Biden's First 100 Days

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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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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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We're coming to you today with another caffeinated Calvinist roundtable.
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I am joined, as always, by my two guests and co-hosts, Sam Brown and Richard Roden.
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Today, we're going to be discussing the first hundred days of the Biden presidency.
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Hey guys, how are you? Hey, hey, hey, we're beautiful.
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How are you? I'm doing all right.
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Richard, can you hear me? Yes, sir.
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Doing well.
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Good deal.
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Good deal.
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Well, here's what we're gonna do.
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We're gonna start.
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I want to make mention of something, and we were talking about this a little bit before the show began.
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This is, we're looking toward the week of the inauguration.
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Today is the 18th, and we're, supposedly, if everything goes as it should, the inauguration will be happening on January the 20th.
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That's correct, right? Yeah, and that, I had seen on one of the news outlets that there are 12-foot barrier walls which are being installed around the inauguration site, which was, to me, an ironic reality because we've been told for the last four years by all of our Democratic friends that walls do not work, and so this is the reality we are seeing.
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Walls won't keep out people from other countries, but walls will keep out Republicans and those who might want to protest an inauguration, so that's what we are looking at right now.
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Well, don't forget those walls are also covered by people with guns, and guns aren't either, so they are using walls and guns to protect themselves from people that they didn't want to allow walls for, or people are not allowed to have guns, so yeah.
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Yeah, that's true, and the thing is, yeah, what's really ironic is that, you know, a few months ago that we saw the ACAB tags going around, and if you're not familiar with ACAB, stands for all cops are bad.
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All cops are bad.
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Well, that's not that's not what the B stands for.
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Okay.
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It's a pejorative for a fatherless child.
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Oh, okay.
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I thought it was all cops are bad, but regardless, that's, either way, it's still, it's terrible against police officers and what they're saying, and what's the irony now is a lot of the people who were posting hashtag ACAB are now complaining about the the riot that happened in the Capitol because they're saying the police were put into danger.
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It's like, well, wait a minute, you can't have it both ways.
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You can't be pro protesting that happened all around the United States just a few months ago in regards to Black Lives Matter and the Antifa and the Chad situation out in, what was it, Seattle or Portland? Yes.
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Yeah, you can't be anti-police officer for all that.
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But now pro-police officer when it comes to the Capitol.
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But I guess you can if you're wanting to be grossly inconsistent.
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Well, and so not to pick a fight early because I'm already in a saucy mood today.
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But yeah, but they can be because it's absolutely in line with their incoherent and inconsistent worldview.
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So it absolutely makes sense because they don't really care about what's right.
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They care about what's right for them.
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That's right.
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And I thought you're going to pick a fight with me.
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And I was like, Sam, you love me.
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I kind of am.
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I'm like saying you're saying it doesn't make sense.
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I'm like, but it does because the old saying it's not that liberals have double standards.
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They have no standards.
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Right.
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That's what it is.
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Well, let's, let's start with this.
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Instead of doing our predictions for the first hundred days, I'm going to, I'm going to shoot this question to you guys and spend two minutes a piece.
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What do you think the inauguration is going to be like? Do you think it's going to go off without a hitch? Do you think there's going to be massive riots? Do you think that they're going to amount to anything? What do you think is going to happen? I heard they found some guy today that had a fake pass to the inauguration.
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He had 500 rounds on him.
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I don't even know if that's real.
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I just saw that story pop up.
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Somebody just made a joke that 500 rounds isn't really that many rounds.
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So what do you guys think is going to happen on inauguration day? Richard, I'll let you go.
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You haven't said much today.
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I'll let you go first.
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Honestly, I don't know.
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It's, I can't imagine too much is going to happen when you got 20,000 troops, you got 12 foot walls are barricading it in.
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I can't imagine too much is going to happen.
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And if I'm reminded of, uh, you ever seen the movie V for Vendetta? Um, in one of the, one of the, uh, conversations between the two cops when they were talking about people going down to the, to the, to the, to the building or whatever toward the end of the movie.
