Smile. #Coronavirus Special

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Courage in Hard Times and the Great Commission

Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men lauding them for their courage.

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Philippians 4 and Rejoicing in the Lord

Welcome everybody. Welcome back to apology or radio. This is the gospel heard around the world Philippians 4 for rejoicing the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. Let your gentleness reasonableness be known to everyone.

The Lord is at hand. Do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication. With Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding.

Will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. That's what we need to hear right now, right? Yes. All right, guys, so if you guys want more go to apology of studios .com. That's a POL o GIA studios .com.

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That's Luke the bear right there. What are you guys are just hopping on you saw the title of the episode was smile. Smile, it's the corona virus special. People like well, how can you smile about corona virus?

Well rejoice in the Lord always again. I will say rejoice I know that right now. Well, we thought your feeds right now are inundated with news articles and all the stuff about the CDC and all the stuff about coronavirus new new a good stuff happening in terms of malaria Treatment that's actually shown to be very effective against corona virus.

Tested in France and some other places. So good news on that front. But also you're seeing of the other things about shutdowns and you're seeing things about martial law. And they are TIAL not Marshall.

Hey, dude, Marshall. What's happening? Martial law you're seeing things about Businesses being closed down now permanently. They're shuttering their doors because they're not gonna be able to make it through this.

You're seeing now struggles with people losing their jobs. It's we're already seeing an apology at church. We've got families have lost their jobs. No promise of it ever coming back. I've got family members that have just got a call this week lost his job.

It's done. And I fired a bunch of them or not fired laid off a bunch of employees. So the effects of corona virus at the moment seem to be most devastating. To the American people in terms of the economy itself.

And so you're seeing all of that. And I'm seeing it and I saw a funny meme the other day. It was Who's that? Pastor James would know this who's that? Who's the Star Trek captain with the bald head? What's our pick?

Yeah, maybe Picard. I'm guessing I think I don't know I don't I know nothing about Star Trek and he's sitting there and shares like every morning when I wake up you. You're it's always damage report and like right.

Let's see. Yeah, let's see what's happened the last couple days. I'm not a Trekkie.

No, so please.

Understand yeah, don't get angry with us. I'm guessing well at any rate what pastor Luke and I what the bear and I would like To do for this episode is we wanted to do some serious stuff. We're gonna try to engage with some of Rhett and Link's commentary over their apostasy.

It's sad because Good Mythical Morning is like that was your jam. It's like yeah my jam. I love the Good Mythical Morning and for me It wasn't even so much that like I knew these guys were like professing Christians.

I learned later like after I had been watching Good Mythical Morning for a long time I learned much later that they were they they did stuff for VeggieTales and oh, I didn't even know I thought was they were great.

I thought they were great and I heard they were Christians like that's cool. That's great. Wonderful. They did good content and they've both recently I guess fairly recently Apostatized or fallen into apostasy and now they're coming out and making sure that everyone knows why and it's interesting how people will often do that and So we're gonna try to engage them with some of that.

Hopefully we do in a meaningful way in a helpful way, but we also want to have fun today. Because your feeds are filled lighten it up. Yeah, your feeds are filled with you know, the world's gonna end by the way no, and No, the plans for the kingdom of God in Scripture are much bigger and they are vast and We've got a long way to go and not saying that there can't be plagues and things to wipe out populations and all the rest.

But if you are quoting Matthew 24 Luke 21 mark 13 related to coronavirus. Your exegesis is off. And if you want me to answer that Go through our feed here and go through our study in our series on the Great Tribulation Matthew 24.

And I think that is demonstrated very clearly from the text of Scripture and historically that is not the case. So let's not let's not apply Matthew 24 and the Great Tribulation passages to what's happening today.

Or you're gonna find yourself in the same Situation as Christians throughout history that have tried to do that with every pandemic every plague that occurred. They were like this is the end. We're over.

Jesus is returning at any moment and then all of a sudden it passes away and then you look foolish. For putting words in Jesus's mouth. And so let's not do that. God's in full control be anxious about nothing.

