After getting caught up in the 2016 and 2020 elections, the spell was broken for me. My hope is in Christ alone and the advancement of the Kingdom of God thru the glorious gospel.
I am not sure we are as much of a minority as you think. I think there are a LOT of Christians who are quietly following Christ -- and that includes being patient with the loud "Christians" who are reinforcing their own power at the expense of others and perpetuating systems of oppression. And then there are a WHOLE LOT of "almost Christians" who just don't think enough to realize that they are NOT following Christ.
I’m all kinds of late commenting but this was a GREAT episode! The concepts discussed are absolutely on point. The one thing that I kept thinking about when thinking about how to vote and their faith, wouldn’t the question be - Which candidate/platform most represents the ideas for policy and platform that JESUS would support?
@@PreacherBoysWho funds both parties even though they are a tiny minority? Who’s wars do Americans fight for? Who plans and lobbies for these wars? Who has the biggest and most powerful foreign lobby on the planet? Who does both parties grovel for and put America last?
I would love to see his sources. I am trying my best not to believe anything anybody says without seeing where they got their information from and reading it myself. I am not saying he is wrong, I just want to study more myself. I am going through a process of reconstruction in my faith and don't even believe people that use the Bible to back up their statements. Usually those who do, take it out of context or don't read the other parts of the story. I guess it is the Historian in me, 'anything can be wrong', 'where did you get that? You weren't there.' Show me from those who were there.
The Nordic countries are not socialist. They are free market capitalists with extremely high taxes going towards robust welfare programs. Hey! That works great as long as everyone’s working and pulling their own weight. Or the government are not corrupt and misusing funds. We all know that’s not gonna last long, because the government eventually go bad and we have plenty of lazy people who don’t wanna work.
"Stop IFB Abuse" means exactly what it says- the abuse in Independent Fundamentalist Churches needs to stop. It's where Preacher Boy started. Actually, it's where Underdog Theology started as well.
It's simpler than that. Jesus was not political. The Jews were looking for a different Messiah. Therefore they were disappointed in Jesus. He did not challenge the Roman rulers as they expected. Jesus challenged the religious leaders of God's people. The Church has become as carnal as the Jews. They are looking for a political Messiah. But he will disappoint again. He will not return as a different Messiah. This assumption is built on a misunderstanding of Messianic prophecy. For instance, they take Daniel chapter 2 to mean, the Messiah will come to challenge the Roman Empire. But he didn't... So, the Christian leaders have adopted the same carnal view of the return of Christ as the Jews. They want the Messiah to return to be a political/military leader to correct the modern Roman empire... their political savior. But his return will be as the same Messiah as He was in the flesh. He will, once again, come to challenge the leaders of God's people for leading the sheep astray.
FYI The Gospel of Grace vs. the Gospel of the Kingdom Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:14-15 Christians love the gospel. We dedicate our lives to spreading the gospel message to our friends and neighbors and even to every corner of the earth. But what is the gospel? What is it’s message? Paul tells us very clearly in his letter to the Corinthians. Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you… that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 15:2-4 When we declare the gospel message, we proclaim Christ’s death, his burial and his resurrection as well as the purpose behind it all: to atone for the sins of the world. Of course, there are all kinds of details to dive deeper into, but this is the foundation of the gospel message. The Four Gospels We call the four books that detail the account of Jesus’ life, the Gospels. In the Gospel of Mark, he starts with: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mark 1:1 Because these accounts are called the Gospels, it’s easy to confuse all the teachings of Jesus Christ with the gospel message we are to preach to sinners. Yet, the gospel we preach is not the teachings of Jesus, but His death, burial and resurrection as an atonement for sinners. As we discussed earlier, Jesus taught in accordance with the Law of Moses, He did not teach under the coming new covenant established in His blood. The Gospel of the Kingdom But Jesus did preach a gospel message. As we read through the gospel accounts of His ministry in Israel, we see Jesus proclaiming the gospel. Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God Mark 1:14 We see that, early on, Jesus began preaching the gospel. It was a gospel referred to as the gospel of the kingdom. But was Jesus proclaiming his death, burial and resurrection as an atoning sacrifice for sinners? Here is what the next verse says: and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15 The message of the gospel of the kingdom didn’t have anything to do with Christ’s death. It was a message concerning the kingdom that prophets of old had foretold in the scriptures. They had foretold that a time would come in which God would restore the nation of Israel under the Kingdom of David. Ezekiel is just one of many prophets to foretell of this coming restoration of the Kingdom. “Then say to them, ’Thus says the Lord GOD: ”Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again. They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God. "David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. Ezekiel 37:22-24 The gospel Jesus proclaimed was that this time foretold by Ezekiel and others was about to be fulfilled. The kingdom was just around the corner and the people of Israel needed to prepare themselves for it through repentance toward God, righteous works and trust in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Not only did they have to trust in Jesus as the Messiah, they needed to believe His words about what was required to gain entrance into this coming kingdom. Now, the gospel of the kingdom is an amazing message and certainly good news for the people of Israel as it was something the faithful had been waiting and hoping for for centuries. But this good news of the gospel of the kingdom is not the same as the gospel of the grace of God. It’s a totally different message of good news. While there are many details to discuss about this kingdom gospel that Jesus preached, the big detail that I want to point out is that this kingdom gospel was under the administration of the Law of Moses. In talking about the coming kingdom and the Law of Moses Jesus said: Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:19-20 Keeping the commandments of Moses was required to enter into this coming Kingdom and your righteousness through keeping the law had to be greater than