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Shelter in place order, April 3rd, self quarantine state of New Hampshire. Before we get started today, I just wanted to say to YouTube and also, well, actually, let me just let me just say, Alexa, I definitely do not have any needed supplies, no face masks, no food, no ammunition, no nothing like that.
Nothing that anybody could use for for anything. I don't have anything on hand. In fact, I'm in need right now, man. Oh, man. Yeah, things are getting crazy, man. Things are getting crazy. So here is a headline that I saw from drudge report, you got to visit the drudge report, man, you got to get your daily dose of fear and despair, right?
Definitely. So here is New Jersey governor. It says this New Jersey governor orders state police to commandeer needed medical supplies. Commandeer that might not be a word you're familiar with. Let's check it out what it means.
Here's the good old good old search bar here. Let's commandeer me. Commandeer, a person in authority, especially over a body of truth. That's that's a commander at commandeer is different. I misspelled this word.
Hold on. Commandeer. Here it is. Commandeer verb to officially take possession or control of something, especially for a military purpose. So what this is saying is the New Jersey governor, the governor of New Jersey, excuse me, has given the state police the order to just take stuff now.
So if they need something that you know, and 95 masks, which I definitely don't have any on hand. They need some other kind of medical supplies. Maybe you have a nebulizer because you have asthma at home.
You know, they might need that. So which I definitely don't have anything like that either. Medicines, other supplies. I mean, ventilators, personal protective equipment. I don't know. I mean, it could be anything.
Go ahead and just take it. If you if you need it, take it. Yikes, man. Yikes. It's coming out on the same day that apparently Trump is going to recommend the CDC is going to recommend that everybody wear masks out, out and about and all that kind of thing, which again, I use one of these no one size fits all nonsense edicts from on high.
I mean, obviously, if you live in a more rural area, it's probably not necessary for you to wear a mask outside and just the population is so small. There are lots of counties that don't even have one case of confirmed COVID -19.
But now the CDC guidelines say that you should have a have a mask and all that kind of stuff. So at the same time, everyone's going to be panic buying mask, which I definitely did not buy any of before the panic started.
Definitely not. At that same time. Now the governor saying that they can just commandeer things. Will there be compensation? Almost certainly not. Will there be any kind of discrimination depending on you know, important factors like I'm sick or I'm high risk or things like who knows how they even going to implement this?
I don't know. Are they just going to go to Home Depot and and steal all the masks? Well, they're already giving them away. Are they going to go to all the other stores that decided not to give the masks away because they want to serve their customers as well and just take them?
I don't know. I mean, they're just gonna jump into your house, which I definitely don't don't definitely do not come to my house because I have nothing in my house. Nothing. I'm in need right now. In fact, I might have the Corona so don't come here because otherwise you might get the Corona.
And also my firearms to my firearms and ammunition stockpile. It was actually lost in the move, unfortunately. So I definitely don't have anything of value here. But man, this is crazy. This is crazy.
And you got to wonder like what what's it gonna take? Right? What's it gonna take for people to start saying, Hmm, you know, maybe we shouldn't allow the governor to do this. I don't know. I mean, it just, it certainly seems like it's escalating ever so quickly, ever so quickly.
Now, let's move on to something else. Doug Wilson did a cross politic episode with the brothers, in which he said some interesting things. And, and I got to be honest, there was a, I don't want to say it wasn't squish, but there were some kind of not waffling, but sort of a, a lot of flexibility, which, which I think, which I think can be important.
I think I said this a couple times this week, even that, because these are so such unprecedented times, I want to give pastors as much leeway as possible when they're on the opposite side of me, regarding Romans 13, and canceling church because daddy tells you to cancel church.
Doug Wilson actually seemed to say that in epidemic quarantine is in the lane is in the purview of the, the state, the actual government, which is an interesting statement. I'm a little bit skeptical of that, to be perfectly honest with you.
And actually, let me just be honest, I'm very skeptical that the government has the authority to, to, to, to quarantine a church and tell it not to me, I don't think that that actually is true. However, I let's, let's just say that we go with his argument for a second, he, one of the things that he also said was, we also don't, so we want to submit to the government, that should be our posture is what he said.