Let's have some fun. But before do you want to just maybe just start with this kick off? Should we kick off with the what should we do first? Let me have so much do we have some funny stuff to play for you guys.

Should we start off since we did Corona? Should we talk would you go through Doug's thing real fast? Yeah, let's do that. Okay, we're gonna play if we're gonna play for everybody our friend Pastor Douglas Wilson.

Speaking on a coronavirus outbreak at least at least to sort of lay down some. Take a breath think with wisdom approach it in a godly thoughtful manner. Let's not behave like the world in terms of panic and fear and not being wise and and being thoughtful through it.

We're gonna do an episode next week. Lord willing. That's the plan next week. We're gonna do an episode where we try to really dig into the corona virus from a biblical perspective. Talking about quarantine biblical quarantine laws that those are actually justified at times.

How do we apply those and in terms of how should the church respond to it? Do we shut down worship. Is it right to just simply yield to the government whenever they say by decree? We say this is a pandemic and now close the churches and destroy the economy.

Does the church have any authoritative way to speak to that? And a way to speak to that with godly wisdom and With biblical principles all hanging in the balance. So we're gonna do that next week. Yeah, but today we want to at least start this off with I think some biblical form of sanity.

From Doug and let's do that first. I think that's probably the wisest choice. And then we'll get into some fun stuff today. So let's go ahead and do that. So this is Pastor Doug talking about coronavirus.

Seattle was trending this morning. How should Christians be responding to the corona virus? They should go wash their hands right now. More Purell more more Purell wash their hands basically I would sum it up as keep calm and wash your hands.

So. So you have kind of a no big deal approach to it or no, I think it I think it's a big deal but I think it's a I think that it's a. Our lives are surrounded all the time by big deals. Mm-hmm. Okay, so 25 ,000 Americans, let's say I've not looked this up recently, but let's say 25 ,000 Americans die annually in car wrecks.

Okay. Well. That's a big deal, right? But that doesn't it didn't probably didn't even occur to you when you hopped in your car this this morning. From what I've there's there are a number of things about this and it's hard to.

This is hard to navigate. Because you're we're we're trying it. We're having to deal with the corona virus at the same time that there's been a marked breakdown of trust in our public institutions. Okay, and some of that breakdown of trust is richly deserved.

Right, so the CDC is A public health organization their job their job is to equip us for situations just like this, right? But how many Americans die of the regular flu. Every year, right and and so the question in order to answer that question We have to go to the CDC for statistics.

And if there's a breakdown of trust then that opens the door wide for conspiracy theorists. You know of the Russian collusion didn't work release the virus, right? Okay. Okay, so you've got that kind of thing, but and and sometimes the CDC Reacts to infectious diseases like a hen with one chick.

Yeah, they just that's their whole reason for existence and so they They pounce on it. They hover over it and it's their job to make it a big deal. Right? Okay, fine. That's that's all right. But what's actually going on?

How bad you know, let's say this whole thing passes. Right and two months from now what we're trying to remember what the corona virus scare was. It's quite possible that any number of Americans had the corona virus.

Thought thought that they had the flu or thought that they had a bad cold and never went to the doctor. Right, right and because they never went to the doctor. They never had corona virus. Diagnosed. Yeah.

Well, how many times has that happened in the past where something didn't get tagged now? I'm not making assertions here. I'm just I'm just saying Look this I don't see reason for Panicking. I do I do think that it's shutting down.

Travel from certain hard-hit areas is a prudent thing to do. I. What about church on Sunday? Would you shut down church? Yes, I would if there were if there were. Mmm, let's say multiple cases of Corona diagnosed coronavirus here in Moscow.

Mm-hmm. I would in principle be willing to To cancel church for a week or two would it? Okay, so in principle in principle, so.

So, there you go, I think that's good. That's a good start to the conversation and as you guys are just joining us again we are.

Today.

Very much wanting to have a time of smiling and relaxing, of course, we know your feeds are just absolutely inundated with information from the news from the CDC from friends from people and outright panics to people saying Shut up.

It's no big deal. That's sort of a thing. And so we wanted today to have some fun. But I think that that's some wise Counsel there. Yeah from Doug and and if I could just at least lay this down to prepare everybody for next week.

