NXR Podcast - BONUS - Takeaways from the Midterm Election for Christians
Aired: 2022-11-16
Duration: 01:28:23


=== Close 2020 Election States (13:39) ===

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[00:00:18]  All right, welcome to another live episode, live QA with myself, Pastor Joel Webben, host of Right Response Ministries.
[00:00:24]  Today I wanted to start off talking about the election that we just recently had, the midterm election that was.
[00:00:32]  Well, it was forecasted to be a red wave, perhaps even a red tsunami.
[00:00:37]  And the reality is, there were some good things that came about out of this election, but it really wasn't a red wave.
[00:00:43]  And you could argue that it wasn't even a red tide, it was more of a red trickle.
[00:00:49]  And we noticed some very clear reasons for that, one of them having to do with the way that women vote, particularly single women, the way that marriage and gender affect people's political views, their priorities, their values, and the way that they Ultimately, they are influenced by their status as man or woman, married or single, when they enter into the voting booth.
[00:01:15]  And so we'll talk about that here in just a moment.
[00:01:16]  But first, I wanted to kind of backtrack and talk just a little bit.
[00:01:21]  I know it seems kind of out of place.
[00:01:23]  Why are you doing this?
[00:01:24]  What's the purpose?
[00:01:26]  I think there's a really strong point that needs to be made in light of this midterm election.
[00:01:31]  Also, looking back on the 2020 presidential election that we had between Trump and Biden, I think that there's something that we just Keep missing as Christians.
[00:01:41]  I've banged on this drum a little bit and I'm going to do it again a little bit today.
[00:01:45]  But, real quick, before I jump into it, let me just remind you guys this live QA with Pastor Joel Webbin.
[00:01:51]  I hope to get to a couple questions towards the end of today's episode, but it's usually an hour, hour and a half, and it's every Monday at 12 p.m. Central Time.
[00:02:00]  That's every Monday at 12 p.m. Central Time, live QA with Pastor Joel Webbin.
[00:02:05]  All right, so that being said, let's go ahead and pull up.
[00:02:08]  We've got a couple pictures.
[00:02:09]  Let's go ahead and start with the first one, Nathan.
[00:02:11]  This is from the Trump Biden election 2020 presidential election.
[00:02:16]  And this shows you which states went for Biden.
[00:02:18]  And it also shows you which, well, the exact numerical value within the electoral college that each of these states are worth, right?
[00:02:27]  So you see California has a large population.
[00:02:29]  It's worth 55 points, or at least it was.
[00:02:32]  We'll see, you know, in 2024, some of these things are going to have to be reconfigured because there actually has been a mass exodus out of some of these liberal blue states.
[00:02:42]  States, California being one of them.
[00:02:43]  I was one of the individuals who left California towards the end of 2020 and moved to Texas for a number of reasons, a host of reasons, but one of them being political reasons.
[00:02:54]  And so I'll get to that here in just a moment.
[00:02:57]  But what you'll notice is this.
[00:02:59]  All right.
[00:03:00]  So ultimately, what happened was I think it was 306 Electoral College for Biden and it was 232 for Trump or 308 versus 232.
[00:03:12]  I can't remember.
[00:03:13]  I can't exactly remember.
[00:03:15]  Let's go ahead and pull up the next picture.
[00:03:18]  The point is this you have to have over 270 in the electoral college in order to win the presidency.
[00:03:24]  Now, these are the battleground states.
[00:03:27]  You guys will probably remember this.
[00:03:28]  There was a lot of talk about the election in 2020.
[00:03:32]  But it's worth reminding ourselves these are states that were close.
[00:03:37]  But Trump didn't need to win all these states to be president, he was 232.
[00:03:42]  I know that for a fact.
[00:03:44]  232 in the electoral college.
[00:03:46]  Let me pull.
[00:03:47]  I got a picture on my phone.
[00:03:47]  I'll just pull that up real quick just to confirm.
[00:03:51]  Yep, he was 232.
[00:03:52]  Biden was 306.
[00:03:53]  That's right.
[00:03:54]  So 306 for Biden in the electoral college, 232 for Trump.
[00:03:58]  Okay.
[00:03:59]  Now, in order to win, you've got to have 270 is kind of the halfway point.
[00:04:05]  And so you've got to have 270 plus in order to win the presidency.
[00:04:10]  Okay.
[00:04:10]  So let's just look at, you know, all these states that went for Biden.
[00:04:13]  Three of them went for Trump and seven of them went for Biden.
[00:04:16]  These are 10 of the more contested battleground states in the United States of America.
[00:04:21]  Trump didn't need to win all 10 of them.
[00:04:23]  He needed to hold the three that he had Florida and North Carolina, Ohio.
[00:04:27]  But he actually could have won the presidency with just.
[00:04:29]  Four more of these other seven states that went for Biden.
[00:04:33]  Here are four states that if Trump had won, he would still be president.
[00:04:36]  Okay, Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
[00:04:41]  Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
[00:04:45]  Go back real quick now, Nathan, to the earlier picture.
[00:04:47]  Oh, you know what?
[00:04:48]  It's right there.
[00:04:48]  It shows.
[00:04:49]  So Arizona is worth 11.
[00:04:51]  Trump had 232, 270 to win.
[00:04:53]  Okay, 11 for Arizona, 16 for Georgia.
[00:04:56]  That's 27.
[00:04:57]  Plus Nevada is six.
[00:04:58]  That puts you at 33.
[00:05:00]  Plus, Wisconsin is 10.
[00:05:02]  That puts you at 43.
[00:05:03]  43 plus 232 puts you at 275.
[00:05:06]  You're the president.
[00:05:08]  He'd be at 275.
[00:05:09]  Joe Biden would be at 265.
[00:05:11]  Trump would still be president by winning four more states.
[00:05:14]  And now, notice the reason why I picked these four states is because they were incredibly thin margins that Biden won them by.
[00:05:22]  So, in the case of Arizona, it's 10,457.
[00:05:25]  Georgia, 11,779.
[00:05:28]  Nevada, 33,500.
[00:05:31]  96 and then Wisconsin 20,682.
[00:05:36]  You add it all up, and it's you know, give or take, this is rounding, but it's about 76,500.
[00:05:43]  76,500.
[00:05:47]  Now, think about that for a second.
[00:05:49]  Um, I think it was what was it?
[00:05:52]  I think it was over 150 million votes in 2020 for the presidential election, 150 million.
[00:06:02]  Million.
[00:06:03]  And Biden won the presidency by winning these four states Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
[00:06:12]  And each of these states combined, in terms of the popular vote in each of these states combined, was about 76,500.
[00:06:21]  So 150 million votes cast, and 76,500 made the difference.
[00:06:29]  And I just want to remind you, real quick, what that difference was.
[00:06:32]  That difference was Afghanistan being absolutely destroyed.
[00:06:36]  I'm just going to give you some of the hallmark key moments of the last two years Biden administration.
[00:06:42]  So, Afghanistan, Russia, and Ukraine.
[00:06:46]  It's like, well, that's not Biden's fault.
[00:06:47]  Yes, it is.
[00:06:48]  Yes, it is.
[00:06:49]  That would be completely different if Trump was in office.
[00:06:51]  And I'm not saying Trump was the best man ever.
[00:06:55]  I would prefer Ron DeSantis running for president in 2024 than Trump.
[00:06:58]  If Trump runs and he gets the candidacy and all those kinds of things, then yeah, if he's the nominee, then he'll have my vote.
[00:07:05]  Trump, his policies and what he did for his four years in office, I'm incredibly grateful for.
[00:07:09]  Trump as a man and some of the I don't know, his rhetoric and certainly his rhetoric most recently, and trying to just bash Ron DeSantis and being petty and having Kenneth Copeland pray at one of his rallies and all these different things.
[00:07:24]  I think, yeah, that's foolish.
[00:07:25]  Ron DeSantis had Tom Askell from Founders Ministry.
[00:07:28]  Yeah, I'd much prefer that than Trump and Kenneth Copeland or Paula White and these kinds of things.
[00:07:35]  That being said, I still appreciate Trump and what he did for our nation.
[00:07:39]  He's the best president, bar none, by far the best president ever.
[00:07:44]  Of the United States of America in my lifetime.
[00:07:47]  And I'm going to be grateful for that.
[00:07:49]  And his appointment of over 300, I think it was 300 judges throughout the United States on lesser courts and all these things, including his three appointments on the Supreme Court, and the fact that that is the reason why Roe has been overturned.
[00:08:04]  Every Christian who loves God and loves his image bearers, namely, especially his image bearers in the womb and the sanctity of life, should have some measure of respect and honor and appreciation for Donald J. Trump.
[00:08:18]  Period.
[00:08:19]  I don't care if you like him.
[00:08:20]  I don't care what you think about his personality and his rhetoric most recently and some of the ways that he may be hurting conservatives and blah, blah, blah.
[00:08:29]  I get it.
[00:08:31]  Again, I prefer Ron DeSantis in 2024 than Trump.
[00:08:34]  And part of that is not just personality and character and things like that.
[00:08:37]  Part of that is just because I'm tired of living in a nation that is ruled by people who are 90 years old.
[00:08:45]  I'm just kind of tired of that.
[00:08:47]  We are in a nation that is ruled by women.
[00:08:50]  And.
[00:08:51]  And particularly women who are literally taped together.
[00:08:56]  Nancy Pelosi looks like, I don't know, she looks like they discovered some kind of perfectly preserved embalmed mummy in a pyramid and it came back to life barely.
[00:09:09]  And it's now running the United States of America.
[00:09:13]  So, yeah, I just would like to see somebody under the age of 80, and I know Trump would be 78, but you get my point.
[00:09:22]  So, I think one of the elections that just happened in the midterm.
[00:09:26]  Um, an individual I can't remember the name, but uh, was elected for a six year term and they are currently 89 years old.
[00:09:33]  They will finish their term at 95 years old.
[00:09:38]  Our nation has, uh, we've allowed people who are 80 and 90 years old to rule us, people who are women instead of men to rule us, and then whenever that fails, our other preference, um, as a nation seems to be if we can't find a 90 year old to rule us, 80 year old to rule us, then uh, then we'll go to Greta Thunberg and have a you know.
[00:09:59]  A 16 year old with a Swedish accent yell at us for driving our cars.
[00:10:08]  That's just so foolish.
[00:10:09]  We're just so foolish as a nation.
[00:10:11]  But that's one of God's judgments.
[00:10:13]  God's judgment over a nation is that He gives them lousy rulers, right?
[00:10:17]  I mean, the Bible literally says He'll have children rule over them and women rule over them.
[00:10:22]  And although it's not explicitly said, I think that you could also, by way of inference, necessary inference, you could say that having geriatric people with dementia like Joe Biden.
[00:10:33]  You know, so old that they could die any second, ruling over you is also a form of God's judgment.
[00:10:39]  And if you ask God's judgment for what, well, there's a lot of things that America could be judged for.
[00:10:42]  But one of those things, of course, would be the 63 million babies murdered by their own mothers in the womb over the last 49 years.
[00:10:51]  So, all that being said, the point is Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin, those four states would have given Trump 275 in the Electoral College over Biden at 265.
[00:11:05]  He would have had the presidency.
[00:11:06]  And in the last two years, what would that mean?
[00:11:09]  Well, it would mean something for vax mandates.
[00:11:12]  Trump is definitely pro vaccine.
[00:11:15]  That's the problem.
[00:11:16]  One of the problems with Trump, when he's right, he's right and he will not back down.
[00:11:20]  Praise God.
[00:11:21]  When he's wrong, he's wrong and he will not back down.
[00:11:24]  Trump doesn't understand that a lot of his base does not appreciate the vaccine, but because it was his, he's still bragging about a vaccine that has horrific side effects, that has no long term testing, and that was forcibly injected into people's arms and is now being added to the list of.
[00:11:41]  Mandatory child vaccines in order for children to go to school.
[00:11:45]  And Trump doesn't recognize that that's a bad thing.
[00:11:47]  Conservatives don't like that.
[00:11:49]  Christians don't like that.
[00:11:50]  And he should probably start bragging about that.
[00:11:53]  But he still does.
[00:11:54]  All right.
[00:11:54]  But the point is, we'd still have the vaccine, but Trump would not have pushed the vaccine the way that Biden and his administration have.
[00:12:00]  Period.
[00:12:01]  You would not have seen the vax mandates, at least not nearly as many of them that we've had.
[00:12:07]  So you would have people being able to keep their jobs.
[00:12:10]  People who were government employees keeping their jobs.
[00:12:13]  People in the military keeping their jobs.
[00:12:14]  People in the private sector keeping their jobs.
[00:12:16]  You would have seen schools opened more often.
[00:12:19]  Quickly, and so you would not see the learning hindrance, massive, massive, you know, decline in children's development and learning that we have.
[00:12:33]  Afghanistan, Russian Ukraine, it's at least unlikely, not a guarantee, but far more unlikely that Putin would have invaded Ukraine, you know, and so these kinds of things, and then how that affects the global stage economically with the energy crisis and all these European.
[00:12:53]  Nations that are in dire straits as we're heading into the winter now, in terms of energy.
[00:12:59]  You also have Nordstrom pipeline, you know, and Biden's regulations on drilling and fracking and all these different kinds of things.
[00:13:06]  So you're talking about inflation.
[00:13:09]  I mean, inflation has been global, but Biden has exasperated it here in America.
[00:13:14]  It's not Putin's gas spike, it's Biden's gas spike.
[00:13:18]  So you think of inflation, the economy, energy crisis, the threat of Nuclear war between Russia and Ukraine and things that are happening in Europe.
[00:13:29]  You think about Afghanistan, the people there, and American citizens and American allies, and then 13 service members that died.

