Does Good "Trump" Evil?

Jeremy Walker (00:21):

Welcome back to another episode of The Last Kingdom. I'm your host, Jeremy Walker. This is episode number 26 for November the 8th, 2024, and the name of this episode is entitled Does Good Trump Evil. On this episode, we're going to be discussing the topic of good, evil, modern politics and how Christians are supposed to think concerning national events and even their daily lives.

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This podcast is dedicated to discussing faith, family and the future. Let's go ahead and get started with our main focus, which of course Does Good Trump Evil.

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Well, I want to get started today guys. We are now in November. We just had the election win by Donald J. Trump and of course that has sparked a lot of hope around the world for a turning of the tide in so many ways, economics and more. So I want to start with the Christian perspective because that's what I like to talk about.

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So many people are very pessimistic about the world, any events and they like to see around every corner just evil is lurking, Armageddon is coming. You better go get on your little pasture land and live in the mountains and get your guns and get your food because the whole world is falling apart as we sit here and watch it burn. Well, that would be a humanistic perspective, but it certainly is not by any stretch of the imagination, a Christian perspective, and that is what I hope to share with you today.

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I'm a Christian reconstructionist and what that means is I believe that it's every Christian's job to help make the world a better place and how do we do that? Simple, we teach the word of God, we believe the word of God and we live it out in our daily lives. It's that simple folks.

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Let's start with Psalm 1, six verses, quote, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth and the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish," unquote.

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This should be your motto. You should take this every day, stick it on your wall. Read it before you step outside your door because why? If you're a Christian, you win. That's right. We are going to win. We are not losers. We are the winners of the world. Why? We are on the right side.

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Christ is on the throne, all power, all authority are His and you're one of His. If you're a Christian. If you are not one of His, if you are still a rebel, you're in trouble. I hate to tell you if this is the first time, if you were listening to this podcast, you don't win. That's right. Christians win. We will be the victors in Christ.

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Well, let's start with a few things shall we? See this should be so reassuring to you as a Christian because Christians are assured that good is rewardable and enduring, where the evil is going to be judged and fully eliminated and furthermore forgotten, completely forgotten about in the world to come. They never existed. It's gone for them. They have no name, no reward, no memory, nothingness, at least as far as victory is concerned.

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Now as far as Christians, if you're going to do good, you will always win, every event. Even we call it good or bad, works out for your benefit. Even the tragedies, and we've talked about that on this podcast before. Even the tragedies in your life that strike nationally, personally and otherwise. Those are still for your good.

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Not necessarily be happy about them all the time because that would be impossibility, but still praise God that it is not meaningless. There is not a single thing that happens in this world that is not pregnant with meaning and purpose. There is nothing, absolutely nothing.

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The evil gains power and strength, this is an important focus for Christians to think about. It gains power and strength when God refuses when good, sorry, not God. When good refuses to exert godly dominion and government in every area of their lives.

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We sit back and we ask, when is God going to do our work? When is food going to be put on the table? When am I going to get new shoes? When is z, y or z? We fail to remember that you play a part in this world. That's right, God's given you a job to do and it is important now you're not running the world He is. Only question is are you going to do your job, which is going to help God in the final goal and get a reward for that? Or are you going to sit on the sidelines like a lump, go sit and eat Cheetos and watch TikTok?

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Well, no reward for you in the end you might be a Christian but not going to inherit reward for that kind of behavior. You will suffer terrible, terrible loss. But with this proper hope, you can face the world. You can face yourself primarily. You can get up and say, I have sinned, but I've confessed and now tomorrow's a new day.

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I work in child care and I work with children have for 25 years, something like that, have 11 children myself, and there's a young child on the school bus and we were getting off the bus and he was crying and I looked at him, I said, "So, so-and-so what's wrong?" And he was crying. He said, "I had a bad day and my mommy, she's not going to be happy that I had a bad day." I asked him what he did and he told me. I said, "Well, okay." I said, "Well, did you stop doing those things?" He said, "Well, yes I did." I said, "Well, that's okay." I said, "The day's not done. You still have a whole lot of day left to do the right thing. And yes, you messed up. Yes, you made a mistake. Yes you did something you shouldn't have done, but you understand what you did was wrong. You've apologized. You've corrected the mistake and now you're going to move forward. You're not, in other words, past bound."

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Christians are not chained to the past. Even from our mistakes. We can go to Christ, we can find the forgiveness that He tells us to come for and we can get up, brush ourselves off, and we can go live victoriously over sin in our lives and we can help overcome sin in the world.

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See, evil only gains power and strength when you don't get up, when you stay on the floor, when you stay in your little closet pouring over your sins because you want God to know just how terrible it was and how bad you feel. He knows that. That's not the point. The point isn't to have you a pity partied person in your prayer life, sitting in your closet crying about how you made a mistake about z, y or z. The point is you know it was wrong? The point is you make restitution, you stop doing z, y or z, and you are going to move forward with the forgiveness that God says He will give you.

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You can now overcome sin next time when sin comes a-knocking temptation comes your way, you say, no, sir, no thank you. You close that door and you move on. You grow in maturity and sanctification. That's what this is talking about. We aren't losers. The whole Psalm 1 says Christians are going to prosper in their doing. Doing it requires work. You want to help eliminate the evil and suppress it in the world. Well do something about it starting with yourself.

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Stop being a loser. Start being a winner. You have every ability as a Christian to overcome sin and help suppress it in every area of life. It cannot stand before you. There's an old Bible verse, I don't have it here to quote at the moment, but talks about how the gates of hell will not withstand the Christians and God's work through us.

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The point is that's not a defensive thing like hell's coming your way and you can't get through your gate. No, no, no. It's your on the offensive Christian soldiers and hell's gates are not going to stop you.

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The sinful man cannot defeat the Godly, never has been able to, never will. Everything they do falls apart. Every success they call a success, they think is a success is a failure. Everything they do promotes God's kingdom, everything and it blesses you, everything. Can you imagine if Christians woke up with that kind of mentality, what kind of change it would happen like this is my Father's world? You guys are just here illegally. You could say. Sorry to pun the joke, but deportation is coming for every sinner that fails to bow the need to Christ and the only people left are the citizens of the New Kingdom.

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Hopefully some of the listeners here will catch the parlance of all the national events talking about deportation and illegals, but that's true on a spiritual level in particular. There's only one family going to live in this world and that is God's family, His kingdom, the citizens that belong to Him, those are the only ones that get to stay. Everybody else, they're getting deported and it's some place quite warm, but not Florida.

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Well, there is an important point here because there is no power struggle, and this is a sad thing that I grew up with, a power struggle between God and man. Somehow the world is kind of on a seesaw, teeter-tottering on the edge and God may win, He may not win. Sometimes evil forces can get the upper hand and God's plans are somehow can be preventable. Phooey, read your Bible, get this idea out of your head. There is no battle between God and man. God wins. End of story, full stop.

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There is no power struggle between godly men and evil men. I just mentioned that a second ago. Quite in-depthly, there is no power struggle. They cannot win, they cannot win. Now, it may not play out the way you think it's going to play out.

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See Psalms 1 is how the world generally operates, generally operates and we can expect it to operate this way. Then there is the very specific purposes of God, which if you read the Book of Ecclesiastes, if you haven't, you should, talk about when we look at the world, that's not what we see. Very often we see very good people, godly people dying early in poverty and the rest, and then you see these evil people who are prospering or at least seeming to prosper now living long lives.

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So we go, I'm not sure I can keep this as a proper faith or how I see the world, and that's the point. That's the point. God is telling you how the word operates and He wants you, He deliberately wants you to live by faith. When you do that, everything in Psalms 1 is going to be taking place exactly as God said because it's how He said it and how He wants it to play out that matters. For us it can sometimes seem that that's not the case, but it's always the case. All things work out for the good, for those people who are called according to His purpose.

