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#109 - Should We Stop Saying Christ Is King? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Should we continue using the phrase, Christ is king?
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  Are we allowed to do that? I don't know if you've heard, but lately there has
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  been this whole uproar of people using that phrase, and some people have co-opted
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  that phrase and are using it in a pejorative,
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  terrible way, and they're just taking it out of context, ripping it out of context,
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  and trying to use it for their own purposes of anti-Semitism, you know?
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  Some people take good things and they make them bad.
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  We're going to take a look at this. My name is Brandon Fogle. This is Evolution.
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  Let's dive into it. So recently, and this completely went under the radar for
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  me when I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast.
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  He had Jordan Peterson on there and Jordan Peterson was talking about psychopathic
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  parasites on the right side that have basically infiltrated and they're taking
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  their platform and using it for terrible purposes.
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  And I wasn't thinking about who he's talking about.
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  Fast forward to Tim Pool taking a look at this show and he interprets it and
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  he sees it that Jordan is specifically targeting Candace Owens.
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  And they've had their whole infighting of the, and they're falling out together
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  of Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens.
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  But Candace Owens uses the phrase Christ is King, you know, and a lot of people out there use it.
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  I see it, people throwing it
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  out their own X Christ is King hashtag Christ is King or Christ is King.
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  And I use it myself. I will use it. I, but I'm, I'm not using it and meaning
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  it at all in a, a way against Jews or a way for antisemitism.
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  And I know, I know in any, you have to be aware, you got to read the room of
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  the situation of what's happening and kind of take it from there.
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  But just to, if people want to start taking our choice of words and trying to
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  use it and flipping it, we got to be smarter than that.
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  We got to be wiser than that. And they don't, people cannot just,
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  because somebody is using it in a terrible way, they can't just control how
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  we are using that phrase. Christ is king.
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  And I have nothing but mad respect for Jewish people.
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  And it says the gospel came to the Jews first and then to the Gentiles. I am not on board at all.
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  And this is what probably, if you really look at it, this throws me under the
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  bus with a lot of Christians.
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  I am not involved at all and believe in at all replacement theology.
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  I don't believe the church replaced Israel.
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  I don't think that suddenly Jesus came along after thousands and thousands of years.
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  And then now we got the church and everything's new.
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  Israel's cast aside and none of that matters anymore. No, the gospel came for
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  Israel first, and then it came to the rest of the world.
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  We are along for the ride. If you're of the nations, if you are not Jewish,
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  you are along for the ride.
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  Thank God you were allowed to be brought in to the kingdom because it was the
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  sole focus of all of scripture was about the Jewish people and the Jews accepting
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  and being saved through their Messiah coming into the world.
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  That's why it was such a struggle for the apostles to get on board.
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  How do people that are not Jewish, how are they inherited the kingdom of God
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  when all the promises are to Israel?
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  All right, but that's an aside we're going to look into right now of Jordan Peterson.
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  He's talking about, he uses that, he's talking about, and Tim Pool thinks he's
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  talking about Candace Owens, and he is talking about Candace Owens in certain contexts.
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  But let's see what Candace Owens, she said, and then how Tim Pool,
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  he is starting to defend Candace Owens because they have their whole,
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  their, their, their friends and all that, you know?
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  So there's this infighting, but I think we can get, we understand that people are people.
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  This is just played out live for all of us to see, which is,
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  it's very interesting, you know? So this is Tim pool.
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  He's talking about Candace using that phrase.
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  And what he gleans from it and how we should be receiving it as well.
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  This is the problem I'm having with this.
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  Candace Owens has, as far as I know, never used the phrase Christ is king to
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  insult somebody, to troll somebody.
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  We had talked about this on Timcast IRL because she had used it in reference
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  to, I think, Bridget McCrone being accused of being a man.
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  And some people said, why do hashtag Christ is king in that post?
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  And it was because it was part of a larger thread having to do with the argument of some sort.
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  Like, it wasn't just that she said, Bridget McCrone is a man,
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  Christ is king. And people were like, why would you do that?
