Next Week: Engaging Environmentalism

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Alright guys, welcome back to Next Week with Jeff Durbin. Thank you guys all for watching, and for sharing, and for liking, and hitting all the buttons, and all the rest.

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I think it'll really bless you. So it's been a big month for us, and lots of big things happening.

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2020 is going to be a big year for us. All kinds of things already in the works. It's already getting crazy. It's encouraging, and it's a blessing.

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Some of it is just incomprehensible in terms of what God is doing. I think for me the most incomprehensible part of it is that we didn't plan any of it, so that's kind of cool.

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So let's talk. We just had a great explanation of really the foundation and grounding of what can make sense of caring about the climate at all, caring about Earth and stewardship at all.

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I love how he really provided that grounding that a lot of people might just skip past and say that as Christians we have a basis to actually care about humanity and the next generation.

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Humanists, pantheists don't have a grounding or justification to be concerned at all. So let's take back that capital.

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Thank you. You can no longer borrow that money. It's ours. I love how he talked a lot about the climate in terms of the coal discussion and the energy discussion and how these climate change alarmists are really actually going to create financial distress upon the next generation.

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They're actually going to destroy our ability to actually have power and energy.

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Yeah, literally. So this is Luke the Bear, guys. By the way, did I introduce you? I think I did. Everyone knows who you are.

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Everyone hates it. Yeah, one fan. Thanks, Wade. Bear, bear! So I see you have your cards there right now.

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I do. The discussion might be helpful to everybody. What are we talking about? So I'm glad you ended with talking about the rolling blackouts.

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That's what I wanted to talk about in California and New York. And New York? I didn't hear about that. Both of them, yeah.

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And do you know why they're happening? Because they're liberal states? I'm sorry. No. Well, ultimately, yes.

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Right. Yeah. So basically, there's like different climate stuff that's actually happening, not some pie -in -the -sky climate change stuff that's actually happening with the climate.

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And they're afraid of like forest fires and all this stuff. So like when the winds pick up, they're actually shutting down people's power for a little bit of time until the wind stop or whatever.

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And I heard people for like three or four days even they were without power, like in California, I think. So anyways, it's just crazy.

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And it's those two states right now. And basically, the reason this is happening is because they're essentially denying energy to their consumers due to these renewable energy mandates that they've placed on these states.

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Okay. So it's because of the liberals. Okay. Because they've placed these stupid renewable energy laws in place.

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And so they're actually having to shut off or deny natural gas utilities to customers because of these mandates.

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And I just read an article, and it was interesting. It was saying that New York is actually creating more carbon dioxide and pollutants and emissions because of this.

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Because of power shutdowns. Because of everything they're doing. Because of all these laws. Because of the laws they have in place. And all the combined, they're actually creating more of what they're saying they're eliminating.

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Oh, I see. And I saw another article while I was looking for this. And so Cuomo now is also blaming hurricanes, super storms, and tornadoes on climate change.

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Because he said they didn't really used to exist. Oh, I see. Interesting. So those two states, they're in a lot of trouble right now.

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And it's because they're not, they have the ability and the option to actually get natural gas.

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They can build the pipelines. They have access, but they're denying it because of these stupid laws that they've placed on themselves.

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And now all their people are hurting and without power. Yeah, the liberal mindset, socialist mindset, the neo -Marxist mindset that's really popular today is really something that destroys communities, culture, society morally, and then fiscally, and then, of course, environmentally.

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And so what they pretend to actually be trying to preserve is the very thing they actually end up actually destroying.

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And so that's a powerful thought. And I really, it was interesting to listen to Dr.

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Beisner talk about these different pillars that they try to talk about in terms of biblical worldview as the grounding, the gospel.

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And then I really thought it was interesting that he actually added to that their concern for economic development. And he, of course, was talking about the issue of energy and coal and the difference between in terms of the effectiveness of coal and solar power.

