Our President is Promoting sin on Easter | EP 11

Transgender Ideology as Enslavement and Evil

So the vulnerability comes from a place that's fundamentally disordered in the first place. And what Joe Biden is doing to this person who's trans, as they say, is he's enslaving.

Them.

He's a slave master to them with an ideology, not with the physical chain, but with an ideological chain to say, hey, young person, you are trapped in the wrong body. You are a woman, but you're trapped in a male body.

How enslaving and insidious is that? That is a gross evil against that person. And so now you're imprisoning them in this wrong way of thinking, which only can lead to their own pain and ultimate destruction.

Biden’s Easter Proclamation and the Clash of Worldviews

And welcome to Tearing Down High Places. This is Average Joe, and we're coming to you on our remote, our first remote, our first remote podcast. As I always say, we've got Pastor Jeff Cleaver here and Pastor Tim Robinson, as per usual.

And today we're going to address something that came about on Easter Day. We're going to address what Joe Biden did to celebrate the Lord's being risen from the.

Dead.

Is that what happened, Pastor Jeff?

Well, in his proclamation of Transgender Visibility Day, if you go to the last paragraph and Joe, we're going to ask you to read this, if you don't mind, because it is jaw dropping what's happening in our country.

But I want to point out that he signs off in the name of our Lord. Now, he uses the year of our Lord, 2024, but he's using the name of our Lord to promote this kind of insanity.

Wow.

Yeah.

So I will take this full screen for our guests that are here. On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our nation's commitment to forming a more perfect union where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.

I am proud that my administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that LGBTQI plus, there's a couple of new ones in there, community can live openly in safety, with dignity and respect.

I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans. Transgender Americans as part of the fabric of our nation, whether serving their communities or in the military, raising families or running businesses, they help America thrive.

They deserve and are entitled to the same rights and freedoms as every other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves. But extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families, silencing teachers, banning books, and even threatening parents, doctors, and nurses with prison for helping parents get rid of their, I mean, for helping parents care for their children.

These bills attack our most basic American values, the freedom to be yourself, the freedom to make your own healthcare decisions, and even the right to raise your own child. It is no surprise that the bullying and discrimination that transgender Americans face is worsening our nation's mental health crisis, leading half of transgender youth to consider suicide in the past year.

At the same time, an epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls, especially women and girls of color, continues to take too many lives. Let me be clear, all of these attacks are un-American and must end.

No one should have to be brave just to be themselves. At the same time, my administration is working to stop the bullying and harassment of transgender children and their families. The Department of Justice has taken action to push back against extreme and un-American state laws targeting transgender youth and their families.

And the Department of Justice is partnering with law enforcement and community groups to combat hate and violence. My administration is also providing dedicated emergency mental health support through our nationwide Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Any LGBTQI plus person, young person, in need can call 988 and press 3 to speak with a counselor trained to support them. We are making public services more accessible for transgender Americans, including with more inclusive passports and easier access to social security benefits.

There is much more to do. I continue to call on the Congress to pass the Equality Act to codify civil rights protections for all LGBTQI plus Americans. Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans.

You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America. And my entire administration and I have your back. Now, therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31st, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility.

I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.

In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 29th day of March in the year of our Lord, 2024, end of the independence of the United States of America and the 248th Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

So Joseph R. Biden, Jr. has a remarkable way of casting his aggressive anti-Christian punch in the face as victimology, where he's the defender, as if anybody was on the attack. But he himself chooses Resurrection Sunday, Easter Sunday, to proclaim trans.

He's trying to co-opt what was the most important holiday of the year for Christians and make it a trans day, and yet he has a remarkable way of acting as if he's the defender of victims.

Romans 1 and the Equality Act as a Clash of Worldviews

Yeah, it reminds me of this verse in Romans 1, verse 32. Though they knew God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them, but give approval to those who practice them.

Wow.

Kind of what Joe was doing there. And also, are we sure Joe even wrote that? I don't know if he's coherent enough to even formulate those thoughts.

