If you missed the live radio show here is the recording where we discuss Kinism;
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Author: jetbrane
I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling.
I am postmillennial in my eschatology.
Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity
Reformed in my Soteriology
Presuppositional in my apologetics
Familialist in my family theology
Agrarian in my regional community social order belief
Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief
Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic
Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern
Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview
One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics
Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place
Some of my favorite authors,
Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc.
My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture.
Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.
Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Scripture teaches that we are “in everything to give thanks.” This is a command and not an option.
Now, we must admit that there are times when Thanksgiving arises only out of a proper sense of duty. Someone has done a kindness to or for us and we know the proper thing to do is to say “Thank You.” Similarly, God in Christ heaps good upon us and we know that it is sin not to be grateful and so we offer up Thanks.
And sometimes, obedience out of a sense of duty is all we can find within us. Sometimes, we say “Thank You,” or pray “Thank You” and we wish that we were feeling it more than we do, and yet there is obedience in “doing all that is our duty (Lk. 17:10).”
So you see, there is a need for us to go beyond the duty aspect of Thanksgiving and to pray that God would give us a Thanksgiving that is spontaneous and genuine and not merely offered up because that is “the proper thing to do.”
Jesus warns against “vain” worship. “This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me” (Matthew 15:8–9) and we might be cautious also about “vain” thanksgiving where we thank God w/ our lips, but we find our hearts don’t correspond to our lips as they ought.
We can not will ourselves to be lost in the wonder that automatically prompts Thanksgiving but we can ask God to soften our hearts so that we are more ready to see the grandness of all that God does for us and all that others do for us, so that the natural, unavoidable, and yet unbidden response is heartfelt Thanksgiving.
Unalloyed Thankfulness that isn’t merely perfunctory politeness is the overflowing of awareness of how blessed we are by the Lord Christ and by others. There may be times when thankfulness needs to be willed because it is what is required but we should pray that more often than not it is not the barren will that is driving us to give thanks but rather it is the explosive response, that quite unbidden rises to the surface, because it can’t but help do so.
This explosive and unbidden by the will emotive response is the kind of thing that happens to a woman when her suitor finally asks if she will marry him, or it happens when you see the Rocky Mountains at dusk for the first time, or it happens when you see your first born child for the first time. In such times nobody says to themselves… “Wow, I guess it is my duty to say something to communicate how impressed I am.” In the same way we should pray that more often the Thankfulness that arises from us comes unbidden because it can’t be helped.
To be genuinely thankful in this manner is the completion and compliment of the good that has been done to us so that we are thankful.
I don’t think this kind of thing can be contrived or forced. It comes by asking God over and over again to cause us to see His goodness and the goodness of others so that we genuinely can be a people who in everything give thanks.
Paul in 2 Corinthians 4:15, puts it this way;
“As grace extends to more and more people it increases thanksgiving, to the glory of God.”
St. Paul is saying here that God’s grace (unmerited favor) becomes known to more and more folks the consequence of this grace of God touching the lives of God’s people is a un-summoned and natural response of Thanksgiving, with the consequence that God is seen to be as glorious as he never ceases to be.
There is some truth to the idea that in Thanksgiving as in other areas that we should fake it till we make it. If Thanksgiving is not exploding like water gushing from an artesian well, we should still embrace the duty to be Thankful. But when those times come when duty is leading the way in our obedience when it comes to Thankfulness we should pray that God would, by his undeserved favor, soften our hearts so that more often we no longer have to take up Thankfulness by way of duty but find ourselves taking
Thankfulness up because we can’t help it.
Oh, what can be done
For an old heart like mine?
Soften it up
With oil and wine
The oil is You, Your Spirit of love
Please wash me anew
In the wine of Your blood
Rejoice always; pray w/o ceasing; in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus.
Helping Tucker Carlson Figure Out The Reason For The Death Of The West
“It’s like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ It will be hundreds of years before some wise person can assess what happened to the English speaking world. You know 20 years into the 21st century but all at once they decided to kill themselves and a lot of other people on the way out. It is really amazing.”
Tucker Carlson
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/26/tucker_carlson_theres_nothing_shallower_dumber_more_repetitive_more_controlled_or_less_informative_than_cable_news.html
40 minute mark
It really doesn’t take that much wisdom to figure out or to assess.
1.) All those who hate me love death. What is happening to the English speaking world is that God has turned us over and in turning us over we delight in suicide.
2.) Dabney recognized way back in the 19th century that if tyrannical control is what a Government desires then that Government must rid themselves of white people. The current NWO government in the US wants total control and so the NWO US government is killing white people both via overt means like poisoning us to death with the food that they put on the shelves or as by vaccines and by covert means like breeding our gene pool out of existence.
3.) There is a desire to create a New World Order where all colors bleed into one. In order to do that then the English speaking world must be cut down to size. The New World Order is global Marxism and Marxism must always pursue a lowest common denominator social order. The English speaking people are too high of a social order and so the English speaking Marxist globalist will cut the English speaking world down to size.
Sundry Quotes and Thoughts From My Reading Surrounding Christ And His Work
“T. F. Torrance argued that, as the High Priest in the OT disappeared when he entered the Most Holy Place on the day of Atonement, so the atonement is a mystery. Limited atonement is seen as a rationalistic attempt to reduce a mystery to the bar of human logic, and so is imperssible.”
