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Now, let's get back to the podcast. Live from the Theo Shed in beautiful Callahan, Florida. It's Friday night! Your Calvinist podcast is filmed before a live studio audience.

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Welcome back to Your Calvinist podcast, Friday night live with Mr.

And Mrs.

Your Calvinist. I didn't tell her I was going to do that. So she missed her cue, but that was not my bad. Okay. Good evening, everybody. We're glad that you are joining us. We see everybody already jumping into the comments and it's always awesome to see you guys talking to one another before the show starts.

That's pretty cool. So thank you guys for being a part of Friday night live, which is our Q &A. People send us in questions to KeithFoskey .com all through the week. I'm going through those questions, putting them in a folder so that on Fridays we can pull them out, put them all on a sheet of paper.

We'll list tonight two sheets of paper and then be able to, what are you trying to show girl? What's that? Not that one. This one? Had to wait a whole week. It's the Foskey Friday night. Oh, well, thank you.

His mercy is good. Yes. We're so glad to see you guys. Our regular folks here. We're very thankful for you and I'm thankful for all of our new folks as well. Did want to answer a quick question that came in right before we started.

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I know the last time I ordered it took me extra long, but it's because they actually don't prioritize the creators like they prioritize everyone else. So mine took a little bit longer, but I think you can pay for expedited shipping if you want to.

It should tell you when you go to purchase what the time is. I'm thinking about it maybe two weeks. That's my assumption based upon the fact that they have to produce the shirt and then ship it to you.

So that's my think is expect around a two week turnaround time. If anybody else has bought shirts, drop that in the comment. Tell us how long it took for you to get your shirt. I would be curious about that as well.

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I think that sounds more like me.

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All right.

So, uh, we're going to talk about a few things tonight. Few of you have already asked, are we going to talk about Trump choosing Paula white? You bet we are. Absolutely. That's actually number four on my list.

Um, but a couple of things I want to go through before I get to number four on my list, uh, number one, one of my, uh, one of the folks, uh, from the buy me a coffee group sent me a message this week and said, um, something really important.

And I thought it was good. She was talking about just the importance of people coming in and maybe people who haven't heard the gospel. And so. I want to make it a, I want to make a commitment, hopefully moving forward that at some point in these shows, I at least take an opportunity to stop and give a short gospel presentation just in case somebody jumps in.

They've never heard the gospel for the most important thing we do is tell people about Jesus Christ and how they can be saved. So that's going to be a commitment moving forward. And I thought that was a great recommendation.

It's not that I haven't wanted to do it in the past. It's just sometimes I get caught up doing other things. And so just real quick, I want to say, if you come here tonight and you don't know the Lord Jesus Christ, and you don't even know what that means, the Bible tells us there there's six things that you can remember number one.

And it, and it actually, this is a good way to remember this. If you want to share the gospel with somebody and you just want maybe an acronym to help you out, this is something that I teach to young people.

I teach it just as a way to remember how to walk through the gospel with somebody. And it spells out gospel, G O S P E L. Something I learned from Greg Steer years ago, Greg Steer is an evangelist. And basically it starts like this.

God created us in his image. That's the G. Our sin separates us from him or our sin is an offense to him. You can even go as far as to say our sin causes us to be at war with God. And then the third thing is that sin cannot be forgiven, cannot be repaid by good work.

So that's the G, the O and S. The P is a longer one. It's, it's paying the price for sin. Jesus died on the cross and he rose again. That's the P. The E is everyone who trusts in him alone, trusts in his finished work will have life forever, eternal life.

And that's the L, life forever, eternal life begins when we trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. And so that's a simple gospel presentation. Maybe it's something that you can use. And it's something, again, it's not the way I'm going to do it every week, but I thought it might be a good way to start with.

You remember that? Remember we went to Dare to Share Ministries? I'm if you guys, oh yeah, it was, it was back when I was a youth pastor. Yes, there was a time in my past when I was actually a youth pastor and we went to a Dare to Share event and he taught us that six, a six statement thing.

And it sort of stuck with me even till now. I've had Greg Steer on the show. If you didn't know that, if you want to go back and look through the archives, you can find that you can find that I've interviewed Greg about that.

