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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

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This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God. Now if you've heard the the the news stories regarding Chick -fil -A no longer financially supporting the

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Salvation Army and the Christian Men's Christian Fellowship and some people in the

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LGBTQ group seeing that as somewhat of a win but not enough and there's a lot of kerfuffle going on on the internet about this.

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Yeah go ahead and hit the like button on the video, subscribe down below, don't forget to ring the bell.

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These are important things that will help you when we play Prophecy Bingo. But what we're gonna do on this installment of Fighting for the

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Faith. I don't oftentimes steer into topics that deal with the culture war, and for reasons that are actually kind of personal and others,

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I used to work at Focus on the Family, and let's just say that I've repented of their tactics.

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But all of that being said, at the end of the day the problem is a failure to make a distinction between the right and the left -hand kingdoms, and the proper distinction of law and gospel.

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Yeah, so what we're gonna do today is we're gonna take a look at the Chick -fil -A controversy, just in part.

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And I understand that there are some saying, well, Chick -fil -A didn't really capitulate.

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Others are saying that they have. My personal opinion is that in some way they have capitulated.

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They've settled for appeasement, but that's my opinion. That's my opinion.

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But regardless of my opinion on this, I want to do something in this installment that will help you, because as a

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Lutheran pastor, a confessional Lutheran pastor, the Lutheran Church has always had a category of doctrine known as the right and the left -hand kingdoms, and this distinction, especially when using law and gospel, really becomes a helpful distinction on our

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Christian engagement as dual citizens here on the earth. Now understand this.

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I am talking as an American, so I have American citizenship. I was born and raised in the

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United States, and I also have citizenship in the kingdom of Christ. Now some of you watching are from around the world, from different nations, so your secondary citizenship that is different than the one we have in common, and that is our citizenship in the kingdom of Christ, you may be from Nigeria, you might be from one of the

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Commonwealth states of, you know, like the United Kingdom, or Canada, or Australia, you might be joining from the

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Netherlands, or from Germany, or maybe even from one of the Oriental nations like South Korea. All of that being said, each

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Christian has dual citizenship, and this distinction then helps us, because the world that we're living in, it's gone bonkers crazy, and it's not about elaborate arguments for or against the latest thing that the liberal emergent social justice left in their irrationality have come up with.

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No, no, no, no, no, no. It's always about returning back to the basics. The best way to put it is that we

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Christians never graduate from basic catechism. I know that sounds kind of crazy because you're sitting around, well,

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Roseboro, you're out there doing all the kind of weird, you know, comparative stuff and stuff like that. Yeah, at the end of the day, if you haven't noticed, you know,

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I am kind of a one -hit wonder, you know. It's the Bible, you know, it's getting back to what the

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Scriptures say, and this is a teaching program and channel that gets us back into the basics, and once you have the basics really mastered, yeah, you're able to do a lot more in understanding the

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Bible and communicating what the Scriptures say more clearly and things like that. So all of that being said, no video today that we're gonna be comparing, but what we're gonna do is we'll take a look at at least a couple of news stories as it relates to the, you know, the

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Chick -fil -A controversy and kerfuffle, and let me pull up my desktop and get my screen here, and let's head over to my web browser.

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Yes, okay, so Fox News has reported that Chick -fil -A on Monday announced that it would no longer be providing donations to the

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Salvation Army, all right, and so this is being interpreted in light of the fact that the brand itself,

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Chick -fil -A's brand, is considered a Christian brand that upholds biblical morals, and as a result of it is the rhetoric against Chick -fil -A is that it is anti -LGBTQX.

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In fact, here's the thing, I don't mean anybody any disrespect, it's just that I understand that those initials keep changing so often that I think, if I'm not mistaken, to call the

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LGBTQ community that is actually outdated, they've added more letters, so we'll call them the alphabet people, okay, just, and again, not for disrespect, it's more along the lines of, listen,

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I don't really even know what the latest letters are, okay, and that's kind of not the whole point of this, so we'll just talk about those who are alphabet people, all right, that being said, that the

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Salvation Army today has just said that they're saddened by Chick -fil -A's decision to end their donations, and the

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Salvation Army is urging people, the public, to seek truth before rushing to ill -informed judgment regarding the fact that Chick -fil -A is no longer financially assisting them and making charitable donations to them.

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Everything is being interpreted in light of whether or not they have capitulated, whether or not they're engaging in some form of appeasement, and Chick -fil -A points out that they've changed their policy as to how they give charitable donations and things like that.

