Refuting Brandan Robertson's Progressive Christianity

The Greatest Commandment and the Call to Love God Fully

When the scribes and Pharisees asked our Lord about the greatest commandment, He replied, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

So, why do we hear some of today's most prominent pastors saying things like this? It had everything to do with how we talk about the Bible, and specifically, or along with that, what we point to as the foundation of faith, which for most Christians, unfortunately, is the Bible.

We need to do better. We need to love God with all our hearts, and stand unashamedly on the rock of His Word. We need to love the Lord with all of our souls, and respond to the worldview issues of our day with the wisdom and discernment that comes only from Him.

We need to love the Lord with our minds, and understand the calling of God's people in every area of life in God's world. We need to love the Lord our God with all our strength, and face the work of building a life-giving, God-honouring culture.

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Daniel 9, Isaiah 53, and the Prophecies of the Messiah

So, this particular text is amazing in terms of prophecy. Hundreds of years before Jesus comes, it predicts that what's going to happen is they're going to finish the transgression. There's going to be an end to sin, atonement for iniquity, everlasting righteousness, sealing up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy One.

That's Daniel chapter 9, and it says, and it's an amazing prophecy, it literally nails the timing of the Messiah, which is why they were so expecting at that time, because they knew that this is the time of the Messiah.

They could count. The Messiah was going to come, be cut off, and then the second temple was going to be destroyed. So, here's the point. Why read Daniel 9 at the start of the show? This is the point. Brandon Robertson, progressive gay pastor, and I mean that literally, he's gay, he said that the Old Testament doesn't prophesy Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 53 is not about Jesus. We're going to talk about that today, his comments that were during our discussion with him, and comments he's had elsewhere. But prophecies like this are some of the most amazing things to examine as a Christian, because it shows the divine inspiration of Scripture, that hundreds of years before the Messiah comes, it nails everything about him, where he's coming from, Bethlehem.

It nails, of course, the details of who he is, his person, that he's God himself, Isaiah 9, 6 through 7. It is El Gibor, the mighty God, that's a title of Yahweh, the true God, by the way. This son who is coming, this child, is going to be Yahweh himself.

It nails the timing of his coming, when he's coming, Daniel chapter 9. It nails his death for sin, that he would be crushed for our iniquities. A chastisement for our well-being would be upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

He was numbered with the transgressors, but he justifies the many as he bears their iniquities. He's pierced through for our transgressions. They pierced his hands and his feet. They're like dogs wagging their head at him.

They cast lots for his clothing. All of those details are there in the Old Testament, long before Jesus comes, and it gets even deeper than in terms of the symbolism. But this particular prophecy, as complex as it is, it nails what Jesus accomplishes.

He brings an everlasting righteousness. He makes atonement for iniquity. He makes an end of sin. They finish the transgression, which is what Jesus says they were doing, fill up then the measure, right?

Like they were God's covenant people. There's always a remnant, but they are sinning and violating God's law, and they are sinning against Yahweh himself. They keep doing that in perpetuity throughout their relationship to him, and the promise was that this is going to hit a climax, and God's going to deal with it.

There's going to be redemption, salvation, atonement, purification, and judgment at the coming of the Messiah. We're going to talk about some of that stuff today.

Even in what you're saying thematically, there's bullet points, and sub-points, and sub-points, and like, if you build an outline, you could just make a beautiful faith-increasing Bible study. That's right.

That's what this show is gonna be about, guys.

We're gonna try to increase your faith and your confidence in the Word of God. It's an amazing, amazing thing, and it's... We're doing a debate. Not this weekend. Next Saturday, April 1st, Salt Lake City.

We're gonna be there together again. We've got our team coming out to do a debate at Utah, Salt Lake... University of Utah. Yeah. With two atheist philosophers and ethicists. And the title of the debate is Does Morality Depend Upon God?

And it's... I really believe this. It's an area where it's like, okay, we'll do that narrow focus. I'm surprised that you want to, as an atheist, someone who believes that you are the descendant of fish, and you believe you can base morality off of that kind of worldview.