All right.

So that was the first thing I had that down. Number one, don't forget to give the gospel. Number two, don't forget the Bible reading plan. If you're reading along with us, we're right. We just finishing the Sermon on the Mount.

We're reading through the gospels together. So this week we were finishing up the Sermon on the Mount. Hopefully you're reading along with us. And if you want to know how to read along with us, you can start at any time.

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And, uh, you can go check those out at 1689cigars .com. All right, let's talk about Trump. Jennifer, did you, uh, did you, were you pleased that the, um, that, that our intrepid commander in chief has decided to begin a, a faith initiative in the white.

House?

Uh, well, I don't, I was, I was very surprised. I guess I can't really say I was very surprised because didn't he choose her the last time?

Yeah, she's, he, he identified her as his pastor. I think like, she's my pastor.

Yeah.

Or something like that. Like, like, like, you know, advisor, spiritual advisor. There's a video out there of her speaking in tongues and it it's, it's hers. Paula White speaking in tongues is exactly what you think when you hear somebody making fun of someone speaking in tongues, it's like, it's like when, when somebody's like, you know, they're, they're, um, when, when somebody's like saying, this is what it sounds like to speak in tongues and then they mock, they said, you know, they mock somebody speaking in tongues.

You could cut to her speaking in tongues is exact same thing. It's the exact same thing. Um, somebody said Alex Jones covered it. I didn't see that, but that, but that was hilarious. Uh, so we came up with something that we thought was funny.

Um, comparable comparable post assignments that are similar to the Paula White assignment, he's assigned her to be the head of this faith initiative in the white house or department of faith, whatever it's called, and we said, okay, we're going to think of some ones and we want you guys in the comments to help us think of some of these.

All right.

First one, uh, having Paula White as the head of the faith initiative is like.

Having Ronald McDonald be the, uh, department of health.

Yeah.

The head of the department of health, Ronald McDonald was like having Paula White as the head of the department of faith is like having Ronald McDonald as the head of the department of health.

All right.

That was hers. That was her joke. So if you thought that was funny and give her a hand.

All right.

Mine was a little, little bit more graphic. I said, it's like having Jeff Jeffrey Dahmer in charge of the FDA.

All right.

So that I went a little darker. I'm not going to lie, you know, having, and for those of you who don't know who Jeffrey Dahmer is, congratulations. You're a fetus. You're still a child because you probably, if you're not my age, you probably don't know who, who that is.

But he was a serial killer who ate people. So I just thought it was funny if he would be in charge of the FDA. I mean, it's not funny.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is. It's funny. It's okay. Um, number three, choosing Trump, Trump choosing Paula White as the head of the faith initiative is comparable to choosing Osama bin Laden to head up the ATF. Again, it's a terrible choice.

It's a terrible choice. And I'm people like, oh, well, he's already dead. I know. So was Jeffrey Dahmer. Get with the jokes, stay with the program.

All right.

Last one.

At least the last one we came up with. Maybe you've got some, oh, I like that one. Anthony Fauci heading up the CDC. Didn't he actually, um, okay. Uh, last one. I had Ukrainian president Zelensky in charge of the federal reserve.

I just think it fits.

Okay.

All right.

So those are clown world. I know it just with these ideas, you're going to have a faith initiative and you're going to put the worst. It's not even like, I mean, you know, yes, she's a female pastor and that doesn't exist.

So right away she's disqualified simply because she's a woman and she's in a position that she shouldn't be in too. She's a health and wealth heretic. So not only is she a position she shouldn't be in, but she's also in the, uh, in the position of she's, she's also a heretic in that position.

And so it's just from going from bad to worse. Um, somebody said Brandon Herrera for the ATF. Excuse me, ATF director. Who's who do you know? Brandon Herrera. Oh, Google.

Hold on.

I think this is worth it. Brandon. Cause I want to see how funny this joke is.

All right.

Brandon Herrera. Uh, Joe Rogan's.

Oh, wait, wait, wait.

Who is he?

Did you do?

Uh, oh, okay.

Okay.