Robert Letham
Systematic Theology — pg. 573
I always love it theologians use logic to insist that we shouldn’t use logic.
If human logic is out of bounds as having explanatory power then we are all blind, deaf mutes when it comes to understanding anything.
Keep in mind Gordon H. Clark’s words here;
“in the beginning was the Logic and the Logic was with God and the Logic was God.”
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John 10:11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
The good shepherd laid down His life for the sheep but many of those sheep the good shepherd laid down His life for were not yet born and would not be for millennium. This fact drives us to conclude that countless number of the sheep that Christ laid down His life for were His sheep before they were His sheep. That is, His sheep were His sheep from eternity past so that there existed an objective Union between the Shepherd who would give His life and the countless number of sheep yet to be conceived who would be the future beneficiaries of the Shepherd’s cruciform work.
Before Christ won me, I belonged to Christ. Objective Union with Christ from eternity. Subjective Union w/ Christ when we are regenerated with a regeneration that is a gift flowing from the Cross wherein Christ justified the people who were objectively justified from eternity.
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All those who hold to the idea that Christ’s death is universal in scope (or hypothetically universal in scope) cannot have a penal substitution understanding of the atonement wherein Christ makes effective atonement for particular sinners. If Christ died for everybody in general and nobody in particular then Christ’s simply suffered various sufferings so that eventually in time sinners in general might do something to effectuate what up until the point of effectuating was inert and without power. The Cross is latent with salvation but it does not save without something from the human being mixed with it to make it effectual. That something is usually a inverted definition of faith, wherein faith actually becomes a work that activates the Cross’s power and obligates God to give salvation in response to the human response of faith.
Those who don’t hold to the penal-substitution theory, at best, have a Governmental view of the Atonement where the Father punishes the Son to uphold a generic justice in His universe and whereupon men, feeling pity for the suffering Christ, come to Christ out of a sense of compassion.
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“Calvin’s dominant theme on the atonement is satisfaction of the justice of God. Christ has abolished sin, banished the resulting separation from God, and acquired righteousness for us ‘by the whole course of his obedience,’ although peculiarly and properly by His death. Even in death ‘his willing obedience is the important thing because a sacrifice not offered voluntarily would not have furthered righteousness.’ He offered Himself to the Father as an expiatory sacrifice. By His obedience He acquired and merited grace w/ His Father. The substitutionary nature of Christ’s death is clear as Calvin cites Mt. 20:28, John 1:29, Rmns. 4:25, and 5:19, and Gal.4:4-5. Christ’s offerings rends ‘ the Father favorable to us, this propitiatory sacrifice being a provision of God’s love. Calvin affirms, ‘Christ’s grace is too much weakened unless we grant to His sacrifice the power of expiating, appeasing, and making satisfaction.’ ‘The righteousness He acquired for us when He reconciled us to God is as if we had kept the law. The link to justification is clear.”
Robert Letham
Systematic Theology — p. 566-567
Citing Calvin’s Institutes
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“The merciful Father … said to [his Son]: ‘Be Peter the denier; Paul the persecutor, blasphemer, and assaulter; David the adulterer; the sinner who ate the apple in Paradise; the thief on the cross. In short, be the person of all men, the one who has committed the sins of all men. And see to it that you that you pay and make satisfaction for them.”
Martin Luther
Luther Works – Vol. 26 – p. 280
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If you have a doctrine of the atonement that emphasizes satisfaction to God’s honor then don’t be surprised if the culture around that doctrine ends up being a honor culture.
The fact that the concept of honor has been so diminished in our culture, I would suggest, is proof positive that we have abandoned the Satisfaction theory of the Atonement.
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John 17: 9 I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.
As our great High Priest Jesus prays for a very particular people. Part of the ministry of the Priest was not only to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people (which Jesus did by offering up Himself as our sacrifice) but the ministry of the Priest was to represent the people to God in prayer.
If that is true (and it is) then if Jesus as our Great High Priest only prays for those the Father has given Him then consistency demands that this same Great High Priest only renders up Himself as the sacrifice for those same particular and unique people He prays for.
Non particularistic doctrines of the Atonement are NOT Biblical and really should be read out of Christendom.
From the Mailbag; Pastor Can You Give Me A Reading List Dealing With The Post-War Consensus
A friend writes and asks;
Dear Pastor,
Do you have some recommended reading on the Post War Consensus debate? I’m trying to get some awareness into these recently contested matters.
Bret responds,
Hello Josh. I don’t know of anything that deals directly with the current angst but here are a list of books that if read will give you the context of why people are justly complaining about this “post-war consensus.” (That really is a bit of mislabeling since the post-war consensus is just the final flowering of all that was pursued in the post-enlightenment consensus.)
Return of the Strong Gods — R. R. Reno
The Age of Entitlement — Christopher Caldwell
The Unprotected Class — Jeremy Carl
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe — Christopher Caldwell
Out of Revolution — Rosenstock-Huessy
Law and Revolution — Harold J. Berman
Law and Revolution II — Harold J. Berman
The Bondage of the Free — Kent Steffegen
The Dispossessed Majority — Wilmot Robertson
The Tears of the White Man; Compassion as Contempt — Pascal Bruckner