Wow, Tim, that's harsh, buddy.

I know it's harsh, but just getting to know him and watching him, he doesn't seem like he would be able to formulate that. But he signed it, so I guess technically he did write it.

Yeah, did Adam technically eat the apple first?

Right.

And was it an apple?

Yeah.

That's what you're supposed to say. Average. Joe, did you just call it the apple? It's not an apple.

Yeah, for a bit.

So I could go through this whole thing. There's so many horrible things, too. And I mean, Jeff, you went right to the end. And I would say, my gosh, there's so many planned things in there that are just trying to expand.

Power, right?

This is all about expanding power. What else can we take over to control people?

Well, they recognize that there is a struggle in this country between two competing worldviews. And what he's saying is they want to have the Equality Act. So you got to say, well, what is the Equality Act?

What does that seek to do? And one of the things that it seeks to do is to silence pastors and silence Christians from speaking the truth about matters of right and wrong. So you can't call sin, sin any longer.

You have to follow this politically correct language in the pulpit and on radio and on podcasts. They're trying to control the narrative. And it really is the clash of two worldviews. So we are preaching the truth of God's word.

And this is a direct assault against that, promoting the Equality Act, because just like you said, they want control. They want to be able to silence the speech of those who disagree with them.

And ultimately, this isn't good for anybody, because he's saying in the name of protecting the rights of these people, the LGBTQ and the transgenders, he's saying he wants to do all these things to protect their rights.

But what he should be doing is stopping all of this nonsense to protect them. Because none of this is good for them. And then he even went on to talk about how he wants to protect LGBTQ and transgenders from committing suicide.

And he wanted them to call for help and stuff. But it's bad that we're even saying this is OK for a boy to become a girl, a girl to become a boy. And it's confusing them even more.

The Plus in LGBTQI+ and the Expansion of Sexual Sin

Yeah, I mean, we could go through this line by line. And, you know, why don't we, as I go through this, you know, what is that new, it looks like there's an extra acronym in there, an extra character in the acronym LGBTQI what's the I?

I's new, isn't it?

I don't know.

Now, the plus, the plus, and I, you know, it's funny. I mean, several years ago, I heard this and warned people about it, and they thought I was crazy. You know, I guess it was before covid. Everybody thought everybody was crazy.

You know, things hadn't been exposed too much. But we know what the plus is. Plus is all the sins that they're not ready to expose because they know they haven't indoctrinated us enough, right? Yeah, I think of bestiality and and and pedophilia.

Those are the two big ones out there that they haven't really addressed yet.

Yeah, and polygamy and polyamory.

Well, I mean that that I think people are ready to accept, and I think that's probably.

Right.

I mean, I know I met with some Mormons several years ago when the whole Boy Scout thing was going down and they said, yeah, well, if they if they get this passed, we're getting our polygamy. Now that hasn't really transitioned and that was the first shenanigans.

I wasn't talking to the leader of the Mormon church. Talking to one Mormon guy, you know what I mean? So but there are my understanding is there are two cities in the United States that have legalized polyamory.

Wow.

Well, they call it polyamory instead of polygamy. I don't know why. I don't know because of social justice.

They got to leave it to be open in both directions. Got to be fair and equal.

So, oh, is the etymology of the word polygamy refers to men having multiple wives only and not going both ways? Is that what you're saying?

That's what I think. Yeah, but I could be wrong. I'm no expert on that.

Dignity, Respect, and the Militarization of Identity Politics

That that would make sense. That would make sense. OK, so interesting here. We've got a we've got a reference to dignity and respect. What's what the heck? Dignity isn't dignity. Isn't that a word that, you know, comes from being made in the image of our creator?

Yeah, and it also refers to how one carries oneself there. It's it's not something that is inherently always there. People can objectively operate in ways that are undignified and that should be dishonored.

You know, dignity is something that you carry with which you carry yourself. So but it's it's something that's being demanded here when it ought to be something that's earned respect. That is, you should have to earn respect rather than demand it of other people.

