Host addresses financial struggles under Biden and algorithmic suppression, urging five-star reviews. He mandates new Christian political podcasters adopt theonomist, Kuyperian, postmillennial, deeply reformed, presuppositional, and patriarchal frameworks while rejecting classical liberalism, soft big tent approaches, and feminism. Citing 1 Peter, he asserts Jesus reigns over civil authorities and husbands as Lord of Lords, framing the church as an offensive battering ram against hell rather than a neutral entity. He critiques Matt Walsh's Roman Catholic theology, prioritizing sound doctrine and patriarchal views like opposing women's conscription before engaging current politics, labeling socialism as civil theft. Ultimately, this approach demands total biblical integration over secular neutrality in all earthly realms. [Automatically generated summary]
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King of Kings and Kingdom00:09:16
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Forge and Handful.
All right.
Any advice for a newish podcaster covering politics?
It's a good question.
A newish podcaster covering politics.
My best advice would be, you know, and this.
Gets to my theology, but my best advice is that you would be a theonomist, meaning that you would be Kyperian, and that you would be post millennial, and that you would be deeply and robustly reformed, that you would be presuppositional, that you would be patriarchal.
I'm listing some of the primary tenets of my own theology.
And what I'm saying is, if you're going to do a podcast on anything, really, but especially, you know, in line with the question, if you're going to do a political commentary from a Christian worldview, my advice is first to have, actually have a Christian worldview.
If you're going to do a podcast on politics as a Christian, then have good theology.
Please, please.
We do not need another classical liberal, soft, big Eva.
Barely Christian podcast on politics that talks about, you know, well, you know, they're trans and kids again.
Yeah, they are.
What's the solution?
Well, if we could just get back to classical liberalism, you know, and just a total free speech where, you know, and principled pluralism, you know, pluralism, right?
Which is just a placeholder and euphemism for polytheism, where we just worship many gods so Christians can keep their God and the pagans can have their gods.
And, you know, like, we don't need that.
Get that garbage out of here, right?
If that's your podcast, and I mean no disrespect, I'm not trying to be harsh, but if that's your podcast, do the world a favor and delete it.
We don't need that.
So, my best advice to a Christian who is trying to apply the scripture to the civil realm, to the political realm, do it with good theology.
And for those who are listening and say, well, we just don't need podcasts about politics from a Christian worldview at all, you're wrong.
You're just wrong.
And you need to repent.
Because you're really wrong and you're hurting.
You are hurting the church.
You're doing us no favors.
No, it's all of Christ for all of life.
There's not one square inch of all the world that Christ Jesus doesn't cry out, Mine.
It's a blood bought world.
It all belongs to King Jesus, right?
It's not like the Lion King in Disney where Simba wakes up early in the morning, right?
Excited for his dad, the King Mufasa, to show him all the extent of his.
Kingdom and they walk up to the edge of Pride Rock, and Mufasa says, Simba, everything the light touches is your kingdom.
All of this will be yours.
And Symba says, but what about that dark, shadowy place over there, right?
To which Big Eva answers, well, that's the realm of politics.
And Jesus' kingdom is not of this world.
Stop that garbage.
Jesus' kingdom is not of this world.
The Bible never said that Jesus' kingdom is not in this world.
When the Bible says, when Christ says, my kingdom is not of this world, what he's saying is that I don't do business, I don't rule in the same way, in the same methods, in the same manner that the rulers of this earth do, right?
Like the Gentiles who lord it.
Over you, the Gentile rulers.
I don't rule like that.
I have a kingdom that operates on different principles, where the last are first and the first shall be last.
If you want to be great in my kingdom, become the servant of all.
Notice Jesus doesn't say, I don't have a kingdom, or my kingdom is somewhere else in the 17th dimension.
It doesn't apply here.
No, Jesus has a kingdom.
He is the king.
He is ruling now, not just eventually, right now.