=== Energy Crisis and Inflation (17:16) ===

[00:13:39]  The list goes on and on.
[00:13:41]  And many of these things would not have happened at all, or they at least would have happened to a much less severe degree if Trump had been elected president.
[00:13:50]  And what would that have required?
[00:13:52]  Four states Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
[00:13:56]  In order for him to have the electoral advantage and win the presidency, and what is the combined popular vote that Trump would have needed to get that he lost by in these four states combined?
[00:14:07]  About 76,500.
[00:14:09]  Here's the point you know how many people voted for Trump in California?
[00:14:14]  Six million.
[00:14:17]  Six million in the state of California voted for Donald J. Trump in 2020.
[00:14:24]  I was one of them.
[00:14:27]  Six million.
[00:14:29]  And He needed again, if they had moved these Californians to the right states, to the right places, thinking like a general in a war, thinking strategically, trying to hold the line, going to battleground states to fight the good fight.
[00:14:47]  Out of the six million votes for Trump in California, if half of them would have left California?
[00:14:55]  No.
[00:14:57]  10% of them?
[00:14:59]  That.
[00:15:01]  No.
[00:15:02]  10% would be 600,000.
[00:15:03]  No, you only need 76,500.
[00:15:08]  About 1%.
[00:15:10]  Let's say, just to be fair, about 1.5%.
[00:15:13]  If 1.5%, not half of them, not 10% of them, 20% of them, not even 5%, if 1.5% of the people in California who voted for Trump would have left California and moved to one of these four battleground states and cast their vote there for Trump, Biden would not have been president.
[00:15:35]  In the entire world would be better.
[00:15:38]  The entire world would be better.
[00:15:41]  That's such a massive statement.
[00:15:43]  You can't say that.
[00:15:44]  Okay, let me say it again.
[00:15:45]  The entire world would be better without Joe Biden as the president of the United States of America.
[00:15:51]  I make no apology, and I'm not even going to give a disclaimer.
[00:15:54]  We don't need it.
[00:15:56]  We don't need it.
[00:15:56]  We know that the world would be better.
[00:15:58]  So, all that being said, where you live matters.
[00:16:03]  All right, let's go ahead and get now to the most recent election, the midterms that we've just experienced.
[00:16:08]  But before we do, quick announcement.
[00:16:11]  Okay, number one is this we've got our conference.
[00:16:15]  Now, here's the deal.
[00:16:16]  I told you guys, let's go ahead and pull that up on the screen.
[00:16:18]  This is the Theonomy and Post Millennialism Conference.
[00:16:21]  It's next year, May 5th, 6th, and 7th in Georgetown, Texas.
[00:16:25]  That's right outside of Austin.
[00:16:27]  You just go north.
[00:16:28]  So you fly into Austin and you go north about a 40 minute drive, give or take, and boom, you will be in Georgetown, Texas.
[00:16:35]  It's May 5th, 6th, and 7th, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
[00:16:38]  We've got James White, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Joel Webbin, speaking at this conference.
[00:16:46]  It's going to be fantastic.
[00:16:47]  We're catering in a barbecue dinner for Friday that's covered in your registration costs.
[00:16:52]  And we have charged for this conference one of the lowest amounts of any comparable conference that you could find.
[00:16:57]  There's no other conference at this level with these types of speakers that charges the amount that we have charged.
[00:17:05]  So we're charging $100.
[00:17:07]  Now, a lot of you guys registered because you knew that starting November 1st, we were going to actually raise our rate from $100 for an adult to $130.
[00:17:18]  And that's what we did.
[00:17:19]  November 1st, it is now $130.
[00:17:22]  Now, here's the deal I didn't want to push, you know, I didn't want to do another price hike.
[00:17:26]  I didn't want to.
[00:17:27]  You know, try to create this artificial sense of urgency and push people into registering again and again and again.
[00:17:37]  We had our early bird rate, pretty much every conference does that.
[00:17:41]  Our early bird rate all the way till November 1st was $100 for an adult.
[00:17:46]  And then we've raised it to this is our second and final rate, $130.
[00:17:51]  We're not raising it again.
[00:17:53]  Here's the problem though the problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again.
[00:17:57]  And that you only have a week to get in at this rate, or we're gonna raise it to 150 or 170.
[00:18:02]  We're done.
[00:18:03]  We have the early bird rate, and this is the normal rate.
[00:18:06]  Early bird was 100, this is 130.
[00:18:08]  The problem is that we had so many people register for this conference on Reformation Day, October 31st, right before us raising the rate to 130 on November 1st, that we actually only have about 100.
[00:18:21]  And if we push, maybe, if we set up extra seats and really make it almost uncomfortably crowded in the venue that we have, Maybe we could do 130.
[00:18:34]  We have 100 to maybe 130, really more like 120 seats left because we are currently six months out from this conference and we just haven't really done this before.
[00:18:45]  So we didn't know what to expect.
[00:18:47]  I've been told at ReformCon with Jeff Durbin that they had 400 people registered two weeks before ReformCon and then ReformCon had about 900 or 1,000 people at that conference.
[00:18:57]  And I heard it was fantastic.
[00:18:58]  And I hope by God's grace, maybe I'll get to go and join you guys next year.
[00:19:02]  But again, 400 people were registered.
[00:19:04]  Two weeks before Reform Con took place, and then at the actual conference two weeks later, you go from 400 people that were registered to 900 to 1,000.
[00:19:12]  Well, here's the deal we're at 450 people registered today, and we're six months out, and we've got 100 to 120 seats left.
[00:19:24]  450 people are registered for the Theonomy and Post Millennialism Conference that's not even happening until six months from now.
[00:19:30]  450 people already signed up, ready to go, and we can seat our venue, actually, about 500 people.
[00:19:38]  But we're willing to push it to 550, maybe 570.
[00:19:42]  That's it.
[00:19:43]  That's what we got.
[00:19:43]  That's our venue.
[00:19:44]  That's what the Lord's provided.
[00:19:46]  That's what we've got.
[00:19:46]  We've got 100 to 120 seats left.
[00:19:48]  So here's my point.
[00:19:50]  You need to register today, today, because I'm going to raise the price on you.
[00:19:54]  No, we're not going to do that.
[00:19:55]  We're not going to do all this PSYOP, you know, psychological technique of, you know, every month we're raising the rate.
[00:20:01]  You know, by the time we get to the conference, it's $300.
[00:20:03]  No, we had our early bird rate for 100 and our final rate for 130.
[00:20:07]  It's going to cost $130 from here all the way up until the conference.
[00:20:11]  For the next six months, it'll be $130.
[00:20:13]  Here's the problem, though there will not be seats for this conference.
[00:20:17]  For the next six months, my prediction is there will be seats available for this conference.
[00:20:22]  The way that people are registering, the way that it's filling up, I think there will be seats for this conference for probably about two more weeks.
[00:20:30]  If you want to be really safe, I think you got to register in the next two weeks.
[00:20:33]  By the end of the year, six weeks from now, end of the year, we're sold out.
[00:20:37]  Guaranteed.
[00:20:38]  There's no way.
[00:20:39]  So, yeah, you'll still have four months January, February, March, and April of 2023 before the conference actually happens, but it won't matter because we'll be sold out.
[00:20:47]  By the end of the year, there's no way we will not be sold out.
[00:20:51]  And It's possible that we could be sold out as early as two weeks from now.
[00:20:55]  So, if you want a seat, there's not a threat of a price hike, but there is a promise of us simply running out of seats.
[00:21:04]  So, you need to register in the next couple of weeks.
[00:21:07]  And ideally, if you definitely want to ensure your spot, you should register today.
[00:21:12]  So, go to rightresponseconference.com.
[00:21:15]  Again, it's rightresponseconference, not rightresponseministries forward slash conference, rightresponseconference.com.
[00:21:22]  Right response conference.com.
[00:21:24]  Go ahead and register today.
[00:21:25]  Register your whole family.
[00:21:27]  Kids who are 10 and under are free.
[00:21:30]  And then big kids, 11 to 17 years old, are $50.
[00:21:34]  That's what it was before.
[00:21:35]  We're going to keep the teenagers at the same rate.
[00:21:37]  So kids 10 and under are free.
[00:21:40]  And then you got 11 year olds through 17 year olds are $50.
[00:21:43]  And adults now, instead of 100, are $130.
[00:21:45]  Register your whole family.
[00:21:47]  Come and join us for this conference.
[00:21:49]  If you're flying from out of state, if you're not going to drive, then look at Flying into the Austin airport.
[00:21:54]  Feel free to email me at Joel at Right Response Ministries.com.
[00:21:58]  Joel at Right Response Ministries.com if you want recommendations for hotels and things like that.
[00:22:03]  Remember, Friday we are going to cater in as a part of your registration fee a Texas style barbecue dinner so we can all be together.
[00:22:12]  Everybody at the conference eating a meal together Friday night.
[00:22:15]  We're going to have some hymns and psalms that we sing and we're going to have multiple sessions.
[00:22:20]  James White is going to speak twice, Joe Boot is going to speak twice.
[00:22:24]  Gary DeMar, myself, Dale Partridge, we're each going to speak once instead of twice, but that's so that we can allow time Friday night and Saturday night to do a live QA panel, taking questions from you, the attendees at the conference.
[00:22:38]  That's going to be after dinner on Friday and after dinner on Saturday.
[00:22:42]  So I think, I believe it's like from 7 30 to 9, an hour and a half each time.
[00:22:48]  So you got a total of three hours of live QA panel where all the speakers are up on the stage taking questions from you, the audience, an hour and a half Friday night.
