The Emasculated Modern Church

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All right, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Jeff. And I am one of the hosts of Open Air Theology. I am also one of the elders at Covenant Reformed Baptist Church in Tallahoma, Tennessee. Something just fell.

I don't know which one of y 'all dropped something. So if you're ever out in Tallahoma, Tennessee, please stop by and hang out with a brother. And I'm going to pass it to my right.

Hi, I'm Haps Addison. One of the hosts here of Open Air Theology and Passing the Torch School of Apologetics. And I, too, am here in Tennessee, passing it down like the Brady Bunch.

Yeah, Pastor Braden Patterson with Valley Baptist Church in Hagerman, Idaho. We worship God on the Lord's Day at 11 a .m. If you're in the area, we'd love to see you. It's a real blessing to be able to hang out with these great brothers in the faith here, Jeff and Haps, and just being a part of Open Air Theology.

All right. Well, man, it's been a crazy month and a half. We had the conference. We had some troublemakers. And the last time that we did a video, we talked about that some. And then they went on. By they, I mean Kevin Thompson, the YouTube tough guy, went on to run his mouth.

Not only about me, which is fine. Apparently, you know, he was running his mouth about the kids at the conference as well. And so, you know, I don't know if any of y 'all know Kevin Thompson.

Yeah, nobody really knows Kevin Thompson.

Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what, son. James White texted me the other day and he said, hey, did you see this video? And I said, yeah, I saw it. I said, that's the YouTube tough guy. I said, because if he'd have ran his mouth like that at the conference, I wouldn't be a pastor today.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

But he was a Marine.

Yeah, I don't know. Maybe you don't know who I am. My name is Jeff. And I'm just not the one. So, yeah, Kevin Thompson is, I'm going to try to keep my pastorate right now. So, yeah, he's not a good dude.

I wouldn't consider him a brother. I would consider him an accuser of the brethren. And he's someone that runs his mouth about little kids.

That's sad.

But outside of that, you know, we're just trying to put our best foot forward. We're looking forward to the next conference. And I know last week, I mean, was it last week that we, no, it was the week before.

When was it that we had our last Open Earth Theology?

Two weeks ago.

Something like that. But we announced the name of the next conference. Well, the name has somewhat changed. Brayden, would you like to introduce the new I mean the topics are basically going to be the same.

But with a little more in your face.

We're trying to figure out something that would be good for all the different topics. And it's still on sanctification. But the name for this 2025 conference for Open Air Theology is going to be War.

War.

Open Air Theology. War.

All right.

Because as we all know, those of us who are Christians, that the spirit wars with the flesh. And so we're going to Bigfoot.

Yeah.

I would like to go to listen, if I'm lying, I'm dying. I would like to go to a Bigfoot conference.

And I would be a speaker if they asked me.

Just saying.

I would be a speaker.

Now watch you get some invitations.

Yeah, come on. So tonight's topic is the emasculated modern church. Kind of reminds me of Paul in Galatians where he wished that those who preached the Abrahamic covenant according to the flesh, circumcision, would emasculate themselves.

When I was preaching through this, I mentioned that he wished that they would be as they're circumcising, they would cut off their manhood and become like women, unable to have authority over men.

Hmm. Hmm.

That'll preach.

Oh, gosh.

So what do we do with this topic, right? How is it that the modern church is emasculated? Let's talk about it. Now what we'll probably do is we'll probably ask some questions and give some answers. Brayden, you want to

I've been talking for about five minutes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So this idea we were talking the other day and it was just about all the ways that the feminism, how effeminate in totality it seems to be that the entire church across the United States specifically is.

And it really the conversation really kicked off because we were talking about how there's so many Christians that don't like to use the words that we see in the Bible. Like, for example, fearing Yahweh or drunkard or homosexual or anything along those lines that are God calls like even those three that I mentioned right there, those two that I mentioned right there, sin.

Like, we should be OK with using the word that's sin. Like, and there's so many Christians today that say I'm a Christian and yet they don't want to offend at all. They don't want to call it as it is.

They don't want to call a spade a spade. And so there's almost this type of thought of I got to tiptoe around, be tolerant of the culture, and not offend anybody in the process. And so that's what we that's the whole reason of the topic that we're talking about is the emasculated church.

Why is it so malnourished? Why is it not behaving like a man? Why and what how does this even affect us individually, us in our church, us in our evangelism, us in our worship, us in several examples?

And so that's kind of what we're tackling today on that topic.

Yeah, so if you ask me, Jeff, what is the problem with our world? Why is it that our world seems to be falling apart? I would say the answer to that question is it's the church's fault. The world is in the condition that it's in because of the church.

