September 17, 2021 Show with Wes Carpenter on “Woke Religion: Unmasking the False Gospel of Social Justice”
September 17, 2021
WES CARPENTER (B.S. from Christopher Newport University, an MBA from the College of William & Mary, an M.Div. from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, & a Th.M student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary) who served in churches in South Korea, the Pacific Northwest, & Southeastern United States. who will address:
“WOKE RELIGION: UNMASKING the FALSE GOSPEL of SOCIAL JUSTICE”
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And I know that there are a lot of people out there who are thinking, Man, this guy Chris Arnzen
interviews guests who oppose the woke movement and the social
justice warrior phenomenon a lot.
And there is a reason for that.
That's because this is a prominent evil in our current day,
and I don't think that we can overreach in our frequency of
exposing the lies of this movement.
And we're going to do that again today with a first -time guest, Wes Carpenter, who earned his B
.S. from Christopher Newport University and his M .B .A. from the College of William and Mary
and his M .Div. from the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
And he's currently a T .H .M. student at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, where my dear friend of many years, Dr. Joel Beeke, is the president.
He's also served in churches in South Korea, the Pacific Northwest, and
Southeastern United States.
Today we are going to be addressing Wes's new book, Woke Religion, Unmasking the False
Gospel of Social Justice.
And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Trump and Zion Radio, Wes
Carpenter.
Thanks so much, Chris, for having me on.
I just love your program, what you're doing.
I've really been looking
forward to it.
Yes, God, thanks be to God, I am doing much better.
And Wes is speaking about my, I'm assuming he's
speaking about my congestive heart failure that occurred actually last July, but
that may take many years to fully repair itself, if ever.
So I thank you for your prayers.
And so tell us, first of all, right off the bat, why
you, as a young man, seminary student, knowing that
there are many books currently being written and published, taking a position
against the woke movement, why did you find a,
or how did you develop a passion and find a need to write Woke Religion, Unmasking
the False Gospel of Social Justice?
Sure, yeah,
that's back in seminary.
I
remember
being at
a convention,
kind of made me uncomfortable in the classroom, not
several years going on in this
country,
movement and with family members.
And it
turns
out a lot
of brewing
in seminary
years back and really
came to its head
saying the same
thing,
obligated in the churches, I need
to write something on this, I know it's going to be a polemic work, and it really, I wasn't planning on writing
because I was just
sending out, reading
it,
and
burning it.
I was, at the time of writing last summer,
maybe got caught a little flat -footed and it was time to speak up.
Well, if you could, for those of our listeners who have not heard any of my other
interviews on the woke movement, on social justice, on critical race theory,
why don't you define what woke means, and define what the gospel
of social justice is.
Yeah,
sure,
and the
framework
that it's
operating
from, and it's a standard of authority that it's claiming that's not,
it was operating from
neo -Marxist ideology, that's not
combating neo
-Marxist
ideology, and I'm sure some of
your audience is familiar with these terms, so I won't belabor it
too much, but essentially, you're on too
long, feel free to stop me, but it's more than cancel culture, it's an authoritarian state.
White, by definition, because of white privilege, you're part of the oppressed,
become and merge into a
religion, and I'll explain that a little later.
White, by definition, according to the standard, and so MacArthur said it last year, the biggest issue of our
time, some call it ethnic Gnosticism,
James Lindsay calls it an authoritarianism in our midst, Gad Saad says it's an illiberal
idea pathogen, Jordan Peterson, it's an illiberal idea pathology,
and so it's essentially, you must confess pittance, if you like,
to white guilt, complicity, and to institutional and systemic racism, and like
I said, it's not just limited to critical race theory that presupposes racism, and the
classical understanding of prejudice,
male, and that's where you get intersectionality,
and it goes on
and on,
and then the
oppressed group
is already
vaccinated, which doesn't make a whole
lot of sense to me, anti -vax, per se, but
the
mandate is
things like, we're looser
in 2020, we're the oppressors, and now it's the unvaccinated, I don't know.
I can tell you personally, I'm in a position where I'm going to probably get the
mandated vaccine or losing my job.