But okay. I mean, it seems like a lot to bite off. But if you're courageous enough to make the claim, let's get into it. And then, with Brandon Robertson, on the debate, radio discussion debate we had with him, he actually went after the prophecies of Jesus, that the Old Testament doesn't prophesy Jesus.

And I thought to myself, well, if you want to bite that off, go for it. I mean... Just cuz. Okay, that's a brave move, my friend. But we're gonna do some of that today. I'm Jeff the Commoner Ninja. That's Luke the Bear.

Hey, what up? Sorry. Oh, sorry. No, go ahead. The chat's already been very feisty. Feisty? We were having some audio issues at the beginning, but it's been resolved. But I was, I thought some people in the chat channel were going to choke Gabe through YouTube.

Yeah. But we're good. And then there's also a electronic choking? There's a heretic in there as well that's causing issues. So, all right, we might have to bounce him. We'll deal with that. By the way,.

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It's just best to behave. That way you don't have to shout into the void. That's right. That's right. So that is Zachary Conover. He is the director of communications for End Abortion Now. If your church gets linked up with End Abortion Now, you'll be talking to this guy right here.

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Wow. Thanks, bro. Yeah, it was really excellent. So you put a lot into an hour and 15, 30 minutes? Hour and change. Where'd you learn to do all that?

Three to five, you know. Well, there wasn't. Luke six-four, that's my answer.

Yeah, and you weren't there that time, so he had all the time in the world. Like, he wasn't competing, you know. For any time there, so he's just like, you know what? I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna speak like I'm the only one speaking.

Because I wasn't, because I wasn't in the way.

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I don't know. The atheists in Utah, too? It seems like there's a pattern developing there.

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But that's a gift from the Bonson family. So here we go. We're back and I know we've spent a good deal last month talking about Brandon Robertson and we decided to do it again today. And the reason why is because there's just treasury.

It's just an amazing opportunity for us to be able to engage with so-called progressive Christianity and the gay theologian, Brandon Robertson. And so we've dealt with some of his TikTok stuff before.

We've engaged with that, refuted that stuff. We had him on the show because he asked to have a conversation with us. We had that debate. It's been seen by a lot of people and the debate was only an hour long.

So we knew we had a lot to get to. Limited time and so we weren't able to do everything we wanted to do. So he made some comments on the show that I thought, we thought, it would be a great benefit to dig into together because it's not just about refuting a heretic and refuting an apostate and refuting a wicked man like Brandon Robertson.

It's not just about that. It's about equipping and training you to know your Bible. And so when you hear someone make the let's just call it what it is, insane claims that Brandon makes showing that he's completely biblically illiterate, unfortunately, it's important for you to be able to engage with that.

And so he made some comments. We're gonna engage with them. By the way, super chats everybody. I was told by Gabe who's now happily married. Praise God for Gabe's marriage. Gabe Green and then Mrs. Green.

I was told by Gabe to mention the super chats. If you want to send in super chats and ask questions, we'll try to get to those as well throughout the stream today. Jacob, thank you for that. Thanks for that blessing.

Speaking the truth. Levi Jarvis, much love in Christ. Keep spreading the truth. Glad to see Zach on today. Me too. I love what Zach's on.

I appreciate that. I love it. Happy to be here.

Let's do it. Unless you have somewhere you want to go first. No, I was just gonna say in.

The tag on what you were saying there. Oh, we got 20 euro.

Euros? Can you spend those? Not here. Can we buy like a light for that? Some lights? I think maybe we can. Euros work in America. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Timio.

Disciples all over the world.

Sorry, what was I saying? You were gonna say. I was gonna say that part of the reason we want to continue this conversation is because we know that it's been blessing a lot of people. Right. I've been getting a lot of really great feedback from people saying thank you.

This has been really helpful. You know, I was just saying earlier someone I know was like, oh, he's saying the quiet part out loud. And I was like, yes, praise God. That's what we want. We want them to be honest and not, you know, it's darkness being brought to light.

