June 25, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
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| All right, everybody. | |
| Former president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, one of the most prominent evangelicals in the country, Everett Piper, and he wrote what I would call a prophetic, and people don't know, most people think prophets tell the future. | |
| In fact, the word prophet is an unfortunate translation of the Hebrew, which really means spokesman. | |
| They convey... | |
| Difficult words of God, or to use the cliche now, rampant on the left, tells truth to power. | |
| That's what the prophet did, and that's what Everett Piper did to his fellow evangelicals. | |
| The question I have for you is, did you see this coming? | |
| Would you have predicted a large cave-in to an anti- Yes, I did. | |
| In fact, I won't bore you with it, Dennis, but I actually wrote my dissertation on this at Michigan State University some couple decades ago. | |
| I could see this fact. | |
| A low view of Scripture combined with a high view of self is not a good formula for freedom. | |
| I'll repeat that. | |
| A low view of scripture with a high view of self is always a formula for disaster and bondage and slavery and brokenness rather than repentance and freedom. | |
| Another way to look at it is Greek mythology, the story of narcissists. | |
| Narcissism is always suicidal. | |
| And the more we gaze into the pool infatuated with ourselves, the more we displace God from where he rightfully belongs in our lives and commit the original sin and declare ourselves to be as God, the more we slip into the pool and subject ourselves to cultural the more we slip into the pool and subject ourselves to And that is indeed what's taking place in the evangelical church right now. | |
| And yeah, you've nailed it. | |
| It's a new religion. | |
| It's the religion of holy wokeness, as I said earlier. | |
| The white guilt cult as opposed to the Christian religion of repentance, confession, and being born again. | |
| I included the repentance issue in my piece, and I said there is no room for it on the left. | |
| You lead an honorable, good, responsible, family-centered life for decades, but you are caught having said something 25 years ago and your but you are caught having said something 25 years ago and your life There is no room for that in Judaism or Christianity. | |
| The holiest day of Judaism is the Day of Atonement. | |
| The whole point of Christ's crucifixion is to atone for sin, and that's absent on the left. | |
| Because they don't believe in sin other than yours. | |
| Okay. | |
| Like you said, Dad, I listened to your earlier episode or your earlier segment, and you repeated what you've written 30 years ago. | |
| Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry, because they don't believe in personal confession. | |
| They believe in systematic and organizational sin. | |
| they believe in self-worship rather than selflessness and personal culpability. | |
| It's always pointing the finger outward and blaming you rather than looking in the mirror and accepting the responsibility for what they see there. | |
| But I'm kind of saying, you know, it seems that our new religion in America is to worship what we see in the mirror rather than what we see in the Bible. | |
| And if what you see in the mirror is elevated to the status of God, why would you ever have to say you're sorry? | |
| Everybody else is responsible for the ills of our culture, not myself. | |
| If indeed I'm worshiping this new God of holy workness. | |
| Out here where I live in Southern California, I could think, and I'm sure there are more, but I could think of two spectacular evangelical pastors who think like you and who take Christianity seriously. | |
| Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy. | |
| I'm sure you're familiar with them. | |
| Yes. | |
| This is a strange question, but it's actually quite sincerely asked. | |
| In your mind, obviously there's no way to know, but in your mind, how many Hibbs and McCoys are there? | |
| How many Pipers are there, percentage-wise, among evangelical clergy and leaders? | |
| But again, Dennis, as a Christian, I'm going to answer you as a Christian. | |
| I believe the words of Christ when he promised us that the gates of hell will not prevail against his church. | |
| I think that's a promise. | |
| I don't think Christ will break that promise. | |
| So I think the church wins. | |
| Now, what happens between now and that victory, I don't know. | |
| But I have confidence in the end of the story that... | |
| The gates of hell will not prevail. | |
| So how many, is it 20%, is it 30%, is it 51% of the Christian community that would agree with what I'm saying? | |
| I don't know, but I do know the strength that we can have, and I understand the confidence and the courage that we're told to have as we engage culture. | |
| But if you run into the face of the storm, you don't run away from it. | |
| And people follow you because you do. | |
| They don't want to follow somebody who's weak-meat and mushy and just goes with the flow of culture. | |
| This is the lesson the church needs to learn. | |
| Have some courage. | |
| Have a spine, if you will. | |
| Run into the storm, not away from the storm. | |
| Wave the banner of the truth of Christ and the truth of Scripture. | |
| And if you end waving that banner, great, that's God's grace. | |
| But if you lose, who cares? | |
| Go down fighting. | |
| We need to fight for what's right and just and real and not just capitulate. | |
| To what's woke? | |
| Well, as I said last segment, God bless you, my friend. | |
| We need you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And God bless you today. | |
| Thank you for your words and your courage and your leadership. | |
| Thank you. |
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