RLL. Ep.35: Just Shut Up and Do What You're Told

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Hello everybody, this is Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me today for Radio Luke's Lucid.
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This is Episode number 35 and the title of this episode is just shut up and do what you're told
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That's a pretty rude sounding title, I guess There's a reason why I say it.
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There's a reason why I have have that particular title So anyway, welcome to the program today.
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I'm glad you're here. I think I have a pretty interesting Topic for today
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Maybe start by asking a question here. Do you ever get?
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The sense that that more and more you're being ordered by very serious people with very pompous sounding titles
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To just shut up and do what you're told Well interesting that interestingly
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Anthony Fauci the coronavirus guy
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Mr. Lockdown. Yeah, he's he was giving a I guess I don't know if you maybe you call it a sermon
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He was this was some of the talk that he was giving at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday November the 12th and Where he basically said just that very thing.
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He he told people to do what you're told Let me play a little soundbite here for you and you can see what
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I'm talking about. So here's Anthony Fauci I was talking with our UK colleagues just today
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Who was saying the UK is very similar to where we are now an outbreak because each of our countries
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Have that independent spirit, but we don't want to be told what to do Well, I understand that but now is the time to do what you're told
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So there you go. There's there's Anthony Fauci do what you're told now's the time to do what you're told shut up Don't question the mask don't question the the the cases don't question the death statistics or the hospitalization and certainly don't question the lockdowns
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My goodness. No, you don't do any of those things your job Be quiet do what you're told
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That's Anthony Fauci for you Now not to be outdone
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Nancy Pelosi Herself had some things to say in a very similar vein about the election.
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Let's listen to to Nancy Pelosi here The election is over Joe, biden is the president -elect elected with a mandate of over 78 million votes
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But don't take it from me the elections infrastructure government coordinating council and the election infrastructure sector coordinating executive committees said in their joint statement
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This november 3rd election was the most secure in american history There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes
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Changed votes or was any way compromised? Okay, so there you have it.
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You've got nancy pelosi. She's coming out here saying well, hey, the election was awesome. Everything was great
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There's no problem here and she even backs it up with some people and I think they were from the department of homeland security
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That the people that she cited there they were saying yep, it was the most secure election in american history
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Now you might say well, but but nancy, but nancy well what about the 138 000 votes that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the night in in in michigan that that just so happened to be just enough votes to give joe biden the lead in a in a state that That donald trump was winning handily
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Or what about all those votes? I think it was maybe 200 000 or so in in wisconsin that just like in michigan appeared in the middle of night
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It just so happened by golly to give Joe biden just enough votes to to win the state
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Or what about the 700 000 vote lead that donald trump had in in pennsylvania that just disappeared
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Or how about in georgia same kind of thing had a big lead early and all of a sudden that lead somehow just vanished
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And what about all the dead people that voted and what about all of the The the the ballots that just got sent out to to anyone who happened to be on the voter roll
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I mean, there's nothing to be concerned about here says nancy There's nothing to be concerned about here says the department of homeland security just shut up already
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Just accept that that joe biden is president -elect and get on with your lives
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We're in charge now Don't question us And it's it's it's kind of in a way
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I guess if it weren't so serious it might be a little bit funny I mean, it's you see this sort of thing I saw something where whoopi goldberg was talking the other day and she was telling
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Trump supporters that what they needed to do was just suck it up You know stop whining about losing the election just suck it up You know, of course this is coming from from whoopi goldberg who hasn't sucked it up even for a moment in the last four years
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She has never gotten over the fact that bill clinton Defeated or that that donald trump defeated hillary clinton in 2016
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And neither has nancy pelosi or neither have most of the other liberals that are out there lecturing trump supporters
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To accept the results of what I think is a very clearly fraudulent election and not just a fraudulent election
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But I think a historically fraudulent election the democrats are trying to steal this election Now, I don't want to this this podcast really isn't about the democrats stealing an election.
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I'm just using that as one example Of this this sort of very top -down very authoritative very arrogant approach to to government and and of course it's not it's not just something that you hear out of government officials you hear this out of Out of big shots or the big wigs or at least people who think they're big shots and big wigs in in many areas of society
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Take another example here. You get the same kind of thing from the the critical race theory hustlers
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And the way according to critical race theory if you're white then you are a racist There's no ifs ands or buts about it.