the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees. Compare this teaching from the earthly ministry of Christ with what Paul says in Romans: But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, Romans 3:21 This message of righteousness apart from the law that Paul teaches is also good news, but it is different from the good news of the Kingdom of God. In speaking of the ministry that he received from Jesus Christ Paul says this: …the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus [is] to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24 The good news Paul testified to, of righteousness apart from the law, he calls the gospel of the grace of God. During the ministry of Christ, He testified of the gospel of the kingdom in which righteousness could only be attained though keeping the law. Right now, we live and are saved through the gospel of grace paid for by the atoning blood of Christ. Let’s be careful not to mix these two gospels and in doing so dilute the purity of God’s gift of grace. Footnote: As a quick aside, sometimes you’ll see the phrase Kingdom of Heaven, instead of Kingdom of God, but they mean the same thing and are used interchangeably. Kingdom of Heaven is just a figure of speech using the place where God lives to refer to God himself. In similar manner, here in America, we might speak of the authority of the White House as a figure to mean the authority of the president.
You may not realize it, and you may have good intentions, but your post is antisemitic. Religious Jews are at least as spiritually attuned as you are, and there's nothing "carnal" about believing that God is going to redeem the world from evil and the rule of wicked tyrants. That belief is all over the place in Scripture.
To all of the comments that think that this is about how you feel about God's word. Jesus Christ is the word. Read John Chapter 1 KJV. Now, you can use any version that you want. I grew up using the old King James Version of the Bible, and it works well for me. The focal point of the Bible is Jesus Christ. The focal point of Bible prophecy is Israel. If you'll remember those two things, it will help you begin to comprehend the Bible and where we are now in God's time-line. This is not complicated. The whole world is guilty before God. But we receive a full and complete pardon from our guilt from our sin when we accept the Gospel message of God's Simple Plan of Salvation. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on the 3rd day on Sunday morning. His death, burial and resurrection satisfied the heart of God. God applies that payment to our debt when we trust Him alone as our only Savior and our debt is marked paid in full by Jesus Christ. God bless.!!! Amen
Jesus said “My kingdom is not of this world”. A Christian should support a candidate that most closely resembles the Biblical positions NOT necessarily what benefits them personally. For instance, no true Christian should support a pro abortion position, even if they don’t have children. It is murder. There are many more examples, homosexuality, women preachers, etc. A Christian is one that obeys Scripture, not tries to excuse sin.
If she doesn't get an abortion she will need help through her pregnancy and after. It's more gray than u may think. What if her p causes her to miss work, get fired,miss rent payment and so forth. What is she has no $ for maternity clothes?
@@jaimesfolly The day before birth is the baby (AKA fetus) autonomous while in the womb? Does it have to exit the womb to be autonomous? Or is it autonomous when it can fend for itself like a 9 year old who can hunt and forage?
Some of the blatantly ignorant statements were rather shocking. 1) Young earth creationism was the default position of nearly every church denomination until the 1880s. Liberalizing groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Unitarians, and many Presbyterians and Baptists started accepting evolution. William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State and Henry Clay-esque presidential campaigner, wrote a criticism of Christians who sought to temporize between the young earth position and evolution. The Fundamentals, published around 1919-1920, defended the literal seven day creation, but the nacent Pentecostal denominations, such as the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), Church of God in Christ, Assemblies of God, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, and others had already pledged their support to such doctrines as early as 1912 or earlier, and the Holiness churches had been young earth creationists since the 1880s. The lack was in the scholars of the issue that could formulate articulate arguments to push back against the evolutionary hypothesis. THAT was the change in the 1960s. 2) The articulated belief that Conservative Christians do not believe in justice, and that the working class of that group are voting against their economic interests. Exactly how is it just that my wages, which I worked hard to acheive are decreased by a rising minimum wage, gradually pushing me and others into unmerited poverty? In 1990, my father could support a family of five on $8.50/hr. Now I struggle to provide comfortably for one at $16.50. When I made $24,000 per year, the government was taxing me at nearly 1/6-1/4 of my income, and if I was fortunate, I saw $1500 returned. I watched the fees for my car rise from $50 to $150 to renew my tags, and other fees rose as well. During the 90s, my mother could feed a family of five for a week or two on $25-$35 dollars. Now that barely supports a family of three for a few days. Where is the justice that the Democrats and the bleeding hearts have when their economic policies have inflated the American currency almost every year for 60 years? Where is the justice of an open border? Where is justice for the homeowners in New York, Illinois, New Jersey, California, or Michigan, when your house can be invaded, ransacked, or stolen out from under you using "squatter's rights"? Where is justice when mobs can control the streets of our cities for weeks rioting, looting, vandalizing, pillaging, and murdering people with impunity and causing billions of dollars in damage to neighborhoods and cities? Where is justice when we have murdered nearly 1/4 of our citizens in the womb depriving them of the right to life in direct contradiction to the first of the three great rights granted to men by God that government must preserve, the right to life? Where is the justice in the exportation of such a practice to the globe writ large? I could follow this up with many more, but you will already deny the lived reality of the "hateful narrow-minded, neo fascistic, young earth creationist, fundamentalist Christian who decries the government that is meant to care for his economic self-interest." Come what may, this I know, "conservative, fundamentalist Christians" have survived feudalism, communism, emperors, monarchs, socialism, prosperity, poverty, democracy, republicanism, liberalism, both modernism and post-modernism, relativism, imperialism, and more, and if Jesus does not return for another 1,000 years, we will still be here surviving and thriving, no matter the conditions of the day.