In Principle there are there is biblical law related to quarantine. And so it is it is an issue of biblical law and standards of justice and what is right? However, just because there is a biblical law for quarantine doesn't mean it's always appropriate for the government to wield it and We have to weigh a lot of things in the balance here.

And I think it's important to recognize That elders of churches have to all make decisions before the Lord that they'll answer for and they have to do them To the glory of God and I think one thing we need to make sure we're not doing is cutting each other's throats as Christians during this time if elders of one church make one decision and they're doing it before the Lord as an act of Worship towards him and to protect their people and to love God and love neighbor.

Then we need to rejoice and say praise God. I may disagree with how you're handling that but I'm not going to cut your throat or disrespect you. And in terms of if you have another instance where elders say, you know what?

I agree that quarantine is biblical and there could be a biblical Reasoning and and just reasoning behind quarantine however I recognize also that we are not living under a Christian or godly state at the moment and That our state may not may be making decisions in a wise or biblical Fashion, they may not even be making Decisions in a rational fashion and they may be totally inconsistent and you might have pastors that say look I believe the worship of God gathering together on Sunday is of vital importance.

It's a command of God and we can't just whenever the government says so Close down worship as because the government says so or alter it all because the government says so because they say, you know We've got 10 cases here 20 cases here.

So therefore all churches across the state need to stop meeting. Pastors may say well I think you need to also consider love for neighbor as a biblical law and mandates and we need to ask the question if we close down businesses and industry.

We are destroying an economy and families. These are real people real faces real children who are not gonna be able to feed their kids or put diapers on their babies or by formula as a result of people Overreacting to something.

I'm not saying that there is an appropriate time for reaction and quarantine those sorts of things. But just just cuz the government says it doesn't mean it's so and the church does have authority. To be able to look to the government and say, you know what?

That's right. That's a wise and biblical law and and and Handling of the law and so we'll submit to that because we think it's very very wise and you're thinking rationally and rightly and there's other times that the government might say Yeah.

I don't really think we should destroy say Arizona's economy completely and put these families out in the street and and and potential evictions. Down the road and in businesses closing their doors permanently because of two months with no business.

I don't think it's really wise to destroy our neighbors completely at this point. You know I'm saying so pastors have to weigh all those things in the balance and pastors I want to say this don't have the luxury of being reactionary.

Pastors do not have the luxury of being reactionary. Pastors are not allowed to simply see media a media dump of Panic panic panic panic panic and pastors go. I guess I have to respond like them. Pastors have to actually think about things biblically.

Pastors have to think about things in a patient manner. Pastors have to examine biblical principles and say how am I supposed to handle this? And pastors shouldn't be the kinds of leaders that simply say what's that?

Where's the stream headed? Let me jump in and that's where we should go because you got to think about consistency here. And I want you maybe add to this too I think you got anything about consistency here if pastors are going to say peanut butter.

Spread Romans 13 baby obey your governing authorities. I want to say you don't really believe that. You don't believe that in every circumstance Romans 13 is an appropriate response. And someone says no no not always appropriate to say fine.

So we're all in agreement that Romans 13 doesn't mean universal authority of the of the state. It means the state is God's deacon don't forget that God's deacon who's deacon. God's deacon not the deacon of some other God not the servant of some other God the servant of God which means that the role of the State is to actually handle the issue of punishing the evildoers and protecting the righteous.

But what is the state who is the state under under God according to Romans 13 which God the true God. So who should they be obeying the true God? And so what we recognize is that there are instances in Scripture where you have clearly clearly clearly the people of God.

Rejecting the authority of the state when the state is not acting wisely or submissively to the king and so you of course you can go about with Daniel bow just bow just bow or sorry a Shadrach Meshach and Abednego just bow just bow.

No, you could have issues like say Enacts where of course you get the Apostles being told. By that by the by the authorities stop preaching in Jesus name and they say very clearly we must obey God rather than men.

It's not to say that there may not be a time completely where pastors that say no biblical quarantine is appropriate here. It's right here. It's just here. We need to manage this. Absolutely, it's just to say that we can't peanut butter slather Romans 13 over every instance.

