Pastor John MacArthur Warns Biden to ‘Be Careful When You Put Your Hand on the Word of God’
By: Milton Quintanilla
This pastor is so right on about so many issues both biblically and on issues of politics and current events. He stands for Biblical teachings as they are and expresses the current sexual and reproductive deviancy in the current America vs what was intended perfectly well. His resistance to our stupid about to be recalled governor and his local city and county blue leader pandemic dictates is well known and deeply appreciated. Thank God that there are still lights like his shining upon a dark sin filled world. His warning to our President was perfect!
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On Sunday, Pastor-teacher John MacArthur of Grace Community Church offered a stern warning to President Joe Biden following last week’s inauguration.
MacArthur cautioned Biden on placing his hand on the Bible while pledging “to do the very things that blaspheme His name.”
“You can say whatever you want to say,” he began “but when you touch the ark, when you place your hand on the throne of God, because God is enthroned in His Word, and you place your hand on the Word of God and pledge to do the very things that blaspheme His name.”
“God doesn't want your respect, He wants your obedience”, MacArthur asserted.
“Don’t tell me you advocate for the slaughter of babies in the womb,” he continued. “Don’t tell me you want to destroy masculinity, femininity, marriage. Don’t tell me you want to fill the world with LGBTQ people in leadership, you want to justify transgender activity. Don’t tell me you want to invite more Muslims in who represent a religion from Hell and then put your hand on the throne of God.”
MacArthur, who has been pastoring the Los Angeles based church since 1969, made headlines last year for defying the state’s COVID restrictions on houses of worship that resulted in fines and court hearings.
Over a week ago last Sunday, he addressed how mainstream media outlets like ABC, CNN and the Los Angeles Times along with “ungodly bloggers” attempted to discredit his church, The Christian Post reports.
“They tried every way to close Grace Church. And I think it is true that there is no more scrutinized church in the United States of America than Grace Community Church,” MacArthur explained. “I’m still here.”
MacArthur also alluded to the recent scandals among well-known Christian leaders such as the late apologist Ravi Zacharias and Carl Lentz , the former pastor of Hillsong New York.
“First of all, phonies are going to have a hard time hiding with the internet. We’re seeing one after another after another,” he noted “Dead ones and alive ones. This dead apologist had a deviant sex life. This cool dude rock and roll pastor was immoral with multiple women for years and years.”
The context of MacArthur’s comments addressed how there is “a superficial Christianity” that has tried to “appeal to nonbelievers” yet they don’t come to saving faith because of the corruption that has taken place amongst its leaders.
He argued that it would be difficult to call the church to repentance since “superficial Christianity made a lot of money” and “elevated a lot of charlatans.” Nevertheless, he believes that there is currently a “shifting and sifting” between the true church and a false church.
MacArthur addressed the importance of Christ at the heart of the Christian faith as that is the only way Christianity would have any appeal.
“We preach Christ, right? And you’re attracted to Him, right? But if there are people out there looking at Christianity, it has to be uninviting, maybe even repulsive. Who are these people? Filthy rich, immoral, corrupt, narcissistic. If it weren’t for Jesus Christ, Christianity would have no appeal,” he argued.
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The false prophets of Trumpism need to all line up!
It is time to face the Biblical punishment for failure...
He’s the one who echos true prophets and calls out actual fake believers.
Like the evangelicals who foretold a 2nd term?
Aren't they by definition proven false prophets?
Thus the answer to your question based on the above and my understanding is yes, if they did it in Gods name as opposed to mere personal as an individual wishful thinking and if the former haven’t repented of it. Doubling down upon such a mistaken prophecy done as if it came from God would lead to effects as described in the snippet above.
In that case a lot of evangelicals are screwed!
They're on record false prophesying 2nd term.
Why are you death wishing these people? We all know that is what is meant by Biblical punishment for that unrepented sin
What exactly does the Bible say should become of false prophets who are proven to be wrong?
I’ve been talking shit about god for decades. I must be invincible.
In this world as it is no one is invincible. This pastor seems by all appearances to be a loyal believer and true to Biblical teaching.
You assume that I care a bit at all about the point you were attempting to make. This pastor is right on in his words and actions.