Now, I would say one of the things that gets even the secularists upset is the next line. He talks about transgender Americans openly serving in America. Secularist humans who have no love for God whatsoever hate this because it it inherently is destroying our military.

Have you guys either you guys spoken to any military folks about what's going on with.

This?

Not this particular thing, no, but we have military people in our church.

Yeah, I think they're they're very upset about what's happening in the military. And, you know, we talked about, you know, can can Christians, you know, at what point can Christians even serve in the military when when this kind of stuff is going on?

Right.

Well, that's the constant struggle in any kind of employment. If you're in the world and not of it, at what point has your company or the military, whatever it is, become so corrupt that to even work for them is is helping their cause or their.

Mission?

And if the mission of the military now has become LGBTQ inclusion and all of these social justice initiatives, at some point that is a legitimate question, at least. I don't know that it's gotten to that point where everybody and Christians need to leave the military.

I don't think it has, but I think that that it's a legitimate conversation at this point.

Something to keep an eye on.

Yeah.

So the next part of that sentence, and I don't know if you guys have this pulled up or if you can see it, it's but I'll show it to the audience in the final cut. It says, I'm proud to have signed this to strengthen civil rights protections in housing, employment, health care, education and the justice system and more.

That is that's what we talked about last week. The government has absolutely no role in housing, employment, health care, education. They're not supposed to be involved in any of that stuff, right?

And it's interesting how they connect all those things because they make everything. It's that whole intersectionality. All of these things are connected, and once you're part of that victim class, then one area of victimology affects the other.

So somehow this advocating for, quote unquote, trans people, which is a fiction. This becomes a social justice issue economically. You're helping the poor, and they find ways to connect these dots in ridiculous ways.

Bode Bachum, Woke Christians, and Christian Marriage Ethics

Yeah.

So I'm thinking of your first your first book, quoted Bode Bachum a lot on this as, you know, so if folks wanted to, you know, if they've already read Woke Free Church, I think Bode Bachum is a great place to send people to get more info.

Fault Lines was his book.

Oh, Fault Lines. You quoted Fault Lines.

Yeah. Yeah.

I mentioned Bode Bachum multiple times to some woke Christians, and boy, that's a conversation stopper right there.

Really?

Well, for the audience, if you don't know Bode Bachum, he is blessed with a lot of melanin. And the last thing a woke Christian wants to hear is an argument from a black pastor, especially one as articulate as Bode Bachum.

And he knows it.

And I think that's one of the reasons he's so aggressive. He's like, this is what God's called me to do, put me in a position to do this.

Well, Bode Bachum doesn't really count, Joe, because he's been whitewashed.

That's what he says.

Yeah.

But interestingly, you know what? His story is so interesting. He said he literally went to did his graduate work over in England because he felt like if he went over there, he couldn't get accused of being a product of affirmative action.

So he went, I think he went to Oxford, you know, and he figured, hey, if I go over there, you know, people wouldn't treat him like, you know, they had to just pass him along. And, you know, he was I mean, give him some credit, man.

That's that's pretty impressive that he would do that.

Yeah.

Average. Joe would have took the A's over here. I'm just saying.

Yeah.

So then he then then President Biden talks about the respect for the Marriage Act into law, ensuring that every American can marry the person they love. Is there a new Marriage Act he's putting up there?

Wasn't he wasn't he involved in the Marriage Act 30 years ago with President Clinton that said a marriage is between a man and a woman?

I thought he was all with this tune, evidently. So I guess with Obergefell, that's a Supreme Court decision. And now they want to write a law.

Yeah.

To legislate it.

Right.

Oh, so horrible. So horrible. You know, you know, I'm a I got it. Oh, I got to share with you guys. I got. I got a comment from a someone who said that they gave me a quote from a Roman Catholic who liked everything we were saying when we were talking about Trump versus Biden.

Can I remember that?

He thought everything was great, except apparently like Tim asked me what I liked about marriage. And I said, I love marriage. I love it so much. I was married twice, you know, and and they didn't think that was funny.