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And the guy said, well, what do you think is going to happen? And he said, well, what normally happens with people without guns show up and confront people with guns.
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So I can't imagine unless there's going to be like an armed deal and you're going to have like a big fight.
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I can't imagine too much is going to go down with that much security and all the precautions are taken.
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At most, you'll have Trump supporters show up to just kind of stand around.
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But it's, I can't imagine it's going to be any violence or anything go on, but I could be wrong.
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Um, but I just, I just don't see it.
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He's going to go out there and get it, do his little inauguration, probably swearing on the Quran, you know, just to be culturally relevant.
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And, uh, that'll be it.
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Give some stupid speech and move on.
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I mean, it's not going to be, I'm not going to watch it, but it's, I don't think anything major is going to happen again.
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Who knows? You know, it's interesting.
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You mentioned, um, that, you know, what, what happens when people with guns and people without guns? Um, I've been hearing a lot of people lately that have been, you know, calling, saying we're going to have civil war and this is going to lead to civil war.
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And, um, whether or not that's true, I have a hard time putting it in my mind what civil war would even look like.
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It's not like it was during the time of the American civil war, the war between the States where there was, there were drastically clear battle lines where those battle lines aren't as clear anymore.
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Sort of like, um, war has changed.
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And, um, in this kind of going back, right? Where are Trump supporters really going to attack national guardsmen? You know, I don't, I don't, I don't see that happening.
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I don't, I don't think they would.
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Now I'm not saying there's no Trump supporters who are crazy and violent to that point, but I don't think a genuine Trump supporter who genuinely, most of them I know are pretty pro military, pretty pro police are going to go in guns a blazing toward the, towards the boys in green, the boys in blue.
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You know, the, the, that's just my opinion.
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I could be a hundred percent wrong, but, and I agree with you because even when you, the riots you had at the Capitol, the people that broke in weren't even really Trump supporters.
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And I saw a photo today of they, um, a photo today of the writers inside the Capitol having their photos taken and you see the actual cameras.
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Well, writers don't stop and pose for cameras and camera people in the press aren't in there during a riot.
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It's all a staged event.
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As far as I'm concerned, as far as it was, it was designed to throw, uh, to make Trump supporters look worse than what they are to throw them in line with the Antifa and all that, that Trump supporters can be just as violent as the rest.
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So I agree with you there.
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True Trump supporters, true people who are actually care about the direction of this country and what it's founded on aren't going to go in there and rush the military because of Joe Biden getting sworn in.
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They'll, we'll move on and see what happens.
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Um, now with that being said, as you're, as what you said, the civil war, I wouldn't see, I don't know how that works either.
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Cause somebody's got to organize the sides.
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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And you gotta have, I mean, it's, it's like, what about, you know, your neighbors who are, you know, or is it literally going to be, you know, my yard is a red yard.
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Your yard's a blue yard, you know what I mean? And I know there's, I can tell you where you're living, your whole streets on one side of the fight.
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I'll go ahead.
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Oh yeah.
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Well, that's right.
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You can, you can do it.
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You can, you can, you can have your little stronghold down there on, on, on your, your neck of the woods.
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I am.
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I am your Huckleberry.
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All right, Sam, I've let you, now you said you felt like, uh, you said there at the Capitol riot, do you think some of those were Trump supporters? And I, and I, I agree probably some of them were, but do you think there were any Antifa there too? Do you think it was a mixed bag? Well, we, we actually know that there was, um, one, one of the leftist terrorist, um, that was arrested and released without bail.
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Um, uh, what's his name? John, John, the John, John, the activist is what he goes by.
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And, um, that's creative.
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I'm, I'm Keith, the podcaster.
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The life of me Sullivan, John Sullivan, John Sullivan, not John L Sullivan, the old boxer guy, but John Sullivan, his name, he's a very popular insurgents.
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I N S U R G E N C E U S A is his website and he's a leftist terrorist.
