August 25, 2021 Show with Dr. Joe Morecraft on “Proper Heroes Put in Their Proper Place in the Lives of Christians” (Part 5)

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And I am thrilled to be continuing a discussion on a topic that has proven to be one of my favorite topics ever addressed on this program. The topic is proper heroes put in their proper place in the lives of Christians, which we began over a month ago here on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio with my guest, who is also one of my favorite guests of all time, Dr. Joseph C. Moorcraft III.

He is an author and pastor of Heritage Presbyterian Church in Cumming, Georgia, and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. Joe Moorcraft.

And it's a real honor to be on your program again, Chris.

And I appreciate your prayers and the prayers of your lovely bride, Becky, for me and my family in the wake of losing my oldest brother, John, last week, who went home to be with the Lord for eternity at 76.

And I thank the Lord that he made credible professions of faith during the final weeks of his life.

Praise the Lord for that.

Amen. By the way, folks, this is part five in our series of discussions on proper heroes put in their proper place in the lives of Christians. The last time we conducted the interview, we accidentally labeled it as part five, but in reality, it was part four.

This is part five today. And if you have questions about proper heroes put in their proper place in the lives of Christians, send them to chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com.

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Now, as we always do to refresh the memories of our listeners or for those hearing you the first time, to introduce them to Heritage Presbyterian Church in Cumming, Georgia, tell us about that church.

We are a congregation...

Praise God. Well, if anybody wants to find out more information about this wonderful church in Cumming, Georgia, it is heritagepresbyterianchurch .com, heritagepresbyterianchurch .com. Now tell us a bit about the monumental work that you accomplished, uh, the, uh, writing of a, let's see, I believe it is a, uh, eight-volume commentary on the Westminster Larger Catechism called Authentic Christianity.

Tell us about that.

Yes, and the literature I preached about God has been very gracious in causing them to sell and get it.

Westminstercommentary .com. Now tell us about the website of your elder, Tim Renshaw, comprehensivechristianity .com.

All right, let me tell you one other thing about my commentaries, that is, Gil Pardo, a few days ago wrote...

Great, that's comprehensivechristianity .com, and hopefully we will have time and remember to repeat those websites later on in the program. Well, we are now entering into part five of the proper heroes put in their proper place in the lives of Christians.

Where in history have we arrived at this point in part five?

Well, in the first four parts, we went... Wait, I just want to interrupt for a second. Were you speaking of.

C. Greg Singer's book, A Theological Interpretation of American History?

Yes, sir.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure.

Yeah, he was...

One thing I'd like to clarify is that although you believe that, and I'll use the southerner term, as most of my friends who are conservative Christians and southerners call it, the war of northern aggression. Although you are opposed to that, you are very vehemently opposed to the damnable sin of racism.

You do not believe that chattel slavery was acceptable to God. In fact, I know that you share my opinion and Gary DeMar's opinion that the biblical command that anyone who kidnaps a man and sells him shall be put to death would even apply to chattel slavery, since the origins of the slaves coming here involved that.

But I just wanted to make that clear before any kind of wacky rhetoric.

I'm glad you did, because I am against...

In fact, can we pick up right there when we come back from our first break?

Yes, sir.

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Revisiting the Debate Over Southern History, Racism, and Chattel Slavery

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Yes, in fact... Back of Westminster Seminar. Yes, sir. And they encourage other heroes. It's not accidental. Ever since the country, there are more Southern Africans...

Wait, we used to call them stoops in New York where I was raised.

I'm not surprised to hear that at all, since New York was established largely by the Dutch. So, I'll never forget one time, Paul Kruger, everybody loved him. He was a famous... In fact, could you pick up your story right where you left off there, because we have to go to our.

Midway break. Sure. And you could obviously backtrack and get the full story in, so our listeners know what you're talking about. Please, if you have a question for Dr. Morecraftson, chrisarnson at gmail .com, as always, give us your first name at least, your city and state, and country of residence.

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You don't have to believe identically with me, but you need to be promoting something that is at the very least compatible with what I believe. To give you an example, Heritage Presbyterian Church of Cumming, Georgia has sponsored an ad campaign, which we are still awaiting those ads, and Dr. Moorcraft and I do have differences of opinion on certain things.