1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:05,000 So at the end of the day, he says to the person suppressing his 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:10,039 own conscience, he says, so, who should I believe you who say 3 00:00:10,279 --> 00:00:14,279 you don't believe in the Bible? Or should I believe in what the Bible 4 00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:20,120 says about you? Well, I'd choose the latter. Welcome to the Capital 5 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:25,120 Ministries Weekend with Ralph Drollinger. My name is Frank Sontag. Ralph is the 6 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:30,039 president and founder of Capital Ministries. Ralph does a weekly Bible study we're going 7 00:00:30,079 --> 00:00:36,280 to talk about today, as well as teaching Bible studies in DC and all 8 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:38,799 throughout the world for that matter. Ralph, it's always good to see you. 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,679 Thanks Frank, good to be with you today. Thank you so much. 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,200 Capital Ministries has been around for almost a quarter of a century. In 11 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:50,600 one area that each and every viewer would benefit by is to go to our 12 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:56,799 website at Katman dot org and at the very least download each and every week 13 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:00,000 the Bible study that's posted. And today we're going to get into one specific 14 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:06,079 We can only really scratch the surface of what's in our typical weekly Bible study 15 00:01:06,079 --> 00:01:08,840 that I teach in DC to our senators and House members and separate studies as 16 00:01:08,879 --> 00:01:14,120 well as former White House Cabinet members and governors on a zoom Bible study every 17 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:17,879 week, and so I write fifty two of these a year. There are 18 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:21,920 usually eight pages in length. As you know, they're well laid out. 19 00:01:22,079 --> 00:01:26,319 There's four color treatment throughout it, so it's not like it's hard to get 20 00:01:26,359 --> 00:01:32,159 through. We have pull quotes and all kinds of artwork that make it digestible. 21 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:34,879 But suffice to say, all we're going to do on a half hour 22 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:40,359 program is hit the high points, and so it's really beneficial if our listeners 23 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,280 can go to caapmen dot org and you'll see it right there on the homepage. 24 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:49,319 Today's study that we're going to talk a bit about is entitled how to 25 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:57,079 Respond to Scripture Rejectors. Just from the beginning elaborate on the title. Well, 26 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:01,959 there's a viewpoint in evangelic that says, since we live in a post 27 00:02:02,079 --> 00:02:08,199 Christian world quote unquote, and people reject the Bible, then don't, especially 28 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:13,159 in the political arena, when you're arguing for policy, don't try to argue 29 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:16,840 from scripture. That's passe, that's of the past. So is that a 30 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:22,120 correct view or not? I had one evangelical leader some years ago call me 31 00:02:22,159 --> 00:02:25,120 out on the carpet saying you can't do that in DC. If you do, 32 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,960 we'll go to war with you. And I thought, wow, is 33 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,879 that bizarre. So I have my own views on that that are centered from 34 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:37,599 scripture frank out of Romans chapter one today, if I may, I'm sure 35 00:02:37,599 --> 00:02:40,439 there's some listeners that would think I'd like to know a little bit more about 36 00:02:40,599 --> 00:02:45,360 that exchange, and just in a moment or two, what do you think 37 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:49,560 he was thinking of? And what's the biblical truth about such things? Well, 38 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:53,000 you know, it gets into what we call the study of epistemology and 39 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:59,960 pistemology is what is your starting points for veracity? And so what a second 40 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,599 deals or a Christian who lives in the secular world would say that upholds that 41 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:14,560 position is since people reject the Scripture itself as the authority for your epistemological starting 42 00:03:14,599 --> 00:03:17,879 point, that you need to use other starting points that are also truthful, 43 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:24,560 like a survey of what the public believes, or scientific evidence or appealing to 44 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:29,680 conscience. And we'd say, yeah, those probably all have their place, 45 00:03:30,479 --> 00:03:36,360 but why throw out your home court advantage, which is the veracity of the 46 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:43,400 inerrant infallible, plenarily inspired, authoritative oracle of God. Amen. And so 47 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:49,159 what this study is all about centers from what we would call from Romans chapter 48 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:54,879 one, as propagated by the famous apologists Cornelius van Till. We'd call this 49 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:03,240 presuppositional apologetics versus the viewpoint of evidential apologetics. And let me try to unpack 50 00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:09,840 that. Please. The presuppositionalist would say, I'm going to presuppose that scriptures 51 00:04:09,879 --> 