The Sacraments of the State

So looking at the stuff that automatically gets my attention right before the program starts, there's a picture on Twitter. It's Kingman Septic. And this is real. This isn't one of those made-up things.

You know, I can tell it's real, first of all, it has a real Arizona license plate on it. Secondly, in the background, it happens to, you can see what road it's on, it's the I -40, so that's where Kingman is.

And then it says, Kingman Septic Pumping LLC. And along the back of the truck, it says, this truck is loaded with political promises. That also would fit Kingman, if you've ever been to Kingman. Kingman is, yeah, definitely flyover territory, shall we say, as far as its political perspectives and things like that go, I would imagine.

But just saw that, and that was right below a poll a guy put up, has 21 ,000 votes so far. Who do you trust more about COVID, Anthony Fauci or Joe Rogan? 99%. 99 for Joe Rogan. This is not a scientific analysis, but it probably is far more accurate than we would like.

I don't know this guy. I don't know what his background is or anything, but I read this thread this morning and I just thought, you know, let's read on the program today. Abortion was the first sacrament of the modern church of the state, which later incorporated global warming, critical race theory, trans-extremism, and most recently, coronavirus hysteria.

Abortion is the rock upon which it was all built. The faithful go berserk at threats to it. Roe versus Wade was crucial to the rise of government as a religion for several reasons. It was an act of raw judicial power, it was, of transcendence over democracy, it was, and the constitution by the elite priesthood.

It's hilarious to hear everyone who defends Roe blather about defending democracy. With Roe, the elite priesthood declared that something it wanted was good and therefore must be made lawful. It worked backward with comical clumsiness to cobble together a legal rationalization for opposing its will using religious terminology like penumbras and emanations.

Roe versus Wade is a religious document, the first gospel of the church of the state, not a logical legal decision. It was a bureaucratic miracle conjuring new rights into existence from the ether, transcending both democratic popular will and republican constitution.

Roe also established the primacy of the church of the state above traditional religions. Today, we accept the ruthless cleansing of traditional faith from every corner of public life while adults and children are forced to chant the gospel of the state and perform its rituals.

Today, it's unthinkable to make policy based on faith, impose moral judgments, or question science unless your faith says there are 57 genders, your moral judgment is the inherent evil of white people, or you defy science by treating babies like tumors.

Very well expressed there. That all began with Roe versus Wade and its elevation of a new bizarre anti-human state religion forged by elite consensus. Raised above popular will, traditional morality, republican institutions, and the science of human pregnancy by an act of pure judicial power.

The long-term social effects of abortion on demand were vital to the growth of the church of state as well. The crisis of illegitimacy fed the welfare state. Marriage was mortally wounded and bled to death over the following decades, eliminating a rival to state power, and the family is.

When intact families are passing values of independence and responsibility to children along with intergenerational wealth and opportunities, it's hard to stampede people into accepting socialism. Broken families living to spare on rented property are much better.

Abortion became a huge money laundering system for left-wing politics, creating many acolytes for the church of the state. If you're old enough to remember the left railing against big business, you'll know abortion was the one titanic industry whose wealth was never questioned.

Perhaps most crucially, the first gospel of the church of the state enshrined the ideal of collective over individual responsibility. Individual men and women were no longer to be held responsible for their choices.

Everything was now society's collective problem. That's an incredibly powerful and destructive intellectual virus injected into the American operating system at such a potent point of vulnerability, the beginning of life itself.

Many other collective responsibility arguments were built upon that foundation. Consider it's treated like sacrilege to argue a man and woman are equally and individually responsible for the actions that led to the conception of a child.

It's the original heresy against the church of the state. There are now many others with more added constantly. A fellow by the name of John Hayward, and I could not agree more. We saw it today. I happened to stop to grab a bite to eat at one of my, I don't know why this is one of my favorite places to eat.

I literally had to walk in with the chips that I bought and say, these things were made in 1962. They were so stale. They were so bad. And they were like, yeah, we just discovered that. We're really sorry.

