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Speaker 1: Story number one petulant children or Statesmen and public Servants,
Speaker 1: Story number two Breaking schools, discover fish need water, And
Speaker 1: story number three a sample of Elka Lutheran theology, such
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
Speaker 1: are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
Speaker 1: You can ask yourself a question, and you can really
Speaker 1: apply it across the board of world leadership, even local leadership.
Speaker 1: You can go from school boards and park boards all
Speaker 1: the way up to state senates, into state houses, to governors.
Speaker 1: You can go to the top of the tip of
Speaker 1: the top and you can ask a question, are we
Speaker 1: dealing with petulant children or are we dealing with statesmen
Speaker 1: and public servants? And I don't know that it's necessarily
Speaker 1: that hard to look at this and say, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of petulant children running things? Are they any of them?
Speaker 1: Do they have any signs of being a public servant?
Speaker 1: In Washington, d C. President Trump is being, of course
Speaker 1: a what's the phrase, what's it again?
Speaker 2: It's what?
Speaker 1: Oh, sorry, literal hitler, because he has federalized the Washington
Speaker 1: DC police force. Because that's extreme, it is utterly It's
Speaker 1: never been done other than the two hundred and ten
Speaker 1: days of Biden's first term where the city was on
Speaker 1: virtual lockdown with National Guard members guarding everything and checkpoints
Speaker 1: and fences all around. Other than that, you know, that's
Speaker 1: this has never been done other than the other times
Speaker 1: it's been done. And what President Trump is doing is
Speaker 1: of course very bizarre and very extreme because he is
Speaker 1: having police officers who are told to enforce the law
Speaker 1: go ingenforce the law. That's troubling. It's not troubling to
Speaker 1: have allowed crime to run rampant, or to have had
Speaker 1: a DC police commander falsifying apparently falsifying crime statistics. Now
Speaker 1: he's been arrested for that, and the union backs up
Speaker 1: police officers. The police officers, you need to said, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're doing this, this is a habit of them. So
Speaker 1: are we dealing with petulant children or statesmen and public servants?
Speaker 1: A reporter asked, and this is an unfair question. You
Speaker 1: have to admit, this is deeply unfair because it's very technical.
Speaker 1: So reporter with a deep knowledge of military command structures
Speaker 1: and police command structures, he asked a He asked a
Speaker 1: the police chief in DC asked her a question. Her
Speaker 1: name is Pamela Smith, and he asked her a question
Speaker 1: about well, it's just a very technical term. And I
Speaker 1: know that's going to come up.
Speaker 3: Is what the shame of command is?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Well, is it pam Bondi's greeks of amager.
Speaker 1: You or how does this work?
Speaker 3: So at the executive order is clear, the President has
Speaker 3: requested MPD services in our Home Rule Charter outlines the process.
Speaker 3: The President designated Attorney General Bondi as his proxy.
Speaker 1: We need to watch the services for me. Because the
Speaker 1: police chief begins to answer the question and then a
Speaker 1: lawyer type steps up, like the question was do you
Speaker 1: know what the chain of command is? Now? And the
Speaker 1: DC police chief pameloss missus, what does that mean? If
Speaker 1: you've ever watched if you've ever watched an episode of mash,
Speaker 1: you've seen the chain of command. If you've ever watched
Speaker 1: a police show, you've heard a reference to the chain
Speaker 1: of command. The people who are being put in charge
Speaker 1: of us are people who don't even have a light
Speaker 1: dusting of cultural understanding of the culture of law enforcement,
Speaker 1: which relies upon shaine of command. And in fact, it
Speaker 1: used to be the case that lot of cops had
Speaker 1: served in the military or in fact been cops. So
Speaker 1: let's just watch this again. Here, what the shame of
Speaker 1: command is?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Well? Is it?
Speaker 4: Pam Boondi speaking of.
Speaker 1: American I mean, give the lady in the yellow jackets
Speaker 1: some credits she recognizes. What does that mean? So ask yourself,
Speaker 1: petulant childs or a statesperson and public servant, statesman Eric Solwell.