I agree. He is holding true to the words of ancient men quite well.
I wonder why your god keeps rewarding me with so many riches after all that shit talking I do about him. He hasn’t even touched me with COVID-19 yet - you know, that sickness that he’s been plaguing houses of worship with? I must be his favorite atheist.
Never heard of him. Is he one of those treasonous Trump loving evangelists?
So people regardless of their life calling who voted for and supported Trump as our President and his running for the office are all treasonous now?
Any preacher that still supports Trump after he tried to overthrow the US government is treasonous , yes.
Just Preachers? What about the rest of us who still support him? We all of course know that it is a lie to state that former President Trump tried to overthrow our government of which he was a part of.
Perhaps you might remember him in the context of his and others recent defiance of Ca. And local urban counties and their recent win before the Supreme Court.
Why not? God did.
The bottom line as to the absolute truth we conservative evangelical Christians believe and stand up for. There have been good people coming out of all these things in their worst forms who have seen the error of supporting abortion, the LGTBQ lifestyle and agenda, as well of the extreme forms of Islam and renounced them. While hierarchical Islam is a counterfeit there are many good people within it who will most certainly be among the saved in Heaven.
The bottom line is that neither you nor the preacher can claim that abortion is against your god's will, when your god commanded that it be performed, if your Bible is to be believed. You've read your Bible, haven't you, MAGA? Do you deny that the verses above are within its pages?
There were times in history when a people or country or city reached the close of their probation with God and all were to be eliminated in judgement for wanton long term sin, rebellion. And that included women who happened to be pregnant at the moment of judgement. God doesn’t otherwise want anyone to die before their time, including the pre born.
The words are in there, MAGA. In black and white. You don't get to both claim them and deny them.
You can’t maintain that these mass judgements upon a civilization nation or city by God is in any way an excuse or rationalization for any individual now to have that act carried out upon their own child.
Of course I can. If it's immoral, it's immoral for everyone who isn't a hypocrite. Declaring it moral for one being and not for another is hypocritical.
Thank goodness we're not a theocracy, bound by such double standards.
So because God destroyed all the wicked by water via the flood and will do it again by fire after the final judgement makes it ok to commit murder now because God once did judge and will again carry out a final judgement?
God has no double standards nor are we mere mortals in any position to sit in judgement of any of His actions. The rest of the universe has already judged and endorsed His actions here on earth dealing with Satan and the sin rebellion problem.
You're only proving the futility of using an ancient book written by ancient, often violent, men to determine what is moral and what isn't.
Your pastor can't claim that abortion is against the word of God, when God explicitly commanded that abortions be performed, and never explicitly prohibited them. Abortion is something that he and you oppose, but you can't claim God's backing.
If you agree with me that murder is wicked, you'll see it as wicked no matter who commits it, and not give your God a pass. Of course, as I see no reason to suppose that either your God or the murders he committed are actually real, I don't face such moral dilemmas. I'm free of the hypocritical need to both condemn murder and defend it.
Demonstrably false!
Says who?
That's nice. Prove it! Given the distance between worlds, it's unlikely the rest of the universe is even aware of our existence. Or that it actually cares.
Also demonstrably false!
SO God is ok with murder and even commits it himself, but somehow it's wrong? That's quite hypocritical. Not to mention a glaring logical flaw in your god and bible! Case in point, " And that included women who happened to be pregnant at the moment of judgement."
So why doesn't god prevent it if he doesn't want it? God can do anything, right?
You should at some point seriously try to comprehend your beliefs. They come from ancient men dreaming up the best God they could. There is no evidence of God or Satan; just words from human beings. And these words contradict themselves.
For example —in terms you should understand— you believe that God picks the leaders of nations based on the Bible. Thus God picked Trump and God picked Biden. But you also believe that Biden stole the election. From God?? Clearly something is wrong with these beliefs. So which is it? Is Biden the legitimate God-picked PotUS? If so, then you should stop defying God by claiming the election was stolen. If Biden is not legit (in your dreams) then Biden has put one over on God.
Contradictions are an excellent method for logically proving falsehoods.
Yes, but some do not care and will actually double down on their falsehoods, which only shows a complete cognitive disconnect and delusion.