My friends and family members, not because
it's going to go away, you know, wokeness was going to go away, we don't need to
worry about it, and I don't know, I hope it goes away, and I hope...
Yes, and the irony and the hypocrisy involved is
utterly palpable and breathtaking, because you see as a part of the
rhetoric, and here as a part of the rhetoric, of those who represent the woke movement and social justice,
they identify themselves as champions against racism, and yet they are
perpetuating racism, just a different kind of racism.
For some reason, in the 21st century, it's okay to belittle
and vilify and slander people just because
of the lack of melanin content in their skin.
Those of lighter skins, for some reason, that's okay to
not judge them by the content of the character, but by the color of their skin, the
exact reverse of what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for.
Right.
And another irony is when leftists vilify those
who are refusing to be vaccinated, it's kind of an interesting
statistic that there is a very high percentage, and I think it's a higher
percentage of blacks in America that are refusing to be
vaccinated than are agreeing to it.
So there's a lot of illogical and hypocritical and
nonsensical things that are key parts of the rhetoric.
Right, that's exactly right.
I'm a moment, you know, or
boomers, and
then I see
this upcoming generation of kids,
you know, people, I say to that, well, I wonder if
America is not Pope pretty Christian,
and you're a man whose tyranny
is a tyranny.
I don't want to repeat the
torrent.
Someone said
it was
rotten.
You know, as we look at the church today, I'm trying to understand as
an idea, which,
like
you
mentioned,
is
digital
platforms.
And so I think that's something we need to look at.
So I think you're 100 % right there, Chris.
The gospel of Jesus Christ involves the fact that
all of humanity, regardless of skin color, regardless of ethnic origin,
regardless of gender, regardless of status
in the community, whether the poorest of the poor or the richest of the rich,
and regardless of any level of authority, those that are
slaves in the Sudan and those that are kings and queens and
presidents and governors and mayors and corporate
executives and billionaires, all of us
are made from the same lump of clay.
We are all sinners.
We inherited a sinful nature from Adam, and we
are all doomed other than the one and only hope that all
sinners have, and that is the work of redemption
performed on Calvary, completed 100 successfully
on Calvary's cross.
Jesus Christ, the perfect man who is both God and man,
was the only suitable sacrifice for the sins of his people, and there was a
great exchange that took place on that cross where Jesus Christ,
the perfect man, hung there and took upon himself the wrath of the
Father in the place of sinners, and he paid the
full price of the penalty that sinners deserve,
and he was buried and on the third day rose again and ascended into heaven and is seated
at the right hand of the Father where he rules and reigns.
What about social justice conflicts with this that would make it
a false gospel?
Yes, amen.
You know, we almost have to say a pure and genuine religion,
a jaded
view of the world.
When I hear about social justice, and as I've taken a look at it, and I'm willing to be correct,
the gospel is
about reforming, hides racism
in societal power
structure,
ideologies
in seminaries
against a
particular group of people,
clearly in
the
case
of Christ.
He lived a perfect life.
God, He
calculates, is given
to us as a
group.
You're a part of
that.
You need to confess who lived before you who may even
be dead, and so it just goes off the rails really fast.
In fact, let's pick up right where you left off there when we come back from our first break.
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Before the break you were talking about how according to this woke movement,
and social justice ideology, white people have to
confess the sin of being white, and
allegedly admit that they are
inherently evil in a unique way.
In a way that sets white people, or those who are lacking in melanin content in their skin,
sets us apart from all the darker complected humans on earth,
in this inborn sin that not only incorporates
lightness of color in our skin, but also has
embedded in us an evil that apparently other darker
skinned people do not have, and that is a sin of
bigotry, a sin of desiring the enslavement of others, the
downfall of others, the oppressing of others, and on and on and on.
And we are to be ashamed of even our ancestors that we have never
met, and it doesn't even matter if they were slave owners or abolitionists.
This is utterly breathtaking and palpably evil
ideology, hypocritical, and I can think of no other way to describe
it other than being spawned from the very pits of hell, because it
is so greatly accepted and applauded and
celebrated by so many left -leaning individuals, and of course there are many,
I'm sure, who out of cowardice and fear of the repercussions, should they not
join the crowd who are just lying that they agree with
this, or they are keeping silent.
