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We talked about patriarchy in
a very big general sort of way last week All right The ultimate
point of everything last week was that Well, there's two points really.
One is that patriarchy is just baked into the world. You can't
really get away from this mediated authority system. It's never
just you. It's like there's always somebody
beneath you, or between you. Thankfully, for most of us, most
of the time, that's just the Lord Jesus Christ. You know,
it's nobody else. And that's good. In our spiritual lives,
it's you, God and his word and that's who's responsible so You
know that I don't I don't want to put more barriers in there.
It's not Basically even though I can tell you what's right.
I can't tell you what to believe or how Although I mean I could you know
I can tell you that I believe you're wrong I can show you in
Scripture why you're wrong, but I I don't have a right to say,
well, we'll take a, the example from Paul's day is that, okay,
so Corinthians, Corinthian church, Corinth is a very evil place,
okay? I mean, there's actually a Greek
word, which means to play the Corinthian, and it means to be
the most degenerate person around. You know, to just, you know,
I mean, it's like, You're just that bad anyway So
and he's writing to a church there in fact, we've got two
of the three letters at least that he wrote to that church But they're dealing with a problem
that is a little bit weird because honestly the cheapest The cheapest
meat in the market, sometimes the higher quality meat, too,
was the meat that had already been sacrificed to one of the
gods there. You know, they sacrifice it,
they burn off some small fraction of it to the Greek gods or Roman
gods or whomever, and then they offer the rest at a discount
in the market. And that's the meat that everybody
kind of walks to if you're not. Seriously very hardcore Where
it came from and so there are people you know a lot of people
in the church are like Well, who cares where we bought it
from who cares who it was? Dedicated to because you know
we know God made everything and you know they're not anything
those gods so who cares we took advantage of the discount and That's right, I mean, you know,
you know, who cares that, you know, I don't know, honestly,
I've gone to fish fries, you know, at a Catholic church sometimes
because I really wanted fish. And I didn't really care much
about their theology at that point, you know, it's just like,
yeah, it's fish. And I like fish, so that kind
of thing. But then there's another contingent
in the church that says, dare you, sir. I mean, you know, you,
it's like you're worshiping that God yourself because you took
the food that was dedicated to that God, sacrificed to that
God and you ate it. So you're just as bad as they
are. Wow. Idolatry. You know, let's, let's,
let's round up the elders. Let's talk about, you know, kicking
you out of here. That's, you know, both, you know, I I honestly, I'm I'm
kind of a Pharisee. I tend to be pretty hardcore
about things unless they're my problems and uh so, I'll you
know, I I'm probably if I've been in that church, I would
have sided with the people who are like, you know, stone them. Well, not, you know, you can't
get away with that legally even in his day but you know, you
know, tell them that they're committing No, it doesn't matter. It really,
really doesn't matter. We all know that those gods are
nothing. However, and this is something
weird that kind of crept into the church. Again, this is one
of those things you just don't see much in other religions,
if at all. Because Paul basically says,
if this isn't directly connected, To you know, you know god's law
godly teaching right doctrine if it's not directly connected
to that You can do whatever your conscience will let you get away
with But you have to follow your conscience and that's kind of
strange you're like well you just said it was nothing so We
should always taking advantage of the discount. Oh, it says
yes, but if that still says, no, I feel like
I'm committing idolatry by eating this, then you shouldn't eat
it. Because for you, it will be idolatry.
And it's like, wait a minute, wait a minute. I thought, you
know, that sounds like a very subjective view of the truth
here. And I thought we were against that. But, you know, isn't truth
truth? Isn't, you know, it's yes or
no. Come on, Paul, what is it? And basically what he says is,
that's when he says that all things are lawful, but all things
aren't profitable. You know, yeah, we can get away
with just about anything that God didn't directly decree about.
