Okay, This Spooked Me a Bit

Alright, well I've never been in the military. My father was a Navy Seabee, which is like an engineering, you know, fighter kind of guy. It's kind of like when they were rebuilding the wall in Jerusalem.

They had to have a sword in one hand and they were building with the other. That's what the Seabees did. That's what my dad did. He was never deployed, but he was in the military. So I don't really know what war's like.

I don't know what it's like to be a soldier. None of that stuff. But I can imagine that in a war, it can be very difficult for an individual soldier to know how things are going. Because, you know, when you're kind of, you know, when you're an individual, you kind of know your own little universe.

You know, your own foxhole, your own group, your own platoon, whatever it is. And you only have a very small window into how the war is going. In fact, you only really know how it's going for you, for the most part.

Generals and the people in charge, you know, you see them in the movies. They have those charts of, you know, they know how far the enemy lines are. And the enemy is taking this much land and we have this and we're there and they're there.

And they have a much bigger window into how things are going. So even if for you, the war is not going so well, it might be going well in general. And so they and the reason that they know that the generals and the people that are in charge know it because they see the big picture.

They're not just in the foxhole. You know what I mean? This is true of like video games, too. You know, like when you when I play video games and I used to play a lot of video games, not anymore. But and not because I think they're wrong or anything.

I just have lost the taste for it for the most part. But I used to play these video games and like there were big epic battles that involved a lot of people. It'd be like 20 on 20, 20 online players versus 20 online players.

And a lot of times, to be perfectly honest, like I had no idea how it was going for my team. Like the game would be over and we won or lost. And I was like, I had no idea. Like, I just I'm just trying to shoot these aliens here, you know, because all I have is my one screen, you know, and maybe I'm with one person and I see one only one part of the battle.

I don't see the big picture of what's going on. Are we winning or losing? I don't know. I'm sure there's a way to know in a video game, but I just I'm not that talented at them. So I didn't know. But when I play, I also play tabletop war games.

When you're playing a tabletop war game, you see everything. So you know how the game is going, even if it's not going very well over here on this front. You might still be winning the game ultimately, because you can see this whole board state, if that makes sense.

The Big Picture in the War of Worldviews

Why am I talking about this? Well, look, all of us who are engaged in the social justice controversy and a lot of the controversies with our heroes in the faith, you know, Tim Keller, Gospel Coalition, the Southern Baptist Convention, J .D. Greer, Matt Chandler, all the we see the stuff that's put out by Gospel Coalition.

We see it in bits and pieces. We see fits and starts of it. We see small chunks of it. And, you know, we we might miss the big picture. We might miss the big, you know, plays that are being run on us.

And I don't want you to, because it can be too easy to say, well, this is just an isolated thing or or this isn't really that big of a deal. Look, guys, like this is a war, a war of worldviews. And right now, the major players, the movers and shakers, the well-funded people, the Gospel Coalition, the E .R .L .C. I'm going to look when you when you see it all laid out for you, you can see that they're on the wrong side of almost every major issue.

And this is not I mean, this is not something I take lightly. You know what I mean? These are people that I've found like I've got so much from I've benefited from so much. And yet I see what they're pushing now.

And it's just like night and day. What's going on here? Where are they getting this from? And talk to you. I saw this tweet. This is what actually really kind of shook me today. This is from a Twitter friend and he calls himself the agent of the Protestants.

Protestant agent at Protestant agent. If you want to look him up on Twitter, he tweets a lot of really interesting things. I like this guy. So an agent of the Protestants. Here's what he says. He says he's retweeting Jonathan Merritt.

Right. And he says homosexuality. The Bible whispers about it. Critical race theory. It's a useful analytical tool. Egalitarianism. We should listen and learn more from them. Be fruitful. Multiply. That's idolatry.

You see what I'm saying? This is a very helpful tweet. It puts everything all in one place. I'm going to add to it a little bit. Look, what do you hear from Gospel Coalition? What do you hear from a lot of these movers and shakers and evangelicalism about homosexuality?

What you hear is, well, the Bible whispers about it. It's just the same as every other sin. I mean, it's like drinking. It's like drinking a beer. Homosexuality. The church has been so wrong about homosexuality for forever.

We need to reconsider. We need to revoice this. By the way, Jesus grappled with gender and sexuality. I mean, guys, that's the thrust of what you're getting from your evangelical leaders about homosexuality.

Is any of that true? Does any of that match up with how the Bible talks about these things? The content and the tone of how the Bible talks about homosexuality. Does any of it match up? Is any of that true?

What about critical race theory? Oh, it's a useful analytical tool. This is really just about racial justice. It can give us tremendous insight into the power dynamics of the church. The church has been wrong about this, has been wrong about justice for years.

Critical race theory can tell us what to do. It's just sad, man. Egalitarianism. We need to empower women. That's what you're being told by your evangelical leaders. We need to empower women so that they can teach.

They have so much to teach us. They have so much to teach the church. They're a gift to the church. She should preach. She can teach. All of that. We need to empower women and break down the strongholds and all of that stuff.

The power structures, the authority structures. Women have so much to offer to the church. What we mean by that is they can teach you. They can preach to you. By the way, the convention doesn't have room for Beth Moore.

It doesn't have room for a lot of us. What about the family? This is the one that makes me the most sad. Where they talk about how the family, being fruitful and multiplying. Marriage. It's really idolatry.

That's our big problem. It's the idolatry of the family. Being fruitful and multiply. That's not the pinnacle of human existence. No, no, no, no, no. That's idolatry. People hold their families in too high esteem.

That's our big problem right now. There's too much esteem for marriage. The church has been wrong about this. The church has been wrong about this. Except for, you know how God hates divorce? That's why homosexuals that are married to each other, if they came to Christ, they shouldn't divorce.

