One Good Thing about the Inauguration

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Hello, welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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This is a daily conversation about scripture, culture and media from a Reformed perspective.
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Get your Bible and coffee ready and prepare to engage today's topic.
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Here's your host, Pastor Keith Foskey.
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Welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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My name is Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist.
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Today is January 21st, 2021.
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And the topic for today's program is going to be the good thing that happened at the inauguration yesterday.
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I want to say there was a lot of negative yesterday and I was pretty outspoken on the program yesterday about the negative things.
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As I understand, some of those negative things are going to continue to go on today.
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There are going to be some ecumenical prayer sessions today.
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There's going to be all kinds of folks who are celebrating LGBTQ and celebrating all kinds of other sinful things, the opening up the floodgates of abortion, opening up the floodgates of borders and immigration, illegal immigration and all these things.
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There are going to be people celebrating this and that is a shame.
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But there is one thing we can celebrate.
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The one positive thing that we can celebrate as of yesterday is that we have another example of conclusive proof that all of these false prophets who proclaimed that Trump was going to have another four years are indeed false prophets.
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Let me explain to you what I mean.
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There are a lot of people in the Christian world today who claim to be modern prophets.
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Now, if you're new to the program and you don't know my particular position on this, I do not believe that foretelling as a definition of prophecy is still continuing to go on today.
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I do not believe that God is giving men revelation of the future today.
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I believe that God does speak through his word, the Bible today.
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So there is still prophecy that's yet to be fulfilled.
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But that prophecy is to be proclaimed through the exegesis and the preaching of the word, not by men who proclaim themselves to be receiving special revelation from God.
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We have the final, perfect, special revelation from God in what is called the Bible.
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And so people who proclaim themselves as prophets and prophetesses, I believe are false and they prove themselves false, many of them when they make proclamations that do not come true.
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And I want to point you today to Deuteronomy chapter 18.
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Now, some people say this does not apply to the modern prophets because the modern prophets are no longer under the restrictions of the old covenant.
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They are new covenant prophets.
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But for a moment, let's set that argument aside and just read what the passage in Deuteronomy tells us.
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The passage in Deuteronomy says this in verse 20, Deuteronomy 18, 20.
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But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.
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And if you shall say in your heart, how may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken? When the prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken.
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The prophet has spoken it presumptuously.
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You need not be afraid of him.
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So a couple of things from this passage.
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Number one, it says if a person says they're speaking for the Lord and what they say does not come to pass, then they're not speaking from the Lord.
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They are by definition a false prophet.
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But it goes on.
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It says that such a false prophet in the under the old covenant deserved death because they were saying that they were speaking for God and they were not.
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Now, I am not advocating in any way, shape or form that we ought to go out and be taking the lives of false prophets.
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But I will say this.
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When we think about the punishment that was due these men and women in the Old Testament, then we have to understand the gravity and the weight of the situation of what this how serious this is.
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I've been in several situations where I have heard people claim to have knowledge from God, special revelation from God, special words from God, words of knowledge and all this.
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And oftentimes it's it's so obviously emotionally driven.
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It's so obviously false that it's it would it would be comical if it were not so blasphemous.
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But in the situation that we're discussing right now, when we talk about the the person who's proclaiming prophecy, if a person's most most modern prophets are so vague that there is no way to apply the Deuteronomy 18 20, you know, and following, there's no way to really apply that to because if you talk, if a person's prophesying and they say, oh, yes, God's going to bless you, he told me he's going to bless you.
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Well, OK, how do you how do you define that? How do you define what that means? I've been in situations where people supposedly prophesied over me and it was so vague and it was so simplistic.
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It was almost like a person that you call up to get a hot like a psychic hotline who says, you know, well, you're going to take a journey.
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Well, is it a journey to the end of my driveway to get my mail or is it a journey across Jacksonville or is it a journey to the other side of the state or the country or to another country? It's so vague.
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It has no meaning.
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And so it's it's impossible to say that it's wrong because there's no way to define what it would be if it were right or wrong.
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And so when someone's talking about prophecy, oftentimes there's nothing specific to hang something on and they can say, well, I was right.
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You were blessed.