00:04:14,199 written on your conscience, and I'm going to peel to that from the basis 52 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,199 that all you're doing and saying you don't believe the Bible is you're just suppressing 53 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,399 that which you know to be true because it's written on your heart. Whereas 54 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:26,279 the evidentialists would fall for the quip back, well, I don't believe in 55 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,439 the Bible, and say, well, since you don't believe in the Bible, 56 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,000 let me try to prove to you why the Bible is truthful. Well, 57 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,800 you could argue to the end of the day typically and not get that 58 00:04:35,879 --> 00:04:42,319 person to agree that the Bible is authoritative. Why because every person wants to 59 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,360 be a good friend to themselves, and since they come with the chip inside 60 00:04:46,079 --> 00:04:50,759 which is their conscience, which has been programmed by God as to what is 61 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:57,199 morally truthful and what's not. That person in order to live and what we'll 62 00:04:57,199 --> 00:05:01,360 call ecostasis, where there's a balance between what they do and what they believe. 63 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:08,160 They're either going to jack up their actions with their belief which is written 64 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,199 on their heart, or they're not going to change their actions. And so 65 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,800 to live in balance with self is that they lower their standard as to what 66 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:24,800 they think is truthful by discounting their conscience. And Romans one talks about that 67 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:30,279 and uses the word suppression, that they suppress the truth in their unrighteousness. 68 00:05:30,319 --> 00:05:34,639 And as John three says, that they basically know what's right to do, 69 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:39,759 but because their deeds are evil, they suppress that truth. And so the 70 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,360 presuppositionless knows all that from Scripture. So at the end of the day, 71 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:49,000 he says to the person suppressing his own conscience, he says, so who 72 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:54,759 should I believe you who say you don't believe in the Bible, or should 73 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,360 I believe in what the Bible says about you? Well, I choose the 74 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,639 latter. This is what presuppositional apologetics is all about. And in our Bible 75 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:10,000 study how to respond to scripture rejectors, we go into this in greater detail. 76 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,879 Ralph Drawlinger is always ungrateful to say, as my guest, the Bible 77 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:16,480 study is in depth, and this is just a few moments, if you 78 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:20,639 will. But when we talk a little bit more about the idea of conscience, 79 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:26,839 and you write in one of the segments called the testimony of conscience, 80 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,639 Yeah, so let me draw an analogy there a picture. Some years ago, 81 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:38,079 one of the American computer manufacturers used to deliver all their computers with their 82 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:42,759 own software inside, which was pretty much non overwritable, and so they were 83 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,399 sued in the European court for monopolistic reasons, and they were found to be 84 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:53,959 guilty of it because basically they were delivering a product that had their own conscience 85 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,240 inside of it. Well, in a sense, that's what God does with 86 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,240 every human being that he manufactures, as that he delivers the product with his 87 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:09,680 own circuitry or his own software, and that software is revelatory of the manufacture. 88 00:07:09,879 --> 00:07:13,639 It's got his imprint on it. And you don't have to tell a 89 00:07:13,839 --> 00:07:17,800 child to know what's right and wrong. You don't have to tell someone in 90 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:24,680 another culture or another time what is right or wrong they already know it because 91 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:29,839 it's written on their conscience by the manufacture. And so what the person who's 92 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:34,279 living apart from obedience to that conscience does is they begin to suppress. And 93 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:41,680 Romans One says they can suppress to the point of cauterizing the conscience. And 94 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,720 that English word is from the medical industry, but it comes from the Greek 95 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:49,639 New Testament, which is cotur rizo, which is where a person basically, 96 00:07:49,759 --> 00:07:57,639 after denying their conscience for so long, they fry the chipboard and it no 97 00:07:57,759 --> 00:08:03,920 longer works. And so we see that manifest in three evidences in Romans one, 98 00:08:03,959 --> 00:08:09,639 where three times Paul says to the church at Rome and God gave them 99 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:16,319 over, and then he lists evidences each time of what that characteristically looks like. 100 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,959 And so we can know, especially