SHEPHERDS FOR SALE - HOW EVANGELICAL LEADERS TRADED THE TRUTH FOR A LEFTIST AGENDA by Megan Basham

Hello, and thank you for listening to the testing the spirits podcast in this episode. We're going to be talking about Megan Basham's new book shepherds for sale. How evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist Agenda.

I have my copy right here, and I want to share with you a few things from the introduction. I haven't read through the whole book. Maybe I'll do more videos as I read through but I've been following this story for a while.

I've listened to several podcasts that Megan Basham has been on. Unfortunately, it seems like the host of these podcasts that they're just making Megan Basham defend herself. And it's like I want to hear about the book.

But you know she does have to defend herself because she's calling out some pretty big names Tim Keller Russell Moore Rick Warren JD Greer. And obviously these men are not going to say hey Megan Basham is right.

We're totally compromised. Don't listen to us. So she's coming under a lot of scrutiny, and you know whenever you stand up for biblical truth, you're going to be Vilified so Megan Basham knows what she's getting into.

I'm glad she wrote the book. I've been following these Stories for years if you've been following Evangelical news I mean you you probably already know to a large degree what she's going to be talking about in the book.

But it's a very important work. It's on the back. It's promoted by John MacArthur Vodie Bauckham Ben Shapiro. So some pretty big names on the other side supporting it. She starts the book the introduction by telling the story of James and Bailey Anderson this couple they attended a supposedly evangelical church in California in Los Angeles and The women in this church invited mrs. Anderson to March in the 2017 women's March remember the pink hat March yeah for March for feminism abortion LGBT every left-wing cause under the Sun so these women in the church invited this Miss Anderson to attend the women's March and long story short.

They left that church ended up in a church back home and the Bible belt and they discovered the same thing was happening there. So the compromise is everywhere, and I've seen it Myself and this really.

You know hit home for me. I read this statement. It's on page 16 in the introduction Megan Basham mentions in his book the devil and Karl Marx political science professor Paul Kengor describes the process of the Communist Party USA between the 1920s 1950s to Deliberately infiltrate Mainline Protestant churches in to woo the pastors to their socialist Program.

Our church used to be part of the Congregationalist denomination. And it was in that same time period 1940s 1950s that the Denomination leaders were telling the local ministers do not preach about the blood of Christ.

They wanted to basically take the cross take the heart of the gospel out of Christianity and replace it with the real work, which is social justice so long story short many of the historic mainline Protestant denominations, you know the Episcopalians the Methodists I live in New England these are the churches that have the rainbow flag out front a lot of their pastors would openly identify as Socialists so this has already happened leftism has taken over the Historic Protestant churches now it's starting to take over the evangelical churches in the Bible churches and the Southern Baptist.

Convention.

Which the Southern Baptist Convention is supposedly the largest evangelical Denomination in the country and yet their former president JD Greer once said in a sermon from Romans chapter 1. He concluded in a sermon from Romans 1 that Christians should be the fiercest Supporters of gay rights.

Yeah, that's the exact opposite of what Romans 1 says so whether it's JD Greer or some of these other guys all of a sudden. Yeah, what are they doing? They're trading the truth for a leftist Agenda, I mean that's clearly Happening and here's the thing about you know Karl Marx.

Karl Marx hated Christianity and he understood. I think what the devil Understands you can attack the church from the outside and have you know limited success, but if you can infiltrate And dismantle the church from within you're gonna have a lot more success.

So this couple James and Bailey Anderson they leave their church in California, and they figure well, it's California. What do you expect? They end up in this church in the Bible belt and some really interesting things here in the introduction.

They end up in this church, and they realize it's a seeker sensitive Church. So Megan Basham describes the seeker sensitive model this way meaning that the worship style is pop and rock music. Followed by a sermon that focuses on practical life improvement.

So as I often talk about the rock concert followed by the motivational speaker, and it's all designed to not offend. Okay, so that unbelievers when they visit the church. They're not offended well in order to not offend people especially unbelievers.

You know you can't talk about two-thirds of the Bible. Maybe it may be even more so you have to ignore biblical truth and just give them Some self-help you know message about you know your best life now or something like that.

So they realized that the pastor of this seeker sensitive Church. They would not eat the pastor would not even mention sin. He would not even talk about sin instead. He just talked about our Brokenness so he wouldn't even use the word sin and later he implied that it is unloving for believers to call Homosexuality or even transgenderism to call it sin is very unloving and of course this is What Tim Keller said the founder of the gospel coalition?

He said it's very misleading even to call homosexuality a sin very misleading shouldn't do that. JD Greer. Again, he said that you know the Bible only whispers about sexual sin in other words LGBT that's not a big deal.

