Phil Robertson
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 19 Jun
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That's the reason why when Constantius came into power, what he wanted to erode, and Julian as well, is that
Christ is king.
So you diminish Christ, you make Christ smaller so that the state can then come in and have the power that the state wants.
And in this case, it was these guys.
And so, you know, we may not be under full blown persecution in the West right now, but they but when Julian came into power, his goal was not to persecute or martyr, make martyrs in the church.
All he wanted to do was to confuse everybody.
He wanted to create divisions.
He wanted to exploit it.
He wanted to legitimize these heretical movements.
And his whole thing was, let's just get truth out of the hands of God's kingdom, and let's put it back into the hands of the state.
That's what he was trying to accomplish.
And I think that's a lot more like, I mean, that looks very similar to John Luke's point about what we see in America today.
We're not making our case anymore.
I say that a lot of people are.
But the threat will always be that when you take the case for liberty or the case for whatever, fill in the blank, if you remove it from the truth of who God is and Christ being the king of all the universe and we're all under his dominion and authority, when you remove it from that, then you just end up with some kind of, in the end, arbitrary rule.
whoever's got the most power.
And you start fighting that battle, well, then you end up back right where we started.
It's humbling.
Well, what he did was Athanasius.
So the Nicene Creed gave the church the right words, right?
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