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All of that being said, let me point out that Chad Felix of GLAAD, his response is actually kind of helpful.

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So here's what he said on Twitter, in addition to refraining from financially supporting anti -LGBTQ organizations, and he has labeled the

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Salvation Army that, Chick -fil -A still lacks policies to ensure safe workplaces for LGBTQ employees and should unequivocally speak out against the anti -LGBTQ reputation that their brand represents.

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Now, a little bit of a note here, you know, organizations like GLAAD, if you do not affirm, affirm, you know, same -sex marriage or somebody's right to self -identify their gender and all this kind of stuff, you are anti, anti -LGBTQ.

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Now, all of that sounds really complicated, but at the end of the day, how are

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Christians supposed to communicate and talk in the midst of this? And note this, that what

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I'm about to say will cause some to label me and Pirate Christian Media and Fighting for the

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Faith as an anti -alphabet people organization. That's just how this goes, because anybody who doesn't affirm that same -sex unions, marriages, and attractions, and the right for people to self -identify their gender and things like that, anybody who speaks out against the new morality that is put forward by these types of organizations and groups, and that's what

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I'm going to call it, it's a new morality, if you speak out against their new morality and say that's not true, it's not moral, that's false, then you are labeled anti, anti, because what they're not, they're not looking for coexistence.

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They are looking to silence anybody who doesn't affirm their new definition of morality.

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That's what it comes down to. This is as simple as what is happening in the culture today, is that people are suppressing the truth in unrighteousness, and are redefining what is good and what is evil.

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Not according to an objective standard, but redefining good and evil according to their emotions, or their experiences, or their feelings.

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But morality isn't decided in that way. So all of that being said, you kind of got the basis for what's going on here.

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You can search Google and the news and all this kind of stuff to get more information about how

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Chick -fil -A's decision is being perceived and talked about. And again, personally, my opinion is that it is a form of capitulation.

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It is a form of trying to throw them a bone, which is really a mistake.

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Really a mistake. And I'll explain all of that in a minute. Now, as Christians, then, how are we to properly understand these things?

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So we're gonna work with a basic premise, and I'm gonna open up my scriptures here. We're gonna work with the basic premise.

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And the basic premise is this. That morality, what is right and what is wrong, what is evil and what is good, is defined by God.

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And even more so, every one of us already know what is right and what is wrong.

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Scripture in the book of Romans makes it clear that the law of God is written on man's heart.

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So when people suppress the truth and unrighteousness, they are suppressing what they know to be true regarding right and wrong, good and evil, and things like that.

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And people do this. Romans chapter 1 says, That's what sinful human beings do.

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They suppress the truth. And so then you'll note then in Romans chapter 2, that the law of God is written on people's hearts.

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Here's what Paul writes in Romans 2, Note, we all know what's right, and oftentimes people, yeah, they spend a lot of time focusing on the law, and judging others while somehow acting as if, you know,

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God's law doesn't apply to them. Here's the thing, it applies to all of us. It applies to me, it applies to you, it applies to everyone.

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So instead, he goes on, So we'll talk about that in a minute.

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Note then, as Christians, we always remember that we are to preach both law and gospel, and it is

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God's kindness that leads us to repentance. So because of your heart and repentance in heart, you're storing up wrath for yourself on the day when

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God's righteous judgment will be revealed. And glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good,

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Jew first and also the Greek, for God shows no partiality. So there's the idea.

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The law of God's written on everybody's hearts. It is, alright? So when you travel the world, if you travel from the

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United States to the United Kingdom, guess what? Murder is still against the law in the

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United Kingdom. Yeah, it's against the law in the United States. Stealing is against the law in the

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United Kingdom, and it's also against the law in the United States. So you kind of work down the line, you sit there and go, okay,

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I'm starting to get what you're getting at here. You'll note that wherever you travel, that theft and murder and things like that, and even in other places around the world, lying is considered to be immoral, because it is.

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You get the idea. Now, the reason then is that the law of God's written on our hearts, and people today, because of the ideology, the philosophical ideology behind the social justice movement, you know, postmodern liberalism and things like that, it denies that morality is objective and outside of us and is eternal.

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Instead, morality changes from culture to culture or group to group or whatever, and as a result of it, they are actively trying in Western countries to redefine morality and basically tell people and convince us by suppressing the truth that evil is good and that good is evil in regard to sexual matters.

