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A Utah school district has banned the Bible because it's vulgar and violent. Remember: the ultimate goal of all of the progressive movements we see, whether it's LGBTQIA+ or BLM, is to destroy the Christian Church. The causes we see them fight for are mere means to their ultimate goal.
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Welcome to The Morning Motivation brought to you by the Public Square app and Patriot Gold Group. Very excited for this week. I think we're going to get into more details about this on a longer version of the podcast this week, but a Utah school district decided to remove the Bible from all of its libraries because of its vulgarity and violence. So here's the back story to this. A lot of people have been banning books from schools. You hear the Democrats complain about it all the time, these book bans, especially against DeSantis and Flores, banning books. They're not banning books. They're removing, school districts, some, are removing sexually explicit, outrageously sexually explicit books from school libraries. You can go buy the book anywhere. You can buy it at the local library. I'm sure public libraries. Barnes and Noble has a section, a whole table with a professional sign that says Banned Books. And you can buy all the banned books right there. So clearly they're not banned. There are people who desperately want to shower your children with pornography to destroy their sexual innocence and pervert their minds as early as possible. And they will go to incredible lengths to do it. So one of the activists who loves these sexually explicit books, they decided to use our own weapon against us and say, well, let me tell you about another book that's vulgar and violent, the Bible banned from this school district. Now they're right. There is rape and incest and slaughter of entire groups of people. It's brutal but it's true and it's God's Word and it never celebrates these evil things, rape, incest, all that. We're just about to finish The Family, I think it's by Catherine Vos. It's about a 100-year-old book. It's called The Children's Story Bible, I believe. It's a blue cover with gold letters. I highly recommend it. It's a perfect story for kids, a book for kids to read at night because it doesn't cartoonify things. My problem with a lot of the Bible storybooks for kids is it's just like one big giant cartoon, like one fun, happy-go-lucky cartoon. Like, oh, here's Noah's Ark, and look at all the cute animals, and the pink elephants, and look how fun. And it leaves out the fact that everyone died except for Noah and his family. So, but I want the full story to be told in this book by Catherine Voss, it's 100 years old. She does a really good job of telling the full story and the true story. And our kids can handle this. It's God's Word, so they should be given all of it. So, yeah, the Bible is a lot. It's very clear that when people obey God, good things happen. And when people disobey or forget God, bad things happen, and very bad things happen. But back to Utah, I am certain, whether it's done in this like, jestful way, is that a word? Jestful, in jest, like what they're doing in Utah, or it's done very seriously, I am certain, one way or the other, the Bible will be deemed a hate book. Preachers will be accused of spewing hate speech and if you read this book you are a hateful bigot and it will be banned. The ultimate goal of all of this, remember Black Lives Matter is an atheist Marxist organization. What do you think you know all the LGBT activist groups are right? The ultimate goal of all of this is to destroy the church. That is the ultimate goal. The destruction of marriage is not the goal. The destruction of marriage is a means to destroy the relevancy of the church in society. The destruction of the concept of gender is not the goal. That's not the end. It's a means to attacking the legitimacy of the Bible in the very beginning, Genesis 127. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created them male and female, he created them. They're trying to get... they have to undercut everything. They've got to get Genesis 1.1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. They've been trying to debunk God as creator in everything they do all the time. And they've been very successful in convincing most people that the Bible is either irrelevant or the new approach will be it is full of hate. So all of this activist stuff you see all this today transgender stuff whatever all of this is ultimately about the destruction of the church and the Bible and God. One of the next steps you'll see is to deem churches hate hate groups. There's been this neutering of churches for a long time. 1954 is when the tax code changed so that if a church says anything political they lose their tax-exempt status. So a lot of churches have stayed on the sidelines of the most important issues in our culture because they're afraid that they don't want to be political. And we've seen the fruit of that silence. But the left will use that. They'll say, oh that church over there, they said something vaguely political because they were in support of traditional marriage, so we need to take away their tax-exempt status. That's the next step towards shutting down churches. So, all that being said, this week we're gonna talk about the 1934 Barman Declaration. This was a document signed by Christian pastors in Germany who were against the German Christian movement. So the German Christian movement was from 1932 to 1945. This is when the Nazis infiltrated and co-opted the Christian church and turned it into a weaponized arm of the Nazi party. And the Nazis, they changed the Bible. So the Old Testament's got to go, way too Jewish. They claimed that Moses married a Negro woman, for instance, right? They twisted scripture. Matthew 21, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves. The German Christian Nazis changed it to the German word for department store. You're turning the house of prayer into a department store, which was owned almost entirely by Jews, just to throw that in there. They got rid of a lot of Jewish terms, which is hard to do. In the Old Testament, the cedars of Lebanon were changed to the firs of the German forest. Right. So all these seemingly little things that people thought, Oh, what's the big deal? Word here, word there, no problem. And then in a very postmodern way, they said, you know, Jesus never wrote anything about himself, so we should move beyond the written word entirely. Who needs the Bible? Who needs written words about it? We know what we need to know. Baptism was changed from in the body of Christ to into the community of the Volk, the people. The communion was no longer about the body and blood of Jesus. It was instead the body of the earth that firm and strong remains true to the German soil. The wine was the blood of the earth, so it was blatant paganism. And it wasn't long until they said, you know, Jesus has got to go. Because Jesus preached love and grace and forgiveness and repentance and all these things that weren't very helpful to the Nazis. So Jesus was gone. And then there's this whole movement that Germans don't sin at all. No Germans. So eventually some true Bible believing pastors got together and wrote the Barman Declaration against what was happening to the church in Germany. It is believed that there were 18,000 pastors in Germany at that time and something like 6,000 signed it. And the Nazis of course persecuted those 6,000 and only 3,000 stood strong in their support of it. So that left one-sixth of the Christian pastors in Germany on the side of the Bible. One-sixth. And I expect that to be probably about the same in America when this finally hits the fan. That's about right. Probably a sixth of pastors, a sixth of churches, a sixth of Christians will stand up in support of the Bible, even when they're called bigots and all the rest. That may be even high. I pray that even a sixth stands strong. So what did this Barman Declaration say back then, So what did this Barman Declaration say back then, 1934, and how is it relevant to us? We'll start on that tomorrow.