Speaker 1: Eric Solwell who tried to or maybe even did get
Speaker 1: to have sexual relations with a Chinese spy that Eric Solwell,
Speaker 1: who the other day posted a video that he was
Speaker 1: he was bragging about he could be doing legislation, but
Speaker 1: instead he was he was repping. He was benching baby
Speaker 1: bention in one thirty five. Just like my niece who's sixteen,
Speaker 1: can bench one thirty five big time, Eric Solwell, he
Speaker 1: wrote on Twitter, which is a white supremacist platform run
Speaker 1: by a white supremacist. Guide to Elon Musk, Eric Solwell,
Speaker 1: Trump's federal takeover of DC's in safety, it's about distracting
Speaker 1: Americans from comma high prices, a bad jobs report, a
Speaker 1: folding economy in the Epstein files. Interesting because way back
Speaker 1: in the day, Eric Salwell had posted this on Twitter,
Speaker 1: which is a platform owned by an apparent white supremacist. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what we're told, that's what the muckenberg he says. Wait,
Speaker 1: they've stopped saying that since he and Trump got into
Speaker 1: a fight. That's weird. All of a sudden, Elon's a
Speaker 1: good guy again. Solwell wrote this. My wife and I
Speaker 1: play these scenarios over in our head all the time.
Speaker 1: We've practiced going out through the back seat to you
Speaker 1: your kids out of our car for carjacked. This is
Speaker 1: not normal, soft unviolent crime. Prosecutors are letting too many
Speaker 1: dangerous people threaten our kids. And a conservative journalist, Peter
Speaker 1: Hassen pointed out, this is an interesting take from a
Speaker 1: guy who had to practice getting carjacked. And he went
Speaker 1: and found that tweet and Eric Solwell public servants statesmen
Speaker 1: or petulant child? Which way does the scale go for you?
Speaker 1: To me? It's all petulant child. Now, how is this
Speaker 1: playing out in public? And does it in fact cross borders?
Speaker 1: Is it just a United States phenomena? It's not. It
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Speaker 1: slash Todd. So, CNN, this guy on CNA, I don't
Speaker 1: know how long he can keep his job because he
Speaker 1: keeps bringing news out that people in CNN must hate.
Speaker 1: And this has to do with President Trump's handling a
Speaker 1: crime versus that of figurehead Biden or the Democrats. It
Speaker 1: just sort of.
Speaker 6: Gives the game away here because Donald Trump is like
Speaker 6: Airic Jordan, towering over Joe Biden when it comes to
Speaker 6: their handling a crime. Look in twenty twenty four, look
Speaker 6: at where Biden's net approval was on crime way under
Speaker 6: water there at minus twenty six points. It was one
Speaker 6: of Biden's wars issues. Granted, pretty much every issue was
Speaker 6: one of Biden's warst issues. And again look at where
Speaker 6: Donald Trump is way, way way above Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: What is that?
Speaker 6: That's twenty seven points. So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's
Speaker 6: approach to crime than they dit to Joe Biden's. And again,
Speaker 6: I think it gets back to the point that Americans
Speaker 6: are far more hawkish on crime than a lot of
Speaker 6: Democrats want to it.
Speaker 1: Make what approach to crime? What was Biden's approach to crime?
Speaker 1: His approach to crime was to fly cartel members and
Speaker 1: their soldiers into a country using a CPB one app
Speaker 1: to allow them to set up shop and supply chains
Speaker 1: into American cities, knowing that they are coddled in separate
Speaker 1: countries like Seattle and Los Angeles and San Francisco and
Speaker 1: Minneapolis and New York and the list goes on. He
Speaker 1: didn't have an approach to crime other than he wanted
Speaker 1: more of it. Sometimes he did have enough crimes, so
Speaker 1: he needed to invent crimes. The president's approach to This
Speaker 1: is popular everywhere, but in the minds of people who
Speaker 1: think that the previous administration was the reasonable administration. Remember,
Speaker 1: it was Joe Biden who partnered with Baracuscain and Obama
Speaker 1: to allow the Taliban to partner with Mexico based drug
Speaker 1: cartels to bring heroin into our country. They stopped indictments.