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Um, he's been out all at all.
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The black lives matter protests has been all Antifa.
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He's the sort of black block Antifa guy.
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That's been perpetrating these things for a very long time.
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Um, sounds like the kind of guy we'd just love to have on the show.
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Yeah, no, I would love to get it.
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I would love to get in a room with him.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Um, to be sure.
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Um, but to be clear, Trump, Trump supporters there acted very badly and they did do very bad things.
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My concern is this.
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I have a lot of concerns.
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Um, uh, here's one.
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I keep hearing the word sacred and desecrated used about a government building.
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That gives me pause.
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Anytime I hear, especially a Christian use the word sacred and desecrated about a government facility.
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I'm bothered by that.
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Yes.
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Trump, some Trump supporters acted horribly.
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Very, very few of them did because there's 80 million plus Trump supporters.
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Cause we know that they flipped a lot of votes and they lied about all that with a couple of hundred million guns.
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If we really wanted to have an armed insurrection, do you think it would have been four people dying in a staged event at the Capitol? It's ridiculous to even think.
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So, um, uh, yeah, I think that Trump supporters there acted very badly.
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I think that we allowed the election to be stolen.
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Um, but, uh, um, your question was, uh, if I recall correctly, cause I've been babbling, um, what will happen on inauguration day? Right.
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Do you think there's going to be some fireworks or what do you think? I think there will be some staged fireworks.
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It will be a perfectly planned event, just exactly like they want it to be with the they're setting the stage already with the big fake wall and the 30,000 plus troops and all the staged propaganda that is constantly assaulting us via the airwaves, via social media, they're silencing conservatives.
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Every single story is, is just this gaslighting panic driving, you know, you have lost, you have lost, you have lost.
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And I know, I know so many people that, that are going, this can't be real, right? There are, there are so few people that actually support Joe Biden.
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And I don't live in a sheltered life.
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I'm, I'm not surrounded by all Christians every day, all day.
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And yet I don't know anybody except for like two family members who actually support Joe Biden, but none of them support all the, the transgenderism, which is going to be the first thing he signs is the transgender athletes.
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He has a list of 12 executive orders.
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He's going to sign on day one.
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Tell me about it.
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Tell me about, you got that list.
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Oh, absolutely.
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I've got all kinds of articles.
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Well, keep that up for the a hundred first hundred days.
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I want to talk about that transgender athlete thing, but go back to what you're saying.
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Sorry.
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Yeah.
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So, so no, they've, they've got their whole, their whole agenda, and they've been honest about it from the very beginning.
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And it's just going to be an assault for the first two years.
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So yeah, get ready, buckle in and, and get ready because it's going to be pickup from the last day of the Obama administration on day one, they're going to cancel.
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Well, we'll talk about all that when we get to it, but they have put out exactly what they're going to do, but they didn't have to because we know what they're going to do.
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They're liberals.
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That's what they do.
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Yeah.
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So I know that, you know, we've been talking in my circles about the upcoming equality act.
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That's probably something that is on that list.
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I'm not sure, you know, the list you're looking at Sam, but these are things that have our concerns or at least the concerns of the people that, that I, you know, deal with and minister, you know, alongside and different people.
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And, and so, you know, here, here's, here's my question for you guys.
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And really this was the topic of conversation, which was going to drive the show.
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Many presidents consider the first hundred days to be the the time that they want to stake their ground and mark their place and make history.
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If you will, the first hundred days, we're going to do these things.
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And Sam, it seems like you've got a list of the things that the executive orders that are already planned.
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But I want to and I want to look at those.
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I want to look at those, those, that list.
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But I also want to ask you what you think not only in regard to what they have said they're going to do, but what are some things that you think might be more subversive things, more things that we, we don't necessarily hear about, but things that you might think are going to happen.
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Like for me, I'll give you mine.
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Maybe this will get your brains thinking in a direction.
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I think that we're going to see a massive lifting of a lot of the restrictions that we've had with COVID.
