Dec. 21, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
Mary, did you know many your baby boy would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy would save our sons and daughters?
Didn't you know that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you delivered will soon deliver you.
Mary, did you know that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy will calm the storm with his hand?
Didn't you know that your baby boy has walked where angels draw when you kiss your little baby?
You kiss the face of God.
Oh man, did you know?
There's been a lot of highlights this year for your humble servant and for this program, but one of the most important for me personally was having the opportunity to travel up to Michigan earlier this year to give a talk at a forum.
And there I had the opportunity for the first time, even after all these years, to meet Pastor Brett McAtee in person.
And not only that, my wife and I, along with one of our kids, were there for his service on Sunday morning.
And we joined him in fellowship at his church and got to meet the congregation and even have a potluck lunch after the service.
And Brett, I'll remember that forever.
I love you, brother.
I appreciate you being here tonight again for this TPC tradition of having Pastor Brett McAtee on for the final hour of the final show before Christmas to bring to us the biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Pastor McAtee, it's great to have you back.
James, I'm humbled by this opportunity to give the gospel of Jesus Christ year by year during the Advent season during this Christmas time during this celebration of the incarnation.
We start this morning with this morning, I'm used to Sunday mornings, we start this evening with Galatians chapter 4, which gives us the purpose of Christmas where Paul says in Galatians 4, starting with verse 4, but when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And now, Father, as we break forth your word, we ask that you would give the Holy Spirit to the end of articulating Christ clearly so that your people might understand Christ clearly.
In Christ's name we pray.
Amen.
As we consider this passage in Galatians 4, we note first that it gives us in succinct form what we've been what we seek to expand on during this whole Advent season, and that is the coming and the purpose of the coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The passage talks about the fullness of time when the fullness of time had come and from Genesis 3, 16 forward, you find what's called the proto-evangelium, the promise that he would be given a son who would crush the head of the serpent, and then the serpent would strike his heel.
From that time forward to the coming of Jesus, the language that Paul uses here is that time was pregnant.
It was pregnant with the expectation of the coming Messiah.
But not until that Christmas morning, that first Advent, not until then was the time yet full to give birth to Christ.
So when the fullness, when time had reached its fullness, when history had reached its fullness, as Paul says here, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law.
What we want to emphasize here about this fullness of time is that it's as if all the Old Testament is arcing towards the coming of Christ.
There's this aching of the Old Testament saints to have the promises fulfilled that were promised there in the Old Testament.
And they're always looking forward.
Is now the time?
Is this the Christ?
Is this the one who is promised?
And over and over again in the Old Testament, there's this sense of anticipation.
And the promise builds and builds and builds until we finally get to the fullness of time, the fullness of history, when God decides this is the right time for the coming of the Messiah.
Then we talks about the idea that God sends forth his son born of a woman.
And this hearkens back to that first promise of the coming Messiah there in Genesis that he would be the seed of the woman.
And so the Holy Spirit under working through Paul talks about the idea that God sent forth his son born of a woman.
John 1:14 tells us that the word became flesh.
And Paul likewise can say in Philippians 2 that Christ took on the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And the writer of Hebrews underscores this theme when he says and reminds us when he refers to Jesus.
Now, since the children have flesh and blood, he referring to Jesus, he too shared in their humanity.
So the emphasis is overwhelming here that Christ would be brought forth, sent forth as a son born of a woman.
And it's hard for us to believe in our context, but in the early church, this was an emphasis that was brought out over and over at times because they had a harder time believing that Jesus was very man, a very man, than believing he was very God, a very God.
Moderns, on the other hand, we have a hard time believing that Jesus was very God, a very God.
And we more readily accept that he was just a man.
But those that Paul had to deal with, those that the early church had to deal with, they had a hard time believing that Jesus was born of a woman, born of the law.
And so Paul in this Christmas season, this Advent season, he talks about the fullness of time.
The ark of history has finally arrived at its zenith.
That which had everything had been anticipated has come to fruition.
And there is Mary and Joseph.
They're in Bethlehem, the city that literally means the house of bread.
And there the bread of God, that is our Christ, is born in the city of bread, the house of bread, Bethlehem.