Speaker 1: That is an approach to crime, and that approach was
Speaker 1: to allowed to happen. So petulant children or statesmen. Let's
Speaker 1: look up north in Canada. So in Canada, there's been
Speaker 1: these wild fires. I live in an area of the
Speaker 1: country north Idaho where we get wildfires, and there's something
Speaker 1: you need to be serious about. But one of the
Speaker 1: things we don't do here is go out to become
Speaker 1: petulant children or little handmaids telling people what they can
Speaker 1: do and not do. In Canada, they're doing just that.
Speaker 1: They have admitted that walking around in the woods doesn't
Speaker 1: cause forest fires, but they are still going to find
Speaker 1: people for walking around in the woods.
Speaker 7: Going for a walk in the woods is going to
Speaker 7: cause a fire. I can understand why people think that
Speaker 7: that's ridiculous, but the reality is it's not that you
Speaker 7: might cause a fire. It's that if you're out there
Speaker 7: walking in the woods and you break your leg, we're
Speaker 7: not going to come and get you because we have
Speaker 7: emergency responders that are out focused on a fire that
Speaker 7: is threatening the lives of New Brunswickers. And if you
Speaker 7: take your boat out fishing in a pond and crown
Speaker 7: Land and you capsize, we're not going to be able
Speaker 7: to come and help you out because our first responders
Speaker 7: are focused on an immediate and serious threat to our province.
Speaker 7: And so it's the possibility of diverting emergency resources away
Speaker 7: from where they are really needed.
Speaker 1: That is Susan Holt, who is the Premiere of New Brunswick.
Speaker 1: So we're not going to do that. We're not going
Speaker 1: to let you walk around. And what they could have
Speaker 1: just said is, hey, by the way, if you go
Speaker 1: walking in the woods, we're not coming to get you.
Speaker 1: If you break your leg, you're on your own. If
Speaker 1: you break down in the woods, handle its, we're not
Speaker 1: going to come and get you. They could have that
Speaker 1: message go out and guess what a lot of seeing
Speaker 1: people would say, I'm not going in. Other people would say,
Speaker 1: you know, I've been hiking in the woods my whole life.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of breaking a leg. It hasn't happen
Speaker 1: be force, so I gonna have again. If it does,
Speaker 1: I'll take care of it. Jeff Everley is a Canadian
Speaker 1: military veteran and he decided to go out and test
Speaker 1: the fine they were gonna levy on Canadians. He thought
Speaker 1: it was about twenty five thousand dollars for hiking in
Speaker 1: the woods, so he did go test.
Speaker 8: This is the Department of Natural Resources where the conservation
Speaker 8: officers work, who issue twenty five thousand dollars fines for
Speaker 8: going in the woods.
Speaker 1: But back here, this is the woods.
Speaker 5: So I have a couple of conservation officers with me
Speaker 5: right now who are not on camera, but have advised
Speaker 5: me that if I go into the woods, if I
Speaker 5: defy their orders to go into the woods, then I
Speaker 5: will be fined. And they also said that they would
Speaker 5: double my fine to fifty thousand dollars. So I'm gonna
Speaker 5: walk down here and go into these woods and they
Speaker 5: have me on.
Speaker 9: Camera forced BacT twenty five. So one fine is twenty
Speaker 9: eighth and seventy two fifty.
Speaker 8: Okay, I thought it was twenty five thousand, it's twenty eight.
Speaker 4: Victim piece.
Speaker 1: Oh, victim victim piece. Thanks very much, Bund you're victims.
Speaker 8: I appreciate your courteous approach.