The church, in my opinion, has stopped fearing God. And if you say, yeah, but, you are part of the problem. If you say, but fear doesn't really mean fear. You are a part of the problem. I was, as most of y 'all know, I'm a UFC fan, right?

I trained in martial arts most of my life. And I've mentioned this in the pulpit, and I want to gleam off of this a little bit. So there's this fruity, in my opinion. I mean, his last fight, he wore nothing but pink, right?

He looks like a clown. His name is Sean O'Malley. He may mention whenever he went over to some Muslim territory of how he can respect them because they fear God. But he doesn't respect Christians because Christians don't fear God.

And then I saw a video. What's that lady's name? I mentioned it to you, Brayden.

Andrew Tate.

No, but he was being interviewed by….

Candice Owens.

Candice Owens. And Candice Owens was like, you used to be a Christian. We could really use you on our side. And he made mention that Christians don't fear God. And as much as I disagree with so much of what these guys are saying, they're right.

They're right.

Christians do not fear God. I want you to picture this. I want you to imagine right now that you are in the middle of the ocean and you are in a rowboat, right? And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, a big old whale jumps up right in front of you.

Do you fear the whale or do you have respect for the whale? Or let's say that all of a sudden, as you're in this rowboat, a bunch of sharks start swimming by you. Do you fear the sharks or do you respect the sharks?

Ladies and gentlemen, God not only created those big old sea monsters that could swallow us or eat us. He created that big body of water. Matter of fact, the scripture says that he holds it in his hand.

He could crush everything. And yet we're not to fear him. I'm sorry, I'm on a little tangent here. But growing up, I feared my daddy. Even as a man, I feared my daddy. When my dad said, Jeff, do something.

Guess what Jeff did? I did the something that he told me to do. Not because I loved him. And yes, I did love him. But I feared my father. My kids do not clean up after themselves.

Right?

And they would never clean up because they love their dad. They only clean up when I say, clean your room now. And they clean their room now because they have a fear of their dad. It's healthy to have a fear.

Not that I'm going to destroy them. But I would punish them if they don't clean their room.

Right?

And there's something that my dad would never do.

Right?

He would never make me not his son. We're not saying that you fear God because he's going to, like if you're a Christian, he's going to remove from you your salvation. But ladies and gentlemen, God is the Lord.

He is our God. And we are to fear him. And the reason why the world is in the position that it's in is because Christians stopped fearing their God. We stopped proclaiming his holiness. We stopped proclaiming what we are supposed to do as Christians.

And that's the third use of the law. We are to read this book and do what it says. And people talk about they want revival. You are not going to get revival if you don't do what this book says.

Yeah, you know, I, you know, I honestly believe that the reason why there's a lack of a fear of God, that people have a different God. People, I mean, I got to be honest. You have a lot of people out there that have, I say this all the time, that they have a profession of faith and not a possession of faith.

Because if you did fear God, you'd keep his commandments. And his commandments is to believe in his name and love your neighbors. And it's also to do as he commands is to go and make disciples. And I think that what we've done is we've got the cart before the horse in Christianity and stuff.

And we're so in tune to numbers and bringing people in and making church attendees and not making followers of Jesus Christ. Because followers of Jesus Christ follow Christ. They pick up their cross and follow him, you know.

And sooner or later, you're going to have to get up on that cross. You know, and it's, we're not training young men. And I think it also, it has to do with a lot at the household also. You know, because it's, I think it was Michael that said it earlier.

But it's really a servanthood and leadership. And so if you're training your kids to just to sit around, eat food all day and play video games and all this and that and just show up to church, well, guess what they're going to do?

They're going to do just that, you know. But if we're training them in righteousness and raising them up and preparing them for what's out there, all right. And what's within the church. Because right now, a lot of people see the church that we're all experiencing and in right now and it's dead.

It needs revival. Revival actually is repentance, all right. That's true, revival is repentance. And we all fall short of the glory of God, yes. But we're not training them to go and proclaim the gospel.

Because they don't know the gospel. I just, me and Jeff just did a show the other night where me and a friend of mine out in Southern California went to like a hundred churches. And just, we just seen this influx of people day after day after day that again profess to know Christ.

And we go to these churches just asking them what the gospel is. They don't even know the basics.

So if they don't know the basics, look what you're going to get.

You know, I like how you brought that pick up your cross and follow after me. The reason why we don't see Christians doing that right now is there is no fear of Yahweh, right. If we understood that he is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, he's sitting upon his throne.

