of scripture or the church. 00:57:48.160 --> 00:57:50.560 So if your neighbor, for instance. 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:53.840 Keeps your weed whacker for an extra week. 00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:55.760 That's where best construction applies. 00:57:55.760 --> 00:57:58.720 You assume that he forgot, you don't assume he's trying to steal 00:57:58.720 --> 00:58:04.720 it. If a politician is doing something wicked, you don't assume that 00:58:04.720 --> 00:58:07.040 he has the best intentions. 00:58:07.040 --> 00:58:09.840 That is a totally different category. 00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:14.320 That is a totally different interaction, you have to respond differently. 00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:18.560 Second would be the hiding of divisions, or the holding forth of 00:58:18.560 --> 00:58:20.000 a false peace. 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:23.680 That should bring to mind a verse from Jeremiah, of course, they 00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:27.440 have healed the wound of my people lightly saying peace, peace, where 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:29.520 there is no peace. 00:58:29.520 --> 00:58:34.560 We are not to simply cover, shove under the rug these divisions 00:58:34.560 --> 00:58:36.560 that crop up in the church. 00:58:36.560 --> 00:58:41.680 Because if there are legitimate divisions over doctrinal points, we have to 00:58:41.680 --> 00:58:43.360 hammer those out. 00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:48.080 There have been times in the history of our synod where there 00:58:48.080 --> 00:58:52.880 were divisions at a conference at a synodical meeting where they stopped 00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:56.800 all business and worked through it then and there, and either had 00:58:56.800 --> 00:59:00.400 the person who was teaching falsely repent or expelled him. 00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:03.520 That is how it is actually supposed to be done. 00:59:03.520 --> 00:59:08.000 Third would be winsomeness, which will drop a graph of the use 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:12.000 of that term into the show notes because it demonstrates something that 00:59:12.000 --> 00:59:14.240 will be very obvious. 00:59:14.240 --> 00:59:17.280 This is made up nonsense. 00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:23.680 Winsomeness applies to a smile or some sort of habit someone has, 00:59:23.680 --> 00:59:26.800 winsomeness does not apply to an argument. 00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:31.360 An argument is true, an argument is convincing, an argument is effective, 00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:33.520 an argument is not winsome. 00:59:33.520 --> 00:59:38.560 This is Satan's soft cell, imported into the church. 00:59:38.560 --> 00:59:42.080 Four, as was brought up and discussed, is anti hatred. 00:59:42.080 --> 00:59:46.080 The idea that as a Christian, you cannot and should not hate 00:59:46.080 --> 00:59:48.720 anything, and of course, that's absolutely false. 00:59:48.720 --> 00:59:52.800 We've spoken to that issue in a previous episode. 00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:55.360 Appropriately titled, easy to find. 00:59:55.360 --> 00:59:58.560 Christians are called to hate certain things. 00:59:58.560 --> 01:00:00.320 Do I not hate those who hate you? 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:04.960 I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them my enemies. 01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:10.880 Scripture uses the word hatred in many places throughout Scripture. 01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:13.840 It is the duty of the Christian to hate that which is 01:00:13.840 --> 01:00:17.280 wicked, and you cannot love that which is good unless you hate 01:00:17.280 --> 01:00:18.640 that which is wicked. 01:00:18.640 --> 01:00:20.800 And then fifth is tolerance. 01:00:20.800 --> 01:00:25.600 And this leads into unless there's something more to say on this 01:00:25.600 --> 01:00:29.840 point, our three main points, it leads into our third main point. 01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:36.080 Tolerance in the modern world is a satanic conception that came to 01:00:36.080 --> 01:00:39.040 us through a man called Carl Popper. 01:00:39.600 --> 01:00:40.240 Karl Popper 01:00:41.360 --> 01:00:46.640 was a Jewish philosopher from the Frankfurt School, and his conception of 01:00:46.640 --> 01:00:50.720 tolerance is what the modern world has inherited with what it has 01:00:50.720 --> 01:00:52.240 been infected. 01:00:52.800 --> 01:00:57.360 I'm going to read a quote from him on tolerance, and some 01:00:57.520 --> 01:01:00.560 I would hope most will see the problem here. 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:05.680 Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance if we extend 01:01:05.680 --> 01:01:09.760 unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not 01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:14.400 prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:18.080 then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. 01:01:18.080 --> 01:01:21.680 We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not 01:01:21.680 --> 01:01:24.880 to tolerate the intolerant. 01:01:24.880 --> 01:01:28.160 Now one would hope that you could see the problem with this, 01:01:28.160 --> 01:01:31.840 because of course, tolerance isn't a thing. 01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:33.680 It means absolutely nothing. 01:01:33.680 --> 01:01:39.040 And you can see in this definition, it is self-defeating, is self-contradicting. 01:01:39.040 --> 01:01:44.560 All that tolerance means in the Marxist frame is that you must 01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:49.280 have tolerance, and that's you, the enemies of the Marxists, or just 01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:51.360 the average person who's being manipulated. 01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:54.640 You must have tolerance for the things the Marxists are doing, but 01:01:54.640 --> 01:01:58.080 anything that is done against them is intolerant, and therefore you don't 01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:00.160 have to tolerate that. 01:02:00.160 --> 01:02:04.000 Of course it's incoherent, but that's because it is a mercenary approach. 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:08.480 It is ends seeking, it has no actual foundation other than of 01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:10.960 course the wickedness of Satan. 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:15.040 And I mentioned Popper, if you want the two men who are 01:02:15.040 --> 01:02:21.440 probably most responsible for the current philosophical state of Marxism and therefore 01:02:21.920 --> 01:02:25.360 the state of things, our culture, our civilization in the West, it 01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:29.920 would be pauper and adorno, both Jewish philosophers from the Frankfurt School. 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:32.560 I do not actually recommend reading them. 01:02:32.560 --> 01:02:35.040 Simply owning the book is kind of like having a portal to 01:02:35.040 --> 01:02:40.960 hell on your shelf, but Alinsky is probably the better read if 01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:44.720 someone is looking for more information because Alinsky gives the rule book. 01:02:44.720 --> 01:02:46.480 Alinsky is the practical one. 01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:49.840 He takes the evil ideas of these other men and he applies 01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.480 them. And so you have Popper and 01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.760 the others writing in the the forties and the fifties, Adorno was 01:02:57.760 --> 01:02:58.480 right around that time. 01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:02.160 His biggest work is The Authoritarian Personality, came out in 1950. 01:03:02.160 --> 01:03:04.720 Popper is The Open Society nineteen forty five. 01:03:05.200 --> 01:03:10.400 Rules for Radicals is nineteen seventy one right around there. 01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:12.880 Right around nineteen seventy at any rate. 01:03:12.880 --> 01:03:17.360 He gives the real rule book that our adversaries still follow to 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:21.600 this day, even if they don't realize they're following it. 01:03:21.600 --> 01:03:23.360 And I actually want to make a point there. 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:29.280 I want to highlight something that is vitally important to recognize. 01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:35.600 There are divisions within those who are advancing these ideas using these 01:03:35.600 --> 01:03:39.040 rules. There are some who do it wittingly and some who do 01:03:39.040 --> 01:03:40.960 it unwittingly. 01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:42.960 There are three groups. 01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:47.120 We have the adversaries, which would include the pastors who oppose us, 01:03:47.120 --> 01:03:52.240 who are unwittingly using these ideas they have imbibed from the world 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:56.480 they have just absorbed osmotically from the world, uncritically. 01:03:56.480 --> 01:04:01.600 They are using them against us, but they are doing it unwittingly. 01:04:01.600 --> 01:04:04.960 So I would call them adversaries if I am being specific with 01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:09.280 my terms, because they are not, in fact, necessarily enemies. 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:16.080 Now, if their usage becomes witting or malicious, they are then enemies, 01:04:16.080 --> 01:04:18.640 and within the category of enemies you have the witting and the 01:04:18.640 --> 01:04:22.960 unwitting, the vast bulk will always be unwitting. 01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:26.800 They hate you for various reasons that have been programmed into them, 01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:28.640 but they don't really understand why. 01:04:28.640 --> 01:04:29.520 They just respond. 01:04:29.520 --> 01:04:30.720 It's the NPC meme. 01:04:30.720 --> 01:04:32.400 Someone took the chip out and put in a new one, and 01:04:32.400 --> 01:04:36.000 so they hate you because the new chip says to hate you. 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:41.200 The most dangerous are the witting enemies, those who understand these things, 01:04:41.200 --> 01:04:44.560 those who know the goals they are attempting to achieve, and are 01:04:44.560 --> 01:04:49.840 employing the philosophy, the ideology, and the rules to achieve those ends. 01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:54.080 They are the smallest group, but they are the most dangerous, and 01:04:54.080 --> 01:04:58.560 so it's just important to distinguish various groups from each other, and 01:04:58.560 --> 01:05:03.920 to recognize that the pastors again to repeat myself, by and large, 01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:08.400 those within the church who are using these things are doing so 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.400 unwittingly. They are adversaries because of what they are advocating. 