where I minister in DC and the 101 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:28,360 political arena, and we don't want to have a judgmental spirit here, but 102 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,759 in these are infinitive verbs, meaning they're ongoing. We can know that over 103 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:39,120 a long time, if a person is a reprobate, if they're depraved, 104 00:08:39,639 --> 00:08:45,799 if they have a coterized conscience, by these monikers of distinctiveness that are given 105 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:52,039 to us in scripture, and one is sexual perversion. Another is they actually 106 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:58,360 give they give license to things that are wrong, and they don't agree with 107 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:03,399 things that are right. Their conscience is so screwed up. And so we 108 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:11,440 as believers should be able to ascertain who the scripture rejectors are, and Scripture 109 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,120 says we shouldn't really negotiate with them, we should call them out and see 110 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,200 them for who they are. And unfortunately DC is full of them. Yeah, 111 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,519 and it's a real sad state. And so how you react to that 112 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,360 has a lot to do with if we're going to have a testimony in DC 113 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:33,759 or not, or in any state capital or in any city government where oftentimes 114 00:09:33,799 --> 00:09:39,399 it's full of reprobation of people with coterized consciences. So, again not to 115 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,600 be redundant. Here in your study, which is in depth, you give 116 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,320 lots of examples of how we are to respond. And instead of going, 117 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:54,440 I wash my hands, reprobate mine, they're doomed. Maybe the first thing 118 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:58,159 that comes to your mind about your study about how do we respond other than 119 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:03,879 being biblically informed and being willing to confront lovingly, but how do we respond? 120 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:09,960 Well, that's part informed by Jesus in several ways. One is this 121 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,159 parable of the tears. Now in the parable of the terrors, Remember Frank, 122 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:16,080 he talks about how the terrors grow up with a wheat and you can't 123 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:20,320 distinguish them one from another, and he doesn't say to root them out. 124 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:24,240 So in one sense, Jesus is saying, during the church age, you're 125 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,240 going to have to live with these kinds of people. A Jude, the 126 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,240 Book of Jude, right before the Book of Revelation, is all about the 127 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:37,440 acts of the apostates. In note, the Acts of the Apostles is the 128 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:41,039 book of Acts. The acts of the Apostates is the Book of Jude. 129 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:46,159 And in the Book of Jude he gives you nine characteristics of an apostate. 130 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:52,440 What's the difference between an apostate and a reprobate and a tear? Not much. 131 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:58,320 You could say that an apostate is a tear in full bloom, and 132 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:05,200 a reprobate is you usually the manifest conscientiousness or lack thereof, of an apostate. 133 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:11,000 So they may have at one time, if not presently, acknowledge who 134 00:11:11,159 --> 00:11:16,120 Jesus is, but they're only giving lip service. But Jesus also says in 135 00:11:16,159 --> 00:11:22,440 regards to them, don't cast your pearls before swine. That's quite picturesque, 136 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:28,519 quite strong, quite in essence offensive language today in a woke America. But 137 00:11:28,639 --> 00:11:35,879 suffice to say, there's this in answer to your question, a need to 138 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:41,320 call them out. Paul says, in the pastorals that were soldiers of Christ, 139 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:48,720 and he tells Timothy to war against them. He says, God hasn't 140 00:11:48,759 --> 00:11:52,120 given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and a sound 141 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:54,840 mind. And so I have to say to some guys in DC who either 142 00:11:54,960 --> 00:12:01,840 colleagues or apostates, or tears or reprobates, and answer your question, how 143 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,720 do you deal with them? You've got to be strong and courageous and say, 144 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:11,639 thus, saith the Lord. You're acting in a way that is not 145 00:12:11,919 --> 00:12:16,320 biblical. And don't tell me you don't believe in the Bible. You do. 146 00:12:16,039 --> 00:12:20,440 It's just that you're suppressing it. And I'm here in love to help 147 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:26,399 you quit suppressing that which you know to be true. Amen. Here at 148 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:35,120 Capital Ministries, we are aggressively recruiting volunteer Bible teachers to start discipleship ministries in 149 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:41,039 the forty thousand local city and county governments across America. We provide the training, 150 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,360 the Bible studies, the credentialing, and