I'm more fearful of him than I am of the world. Put me on the cross. Let me follow after him. Let me get on the cross and follow after the Lord Jesus because I'm fearful of him, not fearful of the world.

My thought, I've got several places in the Bible where I was thinking about through with this. Hebrews 10, 31, it says, it is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Job, this is a text I preached through recently.

Job 28, at the end of the chapter, he says in verse 28, so he said to man, behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom and a turn away from evil is understanding. We should fear God.

We have to.

So I look at like Andrew Tate in that example he brought up, Jeff, with that interview with him and Candice. Andrew, obviously we know theologically he was not a Christian, right? There is no being a Christian and leaving and not being a Christian, but he professed to be a Christian, but he actually didn't really possess a fear of Yahweh.

He still doesn't have that fear. And even he as a secular unbeliever can see how the false professors of Islam and the false professors of all these different other religions, they have a greater fear of their false God than Christians have of the one and only God.

And it affects everything that we do within the Christian church. We're so worried about offending people. Pastors are even so offended of offending people because what do the people just do? So the pastor is effeminate because he's worried about offending somebody because he knows that the congregation is effeminate because if they're offended, he knows they're just going to walk out the door and go to the church down the street from him.

There's no accountability there. It's systematized in every aspect of the church today, and it's something that we have to be warring against within our local congregations, explaining the holiness of God and his immutability, the same God that says some pretty eye-opening things in the Old Testament, the ways that the Old Testament saints prayed to him.

He's the same God that we pray to today. And that's I recently said this. If you can say amen to a wonderful, salvific like I was just telling these guys before we came on here. If you could say amen to Yahweh as my shepherd, the Lord as my shepherd, but you can't say amen to let me turn to Psalm 69.

If you can't say amen, Psalm 69, verse 27 and 28, add iniquity to their iniquity, and may they not come into your righteousness. May they be blotted out of the book of life, and may they not be recorded with righteousness.

Like what? Like we can't say most Christians today, that's not in the Bible. No, that's in the same book that we have all these wonderful the Lord is my high tower. He's my high place. I will worship all those kind of wonderful psalms.

And if you can say amen to those things, you ought to be saying amen to even these kind of a text. We want a God that is worthy of our fear.

And that's what Job says. The reason why there's sin in the church is because people are not fearing God. I mean, let's just call a spade a spade, right? Now, if I wanted to kind of go off of what Habs said, that revival is repentance.

And I've been saying ever since we've been going through the book of Acts, focusing on the gospel, that revival is when God's people do what the word of God says. Revival is when God's people do what the word of God says.

Whenever God's people do what the word of God says, three things happen. Revival, church growth, and persecution. Everyone wants revival. Everyone wants church growth. But they don't want the consequences that come from those two things.

And that is repentance. And I may mention this past Lord's Day, Habs was there. You can go online and listen to it. That if you don't like what's said from the pulpit, this might not be the church for you.

I am going to preach the word of God. I'm going to call you to repentance. I'm going to call you to go out and reach your neighbors with the gospel. And why should you do that? Because God has commanded it.

He's commanded his disciples to make disciples. Matthew chapter 10, verse 28, Jesus speaking. He says, do not fear those who can kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Fear him. We are to fear God. When I witness to someone, my main agenda is to put the fear of God in them. That's what I want. I want them to fear God. I want them to know that God is holy and God demands us to keep his commandments.

First John chapter 2, verse 3. This is how we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. The one who says that he knows him and doesn't keep his commandments is a liar. Chapter 3, verse 23 and 24.

This is his commandments that we believe in the name of the son, Jesus Christ. And we love our neighbors as ourselves. If you're loving your neighbors as yourself, guess what you're doing? You're not lying to them.

You're not stealing from them. You're not coveting something that's theirs. You don't see them having something and you want it so bad that you wish that they didn't have it and you had it. You're not trying to sleep with their husband or their wife, right?

You love them. But the most loving thing that you can do for your neighbor, especially if they don't know Christ, is be that witness for them. We are called. I mentioned this last week. In the creation mandate, Adam.

I mentioned this at my church last week. God told Adam and Eve. What do you tell them to do? Fill the earth and multiply. God tells Noah and his seven and his three sons along with their wives to fill the earth and multiply.

Jesus tells his disciples, in other words, fill the earth and multiply. Go into all the world. Make disciples. Christians are under the same mandate as that creation as of creation to multiply and fill the earth.

How do we multiply and fill the earth? We you and I preach the gospel. God grants the birth, the new birth, right? And when a person is born again, we teach them. We baptize them. We teach them. We bring them up in the nurture and care of the Lord.