Make a guy.

Yeah.

All right.

Uh, he's the AK guy. Is that who he is?

Okay.

All right.

Okay.

I like it.

Okay.

Good job.

All right.

We got to move on. Anybody else have any good jokes? You can put them in the comment with the cowardly lion as a secret service agent. Yeah, I got that. That's funny. All right. Uh, David Koresh for the ATF.

Like that one, like that one, uh, to, to, to, to, to Andrew Rappaport. Oh, wait, that was that. That's a good comment. Andrew Rappaport's book is awesome. I bought three copies for all my nieces. Well, thank you, Cindy.

And, uh, I'm sure, uh, if Andrew watches this, he'll be thankful. Uh, not only that you bought them, but that you thought that it was a good book. That's great. We were encouraged by that for, uh, cause we, we have great sponsors and we're thankful.

That's a great one. Oh, in case Anthony has a baby.

Oh, yes.

Awesome. Awesome. All right. Again, these are kind of dark. Somebody said that's dark.

Yeah. Yep.

All right.

All right, guys. Well, we need to move on. Um, I do have a video I'm going to pop up here real quick. I mentioned earlier, uh, about some stuff going on. There is a conference that I'm going to be going to next month.

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I'm just going to quickly jump in and say, uh, I was thankful that, uh, Corey sent me that video because I've been wanting to show a video for the conference, but don't use his promo code. Use mine.

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And I'm not going to give you a free gift for it because he's giving away free stuff. I'm just going to, I'll be there and, and, and, and I'll just, I'll give you a hug. If you come up and say you can have a free selfie.

Yeah, a free selfie. That's right.

We'll, we'll do that.

Okay.

Uh, while we're in the, while we're on the video, uh, uh, uh, uh, MRK Zio said this. He said, having Paula white in charge of the department of faith is like having El Chapo in charge of the border. I think you win.

I think that's the best one of the night. That was awesome. Thank you, my friend for throwing out the jokes. All right, guys. And we want to continue on tonight. Uh, got a lot going on. Oh, by the way, Mary is saying that is fetus.

That's not fetus. That's, uh, that's Corey from civically minded fetus is Parker Brown from the watch. Well, podcast. I don't see him on tonight. He's a delinquent fetus tonight. Uh, but that's okay. Maybe he'll jump in here, uh, after a while.

All right.

We got a lot of questions to get to tonight. Some of these questions are hard and, and, and I mean, they're never super easy, but tonight's questions, uh, were a little difficult. So, um, we have eight solid biblical questions tonight.

We're going to try to get to all of them. Jennifer, if you would take us through the first question.

As long as I don't have to try to answer them. Could you please explain what you believe about two kingdom theology? I know some sins are also crimes and I know some Anabaptists say that it's not our kingdom of the political realm.

Okay. This is a very good question that requires a little bit of background because I'm pretty sure that not everyone will immediately know what the questioner is asking about because they're referring to something called two kingdom theology, and this is usually distinguished from, or juxtaposed with what some would call, uh, theonomy, uh, or maybe, uh, theonomic reconstructionism, and really it has to do with our involvement in the political sphere and what we should expect the, the political sphere or the state to do regarding God's law.

And so, um, and, and I'm going to have to be brief about this. If this is something that you want me to talk about at greater length, I would be happy to. But because we're doing Friday night live and I, and I try to make these brief, I don't want to make an entire, the entire show about this, but breaking it down kind of simply, if it's possible to do that, it really comes down to the question of, we, we know that there are different spheres of authority.

There is the home where you have God's structure, the father, the mother, the children, God has a structure of authority in the home. God has a structure of authority in the church. There's the elders, the deacons, the church members, and there's a government that the church has set up within the church, and then there is the government of the state, and the state has a specific sphere that the, that the scriptures allow for it to have.

We were told about this in Romans 13, doesn't bear the sword in vain, things like that. And so the question of, of two kingdom theology is what is the role or responsibility of Christians who live in this world, who live in the kingdom of God, because we're in the church, but also we have to deal with the kingdom of man in the state, right?

