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Alright, let's start another week. Man, I don't know about you, but I'm ready to fight, man. I'm ready to fight. I'm not looking for fights. That's the thing. I think a lot of people think I'm scouring the internet to find something to gripe about.
It's just not the case at all. I mean, the fight comes to us. I think that we gotta be ready for this. If you don't deal with controversy well, then you need to start preparing and practicing on how to deal with controversy because it's coming to you.
That's the thing. We're not going to have any choice in the matter. The Bible says that as long as it depends on you, live at peace with all men. But the thing is, the fight is coming to us. It's like there's no shortage of opponents.
They're surrounding you and eventually it's going to come to blows. You gotta get ready for that. You gotta be comfortable with that. I'm thinking about potentially another book and it's going to be sort of on this topic about how you need to cultivate a strategy or a plan for enraging people because it's going to happen.
Even basic stuff enrages people. You don't have to go out there being a jerk. You're going to enrage people by just living life. You know what I mean? Just minding your own business, having kids, don't put your kids in public school, simple things.
It enrages people. People lose their minds. Before we get into that, let me do this because my son wrote another advertisement for my book. If you haven't picked up a copy of my book, I'm selling it on eBay.
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I'm not really sure what he has against Raphael, but we got Donnie, Leo, and Mikey. Anyway, good stuff. I wanted to actually start off with a bit of encouragement and then I'm going to get to Russell Moore because Russell will get to it.
We'll get to it. Let me just adjust my microphone here. I really need to start doing this beforehand. A couple words of encouragement. Yesterday at church, we were talking about the letters in the scripture that weren't written by Paul.
Like every other letter during Sunday school. One of the things we talked a lot about was the book of James. The book of James has so many different encouragements. I want to encourage you guys with some of what I thought about.
James chapter three, it starts off like this. Many of you guys know this verse. It says, my brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. That one struck me really hard because I'm going to be honest with you.
I rip Big Eva a lot for that whole posture where it's like, how dare you criticize Matt Chandler? He's got a decade of gospel ministry. How dare you? They get all, they clutch their pearls and they get all uppity about how dare you question me?
I've been preaching the gospel for years. Stop being so sensitive, man. The scripture says you're going to be judged harsher by the Lord, and you can't even take a little bit of scrutiny from a YouTuber.
It's just so ridiculous. But the thing is though, as I criticize Big Eva for this, I know full well that sometimes I act this way too. When somebody disagrees with something that I'm saying or teaching, I get defensive.
Man, I need to start, I got to find some backbone. Maybe you're the same way. If you're a preacher or pastor, maybe you can get some encouragement here. I think we're all a little overly sensitive at times, and so we need to remember as teachers, we're going to receive a stricter judgment, a more careful judgment over the things that we say and all of that.
If we're going to receive that from the Lord, let's cool it a little bit with the touch not the Lord's anointed, how dare you criticize me nonsense, because that's lame, man. That's petty. You can't take some criticism from a YouTuber.
You can't take some criticism from someone who listens to your speech or sermon or whatever, but yet somehow you're going to stand at the judgment seat and receive a stricter judgment from the Lord. I don't know, man.
It's probably time to maybe get over yourself a little bit. I'm talking to myself here. I need to get over myself. That feeling that you get, I know we all feel it at times, that feeling when you get when somebody directly contradicts you and it's like, well, how dare you?
I'm the great AD Robles. You know what I mean? It's time to get over ourselves. It's time to get over ourselves. By the way, this made me think about all those poor me letters that you see on blogs, how hard it is to be a pastor.
Sure, it's hard to be a pastor. That's right, but heavy is the mantle. You chose it. God picked you out of there to give you that job, so it's time to deal with it and to stop writing poor me letters to the body to rip the congregation to your benefit.
That's what those letters are, those blogs. It's so hard to be a pastor. Basically, you're ripping everybody else talking about how difficult your job is because everyone else is a bunch of slobs. I hate that kind of stuff.
I really do. Everyone has a hard job. You know what I mean? It's not easy to be a Christian. It's good. Don't get me wrong. It's good to be a Christian, but it's not easy. Enough of the poor me routine and stuff like that.