And so all that history arced towards was fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
And so we find in the fullness of time the idea that this was the perfect moment, the perfect time that God had decided had come to pass and he sends forth the Messiah.
And this reminds us, among many other things, that God is the one who's sovereignly in control of history.
All of history is plotting towards the coming of Jesus.
And everything that happens for the 2,000 years prior to the coming of Christ is all designed to reach this zenith point of the coming of Jesus, which we celebrate now year in and year out.
And so he was born, as Paul says here in Galatians 4, 4, in the fullness of time, which we might say at just the right moment, at just the perfect moment.
God sends forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, under the law.
And this is a point that the apostles make and the scriptures make throughout is the humanity of our Lord Christ.
And he had to be very man of very man in order to be able to identify with us and with our sins.
In man or in Adam, man fell.
And in the second Adam, man is restored.
Man fell, and so man had to pay the price for sin.
And Jesus Christ is the one who paid the price for sin.
And that's pointed at as we get to this passage where it says, to redeem those who were under the law.
And this idea of redeem is this idea is to purchase back, to bring back something to its proper place.
To redeem reminds us of the idea of a ransom price.
You cannot redeem something without a price being paid.
And that price paid is the idea of a ransom.
So when you talk about redemption, ransom is closely married to the idea of redemption.
And Paul says here in the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that Christ came born under the law to do something very specific to redeem those who were under the law.
And this reminds us of Matthew 1, 21, where the angel pronounces to Mary, you shall name his name Jesus, where he shall save his people from their sins.
And so over and over again, when we consider this Christmas season, the incarnation, when we consider the Advent, we're reminded that there was a purpose for the coming of Christ.
And that purpose was to redeem the church, to redeem his people, to redeem the elect from the captivity that they had were under Satan's power, but also more importantly, to redeem them from the just wrath of God that was set upon them because of the sin of Adam and their own personal sins.
And so Christ comes during this Advent season to perform a specific purpose, and that specific purpose is to redeem a particular people.
It has been anticipated throughout the scriptures.
You have the sacrificial system that points to the idea.
You have the statement in scripture that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
You have the whole idea of redemption that is a theme throughout.
But in the coming of the Son, Christ comes and redeems his people, those born under the law.
And this is why we celebrate and rejoice in this Christmas season because we no longer carry our sin.
Stay tuned, folks.
Our last hour before Christmas will continue to be shepherded by Pastor Brett Maggot to you.
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I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath.
As a teenager, I gave my first public speech in my church.
My hand shook, my heart pounded.
I thought to myself, I can't do this, but somehow I did.
And because I wanted to talk about things that were important, I persisted.
I chided my church as a senior in high school for not seeming to care about the not yet born, for looking the other way and for not taking a stand on life.
I will be in earnest.
I will not equivocate and I will not excuse.
I will not retreat an inch and I will be heard.
One thing I promise you, I will always take a stand for life.
You know,
21 years and counting, folks, and I say this with an absolute certainty, there'll never be another show like this, not with guests like this.
We're all a product of our time.
I was brought into this at a time such as this, to quote the scripture, yes, but to meet people like I've met and who have informed this show for so many years.
Pastor, I have, I was going back into the archives.
Your first appearance on this show was not entirely that long ago, but it's been more than a minute.
May the 4th, 2019.
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Winston Smith interviewed you for your first time ever on this program.
And it led into Now Counting.
This is your 22nd appearance on this show.
And for years now, every Christmas, every Resurrection Day, you're with us.
And we're all the better for it.
Please continue now.
Pastor Brett McCatey of Charlotte Reformed, excuse me, Christ the King Reformed Church in Charlotte, Michigan.
Charlotte Reformed.org is the website.
If you cannot find a Bible-believing and Christ-centered church, you can find it there.
And you can find it online as many of our listeners do, Charlotte Reformed.org.
In the South, we pronounce it Charlotte.
But anyway, in Michigan, where all the dandelions grow, as I've come to find out in the springtime, it's charlotte reformed.org.
Pastor, continue with your message tonight.
God's blessing is upon you and your work, James.
We continue with this passage in Galatians, what when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons.
I'm going to look at this phrase, born under the law.
It means, at least in part, that the son was born under the righteous demands of the law, of God's law.
Man had sinned under that law, and everyone since then had been born likewise under that law.