The oil wasn't hot enough this morning when they were making chips and then they made all, but it's not the first time it's happened. And even when they gave me a quote unquote, fresh bag, it was still like, so I don't know why, but I love their chicken quesadillas.

But other than that, it's a pain. Anyways, I was listening to Fox news and they had Jen Psaki on and they were, of course, lamenting the horrific actions of the United States Supreme court, which I have discovered upon listening past the headlines, listening past three sentences.

If you're all excited about the Supreme court, allowing the Texas law to go into effect, please moderate your excitement. It was once again, an exceptionally narrow technical issue, had nothing to do with the merits of the case, had nothing to, that law is just as subject to coming before the Supreme court as it has ever been.

That five to four was not an overturning of row, had nothing to do with row. It totally had to do with, I think it was a judge and one other person were the only people that were involved in bringing the request for the injunction.

And basically it was saying, you're not the right people to be doing this. It was just, it was a completely technical thing. But if you notice the results, not only, I mean, hopefully we have all come to recognize that the entire discussion of abortion in our land, once it is allowed to stand upon the foundation of secularism, becomes a complete charade.

There is no argument that cannot be brought forward at that point, no matter how absurd, no matter how ridiculous. So it's been obvious to me for decades that the one, that last thing that I read there is the fundamental truth.

Here it is again. It's treated like sacrilege to argue a man and woman are equally and individually responsible for the actions that led the conception of a child. It's the original heresy against the church of the state.

There are now many others with more added constantly. So when it comes to, and this, when you listen to Jen Psaki and all of her responses, and of course the purposeful, agreed to utilization of absurd language like women's health care, even though 50 of the subjects who die in abortion are women, and a woman's right to choose, forced pregnancy.

What they're ignoring is that 99 .9 of abortions are in reference to individuals who decide to engage in sexual intercourse and conceived a child. Within or without a marriage, the sad thing is when that's done within marriage, that's the real sad thing.

And that happens a lot, but especially outside of marriage. The number of baby mamas and baby daddies, and the number of guys who have 10, 15, what was that one guy? 26 children by 26 different women, something like that.

We are no longer, since the 1960s, allowed to go, well, that's the problem right there. You're engaging in adultery, fornication, whatever terminology you want to use, depending on what the situation, the context is.

You're breaking God's law. You're acting like animals in the woods instead of human beings who understand what the ramifications of their actions are. And the point is that if you conceive a child that is a unique human being that will never be conceived again, it doesn't matter if the same two people can have 10 children, and all those children are going to be very different from one another.

They have different sets of capacities, abilities, and artistic capacities, and musical capacities, and everything else. And so that's the issue. The issue is the living human being that is conceived through sexual intercourse.

But for the secularist, the ultimate right is feeling good, physical pleasure. This is the ultimate right. And therefore, to say to a woman that once you have engaged in that act, you don't have the right to murder the results of that, which you knew were the results of that when you engaged in the act in the first place.

They just, it's just like, but no, you've got your priorities all wrong. My physical pleasure is far more important than anything else. That child just, and of course, we see the absolutely astonishing videos now on social media of women celebrating abortion or saying that if it ever happens to me, this is how I'm going to get rid of this thing inside my body, et cetera, et cetera.

It's such a horrific perversion of the beauty of motherhood, utter abnegation of being human. I mean, this is just animalistic evil. And so this is, I mean, individual are equally and individually responsible.

No, you can't have that. Mistakes of evolution, ugly bags of mostly water, physical chemicals are not equally and individually responsible for anything. There's no grounds for responsibility to begin with.

And especially in the religion of state, individuals can't be responsible for anything. It's the state. And it was well said long ago. It continues to be true today. The bigger the state, the smaller the citizen.

The bigger the government gets, the smaller everybody else becomes. And what's amazing to me is how many people are like, I like this. Just take care of me. Give me a subsistence. Give me just enough to have the food that I eat.

And I can watch my TV and give me my little one room apartment and lock me in there and I'll be fine. And I'm just like, what were we fighting wars for, for so long for freedom and liberty and the ability to be more than a caged lab animal really makes you wonder if there isn't something in the water because people who know, even the ones that know the history of their own nations and the sacrifices that people in previous generations made so that we would not be controlled by fascist governments, by totalitarians that wanted to tell us what to think and where to go and when we could go.