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  It was actually part of a longer thread. Say what you want about Candace Owens.
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  The thing that I find abserting about that argument immediately was,
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  I'm like, even if you think Candace Owens is a psychopath who's pretending,
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  she is nowhere near stupid enough to walk into something as dumb as that. Okay.
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  More importantly, I don't think she's trolling anybody. but I think Candace
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  genuinely is saying Christ is king. I totally agree with Tim here.
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  You know, Jordan Peterson and Candace Owens, they have their own thing going
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  and they're going to reconcile.
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  You know, in this internet age, they're going to come together.
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  They're going to talk this out.
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  Jordan Peterson is a man that likes to have conversation and likes to talk through things.
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  Candace Owens, she's a Christian, you know, and I don't know all of her viewpoints
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  on everything, You know, but Christianity can be taken in a terrible way.
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  We obviously know that any religion can be taken in a terrible way,
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  but you can't judge the belief structure and the whole focus of the religion
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  based on people that are playing it wrong, that are doing it wrong.
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  So they're going to come, they're going to talk this through,
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  but just the phrase Christ is king.
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  I will proudly say Christ is king because he is.
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  And people that want to take over and try to make me say that I can't say that
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  because I am suddenly a Nazi for saying that because I'm against Jewish people or I'm anti-Semites.
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  We got to be smarter than that. We got to be able to not allow people,
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  not allow to bow the knee to people, to just these people that want to control everything that we do.
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  You know, of course people are going to do things wrong,
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  but it's the thing about the way to fight back against bad speech is always
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  more speech and better speech and clarifications and anything can be used for a terrible purpose.
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  And it obviously is in certain circumstances.
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  I don't think Candace Owens is at all using it in an anti-Semite anti-Semite way.
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  She's saying because she is a Christian. She's saying Christ is king.
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  That is, that's the truth, you know, but I, I do also come from the,
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  the, the viewpoint that I understand just the name Christ that can, because,
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  and so for so many years, it was used in a bad way to go after people that were
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  Jewish, even early on, you know, that was, we, Christians did a lot of terrible
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  things to Jewish people.
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  I would not say the Nazis were at all Christian, you know, Anybody can take
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  on the name, but there were a lot of true,
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  genuine Christians early on in church history that did a lot of terrible things
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  to Jewish people because they wanted to make sure to get that Judaism out of
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  them, get it completely out of them.
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  You are on the new side. This is the new era. This is the new man.
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  All that stuff of the past, that is done away with.
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  So it just takes a wisdom and being able to discern what the context people
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  are using it in, but I'm not going to back down from saying it.
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  And you might completely disagree. I will, I will tweet it. I will say it.
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  Christ is King, you know, cause it's the truth. So I'm, that's my reaction to
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  this whole thing about people saying, you cannot say that we got to be stronger than that.
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  We got to have more wisdom than that. And we got to have more speech to battle
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  and fight against people that are misusing things and taking things in a terrible way.
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  You know, of course, people are going to do that. But just we can't allow them
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  to control the ability for Christians to announce the truth and the reality
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  that we we got to suddenly say,
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  like, and that's not like for me, like I want to say, if you want to say, I love you, I love you.
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  So suddenly that becomes I hate you. Every time you're saying I love you becomes
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  I hate you. words mean things, words mean things.
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  So when we are saying, I love you, it is what it is.
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  If we're saying there's not this undertone, there's not this below the surface.
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  And if people are doing it, you can, no matter how much I want to,
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  I can't judge someone's heart.
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  I don't know what is really going in, going on in their heart and on in their
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  mind when they're saying things, we can only say that by what the words they're
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  using and their actions.
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  You know, give people the benefit of the doubt and not just look at people and
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  say, you are, you are evil by using a phrase, the sweetest phrase in the world, Christ is King.
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  So I don't know if you agree with that, you know, let me know.
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  But if you disagree, if you think I'm way off basis, I would love to hear it.
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  I do this every day 7 a.m central central time Kansas City time so my name is
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  Brandon Fogle we'll leave it at that have a good day everyone have a good weekend.