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So as to seem as if there is a salvation that has been brought by the democratic party, you know, we've all been tucked away with the image of God hidden behind a diaper on our face.
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And now I I've seen a couple of articles.
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And again, these could be farce articles, but I've seen a few things that have said that the mayor of Chicago and a few other people are saying open the restaurants, open these things.
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And it makes sense to me that we could see the, the, cause, cause my fear was that we were all going to be masked up again.
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It was all going to go, it was going to go back to complete lockdown, but they know that that's going to be bucked.
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But if they say release the restrictions, masks off, we now have the antidote or the vaccine, whatever, everything's fine.
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You can, you can visit your families again.
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You can have funerals again.
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You can have birthday parties again that they would be seen as heroic for the doing what Donald Trump couldn't do.
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And again, I don't think it's going to happen on the 20th, but I think within the first hundred days we could see, we could see that.
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And again, I could, I could be a hundred percent wrong.
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It could go the other way, but that's one of my thoughts is that we're, and that's, that's something that's not on the agenda.
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In my opinion, I think that's something that's going to be more subversive, but all right, I'll let you go first, Sam.
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You got your list, but go ahead and tell me what you think about what I said.
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And then let's carry your list.
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So I think you're onto something.
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I think you're absolutely right.
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Because the first thing that we see is Biden's plan to vaccinate a hundred million people in a hundred days.
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Yeah, that's, that's, that, that's the big lie, right? That's the lie they're going to tell.
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And is that this is how Biden fixed everything.
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Of course, they're not going to give you the backstory of operation warp speed, how Trump made it possible to have those a hundred million doses of vaccines.
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And also they're not going to tell you about the high rate of, of palsy that people are getting from the vaccines or all of the negative reactions people are having from vaccines.
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Because again, it's a media controlled narrative.
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So yeah, there's going to be, it's going to start off with a hundred million people in a hundred days.
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And, and the 12 executive orders that he's got set for day one is of course canceling the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Of course it is rejoining the Paris accord.
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Of course it is groundbreaking legislation to address immigration reform and instantly make 11 million illegal immigrants, United States citizens.
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But that's another big lie is that who still believes there's only 11 million illegal immigrants.
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They've been saying that for 20 years, right? And we had unrestricted illegal immigration consistently for the last 20 years, but somehow it only stayed at 11 million.
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There's more like 50 million.
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So the minute that they make all of those legal citizens, again, there's going to be consequences that come with that.
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The hundred day masking challenge of course, is also part of, you know, asking everyone to implement fat face mask mandates on federal property and for interstate travel while they're vaccinating a hundred million people.
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So it's a nice big prop propaganda war that they're waging, but they're not really going to be doing anything because it's all subterfuge, right? It's all designed to keep us fighting amongst each other so that they can continue to enrich themselves with these international trade deals with China and Ukraine and all these other people because they don't really care about us, right? They only care about keeping us fighting with each other and enriching themselves.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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I appreciate that.
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So basically it's it's one big scam.
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The first hundred days looking at, looking at the potential of one big scam.
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Now I'm going to come back to you in a minute.
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I want to talk about that transgender thing that you mentioned a minute ago, but Richard, what are your thoughts? I see you have a, have a piece of paper there.
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Are you making a paper? So I can go back to from things you were saying to spark my memory.
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I agree with you that at first I was in the same impression that we're going to go back to a massive lockdown and only essential people are going to be able to operate and all that.
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And he was going to force a mask mandate.
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And I was even thinking to the extreme of enforcing it with fines and those kinds of measures.
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But now that I'm seeing your, your super liberal mayors and governors coming out saying that we need to reopen as quick as possible and we need to get restaurants open and we need to do all this stuff.
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I'm in agreement with you that it's going to, they're trying to use it as they are suddenly the saviors of everything.
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They're going to bring everything back to normal.
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And the thing about it is what's amazing is, uh, I know, Sam, you said you don't know a lot of people who are Biden supporters, but I run into them every day.