When the government says you do we don't necessarily say as the authorities in the church. Absolutely. We obey. Yes Caesar. The church has the right to say are you serving the king right now? Are you being wise?

Are you loving neighbor right now is the decision you're making right now as the authoritative government? Is it something that's going to destroy and hate my neighbors? That's also a thing that has to be held in as a principle.

So what I'm saying is is the right balanced perspective pastorally speaking biblically speaking as communities is to hang together in the balance biblical laws regarding quarantine biblical laws of the preservation of life biblical laws about the Subordinate authority of the state very important biblical laws about again loving neighbor caring for neighbor we need to uphold that and say as Pastors do we find it wise that we Plunge the economy into a depression as a result of something that at the moment We're looking at the numbers and we could say, you know We've got things like this that face us on a on an annual basis and if we're gonna be consistent here and just say yes, we're gonna close down worship and just Decimate the economy as a result of a viral threat.

Then are you prepared to do it the next three times this year when? Influenza is a thing the next strain of the influenza actually is wiping out a lot of the population. We're gonna close down services.

Are we gonna close down businesses? I'm not saying there's never a time to do that. I already acknowledged that biblical quarantine is is a thing and it can be just I'm saying that pastors have to do this Patiently they have to do it with wisdom.

And they have to deal with a knowledge of a lot of biblical principles sort of stacked up together. And you have to think through those things very thoughtfully rather than as I said Just jumping into the stream of the population in the media who says panic everybody Kill the economy destroy families destroy businesses.

It doesn't matter. Well, how many cases do you have in your area right now to? And it's like so decimate The finances of all of the people in your state because at the moment you have that many. You might want to think about that.

You might want to reconsider that and think about there are maybe other ways to handle this in the short term Rather than overreacting and decimating families. So that's that's just a start getting you ready for next week.

We're gonna do a more Expanded version of this getting into the text. We'll have a guest on we're gonna address some of these things Hopefully more helpful way, but we want to have fun. Go ahead. Yeah, so I thought that.

Duck duck.

I thought I thought duck duck goose did a good job.

He said the smile, right? So Doug Doug Wilson he hit he hit the nail on the head when he's talking about principles and. That's that's been our whole Conversation is we're trying to make decisions based upon principles.

So the principle is that God has ordained different spheres of government. Self family church civil and it's it's an overreach for the civil government to tell the church government how to do things. So we're saying it should be up to each local church government on how to handle their their flock individually.

And so that's the principle. That's where we're coming from in this conversation. And I mean as of right now our we don't our flocks in no real danger. So we have quarantined.

We have done quarantine ourselves. Yes. To specific families that may be at risk. Yes, we we did it out of love for everybody. You quarantine right now until we know everything's all right. Yeah, but look with that that's coming from the church.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, and and ultimately, you know, I People keep saying well, it's you know, it's the church's Responsibility pastors responsibility to love neighbor and like you said, there's a lot that goes into that.

It's not just health and it's you know, also Economically and believe believe me we know When at when people are hurting guess who's dealing with that when people need money guess who's dealing with pastors?

Exactly, and nobody thinks about that and so it's our our duty to make sure our Fox taking care of as well and I say that the whole love your neighbor thing should start with Individual government. Mm-hmm.

Like so if you're feeling sick and you're not feeling well, you should take that upon yourself. To say I'm going to self quarantine, you know. And I think the problem is everybody's so used to the state being the Savior and the Messiah And so we're expecting the state to make these decisions for the good of the people and then they drop it down to the passers.

It's like well actually it should start with the individual. That's what that's where love for neighbors should start with right there. And.

So there was someone's gonna say I lost it. No, that was excellent. That was very clear.

But that that's oh, I know that I want to make sure that we're clear like We're not sitting here saying because I've heard this from people we're not saying well. We're being singled out as a church. The point is that This is an actual ordained sphere of government from God and there's there's an overstep In those spheres and so, you know, but again if we're at a spot where we're like, you know What our flock is in serious danger, we're gonna be wise.