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You are by definition a racist because you are white and the more you deny it Well, that's just proof more proof that you're a racist.
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Just shut up in a minute. We're right. You're wrong. That's the end of it Yeah, it's kind of interesting in that respect
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Where in this respect the critical race theory is that it almost its doctrine of the eternal guilt of of whites for racism
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It's like a twisted perverted version of the christian doctrine of original sin
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But whereas original sin applies to the entirety of the human race the The sin of racism applies only to white people in the minds of the critical race theorists.
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It's a hustle. It's a lie It's a scam, but you can't argue with them, you know, and there are people who have been fired from their jobs for arguing back
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You know if if you say well i'm not a racist and you say this whole thing is scammy and it's a fraud
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Well, you can be fired Now you can be removed from your position And people have uh suffered job loss because of this
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And it's the same thing with climate change, you know, I mean, of course they used to call it global warming now it's climate change but If you question any of the dogmas, maybe you raise some questions about the science that was done um
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The research maybe question some of the motives or some of the people that are involved in this thing Well, well, you're a science denier
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And you're worse than an infidel And there's no discussion about this. I mean you're either for us or you're against us
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That's what the climate change folks would say And if you are against us, well, you're a dangerous person with dangerous ideas and you may need to be imprisoned
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And i'm not making that up by the way there are at least some people on the climate change side of things that have advocated imprisonment for people who deny
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The claims of the of the uh, the climate climate change folks bill nye is a very prominent example, you know
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Bill nye the science guy He's a pretty well -known fellow and and yeah He he himself has actually suggested that if you deny global warming you might have to be sent to jail
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Or take a look at another example here the uh, the transgender agenda
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You know if if you deny That a man can become a woman or that a woman can become a man
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You're in a world of hurt. I mean there are there are people In very high level positions who have lost their jobs over this or gotten massive amount of grief
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You know, even the author jk rowling, you know, she's the one that wrote the the harry potter series has gotten in major trouble
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And received massive amounts of criticism for denying that that men can can in fact become women
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And again, you know, this is the kind of kind of an issue where you know your job can potentially be at stake
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You know you believe this you have to believe this and if you don't believe it you're in big trouble
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So just shut up already Or how about you know going back to another political example about donald trump, you know
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There has been you know, if you work for donald trump if you supported donald trump, well, obviously you're a bad person And as a bad person
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You should be denied opportunity of employment You know, there's a a group there's recently formed called the trump integrity project and wants to make sure that you never work again
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Alexandria ocasio -cortez the congresswoman from new york, you know, she's a she's a good bolshevik and she's been out there
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Advocating that people compile an enemies list. I guess maybe she has her own enemies list You know if you're on that list if you're someone who's supported donald trump or something.
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She doesn't like well I guess she's she's going to come after you Make sure that you don't work or maybe something else.
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I I don't know exactly Um one would think maybe if she had the opportunity that it would be something much worse than just denying you employment
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It was really dangerous stuff and in the all of these examples that i'm giving are things that Are sometimes called a cancel culture and cancel culture, of course, you know, that's the idea that um, you know that if if you say something or you believe something or you write something that that runs afoul of the woke agenda
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Well, you're in a big you're in big trouble You know, you're a heretic in the church of woke and you must be cast to the outer darkness where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth
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So, yeah cancel culture it's it's really not a a new thing at all It's been around for a long time just to give you an example what i'm talking about Think about the movie luther you know, this was a movie that was from 2003 and of course from the
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The the title of it you can guess. I mean, it's it's a movie about the protestant reformer martin luther
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And that particular version of luther was it starred joseph fines in the title role
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And there's an interesting scene in that movie Where it's fairly early on in luther's career at this point he is just beginning to kind of get noticed by the
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The roman catholic hierarchy for some of his ideas some of his writing some of the things he's been preaching and they're starting to think this guy may be a little bit of a problem and he's called before a very powerful cardinal a fellow by the name of cardinal, uh, kajetan and In in the scene in the movie, he's standing outside of the cardinal's chambers
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And he's being given some advice he's being coached on on how to approach the cardinal I mean now you don't just you know, go up to cardinals.