We, we have to deal with that. And, and, and so the idea of sort of a radical two kingdom theology would see a major divide there where, where, where the church doesn't seek to influence the state now that, that may, some of you may say that's a radical exaggeration.

I'm not trying to be radical or exaggerate too much, but that's really the issue. How much influence should the church exercise on the state, right? And how much should be expected of the state to obey God's word?

And this comes to the question of things like natural law versus revelation. Scripture gives us revelation from God, and then you have natural law, which is what all men recognize to be good and bad, right?

Almost all men recognize things like stealing is bad. Lying is bad. Murder is bad. The second table of the 10 commandments, most people recognize those, even who are not believers recognize those things are bad, right?

And so does the government only have to involve itself with those things or does the government, should the government be enforcing laws like blasphemy laws, things that come from the first table of the law, the 10 commandments, should the government have like blue laws, which, which enforce like Sabbath keeping and things like that, these are, this is where the question of two kingdom theology comes from, and I hope that I'm doing it justice.

And if anyone thinks I'm, I'm not, please forgive me because I'm, I am trying to explain it as, as best as I can. Well, before, let me say one last thing. This is also not an area in which I am an expert.

I will say that right away. I'm, I, most of my studies and teaching are in things like systematic theology, historical theology, things like that. But this particular area is not one that I would, I would claim any area of expertise.

So, so what I'm telling you, if I am incorrect, I'm, I'm doing my best to, to not be, and to, to be as accurate as possible. So just, just want to throw that out there.

How is it different from theonomy?

Okay.

Well, this is where theonomy is the idea of the application of God's law to civil society. Theonomos means the law of God or God's law, and it's not just God's law, but it's the application of God's law in civil society.

So like you have general equity theonomy, which basically says that there is a, there is a sense in which God's law should be generally applied to the civic sphere. And then there's more like theonomic reconstructionism, which is, is the attempt to try to enforce a more rigid understanding of God's law on, and again, the word rigid sounds like a negative.

I'm not trying to be, maybe I'm just at a loss for the exact words, but, but, but at the same time saying like theonomic reconstructionism is the idea of establishing a Christian state.

Okay.

And so two kingdom theology would say, it's not our job to create a Christian state. That's not what we're here for. We're pilgrims in this world. That's a big, that's a big language among two kingdom guys.

It's like, you know, we're not of this world. We are, you know, we are, again, we're not of this world. We are pilgrims, right? And the others, the theonomic reconstructions would say, no, we live in this world to influence this world, to be salt and light in this world, to make changes, and therefore we should go and see those changes made.

Now, as a Baptist, right, this is where the question was asked, well, you as a Baptist, where do you, well, actually they said Anabaptist, but they're, they're asking the question, you know, should we be separate and think, and if you do think about the Anabaptists, think about like the Mennonites and the Amish and ones like that, they do really separate themselves.

They separate themselves from all things worldly and they, they sort of divide and they live amongst themselves to try to be the kingdom of what they consider to be the kingdom of God, living outside of the kingdom of the world.

And so here's my position, because someone asked, what do you believe and what's your position? I am, I am probably the most, um, I I'm the most post-millennial, amillennial guy you're going to meet.

Meaning I do believe that Christians should engage the public sphere. I do believe we should tell the state that it will be held accountable to God's law. And I think that we should preach to those who are in power, like Donald Trump or anyone else and remind them that they are going to be judged by God for how they not only govern according to natural law, but how they govern according to revelation.

So I do think those things are true. Um, but at the same time, I, I, I would probably still step back and say that because of my amillennial view, I don't think that there's going to be a Christian state.

I don't, that's not what I'm looking forward to. I think that conversions will happen and there will be times where as the mustard seed grows into a large bush and as the, as that happens, we're going to see conversions and those conversions will affect the communities that they are in.

But the idea of a Christian state and all those things is not something that I'm necessarily looking forward to. So that's kind of my, if you want to call it a middle ground, and I'm not trying to ride a fence here, I'm just saying I'm still figuring it out myself, still trying to understand it best I can.

But, um, that's, that's kind of where I'm at. And, um, but, uh, but again, when it comes to things like abortion, I think, I think that falls clearly under natural law, but it's also under revealed scripture too.