the ongoing encouragement to those individuals 151 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:52,440 whom God is raising up for this overlooked but very important mission field. We 152 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:58,360 need strong men who can teach Bible studies to their city council members, Men 153 00:12:58,399 --> 00:13:03,159 who are disciple makers. Is that you or possibly someone you know? Go 154 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,919 to capmen dot org and click on the ministry tab. Join a team of 155 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:13,240 thousands who want to change the trajectory of America. Again, go to capmen 156 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,399 dot org. As in Capitalministries, Who do you know who can be trained 157 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:26,120 to do this in your city? Caapmen dot org. This is the Capital 158 00:13:26,159 --> 00:13:31,840 Ministries Weekend with President and Founder Ralph Drellinger. This is Frank Sontag. We've 159 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,360 spent a bit of time talking about a Bible study of many Bible studies on 160 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:41,879 our website caapmin dot org. This one is entitled how to respond to Scripture 161 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:46,559 Rejectors. One last question about the study, and then we'll spend a few 162 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,960 moments talking to our listeners about how they can get more involved with Capital Ministries. 163 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:56,519 It kind of goes like this. Ralph I've voiced your studies for years, 164 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,399 sitting across from you, listening to you hit bullet points, if you 165 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,720 will, of some of these studies. All sorts of things go through my 166 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:09,000 mind, and the primary one that I want to spend just a moment with 167 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:15,360 is this idea of loving confrontation, or even with the state of whether it's 168 00:14:15,399 --> 00:14:20,159 our culture or the church, the idea of myself as a Christian. I'm 169 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:26,279 just supposed to leave it to God. I just love people and not rock 170 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:28,960 the boat. And you know he's going to come back on a horse and 171 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,519 all of that. And yet two full question is that really scripturally sound? 172 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:41,279 And or are we not to get involved in loving confrontation if you will, 173 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,240 well, I would say this in regards to that, Frank that in Romans 174 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:52,000 one, Paul says that which is known about God is evident within them, 175 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,879 for God bade it evident to them, for since the creation of the world 176 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:01,600 has invisible attributes his divine nature, his eternal power have been clearly seen through 177 00:15:01,639 --> 00:15:05,159 that which is made, so that they are without excuse. In Chapter two, 178 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,759 verse fifteen, Paul goes on to say that the law is written on 179 00:15:07,799 --> 00:15:15,559 their hearts, and it's evidenced by the fact that sometimes their conscience defies them 180 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:22,200 and sometimes it blesses them, which shows that each person is morally made and 181 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:28,279 knows right from wrong. And so, as a believer, the way we 182 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:31,679 deal with these kinds of people, which is I think the essence of your 183 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:37,960 question, is that we manifest the love of God in every relationship, and 184 00:15:37,039 --> 00:15:43,240 so we lovingly appeal to them in a way that's gracious, in a way 185 00:15:43,279 --> 00:15:50,240 that's merciful to say, friend, how can I help you quit suppressing that 186 00:15:50,360 --> 00:15:54,440 which you already know to be true? And yes, you do believe in 187 00:15:54,480 --> 00:16:00,679 the Bible, but I'm here to help you bring an en life in that 188 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:06,200 belief once again, because I think what you're doing is you're trying to suppress 189 00:16:07,039 --> 00:16:11,840 because of your actions and to live in a way that you don't feel guilty 190 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:17,679 all the time. You're trying to reduce the information your conscience is providing to 191 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:21,559 you. And it's almost like nerves with your son. If he puts his 192 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:26,559 fingers on the stovetop, there's going to be a sensitivity to his brain, 193 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:33,480 his inner circuitry that says danger, danger, danger, And that's what the 194 00:16:33,559 --> 00:16:38,279 conscience does with the form of guilt is that when you're violating physical truth, 195 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:44,759 your nerve center will tell you. When you're violating moral truth, your conscience 196 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:51,120 is going to alert you. And so quit frying your conscience because once you 197 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,840 do. Just like a kid, if he burns his fingertips and loses those 198 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:59,159 nerves, he'll never have that sensitivity. I have frostbite on my feet from 199 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,720 early mountaineer days being trapped out in snowstorms, and at seven feet it's pretty 200 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:08,039 easy to get frost bite because your toes are so far from your heart. 