Speaker 1: He made it very very easy on them. God bless
Speaker 1: him for being so courteous. And he wants to test
Speaker 1: this in courts. Petulant children or statesmen. Oh by the way,
Speaker 1: also out of Saskatchewan, out of Canada, not New Brunswick,
Speaker 1: but Saskatchewan, a firefighter went out to set fires. He
Speaker 1: decided to go light fires, often using hey bails. He
Speaker 1: set about thirty of them in a month. What's happened
Speaker 1: to him? A fine? No, No, well, he's going to
Speaker 1: get community service for two hundred hours. He could have
Speaker 1: been fined seventy six thousand, five hundred box or seventy
Speaker 1: six thousand, six hundred and fifty bucks, but no, they're
Speaker 1: just going to put them on a community service for
Speaker 1: two hundred hours. Petulant children or statesmen. It is happening
Speaker 1: across the world, and I'm leaning towards one hundred percent
Speaker 1: petulant children. Story number two, there is a breaking news
Speaker 1: coming out as schools, and this is that school districts
Speaker 1: have suddenly discovered that fish need water, and people need air,
Speaker 1: and we all need gravity. They're going back and discovering
Speaker 1: things that should have been clear to everybody who's ever
Speaker 1: been around kids, and God blessed some school teachers for
Speaker 1: speaking up about this. There is a structure to our minds.
Speaker 1: There's a structure to when we're able to learn languages
Speaker 1: and retain languages. There's a structure to our mind where
Speaker 1: we're most adept at memorizing things and repeating things. The
Speaker 1: human mind changes at a point and we're able to
Speaker 1: reason and employ logic and make arguments. There's a time
Speaker 1: in the development of our mind where most adept at
Speaker 1: understanding numbers and figures in geometry, and then there's a
Speaker 1: time where these all gel and we're able to take
Speaker 1: this information and aggregate it and use it to write
Speaker 1: advanced papers, et cetera. God has planned our minds around
Speaker 1: gestational growth. And it used to be the time when
Speaker 1: people who taught understood that a certain point all kids
Speaker 1: need is memorization. They need to be able to memorize,
Speaker 1: let's say, passages from the Bible. God's word is always
Speaker 1: good for teaching, review, concrrection, and it's a great way
Speaker 1: to learn God's Word at the same time as you're
Speaker 1: learning to read and to memorize. You're exercising that part
Speaker 1: of your mind. When people expand beyond that, then they
Speaker 1: can take the information they've read and begin to repeat
Speaker 1: it back. That's another stage of growth. There's an approach
Speaker 1: called the trivium, which is a classical Latin form of education,
Speaker 1: and it follows in this path. Kids who go through
Speaker 1: this end up being being able to retain information and
Speaker 1: make better decisions and how to present it. Back in
Speaker 1: the day, we used to teach people Latin. The reason
Speaker 1: we did that is because English is a Latin based language,
Speaker 1: as His, Spanish and many others. When you learned the
Speaker 1: Latin roots for things, you can figure out what a
Speaker 1: word means, even a complex medical word, because you can
Speaker 1: go back to the Latin root. What do these Latin
Speaker 1: roots mean? When school was changed to creates, not people
Speaker 1: who learned how to think, but people who learned how
Speaker 1: to work in factories to go be worker bees, they
Speaker 1: began to change the approach to school. Memorization was still important,
Speaker 1: but it sort of ended there. How much of your
Speaker 1: school life was about memorization all the way up into
Speaker 1: high school. Think about the tests you had. What year
Speaker 1: did this war happen, what year did it end, what
Speaker 1: was the name of this president at this time? How
Speaker 1: much of that was memorization. And unless you were in
Speaker 1: a trivium based or a private school, you probably never
Speaker 1: got to the point where you're really taught rhetoric. We
Speaker 1: ever taught how to make an artful argument. We ever
Speaker 1: taught the rules of threes and fives in making a
Speaker 1: rhetorical presentation to someone, that the minds of people tend
Speaker 1: to take information up better in rules of three fives,
Speaker 1: and if you must sevens. This has to go with
Speaker 1: bullet points and how you present information. We ever taught that,
Speaker 1: We ever taught how to use socratic inquiry in order
Speaker 1: to draw out from people what they know but they
Speaker 1: don't want to think they know. These were tools that
Speaker 1: people who were taught to think had, And suddenly we're
Speaker 1: seeing now schools beginning to discover that fish need water.
Speaker 1: In other words, there are things people need for education
Speaker 1: to be fruitful, or rather, in this case, things they
Speaker 1: don't need. I'll share something a teacher said in terms
Speaker 1: of things kids don't need, which is really fish need water.