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But Scripture is clear on this. It very clearly defines what sexual immorality is, and sexual immorality is clearly defined as behaviors and even passions and thoughts that you have towards either people of the same sex or the opposite sex that are forbidden and outside of marriage.

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Yeah, it's just kind of that simple. This is how it works. So, I'm gonna point this out then.

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Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20 says, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

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You see, it's not a good thing when you call something evil good. Now, why is this so dangerous in our times?

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The reason why it is so dangerous as to what's happening is because of the reason why the government exists, why

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God has put together governments. If I were to ask you this, which of the two groups, which two institutions did

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God create? Did God create government, or did God create the church?

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You sit there and go, well, God created the church. God also created the government.

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So both the government as an institution and the church as an institution are created by God, and they each serve different purposes.

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The purpose of government is to punish evil, to punish the evildoer.

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Here's our text for this. Romans chapter 13, Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.

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There is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what

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God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct.

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Now watch what he says here. Now we sit there and go, well, the problem is is that the governments are becoming more and more a terror to those who engage in good conduct.

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I recognize that. But the way God has instituted governments, rulers should never be a terror for those who engage in good conduct.

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Rulers are not a terror to those who engage in good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority?

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Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval. And for he is

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God's servant for your good, but if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sorn in vain, for he is a servant of God, an avenger who carries out

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God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid

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God's wrath, but also for the sake of conscience. For because of this you pay taxes.

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For the authorities are ministers of God attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them, taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

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So you'll note then that Paul writes this, then, at the time of the Roman Empire, and it ultimately will be a

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Roman emperor who orders his execution, and Paul will lay down his life and die as a martyr while praying for the very emperor who has put him to death, or basically ordered his execution.

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You kind of get the idea. Now there is a place then for Christian resistance, and I'll talk about this in a minute.

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So when a government is doing its God -ordained duty, and it's just as simple as this, it is rewarding those who do good, punishing those who do bad.

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It's that simple. That's the purpose of the government, and it only functions then within the law, and the law then, you know, creates, you know, statutes and regulations and laws that have to do with punishing those who are breaking

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God's commands, because it's God's commands in the Ten Commandments that define right and wrong.

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And when a government doesn't punish those who are doing evil, and instead silences or punishes those who are doing well, or worse, there's corruption, and those who are doing evil are now in charge, then the government is not doing its

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God -ordained duty. It's capitulated its responsibility, and as a result of that, when that happens, evil goes on the rise, and those who are good citizens are the ones who are paying the price for it in one form or another.

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Okay? Now all of that being said then, what's the job of the Church? The job of the

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Church is laid out by Christ in Matthew chapter 28, and it's very simple, we all know this, and here's the idea.

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So Christ says, all authority in heaven on earth has been given to me. This is Matthew 28, 18.

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All authority in heaven on earth has been given to me. And here, all authority, that means every bit of it.

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Christ is running the whole show. So everything's, all authority has been given to Him, so here's the job of the

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Church, you ready? Make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the

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Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded, and I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

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So the job of the Church, which is the right -hand kingdom, the government is the left -hand kingdom, the job of the right -hand kingdom is to make disciples, and in Luke's Gospel we have

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Christ kind of adding a little bit to the concept of making disciples, the the

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Apostles will be heading out and being basically going and proclaiming repentance and the forgiveness of sins, and here's

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Luke's version of the Great Commission, Luke 24, 46, thus it is written, the

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Christ should suffer on the third day, rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

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You are witnesses of these things, and I'm sending you the promise of the Father, but stay in the city until you are clothed with the power from on high.

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So the idea then is this, the Church exists for the purpose of calling sinners to repentance and faith in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins, to baptize them in the name of the

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Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and disciple them with all that Christ has commanded, which is the written

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Word of God. Now, all of that being said then, the Church has the responsibility of proclaiming

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God's Word, both law and gospel, and you have to do both.

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Law and gospel, the law to convict people of their sins, the gospel, because remember what

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Paul says, it's God's kindness that leads us to repentance. The gospel then goes out, you know, proclaimed to people,

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Christ has bled and died for your sins, and it's through the preaching of the gospel then that God regenerates people, raises them from the dead, makes

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Christians of them. You see, this is how the Word of God operates in the sense, and so the idea then is that we are to make disciples.

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So we preach law and gospel, and then when the government opposes what is right, and is punishing those who are doing good rather than punishing those who are doing evil, then the

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Church has to be a prophetic voice and say to the government, we will obey

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Jesus, not you. So the...and I'll show you the text for this real quick.