But we don't want to accept ridiculousness or something like that. If it gets ridiculous, obviously, we have a duty to not do what they say in that regard, which I would agree. But that's kind of my point, though, because it's already ridiculous.
And a couple people the other day said to me that, hold on a second, I think my kids may have fallen down. Now, they're all right. A couple people said to me the other day, look, Adam, if, if we had any evidence, if we had any evidence that they were that they were singling out the church or treating the church differently, or not applying the rules evenly to the church because of, you know, disregard for the church or hatred of the church, if we had evidence, any evidence of that, then I'd be with you.
But we don't. This is just a protection for everybody. And it's just not true that we have lots of evidence of that already. I mean, we have, let's just let's just, I want to just peel the onion better, not the onion peel.
I don't know what I'm trying to say. But but let me just reveal something to you right now in many places, where it's illegal to meet as a church right now. It is and to worship God as a church and meet together and worship God as a church.
It's illegal to do it because of the restrictions that they've placed on. In many of those places, it is still 100 legal to gather together and worship Malik to worship Baal. Because that's what happens at abortion clinics, they go and they kill their child so that all will be well with them.
You do all you got to do is give me the child and all will be well. That's what they were doing back then maybe in a bit more of an ooga booga kind of way. But now they're doing it in a very clinical type of a way and that is still perfectly legal.
Do you need more evidence, you could probably still go to the pot store, the porn store, you could probably still go to the liquor store right now in many of these places, but you can't go to church because it's for your own protection.
It's already ridiculous. I mean, it's it's already at that point. And so and and and credit to Doug Wilson and the brothers because they said, well, they see some of them at least seem to think that it wasn't ridiculous.
So already, but it's it's quickly approaching that. Okay, good. I agree. It's quickly approaching that. But I think it's been here. It was here from the beginning, the minute that you allow the abortion clinics to continue their pagan worship, and you close down the church for their own safety.
That's when you know that you're being treated differently. Now is the church the only religion that's being treated differently? No, but Malik worship will go forward. It will. It absolutely will. Now the other thing is like, seriously, if you give the state the authority to just cancel church, if it's too risky for you to go to church, I mean, it's hard to really take that back at any point, I think, and this is something that Chuck Knox was saying, it's just like, you know, you you wait, because Doug Wilson's basically saying wait before you before you kind of reject their authority in this area.
And and and I thought chocolate Knox's position was really good. The thing is, you wait, but then you wait too long, and you can't take it back. Once you give them too much, it's very difficult to get that back.
And I completely agree with that. And again, if this was something that was just so, so obvious, I mean, here's the thing. This is what this is the thing. People think I'm advocating anarchy. I'm not advocating anarchy.
I'm not. I'm for churches that close down. I'm for churches that decide based on their factors. They're in a city, they've got a lot of risk, risky people in their congregation, there's an extenuating circumstances, they want to close, I'm for that.
I want that authority in the hands of the elders. Because I think if you look at the scriptures, and the quarantine laws and things like that, it's the ecclesiastical authorities that tell you what's what, in those situations.
And so not this is not about ignoring experts is not about ignoring the models is not about ignoring the science. It's not about any of that. It's about jurisdictions here, jurisdictions, if the if the government can tell the church when and where to meet, and how to me and how often to me and stuff like that, there's really nothing that the government can't tell the church at that point, because you got to be able to meet in order to do anything else.
So if they say you can't meet, then there's nothing else matters. The other thing is, there was a kind of a weird sort of example used in the in the cross politic podcast as well, where he said, Well, you know, if in emergency situations, you sometimes you get you voluntarily give up the authority in certain things.
And one of the examples he used was like, let's say your church was in the middle of a war zone that was no man's land, they're going to meet and, and fight the two armies, we're going to meet and fight, they're going to duke it out.
And the the commander of one of the armies comes to your church and says, Hey, guys, you probably shouldn't go to church today. You know what I mean? Because we're about to have an epic battle here. And it's like in those, it's an emergency, you give up your authority.