We're not being careless. We're not being cavalier. We're trying to look to the good of everyone and then yeah and way like you said way those what it's really it's really important.

And if we get let's let's end it on this because it's going to do the whole show a whole show on this. But it's really important. Like pastor Luke says you got to weigh all these things in the balance and think about them with godly wisdom.

If the government says hey, we want to love our neighbors and and you go. Hey, I like that I like that love for neighbor is that's the second greatest commandment. Everything hangs on that love God love neighbor and they want you all to love your neighbors and we go fantastic.

I'm on board sign up. What's the legislation and they go? We're gonna close down all these businesses for the next two or three months and. Yeah, and you go we go. Excuse me. Hold on right? I thought we said we were loving our neighbors here and they go.

No, we are from the potential threat of this disease and you go. Okay good. You're thinking wisely. You need to take all those things into consideration. How many cases do we have right now and they go right now we have about 20 cases right now in in the whole state.

Yeah, and so you're gonna shut down numerous cities and close down numerous family businesses and you're gonna put people out of work and lay off families and all these different things and Then that's gonna become now a tax burden for the entire state.

So now everyone else is gonna get their taxes increased more taken away from them because of what you're choosing to do so now we have. I Thought we were trying to love our neighbors here. Are we loving our neighbors or not?

Because what I see is now my neighbor being decimated by your decision. What you said was to love your neighbor. And so what we have to do is try to think about that in the most godly and wise way. How do we best love our neighbor in cases like this?

And so what we're doing as pastors is we're looking across the landscape and what we're doing is we're saying Okay guys take special care take steps to do this. Make sure you're loving one another you feel ill or sick or whatever.

Do not come to church. Do not come to worship try to stay away from everybody and we're also saying to people who may potentially be what who were in The medical field. We're saying if you have any kind of contact then you right now need to quarantine yourself from the body.

Right, and that's that's appropriate wise godly decision-making that's coming from a local church context and guess what we didn't do. We didn't decimate an entire city's finances. Through doing that and so you you just I think what you just said was beautiful.

You just said that people today see government as our Savior and as our Messiah. So there's a difficulty in the community was the first thing to do they go save us. Yeah, save us and and and that's that's part of the problem.

Yeah.

Because a lot of times in the good when the Messiah when the state Messiah comes to save you. It comes with a lot of pain a lot of removal of freedoms and it comes with a lot of new controls. I saw Nancy Pelosi that dirty old that dirty old lady.

See what she did. She she tried to squeeze in some abortion funding into the million dollars into the corona virus thing. It's like you dirty old hag. So it just it just shows the wickedness. Right. And that that's my point.

The state's the Messiah the states. Okay, great. So like what we'll save you and then all the while they're saving you. They're destroying other people and you're adding things like that in there. So yeah.

All right, and just quickly I would say even in an apology of church. We now at this point have more people that have lost their jobs. Yeah, then we do people that have even come in contact or the need to be going.

Well, that's a good point those and let's let's definitely put it put a pin in that to say that's the key thing. Is that Monday morning you and I are waking up to phone calls from our church body saying I was laid off.

I don't have a job. My hours are cut down to 15 hours. And the as pastors, that's what we're seeing. Yep. So when we talk about we need to love our neighbors. I'm looking at the neighbors who are being decimated right now going but do you right but do you love them?

How about them? Do they get love too? Hold that in the balance at all times as you give it the wise godly decision that doesn't just peanut butter slather Romans 13 or Love your neighbors you love yourself because I'm gonna say I believe in those completely and we need to hold those things together with godly Wisdom.

Okay, so we got to go Recently, we're gonna get to you know, what? Let's let's do this. Let's do something fun first and then let's go into playing a clip of William Wallace. We're gonna tell you what happened in Scotland and what God did so let's.

This is a fun one. The video is a little fuzzy on this one, but I you just need to see it. Anyways, guys, this is really good. Jim Brewer talking about why mothers need their sleep. I saw Jim Brewer live.

He actually is married. She's a Christian now his wife's a Christian now and she's obviously having some great influence on him and his his more modern stuff. I went to his comedy thing at the improv and I I was my stomach hurt so bad from laughing.