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Speaker 1: when you have a phone ban in schools.
Speaker 10: School my state ban the phones, ban the phones. Today
Speaker 10: all of my students, one hundred percent of them, took
Speaker 10: notes in my class, did their assignment, asked for help
Speaker 10: when they got stuck, and turned it in, and then
Speaker 10: when they were done, they talked to each other.
Speaker 1: It this easy the whole time.
Speaker 2: Have have.
Speaker 10: I have been pulling my hair out for like eight years?
Speaker 10: Has it been this easy of a solution the whole time?
Speaker 1: Yes, the ENTRT Yes, I mean this isn't going to
Speaker 1: be the complete solution. But when you take something out
Speaker 1: of someone's hands that has become an idol, that has
Speaker 1: become their emotional connection to the world, that has become
Speaker 1: their painkiller, that has become their porn connection, that has
Speaker 1: become their friend connection, it has become their fake front connection,
Speaker 1: their handicap. Yes, when you take that away and to
Speaker 1: return kids to a natural environment of learning, it really
Speaker 1: is that easy. Fish deeed water and kids need schooling,
Speaker 1: and they also need schooling that respects their minds. And
Speaker 1: praise God that we're beginning to see some common sense
Speaker 1: actions in the school praise God for that story. Number three,
Speaker 1: I want to provide you a sample of the theology
Speaker 1: of the Elka flavor of the Lutheran Church. They've had
Speaker 1: a series of meetings over the past many years and
Speaker 1: got very serious about it this past year, trying to
Speaker 1: justify their support for same sex marriage. And the writing
Speaker 1: that I've read that I've read a series of these
Speaker 1: is fascinating in that it barely barely mentions a certain book.
Speaker 1: It barely mentions the Bible. And what I'm seeing is
Speaker 1: a series of philosophers and theologians quoting each other as
Speaker 1: philosophers and theologians. I want to give you a sample
Speaker 1: of this, but I also want to show you where
Speaker 1: this leads. When you depart the clear teachings of the
Speaker 1: Word of God, all of a sudden, everything is allowed.
Speaker 1: I want to give you some samples of this how
Speaker 1: everything is allowed from a guy we've had on the
Speaker 1: program before courtesy of Protest You. He dressed up as
Speaker 1: what a Star Wars character last time. This time he's
Speaker 1: determined that Jesus Christ is very very, very very queer. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a slippery slope arguments. I once had a liberal
Speaker 1: friend of mine say that slippery slopes don't exist. He said,
Speaker 1: if slippery slopes existed, we all be standing over sideways. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what we are. This is a piece in a
Speaker 1: series justifying the same sex union and marriage position of
Speaker 1: the Elka Lutheran Church. It's written by guy you know
Speaker 1: as a very serious thinker because he calls himself H.
Speaker 1: Frederick Rees, Junior doctor H. Frederick Reees a generous Orthodoxy
Speaker 1: the Elka's choice on sexuality and opportunity for generous Orthodoxy
Speaker 1: generous orthodoxy. This would mean that God's plan for the
Speaker 1: world is not generous. God's offer of free salvation is
Speaker 1: not generous, that God, who sets some limits on what
Speaker 1: he'll accept in terms of human sexual behavior, is not generous.
Speaker 1: And it begins like this. The Elka social statement Human Sexuality,
Speaker 1: Gift and Trust was written through an extended process of
Speaker 1: seeking responses and suggestions. Its conclusion should not be dismissed
Speaker 1: as being hasty. I hope that many of us will
Speaker 1: counter persons who are saying that this whole process was
Speaker 1: a sham engineered from quote above a Chicago and the
Speaker 1: result of a predictable conspiracy of church liberals. I've heard
Speaker 1: all those charges and reject them. Oh you reject them? Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't. It's been clear for a number of years.
Speaker 1: In fact, see my daughter is yeah, she's that old.
Speaker 1: It's been clear for about eighteen years that you intended
Speaker 1: to take this position, and it came from on high.
