April 5, 2026 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Radio Show Hour 3 – 2026/04/26
James Edwards and Pastor Brett McAtee dissect the brutal crucifixion details from Mel Gibson's film, contrasting physical torture with the theological necessity of Christ as the reconciliation fulcrum. Rejecting swoon theories, they champion a "warrior church" stance while debating Pat Buchanan's warnings on the West's decline. Ultimately, the segment asserts that ethno-nationalism offers no future without Christ, framing spiritual resurrection as the only path for believers against all enemies. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Political Cesspool Intro00:01:43
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.
This is the one weekend every year where we celebrate on this radio program, still after all these years on AM 1600 WMQM in Memphis, Tennessee, and across our affiliates through the Liberty News Radio Network, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We talk about the passion of the Christ.
We talk about his death, his crucifixion, his resurrection.
But what actually happened?
We don't get into that as much, or at least we have not until now.
Reckoning and Redemption00:12:54
Tame when compared to what he actually went through.
Even The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's movie, which was a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece.
And Mel Gibson's father, Hutton, was a good friend of the radio program until his death.
He helped us raise money.
Mel's father did.
But even that movie was forced to hold back a little in order to avoid an X rating, as someone put it this week.
The crucifixion was and still is arguably the most excruciating death someone can experience.
And that night before in Gethsemane, Jesus was sweating blood.
The fear he felt was the beginning of his feeling the weight of our iniquities being laid on him.
Yet in this moment, he didn't demand that God, his Father, take it from him.
He only asked that the cup pass him over if it was within his Father's will.
Of course, it was not.
Next came the cat of nine tails or the Roman flagrum.
This was a leather weapon.
These long leather tails were embedded with sharp metal.
He was flogged 39 times because, under Jewish law, 40 minus 1 was the requisite because 40 was said to have killed a man.
Every strike tore flesh, every strike exposed muscle, every strike exposed nerve endings, every strike tore flesh to the bone.
This would be like, you know, it would be like getting struck with razor blades over and over again.
And the crown of thorns, those weren't rose thorns from your garden, they were thorns.
Three to two to three inches long, they were beaten into his skull.
These thorns would have pierced the skull, causing unimaginable pain and even more blood loss from the dozens of head wounds.
And then you're going to have extreme nausea, dizziness would begin to set in.
And then what came next, carrying that cross on your broken body, which weighs what 300 pounds, and carrying it half a mile.
Imagine carrying 300 pounds half a mile after you've been skinned alive and then being nailed to the cross.
These spikes were five to seven inches in length, piercing your wrists, piercing your ankles, severing nerves and tendons.
This would have, every time you raised to try to breathe, it would have felt like standing on broken glass.
And then you suffer for six hours.
Your chest muscles collapsing, every single breath, a fight for life.
Your shoulders are dislocated.
Your arms stretched unnaturally long.
Your heart's struggling to pump blood.
You're dehydrated.
Your heart likely to rupture just from the stress.
And on top of that, you had to feel that separation from your father in this period of time in order to really bear the weight of the sin of the world.
And he took that burden for all of us, all of that sin which came before and after him, and he did it for all of us to free us.
To defeat sin and to give us a pathway to his kingdom.
And every sin we commit is exactly why he had to do it.
And Pastor Brett McAtee is with us now.
He is the pastor of Christ the King Reformed Church in Charlotte, Michigan.
He's going to present to us, as he does every Easter, so faithfully he comes on Easter, on Christmas, and other times in between then to document the biblical account of this resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Pastor, a year ago, right around a year ago, I was with you in your church for fellowship, and I was talking about it earlier in the show tonight.
I won't recount it now, but it was a wonderful experience for my wife and I and for our kids, and to be there with you and to be here with you now again on this resurrection weekend.
I thank you for being with us tonight, and that is what Christ did for us.
You would think that we could do a little more for one another in that spirit, and for you to be here with us tonight, you do.
Well, thanks, James, for having me.
And it's interesting you should touch on those matters you just touched on because I brought them out this past week ago, actually, Sunday, in the pulpit when I talked about the cross, telling that very similar physical account of what was going on.
And I think we should keep in mind as we think about the cross that all that's going on with the physicality of it all, it's my conviction that this is a drama that's being played out to show.