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You received this or I was right.
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You took a journey.
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You went here.
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And so there is just there's there's no way to apply.
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You just have to know that most of these people are there.
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They're like the horoscopes in the newspaper.
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They're they're they're just giving generic references to generic things that may or may not happen.
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And they have no sense.
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They're not hearing from God.
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If I can I say that, can I say that the people who are proclaiming to hear from God, they're not there.
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There was an old song by Ray Stevens.
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You've never heard Ray Stevens go right now to YouTube and look up Ray Stevens and look up the Mississippi Squirrel revival.
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It's if you're if you're a church member, it's one of the funniest church songs in history.
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It's a great song.
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But he also did a song.
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Ray Stevens did a song.
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Would Jesus wear a Rolex? That was it.
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And he wrote it back in the probably the 70s or the 80s, back when televangelists were all the rage.
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You had your Jim and Tammy Faye Baker.
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You had, you know, Paul and Jan Crouch, these people who were wearing Rolexes and going on television and saying, if you give us money, God's going to bless you and give you money and all these things.
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And it was like a it was just a scam.
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And and Ray Stevens wrote a song.
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And there's a tagline in the song where he says, if Jesus came back, would he admit he's been talking to all these preachers who say they've been talking to him? If Jesus returned, would he would he admit he's been talking to all these preachers who say they've been talking to him? And the answer, of course, is no, because he hadn't been talking to them.
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They have not been talking to him.
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Very well-known pastor in Jacksonville who who just a few Easter's ago said that he spent time sitting down with Jesus on his porch and having this long conversation.
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It's just it's it's it's not something that I can accept.
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I do not believe that God is that God speaks that way.
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The scriptures tell us that long ago in various ways, in various times, God spoke to our fathers through the prophets.
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But now he speaks to us directly through his son.
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And we have the direct revelation of the son through the scriptures.
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But be that as it may, I've I want to finish what I'm my thought, because here's my thought.
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This is what happened yesterday.
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The inauguration of Joe Biden brought the Trump presidency to an end, as difficult as that is for many of us.
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And what we had to look forward with the negativity of the Joe Biden presidency is absolutely horrific to think about the things that we're about to have to face.
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But here's the one good thing.
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It puts a marking post on all these false prophets who proclaimed Trump for more years, they made proclamations, they put their stake in the in the sand.
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They said this is going to happen.
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And now that it hasn't happened, are we as the church going to stand up and do what we need to do and say you are a false prophet, you are not speaking for God, and you should have nothing else to say, sit down and shut up? Are we going to do that? Probably not, probably not.
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These guys will find a way they will weasel out as they always do.
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And those who have ears that desire this type of nonsense will continue to listen, even though these men have been proven wrong.
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It reminds me of Harold Camping.
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Harold Camping was a man who believed that he had figured out when Jesus would return and he kept setting dates and he kept getting it wrong.
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He kept setting dates and he kept getting it wrong.
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Jesus is going to come back on this day and he'd be all ready.
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People sell their belongings because they're ready for Jesus to return.
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They're ready to give everything up.
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They're going to this is the day Jesus can return.
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The day comes, the day goes.
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He doesn't.
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Jesus didn't come.
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And everybody looks at Harold Camping and Harold Camping says, oh, I got the date wrong.
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I misread the interpretation.
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It's going to be next month or it's going to be next year.
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It's going to be five years from now.
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You see, it's a scam.
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It's just perpetuating a scam.
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And that's what these false prophets are.
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They are scammers, whether they believe it or not, whether they're hearing voices or not.
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If they are hearing voices, it may be that they're hearing demons.
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If they are hearing voices, it may be that they're hearing the figment of their imagination or maybe some kind of mental disorder.
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But I will say this, I do not believe they're hearing from Christ.
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And if you get offended by that, that's not my intention today.
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My intention is to tell you that if there was a person who said that Donald Trump was going to put four more years in the White House and he hasn't.
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And yesterday was the was the moment that it's over.
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Now we're into a Biden presidency.
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Now we can look at those those false prophets and we can say with clarity and with the affirmation of the scripture on our side, sit down and shut up.
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That's my word to the false prophets.
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I appreciate you listening today to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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