Gospel Coalition is Trying (and Failing) to Serve Two Masters
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Transcript
All right.
Well, I hope you had a good weekend.
I had a really good weekend.
I had a good, first of all, good Lord's Day yesterday.
My pastor had just such a encouraging and helpful sermon about
sexuality and women and men and things like that.
And it was really, really good.
I saw that Pastor Mike Foster, it looks like he had something that was pretty good for yesterday.
A little triggering, you know, I liked it.
I liked that.
I liked the title.
Um, but hopefully you had a good, blessed Lord's Day.
Hopefully you called your mom yesterday to talk to her, say what's up, um, and, uh, tell her that, uh,
that she's a blessing to you, especially if she's been a blessing to you because mothers often are.
So I hope you had a good weekend.
The day before the Lord's Day, I actually had a chance to meet with some people from the Fight Last Feast conference
that I met, you know, six months ago or so.
So it was a great time.
We went to, uh, to my brother's house in Maine, Josh, uh, God bless you, Josh, you and
your wife and your kids.
It was a great time.
Thank you so much for your hospitality.
We hung out with, shout out to Ken, shout out to, uh, to, to Art and I'm missing a couple people,
but that's okay.
Uh, God bless you all.
I had a great time speaking with you and hanging out and all of that kind of thing.
Uh, we're going to probably do something at my house.
So if you live in New England and you're a Fight Last Feast person, hit me up.
And at some point in the summer, we'll, we'll do, uh, an event over at my house.
We're actually getting a patio put in this summer.
So once it gets put in, we'll have a much better place to sort of hang out and have a good time and all that.
No masks allowed at my house, uh, and all that kind of thing.
But, um, stay tuned for that, especially if you live in New England, I'd love to hang out with you now.
Um, let's jump into this topic.
A couple things today.
The first thing I wanted to mention is I read this comment on my video regarding the Gospel
Coalition Canada article, which by the way, every day that passes, it's being revealed that, that, that
Carter guy, Paul Carter is just, um, let me try to be nice here.
He's out to lunch.
He's out to lunch on this topic that Christians are not being abused in Canada.
Another pastor was arrested for having church and all that kind of thing.
And Gospel Coalition is, you know, playing interfere, running interference for the government running interference for the crown.
Nothing to see here.
No Christians being abused here.
Nope.
It's just really sad to see.
I think that it's very clear that Gospel Coalition is the official state sanctioned version of
evangelicalism.
They will cover for the state at every turn.
They will get the state's back over your back at every turn.
That is very clear.
And by now, if you're part of the Gospel Coalition and that's not you, like if you got your brother's back over the state's back in
matters of doctrine, theology and stuff like that, I mean, my goodness, if that's not you, it's
time to leave the Gospel Coalition.
It's time to, to disconnect because the reality is that if, if, if you're
working in co -laboring with people that got the, you know, the crown's back over the Christian's back as they're
abusing Christians for being Christians, if you got the state's back in that, dude, you're playing for the
wrong team.
And by the way, they're going to turn you in next.
See, that's the reality.
These Gospel Coalition guys, you can't trust them if they're turning a blind eye to the abuses
of the government against your brothers and sisters in Christ.
And you're going to be next.
So I would suggest maybe separating yourself a little.
It doesn't mean you can't be friends with them if you want to, but I wouldn't trust them.
I wouldn't trust them with my life.
I'll tell you that right now.
So anyway, here's the thing.
So I wanted to, to, to talk about this comment because he, this, this brother, he comments a lot on my
channel and I wanted to respond to it and just acknowledge it.
But he responded on that, on that video.
Here's what he says, ST.
He says, AD of all, I hope of all the posts I ever wrote you, you read this one.
Imagine this scenario.
Let's say someone said no blacks had ever been abused by the police.
There would be an uproar.
To say Christians have not been abused by the government at this time, crickets.
Who are we really loyal to?
First of all, ST man, I read almost all of your comments.
Just, I want to just say that.
And by the way, this is for all of you that comment on my YouTube channel.
God bless you guys.
Thank you.
Let me just say that.
Thank you.
It helps the channel get more play.
It helps more people see these videos.