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I got people in our family that are major leftists and, um, they swallow everything hook, line, and sinker.
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And to be clear, they support transgenders in the bathroom and all the nonsense or are they just saying, Oh, they support all the nonsense.
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They support all the nonsense.
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Like for instance, I got, I got family that, um, they canceled Christmas.
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We supposed to have Christmas at their house.
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They canceled Christmas because of COVID.
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They were afraid of having COVID and they didn't want anybody near them.
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They've, they sent all the presents through Amazon, did all that stuff.
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If you mentioned anything about abortion, anything about transgenderism, they're all over you.
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I mean, it's, they swallow the hook, line, and sinker to the point that even with all those precautions, they still caught COVID.
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They, the mom isolated herself in the bedroom, like she's in prison or something.
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The husband had to bring everything to her, stayed away from the kids and still everybody in the house caught it.
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Isn't that amazing? That's not the only, I've heard that story so many times.
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And I got family too, brother.
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I just to, just to piggyback on that, I got family that skipped Christmas, uh, did the gifts via, via Amazon, you know, there was no visiting, there was no dinners.
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So yeah, I'm with you.
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And so I didn't mean to, but, but, but just what you said just got my attention there.
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So go ahead and continue.
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I'm sorry.
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And what I'm, what I'm going to get at is this, they bought the lie of COVID hook, line, and sinker.
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And the minute the democratic party comes out and says, everything's fine, they'll buy that too.
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And they'll roll right along.
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They'll take the masks off.
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They'll go out to dinner.
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They'll do everything that the government's telling them to do.
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I've made the, I've made the joke in the, to other people that if the government was to come out and tell you that you had to crawl around on your hands and knees, because COVID can only be caught from four feet up in the air, half the country would crawl around on their hands and knees.
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They just buy it.
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Regardless of if they say it, the government says to do it, they're going to do it.
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They're not going to question it.
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They are cheap.
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So the democratic party is going to get away with this.
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They're going to get away.
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If they lift all the bands and everything goes away, they're going to get away with it.
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And they will be defended to the end by your Don lemons and your Cuomo's and your CNNs, your MSNBCs.
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They're going to defend because they said, it's okay.
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Well, since it's okay.
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Now they'll defend them to the nth degree.
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Again, the double standard or the lack of standards.
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Um, also in the first hundred days, some of my predictions are, they're going to try to start regulating some level of gun control.
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They're going to, um, push back, repeal all the Trump tax cuts, start taking money, start doing all that kind of stuff.
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Your taxes are going to go up.
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They're going to basically, it's going to be an assault on freedom in the first hundred days.
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Um, that's just, they're going to try to push their agenda as hard as possible.
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And, uh, I'm not looking forward to it at all, but, um, back to Sam, cause he has a, I don't, I didn't show up with a list.
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I just have a couple of articles that list what he says he's going to do.
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Yeah.
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I didn't make up a list.
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I just did a quick internet search.
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But one thing I'm hoping is not true.
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Uh, cause I heard this months ago, part of Biden's tax plan was on page 56 of the tax plan.
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I actually went and looked it up and it was on there, but I hope he don't do it.
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Cause he's talking about taxing homeowners 3% of their home value.
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It's like buried in there somewhere.
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So if you've got a $300,000 home, your taxes are going to go up like 10 grand.
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I mean, that's a, that's, that's thousand dollars a month, almost $800 a month extra.
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You got to pay because your house is worth $300,000.
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If he does that, if he puts that tax in, he's going to bankrupt a ton of people.
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Now that may or may not happen.
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If he does something like that, he's an idiot.
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Well, he's already proven to be an idiot.
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But, um, so I'm hoping that's not accurate, but if it is, that's going to, that's going to devastate millions of Americans in the middle-class devastated.
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Yeah.
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So anyway, it, the first hundred days doesn't look good at all as far as I'm concerned.
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And I had some people I've talked to, they feel like since Biden's a little bit old school, you know, he comes from that seventies, eighties model Democrat, but he's not going to go full bore on like second amendment and stuff like that.