And like, I mean, you know, we I just it just makes me wonder. I mean, how how far away are we from the marriage ethic in the Bible that you can't talk about.

Anything?

You know, I mean, and if we you know, we are we kid around about a lot of serious issues. And you spoke before about being dour. Should we should we be dour, Jeff?

No, I don't think so. And as far as like divorce, there are biblical reasons for divorce. So if there's a biblical reason for divorce, then then that that's the case. So Christians should be allowed to talk about that.

And and yeah, no. But to your point, we should be able to joke about everything in life. And just I'm not necessarily every single thing, but we should have a joyful disposition and generally be happy people and be able to laugh.

You know, if you're not going to laugh, I feel bad for you.

I don't know where this is in the Bible. Maybe you guys know, but I know C .S. Lewis talked about in the screw tape letters that the devil hates to be mocked. And if the devil hates to be mocked, man, we need to be mockers, right?

Well, there's a place for it. Like, I think we can't. I think it's like a specialized weapon in the arsenal of the Christian that can be used from time to time and appropriately. So Elijah, when he's on Mount Carmel, he is literally Mark mocking the enemies and those who bring more water.

Yeah, he is.

Maybe your God's off going to the bathroom. Maybe he can't hear you. Paul, at times, employs mockery. And I think even Jesus in Matthew 23, you could describe some of his languages as mocking or at least so strongly and severely opposing.

And I think, Joe, you and I disagreed about that one comment about the tithing of the.

Mint, the dill.

I think he meant that seriously, but you might have taken that as just a joke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Can you imagine going down? I can imagine getting an IRS letter saying that I didn't give the IRS enough of my garlic and my oregano.

Right.

And that's how they were taking that.

We don't have to be funny to laugh at one another's jokes. We might not be funny, but we're happy.

I think someday we're going to be in heaven and Jesus can be. No, that was comedy. And no, that was serious. And you all got it backwards.

Yeah, I'm sure that's happened more than once. Well, so apparently the commenter didn't like that. You made a joke about having been divorced.

Well, I mean, it's a doctrinal issue. I mean, in the Catholic Church, I mean, I know lots of people that have their faith has been trounced because they were forced into a divorce and they weren't allowed to go take communion.

And to a Catholic, if you don't have communion, you've got no grace. So you're literally having God's grace taken from you.

Yep.

Because in their view of justification, and it's not a legal declaration, it's something that you maintain. It's an infusion of grace. And you need the sacraments for the kind of the maintenance of your spiritual life to remain justified, not just the sacraments, but also your works and not to commit certain sins.

And if you do, you've got to go maintain it through penances and all. So it's a different system and a different view of being justified. So, yeah, for them to deny communion for someone. What if the person who was divorced was not at fault?

So here we go with the no fault divorce kind of stuff. What if one spouse committed adultery and therefore there was a divorce? Should that one who was cheated on not be able to take communion?

We've kind of talked about, you know, keeping my personal opinions of marriage and divorce out of a full show because we don't want to knock people off the wall at once.

Plus, we haven't even fully vetted you, Joe. We don't even know everything.

You better vet me.

On that particular subject, yeah.

But I will say this, you know, you can always have me delete something if I say something.

Silly.

But in that circumstance, you know, I really wish I had read 1 Corinthians 7 closer.

Yes.

So if that Catholic person is listening, you know, I foolishly allowed myself to fight till I was bloodied to keep my family together from... His first time left me in 2004. Again, in 2012, we didn't get divorced till 2008.

I mean, years and years and years. And if I had only read Paul's statement in 1 Corinthians 7, it says, if the unbelieving spouse leaves, you are free. Why didn't I read that?

Yeah.

No, I think that it's good to fight for the marriage. But if there's an unbeliever who is leaving you, that's an extreme situation. That is a form of divorce. It's not, yeah, the legally recognized, but she's left you.

She's divorced you.

Well, because we've allowed the government to take over marriage too. What happens is that extends the legal length of the marriage. So I had like an 18 year marriage on paper, but I only lived with her nine years.