You know, the Ten Commandments, you're stuck with those. You
know, things like that, you know, places in the scriptures where
God has clearly stated what he wants out of people, what he
desires, what the truth is, those, you're responsible for those.
that the stuff that you don't really know where it falls, it's
you, God, and your conscience, and that's it. And he said, but
the thing is, that means that in a church, there's gonna be
what he calls weaker people and stronger people. The weaker people
are the ones whose consciences are very powerful in their lives,
who just, I just can't eat that stuff because, like, you know,
it's like sacrificing to the God, isn't it? Okay, well, you're
a weaker brother. And he doesn't even say that, but he's not necessarily saying
they have to be. He just said, look, at this stage
of your growth in the Lord, you can only deal with so much. You know, God hasn't dealt with
this with you yet. God hasn't taught you his grace
in this area. So, you're kind of stuck with
this and most importantly though, you are in the body with other
people who think differently. So, the two of you need to recognize
you are need to stop trying to run these people out of town
on a rail, or out of your church on a rail, as it were. And okay, then he turns to the
people who are strong, he considers, the ones who know that idols
don't mean anything, and you might as well take advantage
of the prizes. Paul says, but you guys, you shouldn't be doing
it in front of them. You shouldn't be telling them,
oh, you should be stronger, and waving it in their face. you
know, have some love to each other. Recognize that you're
all in different places. You know, I mean, sometimes,
you know, the weaker brother is gonna say, it's not different
places, it's right and wrong. But the thing is, if you can't
bring up scriptural proof for that, you don't, you don't get
to, you can't make that call. You can't go after them about
it. You know, you need to have a scriptural backing. And when
I say scriptural backing, I'm not saying you gotta find one
of the commandments in Moses' law about this. Sometimes it's
more of a trend. Another example would be, Jesus
said that anyone who looks upon a woman with lust in his heart
has committed adultery in his heart with her. Legit, obviously,
Jesus said it, so of course we believe it, right? But is that
a principle that extends at all? Well, I'm not looking at a woman
who watched after her, but I am watching the movie she was in,
where she kind of shows everything. And yeah, I mean, I don't think
I'm having entirely godly feelings about that, but again, you said
look at the woman, not look at the digital copy of the woman
that's playing on my TV. Okay, well see, you're the one
now, splitting hairs. Because it's obvious there's
a scriptural principle here. You don't look at anybody other
than your wife with those feelings. And if you do, you have a sin
to deal with, and it's real. So I guess what I'm saying is
sometimes you can point to a direct verse that says, hey, you shouldn't
do that. And sometimes you have to say, there's a scriptural
principle in play that you shouldn't do that. You've got an argument. You've got to kind of hash this
out. Ultimately, though, everybody is responsible for their own
carrying out of God's will and God's commandments. We have a
name for that in adaptive scriptures, self-confidence. I always forget
what it is. Self-confidence, it's basically,
you know, you're responsible for the things in your own life,
the things that nobody knows that they're happening, you know,
in your house, and the things that, you know, the things that
you that nobody's really ruled on. In Baptist churches, it's
funny because alcohol was a really big deal in a lot of the Baptist
churches, especially, I mean, it was true before Prohibition,
but Prohibition just really cemented it. And everybody thinks of,
I mean, a lot, not everybody anymore, but there was a time
when I was growing up, if you were Baptist, what it meant is,
oh, you guys don't drink and you guys don't dance. It's funny because when I think
of Baptists, you know, I think of, you know, you dump people
all the way when you're baptizing them, and you only do this with
people who are old enough to make the profession of faith.
That's the Baptist distinctive in my mind, one of them. But
yeah, for these other people, it's like, no, it's your actions.