201 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:14,960 But I have that, and I'm always very sensitive when my grandchildren are coming 202 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:18,559 around and trying to stand on my feet because my toes don't sense it. 203 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:23,400 They could be totally pummeling my toes and I would not know it because they 204 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:29,640 have damaged nerve endings from pre frost bite. And that's how the brain is 205 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,079 with a cauterized conscience. And so, friend, I don't want you to 206 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:36,880 cauterize your conscience and not have it work for you the rest of your life. 207 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,359 Because we see people running around in culture today who do have a cauterized 208 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:45,480 conscience, and you wonder, how can they how can they do that? 209 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:48,240 Yeah, yeah, I digress for just ten seconds. I think of the 210 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:51,759 state of our country, and you talk to people, you try to have 211 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:56,200 conversations, and they don't want to even go there. Intelligent people and like, 212 00:17:56,599 --> 00:17:59,240 yeah, you don't see the writing on the wall here. Can we 213 00:17:59,279 --> 00:18:03,119 at least have a common so that to say this part of what I hear 214 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,440 you saying. And I want to transition into the idea of what Kapman is 215 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:11,160 doing with local government ministry leaders and urging the listeners to get involved. There's 216 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,680 a spirit of indifference or I'm not going to get involved, and yet I 217 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,880 know there are a lot of people listening to you right now thinking, wait, 218 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,960 this all really makes sense to me, and Ralph stirring something in me 219 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:26,880 that has been dormant or I choose not to use now, and yet there's 220 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:30,359 a part of me that wants to get involved. Two things there to your 221 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:36,599 question, Frank, God's revealed himself not only through conscience but through creation the 222 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:41,000 passage I mentioned, as well as special revelation, and so we need to 223 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:47,079 appeal to that in other people. We need to say, are not the 224 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,559 heavens declaring the glory of God? When you look up at night and see 225 00:18:49,599 --> 00:18:56,039 all the stars, or to see the unfathomable size of the universe, is 226 00:18:56,079 --> 00:19:03,119 to see the unfathomable size of the microscopic universe, the atomic structure of our 227 00:19:03,279 --> 00:19:07,279 universe, and it all bespeaks of the glory of God. So we appeal 228 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,839 to that, and we appeal to the fact that revelation is written in their 229 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,319 heart, and we use the Bible, whether they reject it or not, 230 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:22,400 we always use it as our go to and then to the person that sees 231 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,960 all that we're talking about, and as mature in Christ, we want them 232 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,400 as a ministry leader in local government to teach these truths to other people in 233 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:37,200 their city council who might be headed toward a coterized conscience and need someone desperately 234 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:44,640 to help them from going there and to stop that addictive, sinful behavior that's 235 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,559 basically screwing up their whole life. They need your help, They need your 236 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,240 rescue. They need the impartation of the Holy Spirit through repentance for Christ to 237 00:19:53,279 --> 00:19:56,759 come and dwell in their heart. We need an evangelist on the city council 238 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:03,720 campus, and so listeners might know of someone, if not them, who 239 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:07,079 could do that kind of ministry like I do in DC, and we're in 240 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,160 sixty foreign federal capitals, we're in over forty state capitals. But we got 241 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:18,319 forty thousand local governments in America. Virtually none of them have an outpost for 242 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:26,480 Christ with an intentional, biblically reliant disciple maker who's skilled in teaching God's precepts 243 00:20:26,839 --> 00:20:30,559 for the listeners and the viewers that may resonate with what you just said, 244 00:20:30,599 --> 00:20:33,240 but have a little trepidation like, well, i think I've got some skills, 245 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,839 but I'm lacking in some other areas. Speak to what Capital Ministry says 246 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:42,400 done where there's a curriculum, and yeah, you get credentialed and you've kind 247 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,160 of, in a sense not to overstate it, you've laid it out for 248 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,559 the listener and the viewer to get involved and walk them through it. Yeah, 249 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:52,559 we're not just selling a pipe dream here and say go at it, 250 