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This is a great example of this in the book of Acts chapter 4. What ended up happening in the previous chapter is that Peter and John went into the temple, and there was a fellow who, well, they healed him.

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Yeah, let me read the account so you can kind of see what causes this whole kerfuffle here.

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It says Acts chapter 3 verse 1, now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour, and a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the

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Beautiful Gate, to ask of alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms, and Peter directed his gaze at him, as did

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John, and said, look at us. And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them, but Peter said,

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I have no silver, no gold, but what I do have I give you, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, rise up and walk.

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And so he took him by the right hand, raised him up, and immediately his feet and his ankles were made strong.

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Leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising

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God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and recognized him as the one who sat at the

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Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what happened to him.

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So while he clung to Peter and John, all the people are utterly astounded, ran together to them in the portico called

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Solomon's, and when Peter saw it, he addressed the people, men of Israel, why do you wonder at this? Why are you stare at us as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?

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And so he gives this beautiful sermon, actually a little bit more than beautiful, kind of beautiful like a two -by -four to the head, and I'll kind of point out, you know, as things are winding down in his little impromptu sermon, in chapter 3 verse 17,

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Peter says, Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of the prophets, that his

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Christ, his Messiah, would suffer, he thus fulfilled. So repent therefore, turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out, and that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the

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Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all things about which

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God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. So you get the idea. The punchline is, you got to repent.

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You got to repent of your sins, and you need to be forgiven by Christ, okay, because there is salvation in nobody else except for him.

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Great sermon. Well, let's just kind of put it this way. By healing this fellow in the name of Jesus, and then preaching about Jesus and calling people to repent and to believe in Jesus, Peter and John, as well as all of the

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Christians, had run afoul of official government policy against preaching about Jesus.

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And so we now see what happens as a result of this. Now remember, the job of the government, the left -hand kingdom, is to punish evildoers, not those who are doing good.

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So as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead, so they arrested them, put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

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But many of those who had heard the word believed in the number of the men who came, to about 5 ,000 men.

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On the next day, the rulers, their elders, the scribes gathered together in Jerusalem with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander and all who were of the high priestly family, and when they had set them in the midst they inquired, by what power or by what name did you do this?

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And Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom

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God raised from the dead, by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone, and there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

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So not only did they break the law by healing this guy in preaching Jesus, they broke the law again in preaching

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Jesus in the presence of the people who made the law that you can't preach about Jesus. So they defied them on two fronts, two occasions, okay?

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One outside of their presence in public, one in their presence. They flat -out disobeyed them, alright?

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So you're gonna note then that when the government punishes good and says to you as a

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Christian, you cannot do this, you must be silent, you cannot say that, that as Christians we are obligated to disobey the government when it oversteps its authority.

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Now a little bit of a note here, and that is is that currently governments are not where the fight is per se when it comes to the culture war.

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The culture war is being waged in the general population, and so what's happening is that a new morality is being enforced not by a government per se, but by militant groups who are trying to seize political power.

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And they haven't achieved that yet, so what they're doing is trying to get a big upsurge of support for their new ideas, their new morality, which is evil, and what they're trying to do then is to enforce these, the new morality, informally rather than formally.

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And that's until they can political power and have enough political power to enforce the new morality with legislation.

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That's what's going on right now. This is the reason why the the

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Alphabet folks are fighting so hard against Chick -fil -A, and they see them as as a pariah, as an organization that has to be forced to submit to their new morality, who can no longer support, you know, the

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New Men's Christians Athletic Fellowship or the Salvation Army or any group that doesn't affirm the new morality based upon Christian conviction.

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And so what's going on here is an outright overt attempt to take away public support, to shame those who do not affirm the new morality, and to, you know, to basically silence them informally until such a time as they can take political power and then seal the deal with legislation.

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That's where this is all going. But, you know, so what is the obligation in the face of all of this type of stuff?

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To say, no, we're going to obey Jesus, we're going to obey God, and the government and the culture has overstepped its morality, and woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

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And we're going to hold the line, and when people say, or the devil says, you can't do this, we say, nope, we're gonna keep doing it.

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We're gonna break the law. We're going to disobey your new morality and your rules because Christ is in charge.

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You see, that's how that works. All right, so we continue then. So they just broke the law again.

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These guys, in the presence of the people who were telling them they had to be silenced, and no, they have official government positions to, you know, to silence the disciples.