And if Christ was going to be the one who represents us, the one who would be our mediator, he likewise had to be born under the law, which is to say that he had to be born under the law to the end of meeting all the requirements of the law.
This is what it meant to be born under the law.
And what was unique about Christ is that unlike anyone who would ever went before him, including Adam, he fulfilled all the righteous demands of the law.
And when he went to the cross, he paid for our sins to redeem us, but he also imputed to us the fulfillment of his meeting the demands of the law that he was born under.
However, born under the law also points to the fact that the one who would meet the law's demands must also meet his demands for the redeemer to fill the legal offices of prophet, priest, and king.
You see, everything throughout the Old Testament is pointing, as I said earlier, to the coming of the one who would rescue, redeem, save us from our sins.
But the Old Testament teaches also that he has to, the law in the Old Testament teaches that he has to be a prophet, he has to be a priest, and he has to be a king, just as there were those offices in the Old Testament.
And during the Advent season, we consider these offices because it's part of what it means to be born under the law.
We do so because as a friend of mine just wrote this week, Dave Mason, he said, we examine these things and we thank you that you're examining these things, Dave wrote me, because we want to profess Christ the old-fashioned way.
And isn't that the case?
The church has gone off in many cases, the visible church has gone off, and we don't learn about the doctrinal, the heart of the Christmas, the Advent, the incarnation message, that Christ came under the demands of the law, and part of the demands of the law is that he would be prophet, priest, and king in order to fill Advent with biblical, with the biblical reality of what it is.
And so we look at this issue of Christ as prophet, priest, and king in brief tonight in order to see how it is that Christ redeems us.
We're all for, don't get me wrong, we're all for some of the trappings of Christmas that we find around us, but we insist that the trappings grow out of a biblical and doctrinal understanding of Jesus the Christ.
Without this kind of understanding that I'm trying to convey by God's grace this evening, without this kind of understanding of Christ, we, well, at least I do, I stand with Scrooge's sentiment that let every idiot who goes about with Merry Christmas on his lips, let him be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a steak of holly through his heart.
Because if we don't understand Christ and his offices as prophet, priest, and king, we are just being idiots with silly words pouring over our mouths.
But because we do understand that Jesus Christ was born of the law, we seek to keep Christ merry.
And because of all that, we seek in a very modest fashion then to trace out the promises and so expectations concerning the Messiah when the fullness of time had not yet arrived.
You see there, in the Old Testament, they had these anticipations, these promises, and so these expectations.
And what they were looking for was somebody who would fulfill the office that they had seen presented before them in the Old Testament, these offices of prophet, priest, and king.
Now try to put this in your cap, listeners.
There is these offices of prophet, priest, and king.
In the Old Testament, you could not fulfill all three of these offices.
One person could not fulfill all three of these offices.
And so, however, with the coming of the promised Messiah, he would fulfill all these offices.
And the fancy phrase we use for that in church language in the Latin is Christ is munus triplex.
I'll say it again, munus triplex, which means he's one person fulfilling three offices.
And he is unique in that fashion.
And as born under the law, this is part of what that means to be born under the law.
He comes to us as our great prophet, our great priest, and our great king.
And our catechism reminds us that he was ordained from all eternity to that particular end.
Let's just take king, for example.
In Genesis 49, our Old Testament brothers and sisters in Christ, our fathers and mothers, they were taught the scepter, the scepter, remember, the scepter is something that a king holds, shall not depart from Judah.
And of course, Jesus was descended from the tribe of Judah.
So they say the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes.
And that's a reference to Jesus.
And to him shall be the obedience of the people.
This idea that a king is coming, a king is coming, a king is coming, is articulated again in Isaiah 9:6, for unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given.
And here's the king aspect.
And the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
So when the time has fully come and God sends forth His son born underneath the law, born of a woman, he is born a king.
And we know that that's exactly what we find in the New Testament because Herod was so frightened of this king that he goes and he slaughters everybody to try to kill this king who was a threat to his own kingship.
And we know from the New Testament scriptures how God sent the kings of the East to do what?
To bow before the king of kings.
And so what was anticipated in the Old Testament, what was anticipated and required by the law, and Jesus is born under the law is now fulfilled in Jesus as being the king.