I want to upvote this but it's so long I'm not sure what it all means. I certainly can agree with some of it. And I don't know what yr definition of fundamental is. It has different meaning today than it used to.
@jilla2641 Summary: 1) I criticized them for being ignorant about the history of the fundamental Christistian doctrines in "recent" history. They claimed that Christians did not really believe in young earth Creationism before the 1960s. This is wrong, and the documents are there to prove it. 2) I disputed their ideas of "justice", and showed that there was injustice in their attempts to create a class-based social justice system to rectify supposed institutional systems of inequality. I cite Fundementalism as it applies to the Fundamental Doctrines of Scripture. 1) Scripture is inerrant, inspired, and authoritative. 2) Scripture should be read literally according to the various genres of literature, parables, poetry, metaphors, and similes, that are found therein. 3) The reality of the Seven Day Creation, young earth, and Noahic Flood, as found in Gensis 1-9. 4) The reality of the foundations of the nation Israel, it kings, and fall as is found from Genesis 10-Malachi 4. 5) The literal reality of the Virgin Birth, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Assention of Jesus Christ. 6) I believe that Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man. 7) I believe that Jesus was without sin, the only human to be so. 8) The substirutionary atonement of Christ upon the Cross to appease the wrath of God and provide pardon for the sins of all mankind both past and future provided they repent and obey the Gospel. 9) The reality of the miracles as recorded on the Bible. 10) The realities of a literal Hell and Heaven that will endure for all eternity, the homes of the damned and saved respectively. 11) The inherent sinfulness, corruptability, and imperfectablity of humanity both corporately and individually without the salvation of Christ upon the Cross. I hope that helped.
@@jayt9608 If you take a look at the evolution and cross-pollination between the countless Christian sects, cults and denominations, it is nowhere as uniform, clean cut or straightforward, not even close.
As someone who has been increasingly turned off from mainstream evangelical conservatism since 2020-- I agree. I was expecting better, more convincing points, this was disappointing.
@@JaneFleesTexas God Has Left Witnesses of Himself: Romans 1:18-20 “18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19) because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20) For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:18-20 The battle for truth stands or falls with the first verse of the Bible. It is the cornerstone of all else that follows. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Satan’s assault is leveled relentlessly against the existence, character and nature of the God of Creation. Paul returns to this theme in Romans 1:20, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clear seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” Creation proclaims the glory, majesty, power and Divine nature of the Creator. You can learn immeasurable insight about God by studying what He has created. So where does the distortion of truth begin? The big lie involves coming up with a theory of origins that leaves God out. Make no mistake, evolution is a relentless attack on Genesis 1:1. It questions God’s eternal power and undermines His Divine nature. It removes the biblical definition of God from human consciousness, government and morals. It results in godless living. But, there is one huge problem. According to Romans 1:19, “that which is known about God is evident within them…” God has left two significant witnesses of Himself. Scholars often refer to the internal witness of God and the external witness of God. The internal witness of God stems from the fact that God created man in His own image. Every man, woman and child has an inner void in the shape of God. The human spirit and conscience yearns after God. Nothing else can fill that vacuum with satisfaction. Sin leaves people empty, guilty, lost and searching. Creation is the external witness of God. When the quest for truth begins, the manifold lies and massive implausibility of evolution begins to be pealed away during the unbiased search for truth. Multitudes of scientists have come to faith in God as the volumes of unexplainable enigmas in the world of nature continually pile up. There are many thousands of them. The process is marvelous to behold for those who sincerely search for truth. Many others become hopelessly blind as truth is suppressed by their own greed for sin and immorality. They refuse to acknowledge God for then they need to answer to Him. This process is often aided by a third witness God has left about himself. I call this “the written witness of God.” If you are reading this post, you are being exposed to the third witness of God. You are reading and studying the Bible. It points to Jesus Christ and God’s plan of salvation for sinful humanity. Notice that Paul ends verse 20 by saying that “they are without excuse.” He concludes that those who close their mind and heart to the first and second witness of God will one day stand before Him with no excuse for their sin and unbelief. They can never say, “no one told me.” Why? Because God left evidence of Himself everywhere in creation and imprinted Himself on human conscience. Romans chapter 1 concludes that the rejection of God is a willful embrace of deception as an excuse for sinful living. Paul goes on to prove this point with a profound survey of human history. He concludes by leveling the charge that God did not reject man, mankind rejected God.