We don't want this awful teaching to be hidden, you know, underground somewhere. We want it to come forth and be in the public so it can be addressed. That's right. That's part of the reason.

You're gonna be hearing more and more of this bootleg argumentation because of the culture that we're in today. And so he's a popular talking head, pop culture sort of gay icon for the gay community. And so you're gonna be hearing his very poor arguments a lot.

You need to know how to deal with them and deal with a person that's as biblically illiterate as Brandon and as deceptive as Brandon, but also just be able to really engage with what he claims. And I want to say just as we start this, one of the things that you'll note, and this is important for everyone who's defending the faith, there's a difference between making a claim and being able to justify it.

Making a claim and being able to provide proper warrant for it, right? Anybody can say something. Anybody can just announce something, right? Make a claim. It's another thing to actually be able to justify that claim.

And one of the things that you're gonna see a lot from atheists today, agnostics today, from people like Brandon Robertson, is a lot of announcing, but no justification, no real backing it up. A lot of making claims, but not actually providing the warrant for that claim.

And even something as elementary as, I know this, just a simple knowledge claim. You know, having justified true belief in that and being able to ground it in anything other than your own personal preference or societal convention.

And you all heard what he just said, right? Justified true belief. That's knowledge. Knowledge, justified true belief. Not just claiming something, right? I know it. How do you know it? Because I feel good.

Because I feel it, right? That doesn't justify it. It doesn't mean it's true at all. It doesn't make it true. And if you're gonna make a knowledge claim, is it justified true belief? And so again, the difference between announcing something and justifying it.

And you're gonna get that a lot from Brandon and others in our culture today. A lot of announcing, right? Well, is it right to have all the male parts and still claim you have a uterus? Well, I believe so.

That's right. That's moral. Okay, it's fine you announce it, but justify it, right? Like provide justification for that claim. So you're gonna get that a lot today.

It's one thing this culture, this apostate generation is very inebriated by, and that is, you know, we hate the idea of certainty. Right. Having a grounding for anything, to be able to say anything, for sure.

Like I know this for certain. I think our culture just despises that in general.

Yeah, that's a good point to put your finger on, because you're gonna hear Brandon doing that a lot. He doesn't like for quote-unquote fundamentalists to claim certainty, right? He even makes a point in one of his videos, like, I know that it sounds very appealing.

It's very attractive to say like, this is the objective standard. This is how I know, you know, this is how I have certainty kind of thing. He's like, I know that's very attractive. It's like, yeah, yeah, you're darn skippy.

It's right. And yeah, he's positive that we're incorrect. Yeah, you're darn skippy. It feels good. It feels good to be epistemologically sound. Yeah, I agree. It feels good, right? To actually have justification for something.

He's like, I know it just seems like it seems like it'd be great to have this. It's like, yeah, it's great. It's great to have certainty. Yeah. Yeah, the the dent that progressive Christianity is leaving.

It's almost like people humble themselves or pride themselves on the fact, I should say, that we can't really know.

Like, it's yeah, like they know that.

Yeah, they're positive. I'm so, you know, I'm just humbling myself. I don't know, you know, we can't really know anything, you know?

Try that on a court of law. Try that note. Try that note in a in a rape hearing or a rape trial. You know, I just all this epistemic like humility. We just can't know. Who really knows? Was it wrong? I don't know.

Should we apply proper standards of evidence? I don't know. Should we cross-examine witnesses to see if it's true? We just don't know. Yeah, I just don't know. So, um, anyway, so, okay.

Before I get started, real quick. The super chat is blowing up today. So, thank you, everyone. We will do our best to get to everyone at the end of the show because there's been some really good questions.

Oh, Gabe's gonna love that. He's gonna be like, see? See?

It is like, it is like band central today. Like, who's in control of the band hammer today? And he needs to speed up actually because it's just hide user on channel. Hide user on channel. Hide user on channel.