And I mean, it was after World War II, at least in our nation, the line, your papers, please was well known as an example of what we do not want and what we defeated and what we sent our boys off and hundreds of thousands of them died to defeat this.

We dropped an atomic bomb, two of them, one was a bit of a squib, but anyway, a squib atomic bomb is still a big bomb. That's why we fought those wars. And now the grandchildren of those people are so cowardly.

And that's the only term I can use. I'm sorry, if you literally will sell your grandchildren into slavery to a totalitarian government out of fear of a virus with a 99 .9 plus percent survival rate, you're a coward.

You're not brave. You don't care about other people. You care about yourself. Oh, I'm just showing love for neighbor. What about your neighbors who aren't born yet? It just, it just astonishes me when Christians go, you're not showing love for neighbor, James.

I think warning people about the evils of totalitarianism, when that kind of governmental system killed 125 million people last century is the best way to show love for anybody. And if that means I have to look you in the eye and say, would you grow up?

I mean, this, this, this childish religion of safism, you don't even live consistently with it. I feel sorry for the people. There are a few people that do. There are a few people that do. I mean, when you see those guys, they never drive.

They, they, they live life hiding in a basement. We used to look at people like that and say, man, ooh, that's, but now we want an entire society of that. Um, no, no. Um, if that happens, the only way I can understand it, the only way I can understand it, that's, that's judgment.

That is judgment coming down from on high, big time, big time. So yeah, um, that was a great thread. I very rarely do you see things on, uh, Twitter where you go, wow, I'm glad that I spent seven minutes scrolling through that one and reading it because it's true.

It was very, very, very true. I, uh, still having problems with the cordons and, uh, that really bothers me because, um, accordance is what I use, but I was thinking this morning about how very, very, very, very sad it is to be a Unitarian, how very sad it must be to be a Unitarian.

And let's be honest, that's not the most popular word in, in our vocabulary, even amongst Christians, even if you know exactly what it is or it's technical meaning or things like that. Unitarian has carried a much broader spectrum of meaning over the years.

Um, there's the Unitarian Universalist church, for example, that I don't know if there's almost any of them left, but is your standard, uh, slightly religious social club type thing. I think there's one over on, there used to be one over on Northern.

I'm not sure if it's still there, if they've closed up shop or I think it was Northern and 15th Avenue, if I recall correctly on the South side of the road. But, um, but there's just, you know, normally it was viewed them as strange leftist social clubs and things like that.

But obviously the term Unitarian had a specific theological meaning for a lengthy period of time. And it crossed my mind this morning. I was thinking again about something that a Unitarian had said, and then made a connection to something else is going on.

So let me, let me look at a, at a scripture passage and just remind you of what I'm referring to. I'm referring to Philippians chapter two, and we all know the Carmen Christi Philippians two, five through 11 very, very well.

So I won't belabor the point. Um, by the way, if my eyes look puffy or something today, we've got the room next to our offices is, is being painted. So I have an excuse for any minor heresies that slip out today because it's like, uh, yeah.

Okay. Paint fumes that, that'll give me a headache. It actually is working on doing exactly that. Anyway. Uh, Philippians chapter two, I was thinking about this phraseology where speaking of the exaltation of Christ, interesting at Apologia, we just, we're doing, we always do catechism questions and we did the humiliation of Christ and what that, what, what that was made up of.

And now we're talking about the exaltation of Christ. And of course it is his resurrection from the dead, his ascension, the right hand of the father. And so in that context of his ascension, you have for this reason, also God highly exalted him and gave to him Ta-Anima, Ta-Huper-Pan-Anima.

So Anima is name, Huper above, pan all. So Ta-Anima, the name, Ta-Huper-Pan-Anima, the name that is above every name. And this has been given to him as, and as the mechanism of his exaltation due to his obedience.

Well, I wasn't planning on putting that up, but I would have made it much larger so people can see it. Uh, due to his, uh, self-humiliation and obedience to the will of the father, he made himself of no reputation.