Wow.

So, which is a significant difference in the alimony and all that stuff. But anyway, as we go on, Joe Biden's respect for marriage, they really just can't define, I mean, why do we have these people defining marriage?

That, I mean, we just got to get them out of marriage.

There is no definition because the way that they've destroyed the foundations of one man and one woman in covenant. Now, how could they ever deny three men and four women in some polyamorous thing? Like, so they've completely undermined the foundation.

So I think it is actually appropriate that we've veered in this conversation to talk about marriage because that's the point. They've left any objective standard from God's word.

So, and transgenderism is a mockery of male and female. And so it's a mockery of marriage. It's a mockery of God's design for marriage that it was male and female.

Intersex, Birth Defects, and the Christian Response to Gender Ideology

Right.

So, you know, they now, I mean, we got people arguing that, well, if it's a male, that's a transgender female and a female, it's a transgender male. You pretty much got the same thing.

Doesn't matter.

I've heard of it happening.

There is every letter on there is a mockery and it's trying to get you away from male and female, one male, one female. So I looked up the I, we didn't know what the I was. It stands for intersex. So it's like intersex is like, if you are not comfortable being any of the binary genders.

Yeah.

And we should say that if there's someone who's born that that point, small percentage of a percentage who are born with genitals of both, both sexes, what's happened there is that God has created chromosomally a male or a female, but because sin is in the world, there will be birth defects that could affect any part.

You could be born without an arm or you could, of course, be born with problems in the genitals. But this does not mean that God's design has changed. It means sin is in the world and therefore there are birth defects.

And so the person should correct according to, you know, using medicine and surgeries and things like that in a way that conforms with how God chromosomally designed that person.

To be.

So, yeah, there's sin in the world. Therefore, there's defects, but that doesn't change the design. It doesn't change God's good pattern. Just to say that it's been defaced by sin.

State Power, Mental Health, and the Weaponization of Psychology

Yeah, and we're not, and all these laws that are, they're going to prevent us from talking about sin. You know, even in, you know, we've talked about this too, I think nationally people are more aware of what's happened in Canada and their recent tyrannical efforts to prevent people from sharing good biblical counsel.

But in the state of New Jersey, that law is in effect. The penalties aren't as severe, but that law is already in effect. If you're a psychologist who is a Christian and you decide to help someone who's struggling with the sin of homosexuality, you can lose your psychological degree.

I would argue maybe you should think about whether or not you should be practicing psychology. Maybe you should just be a biblical counselor. But, but you will, you'll get, you'll lose your license.

Wow.

Yep.

Yeah.

And they want to extend that to the pulpit. They haven't gotten there yet. That's the point of the Equality Act and so many other things they're pushing.

Yes. Well, the Equality Act being, is that a federal, that's going to be a federal law that they're pushing.

That'll be a federal law.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Talk about, and this, let's circle this back around because, all right. Joe Biden proclaims Easter Sunday to be the trans visibility day. This is the clashing of two incompatible kingdoms. And yet Joe Biden uses the term in the year of our Lord, 20, he's saying our Lord, meanwhile importing something that's completely contrary to the Lord's own word.

So I think this is a wake up call to the church that you have somebody who is accosting the kingdom of God. He is a direct assailant to all things that are good and godly. And yet he's using the name of God and Christians cannot accept that.

We have to stand up and say resurrection day belongs to the Lord. He rose from the dead. He's a higher authority than you, Joe Biden.

Yeah.

I'm kind of glad he didn't say common error. Cause you know, I, I really, I've heard some Christians promoting a Christian book talking about common error and before common error. And I'm like, what are you doing?

Yeah.

Gag me with a spoon. You're, you're, you are capitulating to the language of the left. They, they would. So it's interesting because he's a Catholic, he's more comfortable doing that. But really what he's doing, Joe is actually just keeping with presidential protocol, which, what does that say?

It says that since the founding of this nation, these presidential decrees have used the term in the name of our Lord.