01:05:12.400 --> 01:05:15.440 They are speaking with the voice of Satan, but they are not 01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:19.360 necessarily doing so maliciously or with ill intent. 01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:21.920 They need to be educated and trained. 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:25.120 They need to be shown what they are doing is wicked, not 01:05:25.280 --> 01:05:28.400 necessarily assumed to be enemies. 01:05:28.880 --> 01:05:30.960 And they need to be brought to repentance. 01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:33.920 Absolutely. Which is a turning away from that, which is evil. 01:05:34.160 --> 01:05:38.960 to reject to reject these things publicly, explicitly, and to say that 01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:41.120 is no longer what I believe. 01:05:41.120 --> 01:05:43.440 And in the case we're going to talk about in just a 01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:47.840 minute, until such time as that occurs, there is no repentance. 01:05:47.840 --> 01:05:51.360 To say, Oh, I'm sorry I got caught, or I'm sorry for 01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:54.720 whatever you think I did, that's not repentance. 01:05:54.720 --> 01:05:57.440 That is not even contrition. 01:05:57.440 --> 01:05:59.840 And it is not salvific. 01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:02.960 Uh you had mentioned uh the two Jews and you I'm not 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:05.840 sure if you mentioned that Solinsky is also a Jew Since we're 01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:09.600 talking about Satan's playbook, I think it's important to acknowledge that in 01:06:09.600 --> 01:06:12.720 the introduction to rules for radicals, we're going to get into a 01:06:12.720 --> 01:06:17.760 few of the specific details in a minute, Saulinsky writes this lest 01:06:17.760 --> 01:06:22.080 we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgement to the very first radical, 01:06:22.080 --> 01:06:25.680 from all our legends, mythology, and history, and who is to know 01:06:25.680 --> 01:06:29.200 where mythology leaves off and history begins, or which is which? 01:06:29.200 --> 01:06:33.360 The first radical known to man, who rebelled against the establishment and 01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:36.800 did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom, 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:39.440 his own kingdom, Lucifer. 01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:43.760 So when we say that this is Satan's playbook, now it should 01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:47.760 be obvious to anyone simply by looking at what is being done, 01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:50.400 but these guys aren't even hiding it anymore. 01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:52.000 They make it clear. 01:06:52.000 --> 01:06:56.000 And I actually got that text from Snopes because this came up 01:06:56.000 --> 01:06:58.320 when uh with Hillary and Obama. 01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:00.640 You know, again, we're are we talking about politics here? 01:07:00.640 --> 01:07:02.000 Are we talking about religion? 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:02.960 Well, I don't know. 01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:06.880 A guy who's claiming to be political is using a satanic strategy 01:07:06.880 --> 01:07:11.120 to satanic ends, and he says in his introdu uh d introduction, 01:07:11.120 --> 01:07:14.800 let's give give credit to Lucifer for at least some of this. 01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:17.440 At some point it is okay to take your enemy at his 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:20.160 words, because even liars don't lie all the time. 01:07:20.160 --> 01:07:21.520 They also like to brag. 01:07:21.520 --> 01:07:23.120 They'll tell you what they're doing. 01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:26.080 And the fact that more and more of these things go mask 01:07:26.080 --> 01:07:29.440 off is we mentioned, I think, last week that today there are 01:07:30.080 --> 01:07:33.840 satanic unbaptism booths. 01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:35.440 That's out in the open. 01:07:35.440 --> 01:07:37.600 And it's done for political purposes. 01:07:37.600 --> 01:07:40.320 Like they don't think they're being religious when they do that. 01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:43.280 The call that we're giving to every Christian who hears us is 01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:49.600 to understand that fundamentally all of these issues are Christianity versus Christian, 01:07:49.600 --> 01:07:53.920 God versus Satan, and God's people versus Satan's people. 01:07:53.920 --> 01:07:57.520 And so when we see these words and these strategies employed in 01:07:57.520 --> 01:08:00.960 the world, as Corey just said, there are many cases where pastors 01:08:00.960 --> 01:08:02.080 have been misled. 01:08:02.240 --> 01:08:06.400 The fact that they've been misled calls into question our seminary training 01:08:06.560 --> 01:08:08.160 and our seminary selection. 01:08:08.160 --> 01:08:11.680 How is it that we are employing men to be to be 01:08:11.680 --> 01:08:15.200 shepherds who cannot faithfully shepherd? 01:08:15.200 --> 01:08:17.680 Who cannot tell good from evil? 01:08:17.680 --> 01:08:21.200 That's another question to be dealt with at the institutional level. 01:08:21.200 --> 01:08:24.800 You know, it's the reason we brought that up first. 01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:27.200 To round this out, we want to give an example 01:08:28.240 --> 01:08:32.240 from a recent issue in the Missouri Senate that went so widely 01:08:32.240 --> 01:08:34.880 that it uh actually showed up in on revolver news. 01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:38.560 I think it's it's widely known, certainly throughout the Christian community. 01:08:38.560 --> 01:08:41.120 And that's what we referred to at the beginning as the large 01:08:41.120 --> 01:08:44.480 cataclysm. Uh Matt Harrison and Before we get into 01:08:44.480 --> 01:08:47.600 the the large cataclysm, I just want to read that Chrysostom quote 01:08:47.680 --> 01:08:50.080 because I think it actually leads into it well because this is 01:08:50.080 --> 01:08:53.200 an instance where flipping tables is warranted. 01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:59.200 But this is Chrysostom speaking on first Timothy. 01:08:59.200 --> 01:09:03.040 In writing to Timothy, Paul bids him take refuge in the healing 01:09:03.040 --> 01:09:04.560 virtue of wine drinking. 01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:07.760 Not that to drink wine is shameful, God forbid, for such precepts 01:09:08.240 --> 01:09:09.840 belong to heretics. 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:13.760 But since our discourse has now turned to the subject of blasphemy, 01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:16.880 I desire to ask one favour of you all, in return for 01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:20.800 this my address, and speaking with you, which is, that you will 01:09:20.800 --> 01:09:24.000 correct on my behalf the blasphemers of this city, that is to 01:09:24.000 --> 01:09:26.480 say, those who are saying that wine is evil. 01:09:26.480 --> 01:09:29.440 And should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in 01:09:29.440 --> 01:09:32.320 the midst of the forum, blaspheming God, go up to him and 01:09:32.320 --> 01:09:36.640 rebuke him, and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not 01:09:36.640 --> 01:09:40.480 to do so, smite him on the face, strike his mouth, sanctify 01:09:40.480 --> 01:09:43.360 your hands with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and 01:09:43.360 --> 01:09:46.880 drag you to the place of justice, follow them thither, and when 01:09:46.880 --> 01:09:49.920 the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that 01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:53.360 the man blasphemed the king of angels, for if it be necessary 01:09:53.360 --> 01:09:57.280 to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those 01:09:57.280 --> 01:09:59.920 who insult God. 01:09:59.920 --> 01:10:00.080 The 01:10:00.080 --> 01:10:07.120 fact that he highlighted wine and drinking and and consuming food is 01:10:07.280 --> 01:10:10.240 goes back to the comment I made at the beginning about teachings 01:10:10.240 --> 01:10:14.560 of demons, which is a quote from First Timothy four. 01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:19.680 That specifically is referring to men forbidding the consuming of certain foods, 01:10:19.680 --> 01:10:22.160 which is again what Chrysosome was referring to. 01:10:22.160 --> 01:10:24.560 And note that he called that blasphemy. 01:10:24.560 --> 01:10:27.040 He didn't call it heterodoxy. 01:10:27.040 --> 01:10:29.360 He didn't call it a misunderstanding. 01:10:29.360 --> 01:10:32.320 He said that it was a direct insult to the throne of 01:10:32.320 --> 01:10:34.560 God to speak in such a manner. 01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:34.880 So 01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:39.360 Cory and I speak clearly, not because we feel we have a 01:10:39.360 --> 01:10:45.600 permission slip from Chrysostom, but because we rightly understand that these matters 01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:48.720 cut to the heart of the Christian faith. 01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:51.840 They cut to the heart of whether the blood shed on the 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:57.040 cross is going to be faithfully received by those who reject it 01:10:57.040 --> 01:10:58.560 by rejecting God. 01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:03.040 You cannot reject God's word and adopt Satan's word, and expect 01:11:04.080 --> 01:11:07.840 that the blood of Christ will cover your sins on the last 01:11:07.840 --> 01:11:11.040 day. That's not a question of works righteousness. 01:11:11.040 --> 01:11:15.120 It's a question of rejecting God's perfect gift by calling him a 01:11:15.120 --> 01:11:18.720 liar, by saying that God is not God, that he didn't do 01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:19.280 those things. 01:11:19.280 --> 01:11:21.200 He didn't do this, he didn't do that. 01:11:21.200 --> 01:11:22.800 I have a better idea. 01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:26.240 God, you said some things that kind of sound like sin. 01:11:26.240 --> 01:11:27.440 I'm not going to go there. 