So if you want to pick up right where you left off there.
Yeah,
that
matters
that
much,
because ethnically,
given
that
fear,
evangelical
Christianity and
that, you know,
$10 chameleon dollars...
I'm assuming that Dr. Keller has never visited Appalachia.
Right, and that's where, you know, I currently reside.
And so I'm very aware of the, you know,
like you mentioned, it's
lots of, you know,
white...
Whereas in the... you know, you're either an Adam...
...tongue...
...hostility
between Jews...
...I...
...this is a landmine issue...
...the COVID stuff and the position you take on VAX and, you know, masks and so on and so forth.
This can be divisive within the Church, and it's difficult.
It takes wisdom, and it takes a lot of...
You know, I'm kind of getting a little ahead of myself here and talking about how to address it.
But the bottom line is, you know, you have to call it what it is, and you can't sympathize with
a counterfeit religion.
Let's just call it what it is, with false teaching.
I think...
I look at this as a Gentile heresy, just like the Judaizers saying it's Jesus plus...
...this together with Christianity.
I look at this the same way as you would with...
Would you take the Book of Mormon in your church?
Or any other sort of cult?
That's the way I view this.
Well, let's lay the ax at the root, if you will.
What is the foundational error of woke religion?
Sure.
So the foundational error, just to start by saying
this is a...
...bringing people into groups.
Doctrine of knowledge is determined...
It's a
determination
that oppressed victims...
You have more ax...
You've probably heard of, like, the...
According to woke ideology, though...
And it's...
It's not...
It's like
the
then
-concerning Christianity and the Gospel believe
that it's
based on the doctrine of man.
Who is man?
And
determined
by...
We're creating the image and likeness of God.
And so we're not even talking the same language.
I mean, we're talking...
They're talking about their identities and the power grouped by
their gender,
their
CPTQ stuff.
I mean, it just goes on and on and on.
You can keep going.
It's foundational.
We talked about...
You know,
once
you're
become an
awakened...
Grandparents
and so
on...
Last things are eschatology.
It's about an equitable utopia.
It's not about the...
Western institutional power structures and building...
I don't know if it's a great reset, but...
I don't even know what that is.
But because it's
so...
You know, you said, you know, cutting at the root.
I think when you get into these empty philosophies and you look at it biblically, you have to say, Is this an empty
philosophy?
And if it is, I think that it's...
It's potentially satanic.
It's a counterfeit religion.
It's false teaching.
I think that, you know, Satan disguised himself as an angel of light, right?
And it's not...
It's kind of taboo to talk about Satan.
And the reason why I think this is a secular religion is because people are inherently religious.
And why God
says people are going to either worship in the
tree in error.
Now, I think we have to be willing to have calm
and rational and open minded and peaceful
dialogue and conversation with people over these issues.
Because I believe that
slavery, which was not only the result of evil white people,
evil black people in Africa kidnapped and sold their own people to
evil white people.
In fact, there were even, although it was a minority of people here in the United States, there were black
slave owners who owned black slaves themselves.
Blacks that had climbed the ladder financially and
were able to buy their own homes and farms and plantations and so on.
But the fact that this evil existed not only here in the United States, but also
in Europe and still exists, black on black slavery still exists in Africa.
But the fact that this, that slavery existed here,
and then after slavery, you still had successful
efforts of bigoted white people, primarily in the South,
not exclusively, but primarily in the South, who thwarted the
prosperity and the climb on the ladder
in social and political and economic realms,
through Jim Crow laws and all kinds of things.
The fact that these things existed have prevented many
blacks, not all, obviously, there are blacks who are billionaires, but has prevented many
from catching up on those ladders of success as men view success as
far as socioeconomic and so on,
political power.
So, do you think it is wrong for us to recognize that because of a sin
that was prominent in our nation, it did and does have ripple effects, that the
difference between the way a Christian responds to these things and a leftist responds to
these things, is that the leftist is using the very evil of racism to
try to reverse the situation?
Yes,
and of
critical, is
there
any
element of
truth
in
anything
that
they're
saying?