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Your life has a purpose. The events have a purpose. Everything has a purpose. It's not just the big events in the world like an election or whatever. It's every event, every single event. It's not just how it's going to end, it's also how we get there and how we get there matters. You get to play a part in that. Every decision you make, positive or negative will earn you reward.

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Also, everything positive or negative is always going to be pushing everything towards the Kingdom of God so there is no event that brings the Kingdom of God to a halt or slows it down. No, every event. Now I understand that as humans we don't understand how that's possible, but it does. The Bible is full of this doctrine. Everything works out for the good everything. Everything is pushing towards Christ's victory.

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There is however a struggle with the new man of righteousness and the old man of sin. So if you're a Christian, there is that struggle inside you where you are going to fight with the sin nature that's still part of you. You have a new creation in you, the new man, which means you can resist all temptations. You do not ever have to give into sin ever. You never have to sin again the rest of your life.

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Now is that a reality for anyone? Probably not, but it doesn't change the fact that we can resist. We have the power to overcome and as you mature, it's called sanctification, you should see that progress. You should see progress in you getting better and more powerful and more powerful and more powerful.

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Now, the opposite's also true for evil people. They gain power in evil where we gain power in good, the more powerful they become, the more evil they become. That's why the vast majority of people who go down the road of rebellion end up burning out in homosexuality, sexual perversions and everything else under the sun. They end up killing themselves and anybody around them because they're becoming more and more powerful in sin. So they must do more and more and more sin to, of course, show their power, their religion, their rebellion. The opposite is true of you as a Christian and you should teach this to your kids and put this in your own heart.

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Do you see yourself growing in the power to keep God's commandments or do you not? Are your children, can they say that about themselves? Internal self-reflection is very, very important. It should be part of the Christian life. If you don't see that, if you don't see that growth there, then there is a severe cause to possibly or most likely say your faith because it doesn't possess the works, is dead.

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It must possess works that goes with the profession and they must be the same. Man is a whole, he's not split up into different parts or his heart, mind and soul. He's a unit. What a man thinks in his heart is what comes out of his mouth and what also directs his hands and feet and his eyes. It is a unit and you can tell the man by watching the deeds and that mostly includes yourself.

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Time and history are not mechanical. There's no such thing as karma, no such thing as karma in God's creation. It is God's law that operates by His direction. Now, God has a plan. Of course He set the in from the beginning, but we just don't know what that is, but we do know how it operates based on what God's told us about Himself and it's very personal. Every event in the world is very personal and it also has a purpose. There's no purposeless things that happen in your life including what we call the bad things or the tragedies that come your way is never without a purpose.

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Now, you may never understand the purpose like Job and his life. He lost his children, he lost his health, he lost his wealth and he got the opportunity to ask why and he did not ask why. That book is in there for a reason to help us understand that what our goals are are not fully to understand God but to trust God. And that's what Job's conclusion was, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him." Not understand Him, but trust Him. God is very good and He has a purpose for you and it's very personal to Him.

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So we should take Psalm 1 as our battle cry, come at the world every morning as you step outside your door as a victor, not a person who is fearful. Your King is on the throne. You're one of His soldiers and He's told you and guaranteed you victory. Just get up and go do your job. Every action is important. Every action changes the world forever, every action. So get out there and do good.

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Let's jump now to some news and events. I like doing these quick fire as we go through some memes and other things. First one I got is a news clipping. Looks like it's from Los Angeles Times. It says, "Knowingly exposing others to HIV will no longer be a felony in California." And then there's another article next to it says, "STDs in LA County are skyrocketing. Officials think that racism and stigma may be to blame." Well, maybe it's because people are going around and being sexually promiscuities or having sexual promiscuity and they are passing disease. They cannot live in this world, break God's commandments and think that nothing's going to happen.

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Here they're literally telling people who have HIV, which is a sexually transmitted disease which destroys the immune system and kills the person, just slowly they're allowing people, apparently in California, and this was back in 2017 this clipping article came from. That it is now you can put in somebody a deadly pathogen which will murder them eventually, and it's no big deal.