01:11:27.440 --> 01:11:28.720 I have a better morality than you. 01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:31.840 That's where a lot of the church is today. 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:35.760 And so when Corey and I bring up matters like polygamy, which 01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:39.760 I'm not remotely interested in, or slavery, which I'm not remotely interested 01:11:39.760 --> 01:11:43.200 in, I've said before in Fra private, I would rather be a 01:11:43.200 --> 01:11:44.800 slave than own slaves. 01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:47.280 I don't think it would be that bad if I had a 01:11:47.280 --> 01:11:48.480 Christian master. 01:11:48.480 --> 01:11:50.640 It would take you had to take a load off. 01:11:50.640 --> 01:11:52.400 You wouldn't have to worry about what you do. 01:11:52.400 --> 01:11:55.520 I think that a slave such as myself would be valued and 01:11:55.520 --> 01:11:58.800 probably be exploited very successfully. 01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:04.480 Whatever. I don't have any intrinsic desire to be a so-called free 01:12:04.480 --> 01:12:08.800 man in this world, because I understand what true Christian freedom is. 01:12:08.800 --> 01:12:14.160 And so when we discuss these matters that cause such frothing hatred 01:12:14.400 --> 01:12:19.280 among men who should be fellow believers and brothers in Christ, they're 01:12:19.280 --> 01:12:22.720 not angry because we're disagreeing with God. 01:12:22.720 --> 01:12:25.840 They're angry because we're disagreeing with their God. 01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:30.000 We're saying things that are contrary to the prince of this world 01:12:30.240 --> 01:12:34.560 who has convinced much of the church that there's a parallel religion 01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:37.760 that has the same name as Christianity and has some of the 01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:40.880 same trappings, but it doesn't have the same doctrine. 01:12:40.880 --> 01:12:44.960 It has some new and improved doctrines that are even more loving 01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:47.760 than what Christianity had before. 01:12:47.760 --> 01:12:50.800 And so the last part of this dust discussion is the large 01:12:50.800 --> 01:12:55.440 cataclysm, where some of those new doctrines were introduced by the Missouri 01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:59.760 Synod into a 500 year old confession of the faith. 01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:02.480 Now, as far as we know, they didn't actually change any of 01:13:02.480 --> 01:13:05.840 the text itself of the large catechism. 01:13:05.840 --> 01:13:12.640 They added dozens of essays with explanatory power to frame these issues 01:13:12.640 --> 01:13:16.640 in the large catechism which involves uh the chief articles. 01:13:16.640 --> 01:13:21.120 It's the the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments, etc., to 01:13:21.120 --> 01:13:25.120 explain to Christians how to really understand those things today. 01:13:25.760 --> 01:13:26.320 And so 01:13:28.000 --> 01:13:32.960 when this blew up online, one of our friends Ryan Turnipseed, and 01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:37.520 that is his real Christian name, the name Ryan Turnipseed was written 01:13:37.520 --> 01:13:41.680 before the beginning of the world in the book of life. 01:13:41.680 --> 01:13:46.160 He wrote a thread on Twitter that highlighted about a dozen of 01:13:46.160 --> 01:13:49.200 the false teachings in the large cataclysm. 01:13:49.200 --> 01:13:54.560 He highlighted specific excerpts that were plainly on their face. 01:13:54.560 --> 01:14:00.000 Marxist. Language that has no business on a Christian's lips, never mind 01:14:00.160 --> 01:14:03.120 in a teaching tool of our own church. 01:14:03.120 --> 01:14:08.160 And what played out next was a perfect microcosm of everything that 01:14:08.160 --> 01:14:10.720 we're trying to get to in this episode. 01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:15.120 The first thing that happened within our own church body was the 01:14:15.120 --> 01:14:20.880 members of the committee on Theology and Church Relations. 01:14:21.040 --> 01:14:27.120 CTCR has 20 members, 15 of whom are active most of the 01:14:27.120 --> 01:14:31.520 time, who basically decide theological questions for the church. 01:14:31.680 --> 01:14:34.480 There are several laymen on there and there's a woman on there, 01:14:34.480 --> 01:14:36.640 which is is new recently. 01:14:36.640 --> 01:14:38.640 Uh absolutely should not exist. 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:42.160 On its face, the fact that there's a woman present delegitimizes the 01:14:42.160 --> 01:14:46.320 fact that they would rule doctrinally on any matter. 01:14:46.400 --> 01:14:52.400 When I say rule, it's important to distinguish that CTCR can issue 01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:59.920 statements, but unless they are adopted at convention by the synod, they're 01:14:59.920 --> 01:15:02.000 not considered binding. 01:15:02.000 --> 01:15:03.920 Those are all weasel words. 01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:09.920 CTCR is the official body within the LCMS to decide doctrinal matters. 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:12.240 It's a commission on theology, okay? 01:15:12.240 --> 01:15:14.080 There's no question about that. 01:15:14.080 --> 01:15:17.920 So you don't need convention to ratify whether whether it's true or 01:15:18.240 --> 01:15:19.600 false doctrine. 01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:23.280 It should be implicit that anything that these men and now women 01:15:24.080 --> 01:15:26.000 generate will be true doctrine. 01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:30.080 And they're speaking on behalf of the entire Missouri Synod Lutheran Church. 01:15:30.080 --> 01:15:32.320 They're speaking on behalf of Corey and I. 01:15:32.320 --> 01:15:35.600 When they say these things, they're saying that this is what God 01:15:35.600 --> 01:15:38.800 says, this is what Luther says, this is what the LCMS says, 01:15:38.800 --> 01:15:40.480 and this is what you should believe. 01:15:40.480 --> 01:15:43.280 We bind your conscience with these words. 01:15:43.280 --> 01:15:44.560 Here's some of the words in there. 01:15:44.560 --> 01:15:45.600 We're not going to cover all of them. 01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:47.040 We will link in the show notes. 01:15:47.280 --> 01:15:52.640 A video stream that Ryan, Corey, Ryan, and another man did on 01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:54.480 this subject. 01:15:54.480 --> 01:15:56.880 We went into each of them in in some detail. 01:15:56.880 --> 01:15:59.280 I just want to highlight a couple of the egregious examples. 01:15:59.280 --> 01:16:01.440 So if you're not familiar, you can have a sense of what's 01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:04.880 actually going on so that when we tell you what happened next, 01:16:04.880 --> 01:16:09.920 you'll have an understanding of why we're doing this episode. 01:16:09.920 --> 01:16:14.560 There's a quote from one of the current professors at Concordia St. 01:16:14.560 --> 01:16:17.120 Louis. It's one of our seminaries, named Dr. 01:16:17.120 --> 01:16:18.560 Joel Beerman. 01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:22.160 I'm going to allied to the stub this the his quote for 01:16:22.160 --> 01:16:23.440 the sake of brevity. 01:16:23.440 --> 01:16:27.040 All I'm doing is omitting specific words that do not in any 01:16:27.040 --> 01:16:30.480 way alter the content of this, because it's it's a little bit 01:16:30.480 --> 01:16:33.680 rambling. I want to hone in on the specific issue. 01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:36.480 You can see the screenshot for yourself and see that I'm not 01:16:36.480 --> 01:16:40.240 altering the meaning in the slightest. 01:16:40.240 --> 01:16:45.760 Lethal force is never exercised for the sake of self. 01:16:48.320 --> 01:16:53.360 Lethal force is never exercised for the sake of self. 01:16:54.480 --> 01:16:57.120 This is a man who is an ordained pastor in the Missouri 01:16:57.120 --> 01:17:03.200 Synod who is explicitly, empirically, and for all time forbidding self-defense. 01:17:03.200 --> 01:17:06.080 He is saying, you may not defend yourself. 01:17:06.080 --> 01:17:11.200 Now, his argument in the broader context of the discussion in the 01:17:11.360 --> 01:17:13.200 his essay is that 01:17:14.160 --> 01:17:19.360 applying the Lutheran doctrine of vocation to the question. 01:17:19.360 --> 01:17:23.680 In other words, a man has a vocation as a husband, as 01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:27.360 a father, as a neighbor, to those under his care. 01:17:27.360 --> 01:17:33.200 And that if he's ever allowed to kill someone, he's only allowed 01:17:33.200 --> 01:17:35.280 to do it in defense of another. 01:17:35.280 --> 01:17:39.200 He's never allowed to do it solely for his own sake. 01:17:40.160 --> 01:17:43.280 This is shocking for so many reasons that I we could do 01:17:43.280 --> 01:17:45.680 We could do an episode just on how bad that one take 01:17:45.680 --> 01:17:48.480 is. But I just want to highlight who it excludes. 01:17:48.480 --> 01:17:51.760 If you're an unmarried man, maybe all of your relatives are dead, 01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:54.400 maybe you live out in the country, you don't have any immediate 01:17:54.400 --> 01:17:59.520 neighbors. What this man is saying is that if home invaders t 01:17:59.680 --> 01:18:03.200 come to your home trying to kill you, you must let it 01:18:03.200 --> 01:18:06.800 happen. You cannot resist or you sin against God. 01:18:06.800 --> 01:18:10.000 And then your last act in your life of trying to kill 01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:14.480 them before they kill you will have been sin against God. 01:18:14.480 --> 01:18:18.400 That is so profoundly evil that there's there are no words for 01:18:18.400 --> 01:18:22.240 it. Creation itself testifies to how false this is. 01:18:22.240 --> 01:18:26.400 Any animal will struggle for its life if it's endangered. 01:18:26.400 --> 01:18:32.400 And the universal law of war recognizes that the reason that a 01:18:32.400 --> 01:18:36.480 man is permitted to use lethal force on the battlefield is not 01:18:36.480 --> 01:18:40.320 for the sake of well, he's there bearing arms and in defense 01:18:40.320 --> 01:18:41.200 of the state. 01:18:41.200 --> 01:18:44.560 It's that a man has an inherent right to defend his own 01:18:44.560 --> 01:18:49.120 body. And on the battlefield, if another legal combatant is trying to 01:18:49.120 --> 01:18:52.400 kill him, he has the right to cry to try to kill 01:18:52.400 --> 01:18:55.440 him back, setting everything else aside. 01:18:55.440 --> 01:19:01.200 Now that's a secular argument, but it's also consistent with Christian doctrine. 01:19:01.200 --> 01:19:04.960 You You have an inherent right because God made you and gave 01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:07.680 you your life to defend your life. 01:19:07.680 --> 01:19:10.560 And so right out of the gate in this book, in the 01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:16.320 in the discussion of the fifth commandment, Beerman destroys Christian doctrine. 