The spiritual nature that's behind it all, that this is what the suffering that Christ is going through that we're seeing with our eyes as being painful for us in the Gospels is a representation of what's going to happen in terms of the abandonment of the Father.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
And we're reminded that this forsakenness that the Son experiences is so that we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Because he was abandoned, we have entree into God's court, into his family room, because he was forsaken.
We have peace with God.
And so the cross is the fulcrum.
It's the center point, along with the resurrection and the ascension and the session of the Lord Christ that is sitting at the right hand of the Father.
It is the fulcrum of our undoubted Catholic Christian faith.
And this is why Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday and all of the events surrounding the redemptive complex are centered to the Christian faith.
And we're reminded then that it's what Christ has done that is central.
And we sometimes forget that.
We sometimes, and understandably so, we ask the question, what would Jesus do?
And we put little bracelets across our wrists.
What would Jesus do?
And there's a place in following his example and walking in terms of his authority.
But the ultimate consideration is not us following Jesus, as important as that is.
The ultimate consideration is what has Jesus done?
What did he accomplish on the cross?
And he accomplished, for example, reconciliation.
The scriptures teach that for while we were enemies, If while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of the Son, how much more now that we are reconciled, we shall be saved by His life?
And reconciliation is this idea of there is alienation and estrangement between God and man.
And we often think that the problem here is man needs to be reconciled to God.
And that's true, but again, it's only the penultimate problem.
The ultimate problem is that God has to be reconciled to man.
Man has offended God by his sin.
God is justly opposed to man.
And the question is, how will God be reconciled to man?
The question is not primarily, how will man be reconciled to God?
The first question is, how will God be reconciled to man?
And both of those questions, how will man be reconciled to God?
How will God be reconciled to man?
The answer is found in the cross of Jesus Christ.
Christ on the cross is our reconciliation.
He provides entree, he provides an avenue to return to God's favor.
And God, seeing the finished work of Christ, is pleased, and his heart is turned towards his people.
And so there is reconciliation.
And so the cross one of the things the cross does is it provides reconciliation.
Another thing the cross does is that it provides redemption.
This is another theme that we find.
In the scriptures, Ephesians teaches that in Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace.
So it's not only reconciliation, but it's redemption.
Redemption is the idea that we are captive, we are imprisoned, and there is a need for a price to be paid in order to be purchased back, in order to be gained back.
It's an image that often came in the context of warfare in the ancient world.
And prisoners would be taken, and there had to be a redemption price paid.
In order for those prisoners to be gained back.
And what's interesting here is that what we need to be redeemed from, many have thought is from capture of Satan and from his wiles.
But actually, the main thing that we need to be redeemed from is the wrath of God that's justly laid upon us because of our sin against him.
And Christ comes as the Lamb of God.
He takes away the sin of the world.
He redeems his people.
He provides redemption.
He pays that redemption price, which is called the ransom, which is a phrase that's used over and over again.
Throughout the scripture, he pays the redemption price, which is our ransom, and the redemption price is the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the cross for his people.
And so there are these great themes that run through scripture reconciliation and redemption are only two.
There are many others that we might give, but this shows the centrality of the cross in the Christian life.
Hold on right there.
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Hey, friends, it's James.
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Why don't we say to the government writ large that they have to spend a little bit less?
Anybody ever had less money this year than you had last?
Anybody better have a 1% pay cut?
You deal with it.
That's what government needs a 1% pay cut.
If you take a 1% pay cut across the board, you have more than enough money to actually pay for the disaster relief.
But nobody's going to do that because they're fiscally irresponsible.
Who are they?
Republicans.
Who are they?
Democrats.
Who are they?
Virtually the whole body.
Is careless and reckless with your money.
So the money will not be offset by cuts anywhere.
The money will be added to the debt and there will be a day of reckoning.
What's the day of reckoning?
The day of reckoning may well be the collapse of the stock market.
The day of reckoning may be the collapse of the dollar.
When it comes, I can't tell you exactly, but I can tell you it has happened repeatedly in history when countries ruin their currency.
What a beautiful, beautiful expression.
expression of the faith here in the American South.
Those were the songs I grew up singing throughout my boyhood, onto my early manhood, and beyond.
I still sing it.
I was singing it off mic just then.
Pastor Brett McAtee, my pastor David Rogers, over all these years and the attacks that he, you know, was thrust upon him as a result of my membership from the Southern Baptist Convention, it's just a terrible thing.