@@JaneFleesTexasI did, I believed evolution and was agnostic. While doing graduate studies in science, I began to see it as a fraud. During Darwin’s time the cell was assumed to be simple. Since then the cell is far too complex to be some kind of accident or mutation. The chemicals involved in the most simple processes are impossible to synthesis from basic building blocks, and in human physiology there are 2000 metabolic processes mapped out involving numerous extremely complex enzymes that are structure dependent as well. Just look at any enzyme involved in glycolysis as an example, or try to structure a cell membrane with a mitochondria to produce the electric field for polarize it.
The counter poem. Let the goodness of your actions be your grace and not the threat of retribution of your faith for he who believe will be willing to follow and does who do not may see a new things that will create no new sorrow. If what you say makes people question reality through fear maybe you are not following the philosophy of love that you should be holding dear. For if you truth require fear then you seem like a liar to does that are near. We see light in others not the darkest, though human nature is a balance of both. You keep pushing fear for power to control others with words that you cannot say to be true in an oath. Liar love to use faith for fortune. To bad your philosophy of fortune is the antithesis of your faith. Because to love thy neighbor as thyself then why would you use fear and control to manipulate. You only do to push for money and power for a philosophy that should be based on grace. Grace is to be grateful that is true since ignorance and hate to be yearning for money and power seems like you are a fool with no clue.
All the creationists I’ve seen claim there ideas are theory. I find their notions and theory about as valid as the university. Nobody is around from the original times…
Why don't you just preach the gospel message if you actually know what it is? Instead of building your audience on people who seem to enjoy watching you and your guest tear people down. Our main responsibility is to point people to the Savior Jesus Christ. It's up to them what they do with that information. We know that there are false prophets out there. But your church can't even get baptism correct, you don't sprinkle people, that's not baptism. And neither one of the men born in the 16th century understood Grace correctly. (Calvin or Jacobus) Salvation is Eternal. Predestination has to do with God's foreknowledge. God does know who is going to accept the free gift of Eternal Life. I could easily go on,but I doubt if you'll pay any attention to my comments. You're having too much fun riping other people up. Try sweeping around your own doors of your doctrinal faith and get it right down to total perfection before you try to destroy all of these other men. I know only some of them. None of us are perfect, not even you. I have shared the gospel message of God's Simple Plan of Salvation thousands of times over the past 60 years and I have had the privilege of leading hundreds of people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. My goal in life is to hear my Savior say to me, "well done."
//Instead of building your audience on people who seem to enjoy watching you and your guest tear people down ... You're having too much fun riping other people up.// Have you read your own post?
They have no problem with Soros but 'Strain at a gnat' at any faults of the Truly Faithful... Those of us who LOVE and Believe the plain truths of Bible
I never said I had no problem with Soros - I made a joke because Scott has said in his book and elsewhere that people have accused him of being bought out by Soros. (I’ve gotten that accusation once or twice too) It’s ludicrous and funny.
@@PreacherBoys Ok. I apologize for falsely accusing you. Sincerely. Apparently RUclips doesn't like the truth, I suppose. I do greatly commend most of your work exposing church abuse.
After getting caught up in the 2016 and 2020 elections, the spell was broken for me. My hope is in Christ alone and the advancement of the Kingdom of God thru the glorious gospel.
I am not sure we are as much of a minority as you think. I think there are a LOT of Christians who are quietly following Christ -- and that includes being patient with the loud "Christians" who are reinforcing their own power at the expense of others and perpetuating systems of oppression. And then there are a WHOLE LOT of "almost Christians" who just don't think enough to realize that they are NOT following Christ.
I really hope so. ❤
Amen
I’m all kinds of late commenting but this was a GREAT episode! The concepts discussed are absolutely on point. The one thing that I kept thinking about when thinking about how to vote and their faith, wouldn’t the question be - Which candidate/platform most represents the ideas for policy and platform that JESUS would support?
It’s never too late to comment! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Why don't you invite Ken Ham on to respond to the criticism.
Ken is a scammer, why would he come to this channel?
In my opinion, there is endless propaganda on both sides! It's just a means to divide. Religions and governments are not the solution for humankind.
1000000% - the far left and far right are two sides of the same coin.
@@PreacherBoysWho funds both parties even though they are a tiny minority? Who’s wars do Americans fight for? Who plans and lobbies for these wars? Who has the biggest and most powerful foreign lobby on the planet? Who does both parties grovel for and put America last?