And I just don't think that's what you're doing, though. Because because that's just that's keeping your authority and deciding, yeah, it's probably not a good idea to meet in no man's land. Same thing with the other example about your house is on fire.
And a police officer comes in and and says, Hey, get out of here, get out of here. You're not giving up your authority to that police officer when you leave with him. You're just being smart. You're like, Oh, my goodness, my house is on fire, I can see that is on fire.
And the police officer has my best interest in mind, he's going to help me get out of here, I'm going with him. You still have that authority of yourself whether or not to go in other words. And here's another example.
Like, let's say you're I don't know, you're, you're in a you're in a house fire. And the police officer comes into the house. And he says, Get out of here. There's a house, the house is on fire. And you know that your son or your daughter is in the basement, they have a basement bedroom, the police officer doesn't know that.
And you say, No, I got to get my kids. You're not disrespecting that authority. No, you're maintaining that authority. And because you know better, you know your situation better than the outsider. And that's all I'm saying.
Someone from on high Governor Sununu of New Hampshire, I happen to like the governor Sununu for the most part, but he doesn't know my family situation the way I do. He doesn't know lots of lots of things about my specific context, you might know about certain things that from a systemic and governmental perspective, but he shouldn't be making decisions for me.
He shouldn't be taking my stuff because somebody else needs it. He shouldn't be commandeering my N95 mask, which of course I have none of definitely no hand sanitizer either. And did you hear that, Alexa?
All right, good. Anyway, so so that's the thing. Like I thought there was there was some good stuff there that the posture of submission is definitely important. No question about it. But then of course, Doug Wilson leaves it open.
And I actually really what I really liked about it was the model of sort of preaching against the overreach preaching against the the tyranny and all that stuff as you're in submission to the government.
And then when the time comes, that's when you know, then then then things happen, then you got to make some make some moves. I think we're already past that time. We're already past that time. Nobody has any idea how deadly this virus is.
Nobody has any idea how widespread this virus is. Nobody has any idea. It's all based on these fantastical models of confirmed cases, which everybody knows that that's not even a real number. Everybody knows that the death rate is completely inflated.
Everybody knows all of these things. And you're saying but still, it's okay to submit to that government that's keeping bail worship up and running. And Christian worship has to shut down. It's just like, I find that to be preposterous.
Furthermore, there's a side issue here as well. There's a side issue here as well. I have no beef. I have no real beef, let me say, with people that fall on the opposite side of this with me. If you think that you should submit to Romans 13, you think I should submit to Romans 13 in regards to this particular situation and say, Okay, Daddy, you said I can't meet I'm not going to meet if that's what you think.
Fine. I have no beef beef with you. I have a serious beef though. With those of you who are applauding pastors being arrested for holding church. I have a very serious beef with with that kind of a position.
I have a serious beef with the guy who told me that he would turn in his own elders if they decided to meet. I cannot, I can't, that's something that I will not be flexible on. I just will not. You really need to take a good look in the mirror if that's your position.
You're applauding that kind of stuff. It's just preposterous. It's absolutely preposterous. Also, so the more I find out about this weirdo charismatic guy that got arrested, the more, not only the more I like him, even though I disagree with much of his theology, the more weird the story gets about why this particular man was arrested at this particular time at this particular moment in this particular way.
There's some let's just say it stinks. It stinks and I'm going to start to get into some of that stuff probably next week. But yeah, I hope you have a good and safe weekend. Thank you to all of you who support me again.
I just want to say thank you in this difficult time. The support that you provide has made it a little bit easier to continue going on the way I have been and all of you who bought a No Despair t-shirt.
Thank you for that as well. I think this is the perfect year to have a No Despair 2020 t-shirt. There's despair all over the place. There's no question about it. But this is not the time for that. This is the time for hope in Christ.
Absolutely. Hope in Christ. This is the time for that no matter what N .T. Wright says. This is the time for that. Anyway, I'll try to do another video tonight this afternoon and if I don't, if I do, either way, I hope you found this video helpful.
God bless.