But it's so rewarding and heartwarming to know that men of the faith still exist even late at night when the demons come.
Humiliation Leads to Exaltation00:10:15
And I do believe, Pastor Brett, I do believe, first of all, I do believe it all.
I do believe it all, but I do believe that our enemies are demonically inspired.
I have seen them.
You see them and you know it.
And I do believe that we are on the right side of this thing.
You hear almost in jest, I think, people say, the right side of history, this and the right side of history, that.
We are on the right side of history.
We are on the right side of the angels and we are on the right side of Christ this Easter weekend.
Tomorrow we celebrate, Pastor, those of us who are members of the faith.
If you are members of our racial community who have not yet received the gift of faith, then we welcome you.
If you are members of the Christian community, we welcome you.
This is a very special weekend, Pastor Brett McAtee, and I turn it back over to you, my friend.
Thank you, James.
And indeed, it is the case.
Scripture teaches that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers.
And there is no doubt that those who hate the Christian worldview, which is articulated on the political cesspool, there is no doubt that those people are animated by their father below.
We turn and pivot and talk about now the resurrection.
We spent the first section talking briefly, all too briefly, about the cross.
You could spend a good six months to a year.
Sunday in and Sunday out, preaching 40 minutes ago, and not exhaust what's found in the cross.
But when we pivot now, when we turn to the resurrection, the cross is about the humiliation of Christ.
When theologians talk about the cross, in Christ's humiliation, they talk about his descent into humiliation.
They talk about three steps his incarnation, they talk about his passion reaches its climax in the cross, and then the third step downward in the humiliation is the grave.
And then, though, they talk about his exaltation, which is talked about in Philippians, wherefore God hath Also, highly exalted him, referring to Christ, and given him a name which is above every other name.
That's the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow of things in heaven and things in earth and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of the glory of the Father.
This speaks of his exaltation.
And so in the cross, we see the humiliation, three steps downward and descent, there's three steps upward and ascent, and the first step upward is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And so we want to talk about the relationship between his humiliation and his exaltation that we see there in Philippians.
We would insist that Christ's humiliation is serving a larger purpose of his exaltation.
But we see that in Hebrews 12, 2, where it teaches, For the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame.
And so our magnificent Lord Christ, while in the midst of his humiliation, understood that the joy of his exaltation was going to be the end result of his humiliation.
Going through everything that James described at the beginning of the program, he had in his mind the joy set before him.
He had in his mind the exaltation that was awaiting him.
And the exaltation that was awaiting him was the name that was above every other name, was the name that.
Before whom every knee would bow and every tongue would confess.
That was the exaltation that carried him through the humiliation.
And so the humiliation wasn't an end in itself.
Humiliation was serving his exaltation.
The resurrection is the first step of that exaltation of our magnificent and benevolent Lord Christ.
And so his humiliation was in service to his exaltation.
And when we speak of his exaltation, we speak of his resurrection.
We speak of, secondly, his ascension and then his sitting at the right hand of the Father.
But we're going to especially emphasize his resurrection here.
Paul, in the passage that we just read, puts all those under the rubric of giving him a name which is above every other name.
This suggests that the depth of his humiliation, which we teased out prior, would find a correspondence to the heights of his exaltation.
As we consider his exaltation, that is what we find.
It is his exaltation then that we now turn to.
In the exaltation that Christ's humiliation served was a Exaltation that began with the resurrection, but it includes the total defeat of all of his and the church's enemies.
That his humiliation had a trajectory of exaltation, and that exaltation included his triumph in resurrection, his triumph in ascension, his triumph being seated at the right hand of the Father, which we call his session.
Again, at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow.
This was the joy that was set before him.
This is looking towards this joy, the fact that every knee would bow, that he would have a name above every other name, was what carried him through.
His humiliation.
This idea is carried again in Ephesians chapter 2, where we read, speaking of Christ, speaking of God the Apostle, right, which the power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places.
Far above all principalities and powers and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in the one that which is to come.
And he had put all things under his feet and gave him to be head over all things to the Church.
And so here is our magnificent Christ resurrected, ascended at the right hand of the Father, and he is now exalted to rule over all of his enemies.
And this idea that everything has been put underneath his feet harkens back to Psalm 110, verse 1, where you find this same idea communicated an idea that communicates that he is the total sovereign and everything is serving his particular end.