And every Baptist church I ever went to usually had something
in their constitution that said, look, we're going to come at
you if you're drinking alcohol. Which is the weirdest thing in
the world because, you know, how do you deal with all these
passages of scripture where godly people are drinking things that
are clearly alcoholic? Solomon even says that sometimes
that's just a bad thing. Jesus made the best wine that
came out at the end of the wedding at Canaan. You know? I mean,
you know, they had, they typically had the good wine first at a
wedding because then everybody would get enough of that that
they wouldn't necessarily notice that, you know, the quality was
dropping. You know, everybody's having
a really good time. Everybody's, you know, drunkenness is a sin,
but drinking is not in Scripture. It definitely is not. And at
weddings back then, yeah, they would save the worst one for
the last because, you know, again, people, they don't know at that
point. They're like, well, it was pretty
good, you know, because they're a little tipsy already. They're
kind of, You know, they don't, they're not being quite as, I
don't know, their palate has not been as refined since they
had the good wine earlier. But hey, that's what was surprising
to them about when Jesus told those servants, besides the fact
that the wine just came, you know, that he turned water into
wine, besides that, the people who didn't hear about the miracle,
but did know that the wine had been brought out by Jesus, or
been brought out at all, I should say, you know, they went to the
guy in charge of the feast and said, all right, you do everything
differently around here, right? Because this is the best, you
know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not wasted at all. And you, you save
the best wine for last. So Jesus actually cared about
the quality of alcoholic beverage that he produced miraculously. Do you think that Jesus really
had a problem with drinking? Anybody? Obvious right answer
here. That's your question. He didn't
care. You know, that's, you know, he
didn't see a problem with it. And that's, again, that's just,
it's so obvious. There's a lot of warnings against
drunkenness and a lot of things saying, hey, it's wine, enjoy
it. But you know, what do you do with these passages? But the
Baptists were just like, I don't know, for some reason, they drew
the line way up here, way, you know, they're holier than God,
apparently, as far as this one thing goes. That's nuts. Anyway. That train
of thought winds around so much, I don't know where it came from
anymore. Oh well, point is, you're responsible for You're responsible
for your relationship with God, personally. So, you know, while
the pastor, as the shepherd of the flock, needs to keep an eye
on you, he's not micro-managing your spiritual life, right? He's
not sitting on your shoulder going, well, did you go to the
Bible today? He'd like to use you because, you
know, you're a relative, but everybody else, no. Alright, but moving on finally Yeah, we created man and woman
meet creating created them very differently and it's not just
Let's just be honest if you're if you haven't figured this out
by now. Well, you need to think about it pretty hard men and
women are not equals in almost any way and That's a good thing
They're really differently skilled and And this is not to say, you
know, God does not go to extremes. This is not to say that a man
can't nurture and a woman can't lead. It's just, you know, it's
impossible. It's not saying that. You know,
I think that there are probably women who, if they had to lead
a church, they'd be capable of it. But the law says no. Paul is very clear on that point.
Paul says women don't lead. And people think frequently when
they're faced with that clear statement in First Timothy, if
I remember correctly, people say, well, maybe that was a cultural
thing because, you know, the women weren't educated back then. So that's maybe why he was saying
that because, you know, you don't want somebody who's not qualified. So he's basically saying until
The women kind of get up to speed until equality really sets in
here. Yeah, women probably shouldn't
teach, but it's temporary. That is far and away the number
one argument I've heard for saying the poll didn't really And the fact is, you see, what
that ignores is that Paul gives you the exact reason he said
that in the very next verse. And it's not that. The problem
is that nobody likes his answer. Nobody likes his reason. Because
his reason is, because man wasn't deceived first, woman was. Look
at Adam and Eve, throwing this out there. And honestly, even
when I read that, even now in my life, I read it and I think,
you can't blame everybody for it. You can't blame every woman
out there for what you did. It's funny, though, I believe
the Holy Spirit inspired those words, and I think I'm arguing
with God at that point. You can't do that. That's a bad idea, by the way.
I do not recommend telling God what he should have written in
his book. He's kind of a picky author. But that's Paul's reasoning.
And you've got to figure out what you want to do with that.