It was one of the best comedy things I've ever seen and all his jokes were like Lit they were all Christian worldview kind of jokes. They were he was like totally desk. He was totally dissing porn and and all his jokes were like I was like a Christian.

This is like a Christian comedy show and people were dying and there was no there was no foul language or anything like that at all. It was actually pretty amazing. So here's Jim Brewer on why mothers need their sleep.

The best is uh, I'm gonna help every man in here because again, they don't teach you about father like real fatherhood. The best thing you could do as a father is Make sure your wife the mother of your children.

Get as much rest as possible because sleep deprivation in a mother leads to murder. They see it on the news like another woman drowned her kids and she just needed a nap. That was it. It's true. My wife's a beautiful woman and she installs faith in life.

She's like, you know the kids and make sure you thank God for a wonderful day and just thank them for everything We have and just we're blessed and but if she don't nap. She don't sleep. The devil goes.

I'll take over from here. And there is nothing worse than waking up as a man in the middle of the night like 5 in the morning and your wife. Just sitting on the edge of the bed. Just staring at you. Baby, what are you doing?

What why are you not? What are you doing up so early up so early?

I haven't been to bed yet. I haven't had any sleep whatsoever.

Well, we we came to bed together at 10 and we went to bed. No, no. No No.

No, you fell asleep at 10. I was up. And who can fall asleep when you fall asleep because you pass out. Your mouth is always facing my way. It smells like someone defecating your mouth and your breath is disgusting.

It's disgusting. You need to go to a doctor. I have no eyebrows left because you're blowing on my face. And I kick you and I shove you and you don't even move. Would you. You wouldn't even wake up if we were attacked in the middle of the night you would hear nothing.

Why don't you go to sleep. I wish I could.

And then just when I was ready to fall asleep The three-year-old came walking in woke me up. She was filled with pee. She peed in her bed again. She wet her whole bed and then I have to change her clothes and then now she's mad and she throws a fit and then I throw a fit and we're running around.

I'm doing the clothes and I have to change the covers and you know why she wet the bed. Because you.

Gave her water. Before bedtime. I tell you. Don't give the children any liquid before bedtime. I don't want to bed. But you don't listen. You want to be the good guy all the time. By the way, I killed the cats.

Moms need their sleep. Just funny as with Augustine. My my newly adopted son or the son I'm in the process of adopting. I'm learning now like it before when I was like 25 to 29 30 years old. I could go off to our sleep.

No big deal, but man, I'm not now. No. I'm learning like as I'm 42 years old on my wife to like I'm learning like we used to be able to handle no sleep. No problem, but but man. It's different now. It's so different as you get a whole turn like not sleeping all night.

He's got basically he's like a butterball right now because he he's getting so big and he eats so much but he's got he's like I'm a newborn schedule right now. I'm like every every three hours. We're still up with him.

I'm gonna make the bottle heat it warm it. He's taking like 30 minutes to drink it then he wants to laugh and he wants to play and I'm like no. Please go to sleep. Please go to sleep. But yeah, same we all need our sleep.

Let's talk about what happened in Scotland and Ireland. But as we do let's make sure we play what has to be played anytime you talk about Scotland and Ireland is this.

Wallace is seven feet tall Kills men by the hundred and if he were here he consumed the English with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his. And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny.

You've come to fight as three men and three men you are. How will you do without freedom to fight? And we will live. Fight and you may die. Run and you'll live. At least a while and dying in your beds many years from now.

Would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that? For one chance just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies That they may take our lives. But they'll never take.

Freedom.

Epic that movie never ever ever gets old. No, it's one it's one under any circumstance so as we start this discussion and we'll say we have very very close friends and brothers and sisters in Christ in in Northern Ireland the Republic of Ireland and Scotland and especially Jono and Rakela.

Jono is is Irish and Rakela is from Scotland. Yeah, and it was so amazing that my favorite part Memories that I'll never lose Was when we when we left Ireland's Rakela wanted to come with us to make sure she you know Guided us in our homeland and everything else.