And so even now, this benevolent Lord Christ, who's ascended to the right hand of the Father, Who's resurrected for the good of his people and for the glory of God, is seated at the right hand of the Father and rules all things as exalted.
And so we see that Christ endured in his humiliation what was a necessary prequel to the sequel of his exaltation, which is total conquest of Christ over all of his enemies.
Because Christ was humiliated, it is assured that in his exaltation, his enemies now in turn will be humiliated in defeat.
This is part and parcel of the Christian faith.
We no longer live during the time of Christ's humiliation, we live during the time of his exaltation.
It's true that we go through trials.
That we go through suffering, that we're conversant with humility, but that's always in the context of championing the crown rights of Jesus Christ in his exaltation, as against his enemies who would deny Jesus, the resurrected Christ, his crown rights.
And so when we know humility and suffering, it is all in the context of championing for his cause.
This kind of exaltation of which we speak of, of which the resurrection is the first step up out of humiliation, is taught again in 1 Corinthians 15.
There we read that the Holy Spirit.
Informing us, he must reign, referring to Christ until he has put all enemies under his feet.
And this theme that is first sounded in Psalm 110 1, finds itself quoted over and over and over again.
So that this resurrected Christ, who's now exalted to the right hand of the Father and rules all things at the right, seated next to the Father, this exalted Christ is not Jesus remaining on a cross.
He's not on a crucifix, but he is.
The mighty warrior that's been set loose to champion his cause through his people by the power of the Holy Spirit in order to set things right.
Now, as this humiliation was visited upon the Lord Christ in space and time, I'm going to posit it should be the church's expectation that the exaltation of Christ also happens in space and time.
We're not waiting for Christ to be exalted, my friends.
Christ is exalted now, as seen in his resurrection.
And the nowness of his exaltation means that Christ is.
The resurrected Christ reigns now.
Jesus is not now the suffering Messiah.
The humiliation is past.
He's now the conquering King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
And the scriptures teach the nations will be ruled by his scepter in his exalted state, or they will, as the psalmist says, perish in the way.
That's why the psalmist says to kiss the son, lest he perish in the way.
And so this is the Christ that we champion.
We champion the exalted Christ.
And the exaltation began with his resurrection, which we celebrate tomorrow morning.
Christ is risen.
It's not only the idea that he's conquered death, but it's also the idea that he's conquered all of his enemies, that all of his enemies are going to be put down, and that that is the Christ that we serve, and that is the Christ that we walk in terms of his authority.
The church then serves the Messiah in his exalted state.
This is why the church, for example, has the commission in Matthew 28 from this resurrected Messiah.
Before he ascends, before he sits at the right hand of the Father, as resurrected in Matthew 28, Jesus teaches the disciples that they are to teach the nations to observe all things, whatever Jesus, the Christ, commanded them.
So the church went out from there, not as pleading or as beggars, but as commanding all men everywhere to repent.
They could do this because they knew that the resurrected and exalted Christ must reign until all things are placed under his feet.
Now, right there.
Ladies and gentlemen, we will be right back with Pastor Brett McAtee of Christ the King Reformed Church in Charlotte, Michigan.
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One day I'll cross the river and I'll fight life's final war with.
Pastor Brett McAtee, if he did not live, if he did not survive his death, if he did not rise again, it would be a pretty empty faith.
And I just want to say this before you respond how proud I am to have been given this opportunity to bring to you, ladies and gentlemen, Pastor Brett McAtee here tonight on AM 1600, WMQM in Memphis.
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And here on, if you're listening locally, you're hearing Pastor Brett McAtee tonight.
Pastor, it's an honor to have you here again this Easter weekend.
He lives, does he not?
Amen.
Paul teaches in Corinthians, If Christ is not raised, then we are of all men to be pitied.
He did not, Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, did not allow for the idea of kind of a pretend resurrection.
Or as some people say, Christ swooned in, but when he was put in the grave, he recovered and he kind of snuck out between the crevice between the stone and the outer croppings of the rock and got past the guards.
Or some will say that Christ was raised in the disciples' imagination.
It didn't really happen, but that's what they believed.
And of course, all that is false.
And this is what.
The Christian faith requires of us to believe that the God of the Bible did what we would call the supernatural.