And we find that again there in the New Testament where over the plaque over his head says king of the Jews, king of the Jews.
So Jesus is that king that was promised and he's a king to us even yet today.
Sure, he has ascended to the right hand of the father, but there he reigns all things for the good of the church.
And so we are the ones who profit from the fact that he continues to lead us in salvation and that he continues to cause us to champion his cause in every area of life.
It's all of Christ for all of life.
And that's the way it is because he remains king.
So he's born under the law.
And part of what it means to be born under the law is that he had to be a king.
He came as a king and the New Testament scriptures shout over and over again that this was a king and he continues yet to reign today as king of kings and lord of lords.
And this is why we champion his cause as God's people because he came at this Christmas season.
He was incarnated not merely as some babe, but as the king of kings and lord of lords who have been promised all through the generations.
And as he saves us, he saves us and he rescues us, not only as fire insurance, as some would put it, but he saves us to be the king's men, to champion his cause in every area of life, to take serious the king's authority, to move in sense of having a certain royalty by belonging to the king and his court.
And so we esteem the office of king and we continue to move on in terms of that authority.
This idea is contained in Ephesians 1.21.
He put all things under his feet, referring to Christ, and gave him to be head over all things to the church.
So the promised deliverer, the one who was born under the law, had to be a king from the line of Judah and from the house of David.
And the promised Redeemer was testified by the gospel writers as king.
And the promised royalty remains even now ruling and reigning in king as king.
And this is why we need to be bold in our convictions.
We do not need to be cowering.
Our Lord is the king of kings.
We don't need to guard our speech in terms of stating the truth.
We don't need to worry about being politically correct.
Our king reigns, and should we not launch out for him the idea of championing his cause every chance we get, given the fact that as king, he has redeemed us from our sins.
Not only is he king, but the scriptures go on to talk about the idea that he was priest.
So he was born under the law, as Paul says there in Galatians 4.
Born under the law means he had to have not only the kingly office, but he had to have the priestly office.
We know that he had to be a priest because the messianic psalm there in Psalm 110 says that the Messiah is going to be a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.
Now, there's a lot here that we're not going to get into about the meaning of this because we can only do a bit of a survey tonight.
But the Catechism puts it this way: that Jesus Christ is our only high priest, who, by the one sacrifice of his body, has redeemed us.
There's an idea of redemption again, and who continually intercedes for us before the Father.
We know that.
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Halting the applications was presented as keeping Americans safe, but critics said the Trump administration is using the attack to achieve a broader goal of reducing legal immigration.
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And welcome back to TPC's penultimate broadcast of 2025, our Christmas broadcast here tonight once again with Brett McAtee, who's been appearing with us consistently and steadily since the spring of 2019 and then over the last several years has settled into our clergyman on every Christmas and Resurrection Day broadcast.
And Pastor, we're so thankful for that.
And folks, if you want to read along at home, if you've never read it before, you should.
Through the Holy Scriptures, you could read Luke chapter 1, verses 26 through 38.
That is where the angel speaks to Mary and Joseph.
The journey to Bethlehem.
Luke chapter 2.
I mean, Luke chapter 2 is really the Christmas story, the journey to Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus.
Luke chapter 2 and Luke chapter 1, 26 through 38.
Pastor, back to you as we remember the biblical accounting of the birth of Christ, your message tonight, Pastor Brett McAtee.
So we're continuing to look at this idea of the coming of Christ.
And we're looking at Galatians 4, where the Holy Spirit writes, well, when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born of the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
And we're looking at this idea of born under the law.
And we're seeing that in the Old Testament scriptures, that if there was going to be a Savior, he had to be one who filled these offices of prophet, priest, and king.
And the reason this is important is that we cannot be saved.
We cannot have a salvation without our Savior being the high king, the great high priest, and the great prophet.
And scripture goes out of its way over and over again to tell us that our Savior Jesus, the one who relieves us from our guilt and our misery and our sin, is the one who was a prophet, priest, and king and remains prophet, priest, and king at the right hand of the Father.
And so we emphasize this idea of born under the law in terms of these offices because this is the substance of how it is that we are redeemed and a saved people.
Without Christ as prophet, priest, and king, we remain dead in our sins and trespasses.
