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Throughout history, tyrants have always aimed their weapons of destruction at masculine men. Here’s how today’s tyrants are trying to snuff out masculinity and how biblical men can fight back. 

When tyranny abounds, Christians must be all the more diligent to be “innocent as doves and shrewd as serpents.” So is it ever permissible for a Christian to tell a lie? In this sermon, Pastor Joel Webbon teaches on the doctrine of “the lie of necessity.”

The common time of blessing with the Patriarchs was usually right before their death, so that the recipients of these blessings might have them strongly impressed upon their minds and be all the more careful to attend to them. Jacob is said to have blessed each of his sons (as well as the sons of Joseph) in faith because he delivered this blessing when there was no appearance of the fulfilment of it. We must understand that Jacob blessed both the two sons of Joseph under the guidance and inspiration of the Spirit of God, choosing to set Ephraim before Manasseh. And when he delivered these blessings he firmly believed they would be fulfilled, although they were currently residing in a strange and foreign land.

The Church has never had a monopoly on self-righteousness. A person can be religious and self-righteous, and a person can be completely pagan and self-righteous. In today’s culture, we have far more of the latter. 

To live by faith (or to do anything by faith) is to be governed by a dependence on God's grace and a desire for God's glory. Noah BUILT by faith (Hebrews 11:7). Abraham OBEYED by faith (Hebrews 11:8). Abraham also DIED in faith (Hebrews 11:13). And this is because Abraham's faith was TESTED (Hebrews 11:17).

Many Christians and conservatives in our nation are currently “thinking of that land from which they had gone out.” In other words, Christians must resist the temptation of nostalgia. We are not merely attempting to get back to our “homeland” - the America of our childhood where we grew up. In fact, we are not even attempting to get back to the founding of our nation, even though much of it was predominantly Christian. “But as it is, [we] desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.” For the Postmillennial Christian, we believe that the best really is yet to come. I truly believe that America's most Christ-exalting days are ahead of us, not somewhere back in the 1700s. So as we work to fulfill Christ's commission to “disciple the nations” (with our rightly ordered affections being, first and foremost, focused on this nation), and as we diligently pray that God's “kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven,” we want to be diligent to preserve all that was truly good from our past. The aim of the “Christian Nationalist” is to make America Christian... again. But also to make America more Christian than ever before.

The land of Canaan is typical of heaven. Here Abraham sojourned for a while, though it was not his native place but another's. It was an idolatrous land; yet here Abraham sojourned by faith, believing that as it was promised, the land would belong to him and his descendants. Abraham wasn’t trusting Christ to take him out of the land, he was trusting Christ to give him the land. So too, all God's people are sojourners in this world.

In order to be a faithful Christian, each of us must be willing and prepared to stand alone. We will all repeatedly face pressure to violate God's standards and go along with the crowd. In the workplace, our associates will likely engage in blasphemous speech and immoral activities, and occasionally, they will urge us to join them. At family gatherings over the holidays, the rest of the family may ridicule us for our theological convictions and commitments to godly parenting. In these settings, how will we respond? No one likes to be ridiculed or rejected. We all want to be liked and included. At some time or another, each of us will be tempted to simply go along with the crowd rather than to stand alone for Jesus Christ. However, if we choose to yield, we dishonor Christ and forfeit our distinctive witness for our Savior. In light of this, there is perhaps no greater example of a man who stood alone than Noah. Imagine what it would be like to be the only godly family on earth. Noah’s life teaches us that Christians must be willing and prepared to stand alone in the midst of an evil age, and that the secret to accomplishing this is to establish a consistent pattern of daily walking with God.

To do something in faith is to do it with an acknowledgment of our dependence on God's grace and the motive of desiring God's glory.

Some take this “sanctification” to mean that a person can be truly justified by faith and on their way to paradise through a life of inward sanctification, and yet lose their salvation by forsaking the truth. Others say that the possibility raised here of sanctified people committing apostasy is merely hyperbole which will never actually occur because those who are truly elect will be kept from apostasy by the work of the Holy Spirit. But the sanctification mentioned in Hebrews 10:26-31 is indeed a real sanctification. However, although this sanctification is real, the sanctification mentioned in Hebrews 10:29 is not the same as the sanctification mentioned previously in Hebrews 10:14. The sanctification mentioned previously is an inward sanctification which serves as a proof of eternal justification (Hebrews 10:14). The sanctification mentioned here is an outward sanctification which serves as an added proof of guilt after committing apostasy (Hebrews 10:29).