Sheep of the Shepherd

John 10:27- My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

A John MacArthur clip is going around right now where he says nothing political or social "has anything to do with the advancement of the kingdom of God."

Thousands of Christians are bookmarking it. Reposting it. Treating it like settled doctrine because a famous man said it in a confident voice at a Q&A.

Let me show you what your Bible actually says.

Joseph of Arimathea used his political standing to retrieve the body of Christ. Without his seat on the Sanhedrin, that body stays on the cross and the burial never happens. That was political standing used for the kingdom.

Daniel served in the government of Babylon. He governed as a believer inside a pagan empire, and God used that position to preserve an entire people.

Esther used her political position in a foreign court to stop a genocide. She walked into the throne room and risked her life because the kingdom of God was operating through that system.

Nehemiah had a political office under a pagan king. He used that office to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Actual stone and mortar. A political act that directly advanced the purposes of God.

Moses walked straight into Pharaoh's court. Ten plagues targeted the political and religious systems of Egypt simultaneously.

Jesus Himself was executed by a political system. The crucifixion was a Roman political act. And the resurrection was God's answer to it.

The idea that the kingdom of God operates in some separate lane from politics and culture is not in your Bible. The entire Old Testament is the story of God working through nations, governments, judges, and kings.

And the theology is only half of why that clip matters.

The other half is how fast Christians adopted it as their own position without ever opening the text to check.

A famous man says something with authority and a clip goes viral. Thousands of believers treat it as settled.

I used to stitch my faith together from pieces of other men. A little of this pastor, a little of that podcast, whatever sounded smart that week. Then my kid asked me a question about the Bible and I realized I was quoting everyone except the Book.

That's the disease. We have been trained to follow personalities instead of Scripture. Trained to let a man's reputation do the work our own study was supposed to do.

You can respect a man and still hold his words up against the text. You should. That's what the Bereans did in Acts 17:11. They heard Paul preach and then searched the scriptures daily to see whether those things were so. The apostle Paul himself, and they still checked him.

If the Bereans checked Paul, you can check anyone.

Read your Bible.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@Nach9636 I like how you are talking about Nazi but yall are ready to vote one into office in Maine.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@krassenstein Looks like she is sitting there not being bothered by anyone and she seems to be safe and sound, you have trump to thank for that, on another note did the SPLC donate to them as well?

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@o_jurunense Brought to you by the SPLC

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@SawyerHackett SPLC paid for it.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Marco Rubio laid this out beautifully. It’s a good watch.

There is a major difference between immigration and mass migration.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

"If you want to hate our country, turn on the news.
If you want to love our country, drive across it."

Inject it into my veins.

[New York Post @nypost]

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pardons illegal migrant convicted of sexually assaulting 10-year-old girl https://t.co/qoDVD1sTJH

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

This is going to be a tough one I would like to know more information about the situation but from the video she clearly has her weapon drawn and common sense dictates to leave that situation alone at that point, when he started walking towards her she did have every right to shoot him if she felt her life was in danger, him being armed means nothing he is a man she is a woman if we subscribe that men shouldn’t be in woman’s sports because they are inferior then we have to also acknowledge that serious bodily harm can happen without him having weapons. Stand your ground laws are put in place for a reason. All I can say is if I was in that situation and I saw the gun my common sense would have said to walk away, anger can be a blinding thing!

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

I don’t watch your stuff anymore you are a double minded person one day you are agreeing with some set of morals/viewpoints etc then the next you are going against the same set you were just agreeing with. I can’t watch a man who has no loyalty, or foundation in truth, integrity and justice

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

This Katie Couric clip went viral. The "experts" declare it's "disturbing" to believe America was founded on Christian principles.

What if we just asked JOHN ADAMS, who was pivotal in founding the nation, what the truth is? @TimDavidBarton nails it here.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@clerpatriot In emergency response always remember your abc’s
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
The only time you deviate from this is when there is large amounts of bleeding you take care of that first via pressure dressing/tourniquet, then focus on the others.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@GBC_Press We need to pull out of NATO then let Europe go to war with each other again and do absolutely nothing about it and watch their world burn. As an American citizen I’m so sick of my country being used as the globes peacemakers and an ATM for people who don’t even appreciate us.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@Nickisbackbaby Welp the priest is wrong

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@WHLeavitt We need to start publicly executing people again.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@TheOfficerTatum I’ve worked in jails and prisons across the country and can confirm that this is a fairly common practice if it isn’t remedied soon depending on the strength of leadership in the prisons.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@whatever I can tell that’s his wife by the way she says Shut the F up with her hand and eye gestures and it’s hilarious 😂.

[Sheep of the Shepherd @1stTimothy612]

@downbadcomment She does realize her husband is the victim not her right? This era of people not taking accountability for their actions is really vile and disgusting.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Birthright citizenship was added to the Constitution to guarantee citizenship for Black Americans freed from slavery after the Civil War.

That's what it was for.

Now it's being abused. People come here legally or illegally, have a kid, and boom, that child is automatically a US citizen. Democrats want to keep it that way..

We shouldn't reward a woman (or whoever has the woman doing this) with citizenship for that child when she came across the border illegally (breaking our laws) and pops out a child. We are literally incentivizing people to break our laws.

That makes zero sense. It wasn't meant for this.