And I only mention this as we begin this next segment because there are many expressions of Christianity that want to embrace Christianity while deleting it of the supernatural.
And so they'll say, Yeah, I'm a Christian, but then they mess around with things like the resurrection, making it say things it doesn't say.
But we understand that the rock was thrown away, cast away like it was a pebble, and out came the magnificent Lord Jesus Christ, who was once dead and now, by the power of God, brought back to life.
The first fruits, scripture teaches, of those who will be raised themselves.
And that's a very encouraging passage, likewise.
So, when we learn that Christ is the first fruits, we understand that the first fruits, as Paul says in Corinthians, is promissory of everything else that's to follow.
So, Christ's resurrection is promissory of our resurrection with him.
And so, as Christ resurrected, his people will resurrect with him.
And indeed, scripture teaches that we are already now resurrected with Christ.
Scripture teaches that, and that's in Romans chapter 6.
In Ephesians chapter 2, scripture even teaches that we're raised with Christ.
And so, these are the The impactful notes of the exalted Christ in his resurrection.
It's not something that stays with him alone, but something that we participate in as we're united to Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Christ is our head, we are the body, and we live the resurrected life.
Indeed, the catechism I subscribe to, the Heidelberg, called the Heidelberg Catechism, says, Second by his power, it asks the question, How does Christ's resurrection benefit us?
And it says, Second by his power also, we too are already now resurrected to a new life.
And so we are living the resurrected life now.
Yes, there is more that's yet to come, but we have been given a deposit, as the scripture teaches, the Holy Spirit guaranteeing that which is to come.
We have, as the scripture teaches in Colossians, been translated from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of God's dear Son, whom he loves.
And that's because of the resurrection.
And so the resurrection is a supernatural reality that God's people share in.
And as God's people share in it, that which was anticipated as being an end time event by the Old Testament saints.
Has broken in into the present time.
And so we, as the resurrected people, are living.
The eschatological end of time in the present life.
And so we are a people who have both the idea of living in this present wicked age, but also as those who live in the kingdom of God's dear Son.
And we are his ambassadors, making the resurrected Christ known to those who know not Christ, and not begging that people will come, not pleading with them as if there's something that we can beg them into.
No, we have an authoritative voice that says, We command all.
All men everywhere to repent.
We don't give them a choice.
We don't ask them as if it's their decision.
We tell them that there's a command.
The command comes from the resurrected Christ, and the command is that all men everywhere repent.
And that is the message that's upon our tongues.
And so we see the resurrection has a very optimistic flavor to it.
It empowers us, it gives us confidence.
We're not Christians that are expecting to be beaten down and to never know victory.
In Christ, we have the victory because he's been resurrected.
We're living that resurrected life even now.
We have the glory of God that's already been deposited upon us, and we are his ambassadors making known the resurrected power and authority of Jesus Christ.
And this is the message that the church is missing today because we have eschatologies or anticipations of the future that are pessimistic.
We're all going to die.
It's all going to be terrible.
What are we going to do?
No, Christ's resurrection promises an optimistic view of what's coming in the future.
It promises the fact that we are.
Seeking to push back this present wicked age as this age to come, people that are living now in this present wicked age.
And so we have great hope because of the resurrection.
The resurrection teaches us that it's confirmed that our sins have been forgiven.
We've been raised with Christ, who's put to death for our sins, but raised to life for our sins.
For our justification.
And so, because of the resurrection, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
So, there are all these benefits that begin to pile up as we're in Jesus Christ.
We have the benefit of knowing that we know that we're forgiven.
It's not just the idea that we're guessing at it, that we hope that we're going to have it.
It's the idea that because of the resurrection and because we're looking to Christ in faith, we know that we know that we know that we no longer have to carry around our sin and misery.
We no longer have to carry away our guilt.
We no longer have to try to foist that upon other people.
You know, it's a terrible thing, people who don't believe in the resurrected Christ.
They're carrying all this guilt and all this sin.
And what are they going to do with it?
Well, what they typically try to do with it is they try to foist it on other people.
They try to put their sins on other people because they have no place else to put it.
But the Christian, because he's looking and trusting in the resurrected Christ who died for his sins, has a place to place his guilt and misery, his sin, and he doesn't try to foist it on other people.
And for the first time, he can be whole.
He can be not this twisted creature that's always trying to get rid of his sin on somebody else.