We know if you're a teacher, we're going to receive a harsher judgment from the Lord, so maybe get a thicker spine with a random YouTuber. I don't know. Just a thought. The other thing that I want to encourage you with—and that was supposed to be encouraging, by the way.
We all need to get over ourselves, including me. The next thing is—actually, one of my pastors, when we were doing our Sunday school, he usually picks people out to read a verse, and he picked me out to read this verse, and it struck me, man.
This verse was perfect for me at the time, and it's so powerful, guys. You want to know how to beat the devil? You know what I mean? The devil's mean, and he's powerful, and he's out there. You want to know how to beat him?
It's so simple. It is what the scripture says in James chapter 4. Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. That's it. Resist the devil. Resist him, and he will flee from you.
Submit yourself to God. Don't submit yourself to the devil, right? Don't submit yourself to the pagan. Don't submit yourself to the sorceress, you know what I mean? We'll talk about that maybe this week at some point.
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. That's who you submit to. You submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. This doesn't mean that there's not other people to submit yourselves to, but it does mean that ultimately, you've submitted yourself to God.
So, if you have a pastor, sure, you should be submitting to the pastor, but the thing is, though, not if their pastor is going to be teaching or telling you to sin, right? Because you're submitted to God.
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. All it takes is some resistance, guys. All it takes is resistance. This is a lesson that we all need to take to heart, because we make it seem so complicated.
We write all these books, and listen, nothing wrong with books, right? We write these complicated books with complicated strategies on how to do this and do that, whatever. Resist temptation. Those are helpful, guys.
Those are helpful, but let's not overcomplicate it, though. Honestly, at the end of the day, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. How do you resist? Well, there's good practical methods that you can use to resist the devil, but ultimately, it's very simple.
Whatever you gotta do to resist the devil, do that. You know what I mean? Do that. Jesus, one of his parables is just so amazing. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It's better for you to be handless than to go to hell, right?
Basically, it's what your eye causes you to sin. Tear out your eye and throw it away. It's better for you to be blind than for you to go to hell, right? Whatever you gotta do to stop, do it. That's what you do.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Look, I'm not trashing books. I like reading books, too. You know what I mean? I like getting the practical advice. I like that stuff. I mean, even the Proverbs.
Even in the Scripture, we get practical advice on how to live. The Proverbs, James does it. I'm not saying that that's bad, but what I am saying is, when you get to that feeling where you're starting to justify your sin, well, you know, my situation's different.
Like, no, no, no, no. Let's not oversimplify this. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. That is profound, my friends. That is profound. Resist. That's all it is. You don't have to outmaneuver the devil.
You don't have to overpower the devil. You just have to resist him, and he will flee from you. That's what it says. That's what it's written. Resist the devil, and he will flee. That's powerful, man. I need to hear that every day.
Man, my pastor called me out. I'm looking like, do you know something? What's going on? No, no, no. This is important, guys. This should strike all of us in this way. Submit yourselves, not to Russell Moore, not to Joe Biden.
Submit yourselves, therefore, to God. That is who you're ultimately submitted to. This doesn't mean that you don't obey your pastor. It doesn't mean you don't obey the civil governing authorities. Of course you do, so long as it's godly, what they're telling you to do.
So long as it's lawful, what they're telling you to do. Because ultimately, you're submitted to God. So you resist. That's all it takes, man. I don't know why that struck me. Maybe this is just remedial to you.
Whatever. I'm okay being remedial at times. I need that remedial lesson. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Man, beautiful stuff, beautiful stuff. Let's jump into it today, because actually, I had a moment of panic this weekend.
I was playing with my kids, and we're at the park. Kids can just run around in the heat like crazy, right? It's just amazing. They don't seem to ever tire. But adults, when it's hot, you're going to sit down for a while.
So I was sitting down resting, and I took out my phone, and a woman had emailed me, one of my YouTube followers, and said, hey, is this the letter that you were referring to regarding Russell Moore? She sent me a link to this letter.