They shouldn't divorce. God hates divorce. When it comes to regular heterosexual marriage, we just have idolatry there. When it comes to homosexual marriage, we might need to reconsider. The church has been so wrong about this.

This is the thrust of what we're being told by Big Eva right now. Evangelical leaders, Gospel Coalition. This is what we're being told. Man, it's very hard for me to put into words what I want to say here.

But I want you to look at this tweet. And you could add so much more to this. Why is it that Gospel Coalition, ERLC, Why is it that your leaders and our leaders in evangelicalism, the movers and shakers, the people that we've gotten so much clarity from in the past, why are they pushing this kind of stuff?

Why are they running these plays? When you put them all together, what does this look like to you? To me, it looks like the spirit of the age is infecting their minds. Because if you look at this list, all you have to do to predict what's next is look at what the priests of sociology are teaching right now in universities around the country.

Because this list right here is what they were preaching decades ago. The priests of sociology and social sciences, they were teaching and preaching this message years ago, and now the churches. So if you want to look to what the church is going to be pushing in 10, 20 years, evangelical leadership, and this and that, all you got to look at is what are the priests of sociology teaching today?

And it's really just kind of depressing, isn't it? But this is the war that we're fighting. This is the battle that we're fighting. The Bible speaks to all of these things. The Bible will not be wed to critical theory.

It cannot be reconciled with critical theory. The Bible does not whisper about sexuality. It does not. Christ commands that we be fruitful and multiply. Let marriage be held in high esteem. Why did God bring man and woman together?

Because he wanted godly offspring. The Bible says so. That's not idolatry to say that. That's not idolatry to desire that. And while women are made in the image of God and women have lots to offer in the church, they shall not preach.

They should not preach in the church of God. They should rather be silent. That's what it says in the scripture. That's not my words. Anyway, so I just wanted to maybe wake you up a little bit, but these are the different fronts, but this is the whole battle.

It is undermining the authority of God. The church has always been wrong, and we need to reimagine some of this stuff according to the priests of sociology. Don't fall for it. Don't fall for it. Don't bow the knee to Baal.

It's a different religion. It's a different gospel. The gospel of social sciences and sociology is a different gospel. See, the Bible, people like to act like the Bible isn't enough for this stuff. Look, the Bible has a full-orbed theology of sexuality.

The Bible has a full-orbed theology of gender. The Bible has a full-orbed theology of how to deal with justice. I mean, there's a big book of law in the Bible. Follow it. Follow it. I mean, why is that not enough?

The Bible tells you what a family is and what a family is for, and there is so much content in the Bible about this. Don't listen to Jonathan Merritt, for goodness sake. Allow me to just wake you up a little bit further and use one of our evangelical leaders' favorite words, flourishing, human flourishing.

You hear people talking about that all the time. Do yourself a favor. Go to Gospel Coalition right now and search the term human flourishing, and you will find so many hits. You will find so many hits.

Search the term sodomy. You will probably find nothing, right? Let me just wake you up a little bit. You really want humans to flourish? Because I do, too. This is a term that many people find annoying, but at the end of the day, I want humans to flourish, too.

But I'll tell you what. If you start listening to the thrust of big evangelicalism now, humans will not flourish. If you follow to a logical conclusion J .D. Greer saying, well, you know, the Bible just whispers about homosexuality.

I mean, it's just like being a drunkard. If you listen to that, that is poison. Human beings will not flourish because the reality of homosexuality is very, very ugly. Very, very ugly. Just ask an ex-homosexual the kinds of things and the kinds of activities that they used to do and the kind of soul-damaging activities that they were involved in.

Just ask one. Go find one and ask one. If you follow critical race theory to its logical conclusion, human beings will not flourish. That's a recipe for never-ending strife, never-ending conflict, never-ending upheaval.

That is the goal of critical race theory, and so if you try to wed that into the church and say, oh, it's a useful analytical tool, that is poison to the church. That is poison. Humans will not flourish.

If you start to overturn God's order and God, look, don't get mad at me. God set up the church in such a way where he said, look, women should not preach. Women should not be in leadership. They don't exercise authority over a man.

That's not my words. That's God's word. You start to say, well, and God created the world to work well in that way. So if you start to say, well, yeah, you know, but Beth Moore has a good word for us too.

Beth Moore can get on the stage and teach men. Beth Moore has a great word for us. Don't you know? Don't you know? She can preach in our church. Human beings will not flourish in a situation like that.

When you start to think that being fruitful and multiplying, like that is our big problem. That's the idolatry of the church. That's the big issue of the church right now. Oh yeah, yeah. It's we just care about the family too much.

We're too focused on the family. That overturns God's plan for the church of Jesus Christ. Because what does the Bible say? The Bible says that he brought men and women together so that he could have holy offspring.

This is the plan to take over the world. And so when you start to teach, oh yeah, yeah, that's just idolatry. Human beings will not flourish. Human beings will not flourish. So you want to talk about getting woke.

How's that for getting woke? Look at that tweet. Look at that tweet. On every key area in our society, when it comes to the culture, every key area, they are wrong. They're on the wrong side of it. They're trending to the wrong side of it.

They're going the wrong way. You know what I mean? Like I'm not saying that they're all the way and complete apostasy and all that kind of stuff. No, that's not what I'm saying. But they're all trending in the wrong way.

J .D. Greer is trending in the wrong way. Russell Moore is trending in the wrong way. Gospel Coalition is trending in the wrong way on all of those key cultural issues. And so you want to get woke? Get woke on that.

This is a battle. This is a battle. And we are not going to lose this battle. But it's time to get engaged in it. It's time to get engaged in it and treat it like a war because it is. Anyway, I hope this was helpful.

God bless.