But because Christ is resurrected, he knows the resurrected life.
And he no longer has to carry around sin and guilt.
And you wouldn't believe the difference that makes in relationships with people.
The impact of the resurrection on our relationships, on our everyday living, is impactful because we're no longer carrying our sin because he's been raised to life for our justification.
We have peace with God.
And so this is the good news that comes with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
And that's why you could.
He could say this optimism.
This is why he could say, command us as resurrected himself to go and to teach all nations, to command them to observe all things wherein he has taught us, his people, his disciples.
And so we go forth as the resurrected people belonging to the resurrected Christ.
We go forth as those championing his cause.
We are the light of the world.
We are the salt that preserves.
We are the aroma of Christ to those that are perishing, the smell of death, but to those who are.
Being saved, the smell of life.
And all this is because of Christ's resurrection and then our participation in Christ's resurrection.
And so Christians have this great hope.
They are not to be pitied.
Indeed, if anybody is to be pitied, it's those that don't know Christ.
They are those who need to be pitied.
And so we champion his cause because he's resurrected.
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What a great song.
What a great night here.
I hate that it's ending.
What a special night here, concluding with Pastor Brett McAtee as we talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ this Easter weekend.
I just got to say one more thing about it, and I've mentioned it at least a time or two before tonight, but in terms of raw cinema, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ remains the most searing portrait of Christ's passion and crucifixion ever filmed.
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It was a masterpiece.
And Jim Kaviesel's, he played the actor who played Christ.
It was an otherworldly performance.
It should have won all the awards.
Didn't win any awards.
In fact, they tried to ban it from theaters.
But nevertheless, it was winning souls.
And we watch it every Easter week.
It's a tough watch.
It's not a movie you watch to feel good.
It's a tough watch.
And Mel Gibson's sequel to that, The Resurrection of the Christ.
Will be in theaters next Easter, 2027.
It went into pre production in September of last year, 2025.
Cameras are rolling now.
A year from now, we'll be talking with Pastor Brett McAtee about it.
It'll be in theaters, The Resurrection of the Christ.
They spent eight years, Mel spent eight years writing the script.
And he teamed up with the very best biblical scholars in the world to make sure it was factually accurate.
Accurate, historically accurate.
Of course, Bell's dad Hutton was a great friend of the program.
He never backed down on his appearances on this program.
When the demons came calling, he said, It was my home away from home.
The political cesspool, he said, was his home away from home.
When the SBLC and the ADL came after him, they came after Pastor Brett McAtee.
They came after us.
If you can survive that, then you are of a common bond indeed.
And, Pastor, with that, I Toss it back to you.
This is not anything that's esoteric.
There are a lot of people who believe this as we do.
If you go to faithandheritage.com, it's an archive site now, but you can find a biblical defense of ethno nationalism, a great scriptural defense answering the question of who America belongs to, the reality of race, and so much more.
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I was there with you last year, nearly a year ago.
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Pastor Brett McAtee, this Easter weekend, our last few minutes are yours.
Christ is risen.
Christ is risen indeed.
Is the message of the Christian church.
And it's the message of the Christian church not only on Resurrection Sunday, which we call Easter, but every Sunday, every Lord's Day is a festive day of rest where we celebrate the resurrection of Christ.
52 Lord's days a year.
Now, it's excellent that we have one that we emphasize the resurrection on.
But every Lord's Day, we celebrate the fact that Christ is risen and is seated at the right hand of the Father, having ascended on high.
This is the substance, the soul of our Christian faith.
And this is something that we're not just pretending about, it makes all the difference in the world.
People have to understand because of their Christian faith, because of their confidence in the meaning of the cross that we brushed against, and because of their confidence in the truth of the resurrection, it changed everything.
The optimism that these people had and that is seen in the book of Acts is they're trumpeting forth the kingdom of God and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which were the two main messages in the book of Acts.
The fact that they're trumpeting these truths changes Rome from a bunch of pagan Europeans in a short amount of time, changes it to Christendom.
And why is that?
Because they had an optimism about the reality that Christ indeed.
Was crucified for their sin and rose again for their justification, was ascended to the right hand of God the Father Almighty, and was seated next to Him, ruling over the affairs of men for the good of the church.
That conviction is what drove God's people to change the world.