And so it's with a view of understanding the impact, the import of Christmas that I can try to communicate these ideas.
And we were talking about Christ as being our great high priest, and we noted that this is something that was anticipated there in Psalm 110, where God says that the Messiah that was to come would be a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
And we're reminded that the role of a priest in the Old Testament was to represent the people before God.
He was the one who would speak to God for the people.
He would bring their concerns and their needs.
And that's why he was the one who offered up the sacrifices.
And so Jesus is that great high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
He is the one who offers up himself as a sacrifice.
And so not only is he our great high priest, but he's our sacrifice.
And the reason that we need the sacrifice is that the scripture teaches that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin.
And man's chief problem at this Christmas season, man without Christ, is that he is a sin-bearer.
He owns and carries his own sin.
And if he's going to escape from the wrath of God against sin, if he's going to escape the misery that comes and the guilt that comes from sin, he has to have a great high priest who represents him before the Father.
And that great high priest, the scripture teaches over and over again, that was born of a woman, born under the law, is Jesus Christ.
This is why we celebrate Christmas.
We celebrate Christmas because the one who has come has come in order to provide an answer for our sins.
And because of him, as Paul can say in that passage in Golossians, or rather Galatians, he is the one who, because of the paying for our sins as our great high priest, gives us adoptions as sons.
Scripture everywhere teaches that Christ is that great high priesthood, appears in the presence of God for us.
In Hebrews chapter 9, it says that Christ appears in the presence of God for us, not that he should offer himself often as the high priest who enters the most holy place every year with the blood of another, but then that Christ, once at the end of the ages, has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
There may be those who are listening who find some of this language kind of confusing, sin-bearing, guilt-bearing, the wrath of God, Jesus as priest, Jesus as sacrifice.
And yet, these are the way that Scripture describes the condition and state of man, that he has offended a thrice holy God, that he has prioritized himself above the Creator, that he sees himself as God, and if he's going to deliver himself from that predicament, because it always ends up being ruinous upon him when he makes himself an idol, he needs a great high priest in order to represent him before God who can forgive sins.
And Jesus Christ, the scripture teaches, is that great high priest who came during the Christmas season, is born under the law in order to fulfill that office as our great high priest.
And it really should be the case that during this Advent season, during this Christmas season, this idea of Christ coming as prophet, priest, and king should be heralded week after week after week during the Advent season, indeed during the year.
It should be the case that every biblical Christian has this idea of the importance of Jesus Christ, who is born under the law, therefore having to be our prophet, priest, and king under sovereign God.
Because without Christ in those offices, in those offices that we call munus triplex, which means one person and three offices, without him fulfilling those offices, Christmas is empty and should be a matter of having, what is it that Scrooge said, have it as holly buried in their heart and boiled in their hasty pudding or whatever it is.
But we have a great hope as those who trust Christ because our great high priest.
And we should be merry during this Christmas season over the fact that we have one who represents us even now.
And that's the great thing about Christ as our great high priest.
Even now, he continues in that role because scripture says that he ever lives to intercede for us.
And so are there times, fellow believer, when you feel weary, when you feel like the culture is so screwy, it's never going to come back, where you feel like all the odds are against you?
Well, we have the comfort of knowing that because Christ is born of the law as our great high priest, he's at the right hand of the Father praying for the church.
He is interceding for us.
And if Christ is interceding for us, how is it that we can find ourselves downcast?
Because we have the king of kings who is also serving as our great high priest who's praying for us before the Father.
And we should take great encouragement by that fact in all that we face in the everyday trials of life.
Christ is our great high priest.
Not only is our great king and our great high priest, but he's also our great prophet.
We have to understand that he's not just a king.
He's not just a priest.
He's not just a prophet, but he's a kingly prophet, a prophet priest, a priestly king.
All of these interact with one another, interpenetrate one another.
And so that we can't understand one office without understanding each office.
And we can't hold any one office to the exclusion of all the other offices.
And so we praise God that he sent forth his son in the fullness of time, born under the law, to fulfill these offices, offices that were required In order for us to have so great a salvation as we find in Jesus Christ.
Christ then is our king.
He's our prophet, and he is that because he's born under the law.
But he's also to us, as we said, a priest, but he's also to us a prophet.