And, and I know they're
very emotive examples, I
don't take the position that, I'm not saying
that racism isn't
even a
sin,
but I'm
simply
saying that,.
Of course, Joe Biden's nonsensical, laughably nonsensical warning to
America, that the greatest threat being posed against the health,
prosperity and safety of Americans is white supremacy.
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Please feel free to contact me if you have more questions about Grace Church at Franklin.
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This is Pastor Bill Sousa wishing you all the richest blessings of our Sovereign Lord,
God, Savior, and King, Jesus Christ, today and always.
Hi, this is John Sampson, Pastor of King's Church in Peoria, Arizona.
Taking a moment of your day to talk about Chris Arnson and the Iron Sharpens Iron podcast.
I consider Chris a true friend and a man of high integrity.
He's a skilled interviewer who's not afraid to ask the big penetrating questions, while always defending the key
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I've always been happy to point people to this podcast, knowing it's one of the very few safe places on the Internet
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I believe this podcast needs to be heard far and wide.
This is a day of great spiritual compromise, and yet God has raised Chris up for just such a time.
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Would you consider sending either a one -time gift, or even becoming a regular monthly partner with this ministry?
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I'm a pharmacist in New York, which is the epicenter of the latest crisis the world is going through.
In Psalm 139 verse 14, the psalmist offers praise to the Lord like this,.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, and wondrous are your works that my soul knows
very well.
We saw God's goodness and mercy, kindness, and the beauty in what God has
designed, and He has erupted into praise.
In any crisis or problem, brothers and sisters, our only fallback position is to trust God's
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Thank you.
I'm Dr. Tony Costa, professor of apologetics and Islam at Toronto Baptist Seminary.
I'm thrilled to introduce to you a church where I've been invited to speak and have grown to love, Hope
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It's such a joy to witness and experience fellowship with people of God like the dear saints at Hope Reformed Baptist Church in
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Before we return to my discussion with Wes Carpenter and his book Woke Religion
Unmasking the False Gospel of Social Justice, we have some important announcements to make.
If you are a man in ministry leadership, if you are a pastor, an elder, and by
the way, I believe those are the same office, pastor and elder, a deacon,
a parachurch leader, whatever leadership position you hold as a man in the body of
Christ, you are invited to attend the next Iron Sharpens Iron Radio
Pastors Luncheon Monday, September 27, 11 a .m. to 2 p .m. at the
Bongiorno Conference Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
I urge you to get to Carlisle, Pennsylvania that day in any way you can, plane, train,
automobile, bus, parachute, any way that you can get there.
You are not going to regret that you made an extra effort to be present that day.
Our guest speaker is Dr. Conrad Mbewe, pastor of Kabwatha Baptist Church in
Lusaka, Zambia, Africa, and founding chancellor of
African Christian University.
He also happens to be Votie Baucom's pastor.
I believe Dr. Conrad Mbewe is the most powerful preacher alive on the planet Earth.
I am not exaggerating.
I am not using sinful flattery or hyperbole.
This man is utterly remarkable, and not only are you going to
be admitted into this event for free and have a free meal and
enjoy the fun, the fellowship, the refreshment, and the edification of being there
for free, you are going to leave there with a very heavy sack of brand new books
that have been personally selected by me from many major publishers across the United States and the United
Kingdom that are all free of charge to you.
This event began in the 1990s through the urging of my precious late
wife, Julie.
She, in essence, launched these luncheons, and there was one thing that she insisted upon,
that there never be an admission fee and that there never be anything sold on the
premises during the event, and that there never be a hidden agenda or ulterior
motive behind treating the pastors to this time of rest, relaxation,
edification, fun and fellowship and feasting.
It was all just to be purely a gift to men in ministry leadership, to thank them for
their labors, because most of the time, and pastors will tell you this if they are invited to
something, there's typically an ulterior motive behind it.
I make no fun -drive statements for Iron Troupe and Zion Radio while there.
I don't push people to advertise on my show while they're there.
This is all just a treat to pastors, and if you want to be one of them, send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com
chrisarnson at gmail .com and put pastors luncheon in the subject line.