If you find my videos helpful, leave a comment, leave a comment about it.
Let me know what you think.
Let me know if you want to push back and all that kind of stuff, because all of that actually helps more people see the content.
And I think that's a good thing.
And that's, you know, I do this content for you guys.
And so if you like it and you want more people to hear it, leave a comment, let me know.
And now the thing is, uh, ST, I don't respond to your comments all the time.
And a lot of you, sometimes I don't respond to your comments and it's just because I don't have the time to respond to every comment,
but just know guys that I read almost all of them.
And let me just say this to UST and a lot of you guys, even Jason's, uh, commenting on this, that kind of thing.
I find your comments so helpful, man.
Like I learned from the comments so much, so much.
And I just have to say thank you for it content is better.
And my understanding of the events that I talk about is, uh, is enriched very often by the
comment section.
I think the YouTube comment section gets a bad rep.
A lot of the time I see a lot of people say, Oh, that's a cesspool and all that kind of stuff.
I disagree.
And, and maybe I'm biased because it's my channel, but I think the people that come in on this channel,
the quality is like, it is primo, man.
It is top notch.
I've seen some comment sections that it's just a disaster, but our comment section, man, you guys, thank you, man.
You enrich my life.
I'm not going to lie.
You help me understand things that are hard to understand.
And I just got to say, thank you for that.
Um, so keep commenting brother ST.
I read almost all of your comments and I almost always find them helpful.
And this is no exception.
So thank you for the comment.
Let me just say that at the outset.
And I completely agree, man.
I completely agree.
It's such a good point because if I were to say, I've never done this, I get accused of saying this all the time, but I've never
done this.
But if I were to say black people have never been abused by the cops, I mean, and it'd be crazy for you to think that
black people could be abused by the cops.
You're a psychopath.
They would be like, are you insane?
AD, how could you say that?
You're lying.
You're, you must be a white supremacist.
You must be this.
You must be that.
And, and, and like, that would be a lie.
If I were to say something like that, I've never done this again.
I'm often accused of saying this.
I never have said this.
And I know that minorities sometimes get mistreated by authorities.
I've been mistreated by authorities.
Well, I've been, my white friends and you know, I'm the one they pick out and stuff like that.
But you see the difference is though, I understand that though bad things sometimes do happen, that does
not necessarily say anything about my white friend over here.
You know what I mean?
Like that doesn't say anything about, you know, Charles down the street.
Charles, I don't know if Charles is a white name, but it was the whitest name I could think of.
It doesn't say anything about Charles down the street.
Right.
It doesn't say anything about, about that man.
See, I understand the difference there, but if I was lying, especially if there were big events, right.
And I was saying, no, no black people have never been abused by the government.
And meanwhile, black churches were being raided by the government and black pastors were being hauled off for having black
church.
Like if that was happening, I was saying, Nope, never happened.
Of course you'd be suspicious of me.
And rightfully so, because I'd be obviously lying and running interference for the government.
You see, Paul Carter does the same exact thing for Christians.
He knows what happened to coats.
He knows what's happening to these Christians in his, in his country.
He knows, I know, and I don't even live in the country.
He knows, and he's lying for the crown.
And so he obviously has loyalties besides the Christian fellowship.
He has loyalties.
And I'm not saying he doesn't have loyalties to some Christians.
I'm just saying he's trying to serve two masters here.
He under, maybe he does understand that the meeting of the, of the body, the gathering of bodies is important, right?
In theory, it's important to Paul Carter, but he's got a higher authority and that higher authority has
told him it though, though, this might be important.
What's more important is what we tell you.
It's safe to do or not.
And we tell you that the assembly is not safe to do.
Therefore you must listen to me.
And Paul Carter is over here trying to serve two masters, but ultimately one of the masters always wins out.
That's what Jesus said.
That's a teaching of Jesus.
If you're trying to serve two masters, ultimately one master will win out.
And it's usually going to be the bad master.
It's usually going to be the one that shouldn't be your master.
And so it's like, like, that's what Paul Carter's up to.
Maybe he, cause people are like, oh, he's a good guy.
He's a good guy.
A couple of people reached out to me and said, he's a strong believer.
And I have no evidence of this.
I'm sorry.