Again, this was anticipated in the fullness of time.
If the fullness of time was to come, the one who was to arrive in that fullness of time had to be the great prophet.
And this is what Deuteronomy teaches.
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren.
Him you shall hear according to all you desire of the Lord your God.
And so Moses predicts a coming one greater than him in terms of being a prophet.
What a prophet does is he speaks forth the word of God to the people.
And this is what Christ does.
And this passage in Deuteronomy 18 I just read is so important that Peter cites it again today.
It's having been fulfilled in the one who is born of the woman, born under the law.
So you see, our Christian faith is not just about having fuzzy, warm feelings during the Christmas.
It's not primarily even about having a relationship.
It's primarily about having these legal categories fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Legally, he had to be our king.
Legally, he had to be our prophet.
Legally, he had to be our priest.
And he stands in these legal relationships to us.
Now, this is not to mean that we don't have a relational context with Jesus, but what's important is not so much the relational aspect as it is the fact that he has fulfilled these offices.
And because he fulfills these offices, he is to us our redemption.
He redeems us, and he gives us the adoption as sons.
And so we praise God for the prophet.
And Christ continues on in that role of prophet.
He continues on in that role of prophet through the revelation of scripture.
Scripture is to us, from Genesis to Revelation, the word of Christ.
It is God speaking to us through his great high prophet, Jesus Christ.
So it's not as if they once anticipated a prophet.
It's not as if a prophet came and now he's no more, but he continues in that role of prophet, speaking in the scriptures through the voice of the Holy Spirit.
And this is how we come to know God.
This is how we come to understand our Christian faith, because Christ is our great high prophet as well as priest and king.
One more segment with the great and good Pastor Brett McAtee.
One more segment before Christmas here on TPC 2025.
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Let men their songs have heard while fields and floods, rocks fills and blazes.
Repeat the sounding joy.
Repeat the sounding joy.
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
You know, folks, as I've told you before, what a wonderful time.
I mean, this is our time.
If you're a white Christian, this is it.
And you are fortunate, more so than you know, to have an opportunity to share an hour with Pastor Brett McCatey.
And there is this lie out there, this lie that is deployed by those who hate Jesus Christ and who hate us, that you must choose between your nation and your faith.
That is not true at all.
There are a growing number of Bible-believing Christians who love and advocate for their nation.
And I'm one of them, and I know many, and Pastor McAtee is one of them.
There is no contradiction between the two propositions.
No inconsistency, no conflict whatsoever.
In fact, they're complimentary to the point that not only can you be a Christian and love your race or your nation, and we use those terms interchangeably here, not only should you be a Christian and love your race, but if you are a Christian, then you will love how God made you.
You will love your nation.
Our race is our nation.
You will feel the same willingness to sacrifice yourself for your people that Paul did.
For I could wish that myself were a curse from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
That's Romans 9, 3.
You'll feel the same imperative to protect your generic, your genetic line as Abraham did when he told his servant, but thou shalt go to my country and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
That's back all the way back in Genesis.
And you'll feel the displeasure of God who said through Paul, but if any provide for not his own and specifically for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and he is worse than an infidel.
That's in 1 Timothy.
Pastor, again, going back to the very Genesis of your appearances here on DPC back in 2019, you were reconciling our faith and our heritage, and you did it as well as I've ever heard it done.
And it's led to all of this now going back many Christmas and Easter traditions here on TPC.
You can comment on that if you'd like, but please take us to the last moment of this, our final segment before Christmas, with your incredible message tonight.
I will comment on it briefly.
And I'll only say this.
It's because of my great understanding of God's love for me and so reciprocating with my love for him that gives me a love for my people, my nation.
And I understand Paul's heart in Romans chapter 9, where he talks about his great labor and his great love for his kinsmen after the flesh.
And I think I know a little bit of that.
And this is not an animosity towards people who are not of my nation, but it is out of love and concern and a desire for them to know Christ and to know the wonder and to understand that the only way our nation is ever going to come back, the only way that our people are ever even going to survive, the way that they put off this Marxist egalitarianism that is so rife among us, the only way is by knowing Jesus Christ as prophet, priest, and king.
And without that, without that, we're going to continue to swirl the drain.