I mean, we go to the, we go to the, the government and we say, you are violating the very nature of, of who we are. We are, we are made in the image of God. That's obvious that human beings are different than all other creation.

And you're allowing human beings to be murdered in the womb and you need to stop that and you're, if not, you are going to bring judgment upon yourself and upon this nation. And I think that we should do that.

Um, but also I do want to say one thing, cause somebody just posted Doug in channel said state church is never good. I, as a Baptist, I think that's something else I should say as a Baptist, uh, my people, if I can say my ancestors have never done well in a church state system.

That's true. Um, my, my, my, the, the, the, those who held to the same view of baptism that I hold to, um, many of them died in their, what was called the third baptism, which was being drowned for their faith.

And so, um, a lot of one question that comes up sometimes is if there's a Christian state, who's going to be the Christian prince and what is he going to enforce? This is an important question, guys. It really is because the question becomes, okay, is there going to be an enforcing of a particular denominational understanding of certain viewpoints?

And if that's the case, is it going to make certain views of Christianity illegal? Um, that, that to me is, is a bridge too far. And so those are, those are questions that, again, I'm still working out in my own.

Mind.

I hope that you can understand that I'm trying to be helpful and humble at the same time. That's my goal. And, uh, not, not, uh, you know, um, not go too far with any of that.

All right.

So, uh, all right. We're having a little bit of technical difficulties. It says we're having trouble streaming to X, maybe an issue. We'll keep trying.

Okay.

All right.

Well, we'll just, uh, we'll just say no problem.

Now we have Paula White.

What's that? Yeah. Paula White is the new Christian prince.

Okay.

Um, you know, uh, again, that, that, the, the Christian princess.

Okay.

All right.

So hopefully that was at least a helpful answer to your, uh, question question now.

Um,.

Oh, well, I appreciate that. And somebody said, Christians should participate in town meetings. Uh, Lindsay said that I agree, Lindsay. I love to see it when, when, uh, you know, folks go and they stand before their city councils and they remind them of God's law and they remind them that they're going to stand before God and be judged.

The Bible says that the government is a deacon of God, a minister of God to, to, uh, reward the righteous and to punish the wicked that's their job. And it's not, it's not wrong to remind them of that.

It's not wrong to remind them of that at all.

Someone asked earlier, are you an abolitionist?

Absolutely.

Uh, um, I am an abolitionist now, uh, uh, for the sake of time, because this, this, this would be there, there, there would need to be a longer answer. I am an absolute abolitionist. I believe abortion should be abolished.

Um, and I do believe a lot of the pro-life advocates actually stand in the way of fully abolishing abortion, which is not good. Um, but I do think that there's some unnecessary infighting that happens.

I've talked to many abolitionists about this. And, uh, and so while I'm an abolitionist, I think sometimes we, we start fights that are unnecessary at times, uh, with those who are essentially seeking the same, the same goal now, if somebody's standing in way of that goal, that's one thing, but if we're all seeking the same goal, then, you know, we, we can have a conversation and not have to always not have to always fight about everything.

Um, we, we can try to, to move forward on that. So if, if that sounds cryptic, I'm not trying to be, again, these are, these are difficult questions. And, um, I remember when I taught, I taught a class, I teach a class in ethics, uh, in our Academy at the church, and we do a whole class on life ethics.

And I talk about the different views of abortion and why certain people might hold to an incremental view versus an abolitionist view. And I explained why I hold the abolitionist view. But, uh, but, but I talk about why certain people might think the expedient route is, is, is the, is the incremental view.

I don't think it is. I don't think it's right, but that's, that's the, um, that's, there is a, there's a conversation to be had there. And I, I'm Doug Wilson, uh, was, uh, a good example of this. Doug Wilson, uh, debated, uh, an abolitionist on this subject.

And he made the point of some, if I remember the whole thing, but he made the point, basically he said, if I had, if he said, if I had the choice tomorrow to make every abortion illegal from West of the Mississippi, and, and, but it kept abortion legal, he said, I would still do it to save the children West of the Mississippi, right?