I would love to see his sources. I am trying my best not to believe anything anybody says without seeing where they got their information from and reading it myself. I am not saying he is wrong, I just want to study more myself. I am going through a process of reconstruction in my faith and don't even believe people that use the Bible to back up their statements. Usually those who do, take it out of context or don't read the other parts of the story. I guess it is the Historian in me, 'anything can be wrong', 'where did you get that? You weren't there.' Show me from those who were there.
100% good to check sources! His book is very well researched and he cites sources!
Middle class is dispersing and the number of poor rising because of conservatives, republicans and evangelicals.. this is a great interview!
Do u mean that sarcastically?
😂😂😂sarcasm.
I recognize the middle men as John MacArthur(wont follow him) and Franklin Graham (Samaritans Purse) but who r men on eitheer end?
Oh, how happy and prosperous the people in Cuba, and Venezuela are! Long-live Atheism, Socialism, and Totalitarianism.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark…
@@melanieahrens6739EXACTLY
@@melanieahrens6739 Iceland, the Netherlands...
The Nordic countries are not socialist. They are free market capitalists with extremely high taxes going towards robust welfare programs. Hey! That works great as long as everyone’s working and pulling their own weight. Or the government are not corrupt and misusing funds. We all know that’s not gonna last long, because the government eventually go bad and we have plenty of lazy people who don’t wanna work.
At least the socialist governments ensure that everyone is fed, housed, and educated. The right-wingers only care about making the rich richer.
Someone needs to explain the logo to me on your merchandise top of video
"Stop IFB Abuse" means exactly what it says- the abuse in Independent Fundamentalist Churches needs to stop. It's where Preacher Boy started. Actually, it's where Underdog Theology started as well.
It's simpler than that. Jesus was not political. The Jews were looking for a different Messiah. Therefore they were disappointed in Jesus. He did not challenge the Roman rulers as they expected. Jesus challenged the religious leaders of God's people. The Church has become as carnal as the Jews. They are looking for a political Messiah. But he will disappoint again. He will not return as a different Messiah. This assumption is built on a misunderstanding of Messianic prophecy. For instance, they take Daniel chapter 2 to mean, the Messiah will come to challenge the Roman Empire. But he didn't... So, the Christian leaders have adopted the same carnal view of the return of Christ as the Jews. They want the Messiah to return to be a political/military leader to correct the modern Roman empire... their political savior. But his return will be as the same Messiah as He was in the flesh. He will, once again, come to challenge the leaders of God's people for leading the sheep astray.
FYI
The Gospel of Grace vs. the Gospel of the Kingdom
Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:14-15
Christians love the gospel. We dedicate our lives to spreading the gospel message to our friends and neighbors and even to every corner of the earth.
But what is the gospel? What is it’s message? Paul tells us very clearly in his letter to the Corinthians.
Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you… that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 1 Corinthians 15:2-4
When we declare the gospel message, we proclaim Christ’s death, his burial and his resurrection as well as the purpose behind it all: to atone for the sins of the world. Of course, there are all kinds of details to dive deeper into, but this is the foundation of the gospel message.
The Four Gospels
We call the four books that detail the account of Jesus’ life, the Gospels. In the Gospel of Mark, he starts with:
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. Mark 1:1
Because these accounts are called the Gospels, it’s easy to confuse all the teachings of Jesus Christ with the gospel message we are to preach to sinners. Yet, the gospel we preach is not the teachings of Jesus, but His death, burial and resurrection as an atonement for sinners.
As we discussed earlier, Jesus taught in accordance with the Law of Moses, He did not teach under the coming new covenant established in His blood.
The Gospel of the Kingdom
But Jesus did preach a gospel message.
As we read through the gospel accounts of His ministry in Israel, we see Jesus proclaiming the gospel.
Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God Mark 1:14
We see that, early on, Jesus began preaching the gospel. It was a gospel referred to as the gospel of the kingdom. But was Jesus proclaiming his death, burial and resurrection as an atoning sacrifice for sinners? Here is what the next verse says:
and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15
The message of the gospel of the kingdom didn’t have anything to do with Christ’s death. It was a message concerning the kingdom that prophets of old had foretold in the scriptures. They had foretold that a time would come in which God would restore the nation of Israel under the Kingdom of David. Ezekiel is just one of many prophets to foretell of this coming restoration of the Kingdom.
“Then say to them, ’Thus says the Lord GOD: ”Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again. They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God. "David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. Ezekiel 37:22-24
The gospel Jesus proclaimed was that this time foretold by Ezekiel and others was about to be fulfilled. The kingdom was just around the corner and the people of Israel needed to prepare themselves for it through repentance toward God, righteous works and trust in Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Not only did they have to trust in Jesus as the Messiah, they needed to believe His words about what was required to gain entrance into this coming kingdom.
Now, the gospel of the kingdom is an amazing message and certainly good news for the people of Israel as it was something the faithful had been waiting and hoping for for centuries. But this good news of the gospel of the kingdom is not the same as the gospel of the grace of God. It’s a totally different message of good news.