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Cause you know, it'd be political suicide, but I don't know with Kamala and Nancy behind the scenes, pulling the strings, he might do it anyway.
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And he's 78 years old.
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What does he care? He, he, he, he's going to, he's going to, he ain't going to be around very long anyhow.
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Uh, by the time he's done with the presidency, he'll be too, he won't be in the health.
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He'll be 82 years old.
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And what's he carrying? Got for 10 years left anyway.
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So what does it matter? Anyhow, that's my thoughts back to back to Sam here on, on his article and the transgender.
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I'd like to hear that as well and what his plan is on that craziness.
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What you got for Sam.
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So, um, it was just, there's, there's all kinds of articles out there, um, regarding, uh, the Joe Biden's executive orders.
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One of them is on day one, he's going to order on transgender rights in sports and bathrooms.
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So the title, the title nine exemptions, um, that are going on, uh, in fact, to quote Joe Biden on January 25th of 2020, it says, let's be clear.
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Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time.
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There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.
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Now that should send a chill down the spine of every single person, uh, that hears that because there is no room for compromise.
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Now that's the guy who is now the president elect of the United States, soon to be president in three days, um, saying there's no room for compromise on forcing men who think they're women into your bathrooms, into women's sports, um, and, and equating that to an immutable characteristic like race, um, and gender.
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So equating your mindset to that could be easily transferred to anything, but the fact that it's this, and it's such a divisive issue, should, should be a huge concern.
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And that's going to be day one.
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I mean, they're going to come in guns blazing.
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Um, on his first day in office, he will reinstate the Obama Biden guidance revoked by Trump and Pence, which will restore transgender students, access to sports, bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity.
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He will direct the department of education to vigorously enforce and investigate violations of transgender students, civil rights.
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Now you can say that this article on Breitbart, um, is, um, anonymous sources, whatever, but Joe Biden has been very clear about this.
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You can go to his website and see where he stands on the transgender issue.
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And in fact, the quote for him from January 25th of 2020 is that he believes that there's no room for compromise with this when it comes to basic human rights.
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So, um, it starts with that on day one, and it's only going to expand because they know they've got a limited time, right? Every time Democrats govern, they lose.
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Um, 2008, Obama won.
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They had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they lost historically in 2010.
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Um, we have had, had revolutions from the Reagan revolution, uh, the Nixon revolution, um, um, the Republican revolution of 1994 after two years of Clinton, um, two years of Obama, we had the 65 house seat swing, which is the biggest in history.
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So when Democrats govern, they lose, but they get in there and they grab everything they can.
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We're still fighting Obamacare and they passed Obamacare after, um, losing historically in a lame duck session.
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And we still haven't gotten that, that undone that shows how feckless and weak the Republicans are.
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And I, I know I'm going on for a while, but this is like kind of my whole, um, um, idea behind this.
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And what I want to get across to anybody who has ever heard me say anything that they liked, this is all our fault.
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We are a hundred percent to blame for this.
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We have allowed abortion, apostasy, homosexual marriage, transgenderism, the drag queen story hour to be read to our children, all of this and more.
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And we have been unfaithful to win the world for Christ and to prophetically speak to those at authority.
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This is all our fault.
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Whatever happens, we deserve every bit of it.
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Amen.
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It's a, uh, this is definitely, a, as Calvin said, when God wants to judge a people, he gives them wicked rulers.
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Amen.
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And so we are seeing the, we are seeing wickedness being, um, well being put on display and that, that, that thing about transgenderism, it's just, it's just the sickest form of, of expressing sexual depravity, um, throwing off all bounds.
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Not only are we going to throw off the bounds of heterosexuality, but we're going to throw off the very bounds of our own, uh, understanding of our own created nature.
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And it's such a, such a sad thing.
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And what we have to do is just be happy warriors.
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We have to gladly go into the fight.
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We have to be say, yes, thank you.
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Thank you, God.