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,960 thank you. We have a whole infrastructure at Catmen that can be discovered through 251 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:00,279 our website. You can apply to be a local government ministry leader. We'll 252 00:21:00,279 --> 00:21:04,519 bring you into a three day training conference. We'll equip you with what's called 253 00:21:04,599 --> 00:21:10,160 oaks in Office, which are seventy seven of my favorite in depth Bible studies, 254 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:15,200 not only exegetically deep, but with a custom application to the life of 255 00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,559 a political leader. Will teach you how to teach those We'll mentor you. 256 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,839 We'll put you on a zoom call with your colleagues from throughout the world every 257 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:26,279 two weeks to be encouraged. So you'll be part of a team. Maybe 258 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:30,359 you're a past Bible teacher in your Sunday school class, or a pastor or 259 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:36,640 a businessman that's looking to go from success to significance. Maybe you should be 260 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,200 part of the cap Mean team and we'll be here to hold your hand through 261 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,480 the process and see that you have a viable, successful ministry in your local 262 00:21:45,519 --> 00:21:48,200 government. Go to our website at CapMan dot org to find out more. 263 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:53,039 It's something that I know. I don't want to mistate the word passion. 264 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:59,400 It's overused, but this is something that's at the heart of not only evangelism, 265 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:02,920 but ministry and how we miss it in our country with local governments. 266 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:07,319 Yeah, we definitely need to have our best disciple makers in the midst of 267 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:12,480 our political leaders. There's something about that mission field that we as evangelicals have 268 00:22:12,759 --> 00:22:19,400 overlooked and yet it's probably the most strategic important mission field out there. And 269 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,640 if we don't change the hearts of our lawmakers, we can't ever expect them 270 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:30,960 to carry our water and to make decisions that are biblically based. You can't 271 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:36,119 expect someone who rejects the author of Scripture to accept or enact the precepts of 272 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,359 his book. Just not going to happen. But we have to do is 273 00:22:38,359 --> 00:22:42,640 something more foundational and fundamental, and that is win their heart to Christ and 274 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,559 teach them the word of God when they're in office or as they're going into 275 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:51,480 office, so that they think biblically. And if any man's in Christ, 276 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,440 he's a new creature. Behold, old things pass away, new things come. 277 00:22:53,759 --> 00:22:57,279 I never have to tell someone in my Bible studies how to vote if 278 00:22:57,319 --> 00:23:03,880 they're walking with the Lord obedience. Amen. Ralph Drewllinger is President and founder 279 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,920 of Capital Ministries. The Bible study we briefly touched upon today is entitled how 280 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:14,200 to respond to Scripture Rejectors. You can find that Bible study and all the 281 00:23:14,279 --> 00:23:19,400 other ones at the website capmen dot org, caapmen dot org, capmin dot 282 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:25,480 org. And also, we're grateful and excited about this. The Capital Ministries 283 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:30,519 Weekend with Ralph Drollinger a weekly delve into a Bible study not only from Scripture, 284 00:23:30,559 --> 00:23:36,720 but also addressing the state of the world in the country today. And 285 00:23:36,839 --> 00:23:38,759 Ralph and I will be here each and every week. If we can serve 286 00:23:38,839 --> 00:23:45,079 you in any way, please feel free to go to capmen dot Org Ralph 287 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:48,160 until next week. Thanks again and God bless you well. Thanks Frank, 288 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,440 it's always great to be with you. Thank you for listening to this the 289 00:23:51,519 --> 00:23:56,880 Capital Ministries Weekend with Ralph Drollinger. Will you help support the ongoing work of 290 00:23:56,960 --> 00:24:03,480 Capital Ministries Today Here at CAP we think it's time for a biblically based missions 291 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:08,319 strategy to change the trajectory of America. For the past fifty years we've worked 292 00:24:08,319 --> 00:24:12,960 to change the laws of the land rather than the hearts of the lawmakers. 293 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:21,039 What's resulted is a country in continual decline. Rather than try and get politicians 294 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:26,160 who reject the author of Scripture to accept the precepts of his book, let 295 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:32,039 us instead place our best disciple makers and evangelists in the seats of governmental leaders 296 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:37,240 who start ministries in city halls, state capitals, and federal capitals in America 297 00:24:37,759 --> 00:24:42,799 and throughout the world. Let us win and build public servants for Christ. 298 00:24:44,319 --> 00:24:49,240 Go to Kaptman dot org today and give together. Let us make disciples of 299 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:55,440 Jesus Christ in the political arena here in America and throughout the world.