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Hey cardinal. How you doing? You know, it's not like that um There was a certain protocol and there was a certain
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There were certain things expected out of luther when he went into there when he went in to see the cardinal and What he was coached to say by this individual
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Was one word And this person told luther he was very serious about this.
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He says when you go in to see the cardinal just say one word rewoco Now rewoco is is latin.
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It just means I recant So what he's telling luther is okay all of this stuff that luther had been teaching and saying just go in before the cardinal and be very humble say
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I recant and all be forgiven and you can just go on and live your life and you know
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Do your your priest thing and and nobody will bother you, you know, it'll all be forgotten supposedly well
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Luther goes in of course to see the cardinal He goes in to see kajetan and being the talkative fellow that he is luther just can't shut up He can't keep his mouth shut and he goes in there and he gets in a big argument with with kajetan
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And and kajetan gets very angry with him And I believe from my memory if memory serves me correctly,
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I think he he threw luther out So, I mean that that meeting didn't exactly go super well
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You know luther did not clear his name luther did not say rewoco when he went in there He argued with the cardinal and you don't do that You don't do that sort of thing.
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I mean, that's there's like that old song, you know, you don't tug on superman's cape Well luther tugged on superman's cape
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And he got himself in a lot of trouble of course as we all know And we can be thankful to god that he did get himself in a lot of trouble you know that he didn't remain quiet, but his his job was to go in there and to To recant to to give up to submit to to say, you know rewoco and and and and separate himself
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From the teachings that he had been been giving Not to argue with the cardinal his job was not to argue his job was to be quiet now interestingly
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The the officials of the roman catholic church generally apart from luther had set up a lot of Barriers to protect themselves, you know, they were a lot like today's arrogant politicians and government bureaucrats
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And since we're talking about martin luther, I thought I'd give you another example from luther This is from something that luther wrote.
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It's a letter Called to the christian nobility of the german nation and in this letter
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Luther used is a famous illustration. He used he talked about three walls now the walls
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He was talking about here weren't literal physical walls. It was a A figure of speech a way of speaking
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And what he says that rome had erected three walls to protect itself from any kind of criticism any kind of questioning
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And let me read the passage here for to you Quote the romanists have very cleverly built three walls around themselves hitherto
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They have protected themselves by these walls in such a way that no one has been able to reform them As a result, the whole of christendom has fallen abominably
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In the first place when pressed by the temporal power They have made decrees and declared that the temporal power has no jurisdiction over them
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But on the contrary the spiritual power is above the temporal So when luther's talking here about the temporal power, of course, he's talking about the civil government civil magistrates
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So maybe I don't know the maybe the the king or or some some elected official or appointed official some public official maybe argues with the church and says hey, you know, there's a legal issue here and we're going to challenge what the what the the church is doing and You know the the attitude of the church was well, you don't question the pope.
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You don't question the cardinals You don't question the bishop. You don't have any power over us to tell us to do anything We have the power to tell you what to do we have the power to ask you questions
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You're accountable us, but we're not accountable to you It seems to be luther's thought here
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And luther continues he says in the second place when the attempt is made to reprove them with the scriptures
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They raise the objection that only the pope may interpret the scriptures So maybe you try a different tactic you say, okay.
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Well, i'm going to going to say well, you know, the bible says this But you pope are saying that And I disagree with this, you know and the pope, you know, the roman church the magisteriums are going to come back
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And they're just going to say well You know, okay, you know, we're saying that and you're saying this.
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Well, you don't have any business questioning what we say If we say that then you have to believe that you're obligated to believe that because we have the right to interpret the scriptures
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And what you're doing is you're bringing your own private opinions And you need to be quiet And you need to obey and just like just like anthony fauci said you need to obey
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You need to do what you're told. I guess that's what fauci said do what you're told Believe what you're told
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And don't ask questions And then the third place says luther in the third place if threatened with a council their story is that no one may summon a council
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But the pope so you can't you can't uh, bring in a Church council bring in bishops and cardinals and and other big shots to you know, debate a particular theological point
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That's something only the pope can do you as a as a private person. You can't do that And so there's really no way to reprove rebuke or or change
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Anything that that the roman catholic church teaches or does Now these are the three walls that luther talked about they're irreformable uh, the uh, the the roman catholic churches, they're irreformable now
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The that kind of arrogance this kind of sort of top down Do what you're told?