[00:22:56]  Hour and a half Saturday night.
[00:22:58]  And then what we're going to do is the Lord's Day for Sunday, we're just going to hold that venue and my church that I pastor, Covenant Bible Church in Georgetown, Texas, instead of meeting in our normal location that we meet in each Lord's Day as a church, we're going to meet in our conference venue, our church, along with any of the conference attendees who are going to be with us.
[00:23:18]  And James White is going to preach and I'll be leading the liturgy and we'll have wonderful worship through hymns and psalms.
[00:23:25]  We will serve the Lord's Supper for A lot of people because we expect to have hundreds of people in attendance and it's going to be a glorious time together.
[00:23:34]  So, you don't want to miss this conference, but you will miss this conference.
[00:23:37]  That's my point.
[00:23:38]  You will miss this conference if you don't sign up really, really quick.
[00:23:41]  Okay.
[00:23:42]  I know that was long, but I just, I've heard a lot of people saying, I'm coming.
[00:23:47]  I'm excited to come.
[00:23:48]  But I don't think a lot of the people who are reaching out to me have an accurate sense of the fact that you don't have six months to wait on this one.
[00:23:57]  Okay.
[00:23:58]  All right.
[00:23:58]  Here we go.
[00:23:59]  One last announcement, and then we'll hop into the midterm election.
[00:24:01]  Here we go.
[00:24:02]  How to plant a church since your last church went woke.
[00:24:04]  If you're looking for a really long title for something, there it is.
[00:24:08]  How to plant a church.
[00:24:09]  And that's not even the whole title.
[00:24:10]  Let me read the whole title.
[00:24:11]  How to plant a church since your last church went woke.
[00:24:14]  A four week online workshop.
[00:24:17]  There you go.
[00:24:17]  That's the full title.
[00:24:18]  Basically, there's a lot of people who read this.
[00:24:20]  One of probably the most common emails that I get is people say, I can't find a biblically faithful church.
[00:24:25]  I'll either find a church that has like Orthodox, conservative theology, they're reformed, these kinds of things, but they're pietists and cowards, right?
[00:24:35]  Like COVID happened and the government said, shut your doors.
[00:24:39]  And the pastor said, how long, Caesar?
[00:24:43]  You know, and they shut their doors, not for a few weeks.
[00:24:45]  A lot of people shut their doors for a few weeks because they didn't know what was happening.
[00:24:48]  But I'm talking about guys who are reformed.
[00:24:51]  They allegedly have good doctrine, but they don't apply it.
[00:24:54]  And they shut their doors for four months, five months, six months, seven months.
[00:24:58]  And then with different variants that came out, they opened back up with all these precautions no singing allowed.
[00:25:06]  Even though the Bible commands us to sing to God and to address one another with hymns and psalms and spiritual songs, there was no singing allowed.
[00:25:13]  They made mass required, not optional, but required.
[00:25:16]  So what does it take to come to the Lord's table?
[00:25:19]  It takes faith plus.
[00:25:20]  A mask, right?
[00:25:21]  They even segregated, you know, based off of Vax status.
[00:25:25]  And then other, you know, Omicron and different, you know, variations came out and they shut down again, you know.
[00:25:32]  And all the while, you can see your pastor, you know, he won't let you come to church because of COVID.
[00:25:36]  The church is shut down, but on his Instagram page, you can see pictures of him, you know, at the George Floyd rallies.
[00:25:43]  And yeah, he's a Calvinist, sure.
[00:25:46]  He's reformed, sure.
[00:25:48]  He went to RTS, great.
[00:25:50]  You know, he's buddies with Lig and Duncan, you know, whatever it might be.
[00:25:55]  But he's not a son of Issachar.
[00:25:56]  He doesn't know what time it is.
[00:25:57]  He's bought.
[00:25:59]  He's a traitor.
[00:26:00]  He's woke.
[00:26:01]  He's cowardly.
[00:26:02]  He's pietistic and progressive all at the same time.
[00:26:06]  He doesn't know what time it is.
[00:26:08]  You can't go to that church.
[00:26:09]  You cannot go to that church.
[00:26:11]  And you know that.
[00:26:11]  You don't need me to tell you that.
[00:26:12]  But the problem is, you can't find another one.
[00:26:14]  You can either find churches with good theology on the books, but they won't apply it.
[00:26:20]  They're either woke or they're cowards with COVID stuff.
[00:26:25]  Or you find a church that took a stand.
[00:26:28]  Maybe it's Calvary Chapel Church or something like that.
[00:26:30]  And you've been going to that church, but you're like, I still, I'm not Arminian, right?
[00:26:35]  Like this church, I appreciate that the pastor here is actually a man and actually has a spine and has some courage, but the church isn't reformed.
[00:26:43]  The church isn't this.
[00:26:44]  It's not covenantal.
[00:26:45]  It's not, you know, it's not post millennial.
[00:26:47]  It's not, you know, what do I do?
[00:26:49]  You know, and people are saying within a two hour driving radius, I just can't find a good church.
[00:26:55]  And right now, in God's providence, I'm just not able to move.
[00:26:58]  To a church.
[00:26:58]  Joel, I'd love to go to Texas with you.
[00:27:00]  I'd love to go to Moscow with Doug.
[00:27:01]  Or I'd love to go to Arizona with Jeff Durbin and James White, or Ogden, Utah with Brian Sauvay and Eric Kahn and Dan Burkholder, the Kings Hall guys.
[00:27:11]  And there are some guys out there.
[00:27:13]  There's not a lot, but there are some guys out there that are doing some really great work.
[00:27:17]  But in God's providence right now, financially, or because we have in laws that we're taking care of that are sick, that need our help, that aren't able to make a move for whatever reason, we're stuck geographically.
[00:27:26]  So we can't find a church and we can't move to a church.
[00:27:30]  Well, not having church is not an option.
[00:27:33]  So, in God's providence, what he's telling you essentially, if you can't find a church where you live and you can't move to a church, you can't leave where you live, then God is calling you to plant a church.
[00:27:42]  And here's the deal you may not be called by God to be the pastor of the church that you plant, but as a faithful Christian, as a layman, you can still be pivotal in planting that church that God appoints someone else to be the pastor.
[00:27:55]  So, this isn't just for people who feel I feel called to be a pastor.
[00:27:58]  This is for people who feel called to join with just one or two other like minded, courageous, faithful, Theologically stout Christians to plant a church, covenant a church in their home, in their living room, but to do it biblically.
[00:28:14]  And there are clear biblical criteria that are necessary.
[00:28:17]  And they may not be the pastor.
[00:28:19]  God may send them a pastor, but there is a way for them to actually not just watch videos on YouTube, but to actually have bona fide biblical church on the Lord's day, on the Lord's day, as they're waiting for somebody to be the pastor.
[00:28:32]  And there is a way of doing this within the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith from a Reformed Baptist standpoint.
[00:28:38]  This This workshop will be helpful for Presbyterians.
[00:28:41]  It'll be helpful for all sorts of people, but I make no apology and I want to be clear up front.
[00:28:45]  I am Reformed Baptist, and so I'm going to be doing it within that lens of church polity.
[00:28:51]  It'll be a Reformed Baptist church polity.
[00:28:54]  So it's going to be four weeks long.
[00:28:55]  It's four Mondays in a row.
[00:28:57]  It's Monday at 8 p.m., starting November 28th.
[00:29:01]  Some of you guys have already signed up.
[00:29:02]  You've reached out to me and said, Hey, when is it starting?
[00:29:04]  I'm just reminding you, we haven't forgotten about it.
[00:29:08]  It's happening.
[00:29:09]  We told you it's going to happen.
[00:29:10]  It's going to happen.
[00:29:11]  And it starts November 28th.
[00:29:12]  So, not this Monday, not the next Monday.
[00:29:16]  Today, I believe, is the 14th.
[00:29:18]  Yep, the 14th.
[00:29:19]  And so then it's the 21st.
[00:29:20]  Yeah.
[00:29:20]  So, two weeks from today, November 28th.
[00:29:24]  And it'll be the first three Mondays in December the 5th, the 12th, and the 19th.
[00:29:28]  All four of them at 8 p.m.
[00:29:30]  That's Central Time, Texas Time, where I'm at, Central Time.
[00:29:34]  Trying to do it at a time where people who have children can log on after they put their kids to bed.
[00:29:39]  So, four Mondays, and it'll be an hour and a half length each time.
[00:29:42]  About 45 minutes of a lecture on the front end of each of these hour and a half workshops, then 45 minutes of taking your questions in the chat room and answering those questions.
[00:29:54]  And I'm also going to be giving everybody who signs up for this some of the official covenanting church documents that my church, Covenant Bible Church, uses that I've written over the years, even when I was pastoring in California, that have been refined as I've grown in my theology.
[00:30:11]  But basically, a general statement of faith.
[00:30:13]  But also, our bylaws and church constitution, also pages that I've written out on the duties and responsibilities of elders and deacons, defining the diaconate.
[00:30:23]  There's a lot of confusion about what is a deacon.
[00:30:25]  Is it the lead parking attendant, or is it something a little bit more?
[00:30:30]  So, a lot of those kinds of documents.
[00:30:31]  I'll also give you some of my sermon notes.
[00:30:34]  I don't exactly manuscript, I use a hybrid between kind of bullet points and manuscripting.
[00:30:38]  So, I kind of have a unique method, personal method that I use for writing my sermons.
[00:30:43]  And so, I'm going to give you a sample of multiple.
[00:30:45]  Sermon notes that I've preached that you'll be able to say, Oh, this is what Joel's notes look like, and this is how to prepare a sermon, and all those kinds of things.
[00:30:52]  I think it would be really helpful.
[00:30:54]  I won't waste your time any more with the announcements.