I read it, and it wasn't the letter I was referring to. This one was a recent letter. This was written a few days ago to J .D. Greer, and the letter I was referring to was written years ago, or maybe a year and a half ago, or something like that, to the executive committee.
It's a very similar letter, but it's different. My moment of panic was, oh my goodness, he is naming names here. So I said in a video, he wasn't naming names, but he is naming names. Then I realized, oh, it's not the same letter, right?
This is a new letter. Also leaked by the Washington Post. That's why the YouTube scriber was confused, because this was also leaked to the Washington Post. But this one's different, because he actually does name names, and because it wasn't written to a committee, it's very clear who leaked this letter.
It was either J .D. Greer or Russell Moore. It was either J .D. Greer or Russell Moore anonymously leaked this letter to a big EVA acolyte at the Washington Post. That woman, I forget her name, who cares?
So this is like the most weaselly, I can't even imagine a less manly, more weaselly, just pathetic strategy than this. I did a gab video live when I found out about this. It wasn't live, it was a few hours later, where I said, you know, Jesus said, yeah, if your brother sins against you, you go to him, you go through the steps of churches.
Well, no, not in Russell Moore's universe. In Russell Moore's pagan universe, if somebody sins against you, you write a letter to someone pretending that it's really to them, and then you anonymously leak it to make yourself look good and your church look bad.
That's what you do. If your brother sins against you, you know, leak an anonymous letter to the Washington Post to make yourself look good. This guy is such a snake. This guy is the most, the grossest example of a man that I could possibly imagine.
If you want to learn how to be a man, you would actually do pretty well to look at Russell Moore and what he does and do the exact opposite in almost every instance. Like, that's, if you want to be a Christian man, that's probably a good, that, you'd actually do pretty well, right, like to just do the opposite of what Russell Moore does.
If he leaks anonymous letters, you confront someone directly. If he, you know, looks like a little girl, Obama, you're great, like a little schoolgirl meeting Obama, do the opposite. Like, that would be pretty safe advice.
But this one is especially interesting because you know who leaked it? It was either J .D. Greer or Russell Moore. And the way this letter is written, if you read this, I know how you will think, right, especially if you, you know, watch my content, because people that watch this channel, I think, are smarter than the average person.
They're more street smart anyway. You read this letter, and you know what this is. He makes it seem like he was writing a letter specifically to J .D. Greer, but the way he wrote it is just like so stupid, where it's like, J .D., I just wanted to get down to writing, like, what we talked about, and like, you and I remember when we did this, you and I, like, this was obviously written to be leaked.
It was written to be leaked. It wasn't written in any other context. Like, the other letter could have been written, actually, for the executive committee. I think it was still written to be leaked, but I think it was written to the executive committee with the idea that maybe if I need to, one day I'll leak it, but it wasn't, like, written immediately to leak it, but it was written strategically in that way.
That's what I think about the first letter. This letter was written to be leaked. That's right. This is what I'm saying. It's like, remember the time, J .D. Greer, when we were this, and this guy said this?
It's like, like, everything was written to be on the record with the pagan media, but here's the thing. We all understand Russell Moore is weasel. We all understand that he's a wolf. He's like a wolf in wolf's clothing.
He's not even a wolf in sheep's clothing. He pretends to be a Christian, but anyone with a brain knows that he's obviously not a Christian. We get that. So, Russell Moore is an obvious snake. Let's move on because we all understand that.
This is my commentary for this. Southern Baptists, you know, guys, this should never have been allowed to happen because he's controlling the narrative right now. He's made you react to him, and it should never have been the case that he would have been allowed to do this.
He should have been fired and kicked out of the SBC years ago, years ago, and of course, he would have written this letter anyway. He would have had the opportunity to run to the pagans, his people, and to, you know, do his stuff, whatever he was going to do, but it would have looked a lot more petty if he did it had you acted first, right?
You cannot allow your enemies to just fester there. You've got to kick them out. This is what church discipline is all about because, you know, the scripture understands that you kick somebody out of the church, and they're going to cause problems.