We've got pastors coming from Texas, from North Carolina,
from Virginia, from New York, both
upstate New York, New York City, and Long Island, New York,.
Maryland,.
All over Pennsylvania, and I'm sure that I'm missing some of the areas
where men will be traveling from.
So if they can do it, you can do it, but if you really want to be there, if you have nothing else
that's extremely important on your schedule, please try to come.
Send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com and put pastors luncheon in the subject line.
Once again, that's Monday, September 27th, 11 a .m. to 2 p .m. at the Bongiorno Conference Center
in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, featuring Dr. Conrad Mbewe of Kibwata Baptist Church of Lusaka,
Zambia, Africa.
Many of you may recognize that name.
He has preached at the Strange Fire Conference conducted and hosted by John MacArthur.
He has preached at the G3 Conference that you've been hearing advertised throughout this show and other major
conferences across the United States and the United Kingdom and other places.
So please try to be there if you can, absolutely free of charge.
Also, folks, if you love this show and you don't want to disappear from the airwaves, I'm urging you, please
go to www .IronTroopensIronRadio .com, click Support, then click Click to
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So send me an email at chrisarnson at gmail .com and put advertising in the subject line.
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.
And remember, folks, one of the primary reasons that I launched this program
in 2005 was to be an ally, a friend, a
platform, an extension, and a helping hand to the
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I never want to do anything that is a hindrance or harm to the local pastor and the
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Last but not least, if you are not a member of a Bible -believing, biblically -faithful,
Christ -honoring church, no matter where on the planet Earth you live, I may be able to help you find a church.
I have extensive lists spanning the globe of biblically -faithful churches.
So if you are in that position of not having a biblically -faithful church that you call your home,
please send me an email to chrisharnson at gmail .com and put, I need a church in the subject line, whether it's for a permanent church
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family, friends, and loved ones without biblically -sound churches.
Send me an email to chrisharnson at gmail .com, put, I need a church in the subject line.
That's also the email address where you can send in a question to Wes Carpenter on woke religion,
on masking the false gospel of social justice.
That's chrisharnson at gmail .com, chrisharnson at gmail .com.
And Wes, if you could, pick up where you left off as you were delving deeper into
the insanity and evil of this movement.
The
thing to
recognize,
and he
calls to be
clear at the
same time, the
call is
these
calls
of
injustice.
Humans are fallen.
We have to be everywhere in society,
human rights organization, religious institutional, you name it, the
woman child.
But not
everyone has
bias in the
sand,
as if
every conceivable thought and deed is purely motivated.
It's not buying that.
It's just too pessimistic, hyper -pessimistic.
You provide that sort of biblical clarity that yes, it's in the heart of
man, and
yes,
those who
are
of the
gospel, I think that's kind of, you know...
I agree with you.
In fact, I wanted to have a listener question asked of
you that really hinges on something that you said.
We have Christopher in western Suffolk County, New York, who says,
I have heard Chris Arnson say on Iron Trump and Zion Radio that conservatives all too
often say that there is no institutionalized and systemic racism in the United States
because there is growing institutionalized and systemic
racism here against white heterosexual males and Asians.
We are constantly repeating this idea that racism
is not institutionalized here, thinking, just like the left does, that racism only
means discrimination, oppression, and hatred of blacks and other racial minorities.
But the systemic and institutionalized racism against white heterosexual
males and Asians is palpably obvious that it exists and it is going
on the rise.
So you want to respond to that?
Yes.
Yeah,
that's a
really good
point.
I haven't personally...
Thank you so much, Christopher.
And if you would please give me your full mailing address in western Suffolk County, New York,
because you have won a free copy of Woke Religion, Unmasking the False Gospel of Social Justice by our
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these books to those in our audience who win them at no expense to us or to you.
So thanks a lot, Christopher.
We have another listener, not Christopher, but Christian this time, not to say that
Christopher is not a Christian, but we have Christian in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
and Christian wants to know, have you heard of any
in the Woke movement who are trying to disparage
those who are lighter -skinned black people with the same kind of hatred
as they do towards Caucasians?
The reason why I'm saying that is that throughout history, there has actually been bigotry
by lighter -skinned blacks towards those of darker complexions,
especially in the 19th century and years prior.