I'm not going to get into it any further personally, but you've
got to figure out how you're going to deal with stuff like
that. But clearly, all through the Old and New Testament, men
and women have different roles. In Judges? Who here's read Judges? You should. It's an awesome book. We've got all the classic Sunday
school ones, like Samson and Delilah and stuff like that. But there's one that's really
interesting. It's about Barak. He's the general of Israel, and
they're taking on the Aramean, if I remember correctly. And they're coming against him,
and they're outnumbered, and they're surely gonna die, the
Israelites are. And Barak's like, okay, and the
one person who actually as God's ear, so to speak, can give his
messages. The one prophet that's kind of
in the area at this point is a woman, which happens, named
Deborah. And so, Barak goes to Deborah
and says, is it worth it? What are we doing here? And she
said, oh, yeah, you're gonna trounce them. You're gonna beat
them six ways from Sunday. This is nothing. Go out and win. Well, Barak, a little bit scared
about whether or not he has actually God's, you know, he doesn't really
know for sure if God is on his side. He doesn't really trust
her word without her being there. He's like, well, he'll definitely
be on our side if you're with us, because you're his prophet,
right? So he said, I'm not going to
go out there and fight them unless you're right there with me. And
Deborah says, okay, scary cat, I'll go. But the bad news is
that you're not going to get the credit for the best part
of the battle. You're not going to get the credit
for actually the win. But I guess Brock shrugged it
off. And they went on to, yeah, they killed him and chased him
off. The general of the other side, He was running away, and
he made it into a tent, and there's a woman there, and it sounds
like he may have known her. They were probably up in the
north part of Israel, and so they kind of had dealings with
both sides a little bit. So he ran in there, and her husband's
away. I think her husband was probably
with the Israelites fighting against his people. She didn't
mention that. So he goes in there, and he's
just like, will you help me? They're all coming up to me.
There's like thousands of men trying to track me down out here,
and I gotta get away. And she's like, oh, yeah, sure,
I'll help you. You know, he lays down on his
bed for him. She's like, here, you know, hide under the blanket.
I'll get you some milk to drink. And, you know, why don't you
take a nap? Because you just, you look terrible, man. And,
you know, I'll take care of everything else. Go ahead. And he trusts
her and goes to sleep. And she goes and grabs one of
the 10 pegs and a hammer, puts it over his head, and slams it
home. He got the credit for the win. And Debra was like, see, that's
not how it could have been. In a way, that's not how it should
have been. Obviously, ultimately, it is
the way God willed it, because that's what happens is God's
will. But if you'd been obedient, Brock, You would have had this
great epic battle and you want to kill them in front of everybody
and you'd be this great general and everybody Be like whoo far
off and the Lord's with him, but they weren't And this you
know and this guy got the ultimate humiliation that the other side's
general had the ultimate humiliation of course It was after he was
dead He was killed by a woman Anyway so I But people have roles, and it's
when they step outside of them that things get a little iffy.
Again, sometimes you have to. Like, you know, Deborah, she
was put in this position. Is she gonna say no? I mean,
she's looking at Barack. I mean, it's like Barack doesn't
really have what it takes to lead. He's scared, and he's leading
an army. If you're a general of an army
defending your people, you really can't be squeamish. You gotta defend the border no
matter what. Put your life on the line, man. That's what you
do as a soldier. Put your bodies, as the Star-Spangled
Banner says, between their loved homes and the war's desolation. That's not the main verse, that's
one of the later verses. That's a really good book. Song, anyway. That's the kind of soldier you're
supposed to be, and he wasn't it. And so she had to step up
and do it. And that, you know, again, God
was with them on that because sometimes, yeah, you gotta kind
of cross the line and play the other game. You know, sometimes
a man has a man and his wife, they have children, and then
the wife dies. And he is left in both roles
in some respects. You know, yeah, his mom might
take care of them while he's working and stuff like that.