If you just got here, I'll say it again. Don't troll. Don't troll. Behave yourself. Because the moment you troll and get nasty or you're abusive to people, we just, we hit, we click a, it's a button. It's effortless.

It's so effortless. It's hide user on channel. And then you're permanently unable to speak on the channel. So, like, if you want to be able to engage, we respect that. I mean, we're engaging with an apostate right now.

We don't have any problem with engagement. But if you're abusive, if you, if you troll, if you're a heretic, we're just gonna hide you from the channel. So, like, let me give you some good advice. Just don't.

Because it's too easy for us to, it's too easy us to hide you for life. So, here we go. This is a portion of the discussion with Pastor James, myself, and Brandon. And this is where it gets to an interesting part of the discussion.

So, when you, when you specifically say, I'm gonna follow Jesus, and yet Jesus holds men accountable for what is found in the written scriptures that were written 1 ,400 years before they came along. Okay, so where do you get the standard then?

That, did Jesus give you a standard somewhere as to how to figure out what from the scriptures you're going to believe and not believe?

The life and teachings of Jesus, first and foremost, are my foundation for my faith, spirituality, ethics. That's where I would point to, first and foremost, as somebody who identifies as a follower of Jesus.

Some of them. Nope. Some of them. Nope. And everyone sees through that, Brandon. You do, you do know that. Like, one of the things I've said is, I've said that Brandon is clearly, we just have to be honest, speak straight, not crooked.

He's clearly a tool of the devil, of the enemy. Spiritually deceived, dark, deceiving others, all the rest. And what I've said in the past is, that's clear, and the problem is with Brandon is, Brandon, you're not even that good at it.

There's much better apostates and people who are attempting clarity of thought and cogent thinking than you. You're not very good at what you do. Anybody that sees this knows he doesn't mean what he just said, and you're gonna see in a moment why he doesn't really mean it.

It's just, it's just a claim. It's just announcing something he doesn't really believe. Because if you did actually follow Jesus as like a central part of your ethic, and you know, who you follow, then you'd actually believe him.

In Matthew 5 17 through 19, where he says, Do not even begin to think that I've come to destroy the law of the prophets. I did not come to destroy them, but to fulfill them. And he warns people that if any of you teaches anyone to break even the least of these commandments, you'll be called least in the kingdom of heaven.

But whoever does them and teaches them, will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. So that's Jesus referring to the law of God. And when he's asked what the greatest commandment in the law of God is, he says, of course, it's Shema.

And he tells them what about the law. He says that love God, love neighbor, is what all the law and the prophets are built upon. So all that mosaic legislation, all that code, all that law stuff, all that justice stuff, all that caring for victims stuff, all of that, Jesus actually says the whole law and the prophets were built upon love God, love neighbor.

So if you want to know what it looks like in the world to love God, love neighbor, look at the law of Moses. That's what Jesus said. And Jesus defined the human relationship, intimate relationship, between man and woman who leave mother father.

See the sense? See? It's man woman leaving mother father. So it's one new world, man woman, and leaving another world, mother father. So that's male gender, female gender, and that's coming together becoming one flesh.

If you really believe Jesus and you followed him as your source of ethics and foundation and grounding of ethics, then you would believe him when he says those things. But Brandon, you don't. You don't.

You don't even think that Jesus said a bunch of stuff that's actually in the Bible. You think the Bible is corrupted. You think it's filled with immorality, grave immorality, all that stuff. And so Brandon, look, we see through the charade.

And like I've said, look, I don't want you to perish, Brandon. I want you to know Christ. I want you to repent. I want you to be forgiven. But honestly, the right thing to do in your state of apostasy is just go the whole way, Brandon.

Like you got one foot on the Christian worldview wherever it suits you, and the other foot in in just basic atheism and secularism and all the rest. And you've got, you're between two positions right now.

Just go ahead and remove the foot off the Jesus stuff, because honestly,.

It's not becoming, and it doesn't look good on you. Strikes me as just a pretense, really. Right.

Well, it's a way to get, it's a way to get into churches. It's a way to deceive others.

