Definition. Christian nationalism is a set of governing principles rooted in Scripture teaching that Christ rules the Supreme Lord and King of all creation who has ordained civil magistrates with delegated authority to be under him or the people to ordain their ordained jurisdictions by punishing evil and promoting good for his own glory and the common good of the nations.

I'm so grateful for that. That's what we're talking about when we talk about a nation under the rule of Christ, is that from the very top, they acknowledge the lordship of Christ, their fidelity towards the triune God of Holy Scripture, that the ultimate authority in the nation is the law word of God.

We're in a conversation that is a principled conversation standing on foundations from God's Word. First, the authority of Jesus Christ over all. Next, His law is transcendent and defines the limits of civil government.

Yeah. Christian nationalism is the idea that nations, not just ours, not just America, but that all the nations are Christ's inheritance, that they should explicitly declare an allegiance to Christ and His Lordship as demonstrated through the Scripture, that they should execute their powers, they should execute their duties, their responsibilities Christianly.

So it's just basically the idea that Christ is Lord over absolutely everything and there is no part of the universe that is not his. And this is clearly taught in the New Testament in Colossians 1, 15 through 20, Ephesians 1, 20 through 23, and of course, the Great Commission.

It's easy to think of it there. But since Christ is Lord over, and we've gone over this many times, Lord over everything, all. When we come over to this sphere and we look at the governments of this earth, they have to follow Christ exactly as much as these folks over here do, as the church does, as we do when we come to worship Christ on Sunday morning, when we set up our churches with elders and deacons, when we preach the Word, when we administer the sacraments, ordinances, sacraments.

A refusal to read the law as having been fulfilled in Christ and Christ as King still ruling and reigning and mediating the authority of God in our lives.

Christ is the King of kings. He's the King of all the other kings. And we have to believe that in more than just a sloganized kind of a way, because if you ask the random Christian, do you believe Christ is Lord over the government?

That here Christ displays His Lordship. We've talked about His Lordship, we've talked about His authority. Here again, Christ displays His Lordship over the Old Covenant law. His authority extends not only to the sick and to the paralyzed, but also to the very law of God.

We can do this in a way that honors Christ as Lord, or we can do this in a way that honors something else as Lord. It is obvious that we should be working towards a Christian nation as opposed to a secular one.

And so using the document that we read earlier, the definition there is Christian nationalism is a set of governing principles rooted in scripture teaching that Christ rules as supreme lord and king of all creation, who has ordained civil magistrates with delegated authority to be under him over the people to order their jurisdiction by punishing evil and promoting good for his own glory and for the common good of the nation.

I mean, if you really believe, Psalm chapter 2, that we are, that the nations are Christ's, God's gonna give them all to Jesus, the inheritance is the earth, the ends of the earth, if you believe that all the kings of the earth are supposed to obey Jesus and kiss the sun, then what does the nation look like that does that?

Where do we ever get the idea that the nations are going to come under Jesus' rule and that the law of God was going to be a constituent element of that salvific kingdom? People get saved. Their hearts are transformed.

So I am living in light of the law of God because I am being graceful to someone else and I think one of the goals of of theonomy and I made this as a post would be to get back to the simple few roles that the Bible does give the government and you guys brought up some of those which was to to wield the sword and then the other ones were or are to reward the righteous and to punish the wicked and and that's very what we like to say limiting government and we need to get back to a limited government but then we need to recentralize we need to decentralize government have a limited government and recentralized Christ and so that goes back into this this sphere sovereignty topic that we talked about we want to we want to honor Christ and his law above all in my own life in my family in my church and then it would just begin to spread into the other spheres of sovereignty into the community local community into the government.

Say Christ is King without hesitation and say it to everybody without hesitation. There's there's no reason to even give Consideration anything less than that. It's biblical it is Taught throughout scripture and you can't get away from it.

Right. Right. Right. You can't baptize a nation. That's right. But you can baptize those who believe in that nation. And the point is all nations are fair game because Jesus is Lord.

Christ is king. The earth, the animals, the humans, those who are sinners, those who are unrepentant, those who have repented and found salvation. Families, church, and earthly government. The mediatorial kingship of Christ says this in scriptural terms.

Because I actually don't think that's what he's saying, but we're Christianizing nations. What he's saying is you're proclaiming the, and listen to the defense of the theonomist. For those of you who are yelling at me, I know you guys believe that the way that the, the world is Christianized is through the proclamation of the gospel, not through the law.

Please do not confuse a biblically defensible concept of Christ as Lord over the nations and the centrality

He's gonna bring God's authority and God's law. He's gonna bring real life and real tangible blessings to real people who are underneath his rule. The idea that Jesus' kingdom is not gonna transform this world into a better space, and he's gonna heal the curse, and he's gonna heal everything that was broken, even down to the obedience of the pagan nations, is not a concept that is rooted in scripture, but it comes from a priori assumptions from dispensational and even amillennial pastors whose systems don't align with what we're seeing in the first five books of the Bible.