And it's that conviction that built Christian nations.
It's that conviction that built up the Christian church.
It's that conviction that built up Christian families.
It's that conviction that Christ was resurrected.
That gives those of us who look to Christ Christian character.
It's how we can live a newness of life.
It's how we can make sweet the life that we have in this world.
Our families look different because of the resurrection of Christ.
Our relationships look different.
And it's our prayer that because we believe in the resurrection of Christ, people will look at our families and our churches and our relationships and they'll see the beauty that the resurrection is adorning our lives with and they'll say to themselves, I want that.
That is the resurrection that we are invested in.
And if we don't believe in, if we don't really believe in a supernatural resurrection, the kind of resurrection where Jesus can say to Thomas, put your fingers in my hands and in my side, stop doubting, start believing.
If we don't believe in that kind of a resurrection, then we are indeed of all men to be pitied.
But the resurrection is substantial and it's true and it makes all the difference in the world.
And so it's my prayer that God's people would continue to probe the depths.
Of the meaning of the resurrection.
And so they would build up in themselves a reservoir of knowledge about how central it is to not only their Christian faith, but their very character and personality.
That it would.
Pastor Abaddon.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm going to ask you this, my friend.
This question.
Because I was going back actually during this last segment while you were speaking here, just in the last few minutes, your first appearance with us on this program, and I'll make a point to this and let you close it out with this question.
But your first appearance on this.
Particular program was May the 4th, 2019, and I remember that because my anniversary is May the 6th.
And I was on a vacation with my wife that particular week in 2019, and Winston Smith, our co host, longtime co host, was anchoring the show that week, and he brought you on for the very first time and introduced you to our audience and to me even.
And you gave a spectacular debut appearance to remind us why, even in these dark days, we should have solid reason for hope.
And you reconciled faith and heritage, and we've been talking about that.
We've talked about it with you.
Even in the midst of your Christmas and Easter appearances.
But at the very darkest of hours, as I've said before, we must remember the words that were spoken so long ago at that empty tomb.
He is not here, he is risen.
And to the degree that those words resonate in our hearts, as I've told you before, Pastor, they strike fear in the hearts of our enemies, and our enemies are demonically inspired.
The more we take them to heart, the more those who oppose us lose heart.
But it can happen because it did happen.
And he promised that even through everything we're talking about tonight, his Death, his crucifixion, his resurrection.
He promised he would do even more greater things through us.
We would do greater things than he because he would be working through us.
The death of the West, as my friend Pat Buchanan wrote a book about it, it is dark days in the West.
It is dark days in Christendom right now.
Let's not sugarcoat it.
We know it's true.
How can we pivot?
A minute to go.
Well, that's the kind of optimism that I've been trying to inject with what I had to say tonight.
We were reminded that scripture says, Jesus himself says, the gates of hell shall not prevail.
The church is not a defensive mode.
That passage indicates that the church is in an attack mode.
And the gates are the defensive weapons of the enemy.
And so it's not that we're somehow being assaulted, it's that we're assaulting them.
It's the whole idea.
They think that we're trapped inside here with them, but the thing is, they're trapped inside here with us.
And because Christ is resurrected from the grave and sits at the right hand of the Father and rules all things for the good of the church, we know that we are going to have the victory.
The resurrection shouts and screams at reality.
And if I could do anything, it would be to give the church once again an optimism that Christ is powerful and that he's going to put all things under his feet.
And indeed, it's precisely because he's reigning that all things are going to be put under his feet.
And so the optimism needs to bubble up from us.
And we once again need to be thinking of ourselves as a warrior church.
A church that's on the offensive, a church that is attacking those who think that they're attacking us.
No, no.
When they attack me, yes, it may be the case that I wring my hands, but I hope that in the end I'm laughing.
I hope I have a joy, a battle song upon my lips, knowing that Christ is the victor.
And that victory was won 2,000 years ago in an empty tomb.
Christ is risen.
He is risen indeed.
What a great, great way to end this show.
And I'll tell you, you're a brother in so many ways.
Also, a brother who has been attacked by the SBLC, as has your humble servant.
Let me ask you this.
The music is playing, Pastor.
10 seconds remain.
Is there a future for the West?
Is there a future for the white race apart from Jesus Christ?
There is no future for the West.
There's no future for anybody apart from Christ.
Christ is our only hope.
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