Yeah, it's just, it's just a feel-good theology, right? So you get, you can do all the perverted stuff you want and still say you love Jesus. Mm-hmm. And that's why he's so popular, because people are like, oh, I can, this is great.

I can live how I want and still claim the name of Christ. Like sign me up. Mm-hmm.

Which, by the way, he was doing before he adopted this position. Right. That was one of your guys's questions for him. Like, hey, you were living this licentious lifestyle prior to this, right?

Yeah, you, you had a life. Yes, I was. Yeah, you admit that you struggled with homosexual lusts and desires long before you stepped fully into apostasy. So like there was more going on than just like, I was just examining the text and scholarship and I found this.

It's like, no, this is a spiritual issue for everybody. Not just for Brandon and people who struggle with these desires. It's for everybody. We're all fallen, lost. We missed the mark. We're all not righteous and we all suppress truth and unrighteousness, apart from the grace of God.

And that's clearly what was coinciding with your apostasy. Yeah. So, right. Yeah.

Jesus Reads Isaiah 61 and the Day of Vengeance

Now, Jesus, if you actually examine honestly and critically the way that Jesus uses Scripture throughout the four Gospels, again, he would have been critiqued by fundamentalists. I don't understand how you all wouldn't critique Jesus.

For instance, when he quotes, he stands up in the synagogue, unravels the scroll of Isaiah, and pronounces the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me. He's anointed me to preach good news to the poor.

Right. Quotes the whole Scripture. And then he stops right before it says, and the great and dreadful day of the Lord, talking about the judgment of God. Multiple times throughout this.

Oh, this is one of my favorite things to talk about. This is one of my favorite things to talk about. And this is why hashtag eschatology matters. Mm-hmm. Hashtag eschatology matters. Okay, first of all, I want everyone to follow me through here real fast.

Okay. We're talking Isaiah 61, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, so he's quoting Luke. All right. Not me. Yeah, not this guy. Luke 1. Biblical name though. Okay. Luke chapter 4. Chapter 4 verse 18. All right. Jesus goes to synagogue.

I'll start in 17. Here's what it says. Luke 4 17. And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written. And then he quotes, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And in verse 20, it says, and he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down.

And the eyes of all in synagogue were fixed on him. And he began to say to them, Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing. Brandon thinks that that was an inappropriate use of the text.

He thinks that the Lord of glory, God in the flesh, made a mistake there. That Jesus was somehow abusing the text, not using it accurately. Well,.

Okay.

But he.

He doesn't actually quote the the verse correctly there. He's mixing verses. The verse that he's referring to, you'd find them in Joel 2, in Malachi chapters 3 and 5. You'll see some of that there. And I want to just read it.

Okay. So that's Jesus, Luke chapter 4, in the synagogue saying, this is fulfilled in your ears. Brandon doesn't like the fact that Jesus stopped short of the promise of judgment. Yeah. Okay. Now I'm gonna I'm gonna read from where Jesus was quoting from.

This is from Isaiah chapter 61. Now, Brandon acknowledges that. That's what Jesus is doing here. He's quoting. He's saying, it's fulfilled in me. Brandon doesn't like that Jesus did that, but let's see what he was quoting from.

So, Isaiah 61, the text says, about 700 years before Jesus, this is written, okay. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. Hey, Jesus said that.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. Ah! But wait, and it says, and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn.

So, he doesn't like, he's like, well, wait, why did Jesus, why did he leave off this thing of judgment? Like, he's not handling a text right. Like, he's leaving off this, all this liberty, and there's gospel, and there's Spirit of the Lord upon me.

But why would Jesus just, he leaves off, just sort of willy-nilly, the day of vengeance of our God. Well, Brandon, if you knew your Bible, if you weren't so biblically illiterate, if you didn't just pick and choose what you want to believe and what you want to toss out, then you would know that the entire Bible is a consistent story of redemption, and actually, judgment upon the covenant breakers at the coming of the Messiah.