=== Shifting Voter Demographics (08:58) ===

[00:30:56]  Let's go ahead and move on, but sign up.
[00:30:58]  If you want to sign up, it's Right Response Ministries, right?
[00:31:01]  So the conference is Right Response Conference.com.
[00:31:03]  This one is a forward slash, Right Response Ministries.com forward slash church plan.
[00:31:08]  Right Response Ministries.com forward slash church plan.
[00:31:13]  All right, go ahead and sign up today.
[00:31:14]  You got two more weeks, and we probably have space for, I'd say, another 10 to 15 people.
[00:31:20]  To sign up, we currently have about 60, and I don't want to have any more than 75.
[00:31:26]  I think that that'll be enough.
[00:31:28]  Okay.
[00:31:29]  But if you miss this round, just for the record, I plan on, Lord willing, I plan on trying to do it at least twice next year.
[00:31:35]  Instead of just once doing it twice next year, because this is just a need that's not going away.
[00:31:41]  The church has so discredited itself.
[00:31:44]  We're going to need a lot of new leaders and a lot of new churches being planted.
[00:31:48]  And so I plan to do this more than once, is my point.
[00:31:51]  I plan to do it, Lord willing, once in the spring of next year and once in the fall of next year.
[00:31:57]  So if you miss this boat, Don't be depressed.
[00:32:02]  Don't despair.
[00:32:03]  I hope to do it again.
[00:32:03]  All right.
[00:32:04]  So let's go ahead and pull up this picture.
[00:32:06]  So, this is some of the takeaways for Christians with this most recent midterm election.
[00:32:12]  I want to address some basic takeaways, some lessons learned, or at least they should be learned.
[00:32:18]  If we don't learn these lessons, then shame on us.
[00:32:19]  We can't afford to miss the lessons that God has provided for us in his providence over this past week with the midterm election.
[00:32:27]  So, lessons or takeaways that Christians, They got to get coming from this last election.
[00:32:33]  All right.
[00:32:34]  This is one of the lessons.
[00:32:36]  This is a breakdown of four different categories married men, single men, married women, single women, a breakdown of who voted conservative and who voted blue.
[00:32:48]  Now, this is actually not particularly helpful.
[00:32:51]  I don't think that this is what I was looking for.
[00:32:53]  I mean, it makes the same point, but I think that the more recent numbers are sadly.
[00:33:00]  Even more dire because what I'm noticing, Nathan, is it says Trump and Biden.
[00:33:04]  Is this from 2022 or is this 2020?
[00:33:06]  I don't know.
[00:33:10]  It must be 2020.
[00:33:11]  Yeah, it might be 2020.
[00:33:12]  I mean, it still clearly makes the same point.
[00:33:17]  Yeah, go ahead and look real quick.
[00:33:18]  See if you can find another one.
[00:33:22]  You know what?
[00:33:22]  I might even have it on my phone because I've addressed it a few times now.
[00:33:29]  Let's see.
[00:33:32]  Bear with me for one moment.
[00:33:33]  Sorry, guys.
[00:33:35]  One moment.
[00:33:36]  I just want to have the most accurate numbers, not just from 2020, because this has been a problem for a while, but it's exasperated.
[00:33:44]  What we've seen is in the last couple years, as we've come now to 2022, the problem has been exasperated.
[00:33:51]  Okay.
[00:33:54]  I tweeted it recently.
[00:33:55]  So if I just look through my recent tweets, as I look through my recent tweets, I'm reminded how many people hate me.
[00:34:03]  That's always helpful.
[00:34:04]  Yep, that person hates me.
[00:34:06]  That person hates me.
[00:34:09]  That person really hates me.
[00:34:10]  Let's see.
[00:34:12]  Oh, here we go.
[00:34:15]  Nope.
[00:34:16]  That's not it.
[00:34:17]  It's not going to do it.
[00:34:28]  Did you?
[00:34:31]  Okay.
[00:34:36]  Yeah, the only problem is that that's just two categories.
[00:34:38]  Can you pull it?
[00:34:39]  So it's two pictures.
[00:34:40]  Can you pull up the other picture too?
[00:34:41]  So that gives us men and women.
[00:34:44]  That gives us the married.
[00:34:46]  Married men, married women.
[00:34:47]  We just need the single ones beside.
[00:34:49]  I think it's two pictures.
[00:34:53]  Are you able to get that?
[00:34:54]  Yeah, hello.
[00:34:55]  Great.
[00:34:55]  Okay, Nathan's getting it.
[00:34:56]  I'm hopping back in.
[00:34:59]  Hopping right back in, guys.
[00:35:00]  It's coming.
[00:35:00]  It's coming.
[00:35:01]  Believe, believe.
[00:35:01]  All right.
[00:35:02]  And then make it a little bit smaller because people are really going to see, they're just going to want to see my beautiful face.
[00:35:06]  So we'll make it just a little bit smaller here.
[00:35:10]  All right.
[00:35:11]  So this is gender by marital status.
[00:35:14]  This is the most recent midterm elections.
[00:35:18]  All right.
[00:35:18]  So married men, they voted Republican at 59% and 39% Democrat, right?
[00:35:25]  And you'll notice there's 2%, I guess, that's missing there because there's, you know, third party votes, independent, those kinds of things.
[00:35:32]  Married women is not as conservative, but it's pretty close.
[00:35:37]  Married women, it's 56% for Republican and 42% Democrat.
[00:35:42]  Now, see if you can do this for me, Nathan.
[00:35:45]  See if, you know, my face is, it's just, we're going to get like a block where there's only my face.
[00:35:50]  We're going to pull up multiple pictures.
[00:35:52]  Go back and pull up the other picture that we had that I think is from the 2020 election.
[00:35:56]  Go ahead and pull that up and put it next to my head so I can see both at the same time.
[00:36:00]  Because it may be the same numbers, but I think it'll be different.
[00:36:05]  You know what I'm talking about?
[00:36:06]  I know it's ridiculous.
[00:36:07]  He's laughing at me in the other room.
[00:36:09]  There you go.
[00:36:10]  There you go.
[00:36:11]  Put it over to my right.
[00:36:13]  I guess it would be my right.
[00:36:16]  Okay, that's good.
[00:36:16]  All right, leave it there.
[00:36:17]  Here we go.
[00:36:18]  So, yep, 56 versus 42.
[00:36:22]  So notice married men.
[00:36:25]  So this was, yeah, these were different years.
[00:36:27]  That was 2020.
[00:36:28]  So married men in 2020 was 56% Republican and 42% for Biden.
[00:36:34]  Democrat.
[00:36:35]  Whereas now, notice how it's become more conservative.
[00:36:40]  59% Republican after two years, right?
[00:36:42]  And that's what you would expect.
[00:36:43]  You'd expect even more than that.
[00:36:45]  But after our two year trial run of communism, thanks to the Biden administration, you would imagine that everybody would be voting for anybody but Biden, you know, and in his administration, that people would be like, Democrats are not the way to go.
[00:36:58]  And that is what we saw.
[00:37:00]  Not maybe as much as we want, but that is what we saw in the married men department, right?
[00:37:04]  56% in 2020 voted for Trump, 42% for Biden.
[00:37:08]  Well, in 2022, it's 59% that voted Republican and 39% that voted Democrat.
[00:37:14]  So it became more conservative, more conservative in the married men category.
[00:37:18]  All right, let's look at married women.
[00:37:20]  Married women in 2020 was 52% for Trump and 47% for Biden.
[00:37:26]  Well, that has again shifted more conservative.
[00:37:30]  56% now for Republican in 2022 and 42% Democrat.
[00:37:36]  Unmarried men were 46%.
[00:37:38]  So if you look at the 2020 election, If you were single as a woman or as a man, you were going Democrat.
[00:37:44]  Now, obviously, single women went much more for Democrat, but even the men, the unmarried men, were 46% for Trump and 52% for Biden.
[00:37:53]  That's in 2020.
[00:37:54]  But if you look at unmarried men in this most recent midterm election, 2022, it's 52% Republican and 45% Democrat.
[00:38:03]  And some of that could be in relation to it's because it's not just voting conservative two years ago and then voting conservative two years later.
[00:38:11]  Because there is one massive variable in this equation, namely Donald J. Trump.
[00:38:16]  And so there are some people who just, I just can't do it.
[00:38:18]  I just don't, you know.
[00:38:19]  But, anyways, take that.
[00:38:21]  So take it with a grain of salt.
[00:38:22]  But notice unmarried women, they voted 62%.
[00:38:27]  And this is the presidential election in 2020.
[00:38:30]  Unmarried women hate Trump.
[00:38:32]  A lot of people don't like Trump.
[00:38:34]  Unmarried women hate Trump.
[00:38:37]  And still, though, unmarried women with Donald Trump on the ballot, with Donald Trump on the ballot, still 37% of them voted for Trump in 2020.
[00:38:46]  Unmarried women.
[00:38:48]  But only 31% voted for any Republican in 2022.
[00:38:54]  You see that?
[00:38:56]  31% of unmarried women.
[00:38:58]  Voted for a Republican in 2022.
[00:39:00]  Whereas 37%, six percentage points higher, voted for not just a Republican, not just the Republican Party in general, but for Donald J. Trump specifically in 2020.
[00:39:12]  So unmarried women, even without the Trump factor in the mix, unmarried women have become incredibly.
[00:39:21]  I mean, that's a stark change right there from 62% for Biden, 68%.
[00:39:26]  That's 2020, 68% now for Democrats in 2022.
[00:39:31]  37% for Trump in 2020, unmarried women, and then 31% for just Republicans in general in 2022.
[00:39:42]  How do we account for that?
[00:39:44]  First, one of the men in my church said, one of the clear takeaways that Christians should have from this 2022 midterm election is that Eve needs to be rescued.