01:19:16.320 --> 01:19:17.360 Not even Christian. 01:19:17.360 --> 01:19:19.280 I mean, Christianity began in the garden. 01:19:19.280 --> 01:19:20.880 It's a point we made before. 01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:25.520 He destroys 6,000 years of what believers have always believed. 01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:29.920 That your ability to defend yourself is not a function of whether 01:19:29.920 --> 01:19:31.920 you're doing it for somebody else. 01:19:31.920 --> 01:19:34.880 It's whether you're doing it because God has given you your life 01:19:35.040 --> 01:19:38.240 and he determines when you die, not the man who broke into 01:19:38.240 --> 01:19:40.720 your home trying to hurt or kill you. 01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:41.280 So 01:19:42.240 --> 01:19:44.960 we're gonna give a couple of other examples, but I just want 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:49.680 to highlight how profoundly evil that is and what the response was 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:50.960 when we called this out of the way. 01:19:51.120 --> 01:19:51.680 Even if 01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:56.880 we were to take his His argument at face value It's still 01:19:56.880 --> 01:20:03.120 incoherent nonsense because you always have the moral duty to defend yourself 01:20:03.440 --> 01:20:07.600 because you are God's property, and you have a duty to defend 01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:10.960 the property of your rightful sovereign. 01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:15.520 So, in addition to being wrong scripturally, he is 01:20:17.040 --> 01:20:19.520 utterly insane philosophically. 01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:24.080 He has he is utterly unfit to write ever again for the 01:20:24.080 --> 01:20:27.360 church. And this should just be burned. 01:20:27.360 --> 01:20:29.840 That's only one of the arguments that I would run through that 01:20:29.840 --> 01:20:34.720 just makes it incredibly obvious how wrong an argument against self-defense is. 01:20:34.720 --> 01:20:37.840 Because of course he tries to couch it in saying that, well, 01:20:37.840 --> 01:20:41.600 you you have a duty to defend others, but not yourself. 01:20:41.600 --> 01:20:44.160 How are you going to defend others if you're dead? 01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:51.600 But it's it's just such a heinous, immoral, irrational argument. 01:20:51.600 --> 01:20:55.440 That it's just the fact that this made it into the large 01:20:55.440 --> 01:21:00.640 c cataclysm proves that the systems in place to vet this stuff 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:03.840 are not simply insufficient but corrupted. 01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:06.880 I'll give two more brief examples and then we'll fill you in 01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:10.080 on what happened when we brought these things to light. 01:21:10.240 --> 01:21:15.120 A second example is uh from one regarding sexuality. 01:21:15.120 --> 01:21:16.880 This is an essay, I believe, by a woman. 01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:20.000 There were there were a number of female authors who wrote doctrinal 01:21:20.160 --> 01:21:24.320 doctrinal treatises on behalf of the church for the church. 01:21:24.320 --> 01:21:30.560 She writes, however, some of us are burdened with homosexual lust, pornographic 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:35.200 addiction, transgenderism, pedophilia, and polyamory. 01:21:35.200 --> 01:21:38.240 More often they are the speck in our neighbor's eye rather than 01:21:38.240 --> 01:21:41.920 the log of in our own. 01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:42.560 Now 01:21:44.960 --> 01:21:47.360 I want you to look at the screenshots so you can read 01:21:47.360 --> 01:21:48.960 that for yourself. 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:54.640 This person says on behalf of our church, some people are burdened 01:21:54.640 --> 01:21:59.840 with pedophilia in a list of other sexualities. 01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:04.240 Now, this is the LGBTQIA plus plus thing. 01:22:04.240 --> 01:22:07.440 If you keep going with I acronym, P is added. 01:22:07.440 --> 01:22:12.080 That publicly, P for pedophile is added to the list of sexualities. 01:22:12.080 --> 01:22:14.640 So when I said that the LCMS is on the cutting edge 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:16.800 here, this is what I was referring to. 01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:20.880 The idea that pedophilia is a sexuality, and sure, it's a bad 01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:24.000 sexuality, but it's a sexuality nevertheless. 01:22:24.000 --> 01:22:28.000 The fact that the church would have published this to acknowledge the 01:22:28.160 --> 01:22:32.960 2023 framing that only in the very most last couple years has 01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:36.720 even the most radical left been willing to say publicly the fact 01:22:36.720 --> 01:22:39.200 that our church would join in that chorus 01:22:40.320 --> 01:22:44.000 I I I'm generally pretty good with superlatives, but I have none. 01:22:44.000 --> 01:22:47.200 I there's there's no way to characterize this. 01:22:47.200 --> 01:22:53.040 And she goes on to say that your neighbor's pedophilia is really 01:22:53.040 --> 01:22:54.240 a speck in their eye. 01:22:54.560 --> 01:22:57.200 You need to deal with your own sins first. 01:22:57.200 --> 01:23:01.920 Implying that if a man likes how girls how women look and 01:23:01.920 --> 01:23:06.160 he looks at a woman who's not his wife with sexual desire, 01:23:06.160 --> 01:23:10.400 that that is a log and he has no business being worried 01:23:10.400 --> 01:23:14.080 about the pedophile next door until he deals with that. 01:23:14.080 --> 01:23:16.240 Is that the voice of God or is that the voice of 01:23:16.240 --> 01:23:19.200 Satan? I hope that anyone listening to us doesn't need to l 01:23:19.280 --> 01:23:20.400 think about that very long. 01:23:20.400 --> 01:23:22.480 That is utterly satanic. 01:23:22.480 --> 01:23:23.520 Just as the first thing. 01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:28.400 What Beerman said is utterly satanic because in the broader context of 01:23:28.400 --> 01:23:32.080 all these comments, what are these do these men and now women 01:23:32.080 --> 01:23:34.240 doing in our church? 01:23:34.240 --> 01:23:39.040 They are supporting what Satan is doing in the world. 01:23:39.040 --> 01:23:43.280 Throughout this episode, we've used lots of terms that have political connotations. 01:23:43.280 --> 01:23:45.600 When we use them, it's not political. 01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:47.360 There's no such thing anymore. 01:23:47.360 --> 01:23:49.360 There is God versus Satan. 01:23:49.360 --> 01:23:52.400 And there's God's children versus Satan's children. 01:23:52.400 --> 01:23:55.680 These voices are the voices of demons that were published by the 01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:59.920 Missouri Synod's own publishing arm to say you can't defend yourself in 01:23:59.920 --> 01:24:04.640 the same tome that attacks on the basis of race the ownership 01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:08.560 of private property by those who have been privileged. 01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:11.360 If you know anything about what's going on in the world, you 01:24:11.360 --> 01:24:13.600 know that those are part and parcel. 01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:15.760 It doesn't matter if they're in two separate essays. 01:24:15.760 --> 01:24:19.280 They're the same fabric and they have the same author, and he 01:24:19.280 --> 01:24:21.600 lives in hell. 01:24:21.920 --> 01:24:24.960 The last brief example I want to give before we talk about 01:24:24.960 --> 01:24:28.880 the reaction also has to do with sexuality. 01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:33.760 Some Christians sense themselves as the gender or sex opposite to their 01:24:33.760 --> 01:24:34.960 physical sex. 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:39.520 Other Christians are sexually attracted to individuals of the same sex. 01:24:39.520 --> 01:24:44.000 Now this isn't the most egregious example in terms of subversion, but 01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:47.760 just listen to the fact that a church is unit using terminology 01:24:48.160 --> 01:24:51.680 that even twenty years ago, our own church would have imploded if 01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:52.880 we had talked this way. 01:24:52.880 --> 01:24:54.960 No Christian was talking this way. 01:24:54.960 --> 01:24:58.480 No normal human being five years ago was talking this way. 01:24:58.480 --> 01:25:02.800 And yet in 2023, Matt Harrison oversaw publishing this. 01:25:02.800 --> 01:25:06.720 The CTCR blessed it, they wrote much of it, they approved all 01:25:06.720 --> 01:25:10.160 of it, and they said this is church teaching, this is for 01:25:10.160 --> 01:25:12.400 the benefit of all future generations. 01:25:12.400 --> 01:25:18.400 Go forth and study this and enjoy the blessings of God's word. 01:25:18.400 --> 01:25:23.120 The reason we ban with co-opting institutions is that's precisely what we're 01:25:23.120 --> 01:25:24.560 dealing with here. 01:25:24.560 --> 01:25:26.800 CTCR has been co-opted. 01:25:26.800 --> 01:25:29.200 The Missouri Synod has been co-opted. 01:25:29.200 --> 01:25:34.320 There's no possible way that this evil book could have been produced 01:25:34.320 --> 01:25:35.840 by a Christian body. 01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:39.360 This was produced by a body that has demonic voices in its 01:25:39.360 --> 01:25:43.280 myths. And as Corey said, that doesn't mean that the individuals involved 01:25:43.280 --> 01:25:44.720 are demon-possessed. 01:25:44.720 --> 01:25:47.760 It goes to the again to the first Timothy quote. 01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:49.520 Teachings of demons. 01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:52.560 Are these teachings of God or are these teachings of demons? 01:25:52.560 --> 01:25:55.760 There can be no question that there is a single answer to 01:25:55.760 --> 01:25:56.080 that. 01:25:57.440 --> 01:26:01.600 So when this shipped and when Ryan published his thread, which we'll 01:26:01.600 --> 01:26:04.720 link, three things happened. 01:26:04.720 --> 01:26:10.320 First, the sonatocrats circled the wagons, and those who were uh huge 01:26:10.320 --> 01:26:13.840 fans of institutional love. 01:26:13.840 --> 01:26:17.600 They said, How dare you question the institution? 01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:19.520 This went through doctrinal review. 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:21.760 That means it must be trustworthy. 