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So when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, boldness to defy their commands to their face,

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I mean, that's boldness, right? And they perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished, so they recognized that they had been with Jesus.

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But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, saying, what shall we do with these men?

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For that a notable sign has been performed through them is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, we cannot deny it.

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But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.

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So they called them and charged them not to speak or to teach at all in the name of Jesus.

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But Peter and John answered them, well, whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, well, you must judge.

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But we cannot speak, we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard. And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because of the people, for they were all praising

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God for what had happened, for the man on whom the sign of healing was performed was more than 40 years old.

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So when they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

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And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, who through the mouth of our father

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David your servant said by the Holy Spirit, why did the nations rage and the people plot in vain and the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers were gathered together against the

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Lord and against his anointed? Has anything changed, by the way? Nothing has changed.

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For truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed, both

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Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.

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And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant

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Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the

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Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. So there you have it, all right?

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So, the two kingdoms. Again, just to, you know, work this out just by quick summary.

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The assumption is God's Word, not our feelings, define what is right, what is wrong, what is good, what is evil, and Scripture calls down woes on those who call good evil and call evil good.

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Again, see Isaiah 5. The purpose of the governments established by Christ, and all of them are established by Christ, is for the purpose of punishing the evildoer, and the governments then are an avenger of God, bringing punishment and justice to those who break

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God's commands. Uh -huh, that's their job. And then on the other end of it, the

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Church exists for the purpose of making disciples, preaching law and gospel to convict people of their sin, show them their need to be forgiven by God, and then to preach the gospel, because it's

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God's kindness that leads us to repentance, and to proclaim repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Jesus' name to all people, and then disciple them in the written

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Word of God. That's the job of the Church. When the government says to the

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Church, you must be silent, you cannot speak on these matters, the

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Church is to say, we will obey God, not you. So when the

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LGBTQ alphabet folks tell you, you can't eat at such -and -such a place because they are anti -LGBTQ, the

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Christian response is, we will eat there because you've told us not to.

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Now, because the LGBTQ community tells us that we cannot support, and anybody who does support the

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Salvation Army is somehow anti -LGBTQ, because they say that, as Christians, we must defy them.

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And so how am I going to defy them? Well, I don't care if Chick -fil -A supports the

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Salvation Army or not. I'm going to, and I'm gonna make a public point of supporting them, because I'm supporting them in defiance of these other groups saying that you can't support them.

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They must be supported. I will not obey those who are in the alphabet community.

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I will obey God, which tells me to defy those who would tell me that I can't do something because I am not in accord with or in line with the new morality.

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I do not recognize the new morality. There is only one morality, and that's the morality given by God.

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So you get the idea. So as tragic as it is, and I do think it's tragic, that Chick -fil -A, by changing their policy, it's being perceived that they are engaging in some type of appeasement.

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I won't participate in that appeasement. I won't participate in it at all.

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So this Christmas, when I'm traveling out at Walmart or at the grocery store or whatever,

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I'm gonna be sure to bring a little bit of extra cash with me, so that every single time

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I see the bell ringers of the Salvation Army, they're gonna get money from me. And I might even make a little

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YouTube video about it for the purpose of saying I'm supporting them because the

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LGBT community says that they are anti -LGBTQ and they cannot be supported.

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I will support them in defiance of their calls to not support them, because that's what

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I do as a Christian. I will not allow any organization to tell me that I have to bend my knee to their new definition of what is right and what is wrong.

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And I will continue as a Christian to say that is sinful behavior and that Christ has bled and died for it.

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And that anybody who is brought to penitent faith in Christ, regardless of the stripe of their sin, that there is mercy and forgiveness in him.

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So as a dual citizen of the kingdom of Christ and an

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American citizen, I must put forward and defend real morality and call my government to punish the evildoers, not to punish those who are doing good.

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And as a Christian, then, as a pastor, I call people to repent and to be forgiven, and understand that the role of the

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Church is to disciple people, call them to repentance and faith in Christ for the forgiveness of their sins, because there is pardon and mercy and grace in Jesus.

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So you keep the two kingdoms separated, and at the same time you note where the overlap is, and then you'll know how to apply yourself to the culture war.

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But when it comes to what's going on with the Salvation Army, I stand in defiance, and I will disobey every group calling for us to no longer financially support the

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Salvation Army, because I do not recognize their new morality as moral. I see it for what it is, as immoral.

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So until next time, may God richly bless you in the grace and mercy won by Jesus Christ, and His vicarious death on the cross for all of your sins.