=== Marriage and Family Values (12:14) ===

[00:39:54]  And I thought that that was incredibly insightful.
[00:39:57]  That's how we should look at it, right?
[00:39:59]  It's not that women are our enemy, but it's Eve needs to be rescued.
[00:40:03]  Eve has a bit of a habit for being deceived by serpents.
[00:40:09]  And in this case, with the civil state and the Democrat Party, instead of a serpent, it's just Leviathan.
[00:40:15]  Same thing serpent, Leviathan, dragon.
[00:40:19]  The story stays the same.
[00:40:20]  Eve gets suckered by dragons and Leviathans and serpents.
[00:40:26]  Tale as old as time.
[00:40:27]  That's the first story that we find.
[00:40:29]  And that's the story that we found last week.
[00:40:32]  That story is going to continue to happen, by the way, throughout all of human history.
[00:40:37]  Which is why we need Adam.
[00:40:39]  We need Adam.
[00:40:41]  Adam can't be standing there in the garden with Eve, letting her be deceived.
[00:40:45]  Adam needs to step in.
[00:40:47]  We say, hey, you know, make America great again, you know, MAGA.
[00:40:51]  Let's make marriage great again.
[00:40:53]  That's one of the takeaways that we should have from this we need marriage to be great again.
[00:40:59]  There's been a stark decline among Americans in the United States when it comes to marriage.
[00:41:06]  And part of that is a Burgerfell.
[00:41:09]  When a Burgerfell came into play, That eroded a lot of the validity and credibility of the institution of marriage, right?
[00:41:18]  If anybody can, if love is love, right?
[00:41:20]  That was the mantra love is love.
[00:41:23]  Okay, well, fine.
[00:41:24]  If love is love, then why do we need marriage?
[00:41:27]  Let's just have partners that we live with, right?
[00:41:32]  Why do I need to get married?
[00:41:34]  Why do I need a covenant?
[00:41:36]  Why does it need to be an actual lifelong, till death do us part kind of covenant, agreement?
[00:41:45]  If love is love.
[00:41:45]  And so with the Burger Fell, we have, you know, with the increase of sexual morality and particularly sodomy, with transgenderism, the whole LGBT jihad, you know, like as that continues to be on the rise, the sanctity and validity and credibility of marriage is on the decline.
[00:42:04]  And as marriage declines, unless people get married, what we're finding is as less people get married, they tend to vote more progressively, especially the women.
[00:42:16]  Unmarried women vote for Democrats.
[00:42:18]  Now you might think, well, why is that?
[00:42:21]  We know why that is.
[00:42:24]  Why do all the single ladies, all the single ladies voting for Democrats?
[00:42:29]  Why?
[00:42:29]  Because they want to kill their babies.
[00:42:33]  That's why.
[00:42:34]  Why do single women vote for Democrats?
[00:42:36]  Because they want to murder their kids.
[00:42:39]  You know it.
[00:42:41]  You know that's why.
[00:42:43]  And we thought that abortion, you know, well, it's not in the top five issues.
[00:42:46]  It's not even, you know, abortion, yeah, yeah, the overturning of Roe and those kinds of things.
[00:42:50]  Yeah, there was an uprising for a while, but that's calmed down.
[00:42:52]  You know, the biggest issue in Americans' minds, the biggest.
[00:42:55]  You know, top three issues.
[00:42:57]  Abortion doesn't even make a list.
[00:43:00]  It's the border, right?
[00:43:01]  It's immigration, it's inflation.
[00:43:03]  That's number one.
[00:43:04]  Inflation, the border, and then I don't know, maybe energy crisis, you know, or the threat of, you know, nuclear war, World War III, or, you know, it's these, or crime.
[00:43:15]  You know, I think those were the literal top three, I think, in that order.
[00:43:18]  It was inflation, immigration, and crime.
[00:43:22]  That's what people care about.
[00:43:23]  No.
[00:43:25]  Not single women.
[00:43:27]  Single women don't care about that.
[00:43:30]  Single women don't care about inflation?
[00:43:32]  Yeah, they don't.
[00:43:33]  They don't.
[00:43:34]  Because single women can get a job easier than a man these days.
[00:43:39]  And the pay gap is a myth and always was.
[00:43:41]  That's a joke.
[00:43:42]  So we know that they're getting paid just as much, if not more.
[00:43:45]  And single women who have no responsibility except for their cats, they can handle, you know, they can take some inflation in stride.
[00:43:55]  And then when it comes to immigration, well, just they move out of a border state.
[00:44:00]  Right?
[00:44:00]  That's problems for them, but not a problem for me, right?
[00:44:02]  Like Martha's Vineyard, like the first time, like we love, we're a sanctuary place, you know, for immigrants.
[00:44:08]  And then immigrants actually come, and I think it was like less than 48 hours, and they're flighted out of Martha's Vineyard, right?
[00:44:16]  And so you can avoid the immigration problems and fentanyl and all the things that come with that by simply just not living in a border city in Texas, right?
[00:44:26]  And you can avoid, you know, I mean, you're going to feel inflation, but you can take it in stride.
[00:44:32]  You can survive inflation by just not having any dependence.
[00:44:37]  Nobody's financially relying on you.
[00:44:39]  That's what singleness tends to do, whether you're a single man or a single woman.
[00:44:43]  And then, in terms of crime, I think women are afraid of that.
[00:44:48]  That's hard to avoid because a lot of these single liberal women are living in very blue cities where there is soft on crime policies and there is a rise in crime as a direct result of that.
[00:45:02]  And the Democrat, you know.
[00:45:04]  Governing policies that are there, Democrat mayors and Democrat governors, and all these different things.
[00:45:10]  So that might be a fear, but it's not as big of a fear.
[00:45:12]  The fear of potential crime, a crime being committed against you, isn't as big of a fear as the fear of losing your perceived right to murder your unborn children.
[00:45:22]  We didn't think abortion was going to come out to play in this last election.
[00:45:27]  It did.
[00:45:29]  Right?
[00:45:29]  Because what we were looking at is people, you know, people in the public that abortion isn't the biggest issue for.
[00:45:35]  Like married men, married women, even single men.
[00:45:41]  But the single women, it was a big deal.
[00:45:44]  Pull up those pictures one more time.
[00:45:46]  Last time.
[00:45:48]  Okay, it's coming.
[00:45:50]  It's coming.
[00:45:50]  It's coming.
[00:45:52]  Because I think what I wanted to see here is that, oh, yep, yep.
[00:45:56]  So unmarried men, when it came to voting on the presidential election in 2020 between Trump and Biden, unmarried men were 46% for Trump and 52% for Biden.
[00:46:06]  But In 2022, it was fit for unmarried men, 52% for Republicans, and 45% for Democrats.
[00:46:15]  So, what you'll notice is every single of the four brackets married men, married women, unmarried men, unmarried women out of those four different categories, three of them voted, the majority voted for Republicans, and only one of those categories voted for Democrats as a majority.
[00:46:35]  But it was a stark majority 59% married men, Republican.
[00:46:40]  56% married women, Republican.
[00:46:43]  52% unmarried men, Republican.
[00:46:47]  But 68% For unmarried women, Democrat.
[00:46:53]  And there you have it.
[00:46:55]  There you have it.
[00:46:56]  That's what happened to the red wave.
[00:46:58]  What happened to the red wave?
[00:47:01]  A burger fell.
[00:47:02]  It's not, seriously, it's not just what happened in the last couple of weeks or less.
[00:47:06]  No, it's what's been happening over the course of years.
[00:47:09]  What happened to the red wave?
[00:47:11]  What happened is that we spit on marriage as a nation.
[00:47:16]  And then also, what happened is that, praise God for a more conservative Supreme Court, but they overturned Roe, and I praise God for that.
[00:47:25]  But in doing so, the people who feel like that's their right, that feel the most entitled to abortion, namely single women, they're really upset about that.
[00:47:37]  And so, what you have is really the issue of Roe and a Bergerfeld marriage and children.
[00:47:44]  Marriage and children.
[00:47:45]  That's what it comes down to marriage and children.
[00:47:48]  And single women don't like marriage and they don't like children.
[00:47:55]  And They're going to want the party, the political party that says, you don't need a man because we'll be your husband.
[00:48:03]  The state will be your husband.
[00:48:05]  And you don't need children because we, as the state, we will allow you to murder them.
[00:48:12]  Or if you don't want to murder them, we'll also be a husband to you and a father to your child through the welfare state and all these different things.
[00:48:21]  And so basically, the civil state has come in in our nation and said, we can do a better job.
[00:48:28]  We can fill the role of husband and father better than men.
[00:48:33]  The state can do that.
[00:48:35]  And the reality is, of course, they can't.
[00:48:38]  Of course, they can't.
[00:48:39]  The state's not a good father.
[00:48:41]  The state helps women provide for their children by sucking them out of their womb with a vacuum cleaner.
[00:48:48]  That's how they father children.
[00:48:50]  They father children by erasing the children so they don't need a father.
[00:48:54]  Or if the children actually are born, then they have all these different state programs, but the children.
[00:48:59]  They don't thrive on those.
[00:49:00]  The children, many of them barely even graduate high school if there's not a father in the home.
[00:49:05]  And many of them wind up in prison if there's not a father, a familial biological father in the home.
[00:49:11]  The state doesn't cut it.
[00:49:12]  It's not a good dad and it's not a good husband.
[00:49:16]  But women think that they're independent and they think that they don't need a husband.
[00:49:20]  They think that they don't need children because we've spit on marriage and we've spit on children.
[00:49:27]  A Bergefell and Roe.
[00:49:29]  And that's what we've been doing, not for the last few weeks or months.
[00:49:32]  I mean, that's been decades.
[00:49:34]  That's been decades.
[00:49:35]  And it's just all of it's just culminating now.
[00:49:38]  And so now, you know, it's not like the Republican Party is the party of white people.
[00:49:42]  There may have been a time when that's kind of how things were, right?
[00:49:46]  The Democrats, their voting block was minorities, right?
[00:49:50]  It was the black community, it was Latinos.
[00:49:55]  That's shifting.
[00:49:56]  That's shifting.
[00:49:57]  Certainly more black people still vote for Democrats, but even that has shifted some.
[00:50:01]  Still, the vast majority that vote for Democrat out of the black community.
[00:50:05]  But with Latinos, I think the Latino community between Mexican, and obviously that's a diverse group Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, all different.
[00:50:16]  But taken as a whole, the Latino voting block, I think in this most recent election, I think it was like 40% for Republican.
[00:50:24]  40%.
[00:50:25]  So almost it's getting close to where it's half and half.
[00:50:28]  That's not a Democrat base anymore that they can count on.
[00:50:31]  So what's the new Democrat coalition?
[00:50:34]  What's their voting block?
[00:50:36]  What's their base?
[00:50:38]  Single women.
[00:50:40]  Their base is not minorities.
[00:50:43]  It's not ethnic minorities.
[00:50:46]  It's not even the poor, right?
[00:50:48]  You can't even draw a line between rich people vote conservative and poor people vote Democrat.
[00:50:53]  These things have been true in the past, but the veil has been lifted, it's been torn.
[00:50:57]  People are starting to see more clearly, especially after the last two and a half years with COVID and with inflation and with Black Lives Matter, pocketing millions of dollars and running off.
[00:51:08]  These kinds of things.
[00:51:09]  I mean, it's just a joke.
[00:51:11]  It is a joke to think, like, yeah, Democrats care for the poor.
[00:51:16]  Don Lemon can't say, he couldn't even say Democrats care for the poor without probably having to cut to a commercial break, run out to the bathroom, and then laughing hysterically, right?
[00:51:24]  It's such a joke.
[00:51:26]  Everyone knows it's a joke.
[00:51:27]  So, Democrats, they're not the party of the poor.
[00:51:29]  They never were, but now it's just so obvious, right?
[00:51:32]  Because inflation crushes the poor.
[00:51:35]  It crushes the poor.
[00:51:36]  And they're not the party of ethnic minorities who are oppressed.
[00:51:39]  We know that's not the case.
[00:51:41]  They never have been, right?
[00:51:42]  They're actually the party of slavery.
[00:51:45]  Remember history.
[00:51:46]  So they've never been the party of the ethnic minority groups that are oppressed by the regional hegemony.
[00:51:54]  That's not what party they are.
[00:51:56]  They never were, but people now know they're not.
[00:51:59]  People now know they're not.
[00:52:00]  So what party are they?
[00:52:02]  They're the party of single women who want to kill their kids.

=== Walking in the Light (03:32) ===

[00:52:09]  So let me read a scripture, right?
[00:52:11]  Because after that, I just think we need some Bible.
[00:52:14]  I feel like I need some Bible.
[00:52:16]  Now, this isn't the most encouraging scripture, but.
[00:52:19]  There are some encouraging things in it, but it's scripture nonetheless.
[00:52:23]  And so it revives the soul.
[00:52:25]  This is John chapter 3.
[00:52:27]  You guys know it.
[00:52:28]  We'll start with verse 16.
[00:52:30]  John 3, 16.
[00:52:30]  Everybody knows that.
[00:52:32]  But I want us to read John 3, 16 through, let's read through verse 21.
[00:52:37]  John 3, 16 through 21.
[00:52:42]  Almost got it.
[00:52:44]  Here we go.
[00:52:45]  John 3, starting in verse 16.
[00:52:50]  Says this For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
[00:52:58]  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
[00:53:07]  Whoever believes in him, that is, in Jesus, is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
[00:53:19]  And this is the judgment, the light.
[00:53:23]  Jesus is the light of the world.
[00:53:25]  The light has come into the world.
[00:53:29]  And people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
[00:53:37]  For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light lest his works should be exposed.
[00:53:44]  If you like doing wicked things, you want to do them in darkness because you don't want it to be publicly known that you're doing wicked things.
[00:53:50]  You want to be able to hide your sin.
[00:53:52]  Verse 21 But whoever does what is true, Comes to the light that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.
[00:54:02]  The person who does good, he wants to be publicly known as doing good because his works are good.
[00:54:07]  But also, if he's a Christian, he's humble and recognizes that he's only doing good things because God, by his grace, is bringing those things about, right?
[00:54:16]  God has predestined good deeds for us to do, right?
[00:54:19]  And it's he who wills and works in and through us that which is good and pleasing in his sight, right?
[00:54:24]  He's predestined good works for us to do that we should walk in them.
[00:54:27]  But it's the grace of God that brings those things about.
[00:54:29]  So the Christian who loves Jesus, therefore loves the light of the world, the Christian desires to walk in the light as he is in the light, as Christ is.
[00:54:37]  Is the light and is in the light.
[00:54:39]  We want to walk in the light because we want our good deeds to be exposed.
[00:54:43]  And we want our good deeds to be exposed not from prideful motives, but we want our good deeds to be exposed because our good deeds are only there because of the grace of God.
[00:54:52]  And so our good deeds bring God, not ourselves, but God glory, right?
[00:54:56]  Elsewhere, you know, the scripture says, Let your good deeds shine before men, be seen before men, that they may glorify your Father in heaven.
[00:55:04]  But by way of contrast, the sinner.
[00:55:08]  The wicked, the vile, the wretch.
[00:55:11]  That person has bad deeds and therefore does not want to be publicly seen for the shameful deeds they do.
[00:55:18]  Therefore, they prefer the context of darkness, which is the absence of Christ.
[00:55:24]  They want to be away from Christ where there is darkness, like a bunch of cockroaches that Jesus steps into the room and they scatter under the bed.
[00:55:32]  They want to be away from Christ in the darkness to conceal and veil their evil deeds because they know that those evil deeds have not been brought about by God.