He became obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross. And so through that suffering comes exaltation. This is the biblical pattern. But I was thinking about this phrase, the name, which is above every name in order that at the name of Jesus.

So Anima is used three times in three lines there in order that at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow heavenly and earthly and under earthly. I guess it'd be one way of translating those phrases and every tongue shall confess that.

And then you have the Christian phrase, the Christian identifier, maybe might be the way to put it. Lord, Jesus Christ, Jesus, the Messiah is Lord, but it's to the glory of God, the father. So there is no, there's no, uh, diminishment of the emphasis upon model theism or anything like that.

Just as in John five, you have the same beautiful balance that you find there. But what does every tongue confess? Why does every knee bow? The substance of that confession is Kurios Jesus Christos. And that term Kurios, of course, any Greek speaking Jew, well knew that comes straight out of the Greek Septuagint.

That is the term that was used for Yahweh. That's the trend, not the, not the transliteration, but the terminology it's used in the Greek Septuagint to render Yahweh. So what, what ends up being taken from Christianity when you deny the deity of Christ, everything Unitarianism has always, no matter how fervent it was at its beginning led to the death of every denomination it was a part of, it fundamentally collapses because you no longer have that, which makes Christianity unique in world religions.

No longer have the mediator. You no longer have the God man, no longer have any way of understanding what Paul says when he expands the Shema out in first Corinthians eight. And there is one God, the father, one Lord, Jesus Christ, it all becomes empty.

That's why I say, I feel sorry for Unitarians because they, they have a, a, an empty dry substitute that has no, no essence to it. It's it's a sad thing. Now, what made me think about that and sort of connect the two together was I was listening to a well-known commentator.

Well, everybody, everybody over the past, well, even Tim Keller, even Tim Keller commented. I was just noticing a tweet where Tim Keller congratulated the new head of the chaplains at Harvard university.

And of course that individual is an atheist. And so the whole, the whole world, well, you know, actually I was thinking about that too. If this had happened say 20 years ago, I would suggest that it would have been something that people would have been talking about for a long, long time.

But you know how the news cycle now works? Nobody will be mentioning this a month from now other than maybe a little example of something somewhere down the line someplace. I don't know. But today having an atheist unanimously elected, unanimously elected as the head of the chaplains at Harvard.

Yeah. A lot of us sit here and we, we, we, we go, how is that possible? But I don't even remember how long ago it was. It was probably maybe even been in the nineties that we had an atheist. We had an Anglican community in England protesting that when their vicar came out as an atheist, that the church was going to remove the person from their position.

And their people were like, no, we want to keep him. We want to keep our atheist vicar to lead us in, in what? Well, being a social club basically. So it wasn't the first time that we've already been exposed to this kind of dissonance, this type of contradiction, but it was a reminder of how Harvard and Yale and Princeton and all these Ivy league schools were founded, endowed, built by Christians.

And they were built to honor the word of God and to train men to minister the word of God. And today they hate the gospel. They hate the Christian faith. They express that hatred through a perversion of it.

Obviously that's the best way to do it, is to keep all the money, keep all the endowments, keep all the buildings, but then pervert the message. That's best way to express your detestation of something.

And so all of these institutions have just thrown any type of Christian orthodoxy on the scrap heap of history. And then seemingly our intent upon doing constant penance for ever, ever, ever having once been associated with that horrible thing called Christianity.

And so why did that happen? How did that happen? Did it happen overnight? No, of course not. When you sadly look back upon the history of theological education in the West, said it many times before, I think every professor, every university president should have to read the first two chapters of Paul's epistle to the Corinthians, 1 Corinthians, every three months, maybe more often.

I was reminded this morning that the scriptures in Deuteronomy 17 say that the king should write out the law himself, not have somebody else do it for him, but he should do it himself and have his own copy so that he has that intimate knowledge of what the word of God says to him and that it's his ultimate authority and he's under that authority.

Man, can you imagine the difference that would make in a governmental system? But for the Christian scholar, reading that intense warning about how the Christian gospel is foolishness to the world, that contrast between the wisdom of the world and the foolishness of God, which obviously is meant to communicate just the opposite, that God's wisdom is not to be identified with the wisdom of the world and that when the world attempts to promote its wisdom at the expense of God's truth, it becomes foolishness and that we will never, and that we should never be seeking a place at any table where the lordship of Christ will be mocked.

We should never be seeking a place at any table where the lordship of Christ will be mocked. We have to, if the grave was empty, then we must live in light of that empty tomb and the reality that that necessitates.

And so it doesn't matter what field you're in, Christ is lord of your work in that field and you can't just hide that. And so what happened is that men, and back then it was just men, became embarrassed by what was necessary of an orthodox Christian confession.

And that would include, especially once Darwin came along, but this happened well before Darwin, but that would include the inspiration of scripture, the consistency of scripture, the historicity of certain events.

There have always been those who read the Hebrew scriptures, the very scriptures that Jesus gave absolutely complete fidelity to and have been embarrassed by the things that took place therein, partly because they're so brutally honest.

And so what they did is they found ways of getting around that high view of scripture. And once you abandon the highest view of scripture, the first thing that must go consistently. Now, if you don't care, if you're willing to use empty words and keep repeating religious traditions, but then completely redefining them, then you don't have to worry about getting rid of the Nicene Creed or whatever else.

But remember the crazy, wacky Canadian lady we talked about just a few weeks ago, and we've talked about her once before too, ultra heretic lady, where it came out, she was talking about the Nicene Creed and then God forbid the Athanasian Creed.

Why? Because the Athanasian Creed is so clear in differentiating divine persons. It's the doctrine of the Trinity. And if you're actually going to be consistent, if you don't believe that the scriptures are God speaking, if you don't believe this side to this side, not just sola scriptura, even though that's what's on the front, but tota scriptura, then you have no basis for believing the doctrine of the Trinity.

That's why all these philosophers who play games and get published, picking away at the various elements of the doctrine of the Trinity, I'm just like, go get a life. You don't believe this. If you don't believe this, why bother?

Go get a life. So Harvard, early on, far earlier than you would expect, Harvard moved left. And if you know the history of New England, you know that the virus, the virus of heresy that infected and destroyed so many churches in New England was the heresy of Unitarianism.

It was a recognition that without the consistency of the entirety of the revelation of scripture, you cannot have the doctrine of the Trinity. And you cannot have a truly divine savior. And so Harvard started moving that way a long, long, long, long time ago.

Other schools came along to try to correct that, but they too eventually fell into the exact same sinkholes of liberalism. And so while there was still the external religiosity of churchianity, the heart was gone from those places a long, long time ago.

It's not that there weren't true believers that came to those places and tried to shine a light and tried to do something positive or anything like that, but there is a trajectory. And it's true, no matter how you slice it, that is the trajectory of Christian educational institutions.

Down through history. I mean, even if, even you go back into the medieval period, most of the monastic movements were reformation movements because the old monastic movements had gone stale and had become lifeless and had become institutionalized and had fallen in love with the things of the world.

The faith, and okay, let's look at Europe. Let's, let's look at the nations where reformed theology flourished after the reformation. They are the most secular places in Europe today. Why? Look at Scotland.

Oh my goodness. My poor, dear Scotland. Talk about a place that just lives in the middle of buildings that have the claims of Christ chiseled in the walls and hence seems to drive them to even wilder flights of frenzy of rebellion and self-loathing and secular insanity.

Why is it? Because the faith is not something that is passed down genetically. It's not passed down genetically. Israel proves that to us. Look at the lines of kings. You find faithful, you find unfaithful.

You find faithful, you find unfaithful. God has his purposes. You find faithful people, it's because of God's grace. It's because of God's grace. And yeah, God can even redeem people who start off wrong and then others can go wrong later on in life.

Got all sorts of examples, no matter which, which direction you look, no matter which direction you look. But there is, there are strands of Reformed theology that unfortunately fall into the trap of thinking that the faith is something that is passed on genetically, and it's not.

And if you want the clearest example of that, just look at Europe. Just look at those nations where once there were incredible. Look at the Netherlands for crying out loud. I'm glad I got to go there at least once.