You know and this is what they're doing you know these people that are exchanging biblical truth for the leftist agenda. You know critical race theory you know wokeness and all the rest. You know they're trying to downplay the important issues that are biblical issues moral issues.

You know in the two issues that Christians have cared about the most historically. Our abortion and homosexuality you know in the past few generations. Those have been the main issues. Here's the thing this is the kind of the crux of the issue.

Megan Basham talks about how The evangelical voting bloc in the United States is the most powerful Voting bloc so in order for the leftist to get their agenda through they have to Destroy or at least split the evangelical voting bloc that way if you can get these big-name leaders to kind of downplay the traditional issues and get people more interested and you know welfare and Climate change and maybe some left-wing issues then all of a sudden now more and more Evangelicals will vote for the progressive candidate, and you know that's that's the goal right so.

Anyways back to this couple James and Bailey Anderson. They they realized their pastor won't even use the word sin. He talks about brokenness. He's defending Homosexuality. The sermons are you know not biblical the straw that broke the camel's back one Sunday the worship leader told the Congregation that God went looking for Adam and Eve after they ate the apple because God wanted to tell them that quote.

There's nothing you could ever do to separate you. There's nothing you could ever do to separate you from my love. So that's not what God said obviously and that's not actually true because sin does Separate us from God.

Adam and Eve are kicked out of the garden if you remember, but according to this worship pastor There's nothing you could ever do To separate you from the love of God so in other words God is loved because God is love.

I mean it sounds like universalism everyone and everything gay straight Communist you know it doesn't doesn't even matter because God's so loving you'll accept everyone in the end. I mean, that's what it sounds like to me.

And they turn to each other this couple and they realized they said this is straight heresy. We can't do this anymore they left their church and They realized that this problem. It's not just in California.

It is literally everywhere, and I can tell you that's true. I've seen this locally it is happening everywhere so pastors are compromising the truth and It's it's these left-wing billionaires George Soros left-wing organizations.

They are actually you know Megan Basham has discovered They're actually donating money to evangelical causes to evangelical organizations so some pastors might actually be on the take others are just compromising for other reasons, but She mentions how in 2020 the largest foundation in the world the US federal government Leveraged the influence of many well-known ministry leaders to promote its kovat 19 lies in guilt the average Church goer into submitting to authoritarian lockdowns in vaccine mandates.

She says the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College went so far as to partner Formerly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health setting up the website coronavirus in the church anytime Churches and ministers are working hand-in-hand with the federal government.

I mean this is not a good thing. And I think it was actually Franklin Graham who said that you should take the vaccine. Why. Because Jesus would which to me is just crazy. To say that Jesus would take the vaccine so Megan asked the question why have so many well-known Evangelical institutions and pastors why are they seemingly promoting this leftist agenda?

She says are they dupes or are they deceivers, you know, and at some point doesn't even matter anymore. The Bible talks about those who are deceived and they're being deceived, you know. There's some people that are deceiving others because they're deceived Themselves just because you convince yourself you're doing the right thing if you're doing the wrong thing.

It doesn't matter what's going on in your mind.

I.

Personally think that most of them are deceivers. They know what they're doing. I mean, how can you not know Megan goes on to quote Rick Warren? Rick Warren boasts about being a global influencer. To the United Nations and the World Economic Forum.

So Rick Warren actually went to Davos took part in the World Economic Forum and he brags about it. I mean, what does that tell you Russell Moore? He talks about how he was invited by President Obama to the White House Christmas party, you know, you know, I think of King Herod and John the Baptist, you know, John the Baptist wouldn't have been invited to his party and instead Herod had John killed.

But you know someone like Obama, you know, Russell Moore gets invited to the party. So obviously a lot of these big-name evangelical leaders Russell Moore's the editor-in-chief of Christianity today.

You know, they're they're on the other side long story short Megan Megan Basham is calling out some of these things going on big-name leaders and she talks about the 11th Commandment, so some of these big big-name evangelicals.

They circle the wagons. They call the people in the pews racist, you know. They they aren't afraid to attack the people in the pew. But they all defend each other and this is sort of the unwritten code and what is called Big Eva big evangelicalism these big-name leaders.

They will not disagree with each other openly so they support each other even when they're saying unbiblical things. This is called the 11th commandment thou shall not speak ill of another, you know Christian leader.

But they will speak ill of Megan Basham. You know, so this is an important book and important work. I hope you'll check it out if not, you know, you can See what Megan Basham is saying about it and some podcasts that are online, but I think this is an important work.

I'm interested in reading the rest of it. Thanks for listening. And until next time may the Lord be with you. Have a great day.