So, one of the things that you find here in Isaiah 61 is that, wow, look at this. We have people released from prison, liberty to captives, good news to the poor, and what's this? And the day of vengeance of our God.

Hmm. Does Luke mention days of vengeance anywhere else?

You knew where I was going. So, same book. Same book now. We're not going to other books. Luke's narrative. Luke 4, Jesus quotes Isaiah. Yeah, he does leave off day of vengeance. But I wonder, did Jesus know that verse?

And what was in that? Well, if you just keep reading Luke, and you get to Luke chapter 21. Luke chapter 21, Mark 24, sorry, Mark 13, Matthew 24, are the Olivet Discourse sections of the three Synoptic Gospels.

And in Luke chapter 21, Luke actually gives some more details than even Matthew gives. New Bible.

You just wanted to hear the pages flip. New Bible. Every time he flips a page, it wafts this really great smell.

So, he's just taking his time. New Bible. I'm being very careful with how I open it. Okay, so Luke 21, Mark 13, Matthew 24, Olivet Discourse. This is where Jesus promises the Great Tribulation. He promises the judgment upon Jerusalem.

He promises the destruction of the Jewish temple. Wait a second. Didn't we just start this episode with a verse, a section from Daniel, where Daniel promises that they're going to have the full culmination of their sins brought, and it says that the Messiah was going to be cut off and have nothing, and that then the second temple was going to be destroyed.

So, wait a second. Atonement for iniquity, everlasting righteousness, end of sin, anointing of the most holy, Jesus. And then it says that this Messiah is going to be cut off, and then the second Jewish temple is going to be destroyed.

I wonder, does that match any events in history, where you have atonement, everlasting righteousness, end of sin, Messiah being cut off, and dying a violent death, and then the second Jewish temple being destroyed?

I wonder if anything like that happened in history. Did that occur anywhere in history? Did Jesus, better, did he prophesy that and use the very words of Isaiah 61 that Brandon says he was misusing? Well, let's take a look.

Luke chapter 21, and let's start at verse 20. It says, But when you see Jerusalem, he's talking to the people in front of him that day, he's talking to them, those disciples, when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.

Then let those who were in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it. Quick thing here, real fast, check out the early history of the church.

You'll see that Christian apologists, people like Eusebius, was it books book 6 chapter 3, I think, maybe it is, I might get that a little wrong. Eusebius actually makes a remark on this text from the Olivet Discourse, and says that the early Christians in Jerusalem, at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, were the only ones to escape, because they were giving a warning by the Lord here, to flee the city when they saw the city surrounded by armies, and they did.

It's a fact of history. Yeah, to a town called Pella. The early Christians escaped the judgment upon Jerusalem, because they were warned by Jesus that as soon as you see this happening, flee the city, and they did.

They went to a town called Pella. That's a matter of historic record. Eusebius mentions it as well. So they obeyed Jesus here. They thought it was referring to them. In verse 22, it says this, for these are days of vengeance to fulfill all that is written.

Wait a minute. Wait a tick. Isaiah 61, Brandon was acting like Jesus didn't know, like that part about judgment was in there. He only quotes half the verse. He leaves off the part of judgment. No, Jesus was very well aware of exactly how redemptive history was gonna flow, and Jesus is preaching the gospel part of Isaiah, and then in Luke 21, he tells them, these are the days of vengeance, in order that all that is written be fulfilled.

But wait a second, that sounds similar to what Isaiah said there in Isaiah 61. He says to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God. Seems like Jesus knew how the story was going together, because in the beginning of the ministry, he's saying, this is me, spirits upon me, anointed, good news.

And then in Luke 21, he warns them, these are the days of vengeance. What days of vengeance? The days of vengeance that Isaiah promised. Because, and I'd love to do this whole thing on eschatology today, but we we don't have time.

If you read Malachi chapter 3, Malachi chapter 5, or 4, Malachi 3, sorry. Yeah, there's another one. Not a fifth one. Not a fifth one. Okay, so let's uh, I'll go ahead and read it. So in chapter 3, if you read it, it says that the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple.