Voddie Baucham Warned Us About This! How We Lost the Truth...

What we're seeing isn't just a political chaos, it's a war over truth itself. In this video, Voti Bakum pulls back the curtain to show us how the battle really began.

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Use the educational system, the political system, the judicial system, in order to overturn the cultural hegemony. Does that sound at all familiar?

It absolutely does. If you've been wondering what's really going on and how we got here, and even how believers can respond to all this craziness, this is the video for you, so let's get into it. Welcome back to Wise Disciple, my name is Nate, and I'm helping you become the effective Christian you were meant to be.

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Cultural Marxism and classical Marxism are two different things, and this is one of the things that makes the discussion difficult. Classical Marxism, Karl Marx was an economist, right? Classical Marxism is an economic system.

We know about the bourgeois and the proletariat. We know from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. We know about the uprising of the masses, to overthrow capitalism. We know that Marx was a communist who wanted to see capitalism overthrown.

Voting keeps saying, we know, we know, we know. I don't think we know anymore, friends. I don't think we understand history anymore. There has been a silent war on truth and Christian values in this country and in the West, and it's been waged relentlessly for decades, arguably since the Garden of Eden, but particularly in the form of Marxist ideological influence for the last several decades.

And it's been waged under the banner of politics. This is not politics. Watch what happens to truth itself as time goes on. Votie's going to show us.

He saw capitalism as oppressing the masses. He also saw religion as the opiate of the masses that allowed them to be oppressed by capitalism. So he was rabidly atheistic. And this is one of the things that makes it difficult to talk to people about cultural Marxism, right?

Because classical Marxism is something that for most Christians, for most evangelicals, for real Christians, for real evangelicals who are not way out there in the fringe somewhere, it just wouldn't identify with Marxism.

And if we don't understand the difference between classical Marxism, this economic system and cultural Marxism, which is very different than this and it's in its approach, then if you just hear the word, it's like, well, how can you say that?

How can you suggest that?

Okay.

Just so we have the bigger pieces in mind. Here, as we go on, we have two categories,.

All right?

Traditional Marxism and cultural Marxism. Traditional Marxism is more of a full frontal attack against a country's power structures by force. This is revolution to the seizure of economic and political power.

You know, this is what Karl Marx called for in theory. This is what men like Lenin and Mao actually carried out in practice. And it trades on a worldview that divides society into opposing economic classes, like the working class and the ruling class.

You know, the ruling class controls the means of production. Marxism seeks to identify inequality and correct it by overthrowing governments by force. Cultural Marxism trades on the same type of worldview.

So you have class systems, you have inequality. But the way the attack is waged is quietly and not from the front. Instead of storming the gates, so to speak, it invades from within. Antonio Gramsci and thinkers like him realized that you can change a nation, not through violence, but through culture.

In other words, you infiltrate institutions like education, like the arts and media and entertainment, even the church. There are no guns initially in this attack, just ideas. And guess what? Ideas have consequences.

And over time, based on the efforts of committed activists, right? These are what Gramsci would call organic intellectuals. The culture shifts into Marxist ideology. And by the time the regular person realizes what's actually happening, it's too late.

The culture has already changed and the political systems are overtaken because of this ideological shift from within. You know, you may be thinking to yourself, well, Nate, why are you getting political?

Because this is not an assault on economies and governments. It's an assault on truth itself. That's that's why I'm making this video. What has happened over time, friends, is that truth has actually gone missing from society.

That's why I'm interested in this as a believer in Jesus Christ. And that's what Voti was trying to warn us before his untimely death.

Enter the cultural Marxist with a couple of goals. Number one, to explain why the revolution didn't occur as Marx thought it would. Marx died in 1888, by the way. So now we get into the late 1800s, the early 1900s, we get into World War I.

And there are a couple of players that you need to know if you're going to understand cultural Marxism. One is a guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was an Italian Marxist.

Gramsci would be arrested and thrown into prison by Mussolini, I think. Mussolini rose to power as a traditional fascist and Gramsci tried to undermine Mussolini. And so he was thrown into prison where he wrote what are called the notebooks, you know, which are Gramsci's ideas of how to overthrow what he called hegemony.

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Cultural Hegemony and the Capture of Institutions

Now, again, if you wonder to yourself, like, as a Christian, how did we get here? How did we get to we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal? You know, bestowed certain God-given rights like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to words or violence.

And if you do not affirm my beliefs, you are erasing me. And so, therefore, you are a fascist and must be stopped by any means necessary. If you're wondering how we got to this point, you need this history lesson from Voti.

And we're going to walk through this. That's what the video is. And then I'll give you a way forward at the end.

Another one is not an individual, but a group of individuals known as the Frankfurt School. Two ideas. One, Gramsci's idea of cultural hegemony. Listen to the way one sociologist puts it. Cultural hegemony refers to domination or rule maintained through ideological or cultural means.

It is usually achieved through social institutions which allow those in power to strongly influence the values, norms, ideas, expectations, worldview and behavior of the rest of society.

So when you think hegemony, think domination.

Right?

Gramsci said that hegemony can be accomplished by inserting certain activists in positions of institutional authority. Ask yourself, is it a coincidence that leftist ideology and woke culture, which is likely led to what is now being called assassination culture, appears to be coming from a lot of the universities in our country?

Hey, is that a coincidence?

No.

This is Gramsci in practice, ladies and gentlemen.

Cultural hegemony. That's the power. By the way, this idea of cultural hegemony explains something. Have you ever wondered why women who make up more than 50 of the population are considered a minority?

You ever wondered why? Because women are not seen as part of the cultural hegemony. The cultural hegemony is patriarchal. The cultural hegemony, for example, in our society is white, male, heterosexual, cis-gendered, able-bodied, native-born Americans.

And Christian, right? That's cultural hegemony. This is a term that refers to the dominant ruling class in our society. And according to Marxist ideology, this class must be overthrown. You see now why I'm speaking about this?

If Christianity is considered part of the cultural hegemony, which it is according to these folks, now I'm involved. And so are you.

Why?

Because we are now the target in a fight over this country. And over the West, I suppose, right?

You know who you are. And everybody who's not that is a minority. And everybody who's not that is a victim of the cultural hegemony established by those individuals. Which means that everybody who's not that is at war with that.

Hmm.

So the revolution that comes doesn't need to be an armed revolution or a revolution of force. It needs to be a hegemonic revolution. In other words, we need to change the cultural hegemony. We need to overturn the cultural hegemony.

And how do you overturn the cultural hegemony? A couple of things. For Gramsci, control the robes of society.

Pay attention.

What are the robes of society? You know, the people who wear robes, judges, professors.

There it is. There it is.

Do you understand how we got here? Is it starting to sink in yet?

Pastors.

Pastors too, huh?

Politicians. Leverage those positions in order to educate and mobilize the masses against the hegemonic power. Use the educational system, the political system, the judicial system in order to overturn the cultural hegemony.

Does that sound at all familiar?

By the way, if the current culture is shaped by certain biblical principles and values, right? Like objective truth, like biological sex and gender binary, right? And these things are considered part of the cultural hegemony, then that's precisely what should be targeted for ideological extermination.

Right?

The point is, ladies and gentlemen, truth is missing in this country. It's been missing for quite some time. You want to understand why we're seeing this unique type of clash that has led to the violence and the glorification of violence in our culture.

It's because true truth, as Francis Schaeffer calls it, has gone missing. And it's not because of one person or one event that's taken place over time. It's because of a series of events that have all led to this moment.

Voti's tracking this in history right now. And that's why I'm doing the video. Now, Voti talks about the Frankfurt School, okay? The Frankfurt School, these were neo-Marxist thinkers, okay? So you see again how Marxist ideology is still present as an influence, even in these later schools of thought, right?

The question that the Frankfurters were trying to answer was, why did the Enlightenment, which promised freedom through reason, right? Why did it produce fascism and totalitarianism? Something's off here, right?

Something's off with reason then. And that's where the Frankfurters ultimately landed. Reason has become instrumental. It's just a tool that is used by those in power for evil. In other words, reason has become tainted by domination or hegemony.

Are you with me so far? Now you fast forward to the postmodernists. I'm going fast, but the point remains. You fast forward to the postmodernists and you got guys like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, even Lyotard, and they take it one step further.

They say, look, if reason is a tool of hegemony, well, then all truth claims are power plays. Once again, do you hear that Marxist flavor that influence shaping these determinations, right? Domination, power plays, and class struggle.

It's all there. Nate, you're getting political. No, I'm not. I'm talking about an assault on the truth. We went from truth is being grounded and discovered in reality, right? The reality that God has made.

And now we're left with truth is merely language that is used to control people. That's what has happened over time. Truth went from objective to oppressive. And if truth is not properly defined and understood, right?

If you remove what makes truth true, then truth simply becomes manipulation. That's where we are today. And I got to tell you, friends, a battle over truth sounds biblical to me.

You know what I mean?

I was saying this in another video earlier. I made it a couple of weeks ago. There are people out there right now trying to solve a problem. Obviously, we see that there is a problem in our culture. Clearly there is, right?

And you got people out there trying to solve this problem with politics, when the issue actually runs a lot deeper than that. It has to be solved at the root. Is politics inappropriate for the Christian to engage?

Absolutely not. I think Christians need to invade the political system. I think we need Christians walking all of the halls of government.

Amen?

We need to be informed, you know, but not just on the current issues, but the deeper roots of the issues that we are facing in our culture. That means we need Christians who understand history. As a matter of fact, I encourage you to read Voti's book on this.

Voti wrote a book called Fault Lines. It's a great sort of primer into this whole discussion.

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The Worldview Battle Behind Marxism

But I said this at the outset, we have to understand how we got here. And we need to understand the nature of the battle that is in front of us. At the end of the day, all these ideologies and man-made strains of thought, you know, Marxist or otherwise, are put together to satisfy the longing inside all of our hearts.

Like the deepest longing in our heart of hearts, right? Oppression, struggle, inequality. These are words that those folks put to something that they're sensing deep down, but that's what we're all sensing deep down, right?

What we're all sensing at the root, at the core, is that the world is broken. So, you know, if you're a Christian and you're looking around and you're surveying the landscape like I am, and you're like, golly, you're like ripping your hair out.

What do I do about this? You're wondering how to combat this craziness right now. How do I deal with these issues, right? Do I have to go and get a PhD in history now?

No, no.

I mean, you could. I mean, that'd be cool. For those of you who are of that mindset and enjoy that kind of a thing, you should do it, you know? But what we all have to do at base is simply what God has already called all of us to do.

Watch how Vodi puts it.

Here's why it's important. It's important because this is an agenda, not just an idea. It's a disruptive, transformative agenda.

He's totally right. It's an agenda that comes from a very specific man-made worldview. That's what we're facing. And that helps us to understand the nature of this battle. This ultimately is a war of worldviews.

Marxism is a worldview, friends. It is a narrative that contains the man-made answers to the basic questions of a worldview. You remember these? Who am I? Why am I here? What's wrong with the world? And how can what's wrong be made right?

You know, who am I? Well, am I a worker or am I part of the ruling class, right? Or am I a valuable human being made in the image of God? Why am I here? Is it to serve a purpose in the means of production in society?

Or am I here to be in relationship to God and to be in relationship with others out of that overflow? Because that's what the Bible teaches. Do you see what I mean? What's wrong with the world? Is it inequality due to the current hegemony?

Or is it sin? And that's where this man-made worldview falls horrifically short. Not only is it false and leads to violence and death, but it's also totally insufficient in solving the real problem with the world at large.

The Bible says the problem with the world is our sin, ladies and gentlemen, and politics will not solve sin. The blood of Christ will. And herein lies our strategy as Christians in this type of culture.

That's number one. And it's an agenda that needs to be recognized and an agenda that needs to be confronted. Here's the second problem. And to me, this is the sinister part of the problem. The sinister part of the problem is that the end result of this agenda is real pain, real sin, real brokenness that doesn't get addressed.

This is how we respond to this battle.