While there are many details to discuss about this kingdom gospel that Jesus preached, the big detail that I want to point out is that this kingdom gospel was under the administration of the Law of Moses. In talking about the coming kingdom and the Law of Moses Jesus said:
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:19-20
Keeping the commandments of Moses was required to enter into this coming Kingdom and your righteousness through keeping the law had to be greater than the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees.
Compare this teaching from the earthly ministry of Christ with what Paul says in Romans:
But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, Romans 3:21
This message of righteousness apart from the law that Paul teaches is also good news, but it is different from the good news of the Kingdom of God. In speaking of the ministry that he received from Jesus Christ Paul says this:
…the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus [is] to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24
The good news Paul testified to, of righteousness apart from the law, he calls the gospel of the grace of God. During the ministry of Christ, He testified of the gospel of the kingdom in which righteousness could only be attained though keeping the law. Right now, we live and are saved through the gospel of grace paid for by the atoning blood of Christ. Let’s be careful not to mix these two gospels and in doing so dilute the purity of God’s gift of grace.
Footnote: As a quick aside, sometimes you’ll see the phrase Kingdom of Heaven, instead of Kingdom of God, but they mean the same thing and are used interchangeably. Kingdom of Heaven is just a figure of speech using the place where God lives to refer to God himself. In similar manner, here in America, we might speak of the authority of the White House as a figure to mean the authority of the president.
In the meantime, we're supposed to stand for truth and justice, and oppose evil.
You may not realize it, and you may have good intentions, but your post is antisemitic. Religious Jews are at least as spiritually attuned as you are, and there's nothing "carnal" about believing that God is going to redeem the world from evil and the rule of wicked tyrants. That belief is all over the place in Scripture.
@@KingoftheJuice18 Drop that Antisemitism crap!
To all of the comments that think that this is about how you feel about God's word. Jesus Christ is the word. Read John Chapter 1 KJV. Now, you can use any version that you want. I grew up using the old King James Version of the Bible, and it works well for me. The focal point of the Bible is Jesus Christ. The focal point of Bible prophecy is Israel. If you'll remember those two things, it will help you begin to comprehend the Bible and where we are now in God's time-line. This is not complicated. The whole world is guilty before God. But we receive a full and complete pardon from our guilt from our sin when we accept the Gospel message of God's Simple Plan of Salvation. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead on the 3rd day on Sunday morning. His death, burial and resurrection satisfied the heart of God. God applies that payment to our debt when we trust Him alone as our only Savior and our debt is marked paid in full by Jesus Christ.
God bless.!!! Amen
Jesus said “My kingdom is not of this world”. A Christian should support a candidate that most closely resembles the Biblical positions NOT necessarily what benefits them personally. For instance, no true Christian should support a pro abortion position, even if they don’t have children. It is murder. There are many more examples, homosexuality, women preachers, etc. A Christian is one that obeys Scripture, not tries to excuse sin.
If she doesn't get an abortion she will need help through her pregnancy and after. It's more gray than u may think. What if her p causes her to miss work, get fired,miss rent payment and so forth. What is she has no $ for maternity clothes?
Abortion kills in the same way that unhooking someone from life support kills. I am not sure that is murder.
@@jaimesfollySame way as not giving milk to a helpless newborn?
@@iraqiimmigrant2908 Newborns can be fed by many. They are autonomous and outside another person's body.
@@jaimesfolly The day before birth is the baby (AKA fetus) autonomous while in the womb? Does it have to exit the womb to be autonomous? Or is it autonomous when it can fend for itself like a 9 year old who can hunt and forage?
Some of the blatantly ignorant statements were rather shocking.
1) Young earth creationism was the default position of nearly every church denomination until the 1880s. Liberalizing groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Unitarians, and many Presbyterians and Baptists started accepting evolution. William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State and Henry Clay-esque presidential campaigner, wrote a criticism of Christians who sought to temporize between the young earth position and evolution. The Fundamentals, published around 1919-1920, defended the literal seven day creation, but the nacent Pentecostal denominations, such as the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), Church of God in Christ, Assemblies of God, Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, and others had already pledged their support to such doctrines as early as 1912 or earlier, and the Holiness churches had been young earth creationists since the 1880s. The lack was in the scholars of the issue that could formulate articulate arguments to push back against the evolutionary hypothesis. THAT was the change in the 1960s.
2) The articulated belief that Conservative Christians do not believe in justice, and that the working class of that group are voting against their economic interests. Exactly how is it just that my wages, which I worked hard to acheive are decreased by a rising minimum wage, gradually pushing me and others into unmerited poverty? In 1990, my father could support a family of five on $8.50/hr. Now I struggle to provide comfortably for one at $16.50. When I made $24,000 per year, the government was taxing me at nearly 1/6-1/4 of my income, and if I was fortunate, I saw $1500 returned. I watched the fees for my car rise from $50 to $150 to renew my tags, and other fees rose as well. During the 90s, my mother could feed a family of five for a week or two on $25-$35 dollars. Now that barely supports a family of three for a few days. Where is the justice that the Democrats and the bleeding hearts have when their economic policies have inflated the American currency almost every year for 60 years? Where is the justice of an open border? Where is justice for the homeowners in New York, Illinois, New Jersey, California, or Michigan, when your house can be invaded, ransacked, or stolen out from under you using "squatter's rights"? Where is justice when mobs can control the streets of our cities for weeks rioting, looting, vandalizing, pillaging, and murdering people with impunity and causing billions of dollars in damage to neighborhoods and cities? Where is justice when we have murdered nearly 1/4 of our citizens in the womb depriving them of the right to life in direct contradiction to the first of the three great rights granted to men by God that government must preserve, the right to life? Where is the justice in the exportation of such a practice to the globe writ large?