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Not that solar power couldn't be good in instances, but I did think it was interesting he talked a lot about, he was talking about capitalism underneath that in reality.

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And it's interesting because well, going back to the whole issue of the liberal mindset, liberal ideology, is that there's a pretending of we care about people.

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We care about our children. We care about our children's children. We care about the single mother.

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We care about the family that has a lower income. And so what they say in terms of how we're gonna help that is we're gonna steal money from other people through mandate, through law.

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We're gonna steal your money and take your property to actually care for them. But all they have to do is look at what that's done in all of the different categories and communities that they've already done it with.

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As they've stolen money away from me and you, you and I, and given it away to all these other people over here, has it created entrepreneurs?

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Has it created new businesses? What has it created? It's created people who are dependent.

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Exactly. Hasn't created people who are independent, but they are actually dependent. And it hasn't created jobs and new businesses and all the rest.

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So it's interesting, again, it's just the mindset of like we're gonna solve this problem but because they don't have the scriptures as their foundation they end up going the other direction and creating more pain, more human suffering.

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Whereas the biblical worldview provides a grounding like Dr. Bizer said about caring about the earth at all but also the biblical worldview cares about the future in terms of building wealth.

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Like building wealth. So it's interesting like we don't as Christians want to pursue riches in terms of like that's the thing.

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Right. It's idolatry. Like we're not supposed to say like I want to just be rich and wealthy that's the thing of my whole life is to be rich and wealthy.

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However, when you actually follow biblical principles and you build society upon God's law you develop wealth.

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Yeah. You develop actually riches for people, individuals, communities, societies.

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Think about it in this way just like in this one aspect like one of the things that God does is he builds the family.

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So the family is that unit that first community you're a part of and that family unit is supposed to extend on to the next generation but that family community is supposed to be a community that cares for one another it has authority itself it has discipline it has love it has concern for one another but also has like the heart the whole element of the father is supposed to be the provider.

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He provides for the family he raises up disciplines, teaches, corrects, equips but he also financially feeds provides covering and he sends his children out like arrows into the world.

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So for the first part of your community your father is the provider he's the one pouring into you financially and caring for the family and he's building and he's supposed to be responsible and he's supposed to have concern for making sure that he can provide for his family so there's fiscal responsibility and there's also like an establishing of like the mindset of like I need to do well

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I need to produce I need to actually be able to care for but as you get older the old man the dad starts to go downwards in his ability to do those sorts of things but he's already supposed to have established something maybe he has house maybe he has retirement maybe he has some cars maybe he's developed some kind of wealth when he dies well before he dies the family in God's order is supposed to care for the elderly parents exactly so God's order commands the children to actually now flip the role and start providing for the elderly or aging parents and providing for them but what's interesting is that God actually says in his law that the person's wealth like your wealth when you die is supposed to go to your children right so it's interesting this family community where it starts to establish and build wealth in God's order he says now when you die that wealth and all that stuff that was built up that capital is supposed to go to your children now what do they get now they get a kick start exactly now they get a kick start of wealth and finances to do what to buy land to create things to be entrepreneurs to build businesses to do what to now establish more wealth right right and it's a cycle that's supposed to continue so if you follow

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God's order actually all economic development is supposed to go upwards but it starts upwards through the family and it begins to grow and develop and blossom because the family unit and distribution of wealth happens voluntarily in the family but if you take the idolatrous notion of the state being

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God and you take what people want in terms of deem us we the people and we'll do this and the state will provide for everybody what do they do now they become the first born because what happens now in the state when you and I die because we've turned away from theonomy

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God's law now when you die and I die who's the first person that gets a check

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Uncle Sam Uncle Sam because what do you have now you have this wicked notion of death tax estate tax so now who's the first born it's the state right and the state takes now that first born's money it takes it away from my family unit which was used to establish wealth and productivity for the family and my community that I've established and now the state says no we're the family the ultimate family you give to us and we'll distribute your wealth as we see fit and we'll just give it away so what have they done now now instead of actually taking money that could go to actually establish more wealth in a family and create financial responsibilities in individual communities now the state just takes the money and irresponsibly just throws it out gives it to somebody who's maybe not going to do well with it distributes it across the board in ways that they really shouldn't and so that's just an example of what

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I mean in terms of the future and the biblical worldview God's law providing for the future children grandchildren but especially

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I think in this let's just talk just for a few maybe a few seconds even when you think about the future

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I'll ask you this when you think about the future and how the biblical worldview actually gives us a proper perspective of the future and like a concern for the earth we obviously have a particular eschatology that we believe that God has a concern for the spiritual and the physical order and there's not like a higher level of the spiritual and the lower is ugh right?

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Like sin and yuck and Gnosticism right? Gnosticism that's a popular view for Christians today so what would you say to people in terms of like no

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I have an answer of a meaningful way to look at the future what would you say? Well it's funny you're asking that because what we're talking about with this whole climate change nonsense is a form of eschatology it's an end times position and so like you see them you know all these doomsday prophecies we only have five more years and so what they're trying to do is preserve the earth but they're not trying to preserve the family they're saying we should kill our children they're taking our money there is no wealth for the future so they're what they worship is the earth an extended view of the earth and it's the exact opposite of what you're talking about but we're saying no like if we do this properly according to God's standards

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I'm thinking two three four five generations down the line where I want my great great great grandkids to have what you're talking about stability and wealth and we're not thinking the earth is going to end in five years we're thinking it could be thousands of years and then that's without getting too far into that but that's what

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I'm thinking that's what I'm looking forward to is building a better place for my kids and so forth and so on so and like with just as an example with our perspective of the future we actually think that we have a long way to go because the perspective that scripture gives is the kingdom of God on earth here as Christ is ruling over the world is he restores all things all things are put into subjection to him and he brings all the nations to God and he puts all his enemies under his feet 1

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Corinthians 15 and then the last enemy is death so it's every enemy then death when I look across the landscape today

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I'd say we have a long way to go a lot of enemies a long way to go we have a lot of enemies hanging around so all those enemies need to go under Jesus feet and all things go into subjection to Jesus so we would say we probably have a very long time could

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God bring some amazing reformation in the next hundred years it's possible but is it Kanye maybe

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Kanye so yeah so so with that perspective if you and I have a long term vision of the future like if we say hey you know it could be another 20 30 40 50 thousand years that scares some

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Christians they don't like that because what does it force them to do it forces them to start actually thinking about their life now and their children and their great grandchildren and your perspective changes one of the things

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I've heard so much from people who really start to listen to the prophecies of the kingdom and the future and the victory of the

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Messiah is I just had a guy tell me this the other day he said Jeff I want to thank you for teaching faithfully on this and bringing my attention to these scriptures he said my whole life has changed and I just smiled you know and he said no

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I don't think you understand no I know I do understand he said no everything about how I see my life my family my kids now has changed my business my future my kids future

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I'm thinking about that now and I care and I'm trying to actually now like invest in that spiritually in the physical realm all that stuff which

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I think is so great because it does change it alters your perspective and bro I think it does impact in a powerful way like I think we should care with the victorious view of the future about all the plastic building up in the oceans because if you think the earth is the

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Lord's and the fullness thereof we're supposed to be responsible with it if you think about that then you should care about all the trash in the oceans you should care about actually building more sustainable energy things and methodologies you should care about the earth actually looking like a garbage dump right because how did

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God he made us where in a garden something beautiful cultivates and it's glorious and so God didn't create

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Adam in a trash heap he created him in a garden and told him to go be fruitful multiply subdue and fill the earth and he tells him to cultivate this world and so I think that Christians particularly honestly with a post -millennial eschatology have actually a pretty solid grounding to have a perspective of the environment that is really beautiful and rigorous so yeah there you go

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