And so it's my passion for Christ that gives me my passion for God's people among the sons of Japhet.
So with that said, we round off with Galatians 4, what Paul talks about when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born of the law, to redeem those who were under the law that we might receive the adoption as sons of God.
We've been talking about this idea that Christ was born under the law.
And we've said that he was born under the law.
And part of what that means is that he had to fulfill the offices of prophet, priest, and king.
And we've talked just a wee bit.
We've just given it a smattering of dealing with.
But I encourage you to probe more into this idea of Christ in munus triplex, as one person in three offices, that he is the great high king.
He is the great high priest, and he is the great high prophet.
And that we could not be rescued from our sin and misery, from our rebellion against God.
We cannot be redeemed apart from this idea of Christ being born of the law and these particular offices.
But Paul doesn't stop there.
He says that we might receive the adoption as sons.
The we that he's referring to there, the pronoun is important.
The we doesn't mean everybody who has ever lived.
The we refers to the church, the elect.
He's writing to the church that we and the we there refers to the church.
And the we that are going to receive the adoption as sons are the elect of God that Paul will talk about all the way through his different letters.
And Christ comes to redeem us that were under the law.
And we're rescued from the law's demands.
We're rescued from the fact that the law says to us, we cannot perform what God requires, and therefore we're damned.
And all of fallen man seeks to escape the law's demands apart from coming to Christ.
It's only when they realize that they can only be redeemed and rescued from God's wrath that they come to Christ who was born under the law.
And the consequence of that, Paul says here in Galatians chapter 4, is that we might receive the adoption as sons.
The adoption of sons.
You know, when we talk about being made right with God, the fancy word, the big word we use for that is justification.
Justification is what happened in God's courtroom.
It's where we're counted righteous or right for the sake of the righteousness of Jesus Christ being put to our account.
But we're not in the courtroom when Paul talks about adoption.
We're now in the family room.
And so this idea of adoption presupposes that we have been made right with God.
We have been redeemed.
The ransom price has been paid.
And now we've been moved into another quarter, so to speak, and that's the family room.
And what happens in the family room is this idea of adoption.
And it includes the idea that we belong to the family of God.
We're no longer strangers and aliens, but we now have a place at the table.
We now have a place in the family.
And in the Roman world where the idea of adoption is being used here, once you were adopted, you could never be unadopted.
You could never be disinherited.
And that's what we find in scripture as well.
This idea of adoption means we're a permanent part of the family.
Not because we keep on, but because God preserves us.
And by God preserving us, we continue to persevere as God's people.
And we continue to return to these old and ancient and satisfying deep truths that Christ is born of the law to the end of being our prophet, priest, and king under sovereign God.
And it means that we now are adopted as sons.
And that means that we no longer are in the kingdom of darkness.
Paul could say in Colossians, we've been translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God's dear son, whom he loves.
And so now we've been given another address, and another other address is the family of God.
The old garments, the old garments of wickedness has been set aside, and we've been given the robe of righteousness found in Jesus Christ.
And now we cry out, as Paul says in Romans, we cry out, Abba, Father.
We have this personal relationship where because Christ has filled these legal offices, we can make personal appeal to the Father.
And so we are right with God.
And being right with God, we have a certain amount of lightness in our step and a certain amount of moxie about us because we know we are the king's kids.
We are those who have been blessed to be owned by God, but yet it gives us, being adopted as sons, gives us a humility at the same time to think that God would, that God would come near and own us, those who had alienated, were alienated and were enemies of the gospel.
He Christ sent forth Christ to, in order to the end of adopting us and making us sons of God.
I don't know what more reason we could have to rejoice.
I don't know what more reason we could have going about with Merry Christmas upon our lips than the idea that God has owned us as his own people, as his own children, those who are part of the family of God.
And so with that in mind, it's why I say with such excitement, Merry Christmas.
It's why I long for God's people to once again be gathered again into his arms.
It's why I long for the sons of Japheth to know what it means for the first time in decades and perhaps centuries to be free of the sin that they've been carrying and know what it is to have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And I can only encourage you, those of you who might find this language strange or odd, I can only encourage you to perhaps reach out to somebody who speaks this kind of language and ask them questions that you might have that you might know the richness of what it means to have faith in God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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