=== Unequal Sin Between Parties (05:22) ===

[00:55:42]  But rather, they themselves are responsible for the wickedness that they do.
[00:55:45]  Yes, God is sovereign over it all.
[00:55:47]  He's sovereign over righteous deeds, and he's sovereign over sinful deeds.
[00:55:51]  But the sinner remains morally responsible for the sinful deeds he does.
[00:55:56]  So, all that being said, here's the point there are a ton of problems with the Republican Party.
[00:56:02]  There are plenty of people who will run on the Republican platform with an R next to their name that a Christian cannot vote for.
[00:56:12]  Republicanism is not synonymous with Scripture.
[00:56:16]  It's not by any stretch of the means.
[00:56:19]  But here's the deal.
[00:56:20]  This is the problem, right?
[00:56:21]  This is the whole Timothy Keller thing, third way ism.
[00:56:24]  See, because I used to believe this because I liked Timothy Keller.
[00:56:29]  And I was listening to John Piper and I was listening to this person.
[00:56:32]  And here's the problem.
[00:56:34]  And this is why I say this.
[00:56:35]  People would be like, Joel, you're hating on Democrats, and I'm with you with that, but you're not hating on Republicans equally.
[00:56:42]  And if you were a really solid Bible guy, you would hate on both of them equally.
[00:56:46]  No.
[00:56:47]  Stop that.
[00:56:48]  That's why we lose.
[00:56:50]  Stop that.
[00:56:50]  That's why kids, that's part of the reason why kids are being murdered in their mother's wombs.
[00:56:56]  That's part of the reason why we have drag queen story hour.
[00:56:58]  We've got to stop being ideologues.
[00:57:00]  Stop that idealistic thinking.
[00:57:02]  Be honest.
[00:57:04]  Be honest.
[00:57:05]  And the honest truth is this the Republican Party is a far cry from biblical truth.
[00:57:10]  There is so much sin and corruption in the Republican Party that you can hardly even look at it without vomiting in your mouth.
[00:57:18]  And yet, it is squeaky clean by comparison to the Democrat Party.
[00:57:25]  These things are not equal.
[00:57:27]  And that's the trick that's been played on us by guys like Tim Keller, guys like Russell Moore, right?
[00:57:33]  They punch right and then tickle left, right?
[00:57:36]  Oh, yeah, well, I'm pro life, you know, but man, you know, Republicans do this and so what guys will do is they'll say, well, here's Republicans and here's Democrats and here's Jesus.
[00:57:47]  And here's the implication this is what it implies.
[00:57:49]  It implies that the distance between Christ and Democrats and Christ and Republicans is an equal distance, and it's not.
[00:57:59]  There are major problems with both, but not equally.
[00:58:03]  Not equally major problems.
[00:58:04]  Democrats are worse.
[00:58:08]  Way worse.
[00:58:11]  Way, No comparison, not even close.
[00:58:14]  Way, way worse.
[00:58:18]  Way worse.
[00:58:19]  Are there problems with Republicans?
[00:58:21]  Yes.
[00:58:21]  Are there plenty of things that they do that is absolutely atrocious?
[00:58:25]  Yes.
[00:58:26]  Yes.
[00:58:27]  But Democrats are worse.
[00:58:28]  So, all that being said, now that that's been said, Republicans have sin.
[00:58:32]  I gave the disclaimer.
[00:58:33]  Okay.
[00:58:34]  But in general, between the two parties, because they are both sinful but not equally sinful, that's my point.
[00:58:41]  The Democrat Party, in general, this is their platform.
[00:58:45]  Vote for us and you get to have your sin.
[00:58:49]  It's John 3 16 through John 3 21.
[00:58:53]  Christ is the light of the world, but men love the darkness because their deeds were evil.
[00:58:58]  You want to smoke weed?
[00:59:00]  Vote for Democrats.
[00:59:03]  You want to get your family members illegally into the country?
[00:59:08]  Vote for Democrats.
[00:59:12]  You want trans kids?
[00:59:13]  Vote for Democrats.
[00:59:16]  You want to have two men in thongs thrusting one another on a parade float in the middle of a crowded city while children are watching?
[00:59:23]  Vote for Democrats.
[00:59:29]  You want to murder 63 million children in their mother's womb?
[00:59:32]  Vote for Democrats.
[00:59:36]  That's literally the Democrat Party.
[00:59:38]  It's vote for us, we'll let you have your sin.
[00:59:41]  You want to steal from other people who made good choices and worked hard, you want to steal from them to pay off your debt with student loans, vote for Democrats.
[00:59:53]  Theft, the lack of being sober minded, murder with abortion, adultery, sexual immorality, sodomy, all these things.
[01:00:07]  Vote for Democrats.
[01:00:08]  Can we find these things in the Republican Party as well?
[01:00:10]  Yeah, of course.
[01:00:12]  I think it was 47 Republicans.
[01:00:16]  47 Republicans voted basically to be on the side of Obergefell, saying, yeah, we're good with that now.
[01:00:25]  We're good with that.
[01:00:26]  So yeah, so the Republican Party is the Democrat Party, just anywhere given what current cultural moment you're in.
[01:00:33]  The Republican Party is either five to 15 years behind the Democrats.
[01:00:37]  But the point is, they're still behind.
[01:00:40]  The Democrats are leading the way in sin.
[01:00:43]  Now, Republicans are following as closely behind as they possibly can, it seems, sometimes.
[01:00:48]  But still, there's an uncontested forerunner in the race for sin, and that is the Democrat Party.
[01:00:56]  So, people who love darkness because their deeds are evil vote for Democrats.

=== Low Bar for Church Leadership (07:27) ===

[01:01:04]  Of course they do.
[01:01:06]  Of course they do.
[01:01:08]  We know they do.
[01:01:09]  And right now, when we think of Taking the public and breaking it up into four primary categories of married men, married women, unmarried men, unmarried women.
[01:01:21]  Who really, really loves their sin and needs to vote for darkness so that sin can be sustained, that sin can continue, and that sin can be called a virtue?
[01:01:37]  It can be concealed.
[01:01:40]  Single women.
[01:01:42]  Single women.
[01:01:43]  So, Christian takeaways from the 2022 midterm election.
[01:01:47]  Number one, make marriage great again.
[01:01:50]  Christian men need to esteem the beauty of marriage like never before.
[01:01:57]  That marriage is a picture of the gospel, of the eternal marriage between Christ and his church.
[01:02:03]  That marriage is wonderful.
[01:02:05]  That marriage is not shackling, it's not imprisonment.
[01:02:11]  Marriage calls men and women to a glorious, glorious endeavor.
[01:02:17]  That marriage provides the necessary biblical covenantal context.
[01:02:22]  For men and women to thrive to the utmost in what God's called them to be.
[01:02:29]  Marriage is glorious.
[01:02:30]  Children are glorious.
[01:02:34]  These are some of the things that take away that we need to have.
[01:02:36]  Make marriage great again.
[01:02:38]  Here's another one storytelling.
[01:02:42]  Oh my goodness.
[01:02:43]  I was thinking about this the other day and just praying about this.
[01:02:46]  Conservatives and Christians, we are so bad at telling stories.
[01:02:52]  Because here's the deal we have forfeited.
[01:02:55]  Media, we have forfeited film and the arts and all those kinds of things.
[01:03:00]  We have said that the good, true, and beautiful isn't really necessary.
[01:03:06]  The true is necessary.
[01:03:09]  The good is somewhat necessary, but the beautiful is not necessary at all.
[01:03:14]  Christians have said that, you know, ultimately at the end of the day, right, it's just give me the hard truth.
[01:03:22]  I don't need art.
[01:03:23]  I don't need film.
[01:03:25]  I don't need media.
[01:03:25]  You know, if, if, um, If all the TV shows are bad, the Christian solution is just stop watching TV.
[01:03:32]  And if you even suggest, as a Christian, within a post millennial Kyperian framework, what if Christians started making really great TV shows?
[01:03:39]  You get a lot of pietists that would come out and say, Why do you need TV shows?
[01:03:43]  Why do you need entertainment?
[01:03:45]  Why don't you just sit for seven hours and think really romantic, effeminate thoughts about God, like John Piper?
[01:03:55]  Well, not a lot of guys want to do that.
[01:03:58]  Not a lot of guys want to do that.
[01:03:59]  Maybe that's why Abraham Piper is not following Jesus right now.
[01:04:02]  Yeah, I said that.
[01:04:05]  No, no, no.
[01:04:06]  We need to be called to a glorious vision, and not everybody's going to be called to be a pastor.
[01:04:10]  Like, is there room?
[01:04:11]  Is there a framework in the Bible, in the Christian faith, for starting businesses, for running for local political office, for being a cartoonist, for being an artist, for being a filmmaker?
[01:04:26]  Is there room?
[01:04:27]  Or is everything really just settling?
[01:04:32]  Unless you're a pastor.
[01:04:35]  One of the things that I hope to do with Right Response Ministries and with Covenant Bible Church that I pass, one of the things that I'm doing all the time with the men in my church as we have conversations, we are not talking about who here feels called to be a pastor and doing elder training programs all the time.
[01:04:51]  And that's not because I don't want successors and that's not because I don't want a plurality of elders and it's not because I don't want to share the pulp and all that.
[01:04:57]  No, it's not because of any of those things.
[01:04:59]  It's because for decades now, whenever we find a Christian man, Who loves theology, who loves the word of God, we immediately tell him, You must be called to be a pastor.
[01:05:11]  Not because he's actually called to be a pastor, but because the bar has been so low in the church that if somebody actually just cares about theology, it must mean that they're called to be the leader of a church instead of, No, maybe this is just what it looks like to be a Christian.
[01:05:29]  Vodi Bakum, I think, said that, you know, where he's like, Every time we find a young man who's excited about theology and has, you know, A hunger and a desire to just, you know, ravenously read and study the Word of God, we immediately think, you need to go to seminary.
[01:05:46]  You need to be a pastor.
[01:05:47]  Where he's like, no, maybe he's just a Christian.
[01:05:50]  Maybe he's just a Christian.
[01:05:52]  And then, guys who are out in the work field, we have done what we've done is anytime there's a guy in the work field who's successful in his work, successful in his business, his vocation, but he also has strong Christian faith, the Lord gets a hold of him.
[01:06:06]  Then, what do we do?
[01:06:07]  Guys, pastors come alongside that guy and begin telling him, you know what, I think the Lord may be calling you to leave your business and to become a pastor.
[01:06:16]  Right?
[01:06:17]  And then, you've got a lot of guys doing what the Hobby Lobby guy just did.
[01:06:20]  Or is going to do.
[01:06:21]  I don't know if you read the article on that, but he's going to give away Hobby Lobby, right?
[01:06:26]  Because that's what Christians do, you know, just give it away, right?
[01:06:30]  Charity, generosity.
[01:06:33]  And I'm sitting here thinking, why don't you just keep building that empire for the glory of God and give it to your kids?
[01:06:40]  Why don't you give it to your kids like you're commanded in Scripture to do?
[01:06:43]  Why don't you give it to your children?
[01:06:45]  Lay up an inheritance, not just for your children, but your children's children, as the Scripture also tells you to do, and teach them how to do these things wisely and make good products that are True and good and beautiful, with ethical business practices at affordable prices, which is, it actually is a loving of all your neighbors.
[01:07:06]  It is.
[01:07:06]  It loves your neighbors.
[01:07:08]  Did you know that giving money away, charity, is not the only way to love your neighbor?
[01:07:13]  The Bible talks about charity.
[01:07:14]  There is a place for that.
[01:07:16]  But giving money away is not the only way to love your neighbor.
[01:07:21]  Regardless of what you think about his character as a man, Rockefeller and coming up with a way to actually provide light, literal light for the world.
[01:07:35]  He became the richest guy on the planet for his time.
[01:07:41]  But the bottom line is that even though he didn't just give it away, give his invention away, or I'm going to give electricity and light away to everybody for free.
[01:07:51]  But what he did was he sold it at an affordable price, and everyone was raised up.
[01:08:00]  The tide raised all the ships economically.
[01:08:03]  The poverty threshold went up.
[01:08:08]  Everybody was better off because of his contribution for profit.
[01:08:13]  His for profit contribution made the quality of human life for everyone better.
[01:08:18]  People could produce longer, they didn't have to just stop because the sun went down.
[01:08:24]  There were all these different things that came about as ripples and implications from that one man's for profit invention.