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Taking Captive False Worldviews with the Gospel

Paul said in second Corinthians that we have a unique fight ahead of us. The target of our attack is actually not people. It's the strongholds of false worldview and ideology that they are held captive in.

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. This is second Corinthians 10 verse three and four. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but have divine power to destroy strongholds.

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ. You see how we don't just destroy. We take captives. You see how we lead these folks who are imprisoned inside these false arguments and opinions, and we free them.

And more than that, we lead them into the obedience of Christ, which is a, and I've said this before. This is a shorthand for the gospel. Ladies and gentlemen, this is salvation that Paul is pointing to.

Right?

Do you see our marching orders in this fight? Just do what God called you to do anyway.

Why?

Well, because sharing the gospel entails destroying false worldviews. And that's what Marxism is. That's where cultural Marxism comes from.

Amen.

This is the diagnosis of human beings across all times and cultures. They are taken with false ideas. Look at how the apostle Paul put it in Colossians two. See to it. Then this is verse eight. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit.

According to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ. Why would Paul say this to the Colossian church? Unless there is a real problem with man-made tradition and empty deception that seeks to satisfy the deeper longings inside our heart.

This is why this is kind of a separate video for another time. But this is why people tack on human tradition on top of the gospel message in churches, you know, as if Jesus needed our help at all. That's what the Colossian church was doing.

That's what Paul was addressing. Why do we do that? Why do we think Jesus needs our help? Spoiler alert. He doesn't. And I've seen this play out, particularly in like woke churches where they don't teach that the gospel can overcome the issues of inequality and privilege, you know, that they see in the world, according to their worldview, which again is a particular flavor of Gramscian style, cultural hegemony mixed with critical theory.

No, in that instance, the gospel is insufficient guys. What we need is the gospel plus some kind of Marxist influenced political solution. That's what it looks like to be taken with human tradition and philosophy and empty deceit.

This is what Paul's talking about. This is what he's warning against. What God's word actually teaches us is that Jesus is enough. By the way, that's how Paul starts in Colossians 1. Jesus is sufficient.

The blood he shed on the cross for our sins is enough. As it turns out, the Bible tells us that when we share the gospel, when we tell people about Jesus Christ, guess what? They will know the truth. Not some tool of language that is used to manipulate people, the objective truth of reality in the person of Jesus Christ.

Jesus says it like this in John 8, look at this verse 31. If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. Let that sink in. Can you see how if someone takes Jesus seriously, because you have shared Jesus with them and the Holy Spirit is doing a work on their heart, praise God.

Their views on truth as some kind of postmodern tool of language will immediately start to unravel. Can you see that? In two verses, can you see how this is accomplished? According to Jesus, truth is not oppressive and a tool to maintain domination by the ruling class, right?

Truth is an objective reality that will actually liberate a person from the depths and consequences of their own sin. If you have been struggling to figure out what's going on around you and how we got here and also what you should do next, here's the answer.

What you should do next is what Jesus always wanted you to do. Anyway, go and make disciples of all the nations. Trust the Lord and go and make disciples. All that man-made tradition and empty philosophy will unravel when confronted by the God of all truth.

Nate, are you telling me not to engage politics? Not to attack cultural Marxism and the political ideology that goes along with that? You know, absolutely not. What I'm saying is we need to do both, you know?

But not everyone is going to read the history of Marx and Gramsci and the Frankfurters and the postmodernists, right? I'm stopping short. I mean, even Derrick Bell and critical theory and all these others, not everyone's going to do that.

But that's the point too, a focusing on that doesn't even go down deep enough to the root of the problem. I'm just saying, you know, for those of you who can do it, by the way, you definitely get into the history of these things and confront the issue on its own political terms.

Praise the Lord.

We need you. We need you. But for all of us, we can all go down to the root of the issue, which is worldview oriented in nature and provide the real solution. And that's the gospel. That's the gospel.

Do you understand?

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Prayer, Gospel Witness, and Closing Appeal

Hey, let's pray for our country. You know, let's pray that brothers and sisters, just like you stand up all over the place and speak boldly, not to slam people, not to win arguments, right? But to win souls for Jesus Christ, because I can promise you, if that's what we do, all of these other things will take care of itself.

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