01:26:21.760 --> 01:26:27.840 So the implicit assumption was the reason we brought up co-opting institutions. 01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:32.160 They say, well, there's no possibility that a institution could be co-opted 01:26:32.240 --> 01:26:34.080 or even that it can make a mistake. 01:26:34.080 --> 01:26:37.600 The only possibility is that you're wrong. 01:26:37.600 --> 01:26:41.600 And And the fact that there're some people who could see through 01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.560 that, but not nearly as many as I had hoped, and far 01:26:44.560 --> 01:26:48.080 more people than I had hoped bought a hookline and sinker. 01:26:48.080 --> 01:26:52.880 They think the idea the layman could comment on theology as a 01:26:52.880 --> 01:26:56.880 as a shocking affront to the state of our church and for 01:26:56.880 --> 01:26:59.760 us individually, so this to the state of our souls, that we 01:26:59.760 --> 01:27:05.040 must be deeply pr troubled men who are obviously very unreasonable. 01:27:05.040 --> 01:27:07.360 And so what's step three? 01:27:07.360 --> 01:27:13.040 It's Alinsky's rules for radicals, which immediately went into effect, beginning before 01:27:13.040 --> 01:27:15.920 we even had the live stream where we discussed it. 01:27:15.920 --> 01:27:20.640 But in the days in the immediate aftermath of us bringing to 01:27:20.640 --> 01:27:26.000 light this profound evil in our church, there were attempts to dox 01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:27.600 us, which are ongoing. 01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:32.080 Uh, there are attempts to see us punished and excommunicated from our 01:27:32.080 --> 01:27:35.440 churches for speaking about this theological matter. 01:27:35.440 --> 01:27:39.600 And that's interesting because the response that Matt Harrison had when he 01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:43.200 got a black eye for this disaster, which is hung around his 01:27:43.200 --> 01:27:47.040 neck, he said we're withdrawing it so that it can go under 01:27:47.040 --> 01:27:48.880 review for these concerns. 01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:49.520 Now 01:27:50.720 --> 01:27:53.280 I hope that there will be a good outcome from that. 01:27:53.280 --> 01:27:54.080 We'll see. 01:27:54.080 --> 01:27:57.520 But I bring that up to characterize the response of those who 01:27:57.520 --> 01:28:01.840 seek the destruction of the layman who spoke against it. 01:28:01.840 --> 01:28:05.200 If we spoke against something on this on the basis that it 01:28:05.200 --> 01:28:07.280 was not sound doctrine. 01:28:07.280 --> 01:28:10.320 And the president of the synod says, I need to look at 01:28:10.320 --> 01:28:11.600 these concerns. 01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:15.280 How is it not acting as judge, jury, and executioner for every 01:28:15.280 --> 01:28:19.200 pastor and layman who seeks to destroy the men involved in bringing 01:28:19.200 --> 01:28:23.120 this to light for saying that we are implicitly wrong because we're 01:28:23.120 --> 01:28:25.520 opposing an institution. 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:28.960 I'm not whining about hypocrisy, I'm pointing out that these men are 01:28:28.960 --> 01:28:32.160 liars and they are damned by their own actions. 01:28:32.160 --> 01:28:36.400 If the synod is defensible because it published it, then you must 01:28:36.400 --> 01:28:39.760 necessarily defend their decision to withdraw it. 01:28:39.760 --> 01:28:45.360 And instead they have characterized us as a mob as angry anons, 01:28:45.360 --> 01:28:48.640 as every all the all the slander that we've talked about in 01:28:48.640 --> 01:28:52.240 previous episodes, particularly the one a man has who has no name, 01:28:52.240 --> 01:28:55.520 a man a man whose name no man knows. 01:28:55.520 --> 01:29:02.000 These slanders are employed consistently with Alinsky's rules for radicals. 01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:08.160 So before I read Olinsky's rules, there's one really interesting quote that 01:29:08.160 --> 01:29:11.920 we used in the episode on the On the suitability of scripture 01:29:11.920 --> 01:29:15.520 for determining such disputes. 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:20.000 John Wycliffe's opponents stated the jewel of the clergy has become the 01:29:20.000 --> 01:29:21.440 toy of the laity. 01:29:21.440 --> 01:29:24.240 Now just a few weeks weeks ago when I wrote that we 01:29:24.240 --> 01:29:28.800 were laughing at the Romanists for having done that, that the Pope 01:29:28.800 --> 01:29:33.200 would have people murdered for trying to read the Bible themselves, and 01:29:33.200 --> 01:29:35.600 the idea that the toy of the laity was a threat to 01:29:35.600 --> 01:29:37.680 the jewel of the clergy. 01:29:37.680 --> 01:29:41.120 What we saw two weeks ago when this blew up was that 01:29:41.120 --> 01:29:44.800 that very same spirit lives within our own churches today. 01:29:44.800 --> 01:29:47.360 And I think that everyone needs to think long and hard about 01:29:47.360 --> 01:29:49.840 that, what that implies about us. 01:29:52.560 --> 01:29:56.480 So Saul Linsky wrote Rules for Radicals and he distilled it down 01:29:56.480 --> 01:29:58.640 to thirteen bullet points. 01:29:58.640 --> 01:30:03.120 These bullet points are predominantly focused around the personal destruction of the 01:30:03.120 --> 01:30:04.960 enemies of the institutions. 01:30:04.960 --> 01:30:08.960 Now, if you know about the world in which that's being applied, 01:30:08.960 --> 01:30:10.800 that sounds a bit ironic. 01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:14.640 And maybe fifty, seventy-five years ago that was not true. 01:30:14.640 --> 01:30:17.280 But today in a world where all of the institutions have been 01:30:17.280 --> 01:30:22.480 co-opted, it's absolutely true that these rules work equally well, not for 01:30:22.480 --> 01:30:28.000 the radicals against the institutions, but for the radicals who employ and 01:30:28.000 --> 01:30:31.680 weaponize the institutions against their opponents. 01:30:34.960 --> 01:30:38.640 So I'm gonna read the nine that were used in this very 01:30:38.640 --> 01:30:42.560 scenario against Ryan Turnipseed and against myself and Corey and others 01:30:43.440 --> 01:30:47.760 Number one, power is not only what you have, but what the 01:30:47.760 --> 01:30:49.280 enemy thinks you have. 01:30:49.280 --> 01:30:50.720 So how does that apply here? 01:30:50.720 --> 01:30:55.920 Well, they're pastors who are trying to get us excommunicated for speaking 01:30:55.920 --> 01:30:57.120 in defense of Scripture. 01:30:57.600 --> 01:31:01.280 Now, even in the case where we were wrong, the fact that 01:31:01.280 --> 01:31:06.560 they would presume to call us to repentance again before synod has 01:31:06.560 --> 01:31:09.280 ruled on whether or not this is in fact false doctrine, I 01:31:09.280 --> 01:31:11.600 think that they're probably going to capitulate on a number of the 01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:12.560 points that we raised. 01:31:12.560 --> 01:31:14.240 Frankly, we didn't raise all the points. 01:31:14.240 --> 01:31:17.440 There's a lot more trash in there that we didn't raise because 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:20.880 the point was that the book itself was corrupt. 01:31:20.880 --> 01:31:22.080 We were we're not editors. 01:31:22.080 --> 01:31:23.600 We weren't trying to find every error. 01:31:23.840 --> 01:31:27.200 The point was to demonstrate that on its face the existence of 01:31:27.200 --> 01:31:29.440 the book is an affront to God. 01:31:29.440 --> 01:31:34.480 So the use of institutional power to threaten laymen who would speak 01:31:34.480 --> 01:31:41.760 up against it is is absolutely deploying church discipline as a weapon 01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:46.080 to silence laymen who are like we're not trying to burn down 01:31:46.080 --> 01:31:47.440 the Missouri Synod. 01:31:47.440 --> 01:31:50.320 We're not trying to destroy CPH. 01:31:50.320 --> 01:31:52.400 I think that both have serious problems. 01:31:52.400 --> 01:31:54.240 I'm very open about that. 01:31:54.240 --> 01:31:58.800 We're seeking the immediate redress of this specific problem, and then we'll 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:02.160 go upstream from there to figure out how did these problems occur. 01:32:02.160 --> 01:32:05.360 We have our own theories and our own understanding, but the point 01:32:05.360 --> 01:32:09.200 of bringing the large cataclysm to the to the view of the 01:32:09.200 --> 01:32:13.360 world was not to pick a fight with the institution, it was 01:32:13.360 --> 01:32:14.640 to end the book. 01:32:14.640 --> 01:32:17.360 Because if this book had shipped to all the people who wanted 01:32:17.360 --> 01:32:21.360 it and was normalized as a part of church teaching, that's the 01:32:21.360 --> 01:32:26.400 ratchet. That's the the reasonable wording being made reasonable and moving one 01:32:26.400 --> 01:32:27.520 step further down. 01:32:27.520 --> 01:32:30.640 And so a year from now, all the men who were advancing 01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:34.160 Marxism in the church would be quoting this against us and saying, 01:32:34.160 --> 01:32:36.160 this is established church teaching. 01:32:36.160 --> 01:32:40.400 We had one tiny tiny window of opportunity to prevent that from 01:32:40.400 --> 01:32:43.440 happening. And what we did, we threw a monkey wrench in the 01:32:43.440 --> 01:32:44.720 gears of that ratchet. 01:32:44.720 --> 01:32:46.320 We kept from moving forward. 01:32:46.320 --> 01:32:49.360 For the first time in a long time, it didn't move to 01:32:49.360 --> 01:32:50.880 the left like it has been. 01:32:50.880 --> 01:32:53.120 And so they're trying to threaten us. 01:32:53.120 --> 01:32:55.760 Fine. Good luck with that. 01:32:56.160 --> 01:32:59.760 Second rule is never go outside the expertise of your people. 01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:03.520 Well, that's clearly in play here because those who are most practice 01:33:03.520 --> 01:33:08.400 in slander and the destruction of reputations, have done it quite effectively. 01:33:08.400 --> 01:33:11.040 It's uh it's been an ongoing thing we've seen ever since the 01:33:11.040 --> 01:33:14.640 beginning, and the the expertise that they have is demonstrated by the 01:33:14.640 --> 01:33:17.440 alacrity with which they've employed those tools. 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:17.920 Which 01:33:18.000 --> 01:33:20.800 of course ties right into rule thirteen, but we'll get to 01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:21.360 that. 01:33:21.360 --> 01:33:24.880 Yep. The third one is particularly relevant. 01:33:24.880 --> 01:33:28.000 Ridicule is man's most powerful weapon. 01:33:28.000 --> 01:33:29.120 And that's what they went to. 01:33:29.120 --> 01:33:32.640 Isn't it interesting that when a a number of laymen raised a 01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:39.200 serious theological trick critique against a church publication, the response well give 01:33:39.200 --> 01:33:42.560 you what the responses were, they were first, how dare you question 01:33:43.040 --> 01:33:43.600 the church? 