But I was wondering if the reverse is taking place, to your knowledge, because they are, quote, quote, whiter
than the darker -skinned blacks.
Yeah, that's another good question.
I try to keep an eye on what's going on, and
I haven't seen
anything that was
truly….
Yeah, you're right.
For instance, a black police officer who shoots and
perhaps even kills a black criminal or a
suspect of a crime, the black police officer will be treated with the same rhetoric as if he
is a white supremacist, regardless of how dark his skin color is.
I mean, it's pure insanity.
Right.
Yeah, I mean, like I mentioned the Uncle Tom thing earlier, and, you know,
it's
controlling knowledge.
And if
you're not,
you're….
This thing is so….
I mean, I
spent some
time in
Asia, and….
Yes.
In fact, in the Hispanic community, there is a lot of hatred against other
Hispanics because of ethnic origin.
I have known people quite well, closely, personally,
who were Puerto Ricans, who despised Mexicans and South Americans,
who were South and Central Americans, who despised Puerto Ricans, who were
Cubans, who despised Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.
I mean, and really aggressively.
And I could tell you some stories that….
It's one of those situations where you don't know whether to laugh or cry that are so absurd, but I don't want to
expose the people who said or were involved in these things.
But the white man is not the only one guilty of
hatred against neighbor just because of skin color or ethnic origin or whatever.
In the 1980s, I came out of the School of Law at
Harvard in advance, and
I think is that it was just a matter of time for this to come.
You know, we had Ferguson, and you have all these….
You have these events that take place, and it's just like, boom, that was the moment in time.
And then everyone, and even Crackademia
says, and here's how it's being pumped out into the….
You have to be careful with that because we already have the answer, and it's Christianity, and the answer isn't
to use some kind of….
And
to be
careful….
I agree, and I just remembered something that you were saying before about
how one of the reasons, just one of the many, many, many reasons this is
a false gospel and an ideology of evil and lunacy
is that white people are supposed to experience
and be ashamed of the guilt of
being white.
And yet, being white is all we could ever be, and even if one were
to try to assimilate with those of other
skin colors and ethnic origins and adopt their ways
and their practices and their speech patterns, they would be told that they
were guilty of cultural appropriation.
So it's like you can't escape.
It is just sheer and utter insanity, and not only insanity, but it's
satanic.
Utterly mind -blowing.
We do have Arnie in Perry County, Pennsylvania, who asks, how do you
respond to someone who may even be a well -meaning Christian but
politically liberal, who says that conservatives are always talking about
the fact that the government is not intended to be in the business of
taking care of the poor.
That is the church's job, but the reality is that the
churches will never live up to that calling to take care of the poor,
and that there are even churches that believe that their only obligation is to take care of the
poor who are members of their congregations.
You don't have enough churches that are willing to really go the extra mile financially to
feed and clothe and house the poor and help them get employment, etc.
So how do you respond to these people who say that we are merely passing the buck
of responsibility, and we don't really mean what we say, we don't
walk where we talk when it comes to the government not having the
responsibility to feed and take care of those less fortunate than us?
Yeah,
you know,
they
weren't
in
need.
And then
fast
and fully satisfied means
that,
if you
don't believe this,
then
you can have no name in
the context, and
I think no.
And so in America, and
looking at
how the
goal of
Christianity in terms of meeting physical
needs, the poor you will always have with you,
the poor who put, he said she gave out of
her poverty,
in terms of helping the answer is,.
Yeah, the answer is never coveting the neighbor's goods and
stealing from your neighbor, which is what many of the leftist government
policies are doing.
Right.
You can never justify that, no matter how horrible a situation may be.
And none of these people are going to be happy if I were to somehow break into their home.
When I say these people, I mean like Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Chuck Schumer or
any of these people are going to be pleased if I happen to be down and out in the grips of poverty.
They're not going to be happy if I break into their homes and successfully steal great amounts of wealth for them or
do it through a cyber crime or rip them off after their bank
accounts.
And in many ways,
in
my opinion, and this
is the answer,
because
it does not
promote financial independence.
Being dependent upon the government for food stamps and
so on and so forth, you're basically going to continue in poverty.