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Well, if that's what you want, that's what you're going to get. You reap what you sow. For Christians, this isn't a problem. We do not have the risk of sexually transmitted diseases. We do not have the risk of death just because we're having sex with our spouse. This is a curse upon mankind for rejecting God. Be warned.

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Another one says, "Women are born to have cats." I'm sorry, that's not right. "Women are born to have kids," not cats. Sorry about that. And this is a problem because so many people are being taught not to want children, not to want children. To give up the use of what their body is supposed to be. The happiness that God has built into women in being pregnant, in having children and taking care of them and raising them. It's what makes a woman happy.

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God has made this just like a fish is happy swimming. You are happy with birthing children. God's design, God gave that to you. Men are happy being married, men are happy having children and taking care of those children. To think that you're be happier without children is insane. God created you to be married, to have children and to take care of them. That is where you'll find your happiness.

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When you listen to God, it's amazing that surprising and shockingly we thrive and we are happy people. Stop trying to live life on your own terms, live on God's terms and you will be happy and thriving in this world.

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Another clip says, little meme with three different panels, "We must criminalize disinformation." Then somebody asked the question, "But who gets to define disinformation" and then it switches back, "Precisely." That is a problem. People don't want what we call free speech here in America and they want to be able to silence everybody that they disagree with.

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But the concept is people are trying to control you and your speech, it's really trying to stop the spread of God's commandments. They hate God's commandments and that's where the real goal is. Do not teach God's truth, you'll only teach our truth. God morals versus humanism morals.

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Next one, "A 19-year-old kid steals a car and then while the cops are chasing him, he drives to his own home. He gets out and the cops are, of course, trying to arrest him. Out comes mommy out comes sister, and the kid, of course, is mouthing off and screaming at the cops. Then the sister starts to scream at the cops and the mom too." Who were they upset at the cops? They weren't upset at the 19-year-old son for stealing the car and driving it home.

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This is a major problem here with families and the world today. Our youth are not properly taught. The parents do not support God's commandments. They don't teach God's commandments and what happens, your child doesn't thrive. This kid in this video that I watched almost got shot because he kept trying to get back in the car when they were telling him to stop. But an undisciplined child thinks he can do whatever he wants and he's been convinced that that's the case. He's going to end up with a terrible life in probably a very early death. And here he came with a hair's breadth with a cop almost shooting him. Well, if we want to succeed, try following God's Commandments.

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A little controversial one because of the statements that, "People were eating, the cats and eating the dogs." We remember this little thing going around and this will be our last topic here. The funny thing was is that I came across this one says, "A Taiwan restaurant serves a Godzilla ramen." A dish, it comes from a full alligator leg sticking out of it. And it literally looks like, well, a Godzilla arm. It's an alligator, full leg, it's got the arms, the legs, the scales, everything. Fully cooked and it's sitting in ramen noodle soup and vegetables and things like that.

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Well, the funny thing about it is that dietary restrictions and diet limitations or preferences are wide and varied around the world and people do eat alligator arms. They do eat cats, they do eat dogs, they eat horses, they eat pretty much everything. If you're going to have just a biblical perspective, from the Bible, the only thing that is clearly forbidden is to eat man. That is the one creature that we are not allowed absolutely 100% to eat because you'd have to kill it. Therefore, it's murder. So you can't eat, man.

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The second thing is you can't drink blood and those things that die in and of itself. So we want to stay away from these things. But otherwise you can pretty much eat any cuisine that you want under God's law. Now we here in the West, we do, for the most part, have a diet limited to the dietary laws that are found in the Bible. In Exodus where God gave the dietary restrictions to the Israelites we pretty much follow that and we don't besides maybe pork and shellfish, but otherwise we pretty much do.

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We don't eat the horses for the most part around the world. We definitely don't eat the cats, and we don't eat the little puppy dogs, but it's not one of the main problems. Main problems is sin our families and our promotion of ourselves and what we do each day.

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So remember to live a godly life. To put the focus on things that are important and that will earn you and your family reward.

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Thanks for joining me. This is Jeremy Walker. God bless.