01:33:43.600 --> 01:33:45.120 It went through doctrinal review. 01:33:45.120 --> 01:33:47.280 You guys can't possibly be right. 01:33:47.280 --> 01:33:49.760 And then they said, oh, you took it out of context. 01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:52.000 If you'd read the whole thing, you'd know that what we what 01:33:52.000 --> 01:33:54.160 we quoted was actually okay. 01:33:54.160 --> 01:33:57.520 That pedophilia is actually a sexuality, and if you read the whole 01:33:57.520 --> 01:34:01.360 essay, which is only like three pages, that's gonna be explained. 01:34:01.360 --> 01:34:05.680 No. We read the full essays in order to find those excerpts, 01:34:05.680 --> 01:34:06.400 all right? 01:34:06.400 --> 01:34:09.200 We didn't cherry pick, we distilled. 01:34:09.200 --> 01:34:10.880 There's a fundamental difference. 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:15.200 Cherry picking is isolating one thing out of context to mislead. 01:34:15.200 --> 01:34:20.000 Distillation is saying here's three par here's here's three pages. 01:34:20.000 --> 01:34:23.760 This paragraph gives away their true intentions. 01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:25.120 That was distillation. 01:34:25.120 --> 01:34:28.240 That is fundamentally truthful. 01:34:28.240 --> 01:34:31.040 And the yet they would say, Well, you took it out of 01:34:31.040 --> 01:34:33.680 context. you, you're liars, you're deceiving. 01:34:33.680 --> 01:34:36.000 Once we read the whole thing, we'll understand it. 01:34:36.000 --> 01:34:37.920 We gotta pass the bill to know what's in the bill. 01:34:37.920 --> 01:34:41.120 I mean that was that basically amounted to most of the argument 01:34:41.120 --> 01:34:45.120 for shipping this book and not recalling it. 01:34:45.120 --> 01:34:47.520 And the last thing they did too was to go to ad 01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:53.840 hominem to ridicule Ryan for being anonymous, for being an anonymous coward, 01:34:53.840 --> 01:34:56.080 uh which is hilarious, because again, that's his name. 01:34:56.080 --> 01:34:59.360 And he had numerous pastors on multiple forums in public and in 01:34:59.360 --> 01:35:04.080 private attacking attacked him for being anonymous, as though that somehow discredited 01:35:04.080 --> 01:35:06.400 him. I'm pseudonymous. 01:35:06.400 --> 01:35:07.920 Am I discredited by that? 01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:09.440 Some men believe absolutely. 01:35:09.440 --> 01:35:12.160 There are men like Mer Larry Bean and Lyman Stone who will 01:35:12.160 --> 01:35:17.760 routinely say, if you do not put your name, your Christian name, 01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:20.240 to your Christian words, you are not a Christian. 01:35:20.240 --> 01:35:21.520 You are a false Christian. 01:35:21.520 --> 01:35:22.560 You are cowardly. 01:35:22.560 --> 01:35:25.360 You deny the faith by concealing your name. 01:35:25.360 --> 01:35:30.400 Well, isn't it interesting that in this very moment where pseudonymity is 01:35:30.400 --> 01:35:33.520 on one hand seen as evil, and on the other hand, the 01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:36.880 men who are not pseudonymous who use their Christian names, are being 01:35:36.880 --> 01:35:40.240 attacked in their own churches for the sake of their destruction. 01:35:40.080 --> 01:35:42.880 and again, for the sake of declaring that they're damned. 01:35:42.880 --> 01:35:46.560 When you excommunicate a man, that is applying the binding key. 01:35:46.560 --> 01:35:50.400 It is saying we have called you to repentance repeatedly, you refuse 01:35:50.400 --> 01:35:52.480 to repent of what we are calling a sin. 01:35:52.480 --> 01:35:56.000 We never we now declare to the whole world and in the 01:35:56.000 --> 01:36:00.320 name of God that you will spend eternity in hell if you 01:36:00.320 --> 01:36:02.160 do not repent in the future. 01:36:02.160 --> 01:36:05.040 That's what excommunication means in the Lutheran Church. 01:36:05.040 --> 01:36:06.960 It's not a small deal. 01:36:07.120 --> 01:36:09.680 And so for all these pastors to say that we should be 01:36:09.680 --> 01:36:14.240 brought under church discipline because we're anonymous and because we slandered the 01:36:14.240 --> 01:36:18.320 church and because we doubted doctrinal review is 01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:22.800 it's it's fundamentally evil and it's it's a profound evil that I've 01:36:22.800 --> 01:36:24.960 never personally witnessed in my own church. 01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:26.960 Uh I wish it were for the last time, but I think 01:36:26.960 --> 01:36:28.160 it's only going to ramp up. 01:36:28.560 --> 01:36:32.240 They're also doing the exact same thing that happens in the left-hand 01:36:32.400 --> 01:36:36.320 kingdom. If you speak up on many of these same related issues 01:36:36.640 --> 01:36:43.520 or nearly identical issues, closely related issues, people will call and harass 01:36:43.520 --> 01:36:47.680 your employer, your family members, anyone they can find to try to 01:36:47.680 --> 01:36:49.200 get you fired and ruin your life. 01:36:49.200 --> 01:36:52.880 That is their entire goal, and we're seeing the same thing being 01:36:52.880 --> 01:36:58.000 done by supposed Christians in the right hand kingdom. 01:36:58.000 --> 01:36:58.960 Because it's the same 01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:02.560 playbook. We have a friend through that to him that happened. 01:37:02.560 --> 01:37:06.160 He spoke out against this stuff a number of years ago in 01:37:06.160 --> 01:37:07.200 his local town. 01:37:07.200 --> 01:37:10.000 He had to leave town along with his family because the death 01:37:10.000 --> 01:37:14.160 threats and the the destruction of his personal character were so great 01:37:14.160 --> 01:37:18.240 that he felt that fleeing was his only chance for a fresh 01:37:18.240 --> 01:37:21.760 start. That is what these men seek against us. 01:37:21.760 --> 01:37:25.440 Now is that what God wants or is that what Satan wants? 01:37:25.440 --> 01:37:26.640 You make up your own mind. 01:37:26.960 --> 01:37:30.080 That is in fairness one of the reasons that I no longer 01:37:30.080 --> 01:37:31.280 live in California. 01:37:31.280 --> 01:37:33.600 I mean there are plenty of reasons to leave California, but that 01:37:33.600 --> 01:37:35.760 is certainly one of the considerations. 01:37:35.840 --> 01:37:40.240 Indeed. It is certainly safer to be honest about these issues while 01:37:40.240 --> 01:37:41.440 living in Tennessee. 01:37:41.760 --> 01:37:43.440 Yeah, very much so. 01:37:44.400 --> 01:37:47.760 The next tactic that was employed is a good tactic is one 01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:49.040 your people enjoy. 01:37:49.040 --> 01:37:53.360 Well, is we've seen from Facebook and the forums and Twitter and 01:37:53.360 --> 01:37:58.400 elsewhere, these people love calling us names and ridiculing us. 01:37:58.400 --> 01:38:01.200 None of them address the substance of our arguments. 01:38:01.200 --> 01:38:04.480 They called us racists, they called us Nazis, they called I don't 01:38:04.400 --> 01:38:06.720 know if they called us homophobes, but it it's all the same 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:12.400 package. That cluster of slanderous terms all go together. 01:38:12.400 --> 01:38:15.360 And the reason that we're hearing it in the church we're told 01:38:15.440 --> 01:38:18.240 it's because, well, that's Christian morality, obviously. 01:38:18.240 --> 01:38:20.800 You can't be any of those things or you're not a Christian. 01:38:20.800 --> 01:38:22.960 How is it that no one ever talked like that a hundred 01:38:23.040 --> 01:38:23.920 years ago? 01:38:23.920 --> 01:38:25.200 I'll tell you how. 01:38:25.200 --> 01:38:29.840 It's because Satan began using those things in the world, and these 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:34.640 men who are participants in co-opted institutions have brought these things into 01:38:34.640 --> 01:38:36.000 Christ bride. 01:38:36.000 --> 01:38:39.440 They're using them against Christians in the name of Satan. 01:38:39.440 --> 01:38:41.920 They're speaking the teachings of demons among us 01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:45.920 and discernment of that is vital. 01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:47.920 We're not saying this in self-defense. 01:38:47.920 --> 01:38:52.640 I don't care if if man judges me harshly, whatever. 01:38:52.960 --> 01:38:55.520 The question is, are we being faithful to God? 01:38:55.520 --> 01:38:58.480 And the fact that this destruction is falling on us is simply 01:38:58.480 --> 01:39:00.320 because we happen to be the first to know and the first 01:39:00.320 --> 01:39:02.240 to speak up, which is, you know what? 01:39:02.240 --> 01:39:04.720 It's why we're doing this podcast, is why we began it. 01:39:04.720 --> 01:39:07.440 And it's why we will continue to double down and double down 01:39:07.440 --> 01:39:11.920 again. Because the harder these men push and the more they scream, 01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:16.160 the greater incentive there is for us to be faithful voices in 01:39:16.160 --> 01:39:19.120 an environment where most men are afraid to, even if they know 01:39:19.200 --> 01:39:21.920 the truth, they're afraid to speak. 01:39:21.920 --> 01:39:24.160 Ridiculing me is not gonna do any good. 01:39:24.800 --> 01:39:27.200 ridiculing Corey is not gonna do any good. 01:39:27.200 --> 01:39:30.320 There's nothing you could possibly say that we haven't heard before. 01:39:30.320 --> 01:39:31.360 We don't care. 01:39:31.360 --> 01:39:32.800 We d we just laugh. 01:39:32.800 --> 01:39:36.160 It makes you look silly, it doesn't make us look bad. 01:39:36.160 --> 01:39:40.080 But it's clear that you're following Alinsky's rules and enjoying it, so 01:39:40.080 --> 01:39:41.920 keep on enjoying it. 01:39:42.320 --> 01:39:46.160 Flowing right along, the next one, keep the pressure on, never let 01:39:46.160 --> 01:39:48.800 up. That's been consistent since day one. 01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:53.360 They immediately began to attacking the messenger rather than even considering the 01:39:53.360 --> 01:39:58.480 substance of the message, because they had a preordained decision that whatever 01:39:58.480 --> 01:40:02.560 Synod did has to be good or Synod wouldn't have done it. 01:40:02.560 --> 01:40:04.480 Think about the circularity of that. 01:40:04.480 --> 01:40:07.280 How is that not Roman Catholicism? 01:40:07.280 --> 01:40:10.560 If the magisterium says it it must be true. 01:40:10.560 --> 01:40:15.200 Okay, like if that's where Lutheranism is gonna be, why shouldn't I 01:40:15.200 --> 01:40:16.480 just be Roman Catholic? 01:40:16.480 --> 01:40:20.240 They dress better, they have a cooler claim on history, it's mostly 01:40:20.240 --> 01:40:23.520 nonsense, but if we're lying, why not tell the best lie we 01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:27.280 can? We have a crappy lie, Lutherans, if if it were a 01:40:27.280 --> 01:40:31.680 lie, except it's the truth until lately. 