Humans beget humans. Christians, through the word of God, beget Christians. We are called to reach our neighbors. And you can only do that if you fear the Lord.

Yeah.

And, you know, also, you know, we really got to, I mean, let's really be honest about this. And we have different denominations out there and whatnot and stuff like this. But if you start with a man centered gospel, you're going to end up with the man centered results.

And if the whole church is structured around appeasing to the man and to the woman and all that type of stuff, you're going to get these results. And what happens when you you have a man centered gospel, you bring them into this self delusion because they're already centered on themselves anyways prior to Christ.

And so when you bring them into this, they're not in the hot pursuit of piety that they're in there.

Explain piety. Explain the difference between piety and pietism.

So, you know, piety is we're in the pursuit of righteousness and holiness and we have a fear of God. And this is that what we are pursuing. It's something that we it's like you you had this itch, this urge, this need to consume, to draw closer to the Lord and stuff.

But pietism is what do I got to do in order to get basically Jesus off my back and get me into heaven? What do I got to what do I got to do to what boxes do I got to check off?

So piety good, pietism bad.

Yes. And so that's what you get with a man centered gospel rather than a God centered gospel. So I think it all starts right there, because if somebody is given a man centered gospel, they already don't have a fear of God.

So it starts at the top and it trickles down, you know, and that's that's the problem right there. It's because it has become a man centered gospel, man centered religion. And remember, religion is worship of God.

Yeah.

Actually, Rene just said America is full of pietism.

Mm hmm.

That's true.

Yeah.

That's right, Ashley. Thank you for your comment.

You know, my mind, since we're talking about the fear of fear of the Lord right now, like I my mind is taking me just to the story of Noah and the ark.

Right.

Here you have the entire world and their thoughts are continually evil and blasphemous to God. And Noah finds favor in the eyes of the Lord. And then he builds an ark. And I just like think about being on the ark and feeling those waves, hearing.

I mean, undoubtedly, you would have been hearing people drown at first. Like, could you could you imagine that scene right there and know that God detests sin? And I'm so fearful of it. Do you think the people were sleeping in their beds all comfy or do you think that they were shuddering underneath that storm that was beating against the boat the entire time that there was a fear there?

I even go back to like the whole like I think Christians, they they they don't realize this. But like in Revelation chapter 22, when it says, Come, Lord Jesus, if you're a Christian that has ever prayed that, do you realize that you were praying the most severe, imprecatory prayer that you could ever utter?

Come, Lord Jesus. What are you asking for? Come and judge the wicked forever.

Yes.

All those unbelieving neighbors you have. If Jesus comes tonight. We'll suffer in the smoke and torment throughout all eternity when God answers that prayer.

Yep.

Come, Lord Jesus.

Right.

And you have Christians that don't even they're just taking a nap on the ark. They're just like, I'm good. I don't need to fear about this. I don't need to worry about this.

Or what about that message you preached, Brayden, at the conference? You made mention in the Old Testament concerning limited atonement about about the father having to sacrifice the lamb for his firstborn.

Right.

When God gave this message to Moses.

Right.

Do you think that those guys, those fathers with the firstborn would have put the blood of the lamb on the doorpost if they did not fear God? I say no. They saw all the plagues come in and saw how they were being protected and saw how everyone else was suffering.

And then they were told, listen, unless you slaughter this lamb, consume it and put the blood on the doorpost and the lentil, your child, your firstborn son is going to die. They believe that in fear, slaughter the lamb, consumed it and placed the blood on the door.

Yep.

I like think about like you go into the average typical Christian church today and there's I don't want to offend anyone. There's no eagerness to go out and preach the gospel. There's no concern about the neighbor.

Truly, there's really no fear of Yahweh inside the house of God in those cases. And you listen to their music. What kind of music are they listening to? Is it something that actually reflects the attributes of God or is it something that they could replace the name of Jesus with their boyfriend or significant other?

There's no fear there. There's no fear there. They have taken Jesus who is sitting upon his throne and have put him in the hippie outfit and made him into the biggest wuss that no man would ever be scared of.

And you can't do that with hymns. You cannot do that with hymns. You cannot contribute your boyfriend's name in any hymn.

Nope.

You go sing a mighty. Fortresses are gone.

Yeah. Right.

Come now found like you can't beat out my vision. Like no, you just can't. And that's what the church for many years was writing and singing and praying amongst with one another is things that actually reflected the true attributes of God.