Now, that doesn't mean that people that are going through a difficult time,
any number of circumstances
tend
to finance personal finance.
And how do you get out of debt?
Debt is a huge epidemic problem in this country.
So, yeah, very good question.
And we have to go to our final break.
It's a lot briefer than the other breaks.
If you have a question, send it in immediately.
ChrisArnzen at gmail .com.
C -H -R -I -S -A -R -N -Z -E -N at gmail .com.
Give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence.
We'll be right back with Wes Carpenter right after these messages.
Hello, dear ones.
My name is Justin Peters, and my friend Chris Arnzen, host of Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, and
I are frequently blessed to share great times of fellowship with one another at conferences all over the United States.
We'll both be enjoying more fellowship together at the G3 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Thursday,
September 30th, through Saturday, October 2nd, on the theme, Christ is
Supreme Over All.
I'll be speaking there along with over 20 other speakers, including John MacArthur, Phil Johnson,
Votie Balcom, Joel Beakey, and James White.
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Their mission?
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They go to various churches, schools, and institutions to publicly display a rare
collection of biblical texts along with a fascinating presentation by Mr. Buttafuoco
demonstrating the reliability of Scripture.
To advance the cause of the Gospel, they created a beautiful perfect facsimile of the
genealogy of Jesus Christ from the original engravings contained in a first edition
1611 King James Bible.
This 17th century hand -engraved chart shows the family tree of Jesus Christ
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Wes, did you complete your thought before we went to the break?
We do have a listener question waiting for you.
Oh yeah, that was...
Okay, we have Mike from Monroe, New York.
We see a horde of Christian churches surrendering to wokeness
and now COVID -ness.
Both are, in my opinion, satanic plots to further assault the truth of the gospel and render our
witness more odious than it already is to the ungodly and unbelieving world.
However, what troubles me most are those who profess Reformed theology and
who are also finding ways to cooperate with the woke heresy and appease the wicked.
Can our brother share any thoughts on wokeness and the effect it is having on the Reformed churches
of our day?
Yeah, I can definitely sympathize with that question.
I think that, you know, we
are in a government
under a pre
-Reformed
church.
We have to believe the gospel and not be ashamed of it.
We're not...
I think there's sort of a sentiment of the church is weak right now, but the gates of
hell are not going to prevail against...
And so we can take heart, you know?
Even in prior generations,.
We look at the history of the church.
And the people faced.
You know, even that goes on all over the world right now, and we're kind of getting a dose of it, a step towards that.
I think we just trust...
Well, thank you, Mike, in Monroe, New York.
Make sure that you give us your mailing address in Monroe so that you can receive a free copy
of Woke Religion, Unmasking the False Gospel of Social Justice by Wes Carpenter.
And that also goes for all of the other listeners who sent in questions today.
Make sure you send in your mailing address so that
CVBBS, Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service, can ship those free books out to you.
And once again, we want to thank Ambassador International for providing the books.
I want you to have about three minutes, Wes, to summarize what you most want etched in the
hearts and minds of our listeners today about this subject.
...Christ and
sojourn
here.
We don't need to feel guilty.
You can press on.
We win.
Christ is going to return, and we won't
be anymore.
And so, you know, the last thing I would say is
that as for
Jesus Christ, not power system.
We don't wait for vindication of perfect,
and it's not in social groups.
We're imputed with Christ's righteousness.
It's not our nation's past.
Our citizenship is in heaven, not a utopian society.
And we're at the mercy of God's providence, not privilege.
We're covered in his righteous robes, and not guilt.
And so, believe.
Believe in my
God's
power.
We're out of time, brother.
Just want to make sure that our listeners remember, if you want to purchase this book, Woke Religion, by Wes Carpenter, go to
cvbbs .com, Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service, and ask for Woke Religion that was
published by Ambassador International and authored by Wes Carpenter.
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I want to thank Wes for being such an extraordinary guest today.
I want to thank all of our listeners, especially those who took the time to write.
I want you all to have a safe and blessed and restful and refreshing and Christ
-honoring weekend and Lord's Day.
And I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far, far greater Savior
than you are a sinner.