But the fact is, he's got to learn to be the hard way, both
the nurturer and, you know, maintainer of the home for these kids and
their leader and primary teacher and the one who takes them to
Christ in the end. I mean, and he's got both roles, and that's
hard, that's really hard, but sometimes it happens. So again,
I don't want you to have too rigid of an idea of this, but
the fact is, generally speaking, yeah, men do man things and women
do woman things. And that's, there's not, biggest
lie I think that feminism has kind of sold us is that there's
less and less happiness and less good that comes out of doing
a woman's thing. You know, the fact is, I mean,
you know, if you ever read things in the Bible that are written
about women, I'm thinking Proverbs 31, I'm thinking the Song of
Songs, which is, by the way, I highly recommend reading that
book. If you haven't read the Song of Solomon, you really need
to. It's weird. It's something you
can't read in public. It's very straightforward about
a man and a woman in some ways. If you have just a little bit
of poet in your soul, you can even see deeper into ways that
it's like, good heavens, this is almost dirty. God, are you
sure you wanted this in here? But he did. I'm gonna talk about
that next spring, hopefully, and then foresee. And I'm gonna
shock everybody in there you're gonna throw me out or Okay, so
And what is a meaning you know oh boy who was it? Basically said, if you gave me
a long enough lever, I'd move the world. I just need a long
enough lever and a fulcrum to rest it on, and I can move the
world. That's true, technically, physically, right? I mean, that's
actually how simple machines work. But in our world, men are the
lever, but we can't work without a fulcrum. We need a base. coming out from which we get
our strength that gives us a reason and a purpose for doing what
we do. Why are men fighting for their
country in the Bible or in the modern day? Because they have something to
fight for. You know, they've taken this idea of fighting for
their family, because of course they would defend their family.
If somebody came across his property line with the intent of taking
his stuff and killing his family and stuff, of course he'd step
up, right? Hopefully. And he just took that one step
further. We're all banding together to
make that pledge about all of our families, that we're all
gonna be a band of men together As an army if you will our militia
or whatever Guarding all of our families against the oncoming
threat, and that's a natural state of things in the world
Well, why do they do it because there's something to defend?
because and what gives The good that is at home because
they know their children are taken care of. They know they
have a home to go back to. They know that they're going
to go back and their soul is going to be healed from the terrible
things of war by the love and comfort that their wives give
them. That's what keeps them coming back. It's not, it's not
high ideals. You know, High ideals don't really
matter when you, you know, when the German is over the, you know,
is standing over you in the trench with a bayonet in your face.
You know, generally speaking, you're not sitting there going,
you know, America, woo! You know. You know, I mean, what
you're thinking is, I just want to go home. But that might be
enough to cause you to do amazing things to get out of that situation.
All right, we can rebel against the roles that God put into creation,
or we can over-emphasize them. Hey, it's like everything. There's
two ditches, one on either side. I'll bet you, any of you who've
been through anything has ever done, has heard about, you know,
he always describes things as a road with two ditches, right?
Anybody heard that before from him? You guys haven't? I'm amazed,
because I feel like he's talking to me about that every week.
Maybe he means something. The idea is that there's, you
know, there's opposite extremes you can easily go to that kind
of wreck the whole thing. With him it's usually legalism
and licentiousness. In other words, You're either
so about the law that, you know, you threw grace out the window
ages ago, or you're so about, you know, grace and how it makes
you able to do anything you want to do that you don't even care
to obey. And that's okay. Jesus gave me
a blood check. Yeah. And those are the two ditches
on either side of the road. You got to, you got to dodge
both. You got to stay There's two ditches on the sides
of this road too. What happens when you rebel against
traditional roles and traditional, you know, the things that God
put into creation as far as men and women go? What do we call
it now? Who trumpets these things more
than anybody? If you had to give them sort
of a class name, philosophy name. I ask the worst questions, really.
Feminists. Yeah, I'm sorry. I never, I don't
know how to lead you there. My communication skills are terrible. Feminists. Feminists are the
ones who overcorrect on the one side, and say that this is all
messed up. This is men keeping us down.
This is patriarchy. It is patriarchy. It's not men
keeping you down, but it is patriarchy, yes. We need to reclaim that
one, honestly. It's a good word. I mean, God's
our father. You don't have to say God's your
mother. God is not beyond gender, by the way. He plans things, and he does
them. That's the definition of a man. The Holy Spirit is probably the
closest thing, maybe, to a feminine ideal, but I wouldn't even, the
Holy Spirit's not even really feminine, because the Holy Spirit
is the one pushing his way into your heart, changing it on his
own time, under his own terms and his own power, and making
you a new creation in Christ, So even the Holy Spirit of the
three persons isn't very feminine. But he does kind of have a nurturing
quality, let's say. But the Father is nothing like
that. C.S. Lewis, I love the way he put
it. He said, there's something so masculine that we're all feminine
compared to it. And that thing is God. He's very,
you know, and this is why we talk about Jesus in the church.
