Reformed Operator

Some thoughts on the momentous overturn of Roe V Wade. 

Some interaction with AOC's horrible floor speech.

There are next steps, but this is also a time to humbly celebrate.

What happened, what's next, what can you do?

Memento Mori

Anti-Revolution Part II: The Death of the Author

This episode was recorded two months ago. Now, it's here. Another discussion about 4th Generation Warfare: how it's played out in the past and how it's playing out now through information warfare (note that this episode was recorded prior to recent events over the last week). 

The Death of the Author is a postmodern critical perspective that removes all authorial intent, and turns books to just strings of words. The author ceases to be meaningful, and meaning becomes your own reality. It's a key root in deconstruction. 

The Revolution is breaking your will, penetrating the church, attributing sin to systems, and stealing the culture. What now? 

We open with the story of Richard Wurmbrand who founded "the Voice of the Martyrs." You can watch his story in the Torchlighters Cartoon Series with your kids. 

Pravda, Worship, and Warfare

-The Author and Authority

-Pravda and Truth

-Worship and Warfare

-And another visit with Uncle Francis Turretin

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2 Tim 3:5

Memento Mori,

-R-O->

Two things under full frontal assault by Jacobin Theories (besides the obvious death, burial, and resurrection of Christ) the Lord’s Day and Marriage

Critical note for critical theory, critical theorists always try to pit terms against one another, as in White Christian or White Evangelicals in order to make it easier to create an emotional response in the listener or reader. This is the Jacobin process known as the dialectic.

Interrogation of the Jacobin theories of feminism, gender, and queer studies

By the light of Scripture shows them to be false.

//Feminist/egalitarian and gender/queer studies critical methods in their own words (00:00- 43:38)

Problems with critical theory:

Attacking certainty and assurance

Attacking the perspicuity of scripture

Attacking the household codes

Attacks Theological assertions

Generates dissension, wrath, envy, discontent and malice

//Moving to practically engaging those who profess to be Reformed Egalitarians (43:39-63:22)

Feminist/Egalitarian/Gender Studies discussions currently in evangelicalism from clips of a panel with Michael Bird, Aimee Byrd, Kristin Du Mez, and Beth Allison Barr

//Colossians 3 has the solution to every Critical Theory (63:23-73:25)

Esther explodes the liberation feminist narrative

//Westminster Larger Catechism 118 (73:26-101:17)

Question 118
Why is the charge of keeping the sabbath more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors?
The charge of keeping the sabbath is more specially directed to governors of families, and other superiors, because they are bound not only to keep it themselves, but to see that it be observed by all those that are under their charge; and because they are prone ofttimes to hinder them by employments of their own. (Exodus 20:10, Josh 24:15, Neh 13:15, 17, Jer 17:20, Exodus 23:12)

What is so offensive about Question 118 and WLC’s exposition of the fourth commandment?

Patriarchy (governors of families are superiors, those governors are clearly husbands and fathers)

Literal 6-day creation (no framework)

The Lord’s Day, aka the Christian Sabbath (first day of the week now WLC 115-121)

Propositional Logic

//Dabney’s “Practical Philosophy”

The Infidel Jacobin Theory

//Camille Paglia and Turretin’s Natural Theology (104:32-END)

The revolution wants to detonate the Nuclear Family. The fallout will be horrendous for decades to come.

The Key Topics we discuss

Family: Detonation of the Family by the revolution

Freemasonry: What is it and should a Christian be one?

Francis Turretin: Introduction to Volume 1 of the Institutes of Elenctic Theology (one of the best theology books you can get that you've never heard of)

We discuss the most important theologian of the 19th century.

The Word of the day is Obfuscation

         “To throw into the shadow, darken, to make obscure”

Clip from MSNBC

RL Dabney once said “I am the Cassandra of Yankeedom predestined to prophesy truth and never to be believed.”

A ridiculous, arguably satirical piece, the fruit of the seed of Karl Marx

https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-california-abolish-parenthood-name-181725030.html

Note the commie buzzwords in the article

         Equity

         Democracy

Link to the Communist manifesto 

Black Lives Matter

         Also wants to abolish the nuclear family

Marxists believe hierarchy is bad

Check out Sovereign Nations/New Discourses (which ironically just released an episode on the “theology of marxism” shortly after we recorded this episode!

Mao’s “4 olds” that had to die in his “cultural revolution”:

Old Habits, Old Customs, Old Culture, Old ways of thinking

Gramsci’s 5 Pillars of Culture:

Family, Education, Religion, Media, Law

Think about reform, not revolution.

To build a strong family your marriage not only should, but must be centered around the Word of God, and hermetically sealed against the current culture of divorce, adultery, pornography and abortion. 

Gad Saad apology for knowing Jordan Peterson

The Books we recommend from this episode:

Institutes of Elenctic Theology by Francis Turretin

Dabney on Fire by R.L. Dabney edited and introduced by Zach Garris

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Brainwashing by Edward Hunter

Explaining postmodernism by Stephen R. C. Hicks

Citizenship in a Republic, the greatest speech you've never read. You might be familiar with

"It’s not the critic who counts."

We live in a world of critical theory, sophistry, and vain cynicism. We tend to forget that we have true duties to perform. Duties as citizens of a government on this earth that as Christians we are required to obey.

As long as that government justly upholds and enforces good and destroys and punishes evil. If they don’t we are to obey God rather than men as Peter and the Apostles point out in Acts 5:29

Read Roosevelt's Speech Here

Bishop James Ussher wrote "A Body of Divinity" in 1645, you may remember Ussher as the guy who calculated the approximate day of creation according to some incredible mathematical precision. 

Read this material over at The Daily Genevan

Let it be known, PBR had a creaky chair. They don’t make chairs like they used to anymore. 

//Jolly Work

00:00-45:00

Stop working for the weekend

Book Recommendations:

The Masculine Mandate Richard D. Phillips

The Works of William Perkins Volume 10

Section on Vocation

//Juking Jabs

45:00-70:00

Can/should I take the jab?

Is it right to require it for work?

What are some arguments against the jab?

Are the mandates wrong?

//Listener Questions

70:00-END

Can a Christian join/stay in the military given current political scene?

Given recent mandated training, what should I do?

Deconstruction is death. Whatever happened to heroes? Should I have dark humor?

Is it wrong to desire greatness for you?

Why have heroes? Should we have them?

There are many different types of heroes, but how should we live?

Is there a way to view heroes?

Watch The Four Feathers

You can find the full Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn essay here, and we hope you get to know and apply it well. When all seems lost, we can remain committed to live not by lies. We know Jesus Christ, and therefore we know the Truth. 

Solzhenitsyn was illegally raised a Christian, became a devout atheist marxist, and joined the Red Army, only to repent of his previous life and turn to Christ in a Gulag. He became a thorn in the side to Soviet Russia, and was exiled to the West. He wrote this essay immediately before his exile. 

The first step to freedom is refusing to live by lies. You're free in Christ, live not by lies. 

What do you do in light of darkness? When the fear of the world strikes, what will you do?

Friedrich Nietzsche, the delusional nihilist wrote a book called “The Gay Science”

This episode is going to show some of the darkness of our current “situational ethics” driven science.

Relative morality brings cultural decay

When relative morality goes off the rails, we face demoralization.

Discouragement, despair.

Cultural Demoralization Starts HERE

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

The Mission, The Men, and Me by Pete Blaber (it's available everywhere books are sold)

Sermons from the Great Ejection

God’s Terrible Voice in the City

Memento Mori