And so like it's feminism and the masculated type of thinking that is inside the church is so systematized and everything that we have. It's in our music. It's in the preaching. It's in the congregation.

It's it's in the way that we behave and act in our lives. I'm never going to tell my neighbor about the gospel. I'm never going to worry about going out and doing evangelism. You then I think you see that in the prayer life of the Christian as well.

You don't see an actual reflecting of prayers like what David was uttering. Where else can we go with that? There's so it just this is why the church is as weak as it is today. We have geared church to try to get the children to come in and then try to get the women to come in and the men like it's not that important.

And you look at statistics and when a whole family is converted to Christianity, it's when the husband is the first one to come into it. And I'm sorry, but husbands aren't going to come into a weak church.

They're not.

They're not.

They're not like in the little kids ministry that you got going on. They don't like the effeminate music that you're singing. You need to be calling men to repent and believe in the gospel. That's how you make change in the world is by acting like men inside the church.

And the church ought to be fearing Yahweh and actually obeying his commands. I mean, like I said, you go to that first Corinthians text that drunkards and homosexuals and all these things. How many people today say, oh, I'm a Christian.

And yet you you're like, oh, I don't like to watch the preacher at the LGBT pride parade because that just that's I got a cousin that's gay. I got a cousin that's that's I got a cousin that's a queer.

That's an ally. That just doesn't come off right.

Fear Yahweh.

Fear Yahweh.

Stop that.

You fear.

You're fearing the world. You're fearing your family. You're fearing what people would think about you. I don't care what the culture thinks about me. I care what God thinks about me.

And, you know, it's, you know, and, you know, the beautiful thing about, you know, the Lord and his his words that he has preserved for us, you know, here. I mean, like I just pulled up Second Timothy right here.

And it really comes down to this. He warned us ahead of time. That this was going to happen. And you see when you look out through church history, it's so funny because I look back at like Charles Spurgeon when he's saying the people of these this this time and where he was over in England and everything weren't fearing God.

You go here over and over and over and over again. It's kind of like a Nile mill thing. I don't know. But the just right here, you know, he says, I charge you in the presence of God. Second Timothy four and of Jesus Christ, who is the judge, the judge who is to judge the living and the dead.

And by his appearing in his kingdom, preach the word. Be ready in season. Reprove, rebuke and exhort with complete patience and teachings. This is the part right here. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wonder off in myths.

And.

You know, just to finish it, he says, as for you, always be sober minded, endure suffering and do the work of evangelism, fulfill your ministry. But we see that we have people that that do not endure sound doctrine and they look for teachers to tickle their ears.

And so that that's that's what you see that's going on. It's not rocket science. You see it. And and that is the the the wide path. And then over here is the narrow path. And the wide path leads to hell.

All right.

And that's why there's so many people in it, because it's all about them. And they have more of a fear of man than a fear of God. That that's that's over here.

Yep.

You got pastors today that are tucking their weenies behind the pulpit because they're too afraid to actually tell people to repent, believe in the gospel.

Bruh. Yeah.

Clip it.

You didn't use the right pronouns.

No, it shouldn't be funny. But it's it's a sad thing.

But it's pretty funny.

What have we done to him? He's always had it in him.

Yeah, he's always had it in him. He just needed somebody to get it out of.

Like, it's just it's crazy, dude.

Like, I just man, it's.

Somebody just said. Christian nationalism isn't sound doctrine.

Well, I think you need to tell me again, this isn't a thing on Christian nationalism.

Yeah, it's not.

And I don't claim the title, but I would say that I'm I'm more like in practice, more of a Christian nationalist than people who claim the title. And I say that because I go out regularly and evangelize my neighborhood.

I want my neighbors to become Christians.

All right.

So.

And also, you know, like when it when it's us going out there again, I'm going to bring it back to this and we have a man centered gospel and everything with a man centered gospel. There's not a real true call to repentance and faith and showing them that they're they're a sinner in the hands of an angry God.

And and this man centered gospel teaches them and puts this in them. Jesus came to save you from you. Instead of no, no, no. Jesus came to save you from him. That that's that's where it's at right there.

That's right.

I digress.

We're saved from God, by God, by God.

All right.

I mean, listen, it's God's wrath.

Yeah.

That we are to fear. Again, Jesus says, do not fear those who can kill the body.

So.

So right now.

So.

So first century Judaism. Now, at this time, the Jews wasn't weren't legally allowed to put you to death. But underneath the law, you know, those certain sins that you could commit that required a sacrifice.

But blaspheming, adultery. And there's some other things like you could be put to death by stoning.

Right.