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mindset It didn't even start with rome either. It went back well before that and we can see that even from the new testament, there's a
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A famous passage in the new testament one. You're probably familiar with Where the disciples are arguing among themselves, you know
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Who's the greatest is is what the the subject of the argument is? And let me read that passage here to you and then we'll talk some about it.
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This is from luke chapter 22 begins in verse 24 now there was also a dispute among them talking about the
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The disciples there was also a dispute among them as to which of them should be considered the greatest
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And he said to them he being jesus The kings of the gentiles exercise lordship over them and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors
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But not so among you On the contrary who is the is greatest among you?
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Let him be as the younger and he who governs is he who serves for who's greater He who sits at the table or he who serves?
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Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet i'm among you as the one who serves
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So let's break that passage down a little bit what we see here is jesus making a very sharp contrast between The kings of the gentiles on the one hand and christian people in the way they act on the other hand
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Now, what does he say about the kings of the gentiles? He says on the one hand they exercise lordship over them He's talking about, you know, they exercise lordship over the people now.
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This is the new king james translation I really like this translation here Because the the greek verb that's translated exercise lordship
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Literally means that it can it's kuriadzomai and it literally means to you know to act
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As as a lord to act as lord master this this this idea and we speak that way in english, right?
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You know, we talk about well, I don't like so -and -so he's very arrogant You know, he he lords it over me or lords it over people, you know
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He you know, maybe his his money or power or authority or fame or something like that and we speak that way
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We speak about lording things over people And and that's the way the kings of the gentiles behave.
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They lord it over people They're very arrogant on one hand on the other hand though. These very same kings like to be called benefactors
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Now that's an interesting word here benefactors. Let's talk about that for a moment in in greek the word benefactor
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If you translate it into greek Is is the word you ergotase you ergotase this is the way you say that in greek and There were a lot of a number of kings in the greek -speaking world
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And this goes back from you know alexander the great on up to the time of the new testament a number of kings from this this vast area of of greek -speaking peoples the whole area that that That alexander the great conquered many kings
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Had as a as a title You ergotase, you know, so and so you ergotase because they wanted to be known as a benefactor
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Now these are very arrogant men. They they really didn't Care have a lot of regard for the people.
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They governed or ruled maybe would be the right word But they wanted to appear to be benefactors. They wanted to appear to be these great philanthropists or humanitarians or something and so they took this title to themselves
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But it was an act because they actually really just exercised authority over people And then jesus contrasts that with the way the disciples the way christian people are supposed to act you know that That christian people are not to who are in positions of authority not to lord it over Their fellows, but they're to serve them.
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You know, this is the passage this is where we get this whole idea of government as servant of Uh of servant leadership maybe in things, uh, you know areas of business or in the family or in other areas you know, the the government officials are not there to Lord it over the people.
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They're not there to to bilk the people and and to to use them as a As a way of getting rich, but they're there to serve them.
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They're there to to protect their liberties This is where we get the idea of government as a servant
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And of course that's something that that didn't really begin on a large scale until the time of the reformation you know when when the gospel of justification by belief alone was was rediscovered by martin luther and and and believed by you know
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Widely preached and widely believed, um throughout the the nations where the the reformation came it changed society
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Not only were people saved you know and uh, and uh forgiven their sins and and uh
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Brought into a right relationship with god through the mediator jesus christ Not only did that happen, but it also changed it also changed society.
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It didn't just change individuals It changed all the society changed the organization of society and where? you know where you had very arrogant very sort of top -down officials all of a sudden the government had became responsive to the people because Because that that's the way government became came to be viewed
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You know government wasn't lord master, but government was a servant to the people, you know christ Used himself as this example, you know, he says yet.