Speaker 1: Although I'm not wholly satisfied with the current text of
Speaker 1: human sexuality, Gift and Trust, for the most part, I
Speaker 1: think it's a viable statement. Are you noticing a trend here?
Speaker 1: I think? I think, I think. I think our pastors
Speaker 1: and lady can use a statement of theological wisdom and
Speaker 1: practical pastoral guidance on the many issues surrounding sexuality and expressions.
Speaker 1: The statement is useful sections for counseling and teaching. I
Speaker 1: hope that pastors and lady will make use of its
Speaker 1: proportion of its portions in their ministries and communities. I
Speaker 1: believe our community will be weakened in mission if we
Speaker 1: continue to spend a great deal of time and energy
Speaker 1: rehashing the two thousand and nine Assembly actions, even seeking
Speaker 1: to rescind them. The next paragraph begins with I think,
Speaker 1: and then that sentence next is I know the man
Speaker 1: is quoting himself and he's referring to theological wisdom. What
Speaker 1: does the Bible say about wisdom? The beginning of wisdom
Speaker 1: is fear of the Lord. You would need to go
Speaker 1: through page one, which is full of paragraphs, page two,
Speaker 1: which is full of paragraphs, and we get down to hear, Oh,
Speaker 1: this is important. My experience with commitment to homosexual Christians
Speaker 1: his experience. There's a whole lot of eye statements in this.
Speaker 1: I believe the writers may intend to very deep. You'd
Speaker 1: have to go to page three of six and in
Speaker 1: that case, down to the middle of page three of
Speaker 1: six where you get this the biblical witness. A few
Speaker 1: biblical texts condemn certain types of homosexual activity, and he
Speaker 1: quotes Genesis two eighteen to twenty four, nineteen one through thirty, Levitigus.
Speaker 1: He quotes Romans, Corinthians, timpathy. The question is whether this
Speaker 1: condemnation extends to all forms of homosexuality and same gender sex. No,
Speaker 1: that's not the question. No, the question is this, what
Speaker 1: did Jesus say? That's the question. What Jesus Christ said
Speaker 1: is that a man leaves his mother and father and
Speaker 1: clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. The
Speaker 1: same Jesus said you've heard it said you shall not
Speaker 1: commit adultery. But I tell you, look, a man who looks,
Speaker 1: he said, a woman with lost in his eyes has
Speaker 1: already committed adultery. Jesus raised the bar for sexual conduct.
Speaker 1: He recognized that sin begins in the mind, that thinking
Speaker 1: of sin is sinning. He never came back to say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know the whole thing about same sex unions and
Speaker 1: so called marriage, which was unthought of at that time,
Speaker 1: unthought of that you would have same sex marriage. Even
Speaker 1: in Roman culture, it was unthought of. And he was
Speaker 1: never went back and said, hey, we got this wrong.
Speaker 1: Because he's God almighty, wasn't is God almighty? Jesus did
Speaker 1: change some things. He made it very clear to the
Speaker 1: Pharisees that it's not what goes in the mouth, but
Speaker 1: what comes out of the mouth that defiles you. It's
Speaker 1: not the food you eat. And the apostles said, hey,
Speaker 1: explain this to us. And actually one of those times
Speaker 1: where Jesus not his patience. He couldn't lose his patience,
Speaker 1: but he spoke firmly to them, saying, are you really
Speaker 1: this dim What you eat is digested by the body
Speaker 1: and eliminated, but what you speak goes into the world
Speaker 1: and can cause harm and lies to others. So it's
Speaker 1: what comes out of the mouth that defiles, not what
Speaker 1: goes in. He was changing the approach. The Pharisees had
Speaker 1: the dietary law, and he did it specifically and overtly.
Speaker 1: He never did that with sexuality. Never. So the question
Speaker 1: is not whether these passages condemn a certain form of
Speaker 1: homosexual contact or even same sex contact. The question is
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Speaker 4: How queer was Jesus? He was an observant Jew, but
Speaker 4: he was thirty years old, no wife, no job, hung
Speaker 4: out with twelve other dudes. That's pretty queer queering. The
Speaker 4: Bible takes Jesus and other outsiders and religiously stigmatized folks
Speaker 4: in the past and juxtaposes them with contemporary queer folks
Speaker 4: and Christians.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you're crying the Bible and you're trying to
Speaker 1: make Jesus something he's not, that's exactly what you do. Incidentally,
Speaker 1: have you ever heard of a monk? I hear tell them.