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:36.240 The next Alinsky rule, the threat is usually more terrifying than the 01:40:36.240 --> 01:40:37.120 thing itself. 01:40:37.120 --> 01:40:38.000 And they know that. 01:40:38.000 --> 01:40:41.680 These guys know that threatening to dox us, threatening to bring us 01:40:41.680 --> 01:40:45.120 on well, you can't bring a layman up on false doctrine charges, 01:40:45.120 --> 01:40:49.440 but you can have his pastor and his elders determine whether or 01:40:49.440 --> 01:40:53.280 not the congregation should should choose to expel him or to place 01:40:53.280 --> 01:40:56.720 him under a lesser ban where we would be denied communion, we 01:40:56.720 --> 01:41:00.240 would be denied the body and blood of Christ to tell us 01:41:00.240 --> 01:41:02.160 that our sins are unforgiven. 01:41:02.160 --> 01:41:03.440 What sin would that be? 01:41:03.440 --> 01:41:06.320 The sin of saying the same thing that God says about the 01:41:06.320 --> 01:41:09.280 Ten Commandments and these other teachings. 01:41:09.280 --> 01:41:13.040 When a man comes to you and demands that you confess a 01:41:13.040 --> 01:41:18.480 false sin, he is commanding you to confess a false God. 01:41:18.480 --> 01:41:20.080 I want to be explicit about that. 01:41:20.080 --> 01:41:24.240 There's no such thing as confessing a false sin to God. 01:41:24.240 --> 01:41:27.920 If we were to confess the things that they demand we confess, 01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:31.920 we would be blaspheming, we would be violating all the commandments, particularly 01:41:31.920 --> 01:41:34.400 the first one, by denying our own Creator. 01:41:34.400 --> 01:41:37.440 If you think that we're going to repent for doing that which 01:41:37.440 --> 01:41:42.640 we are compelled by conscience to do, watch what happens next. 01:41:42.960 --> 01:41:44.720 And so they're trying to threaten. 01:41:44.720 --> 01:41:48.240 They're using Alinsky's rules to threaten because they hope they don't care 01:41:48.240 --> 01:41:49.040 if we repent. 01:41:49.200 --> 01:41:51.280 they're not interested in our souls. 01:41:51.280 --> 01:41:54.320 They're kid interested in silencing their enemies. 01:41:54.320 --> 01:41:59.520 They're interested in silencing the small handful of laymen who will go 01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:05.200 head to head with evil, even when the evil is institutional. 01:42:05.200 --> 01:42:06.960 Beyond that, what do they have? 01:42:06.960 --> 01:42:11.280 The very worst case for me personally is that I'm doxxed. 01:42:11.280 --> 01:42:12.880 I face death threats. 01:42:12.880 --> 01:42:15.920 I face threats in my community, maybe. 01:42:16.240 --> 01:42:20.080 Whatever. In the church, the worst threat would be that if my 01:42:20.080 --> 01:42:24.640 congregation were to were to willingly command me to repent of a 01:42:24.640 --> 01:42:28.720 false sin and I refused, I would be excommunicated. 01:42:28.720 --> 01:42:31.680 Do you think I'm gonna stop coming to church just because my 01:42:31.680 --> 01:42:34.320 church made a false confession and kicked me out? 01:42:34.320 --> 01:42:37.760 No. I'm not gonna go up to communion, obviously, because not only 01:42:37.760 --> 01:42:41.040 would it be a violation of the 01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:47.120 congregation's sanctity, but it would be a false confession because any congregation 01:42:47.200 --> 01:42:51.280 they would excommunicate me for my words and actions is a congregation 01:42:51.280 --> 01:42:53.120 with whom I do not have fellowship. 01:42:53.120 --> 01:42:56.800 Nevertheless, if it's my only opportunity to hear the word of God 01:42:56.800 --> 01:42:59.200 preached well, that's where I'm gonna go. 01:42:59.200 --> 01:43:03.200 So the worst that you can possibly do to me, apart from 01:43:03.200 --> 01:43:06.960 letting people know that I'm evil and should be murdered, is to 01:43:06.960 --> 01:43:09.920 deny me communion for the rest of my life. 01:43:10.400 --> 01:43:11.760 I hope that doesn't happen. 01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:13.600 If it happens, I'm prepared for it. 01:43:13.600 --> 01:43:17.760 The Siberian Lutheran Church there were entire generations that went without communion. 01:43:17.760 --> 01:43:20.720 As a Christian I understand that the body and blood of Christ 01:43:20.720 --> 01:43:24.640 is to be desired for the forgiveness that it provides and the 01:43:24.640 --> 01:43:26.160 comfort that it provides. 01:43:26.160 --> 01:43:28.080 I am equally forgiven in baptism. 01:43:28.080 --> 01:43:31.120 I am equally forgiven in hearing the word. 01:43:31.120 --> 01:43:34.080 There is nothing that they can deprive me of except for a 01:43:34.080 --> 01:43:36.720 name which is an attack on God's name. 01:43:36.720 --> 01:43:37.040 So 01:43:38.320 --> 01:43:41.520 the the reason we're framing this in terms of Velinsky's rules is 01:43:41.520 --> 01:43:43.280 that it goes right down the list. 01:43:43.280 --> 01:43:46.560 These attacks, again, they they won't talk doctrine. 01:43:46.560 --> 01:43:48.960 They want to talk about the men, and they don't even want 01:43:48.960 --> 01:43:50.160 to talk about the men. 01:43:50.160 --> 01:43:53.040 They want to point to us and say to everyone else, get 01:43:53.200 --> 01:43:54.080 'em. They're bad. 01:43:54.080 --> 01:43:54.800 They're bad guys. 01:43:54.800 --> 01:43:55.360 Get 'em 01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:59.280 Not only are they j going down the rules, if you actually 01:43:59.280 --> 01:44:01.280 read the book, and it's not that long of a book, it's 01:44:01.280 --> 01:44:03.760 two hundred pages or something. 01:44:03.760 --> 01:44:07.440 All of the examples and the details and things that are in 01:44:07.440 --> 01:44:09.360 the book, they're using them as well. 01:44:09.360 --> 01:44:11.600 There's just a quick quote I want to read here. 01:44:11.600 --> 01:44:15.520 And I guess this is our there's one naughty word in here, 01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:17.840 so language warning if someone is listening to this with their children 01:44:17.920 --> 01:44:20.160 as I know some are. 01:44:20.160 --> 01:44:24.080 Can you imagine in the arena of conflict charging that so and 01:44:24.160 --> 01:44:27.440 so is a racist bastard, and then diluting the impact of the 01:44:27.440 --> 01:44:30.640 attack with qualifying remarks such as he is a good church going 01:44:30.720 --> 01:44:33.120 man, generous to charity and a good husband. 01:44:33.120 --> 01:44:37.920 This becomes political idiocy, and we see that happening with anyone who 01:44:37.920 --> 01:44:41.600 opposes these adversary pastors. 01:44:41.600 --> 01:44:44.480 All of a sudden you are an arch fiend. 01:44:44.640 --> 01:44:46.160 There is nothing good about you. 01:44:46.160 --> 01:44:47.520 It doesn't matter what else you do. 01:44:47.520 --> 01:44:51.040 You can be someone who attends every service at your church, constantly 01:44:51.200 --> 01:44:56.880 volunteers, does all of these good works, and they are in fact 01:44:57.040 --> 01:44:58.320 good works. 01:44:58.320 --> 01:45:01.280 But the only thing that matters is that you've opposed them on 01:45:01.280 --> 01:45:04.560 this one thing, and so you are the most evil man ever 01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:06.000 to exist. 01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:09.440 And we want to be very clear, we are not saying that 01:45:09.440 --> 01:45:12.320 sort of thing about the adversaries. 01:45:12.320 --> 01:45:18.080 Many of them do many good things, particularly the unwitting pastors who 01:45:18.080 --> 01:45:22.800 are using this playbook without knowing they're using the playbook. 01:45:22.800 --> 01:45:26.320 Most of what they're doing in their congregations in their daily lives 01:45:26.640 --> 01:45:30.160 probably good, probably in line with what God wants. 01:45:30.160 --> 01:45:33.600 We are seeking to correct the error they are making because they 01:45:33.600 --> 01:45:37.200 are speaking with the voice of Satan when they make that error. 01:45:37.200 --> 01:45:40.640 And that is in contrast with what is being done to those 01:45:40.640 --> 01:45:45.280 of us on this side who are apparently one hundred percent evil 01:45:45.360 --> 01:45:50.000 because we disagree on something, because we're defending the word of God. 01:45:50.160 --> 01:45:50.400 And 01:45:50.400 --> 01:45:54.240 that flows into the next Dolinsky rule that's being employed here. 01:45:54.240 --> 01:45:58.480 The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will 01:45:58.480 --> 01:46:02.480 maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. 01:46:02.480 --> 01:46:05.760 Now, as we've just described to you accurately what has happened in 01:46:05.760 --> 01:46:10.080 the last couple of weeks, imagine what a signal that sends to 01:46:10.080 --> 01:46:16.080 other laymen or pastors in the Missouri Synod or related synods who 01:46:16.080 --> 01:46:18.640 would also be concerned? 01:46:18.640 --> 01:46:24.240 If they succeed in getting us excommunicated, if they succeed in getting 01:46:24.240 --> 01:46:30.320 the Missouri Synod to attack a layman speaking against false doctrine in 01:46:30.320 --> 01:46:33.760 the church, think about the chilling effect that that will have on 01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:35.040 the church as a whole. 01:46:35.040 --> 01:46:40.400 What will happen the next time the ratchet moves and someone notices 01:46:40.880 --> 01:46:44.240 if we're not in play, which will only happen if God calls 01:46:44.240 --> 01:46:47.120 us home, because as long as we draw breath, we're gonna do 01:46:47.120 --> 01:46:48.560 this harder and harder. 01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:51.280 So you guys should have tried to co-opt us a year ago 01:46:51.280 --> 01:46:52.240 and been nicer. 01:46:52.240 --> 01:46:55.920 The fact that you picked us out as enemies has animated the 01:46:55.920 --> 01:47:00.720 very energy that you now are threatened with. 01:47:00.720 --> 01:47:05.200 The constant pressure that Alinsky is talking about is this constant pressure. 01:47:05.200 --> 01:47:10.960 It's not simply the activities of doxing and threatening decks communicate. 01:47:10.960 --> 01:47:14.720 It's the knowledge, the persistent knowledge that will remain in our church 01:47:14.720 --> 01:47:18.240 body for the foreseeable future, that this is what the immune system, 01:47:18.240 --> 01:47:21.840 the Missouri Synod, does when laymen speak up. 01:47:21.840 --> 01:47:26.640 Even if we were wrong about the things there, if the opposition 01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:30.240 to someone who speaks about doctrine and gets something wrong is that 01:47:30.240 --> 01:47:37.360 they're destroyed on contact, if that's the response of this church, who 01:47:37.360 --> 01:47:38.960 else is gonna speak up? 01:47:38.960 --> 01:47:40.960 Not many men, I can tell you that. 01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:44.960 Most men can't afford to, and most men don't have the constitution 01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:49.760 to withstand the degree of slander and hatred that is directed against 01:47:49.760 --> 01:47:52.560 us. God has equipped us so that we find it kind of 01:47:52.560 --> 01:47:53.520 funny most of the time. 01:47:53.920 --> 01:47:57.200 it's sad that these men are nailing Christ to the cross with 01:47:57.200 --> 01:48:00.160 every tweet that they give and every word that they say in 01:48:00.160 --> 01:48:03.440 the secret, directing men to destroy us. 01:48:03.440 --> 01:48:04.480 That's tragic. 