Why most Christians are OK with gay pride at “The Chosen” show

And in friends of mine that I truly believe are saved that I believe are Christians defending this show. Because they love the show. They're emotionally attached to the show. They can't separate the fact out that hey, you can't be a show.

Unequally Yoked Partnerships and Graven Images

About the life of Christ and then Unequally yoke yourself. Proverbs talks about business ventures being unequally yoked yoke yourself with producers and writers and cameramen and get rippers and gaffes and Gaffers or whatever the heck they're called, you know.

All these 80s all these people on set that do not have those same values those same biblical values. Proverbs is very clear about being unequally yoked in business. That's number one number two. This gets us into kind of like icon theology, which I've been thinking about an awful lot.

I Absolutely love art. I'm a musician. My three kids and my wife are artists. They're musicians artists. I mean we write music. We we have you know, draw drawings and paintings and all these things we craft and all that stuff.

But the more I've been thinking about it the more I think Wow. Doesn't it make sense that God just says no idols and no graven images because we have a lot of graven images of Christ in this culture through media through pictures through paintings right through cartoons animation all this stuff and There was this big movement about four or five years ago about how you know Most paintings of Jesus is this like brown haired blue eyed like white Jesus.

And I would always laugh like from a young age. I was like wait, wasn't he Jewish? I have I know some Jewish people. They don't look like that. I definitely doesn't definitely doesn't look Arabic. Right and even from a young age, I kind of understood like well, that's not really what Jesus looks like, but here's the thing When we start making media in Having actors act as Jesus this goes for the passion to okay the passion of Christ.

Making Christ in Our Own Image

Which I watched and at the time in 2004 I loved but I've come a little bit in my theology in the way of thinking hopefully matured a little bit since then. When we start making Jesus in pictures and media We're making Christ in our own eyes.

We're making him in our image when he's the unimaginable uncreated one. That's why the Bible says yeah. Don't make graven images. Don't make images of of God or Christ. Because what you do is you immediately make him in your own image you make him what you want him to be.

This is what Catholics did with Jesus. I mean, that's why he's a white guy with a nice soft brown beard and blue eyes. I'm telling you right now I don't know what Christ looked like but I bet he didn't look like that.

Bet you had olive skin dark eyes dark curly hair something around there, right? So This is a very dangerous thing where one just on the grounds of making Christ in our own eyes I would say me and my family just.

We sustain from the chosen for one of the one of the reasons second reason would be on equally yoked partnering with. You know pro-gay pro-homosexual pro-gender people thirdly. Partnering with funding through Mormonism, which is a cult which is a false gospel.

So you have all these things and then obviously the content of the show. There's some things in there where some Mormonism seeps in the theology and doctrine is off. So all these things added together go.

The Name of Jesus Is Not a Magic Spell

Yeah, I'm not gonna I don't want to watch that right and I've said this to some of my friends online and offline. And the response I get and I'm a pick on my charismatic for a minute. And I'm sorry if you're charismatic and you're listening to this.

But this is this is the thing that I get the most from charismatic. This is the response. Yeah, but the name of Jesus is going out. I had a pastor tell me that. Yeah, but at least the name of Jesus is going out.

And I and I went okay, but it's a false gospel. It's it's a false Jesus. So I really sat with that and I and I just thought about it for a little bit. And I said, why do my more Pentecostal charismatic friends?

They're really into this show and they and they just love that. Well, at least you're learning about Jesus, right? And my brain goes yeah, but you're learning about a false Jesus. So are you really learning about Jesus?

That's the philosophical part of my brain, right? What is truth? Really if I'm learning a false truth, I'm not learning truth. First and foremost, but then I was thinking about it and I think here here's the issue.

That I think is happening and it happens outside of charismatics and Pentecostals, but I see it more there and I can say this. Because I was involved in a very Pentecostal church for many many years. So so I think I can kind of see into this.

And I can understand why they think this way because in Pentecostal charismatic churches. You're taught that just the name of Jesus has power. And just just the name. Oh demons tremble at the name that the.

The sound that comes out of your mouth. And here's the here's the issue. Yes, demons tremble at the name of Jesus, but not because of the name. It's not an incantation. It's not a spell and it's not magic.

In fact, that's what was happening in the first century is. You'd see Simon the sorcerer and the sons of Sceva. They were trying to use it as a new magic spell as a new incantation in Acts. The Jewish exorcists were like in the Jesus that Paul preaches about come out.

They were trying to use the power the gospel. By just using the name of Jesus and what did the in Acts? I don't know. What is it X 19? I think it is right 13 through like 20. What is it that the demons say wolf?

Paul I know and Jesus I know right and this is a good argumentation for Christ God giving them certain certain gifts for that time. Okay, he goes it was for the you know for the healing and the demonic possessed and all that for the church to grow.

He goes the demon says well Paul, I know and Jesus I know but who are you? So the name of Jesus itself has no power. Jesus, you know, there's people named Jesus. In Mexico right now, that's Jesus in another language.

What does that mean like that the sound coming out of your mouth? It's not an incantation which which is what black magic is by the way, which they're very Keen on making certain noises out of your mouth and it moves the air a certain way and affects reality.

That's why a spell has to be said a certain way at a certain time. It's not because the words are magical it's because they actually believe you're changing reality with the confession of the sounds of how the air moves and How the sounds move through the air and change the reality?

That's what's going on in like witchcraft and black magic and what I found. Sorry, I just realized it sounds like I'm probably comparing some of my charismatic friends to witchcraft. I'm not. What I'm saying is is you're thinking of the name of Jesus that way.

The Power of Jesus' Name Is in the Gospel

Oh if the name of Jesus just gets said somewhere or we're talking about it. Well, that's a good thing I would argue that is not a good thing. That's a false Jesus. There's no power in that name in a false gospel.

The power of Jesus's name is in the gospel in the redemptive work of what he did. Nowhere did the Apostles or the early church fathers just run around and say Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. No, there was a preaching of the gospel behind it when Peter stands up and gives his dissertation and at the end says Under no name no other name you are saved.

There's four paragraphs of the gospel before that of why no by no other name. Are you saved? He just didn't get up and go I Rebuke all unbelief in Jesus name. No, he explained the gospel he preached the gospel and the power of the word and the redemptive plan of God and Why we believe and then said and that's the name that you are saved under that's what that name Represents all that power of the gospel and the redemptive process behind it a movie talking about Jesus.

Has no, you know with with no gospel power behind it. It's just a movie about a guy named Jesus. It has no power. Now don't don't mishear me. God can absolutely use anything, right? And that's another excuse I've moved me into point two of Some of the some of the excuses I get on why we should still watch chosen as believers.

Well, God can use anything. Yeah.