This is the thing. I think a lot of pastors, and I'm not just saying this because I think this, I've talked to pastors about this, where they hesitate to do church discipline because they think it's going to cause problems in the church.
It might cause a church split. This person that I have to discipline, he's well-liked in the church, and I don't want to cause any problems. It's like, I get it, I get it, but the problem is if you don't church discipline them, they're going to cause the problems anyway, and they're going to cause them on their terms.
Besides, you just have to do it. You've got to obey Christ rather than men. You've got to submit yourself to God, not to the ruling authority at your church that's been there for a long time and has a lot of influence on the executive committee.
Like, that's what a lot of pastors end up doing, especially here in New England. Their churches are so small and weak anyway financially, and so people don't get church discipline because we don't want to rock the boat, man.
My job depends on this. That's what happens in a lot of these churches. I know this. I've seen it on the inside. I've seen it on the inside. There's a group of they're not the elders, but they really are.
They're the ones who have been there the longest. They have the most power. They're the power brokers at the church, and one of them is doing some outlandish stuff, and you don't church discipline them because you don't want to blow up the church.
Well, sorry, you signed up for this job. Heavy is the crown. You've got to do what Christ says, right? I get it. It's a heavy mantle. We understand it's hard to be a pastor, but you still got to do the job even if it's hard, but the thing is, like, okay, Russell Moore would have written this letter anyway, but you should have kicked him out and made him write it from a position of weakness.
Now he's written it from a position of power because you know the antics that he was doing. He was doing all this stuff, right? He was lying about people. He was ripping people. He was doing secret stuff, and now you look weak because you're responding to the person that you should have kicked out a long time ago, but you didn't.
He left on his own accord, and now he's controlling the narrative on the SPC. See, I left because I could not stand being there with those racists and sex abusers. It's like, obviously, anyone with a brain knows that's not true, but second of all, it's like, you've let him control the narrative.
You got to be more strategic than this, and let me just take a side step. You've got to be more obedient than this, but oftentimes, being obedient is actually the strategically advantageous thing to do because in this case, had you kicked out Russell Moore for being a little weasel, right?
You're a little weasel. You're pushing progressive narratives. We don't believe that you're a Christian. We don't believe you're a profession of faith. Get the heck out of my denomination. Then he writes his stupid letter to leak to the pagan media, and it looks like it's just sour grapes, right?
That would have been strategically advantageous, plus it would have been the right thing to do as a Christian anyway, and this is the thing. God often doesn't put us in bad situations. Often, the right thing to do is actually the best thing to do, so this is the thing.
This should never have been allowed to happen. You see, the thing is, a lot of conservatives think that Russell Moore has the disadvantage. I think Russell Moore has the advantage here, not because what he's saying is believable, but because now he's controlled the narrative.
Now, even though everything he's doing here, the fake phony leaks, I'm anonymously leaking this. He's talking himself up. He's slandering people. He's not naming all the names. He's not giving us all the receipts and stuff like that.
There's nothing courageous here, right? There's nothing courageous here. This is the work of a coward. This is the work of a little weasel, right? We get that, but the appearance of courage is there because he just, I had to walk away from this job, this great job, because my denomination's sexist and racist.
Wow, what a courageous guy. All the simps will fall for this. All the simps will think he's courageous. Had you kicked him out, yes, he might have become a martyr, but at least he would have been the cowardly weasel that he always has been, right?
Everyone would know what he's all about. He knew about all this stuff, but didn't say anything until he got kicked out, and then it was sour grapes. Once he got kicked out, then he revealed all this fake stuff, see, now he's got a position of power.
We got to start thinking strategically, guys. We got to start thinking with obedience, but also strategically. This reminds me of Donald Trump, by the way. I don't know if you guys saw this one. Facebook says Donald Trump to remain banned for two years, effective from January 7th, right?
This just came out yesterday or two days ago or something like that, and it's like, who cares, obviously, because who cares about Facebook, right? If you're not on Gab, get on Gab. I see all those people posting stuff, oh, Twitter did this, Facebook did that.
Who cares? Who cares about that stuff? But here's the reality, though. They're controlling the narrative. Facebook is still in that driver's seat because Trump, the day he got banned, should have said, okay, make it permanent.
I'm never coming back. That's what Trump should have said. They said, oh, we got to review your account. Yeah, we're going to take you off for a little bit, review your account. We'll get back to you about our decision.
What Trump should have said at that moment is says, hey, guys, make the ban permanent. Make it permanent because I'm never coming back. No matter what you do, you can give me money. I'm never coming back to Facebook.
That's how you control the narrative. See, now they get a chance to drag your name through the mud if you're Donald Trump. I don't care about Trump anymore. I think Trump is in on all this stuff, by the way.
I think Trump is a scammer. I think Trump is a big scammer. But anyway, but obviously, he's not the strategic genius that everyone thought he was playing 40 chess because he allowed them to do this again.
The Facebook is controlling the narrative. Trump could have controlled the narrative. He could have said, guys, it was fun on Facebook for a while. You guys are a bunch of weasels. I'm never coming back.
That's what he should have done, but he didn't. And it's the same thing with Russell Moore. It's like you got to learn how to control the conversation with a little snake like this. You got to stop letting them outmaneuver you because that's what you did here.
Russell Moore outmaneuvered. We all know this letter is fake. We all understand what's happening here, right? But the simps and the pagans are, oh, poor Russell Moore. Oh, he's just so courageous. And they're going to look to him for leadership when you had an opportunity for years to kick him out unceremoniously.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Matter of fact, let the door hit you on the way out. We don't care because you're done trashing the SBC from the inside out. That's what should have happened.
Now, let me just lower my voice a little bit and encourage you guys like let's learn from this. You know what I mean? We can't go back in time, but we can learn from this. We got to stop with the shady dealings.
We got to stop with the 11th commandment. We got to stop with the shenanigans. Let's do things above board and let's kick the progressives out. They can't do. You can't serve Marx and Christ at the same time.
You can't serve Joe Biden and Christ at the same time because Joe Biden's policies are anti-Christ. So kick him out like now's the time. And people go, well, what's that going to look like? Let's say we kick out all the Democrats.
Oh, my goodness. We're going to kick out all the black people from the church. First of all, not every black Christian, the Democrat, first of all, and second of all, who cares what it looks like? It's the right thing to do.
And it's strategically going to give you an advantage. Like, again, John Onwuchekwa shouldn't have had the opportunity to leave the SBC. You should have kicked him out. These people shouldn't have the opportunity to leave.
You should kick them out. The ones that are doing damage, get rid of them. That's what the Bible says to do. You warn them once, you warn them twice. And after that, have nothing more to do with them.
Sure, they're going to cry to the pagans. They're true people. They're going to cry, oh, mistreated. They're erased. And of course, they're going to do that, but they're going to do that anyway. So why don't you just obey Christ?
Let's try that for once. I'm not trying to be harsh on my friends in the SBC. I'm not. But you got to take control of this stuff, man. Stop paying into the cooperative fund. Stop paying the ERLC. Cancel all that stuff.
You could still be associated with the SBC if you'd like to be, but you got to take the control that you do have back so that these guys can't destroy the evangelical church in America on your dime. Let the pagans pay for that stuff.
Anyway, I hope you found this helpful. I didn't mean for this to turn into a rant. I meant for this to be an encouraging episode, but this stuff, man, it really bugs me. It really does. These little weasels like J .D. Greer and Russell Moore and stuff like that, they shouldn't be given the opportunity to destroy the SBC on your dime.
But the longer you keep them around, the longer they're going to be doing that. So I hope that we all learn from this. We need to learn from this. I hope you found this video helpful. God bless. What's funny about all this is I started this morning feeling so good because you know how they say that the sense of smell is the one that your mind remembers the most?
I went outside today and I smelled a summer vacation that my family took in Maine. We were on this lake and I just smelled the same smell that I used to smell when I was on vacation. What a good feeling that was.
It took me back 30 years to when I was a kid on a lake in Maine. It smelled the same way, man. God is so good, man. God is so good.