I could follow this up with many more, but you will already deny the lived reality of the "hateful narrow-minded, neo fascistic, young earth creationist, fundamentalist Christian who decries the government that is meant to care for his economic self-interest." Come what may, this I know, "conservative, fundamentalist Christians" have survived feudalism, communism, emperors, monarchs, socialism, prosperity, poverty, democracy, republicanism, liberalism, both modernism and post-modernism, relativism, imperialism, and more, and if Jesus does not return for another 1,000 years, we will still be here surviving and thriving, no matter the conditions of the day.
I want to upvote this but it's so long I'm not sure what it all means. I certainly can agree with some of it.
And I don't know what yr definition of fundamental is. It has different meaning today than it used to.
@jilla2641
Summary:
1) I criticized them for being ignorant about the history of the fundamental Christistian doctrines in "recent" history. They claimed that Christians did not really believe in young earth Creationism before the 1960s. This is wrong, and the documents are there to prove it.
2) I disputed their ideas of "justice", and showed that there was injustice in their attempts to create a class-based social justice system to rectify supposed institutional systems of inequality.
I cite Fundementalism as it applies to the Fundamental Doctrines of Scripture.
1) Scripture is inerrant, inspired, and authoritative.
2) Scripture should be read literally according to the various genres of literature, parables, poetry, metaphors, and similes, that are found therein.
3) The reality of the Seven Day Creation, young earth, and Noahic Flood, as found in Gensis 1-9.
4) The reality of the foundations of the nation Israel, it kings, and fall as is found from Genesis 10-Malachi 4.
5) The literal reality of the Virgin Birth, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Assention of Jesus Christ.
6) I believe that Jesus Christ was fully God and fully man.
7) I believe that Jesus was without sin, the only human to be so.
8) The substirutionary atonement of Christ upon the Cross to appease the wrath of God and provide pardon for the sins of all mankind both past and future provided they repent and obey the Gospel.
9) The reality of the miracles as recorded on the Bible.
10) The realities of a literal Hell and Heaven that will endure for all eternity, the homes of the damned and saved respectively.
11) The inherent sinfulness, corruptability, and imperfectablity of humanity both corporately and individually without the salvation of Christ upon the Cross.
I hope that helped.
@@jayt9608
If you take a look at the evolution and cross-pollination between the countless Christian sects, cults and denominations, it is nowhere as uniform, clean cut or straightforward, not even close.
you forgot to mention african american evangelical churches.
What about them
That would be against his narrative. This guy didn't realize how ironic his whole argument is.
@@kimjohnson8471 they are the most racist in the country.
So much nonsense in this video would require a long response video to address.
You’re free to make one - would love to watch.
As someone who has been increasingly turned off from mainstream evangelical conservatism since 2020-- I agree. I was expecting better, more convincing points, this was disappointing.
Inherit the Wind was anti-historical fiction, much like this video.
On Evolutionism, do you have the brain of a fish modified by millions of random mutations?
You need to learn more about evolution.
@@JaneFleesTexas
God Has Left Witnesses of Himself: Romans 1:18-20
“18) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19) because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20) For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” Romans 1:18-20
The battle for truth stands or falls with the first verse of the Bible. It is the cornerstone of all else that follows. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Satan’s assault is leveled relentlessly against the existence, character and nature of the God of Creation.
Paul returns to this theme in Romans 1:20, “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clear seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” Creation proclaims the glory, majesty, power and Divine nature of the Creator. You can learn immeasurable insight about God by studying what He has created.
So where does the distortion of truth begin? The big lie involves coming up with a theory of origins that leaves God out. Make no mistake, evolution is a relentless attack on Genesis 1:1. It questions God’s eternal power and undermines His Divine nature. It removes the biblical definition of God from human consciousness, government and morals. It results in godless living.
But, there is one huge problem. According to Romans 1:19, “that which is known about God is evident within them…” God has left two significant witnesses of Himself. Scholars often refer to the internal witness of God and the external witness of God.
The internal witness of God stems from the fact that God created man in His own image. Every man, woman and child has an inner void in the shape of God. The human spirit and conscience yearns after God. Nothing else can fill that vacuum with satisfaction. Sin leaves people empty, guilty, lost and searching.