That's amazing. Well, it says a lot about wrote prayers, right? Wrote prayers are meaningless because he, he probably can, he's probably got the, our father memorized too, which is a great prayer, but I'll bet you, he can't explain it.

Right.

You know, so, um, yeah. So the, the, the federal government getting involved in any of this, this is, this is a, this is powerful, but you know, they're going to say, uh, I already heard them say, you know, it was every March 31st.

So we may not have really meant to have it on Easter. It was March 31st. And that's every year is transgender day. Since the beginning of transgender time, it's been March 31st, which I, I think that was a couple of years ago, right?

Well, I think the first person that ever used it was like 2009 and just tried to get a movement started. It built and gained momentum throughout the world. But every year that a president decrees this, he wrote a presidential decree this year for March 31st, 2024.

Sorry, that's your fault, Joe. You know, you're going along with a worldly current of thought that is not necessary. You don't have to declare that every year, but you chose to do that this year in 2024, even though it was Easter Sunday.

So it shows that he's, he's just blown away by the, blown along by the currents of the time. And he's not thinking at all as a Christian, even though he uses the name, our Lord.

Yeah.

One, there should not be even a day devoted to that.

Well, that's the simple point.

Yeah.

That's yeah. That's the simple point. And how could you even have, you know, a conscience that week to allow you to even do it for one time, let alone on Easter Sunday?

Right, right.

So that's, that's a problem. I think if you have a president that can't think through that and, and isn't moral enough to even see that that isn't right to do.

Right.

He's not bound by anything. Let's say 2025, the next president comes along and here comes Easter Sunday or even March 31st. And it's not Easter Sunday. He does not have to declare that trans visibility day.

He can declare it, whatever he wants, if that's his presidential prerogative. But he will be accountable for what he does.

Yeah, that, yeah.

The Mental Health Crisis, Guilt, and Christian Counseling

The next section in the here points to the other bill we were talking about, the Freedom to Read Act in New Jersey. President Biden says extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families, silencing teachers, banning books, threatening parents, doctors, and nurses with prison.

So unfortunately, I think that means that the bill that we saw put on the side in New Jersey, probably going to come back at some point. What do you think?

Oh, yeah, that fight's not over. Well, the whole point is they're trying to indoctrinate children into their worldview. And so much of their worldview is sexualized. And their worldview runs on that fuel because that's really what's motivating and driving many of these people.

They're motivated by their perversions. They want it mainstreamed for their own, first of all, for their own consciences, because they feel like morality is just subjective anyway. And the more people that agree with me, the more I can feel right about what I view.

Hey, if 93 agree on this, then I must be okay. Nothing to be ashamed of, nothing to feel guilty about. So they want as many people and they want more people to practice their perversion with. A Christian country where people practice biblical morality leaves them alone in some weird bathhouse somewhere.

The next question, the next section has a good, has a question on my mind that I want to ask you guys. It talks about, it's no surprise that bullying and discrimination that transgender Americans face is worsening our nation's mental health crisis, leading half of our transgender youth to consider suicide in the past year.

Mental health crisis. I personally am of the opinion, you guys may disagree with me, that this is, this is where I say the conservatives aren't really conserving, conserving anything. They're falling hook, line, and sinker for the mental health nonsense that comes out of the APA, the American Psychological Association, which is nothing more than a political organization that, that, that, uh, changes their, their so-called, so-called medical opinions based on political wins.

What say y 'all?

You want to go first, Tim?

Uh, no, you go ahead, Jeff.

All right.

So is guilt good or bad? That's, that's a big question here.

Guilt is good, I think.

Can be good.

Can be good.

Depends.

There could be such, such a thing as, um, like, uh, a thought of guilt when you shouldn't feel guilty, which would be a mind that's, that's troubled by something like maybe OCD can result in that, scrupulosity.

Yeah.

Or Satan.

Or Satan.

Yeah.

But generally guilt comes from a conscience and assuming that the conscience isn't getting haywire, that guilt is supposed to lead to repentance.