Probably never get to go again, but glad I got to go there at least once. And there are still believers there. But sadly, many of the evangelical, alive, witnessing, evangelizing, standing up for truth believers may have been raised in quote unquote Reformed circles, but they got saved outside of those circles because the gospel had become a formalized thing you do rather than the work of the Spirit changing the heart.

And don't get me wrong. I myself was the recipient of the gospel message as a very young child in a Christian family, but that's because they said to me, you need to know who Jesus is, and you need to confess your sins, and you need to follow him.

And I understood that it was, I was not a Christian simply because my mommy and daddy were Christians. So all along, it doesn't matter where you are, there is a constant need. Ever heard of Semper Reformanda, always reforming?

There is a constant need to be being called back. And Christian scholars just have to realize that it's a beautiful and good thing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not come to know God.

There are a lot of people that just bugs them to no end. I know some of you. I have given, I'm old enough now. I was telling my wife this morning and last night about how it's impacted me that, and I'm sure he watches, the young Indian man who came over from India, met him in Las Vegas, and he said to me, I've grown up listening to you.

I'm just like, you know, when an adult tells you they grew up listening to you. In another country, first of all, I was just rejoicing that, I mean, you hadn't heard about that? Listen to the entire Hebrew series in India, Sermon Audio.

I mean, that's awesome, but it also reminds me that time is passing. And as I think about, you know, eventually I'm not going to be here. And I have said to people over and over and over and over again, the day after I go, the kingdom is just going to keep moving on.

I'm thankful that as a young man, I saw a man in my field. I watched Bob Larson melt down. Most of you don't even know who Bob Larson was or is any longer. But when we first started this ministry, he was huge.

I mean, he was on all the radio stations, and back then that's really all you could do. There was no internet when we started, obviously. But I watched him melt down, and I watched him fall into the trap of thinking that if you don't give to his ministry, the kingdom itself is going to come to a screeching halt.

I mean, it got bad. And right when it got bad, he got weird. And I think last I knew he was in Scottsdale someplace doing exorcisms. Yeah, that was 10, 15 years ago. That was the last I heard of him. But he and his daughters, I think, would travel around doing exorcisms and stuff like that.

It was, oh, I didn't even know about that. Yeah. Anyway, so I saw someone not finish well. And so it was burned into me that never, ever, ever let yourself think that everything's dependent upon you, because it's not.

So I think about all that, and I think about where we're going in the West today. And now what I think about is how often I thought about this without thinking far enough ahead. And again, once you become a grandfather, a lot of that changes.

You start thinking about your grandkids and your great grandkids. What about my grandkids' kids? What can I do to sow faith into their context? If their parents tell them about their grandfather, their great grandfather, what will they tell them?

What can I provide to them? What can I do for them to encourage them in the way? I can't know what they're going to be facing. I mean, I think of my great grandparents. I think of a picture that I have, I've actually shown on the program of my great, either my great or great, great grandfather being held by his parents who have just come from Scotland in Broken Bow, Nebraska, out in the middle of, next to a sod house out in the middle of nowhere, horses in the background, digging an existence out of the ground.

White privilege. But how could they have even begun to imagine the issues I would be facing if they even thought of me? But how could they have known? They couldn't have. So the best you can do is seek to communicate faithfulness, steadfastness, a depth of commitment to Christ, service, gratitude, thanksgiving.

Now we get, right now, until the CCP finds a way to infiltrate all of our computers and wipe out all digital stuff, we can try to communicate stuff to them in that way. That's why I literally have been saying to people, get yourself some of these little boogers.

And I mean, you can get, it's just astonishing the size, I think I've seen one terabyte digital cards now. I mean, it's just absolutely ridiculous. Hide those suckers in lead line boxes in static envelopes under the floorboards someplace.

Seriously, I'm not making that up. I mean, I just read this morning about how the CCP made one of the biggest Chinese rock stars of the late 1990s, made her disappear. I mean, like she never existed. I mean, like 1984, like Winston sitting there editing the newspaper and changing names and pictures, very same thing, but much more effective now because you can do it digitally.

And it just happened this week, made her disappear. She no longer exists, which I really, I had never heard of her. Obviously I'm not really into the Chinese pop stuff, but she had hundreds of millions of fans and now she doesn't exist.

What are they left thinking? I wonder about reality around them. What's real? What isn't real? I honestly pray God uses that. I mean, I think one of the most awesome things that could happen would be the explosion of Orthodox sound Christianity in China.

Maybe China will take over and then Christianity will take over China. Who saw that one coming? That'd be awesome. Yay, do it. Wonderful freedom going out over the world. That would be great. And if it wasn't stodgy old Western society that brought it along, who cares?

But notice I said sound Orthodox Christianity. There's a lot of Christianity in China that's... But a lot of the Chinese Christians understand that and they want more. They want the sound stuff, the stuff that lasts.

They realize the importance of that. It has to go from generation to generation under pressure. Important stuff there. But anyway, so the point is I want to sow that seed. I want to build that foundation.

I want to send that message of faithfulness. I'm thinking down the way and that changes all your priorities. It changes everything and we've to be thinking along those lines ourselves. So anyways, I'm not sure how I got into that from feeling sad, bad for Unitarians, but there you go.

Just real quickly, it's been a couple years since I've even really talked with Brother David down in Australia. David Old, who is in the Anglican Church. Now again, down in Australia, you have the Sydney Anglicans, which are considered to be conservative.

I've pointed out many times in going down there, wonderful times of proclaiming the doctrine of justification by faith alone and high view of scripture and everything else. And that's been wonderful. There is a declaration that some folks down in Australia have put together.

I'm reading from the Cauldron Pool, which is a very interesting news source. The Ezekiel Declaration, Watchmen, it's time to speak. And it's addressed to the Honorable Scott Morrison. They even put the extra U in for Honorable, so he would understand what it was about.

If you've not read about that, don't worry about it. As Christian leaders, you should be aware that in accordance with scripture, we regularly pray for and all who are in high positions that they may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

1 Timothy 2 .2. We do write, however, to you regarding a matter of significant concern, namely the proposed introduction of vaccine passports into Australian society. For many Christian leaders and Christians, this is an untenable proposal that would inflict terrible consequences on our nation.

We should initially note that we are not the first generation that has been confronted with the question of vaccine passports. Writing in 1880, aware of the challenges that a smallpox epidemic brought to society, the Christian theologian Abraham Kuyper wrote, vaccination certificates will therefore have to go.

The form of tyranny hidden in these vaccination certificates is just as real a threat to the nation's spiritual resources as a smallpox epidemic itself. Between 1901 and 1905, Abraham Kuyper would hold the office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

He evidently understood that a vaccine passport represent a measure that was equal to, if not worse than epidemic itself, through the oppressive control over people's lives. Now, I just stopped for a moment.

They had no tech then. They had no technology. And what amazes me is how people can live today recognizing the, you know, some of you just aren't even old enough to know this. I mean, we've got 9 -11 coming up in what, nine days?

How many people, we're not even alive then. It's astonishing. Oh, we have forgotten. Oh, yes. We always said, never forget, never forget. No, we've forgotten. We've forgotten. And I knew we would. But so many of you have never driven down a street where there were no cameras watching everything going on.

You've just always had it. And so you've become accustomed to it. But you need to realize the time frame they're talking about here, early 1900s, they could not exercise 1 ,000th the level of control over a population that the Chinese Communist Party does today through social credit scores, through computers.

And of course, in China, there are more cameras than there are people, which is an amazing thing. Given it's China. And we're getting that way ourselves. The tech and the fact that this thing will become your papers.

It has become your papers. And that there are literally, there have already been people, there were people in South Korea who were arrested for turning these off last year. It's moved from an indispensable, super helpful, nobody knows how to read a map anymore anyways, assistant to Big Brothers means this is the screen.

This is what they call it, viewing screen. Is that what it was in 1984? It was called the viewing screen. This is what it is now. It's right here. And I say as a person who uses it, but am obviously sitting here very often thinking about how I will survive when I have to stop using it.