Jesus sees the church as his bride marrying the church. That's
a theme that just comes back over and over again in the New
Testament. Because Jesus is the one who does things, he accomplishes
them, he makes goals and he sets forth to do them. And he expects
us to love him and to serve him and to form a base of peace and
righteousness from which he acts to do these things. Especially, again, when you're
a man and you're told, yeah, you're part of this feminine
group. I mean, it's great, you know, but it makes sense, theologically. All right, so if you're gonna
rebel against God's patriarchy, then that's kind of it. You've
gone over. Feminism, you know, says that's
not fair. I can do, you know, anything
you can do, I can do better from, and you get your good. Oh, you know what I talked about?
Yay! Yay! Somebody recognizes a reference
on you. Yeah, yeah. It's a great song. I sang it when I was a little
kid. Anything you can do, I can do
better. I can do anything better than
you. No, you can't. Yes, I can. Anyway. Oh, God. I just keep forgetting I'm recording. Okay That you know that that's
that's feminism as opposed to thing, you know, we don't even
need man, you know Yeah, you know men are toxic
men men make problems everywhere they go Some of them never marry
some of them I Because that's where feminism
lands you at the end is like well, I just don't have any use
for men at all I mean, I'm gonna just I'm just gonna turn sexuality
on its head and I'm gonna be with a woman I Agree We can't be against something
just because of the effect Seriously, I mean yeah, yeah, and I thought
about this a lot. You know what I'm dealing with
people who are actually Homosexuals and lesbians or whatever or trans
good heavens. I mean that's good to be a real
thing now You know you can't be coming at them from the effect That's the thing though, but
if deep down that's your biggest problem with it, that's gonna
come out. You're just gonna be like, weird. Yuck. And you gotta have more
of a reason for that. You gotta understand that God
has a natural law. It's that stamp that he put on
the whole creation when he made it. You just keep talking. which I usually will put up with,
but good heavens, you. Anyway, yeah. All right, getting past that. Okay, so what's the opposite
of feminism? You guys have to be able to figure this one out.
If you fall into the other ditch, if you're just way too patriarchal,
shall we say. Give me an example of that, somebody.
Well, see, feminism says that masculinity is toxic. Oh, but
you're saying it could be really toxic and turn into that. Do
you have an example? Can you think of something in
recent history that just really plays into that? You know those
guys on Instagram that do the podcast? Like Andrew Tate? They
sit there. What woman needs to be put in
her place? You know, honestly, okay, the
red pill. That's what you're talking about. I think that they're over correcting a little
bit to try and throw feminism over Without but they don't have
a basis for it. I mean, you know when you're
godless you don't have any room to complain about somebody else's
rejection of God's principles because you're like Well, yeah,
but what do you, you know, why are you saying this stuff? And
their reasons are largely evolutionary and largely, you know, it's just,
well, obviously, better for the community. Okay, nice, great,
thanks, buddy. Thank you for playing and get
off the stage. You know, I'm thinking of people,
though, who, yeah, you've got a point there. I think you've
got a point. News in last few years, that's
really good big thing. I've seen their show at TLC You Wow, okay. Believe me. I didn't
think about that. Okay. I totally didn't think
about this or what? So I didn't yeah that didn't
enter my mind that somebody would ever say that I'm sorry I love
it when I'm surprised. I love being surprised They have a show that everybody's
talking about. Oh, golly. Yeah, but that's the thing. They
flip the other way, too. They kind of, you know, I mean,
the Swinger cult and the Swinger group and the Mormon. Yeah. Anyway,
never mind. Boy, I didn't think I'd have
to deal with any of this stuff. I thought everybody would just
get this. It's the Duggars, people. Come on. 19 kids and counting.
The Duggars? Yes. You know who I'm talking
about? You don't know who the Duggars
are? Have you, do you never go shopping and see them on magazine
covers? I know who they are and I don't,
I hardly watch Salomish kids. Except for Better Call Saul.