He is subjecting one by one his enemies under his feet.
He's doing all this through the battering ram of the church.
Which he didn't merely promise to sustain, but he promised that he would build his church, that is, grow, increase his church, that it would be the battering ram of Christ, and that hell is not on the offense, and we're just shaking the corner, hoping that we can make it to the bottom of the ninth when Christ comes back, or all 12 rounds hanging on the ropes to be saved by the bell.
No, the church is increasing, and the gates of hell, that's hell on the defense.
Are going to be bust down by Christ wielding the battering ram of the church, which he's not just sustaining, but he's building and increasing.
The most political statement that's ever been made in all the universe is Christ is Lord.
Jesus is Lord.
Think about the statement that he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
Have you ever wondered who those other Lords are?
Have you ever wondered who those other lowercase k kings are?
Jesus is not just King, but he's King of Kings.
Which kings?
Jesus is not just king of other kings in heaven.
He's a king of other kings on earth.
He's a Lord of lords, not just lesser lords of heaven, but the lords on earth, right?
This gets a bit spicy for a moment, but remember 1 Peter chapter 3, talking about husbands and wives and the importance of husbands living with their wives in an understanding manner, recognizing that they are the weaker vessel, weaker in one sense, but also equal in terms of value and dignity.
They are Co heirs of grace, right?
But then he speaks to the wives and talks about the importance of submission and uses as a case study that Christian women today should follow.
This example uses Sarah, that she called her husband her Lord.
Now, aside from the fact that wives should submit to their husbands at the same way that Sarah submitted to her husband Abraham, calling him Lord, aside from that spicy little tidbit, my main point is this.
Abraham was a Lord.
So when the Bible says, lowercase l, Lord, so when the Bible says that Jesus is Lord of Lords, one of the kinds of Lords that the Bible is talking about that Jesus is Lord over are husbands.
Husbands and fathers are heads of their wives and heads of their children, head of household, right?
In the same way that Christ is head of the church, the husband is the head of his wife and head of the children, he is a Lord of his home.
Lowercase L, a lesser, but Lord nonetheless.
He is a Lord over his home.
So when the Bible says that Jesus is Lord of Lords, one of the kinds or types of Lords that the Bible is talking about is that Jesus is Lord over fathers and husbands.
He's also Lord over civil Lords, familial Lords, and households, and ecclesiastical Lords, elders and deacons ruling in the church realm.
Jesus is Lord of Lords.
So his kingdom is not of this world.
That is, he doesn't operate on their principles and their ways, but his kingdom is in this world.
This world.
Jesus is Lord is a political statement, the most political statement, and he is Lord of Lords.
That means that he is reigning over earthly lords and King of kings, reigning over earthly kings.
And Jesus, his kingdom is growing by leaps and bounds.
He is building his church and he doesn't fail.
Christ doesn't fail.
And it is progressively growing as he subjects his enemies one by one, even now under his feet, and his last enemy to defeat is death.
It is not as though the church loses, right?
Like, it is not as though the godless culture continues to just win and win and win and becomes bigger and stronger.
And the church just dwindles, this little remnant hanging on, you know, barely making it in the world.
Political Theology and Commands00:07:20
And then Jesus comes back and conquers death and then conquers all his other enemies too.
No, see, that's the reverse order.
Death is the last, the Bible says, the last enemy.
Is death, which means, and death we know is conquered upon Jesus' final physical return.
So when he returns, Jesus is going to conquer death, and death is his last enemy to conquer, which means that the other enemies are being conquered in this church age through the power of the gospel and the expanse of the church, right?
That's what the Great Commission is it's to make disciples of nations, baptizing them into the name of the triune God.
The name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
And we always forget this part teaching them not just the gospel, not just making converts, not just the work of an evangelist, but also teaching them to obey all my commands.
Do the commands of Christ have civil applications?
Do obeying the commands of Christ have application in the civil realm?