Speaker 1: There's these people called monks, and they're men who live
Speaker 1: among other men, and they're not all same sex attracted.
Speaker 1: In fact, most of them aren't. In fact, back in
Speaker 1: that day, there was a guy named Well. He wore
Speaker 1: camel skin and he ate a honey and locusts John
Speaker 1: the Baptist. There were plenty of rabbis who toured I'm
Speaker 1: tought and we're not married. Jesus wasn't alone in this.
Speaker 1: That doesn't make him queer. It made him a rabbi,
Speaker 1: married to his work, and he was the model of
Speaker 1: not sinning. If you're saying he was queer, you're probably saying, well,
Speaker 1: therefore he went out and acted on that, because Jesus
Speaker 1: has already said that thinking of a woman, and you
Speaker 1: could extend that easily enough to a man, and you
Speaker 1: think of them sexually with lust in your eyes and
Speaker 1: your mind, then you've committed adultery. What we know is
Speaker 1: that Jesus committed no sin. Why because the Bible says
Speaker 1: he committed no sin. He who had no sin became
Speaker 1: sin on our behalf. So yeah, you can go out
Speaker 1: and queer anything. You can queer a lemon, stand if
Speaker 1: you want.
Speaker 4: Realizing that despite our past cultural differences, sexual and gender differences,
Speaker 4: that we share similar histories of out of placeness or
Speaker 4: vilified sexualities and gender diversities. Jesus kingdom practice is queer
Speaker 4: in the sense it questions identities and blurs distinctions.
Speaker 1: Jesus' mission, his ministry, his kingdom is queer. The Apostle
Speaker 1: Paul made it very very clear, and it's a hard
Speaker 1: teaching for people who love the same sex attracted. He
Speaker 1: said that people who practice homosexuality, like pre people who
Speaker 1: practice theeving, like people who practice adultery, have no place
Speaker 1: in the kingdom of heaven. Practice not having committed an
Speaker 1: act for which they repented and stopped sinning. Jesus always said,
Speaker 1: go and sin no more, but his kingdom, his kingdom
Speaker 1: is queer because he's questioning identities. He didn't question his identity.
Speaker 1: Who knew who he was? He didn't question our identity.
Speaker 1: Who knows who we are? None of this, none of
Speaker 1: this can be compared biblically.
Speaker 4: Luke presents Jesus as leaving the patriarchal household and challenging
Speaker 4: both cultural hierarchies in his egalitarian meals, transgressing gender roles
Speaker 4: and radical inclusion of outsiders.
Speaker 1: Radical inclusion of people. He created. And he was questioning
Speaker 1: not the authorities, because he was and is the authorities.
Speaker 1: He is the authority. He is the way, the truth
Speaker 1: in the life. Authority doesn't question authority. God is the
Speaker 1: pre eminent authority. What Jesus did was confirmed authority. He
Speaker 1: was who he said he was, and he proved himself
Speaker 1: to be who he said he was in signs and
Speaker 1: wonders and miracles and conquering death. Only God himself could
Speaker 1: conquer death. Jesus did it, he predicted he'd do it.
Speaker 1: He did it in front of people. He reappeared to people,
Speaker 1: five hundred at a time. He send it into heaven
Speaker 1: and left behind a gift only God could leave behind
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. He was a teacher extraordinaire. He was
Speaker 1: God Almighty, and there was nothing about him that was queer.
Speaker 1: And the erasing of Jesus by the Elka Lutheran Church
Speaker 1: opens the door for the redrawing of Jesus by people
Speaker 1: like that. This is the todd hermansheaw. Please go be well,
Speaker 1: be strong, be kind, Please make every effort to walk
Speaker 1: in the light of Christ and celebrate for me as
Speaker 1: I get to go hang out with my beloved wife,