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I am among you as the one who serves well, if jesus christ is one who serves, you know, who is um, you know a mayor or a governor or Or some other public official
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You who's he to say i'm not going to serve the people. I mean if jesus christ serves Surely a government official, uh, you know a town councilman
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Should serve as well And so this idea was applied to government And it's something that came about through the protestant reformation now
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Kind of to bring that back to what we were talking about originally. How does that all relate to cancel culture? Well cancel culture and what
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I hope you you've gotten out of some of this is a cancel culture is not a new thing It's something that's been around for a very long time
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It's something that was uh put aside in the west Because of the rise of christianity because of the preaching of the gospel of jesus christ
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But now what we're doing is we're seeing a return of that and the reason we're seeing a return of that Cancel culture is because christianity is disappearing from the west
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So this idea that you know, shut up Sit down and do what you're told You know, this is just a a recurrence of an older form of government where governors kings of the gentiles lorded it over people in To kind of To the point of the idea of christianity disappearing and civilizational collapse
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John robbins writing in an essay called the religious words of the 21st century said the west has been in collapse for more than a century
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The biblical theology that created western civilization 500 years ago has all but disappeared in the west and You know, and that's the reason for the collapse now.
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He wrote that back in in 2006 and if his words were true in 2006, which they were
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They're even more true today That's actually one of my favorite essays from john robbins
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I'm going to post that in the the show notes if you never read the religious words of the 20th century I I strongly recommend it to you.
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It's it's it's really I I love john robbins work.
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I love all of his work, but that that one to me is I think one of the really Uh If I had to pick out maybe a few of the really what
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I thought were his absolute best Writings, I would certainly include that in it I mean, it's it's an exceptional essay and if you haven't read it, please check it out
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In a similar vein john robbins was writing in in the forward to gordon clark's a christian view of men and things
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And he made a very similar point He said this quote a christian view of men and things
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Presents the argument that the west is disappearing because christianity on which western civilization was built
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Has already virtually disappeared from the west end quote So again here that here's that same idea that christianity created western civilization and this christianity is vanished
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Western civilization is vanished and what do they say? I think there's that term nature abhors a vacuum
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So you have you have this collapse of christian civilization So something's going to rush in and take that place.
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Well, what you're seeing is just that old, you know natural Arrogance coming back to people who are in positions of power instead of having this christ -like idea of of Government of people in authority being servants
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You have people coming back in who like to lord it over the people and people like say nancy pelosi people such as um
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Anthony fauci they love telling other people what to do But that's just man in his natural state that that's just the way
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As as people we are naturally And it's it's when we're regenerated when we're brought into christ
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And and we begin to understand The we begin to look at the world through through christian
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Lenses and not through the lens of of natural man That we begin to accept that idea of of servant leadership, but left to our own devices, you know
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You would never see this I mean, you know this this uh, the idea of of government as a servant did not occur in a non -christian
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Setting and there's a reason for that because you know natural man does not does not accept those things
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You know, that's the work of god and uh
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John robbins And this is going back to his writing in the the forward of a christian view of men and things john robbins said this he said
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The collapse of the west can be viewed as the west's fatal choosing of non -christian philosophy And not christ so and this goes back probably at least and well into the 19th century
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Where you began to see this this rise of non -christian philosophy and this rejection of scripture
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And it's because you have this rise of non -christian philosophy and you have the west basically turns back on christ
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That you have the return of this cancel culture this this old this uh, sort of older version where you know
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The kings of the gentiles rule Lorded over them, you know, and and we're getting back to that more and more
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And this is why more and more you're seeing this sort of top -down arrogant, you know You know
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Listen to what I say obey what I tell you be quiet and don't ask questions
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That's why you're seeing this more and more. It's amazing to me how much this is has changed even in just the last few years
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You know, it's it's amazing how much more of this is is evident in in public life and and these were just a few examples here that i've i've thrown out for you in uh in fauci and In nancy pelosi and and the climate change folks
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In some other the some of the other examples that I had given So anyway, that's about all for the today.
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Thanks so much for your listening. I really do appreciate that and until next time May the spirit of truth guide you in all truth as you read and study.