=== Facts Over Feelings Matter (12:13) ===

[01:08:31]  That really did love his neighbors.
[01:08:34]  And we still feel the ripples and ramifications of that tangible love for neighbors even today.
[01:08:41]  Even today.
[01:08:42]  And so, my point is to say we can't just take every guy who cares about Jesus and cares about theology and put him in a pulpit.
[01:08:50]  We need people in every single realm of life.
[01:08:54]  We need people in the marketplace, in vocations, in medicine.
[01:09:00]  My goodness, we need Christian doctors right now because we can't trust our doctors anymore.
[01:09:05]  A lot of them.
[01:09:07]  Every major institution in our society has so discredited itself.
[01:09:11]  And I know we now just want to say, well, forget it.
[01:09:13]  We don't need the institutions.
[01:09:14]  Yes, we do.
[01:09:15]  Society needs institutions.
[01:09:17]  It does.
[01:09:18]  It just needs credible institutions because we can't, each individual person cannot afford to be an expert on everything.
[01:09:24]  I cannot afford to learn everything about medicine.
[01:09:31]  I have to have someone in my life that I can trust who has devoted themselves to be an expert in that field.
[01:09:37]  So, that while they're reading all these medical journals, I can read Jonathan Edwards.
[01:09:42]  Because I can't do it all.
[01:09:44]  I can't.
[01:09:44]  I can't be a world class economist and medical physician and this and that and political analyst.
[01:09:52]  We can't.
[01:09:53]  We can't.
[01:09:55]  We need institutions.
[01:09:56]  We just need credible institutions, which means we need Christians in institutions.
[01:10:02]  We need an all of Christ for all of life kind of worldview.
[01:10:04]  We need a Kyperian worldview.
[01:10:07]  We need this post millennial eschatology of hope.
[01:10:11]  We need Christians, solid Christians with good theology, to not leave.
[01:10:17]  Their position, to not leave their post and go to seminary and become pastors.
[01:10:23]  Some, but most should not.
[01:10:26]  Most should not.
[01:10:28]  And so I say all that to say I think takeaways, things that we need to do, is we need to make marriage great again.
[01:10:41]  And we also need people staying in institutions.
[01:10:46]  And the one that I started with, bringing it all the way back, was storytelling in media.
[01:10:51]  We need good Christian media.
[01:10:53]  And I don't mean it's Christian because every single film is about Jesus dying on the cross.
[01:10:57]  No, I mean it's Christian because it's good, it's true, and it's beautiful.
[01:11:01]  Good Christian media.
[01:11:03]  And we need good, talented, gifted Christians who are able to do these things.
[01:11:09]  And what I'm getting at is this facts over feelings isn't working.
[01:11:16]  I'll say that again.
[01:11:17]  I think that's part of what we saw in 2022.
[01:11:20]  Facts over feelings isn't working.
[01:11:22]  It works, but who's it work for?
[01:11:24]  It works for men.
[01:11:26]  It works for single men and it works for married men and it works for married women because those married women are discipled by their married men husbands.
[01:11:35]  Facts over feelings works for men.
[01:11:37]  And we can sit here and say, well, the truth should matter.
[01:11:39]  Facts should matter more than feelings.
[01:11:41]  Yeah, I think so.
[01:11:45]  But here's the deal the Bible isn't just a book of facts, and all of it is truth.
[01:11:53]  Data and facts and charts are not the only ways that God communicates to us.
[01:11:58]  God communicates, it's never at the expense of truth.
[01:12:01]  It is always and only ever true things that God speaks to us, but He speaks a lot of it through story.
[01:12:08]  Now, some of it's just historical accounts.
[01:12:10]  So and so did this and did that, but a lot of it is story.
[01:12:16]  It's powerful, it's poignant, it captures us.
[01:12:20]  God conveys truth through story.
[01:12:23]  Christians have to have that category for good story.
[01:12:29]  Because you know who listens to stories?
[01:12:32]  Who doesn't just want to read charts and doesn't fall into the category of facts over feelings?
[01:12:36]  Women.
[01:12:38]  Women.
[01:12:40]  And the reality is that progressives, secular, God hating pagans, for decades now, they have told better stories than us.
[01:12:51]  They have.
[01:12:52]  They captured Hollywood and they captured through Hollywood, they captured the hearts of children.
[01:12:59]  They've captured people's hearts.
[01:13:02]  And they did it by telling stories.
[01:13:04]  And here's the deal like, just being completely honest, one of the reasons why Democrats have to be good at telling stories is because they don't have facts on their side.
[01:13:12]  So, story is the only avenue they have, right?
[01:13:14]  Because if they were like, well, we're just going to get really good at facts too, then every argument they made would be against them, right?
[01:13:21]  Because the facts don't favor liars, right?
[01:13:24]  So, they can't just show facts.
[01:13:26]  What they have to do instead is they have to take anecdotal evidence.
[01:13:32]  And they have to create a heart-throbbing story around one individual that captures people, like, oh my gosh, I can't.
[01:13:40]  And that's what they've done.
[01:13:42]  That's, you know, whether it be Brokeback Mountain or whatever it might be, but that's for decades now.
[01:13:48]  That's what they've done they've taken the minority, where it's like, this isn't really happening.
[01:13:54]  Like, sure, there are isolated cases, but this is not the headline.
[01:13:57]  This is not the big problem going on in our nation.
[01:13:59]  But they take this little thing on the margins and then they make a powerful story of how this person, this individual, this group is being oppressed.
[01:14:10]  And then that takes national stage, this story, and it wins people over.
[01:14:16]  It wins people over.
[01:14:18]  And they've been doing that for a long time.
[01:14:21]  And so, my point is yes, we need to continue to win men for Christ.
[01:14:28]  We need to preach, and we need to preach factual truth, the Bible.
[01:14:33]  But the Bible is also narrative truth.
[01:14:36]  The Bible is good storytelling truth.
[01:14:40]  And we need to do both because it's not enough just to win men, the hearts of men.
[01:14:44]  We need to win the hearts of men.
[01:14:46]  Of women.
[01:14:47]  I think we do that by making marriage great again.
[01:14:49]  I think we also do that by making Christian storytelling great again.
[01:14:53]  Christians recapturing film and entertainment and those kinds of things.
[01:14:58]  And so those are just a couple of the takeaways that I had from this last election, thinking, man, I was a bit bummed.
[01:15:05]  I thought it was going to be better.
[01:15:06]  The last thing I'll say is this there's three things that I thought.
[01:15:10]  Number one, you know, men love darkness, so they vote for sin that's going to sustain the darkness so they can keep doing their evil deeds.
[01:15:17]  You know, under the veil.
[01:15:19]  So, one thing that we need is we just need more Christians.
[01:15:21]  So, I thought, you know, I broke it down like this I told my church, you know, we need preaching, teaching, and training.
[01:15:26]  Preaching, teaching, and training.
[01:15:28]  Preaching, there just aren't enough regenerate hearts in our nation.
[01:15:33]  So, we just need more preaching because the gospel is the only power of God for salvation.
[01:15:36]  So, we need good dynamite gospel preaching.
[01:15:40]  So, we need more pastors.
[01:15:41]  We do.
[01:15:42]  We need more pastors.
[01:15:43]  We need more churches.
[01:15:45]  And we need more biblical preaching and gospel preaching.
[01:15:49]  Because we need more converts.
[01:15:51]  We simply need more regenerate hearts in our nation, more preaching, teaching.
[01:15:56]  The problem is not just that we don't have enough regenerate hearts, but the ones that we actually have have been deceived by the gospel coalition or whatever it is to where they just cannot actually apply.
[01:16:08]  They really are born again, they really are Christians, and they really do believe that the Bible is the Word of God.
[01:16:13]  They just have no clue how to apply the Word of God to the realm of politics.
[01:16:18]  They are politically clueless, they have no political theology.
[01:16:23]  Well, sadly, they do have a political theology, but they got it from Tim Keller, right?
[01:16:28]  It's a neo Marxist, you know, progressive, punch right, tickle left, you know, third wayism.
[01:16:35]  Republicans are wrong, Democrats are wrong, and they're, you know, the fine print.
[01:16:39]  They're both equally wrong, so you could vote for either one, vote for Democrats, right?
[01:16:42]  That's, I mean, that's been the gospel coalition, Acts 29, you know, together for the gospel.
[01:16:49]  That has been the political theology of evangelicals, you know, especially within the reform camp, sadly, for I'd say the last 20 years.
[01:16:59]  Maybe longer.
[01:17:00]  So, we need preaching because we need more regenerate hearts.
[01:17:03]  We need teaching because we need the regenerate hearts that we already have to be, to not just have regenerate hearts, but also have educated, informed minds, especially on how to apply theology.
[01:17:14]  Not just to know theology in the abstract, in the realm of the theoretical, but in the tangible.
[01:17:21]  How to apply the Word of God to every realm of life, including the civil realm, political realm.
[01:17:25]  So, preaching, teaching, and then training.
[01:17:28]  We've got to stop raising kids for liberals.
[01:17:32]  Right?
[01:17:34]  Conservatives raise kids and have kids, but they ultimately give them to liberals.
[01:17:40]  Liberals don't have kids.
[01:17:41]  They have dogs.
[01:17:42]  They have cats.
[01:17:43]  They have goldfish.
[01:17:44]  They don't have kids.
[01:17:45]  They don't.
[01:17:46]  It's like, that's not true.
[01:17:47]  I know so and so who, you know, votes Democrat.
[01:17:49]  I'm just saying, of course, there are exceptions.
[01:17:51]  But in general, just look at the population, the entire population of America who votes Republican, who votes Democrat, and who has more kids.
[01:17:59]  I mean, it's not even a question.
[01:18:02]  But Gen Zers came out in full force for Democrats.
[01:18:07]  Why?
[01:18:07]  Because conservatives have kids, but we hand them to Caesar to raise those kids.
[01:18:13]  To train them, we outsource the training of our children to people who hate God.
[01:18:21]  So it's not enough for conservatives to be fruitful and multiply and procreate.
[01:18:26]  We do need to do that.
[01:18:27]  But we also need to raise the children that we have.
[01:18:31]  We actually have to raise them.
[01:18:32]  Doug Wilson says it like this in the case of Samuel, Samuel had two sons who took bribes.
[01:18:37]  And Doug Wilson says Samuel would have not been any better off by having five sons that took bribes.
[01:18:45]  Well, he had a quiver fool.
[01:18:46]  The problem with Samuel is he only had two sons.
[01:18:48]  He needed a quiver fool.
[01:18:49]  Well, five sons who take bribes doesn't really help.
[01:18:54]  What you need is lots of sons and lots of daughters, but good sons and good daughters.
[01:19:01]  It's not just having many arrows, but having good arrows.
[01:19:05]  And I would say two things sharp arrows and straight arrows.
[01:19:10]  We cannot produce dull arrows that are just pietists, they don't do anything.
[01:19:15]  They don't actually puncture the enemy.
[01:19:18]  And we can't produce bent arrows, crooked arrows that actually function more like boomerangs than arrows.
[01:19:25]  When we shoot them out, they actually whip around and come back and hit us in the face.
[01:19:31]  That's kind of what we've been seeing you got a bunch of kids who grew up, apostatized, denied the faith, and now are spitting in the face of their parents, like Abraham Piper.
[01:19:43]  So we need straight arrows so that they don't function as boomerangs and come back and hit us.
[01:19:47]  And we need sharp arrows so that.
[01:19:50]  Even if they are actually biblically conservative and holding to the truth, they actually apply that theology.
[01:19:55]  They're not just two kingdom radical, two kingdom pietists, but they see how biblical conservative theology applies to every realm of life, including a political theology.
[01:20:04]  And we have to do that at the level of children so that the next generation isn't Zoomers, Gen Z, that's kind of lost its mind.
[01:20:17]  One of the best generations that we found in this last election was millennials, believe it or not.
[01:20:22]  And, you know, The best was actually Gen X. Gen X was the most conservative, bar none.
[01:20:29]  And probably in part because they were just ignored the forgotten generation, passed over generation.
[01:20:35]  And so they really looked into what's real and what matters and were able to see through the veil.
[01:20:43]  But yeah, Gen Z is not helping us out.