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Send your judgment on this wicked, wicked land, because we deserve it.
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And, uh, we need to speak prophetically to people.
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Our Republican friends, our, our so-called libertarian friends, our, our, our middle of the road Democrats, although God knows what that means anymore.
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Those people all need to hear, this is the insanity we're dealing with.
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If you think that a man thinking he's a woman or a woman thinking she's a man is the equivalent of a, of, uh, a minority skin color or a gender that you feel is treated unequally, that's insanity.
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But that's what we've asked for because you were wanting to be middle of the road and hate the orange man.
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It's insane.
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And, and it's just that we suffer under this, but we, but as Christians, we have to do it happily and take on the fight, whatever the cost.
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And it's interesting.
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You say they voted simply because they hate the orange man because he's bad.
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I've had conversations with so many people on the route on my job and all that they simply, I literally had a woman tell me that she believes that Trump's done more for the black community.
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She believes that their black friends are better off.
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She believes that she's better off and has more money because the economy is good.
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She believes all those things.
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But because Trump tweets and because Trump sounds hateful and he's just seems mean and coarse and abrasive, that's why she voted for the other guy.
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That's why she voted for Biden.
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And I said, so everything you said is positive.
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He's done because of a dislike in a man's personality.
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You voted for a, for someone who she admits will probably do bad by the black community and minorities and will actually roll back and she'll have less money and she'll, the economy is going to go on the tank.
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But if she doesn't care because orange man bad, it's a disease.
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I don't understand it for the life of me.
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People can't think more than two minutes in front of their face and all they do is think about emotion.
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Emotion, it drives the day.
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Because we have abdicated our responsibility to be good Christian, productive members of society for generations, right? We have allowed the school systems to fall into disrepair and being owned by the Romans, right? We have allowed people.
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I remember I got into a huge fight with a Christian friend of mine back during the black lives matter riots.
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It was, it was about a year ago.
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One of the many riots that has occurred.
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And this lady was in Los Angeles and she was so mad.
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She was so offended that these Arab cell phone store owners were out protecting their gun, their store with AK 47s.
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She couldn't believe that they wouldn't let them riot and go in and steal their cell phones.
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And he was going, this is so ridiculous.
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I'm like that woman was raised from birth in a society that told her she didn't have a chance, that didn't school her well, gave her no moral grounding.
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The church wasn't there to fix those problems.
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How did she ever have a chance? You know, we gave up on people and we have, we have have wrought this on ourselves, not by anything that my good friend Richard or my good friend Keith has done.
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But for a generation, we as the church have just abdicated our responsibility to claim the society for Christ because we've been fat and lazy and rich and, and we thought everything was good and we only expect good things.
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And, and, and we have allowed the, the, the decay, the internal decay of every institution that we have.
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We just gave it up because we're lazy.
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And, and, and again, not saying that Keith is lazy or Richard's lazy, but we as a, as a church body are lazy and haven't claimed this land for Christ.
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And thus your friend can sit there and say, Oh, I know that, that Donald Trump has been better for the black community, but I still voted against him because orange man bad reason is dead because we have allowed it to die.
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And another element too, and I've been, and I'm guilty of this myself and having those conversations with people is, I don't think we have theologically driven conversations.
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We get so wrapped up in the, the worldliness of it all.
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We stick to the politic itself, but we don't bring the Christian worldview into the conversation so that then you can then get to Christ and apply that to the conversation.
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What are we told be in the world, but not of the world.
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But we've got so sucked into the politics and so sucked into the, the, the satanic system that we don't address it how we should address it.
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We don't have a theological framework.
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When we talk to people, we talk on their ground instead of from a Christian worldview.
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And I think that's where a lot of times we've made a mistake.
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I've been guilty of myself.
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I get caught up in the, well, these numbers, these numbers, this is what he's done.
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This is what's going on.
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This is what's going on.
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But I don't ever bring it where it needs to go back to the most important issue.
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What the Bible brings to bear on these situations and why they're wrong and bringing Christ in the conversation.