You might have evidence of this, but I have no evidence of this because as strong as he might be down here, he's attempting to
serve his ultimate master, which has told him that it's too dangerous to do the things that God told you to do down here.
So he's going to serve his ultimate master.
And so my reaction, I don't know him again.
I'm not saying it's bad.
If you know him, I'm just saying, I don't know him.
And so what I see him doing is bowing to the master up here, you know, the Canadian crown
and, and, and doing what they say over what God said, because in his order of priorities, that's down here, you see
that's upside down.
God has to be your priority, right?
And so if God says you meet for the assembly, you meet for the assembly.
And so if the crown says it's too dangerous, that comes lower on the priority list because you do have to obey the
crown.
As long as the, the crown is in line with what God has said, right?
But the minute the crown says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I know God said you go to, you know, go to church on Sunday, you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, but you can't do
it.
It's too dangerous.
We say, no, that has to be like, sorry, I still respect you crown, but I have to serve
God rather than men.
See, Paul Carter has it upside down.
That's idolatry.
Paul Carter is proudly displaying his idolatry in the pages of gospel coalition, which
unfortunately is not all that unusual.
And so ST brother, you're exactly right.
That, that hypocrisy, that, that, that, I don't know, it's not really hypocrisy, but that
example that you're using, yeah, it is hypocrisy.
That example that you're using betrays what's really going on here.
He's got a loyalty and it's not the loyalty he ought to have.
Very, very interesting.
And we noticed the same thing with like, with like John Lehman, right?
Where he says it's too dangerous to go to church.
And then he's marching with black lives matter.
John Lehman and Paul Carter are cut from the same cloth.
ST, it's a good point because John, John Lehman's marching with black lives matter in the same week.
He's saying it's too dangerous to go to church.
We must listen to the authorities.
It's like, he obviously has a loyalty that is winning out over his loyalty to Christ.
And what I would say that that's not really loyalty to Christ.
That's actually a hatred of crisis.
That's very disregarding of Christ when you don't obey Christ's commands, but you go march with your black friends at the black lives
matter rally, because that's the cool thing to do.
Yeah.
So anyway, that's a, that's that.
See, at least if he, if he marched with black lives matter, I would probably still criticize him, but I wouldn't be that much.
I wouldn't do it that hardcore if he was at least going to church on Sunday, but obviously not.
So anyway, thank you so much for your comment though.
And, and again, if I don't respond to your comments often or all the time don't get, don't get it twisted.
I read them and I find them so valuable all the time.
And I even find it valuable when you tell me that I'm wrong about something, because it gets me to think a lot clearer
and it helps me to communicate better.
Oftentimes I'm told I'm wrong about something.
And when I read the comment, I'm like, well, I'm not really wrong about it, but I actually did not explain that the way I should have.
I should have added more detail.
And so it actually helps me present the information that I have better.
So when you tell me I'm an idiot because I'm wrong about X, Y, and Z, oftentimes it ends up helping me in the end because maybe I'm
not an idiot, but maybe I talked, I explained it like an idiot.
Sometimes I'm sometimes I'm an idiot.
Yeah.
Anyway.
So yeah, so there's that.
And yeah, I guess that's really it.
You know, the markets are, Ooh, it's looking a little scary out there.
The other day there was, there was some, there's, there's some stuff going on.
We've got gold is rising.
Commodities are rising in general.
Um, and the stock market is looking a little rough out there.
Guys be careful.
Um, my suggestion is don't ride the wave all the way down.
It might be some, it might be time.
If you've been getting all these sick gains from the government, uh, from the government stimulus and stuff like that, you've been riding the NASDAQ
wave up, up, up, up, up, and, and all that kind of thing.
And maybe take, listen, I'm not a financial advisor, not a financial advisor, but if it was me and I had
gotten some sick gains on some of this stuff and even crypto to some degree, I might, maybe it's time to take a little money off the
table.
You don't have to take it all.
You have to take it all.
Let me take some of those profits.
It's just an idea because it's looking rough out there.
It's looking rough out there.
And we'll talk more about that this week, because it's going to be a, probably a crazy week when it comes to the economy.
I hope you found this video helpful.
God bless.