Theology Applied

What is equality? Should it be held as a virtue? Should it be pursued? Where there be equality in the new heaven and the new earth? Or will hierarchy among humans continue into eternity? All of these questions are addressed in this episode of Questions. *We are officially consolidating our Questions & Theology Applied podcast under one feed. In addition to the typical Theology Applied episode you've come to expect on Tuesdays, you will now receive an episode of our show called Questions on this platform every Friday.

BONUS EPISODE: This is Pastor Joel Webbon’s lecture from our recent conference. Pastor Joel Webbon shares 5 vital lessons that all Christians should have learned over these past two years: 1) Postmillennialism, 2) Patriarchy, 3) Presuppositionalism, 4) Proper Ecclesiology, & 5) Protestant Resistance Theory.

Under President Donald Trump there was peace in the Middle East, and stability between Russia and Ukraine. But thanks to President “Empathy” (Joe Biden) Afghanistan has crumbled, Russia is invading Ukraine, and China is licking its chops while looking at Taiwan.  AMERICANS HAD A CHOICE:  1) Global peace and nation-wide liberty with an unsavory Twitter feed, or… 2) The appearance of empathy at the cost of millions of lives being threatened by tyranny all over the world.  Thanks to the “discipleship” of our Effeminate Evangelical Leaders, Americans chose the second option. What we’ve learned is this: Soft Men can cause just as much harm (or even more) than Hard Men.  In today’s episode of Theology Applied, Eric Conn (host of the Hard Men Podcast) joins Pastor Joel Webbon to explore the deadly effects of “Empathy” and “Soft Men.”

BONUS EPISODE: This is one of the sessions from our recent recording project with Jon Harris, AD Robles, and Pastor Joel Webbon. Among Evangelicals, there is a rising trend of “counterfeit courage.” Christian leaders/pastors will “courageously” speak out against threats to the church, but only once it becomes culturally acceptable to do so. These men are mere “opportunists,” rather then actual leaders. Apart from real courage, a man will not be willing to say and do what’s necessary when the time comes. Biblical faithfulness assumes real courage, and compromise is the inevitable result when this courage is absent. If you want to continue to spiritually grow, you need to be able to discern the difference between counterfeit courage and real courage so that you can surround yourself with those who possess the latter.

BONUS EPISODE: This is Jon Harris’ lecture from our recent conference. Social Justice is not merely a new “form” of Christianity, it is an entirely new “religion” which stands in direct opposition to the Historic Christian Faith. Social Justice seeks to pervert biblical truth in two primary ways: 1) Social Justice perverts God’s Law by undermining the biblical criteria for true justice. Social Justice is partial, it demands affirmation without the need for compelling evidence, and it seeks to punish children for the sins of their fathers. 2) Social Justice perverts God’s Gospel by seeking to add the necessity of works to salvation by faith alone. Social Justice Warriors within Evangelicalism often speak of “The Whole Gospel” which requires people to become Social Justice Activists in addition to their faith in Jesus. In this lecture, Jon Harris uncovers the demonic origins of this False Gospel and reveals that this worldly ideology is much older than many of us might realize. There is truly “nothing new under the sun.”

Pastor Joel Webbon, Jon Harris, and AD Robles answer questions submitted by a live audience during our 2022 conference called “Resisting Tyranny and Wokeness." To hear all of the Q&A ensure you subscribe to our podcast to be notified as they are released. *We are officially consolidating our Questions & Theology Applied podcast under one feed. In addition to the typical Theology Applied episode you've come to expect on Tuesdays, you will now receive an episode of our show called Questions on this platform every Friday.

In this episode of Theology Applied, Kris Williams ( @Kdubtru ) joins Pastor Joel to discuss the infamous CULT of the Black Hebrew Israelites and the dangerous ideologies that lie beneath the surface. Pastor Joel and Kris also reveal how the WOKE cult secretly despises interracial marriage. Lastly, they expose how the theological tenets of Dispensationalism play into these important issues.

“Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.” Psalm 127:3-5 ESV “We all love the fact that children are a blast, and nobody should mind the fact that we love it. But this psalm is not about the patter of little feet around the house. This is not about your Christmas photo album. The ancient world, when they went to war, had a clearer view of what was at stake than do we. A kindergarten class is a packet of warrior seeds. A quiver holds arrows... The blessed man who has children in his youth is a man who has grown children when he is still active and in the fray. But here is the difference between faith and presumption. Children are not an 'automatic' blessing. Samuel would not have been more greatly blessed if he had five sons who took bribes instead of two sons who did (1 Samuel 8:3)... The city council of an ancient city was found in their gates. It is where their elders sat. It is where decisions were made, and where transactions were conducted. If a showdown occurred, that is where it would occur. So there are two things to note about this. The first is that a man is contending with his enemies in the gate, and his sons are there with him. His sons are present in the gates when this happens, and (this is important), they are on their father’s side. He has not brought up soldiers for the enemy. The second thing is that these are not foreign enemies, besieging the city from outside, but rather domestic adversaries, belonging to the opposition. A righteous man, together with his arrows, stands against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The issue is righteousness, not party, or tribe, or nation. And a blessed father brings his children along with him in their shared loyalty to truth and righteousness. The glue that holds such families together is [a shared allegiance to Christ]. This is fundamental. Every attempt to get families, or nations, or churches to hold together apart from Christ (Colossians 1:18) is idolatry. And according to our psalm, it is also vain.” -Doug Wilson God is the Father, and we have no other choice but to live in the Father's world. Therefore, we are all subject to the Father's rules, whether we agree with these rules or not. And one of these rules is that God the Father has determined to work through human fathers in his world. He has appointed fathers in the home (husbands/fathers), fathers in the church (elders/pastors), and fathers in the state (civil magistrates). A godly woman is called to joyfully serve as a “helpmate.” The great lie of feminism is that it promised women that they no longer would be relegated to the role of helping to build the house of a man. But in a tragic sense of irony, women “liberated” by feminism stopped helping to build the house of one man (their husband) and became enslaved to building the house of another “The Man” (their corporate employer). “It is not good that man be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Genesis 2:18 ESV “The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.” Proverbs 14:1 ESV “Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, ‘We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel... and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the Lord will give you by this young woman.’” Ruth 4:11-12 ESV

In this episode of Theology Applied, Gary DeMar, Founder of American Vision, makes a biblical case for Postmillennialism and explains why Christians should reject Dispensationalism as unbiblical.

“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain...” Psalm 127:1 ESV Just as God works through covenants, so must we. Before beginning a work, we must count the cost and resolve to finish it. The work of sanctifying the self begins with conversion and a covenant to Christ in baptism. The work of building a home begins with marriage and a covenant to our spouse in a wedding ceremony. The work of building the church begins with church membership and a covenant to the other members of the church. And even the work of building society often begins with a trade and some form of legal contract. All lasting covenants have Christ as their foundation. However, a man cannot select his own preferred “Christ,” a “pseudo-Christ.” Rather, he must have the Christ of the Bible. In addition to having the “right” Christ, a man must have the “whole” Christ. You cannot choose for yourself certain “portions” of Christ, while discarding others that offend your sensibilities. To avoid building in vain, we must have the right Christ and the whole Christ as our one and only foundation. And if our building is to endure, we must have Christ above and Christ below. We must build “upon” Christ, with faith in his Gospel and obedience to his Law. And we must build “to” Christ, with the earnest desire for his glory and fame. In other words, to have Christ as the foundation of our building is to build in faith. And to build in faith is to build with a reliance upon Christ's grace and a desire for Christ's glory. *We are officially consolidating our Questions & Theology Applied podcast under one feed. In addition to the typical Theology Applied episode you've come to expect on Tuesdays, you will now receive an episode of our show called Questions on this platform every Friday.