I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, & on Your wondrous works. Men shall speak of the might of Your awesome acts, & I will declare Your greatness. They shall utter the memory of Your great goodness, & shall sing of Your righteousness. Psalm 145:5-7
A Tribute to Dr. John MacArthur:
The Man, The Message, The Final Mile
There are few men in the modern pulpit who have stirred as much admiration and animosity as Dr. John MacArthur. But as the curtain draws near on his earthly pilgrimage, one thing is undeniably clear: this was a man who did not flinch.
He stood when the crowd bowed.
He preached when others pandered.
He clarified when the age blurred the lines.
And now, as he walks the final mile toward glory, some still lift their voices to accuse, slander, and spit on the very ground where he sowed truth. They question his heart, mock his doctrine, and twist his words into weapons. But let us remind them: the truth does not tremble at the noise of critics, nor does it fade under the fire of controversy.
Dr. MacArthur was not a man who sought the approval of men, he sought to honor the God who called him. For over five decades, he opened the Book and let it speak line by line, verse by verse, doctrine upon doctrine. He was never the man for the shallow or the seeker-sensitive, but he was the man for the remnant who still wanted substance.
Yes, he made enemies. So did Elijah. So did Paul. So did Christ.
When others bowed to Caesar in 2020, he said, “We must obey God rather than men.”
When culture demanded compromise, he chose conviction over convenience.
When his name was dragged by headlines and hashtags, he kept his hands on the plow.
To those who mock his theology, perhaps it’s not the man you hate, but the clarity with which he spoke. Truth, when preached without apology, always sounds like arrogance to the proud and judgment to the guilty.
And yet, John MacArthur’s ministry was not born in bitterness but in boldness. His greatest weapon was not the sword of sarcasm, but the sword of the Spirit. His legacy will not be measured by how many liked him, but by how many lives were anchored through the unchanging Word he preached.
To his critics: You may disagree with his methods or his message, but Eternity will not applaud trending opinions. It will weigh all things in the balance of truth.
So, until you’ve worn out a dozen Bibles, buried both saints and backsliders, wept through midnight intercession for people who cursed you the next morning, and still stood to preach the whole counsel of God, every line, every lament, every lightning bolt and yet never laid down the sword, ask yourself this question: What will your 50+ years look like in the end?
Dr. MacArthur didn’t ask for your applause. He didn’t need your amen. He stood when others bowed, exposited when others entertained, contended when others compromised. He preached the Word when it was in season and when it wasn’t and that’s more than most of his critics can say after one year of TikTok sermons and theological echo chambers.
But let’s be clear: he didn’t tickle ears. He didn’t stroke egos. He struck cords of conscience. He didn’t bend to the culture, bow to Caesar, or blink when the spotlight burned. He just kept preaching, verse by verse, book by book, decade after decade.
Come back in 50 years, if you make it that far, after faithfulness has scarred your back, fire has refined your tongue, and the applause of man has long turned to ash in your mouth.
This isn’t a stage. It’s not a sandbox. This is a war for souls.
And when the books are opened, I believe the record will show:
Here was a man who feared God, not man.
Here was a preacher who refused to tickle ears.
Here was a watchman who did not come down from the wall.
As he nears the finish line, we echo the words of the Apostle Paul, which could well be stamped on his ministry:
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7)
Dr. MacArthur, this is indeed your final season, we know this:
You were not perfect, but you were faithful.
You did not yield, and you did not bend.
Cont.
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Mike Benz educates Joe Rogan on USAID: “There is no aid in USAID. It's not an aid organization. USAID stands for US Agency for International Development. What it's developing is all the activist organizations in foreign countries that the state department is building to gain influence.
USAID was created to be a central hub that organized all the different foreign clandestine operations. It has a $50B budget. The entire intelligence community is only $72B.
It's more than the CIA and the State Department. It’s a switch player to assist the pentagon, the state department, and the intelligence community.”
America is currently experiencing the age of fakery. Our food is artificial, our media expresses a fake consensus, and nearly everyone is broker than you think.
We tell ourselves that America is the wealthiest nation in the world while ignoring how we are $36 trillion in debt. 🧵
You tell yourselves that you're homeowners but only 40% of Americans have no mortgage. However, even if you have no mortgage, failure to pay your taxes allows the government to seize your home. So, do you even own your homes?
You scroll through social media and your favorite influencers are sprawled out in luxurious mansions filled with cars they've driven a handful of times that cost more than the average house in Iowa.
But then a couple years later, their houses are being foreclosed, cars repossessed, and they're filing for bankruptcy.
Their entire lives were a facade. An American lie perpetuated to chase their version of an American dream with loans and mountains of debt.
And I'm starting to believe this is the methodology for many prominent institutions who fake everything till they make it and even after they obtain it.
Over the past number of days, the public is being made aware of how our tax dollars were being used by USAID to finance nearly every industry and private endeavor, including our mainstream media.
USAID was funneling money to POLITICO under the guise of being "subscribers" to the tune of millions and other media outlets here and abroad. Even the BBC acknowledged that 8% of its budget came from USAID.
This revelation made me think about everything that has happened over the past handful of years involving the media.
Even before I entered the media space, they would regurgitate consensus narratives that didn't make sense to me or that I'd never heard repeated by anyone personally.
They were supposed to be reporting on the thoughts of America, yet they repeated echoed what the ambitions of bureaucrats in D.C. and it drove me crazy trying to conceive how they concluded these narratives.
Now it all makes sense: Many of our institutions are just as fake and captured by the need to perpetuate fakery.
These institutions probably would have fallen years ago if it weren't for tax dollars lifting them up in darkness.
Maybe if we had a truly privatized media apparatus that wasn't calling up deep state actors for talking points, we wouldn't have been fear mongered during the pandemic and counter narratives would have been examined instead of suppressed.
Journalists would have considered the lab leak theory a possibility rather than dismissing it as a conspiracy because their governmental handlers told them so.
And here we are fighting for the truth and dealing with more fake outrage surrounding if we should "trust" Elon over a governmental body that has clearly been misappropriating our money and faking its true ambitions
Is it possible that part of this is our problem too? Maybe we are comfortable believing that America is always the good guy in every situation with the best of intentions.
We love to believe that the world is a Marvel movie where the American government is Captain America instead of the truth: We're more like Loki.
Our government, when it benefits them, sometimes does the right thing, but will never hesitate to deceptively manipulate outcomes domestically and abroad. Right when you trust them, they'll fund an opposition group to overthrow your government like a true fake friend.
Culturally, we accept the fakery and aren't critical enough about the images placed in front of us. If someone says they're rich, they must be. I mean, did you see the car they drive?
The guy on the television told me that this politician is bad or that everyone around you believes this new niche concept that you've never heard your entire life. It must be true, right?
We are in the age of fakery and many of us refuse to believe it. The World Economic Forum stated that their ambition will be that you will own nothing and be happy; part of me thinks we're already there.
The media doesn't report on the strife of Americans because the people don't own it; corporations and governmental bodies do.
The people we help to elect are typically the only options we have after the donors choose their preferred candidates; so who are they actually accountable to? Do they really represent us or is this just more fakery?
Nearly every institution I would have held in esteem a decade ago implements a deceptive image of itself for the public to believe.
There is more to gain if someone lies to you than tells you the truth. Honesty rarely makes you money and gains you new friends, but a deceptive image can grab till eternity.
Why else would everything be so fake if it didn't work?