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It's, it's a trap we all fall into.
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And that's what you're getting at.
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That's the argument you're making is that we as a church have failed in that regard.
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We don't do that anymore.
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We're caught up in the system and we need to break free of it and bring, bring the Bible back to bear on our conversations and point people to Christ.
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It's part of an idea that I'm starting to develop and I'm going to be doing some writing on it soon that I call, um, the first Peter three 15 paradox, right? We say, um, with, with Christ, uh, set Christ apart as Lord, always be prepared to give a defense of the reason for the hopes that's inside of you, right? That's our evangelism verse, right? That's if you ask any Christian, they're going to say, that's the evangelism verse.
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Why? Why do we just have to be ready? Why don't we believe Matthew 28, 18, whenever Jesus said all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, therefore go, right? He didn't say, you know, maybe you might want to be nice to people.
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And then if they ask you why, why you're so nice, then, then you tell them that it's because you love Jesus.
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No, no.
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Matthew 28, 18 should be our evangelism verse.
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All authority belongs to Jesus and we need to live like that.
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And we don't.
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And I, I, for one, and I'm not pointing fingers.
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I do it too.
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I'm the same way.
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So I'm as guilty as anybody.
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We'd have the, we have the ultimate authority with us and we don't even, we don't, we don't rely on him.
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We rely on ourselves.
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And that's, that's the issue.
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That's getting that.
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That's it.
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Idolatry of self and comfort, comfort.
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We love our comfort.
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Oh yeah.
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I love this beautiful home that God gave me.
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And I love sitting in here and doing these wonderful discussions with you guys on my nice computer.
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And I got a nice ceiling fan blowing with my air conditioning.
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It's so great.
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I'd give it all up in a second to preach the gospel to people.
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But what I, what I really, I don't, I don't live like that.
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That's the issue is we get out there and when we get confronted with these things, fear grips us and which stops us from, from speaking.
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We've got to overcome that.
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So, um, Keith, we've taken the show from you.
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Where you at, buddy? I am doing what the listeners are doing.
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I am enjoying the conversation as a listener.
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It's interesting, Sam, you mentioned the first Peter passage and being ready to give a hope or give a defense for the hope that is within us.
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A lot of people miss the fact that the reason why we have to give a defense is because we have in some way proclaimed hope.
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And, um, the reason why they're asking about the hope that is within us is because we have told them about the hope that is within us.
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And, uh, so we ought to do that.
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And we ought to be people who remain hopeful, even in the midst of a difficult season, because our hope is not in, in the presidency.
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Our hope is not in the Senate.
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Our hope is not in Washington.
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Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord, our God.
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And that has to be our final word.
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Well, gentlemen, thank you for giving your, uh, always fun and highly helpful thoughts, especially about important topics.
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And I want to tell you, listener, thank you for being with us today.
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And I want to give you a little teaser about what is to come.
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The three of us are going to continue to do the caffeinated Calvinist roundtable as much as we can, hopefully at least once a week, moving forward as the Lord allows and gives us time.
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We all three have jobs, so that may not always work.
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But, uh, but if we can, the next time we meet, Lord willing, we're going to do a book review of the book, 12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You.
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We're all reading it.
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We're all going to be coming with our own set of notes and conversation topics regarding the book.
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And we hope that that will be our conversation for a week from now.
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So if you're interested in that, my encouragement would be to you to go ahead and get a copy of the book and read it along with us and be ready for our review, uh, to hear what we have to say about that book.
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Again, gentlemen, I want to thank you for being with me today and being with our audience.
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And, uh, again, Sam, thank you.
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My pleasure.
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My pleasure.
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Thank you.
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And Richard, thank you for taking time out to do this.
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Thank you, sir.
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I appreciate the opportunity to be here.
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And I always enjoy this.
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This is always fun.
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Yeah, me too.
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And brothers, I appreciate you both.
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And I look forward to seeing you next week on the caffeinated Calvinist roundtable.
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