01:48:04.480 --> 01:48:07.760 But for our own sakes it's just his funny because the lies 01:48:07.760 --> 01:48:11.200 are so far from the truth that it's it's it's not even 01:48:11.200 --> 01:48:11.760 a parody. 01:48:11.840 --> 01:48:15.680 It there's no there's no comparison of the true man and the 01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:19.920 false slandered version that the world is given. 01:48:19.920 --> 01:48:23.520 And the last rule is is really the the sum of all 01:48:23.520 --> 01:48:24.160 of them. 01:48:24.160 --> 01:48:28.880 Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. 01:48:28.880 --> 01:48:31.040 That's precisely what's what's been happening. 01:48:31.040 --> 01:48:34.800 And it's interesting they've gone after Ryan Turnipseed, even harder than the 01:48:34.800 --> 01:48:37.840 rest of us, principally because his name was attached to it, but 01:48:37.840 --> 01:48:39.920 I think also because he's a young man and they think they 01:48:39.920 --> 01:48:40.880 can bully him. 01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:44.320 They're in for a rude awakening because he's younger than either of 01:48:44.320 --> 01:48:46.960 us, but he is incredibly brilliant. 01:48:46.960 --> 01:48:47.600 He has 01:48:49.120 --> 01:48:53.760 he has incredible fortitude and he's not going anywhere. 01:48:53.760 --> 01:48:56.160 Now I don't know what's gonna happen in the future of our 01:48:56.160 --> 01:49:00.080 church, but in terms of him being a voice within Christianity and 01:49:00.080 --> 01:49:03.440 fighting for the truth and fighting for the faith, he's gonna be 01:49:03.440 --> 01:49:04.400 around longer than us. 01:49:04.640 --> 01:49:08.800 And if you think that galvanizing him with slander is gonna chase 01:49:08.800 --> 01:49:12.640 him off, you're gonna regret the next seventy years or so because 01:49:12.800 --> 01:49:15.600 it's not us who's suffering, it's going to be you. 01:49:15.600 --> 01:49:19.280 And the difference is that while you seek our suffering for the 01:49:19.280 --> 01:49:24.080 sake of the gospel, we simply seek for your evil to cease 01:49:24.160 --> 01:49:28.320 to abate, for the teachings of demons to cease to be present 01:49:28.320 --> 01:49:30.400 in our churches. 01:49:31.600 --> 01:49:35.520 So to close this out, I want to read from the Beatitudes. 01:49:35.520 --> 01:49:37.920 Uh it's interesting when you look at the structure of them, there 01:49:38.240 --> 01:49:41.440 are nine blessed R statements. 01:49:41.440 --> 01:49:45.760 The first seven have to do with the qualities of the people 01:49:46.080 --> 01:49:48.160 about whom Christ is speaking. 01:49:48.160 --> 01:49:51.600 So the meek those, you know, it's he's speaking about what is 01:49:51.600 --> 01:49:54.720 inherent to the person, what they are doing in their lives and 01:49:54.720 --> 01:49:57.600 in their communities, how they handle themselves. 01:49:57.600 --> 01:50:02.080 The last two beatitudes are different in this particular way. 01:50:02.080 --> 01:50:06.480 The last two blessed Rs have to do with how other men 01:50:06.640 --> 01:50:09.680 treat those whom God says are blessed. 01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:12.560 So I'll read them now and then just briefly put them in 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:18.480 context. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs 01:50:18.480 --> 01:50:20.400 is the kingdom of heaven. 01:50:20.400 --> 01:50:23.920 Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter 01:50:23.920 --> 01:50:28.320 all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 01:50:28.320 --> 01:50:32.480 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for 01:50:32.480 --> 01:50:36.320 so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. 01:50:36.320 --> 01:50:39.760 Now the reason we're closing out with that is not simply to 01:50:39.760 --> 01:50:43.600 make an appeal that we're the persecuted, although I think that if 01:50:43.600 --> 01:50:47.840 you believe the context we've provided here, there's no other conclusion This 01:50:47.840 --> 01:50:53.120 is an example Jesus is giving of Satan's playbook. 01:50:53.120 --> 01:50:57.680 The fact that reviling and uttering all kinds of evil falsely against 01:50:57.680 --> 01:51:02.480 someone for the sake of Christ, Jesus didn't mention that flippantly. 01:51:02.480 --> 01:51:03.840 It wasn't something random. 01:51:03.840 --> 01:51:06.400 It wasn't like, oh, I guess number nine, I need to round 01:51:06.400 --> 01:51:07.520 it up. 01:51:07.520 --> 01:51:11.360 And he even mentioned the prophets received the same treatment. 01:51:11.360 --> 01:51:13.200 Why did they receive that treatment? 01:51:13.200 --> 01:51:17.840 Because the prophets spoke the word of God among the people, both 01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:22.480 believers and unbelievers, and they were hated, not because they weren't nice, 01:51:22.480 --> 01:51:25.280 not because they weren't good looking, not because they weren't popular, they 01:51:25.360 --> 01:51:28.000 were hated because they spoke the word of God. 01:51:28.000 --> 01:51:32.640 It is an eternal truth that wherever Satan's animating force is in 01:51:32.640 --> 01:51:36.640 the hearts of men, those who speak the word of God will 01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:37.840 be hated. 01:51:37.840 --> 01:51:41.040 They will be hated to the point that they were reviled and 01:51:41.040 --> 01:51:44.160 slandered ceaselessly in public. 01:51:44.160 --> 01:51:45.760 Jesus promised that. 01:51:45.760 --> 01:51:49.760 This is a blessing tied to a prophecy, which is is what 01:51:49.760 --> 01:51:51.120 makes it different from the others. 01:51:51.120 --> 01:51:52.240 The others weren't prophetic. 01:51:52.240 --> 01:51:55.200 They were saying, you're blessed because of these gifts that I have 01:51:55.200 --> 01:51:56.800 given you inherently. 01:51:56.800 --> 01:52:00.080 These are blessings for what is going to come to those who 01:52:00.080 --> 01:52:01.280 obey God. 01:52:01.280 --> 01:52:06.640 Jesus prophesied and also spoke in in history, whenever a man speaks 01:52:06.640 --> 01:52:11.040 faithfully, all kinds of evil will be uttered against him for the 01:52:11.040 --> 01:52:12.400 sake of God. 01:52:12.400 --> 01:52:16.720 None of these adversary pastors who hate us with a fire of 01:52:16.720 --> 01:52:19.920 a thousand sons, do so because they think that they they don't 01:52:19.840 --> 01:52:21.840 like us personally. 01:52:21.840 --> 01:52:25.360 They hate that there are men in the church to day who 01:52:25.360 --> 01:52:29.920 will unflinchingly speak the word of God in their presence and against 01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:31.120 their words. 01:52:31.120 --> 01:52:33.520 And we didn't even target them this time. 01:52:33.520 --> 01:52:36.800 And when I say target, I mean speak against their lies. 01:52:36.800 --> 01:52:40.880 We are speaking against the lies that the Missouri Synod published. 01:52:40.880 --> 01:52:44.080 And yet they lies rise to its defense, and they do it 01:52:44.080 --> 01:52:48.640 with the same slander that Jesus would come to his faithful. 01:52:48.640 --> 01:52:51.360 All we can do is rejoice and thank God. 01:52:51.360 --> 01:52:54.880 But for the context of what can be done to save the 01:52:54.880 --> 01:52:58.480 church, not only the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, but all of our 01:52:58.480 --> 01:53:03.520 churches, because again, every denomination is undergoing these same attacks, using the 01:53:03.520 --> 01:53:06.400 same tricks and the same playbook, and it's going to have the 01:53:06.400 --> 01:53:07.280 same results. 01:53:07.280 --> 01:53:11.280 There will be a faithful remnant who will speak up and in 01:53:11.280 --> 01:53:15.120 some cases be destroyed and driven out, and there will be those 01:53:15.120 --> 01:53:19.040 who seek to their destruction because they ultimately served Satan. 01:53:19.040 --> 01:53:22.320 And regardless of what's in their hearts, as they're doing the driving 01:53:22.320 --> 01:53:25.280 out of the faithful men for the sake of God. 01:53:25.280 --> 01:53:28.000 In the end, when you've driven out the faithful men, all you 01:53:28.000 --> 01:53:32.400 have left are those who cannot tell the difference between the teachings 01:53:32.400 --> 01:53:35.280 of demons and the voice of God. 01:53:35.280 --> 01:53:38.960 And those who hear the voice of their master will respond to 01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:42.720 his words with thanksgiving and faithfulness and repentance. 01:53:42.720 --> 01:53:46.720 And those who don't hear his voice and recognize it will naturally 01:53:46.720 --> 01:53:49.440 respond with howls of rage. 01:53:49.440 --> 01:53:52.640 And as we see these things play out in our church, pay 01:53:52.640 --> 01:53:54.800 attention to those two sides. 01:53:54.800 --> 01:53:58.560 Who is speaking as God speaks and what is the response? 01:53:58.560 --> 01:54:00.400 Are those who respond faithfully? 01:54:00.400 --> 01:54:01.760 Are those who hate? 01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:04.000 If they hate, do they hate in the same way that the 01:54:04.000 --> 01:54:04.880 world hates? 01:54:04.880 --> 01:54:06.960 Do they hate with Satan's playbook? 01:54:06.960 --> 01:54:10.480 Do you see the same thing playing out again for the fiftieth 01:54:10.480 --> 01:54:13.600 time? If that's happening, why is it happening? 01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:15.360 This is an eternal playbook. 01:54:15.360 --> 01:54:16.560 Well, not eternal, it's created 01:54:17.440 --> 01:54:21.600 in Satan's mind as a creature, a twisted creature, who seeks for 01:54:21.600 --> 01:54:24.880 all of creation to join him in rebellion against God. 01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:28.400 By God's grace, none of us are going to rebel against God. 01:54:28.480 --> 01:54:32.560 And if that means faithfulness in the face of persecution within our 01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:37.360 own church bodies, then we will rejoice for that blessing too. 01:54:38.000 --> 01:54:38.160 And 01:54:38.160 --> 01:54:42.320 it just brings to mind one additional scripture verse I think will 01:54:42.400 --> 01:54:48.400 close with Joshua chapter twenty four and if it is evil in 01:54:48.400 --> 01:54:51.760 your eyes to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you 01:54:51.760 --> 01:54:52.800 will serve. 01:54:52.800 --> 01:54:56.080 Whether the gods of the academy that has been co opted, or 01:54:56.080 --> 01:54:59.120 the gods of the wicked state that now rules over you. 01:54:59.120 --> 01:55:05.360 But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 01:55:05.360 --> 01:55:06.560 Amen.