Do they have economic applications?
Can I obey the commands of Christ and disciple others and teach others to obey the commands of Christ?
But tell them that when it comes to markets, when it comes to economies, the commands of Christ are irrelevant.
That the economy is a neutral realm where the commands of Christ aren't applicable.
And so you can steal and rob.
You can put together certain economies and certain systems in the political realm, like socialism, that actually legislates civil theft, where I can, out of envy, take what belongs to my neighbor that he's earned.
And take it for myself and say, but because it's in the economic and political realm and it's not in my household, you know, in my home, you know, we obey the commands of Christ.
And in the church, we obey the commands of Christ and teach others to do likewise.
But over here, it doesn't count.
It's just bad theology.
Of course, that's wrong.
Of course, that's wrong.
So, how do you have a good podcast on politics?
Well, the first thing is I don't want to hear your political take.
If you're not good with theology.
And that's part of the problem.
I'll say this, you know, like the Daily Wire, you know, people will tease me and say, that guy looks like Matt Walsh.
And what I'll say is, well, you know, I'm Matt Walsh, except there's two differences.
One, I'm the budget version of Matt Walsh.
So you can get me for a lot cheaper and I can, you know, build a studio for $15,000 instead of, you know, a million.
But not only am I the budget version, you know, I say this tongue in cheek, but I'm also the Protestant version of Matt Walsh, aka I'm Matt Walsh, but with good theology.
And I like Matt Walsh.
I'm grateful for, you know, what is a woman and some of the things that he's done.
You know, and he does some things I agree with.
Not all of his theology is whack.
But his theology is still kind of whack.
He's a Roman Catholic.
He doesn't have great theology.
And so he's got some really good, and I praise God for his common grace in that regard.
He's got some really good, Matt Walsh has some really good common sense takes on politics.
And in a world that's gone completely insane and lost its mind, you know, I'll take it.
Praise God.
I'll take what we can get.
But Matt Walsh can only get us so far.
Because he doesn't have sound, really, truly, biblically sound doctrine.
And so, if you want a good podcast that's beneficial for people, it's not wasting their time on politics.
Before you focus on being up to date with all the latest political affairs and being a good politician, be a good theologian.
Be a good theologian.
Be patriarchal.
Don't be a feminist.
Be able, when they talk about drafting women, and that's a political issue.
Issue.
Be able to say why that's wrong, why this political event is morally wrong because of this theological reason, because of patriarchy, because men are called to protect and provide, and be able to go further and talk about some of the privileges of those who can be drafted.
If you can be drafted to defend your nation, then you have certain rights that others who cannot be drafted, but rather will be protected, that they should not have.
There's another 19th Amendment thing for you.
All that being said, all that being said, my point is if you want to have a good political podcast, be a good theologian, be patriarchal, be presuppositional, be Kyperian.
What I mean by Kyperian, Abraham Kyper, he's the guy who has the famous line that I cited earlier not a single square inch of all the world that Christ doesn't cry out, mine.
So, Kyperianism, in a nutshell, is the idea that we want to apply the whole counsel of God to the whole of human society.
Not just the church and the home, but every realm, economics, politics, art, all these different things.
So, Kyperianism is in a sentence all of Christ for all of life.
So, be Kyperian, be presuppositional, be patriarchal, be post millennial.
Everything I said about the battering ram of the church and Christ building his church and the gates of hell, hell is on the defense, will not prevail against it.
If you want to do a good political podcast, be a good theologian.
Can I be frank with you for just a second, right here at the end?
Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry, and from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you.
I cannot thank you enough.
However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it.
In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it.
Let's be honest.
I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy.
Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID.
We have written checks that we simply cannot cash.
It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession.
We are living in a recession right now, regardless.
Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store.
You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
I am asking you, please, if you're willing to do so, take one minute of your time.
Leave us a five star review on your favorite podcast platform iTunes, Spotify, whatever that might be.
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