=== Teaching Existing Christians First (03:17) ===

[01:20:45]  So we need a new batch.
[01:20:46]  So we got to train kids, don't hand them over to the state.
[01:20:50]  So we need to start schools.
[01:20:52]  We got to teach the Christians we already have.
[01:20:54]  About how to apply the theology in every realm, including politics.
[01:20:57]  So that means we need media and podcasts and all these different things.
[01:21:00]  And then we also need preaching because we just need more regenerate people.
[01:21:04]  And only the gospel does that.
[01:21:05]  So we need more churches, more pulpits.
[01:21:07]  So more churches for preaching, for converts.
[01:21:10]  And then more media for teaching, for taking the converts we already have and helping them to see how their theology, how the Bible applies to actual life, including how you vote.
[01:21:23]  And then more schools because we need training, because we need children, because conservatives and Christians have to stop.
[01:21:29]  Having kids, but handing them over to Caesar and the state, and then being shocked, as Votibakan would say, when they come back as Romans.
[01:21:36]  So those are my thoughts.
[01:21:38]  Let me just say this one more time because I really think it's going to sell out in two weeks.
[01:21:44]  So go ahead and put it back on the screen, real quick, Nathan.
[01:21:46]  Put it back on the screen.
[01:21:47]  Here we go Theonomy and Post Millennialism Conference.
[01:21:50]  This is 2023, May 5th, 6th, and 7th.
[01:21:53]  That's a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
[01:21:55]  The problem, if you're just now tuning in, if you didn't watch the beginning of this video because we're doing it live, here's the problem.
[01:22:01]  We're not going to raise the rate again.
[01:22:02]  Okay, so this isn't a register now or the prices.
[01:22:05]  No, we have the early bird price, $100 for an adult, and then the actual price, which is $130.
[01:22:09]  I'm going to have to go in a second, $130 for an adult.
[01:22:12]  All right, it's staying at 130.
[01:22:13]  We're not raising it again.
[01:22:14]  We're six months out, a little less than six months, five and a half months out from the conference.
[01:22:18]  We're not raising the rate again.
[01:22:20]  I'm not saying you got to register today because if you don't, it's going to cost 165.
[01:22:24]  No, what I'm saying is that we had no clue this was going to happen.
[01:22:28]  But on October 31st, the last day where the rate was $100, our early bird rate, we had like a couple hundred people register for this conference.
[01:22:37]  And we now currently have 450 people registered.
[01:22:40]  And we have a venue that seats about 500, and we're willing to push it.
[01:22:46]  It seats 500.
[01:22:46]  We're willing to push it to 550, 570 tops.
[01:22:50]  So we have 100 to 120 seats.
[01:22:53]  So you got to register.
[01:22:54]  You got to register.
[01:22:55]  If you're planning on going, if you hate it and you don't want to go, then fine.
[01:22:58]  You know, just disregard everything I'm saying right now.
[01:23:01]  But for anybody who is saying, yeah, I'm planning on going.
[01:23:02]  I just haven't gotten around to registering, right?
[01:23:04]  Because $100 to $130, that doesn't make a deal.
[01:23:07]  That doesn't matter to me.
[01:23:08]  That's insignificant.
[01:23:09]  And so I'll, you know, I've got five and a half months to the conference.
[01:23:12]  I'll register later on.
[01:23:14]  That's not going to work.
[01:23:15]  It's not because we're going to price hike, it's because we're going to sell out.
[01:23:19]  We have literally, as of today, we have 450 people who are registered for this conference, and we have 100 to about 120, 125 tops seats that are left.
[01:23:31]  It will be sold out by the end of the year.
[01:23:33]  Six weeks, month and a half from now, it will be sold out by the end of the year.
[01:23:38]  It could be sold out as early as two weeks from now.
[01:23:41]  So if you want to come to this conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th, theonomy and post millennialism conference with James White, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Pastor Joel Webbin, you got to register and Your best bet is just to go ahead and register today.
[01:23:56]  So you can do that by going to rightresponseconference.com.
[01:24:00]  Rightresponseconference.com.

=== Hospital Visit and Prayer (04:21) ===

[01:24:02]  All right, that's all the time that we have today because as you probably could hear on the recording, my kids and mama just got home.
[01:24:10]  By the way, this is the first time I've recorded since this last week where we had to go to the hospital with my youngest, my son Franklin, who's only now he's about 11 weeks old, but he was 10 weeks old last week when this took place.
[01:24:23]  But he just got Slammed with RSV, pneumonia, and rhinovirus.
[01:24:29]  I get just a cold.
[01:24:30]  But three things simultaneously, all at once, his lungs were just filled with mucus and he just couldn't breathe.
[01:24:38]  You know, he was in the, for anybody who's medically savvy, he was in the low 80s, his oxygen level.
[01:24:45]  We had to take him to the ER.
[01:24:46]  He also had a fever at like 103.
[01:24:48]  And, you know, being 10 weeks old, that's really concerning.
[01:24:52]  And we had to stay in the hospital Monday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday night.
[01:24:56]  I put something out on YouTube, just a message asking you guys to pray for us, and something out on Twitter as well.
[01:25:02]  Many of you guys, like over a hundred of you guys between Twitter and YouTube, reached out and said that you were praying for us.
[01:25:09]  And I just want to say, I cannot tell you how grateful I am for that.
[01:25:13]  That meant so much to me, and it meant so much to my wife, Megan.
[01:25:17]  She was so blessed by that.
[01:25:18]  She was like, There's all these people we don't even know who love Franklin.
[01:25:21]  And she was like almost in tears.
[01:25:23]  And as we're sitting there in the hospital, but by God's grace, Franklin got stronger and stronger, and on Thursday we were able to come home.
[01:25:30]  He's breathing great.
[01:25:31]  His lungs are clearing out.
[01:25:33]  He's still got a little bit of a cold and a sniffly nose, you know, which I've got my tube, and this is just part of being a parent.
[01:25:39]  You love your kids.
[01:25:40]  I'm sucking snot out of his nose, as any loving parent is willing to do, but Franklin is doing so much better.
[01:25:45]  So thank you for praying.
[01:25:47]  That's an update for Franklin.
[01:25:48]  If he was still in the hospital or something, then I wouldn't be recording today.
[01:25:51]  So I'm doing this because God is faithful, and you guys were faithful as well, and praying for my boy, and God has healed him.
[01:25:58]  So that's it.
[01:26:01]  Yeah, the best way to get your question is.
[01:26:06]  You got to try to get it in early.
[01:26:08]  And some of you guys have, and I've done my best to email you guys back.
[01:26:11]  When you email me a question, I'm trying to answer it through email.
[01:26:14]  If you could specify, maybe in the subject line of the email for Monday, live QA.
[01:26:20]  Because I went into this Monday with, yes, I had been asked some questions, but a lot of them I had already addressed offline and I had already answered.
[01:26:26]  And so I didn't really have any big, unanswered question that somebody had asked me.
[01:26:30]  So I was like, I'm going to do the midterm thing.
[01:26:32]  I'm going to do election and talk about that, where people live, why geography matters.
[01:26:36]  Each state and all this different stuff, and single women, and making marriage great again, and Christians telling stories.
[01:26:41]  I'm going to do that whole thing because I just didn't really have a ton of questions that you guys that I didn't already answer that you guys specify.
[01:26:48]  Could you do this on a Monday live QA?
[01:26:50]  So if you got something you're like, next week, Joel, we want you to get to our questions, fair.
[01:26:55]  That's a fair point.
[01:26:57]  I will do my best to do that.
[01:26:59]  Could you just not just in the chat because I'm sure there's stuff in the chat.
[01:27:01]  I'll look at it as soon as we're done here, but could you take that, just copy and paste it and email it to me, and in the subject line, say for next Monday.
[01:27:10]  Joel, for next Monday, we know that you can talk.
[01:27:12]  We know you have things you want to say, but talk about our things.
[01:27:15]  So, in the subject line, you can just say, for next Monday, live QA, and then give me your question.
[01:27:21]  And I promise, Lord willing, to do my very best to just do nothing but questions next week.
[01:27:28]  I think the midterms mattered.
[01:27:30]  A lot of people have a lot of thoughts, a lot of takes, and I wanted to share my two cents as well.
[01:27:35]  So, that's it for us for this week.
[01:27:38]  Again, register for the Theonomy and Postmillennialism Conference, Right Response Conference.
[01:27:44]  If you don't register in the next 14 days, I really think we'll have sold out.
[01:27:50]  That's my sense.
[01:27:50]  It could be six weeks by the end of the year for sure, but I've been trying to kind of predict.
[01:27:55]  And my guess is I think 14 days and we'll be sold out.
[01:27:58]  So if you've had a desire to go to that and you've been thinking you had time, I thought you had time too, but you don't.
[01:28:04]  So, all right, love you guys.
[01:28:05]  Thanks for tuning in.
[01:28:06]  God bless.
[01:28:07]  Thanks so much for listening.
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