Creation is the external witness of God. When the quest for truth begins, the manifold lies and massive implausibility of evolution begins to be pealed away during the unbiased search for truth. Multitudes of scientists have come to faith in God as the volumes of unexplainable enigmas in the world of nature continually pile up. There are many thousands of them.
The process is marvelous to behold for those who sincerely search for truth. Many others become hopelessly blind as truth is suppressed by their own greed for sin and immorality. They refuse to acknowledge God for then they need to answer to Him.
This process is often aided by a third witness God has left about himself. I call this “the written witness of God.” If you are reading this post, you are being exposed to the third witness of God. You are reading and studying the Bible. It points to Jesus Christ and God’s plan of salvation for sinful humanity.
Notice that Paul ends verse 20 by saying that “they are without excuse.” He concludes that those who close their mind and heart to the first and second witness of God will one day stand before Him with no excuse for their sin and unbelief. They can never say, “no one told me.” Why? Because God left evidence of Himself everywhere in creation and imprinted Himself on human conscience.
Romans chapter 1 concludes that the rejection of God is a willful embrace of deception as an excuse for sinful living. Paul goes on to prove this point with a profound survey of human history. He concludes by leveling the charge that God did not reject man, mankind rejected God.
@@JaneFleesTexas Are you saying that humans are not descended from fish? That's what Evolutionism teaches.
@@JaneFleesTexasI did, I believed evolution and was agnostic. While doing graduate studies in science, I began to see it as a fraud. During Darwin’s time the cell was assumed to be simple. Since then the cell is far too complex to be some kind of accident or mutation. The chemicals involved in the most simple processes are impossible to synthesis from basic building blocks, and in human physiology there are 2000 metabolic processes mapped out involving numerous extremely complex enzymes that are structure dependent as well. Just look at any enzyme involved in glycolysis as an example, or try to structure a cell membrane with a mitochondria to produce the electric field for polarize it.
The counter poem.
Let the goodness of your actions be your grace and not the threat of retribution of your faith for he who believe will be willing to follow and does who do not may see a new things that will create no new sorrow. If what you say makes people question reality through fear maybe you are not following the philosophy of love that you should be holding dear. For if you truth require fear then you seem like a liar to does that are near. We see light in others not the darkest, though human nature is a balance of both. You keep pushing fear for power to control others with words that you cannot say to be true in an oath. Liar love to use faith for fortune. To bad your philosophy of fortune is the antithesis of your faith. Because to love thy neighbor as thyself then why would you use fear and control to manipulate. You only do to push for money and power for a philosophy that should be based on grace. Grace is to be grateful that is true since ignorance and hate to be yearning for money and power seems like you are a fool with no clue.
All the creationists I’ve seen claim there ideas are theory. I find their notions and theory about as valid as the university. Nobody is around from the original times…
Excellent. Yes, Scott's answers made good sense. I look forward to reading the book. Thank you both.
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Why don't you just preach the gospel message if you actually know what it is? Instead of building your audience on people who seem to enjoy watching you and your guest tear people down. Our main responsibility is to point people to the Savior Jesus Christ. It's up to them what they do with that information. We know that there are false prophets out there. But your church can't even get baptism correct, you don't sprinkle people, that's not baptism. And neither one of the men born in the 16th century understood Grace correctly. (Calvin or Jacobus) Salvation is Eternal. Predestination has to do with God's foreknowledge. God does know who is going to accept the free gift of Eternal Life. I could easily go on,but I doubt if you'll pay any attention to my comments. You're having too much fun riping other people up. Try sweeping around your own doors of your doctrinal faith and get it right down to total perfection before you try to destroy all of these other men. I know only some of them. None of us are perfect, not even you. I have shared the gospel message of God's Simple Plan of Salvation thousands of times over the past 60 years and I have had the privilege of leading hundreds of people to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. My goal in life is to hear my Savior say to me, "well done."
//Instead of building your audience on people who seem to enjoy watching you and your guest tear people down ... You're having too much fun riping other people up.//
Have you read your own post?
Well there's a conflict of interest, the host has now claimed that he's not a Christian anymore..............
@@333Paradigm333so you’re saying that the HOST now says he’s NOT a Christian??
@@Hope-dr3mf Correct, he released a video in that he proclaimed that he could not call himself a Christian any longer. Look it up
He is a Christian?
So, you removed my comment about Jim Jones being an Atheist and a Socialist. You don't like the truth? Do your research.
They have no problem with Soros but 'Strain at a gnat' at any faults of the Truly Faithful... Those of us who LOVE and Believe the plain truths of Bible
I absolutely didn’t remove any comments, so not sure what you’re referring to.
I never said I had no problem with Soros - I made a joke because Scott has said in his book and elsewhere that people have accused him of being bought out by Soros.
(I’ve gotten that accusation once or twice too)
It’s ludicrous and funny.
@@PreacherBoys Ok. I apologize for falsely accusing you. Sincerely. Apparently RUclips doesn't like the truth, I suppose. I do greatly commend most of your work exposing church abuse.
@@PreacherBoys I wonder if he would tell us where he gets his money. He certainly didn't.