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.
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Who voted for this?
Shocking โฆ.After I went on CBS and exposed Khamenei's staged funeral, I received over 50,000 comments from the Islamic Republic's cyber army on my instagram.
I checked their profiles. These are not bots. These are real people threatening to kidnap me, butcher me, and paying a bounty for anyone who chops my head off.
These are the supporters of the โSupreme Leaderโ of the Islamic Republic who cry for the death of a dictator.
And what is the reason of their anger?
This regime spends millions on lobbyists to normalize the Islamic Republic in Western media. When one woman goes on mainstream media, right after their leader's death and speaks the truth, and echoes the voices of millions inside Iran, they lose their minds.
Because the truth terrifies them.
This is also how it works: first they harass you online. Then they send killers to your door. They did it to Iranian journalist Rohullh Zam. First aid threaten him on line, even some of the opposition join the Online attack against him, then they kidnapped him from France to Iran, then they hanged him.
The Islamic CBS Republic is proud of itโs act of terrorism and publicly talk about kidnapping and killing their opponents.
Yes, the Islamic Republic doesn't care if you're left or right. Republican or Democrat. They want to silence us all.
My answer to all the new death threats:
I will not bow to my killers.
I will not bow to my oppressors.
I will keep echoing the voice of millions of Iranians, against this terrorist regime, for as long as I breathe.
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