This is a really Better Call Saul. Okay, well anyway, you
can research that on your own time. Real quick. The Duggars are into the theology
of a group called the Institute of Basic Life Principles. It
was started and run for most of its run by a guy named Bill
Gothard, who never married, lived with his mother until she died,
if I remember correctly. They go too far in the other
direction. And they, you know, they're, it's hard to describe exactly
what's wrong with them, but it's just cold-blooded. I mean, again,
if you've ever seen their interviews, if you haven't, the interviews
are the ones coming out. They start with J. Oh wait, they
all do. Yeah, but the oldest couple of
them have gotten away from the family and really distanced themselves
from the family and from the theology. And the one whose husband
was a missionary and they went to be missionary someplace, those
two, actually, they're pretty interesting to listen to because
it sounds like they actually settled in a good place. But yeah, everything else was
very cult-like. And what is a cult, by the way?
Real quick, and then we're gonna end it. How would you define
a cult? Yeah, usually it is one leader. Sometimes it's a little bit shaken
up, like NXIVM had, you know, you've got David Reverneer way
up here, but then you had the people underneath him, Allison
Mack, Nancy Wiltshire, I don't remember, anyway. Sorry, I did
watch that documentary. Huh? It's a religious group. Tends to be. That has a Well,
I'll tell you what the world's definition is and I'll tell you
what Christianity is slightly different take on it is but it's
largely The world would basically say
a cult is any high-demand religion. High-demand meaning they want
something unreasonable out of you. You give your lives, you
give all your money, you turn your willpower over to us, all
the women have to sleep with the leader, that kind of thing. But that's not quite all of them.
I mean, honestly. became a Christian, and whenever
anybody ever accuses of being a cult, the leader, who I knew
personally, would always say, well, this is a terrible cult
if it's a cult, because where's the money and where's the women? And he was kidding, because that
was his argument for why they're not a cult. But Christianity
has a slightly bigger take on it. It's any religious group
that is breaking away from the Orthodox faith. You know the
faith that comes from Scripture on essential doctrines like saved
by grace You know that kind of thing the Trinity But that results
then in a high demand religion on one side or total lawlessness
on the other because some cults are are all about the anarchy.
Some cults are about, woo, free love, woo. They're hippie commies,
basically. And sometimes it's a combination
of the two. The low-ranking people, it's
always like, no, no, no, no, no. We don't have sex anymore
because sex, that's an evil thing that you shouldn't do. But you
get up into the higher ranks and you find out, actually, I
mean, we have our papal people. Anyway, so, but yeah, Christianity
says it's a high demand religion, but it's high demand religion
that came out of a perversion of the Christian faith. That's
a cult. Oh, yeah, Mormons would count
though, obviously. And polygamy is the direct result
of that. Yeah, absolutely. And you know,
they can say all they want. be a state without it. You knew
that they would never vote. You know, Congress would never
let them in as a state unless they suddenly, their prophets
suddenly had revelations. God told us that polygamy is
wrong. Finally, he gave us some clear
guidance on this. So, we don't do that anymore. And that's why they all went
underground and we have now fundamentalist groups that are everywhere that
are polygamous. All right, anyway, that's, all right, well, next
time we're gonna get a bit more into masculine and feminine roles,
but it's how they play out in different places, like with God
and with us. And pretty soon we're getting into
something I really like to talk about, which is, you know, what
is our responsibility in politics? Anyway, hopefully we'll get there.
Anyway, any comments or questions? That was really yet another very
long, very fast talk on my part, and I'm sorry. You guys gotta
tell me. I really, I do have a great deal
of respect for all of you, and if somebody tells me this is
not working, I'm not getting this, I will change. I know the material, but I don't
know if I'm getting it across. All right, you're dismissed. Go be part of worship.
Feminism, Patriarchy, and Hyperpatriarchy
Series The Christian Worldview
| Sermon ID | 12124211253059 |
| Duration | 45:41 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Language | English |
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