They are there. I can place them in proper context unlike any generic willful non believer who only reads to try to find fault in order to justify their choice to deny and not believe...
Justify your lack of belief in Zeus.
After the final judgement absolutely no one will accuse God of engaging in any double standard.
you will get the opportunity to try to prove your case on all the above to Him one day.
Sure, sure. You can't even prove he exists, but I'm supposed to be shaking in my boots. Your god seems to be some sort of bogeyman, a fairy tale to frighten children. A petty, hypocritical bogeyman, whose commands seem to coincide with your own beliefs. Very convincing.
Of course that is the exact opposite of what occurs. The Bible puts forth grand claims that have, for thousands of years, failed to be evidenced (much less proven). Not being persuaded that these words by ancient men are true — especially given the contradictions — is the default position. Actually believing this stuff requires denial of facts and reason. That denial has been packaged up and sold as 'faith'.
Actually He is a just and fair God who is love. He made it possible to be redeemed from rebellion and restored to our original condition like Adam and Eve were before they fell into rebellion. Eternal life and living in paradise with Him and having an eternity to explore the universe with no sadness, sickness, or death is not a rational persons idea of a bogey man. People will believe in Him by faith and receive eternal life or they won’t. Everyone has free will to chose whether to believe or not. Those demanding signs and wonders or “proof” so that they might be made to believe will have chosen not and the related consequences.
See 5.18.
Why we March for life.
Harry Potter defeated Voldemort and destroyed the Elder wand ... showing galactic integrity. See we all can speak of stories invented by human beings as if the characters were real and the actions true.
This is precisely the scare tactic used by religions to keep the faithful frightened and thus subservient to the wishes of the religion. Clearly it still works on some.
Is that what you think is a rebuttal?
Empty threats from your cosmic boogeyman is hardly convincing or persuasive. It's just fear mongering, which religions frequently use to keep people in line and ignorant!
Such arrogance! What makes your interpretations and better or worse than someone else's? A non-believer (or other critical thinking individual) will not simply accept what's said for belief's sake. Some actually analyze what's being said. Simply accepting/believing something, no questions asked, because someone else said or wrote it is just being gullible and willfully ignorant.
Also demonstrably false. Even according to your bible!
Even though he caused the problem in the first place.
That sounds like something along the lines of what a con artist would say. What's the saying about something sounding too good to be true?
If there were a god, there would be no free will. But some are simply incapable of believing anything without evidence.
In other words, don't look behind the curtain.
Probably. We know it's not.
Yet another human being daring to speak for the grandest possible entity, the creator of everything. What arrogance! How would this guy know anything whatsoever about a supreme entity?
Because some ancient men told him so in a book. So there!
Actually God told him so in an inspired collection of 66 books combined into one saving message.
A collection of static, ancient books (highly edited by human beings) that is demonstrably errant (and contradictory no less) is the word of a perfect God? Back that up with evidence and reason.
That's nice. Prove it!
"Inspired" is not the same as actual. It's still an ancient man writing something in an ancient book. There's nothing else to suggest anything more than that.
The Bible is Gods divine message to all of humanity.
Still just an empty declaration with no evidence or veracity.
It is the great commission and thus his job to do exactly that. There is no arrogance in preaching and teaching about a supreme entity from the material He left us via inspired persons He directed the expression of in their writing ✍️ of His love letter to us.
It is the height of arrogance for a human being to claim to know and then speak on the wishes of a singular supreme entity. It is hard to imagine anything more arrogant than that.
In case you need a refresher: arrogant ≡ " Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities ."
Yep, the epitome of arrogance! Sanctimoniously so too.
Fortunately fascist militant secularists/atheists in America don’t get to dictate to Christians the terms of which we get to express ourselves about God and or our religious beliefs. Their opinions on such matters are less than meaningless to believers as we maintain our faith and beliefs and engage in the great commission to bring the content of our beliefs as good news to every man woman and child living on the face of the earth.
Where do you find fascist militant secularists/atheists? If that is who you think is challenging your comments then your imagination is in overdrive.
Blind belief. Confirmation bias. Imagined reality. So impressive.
So delusional too!
Nobody is trying to. We're free to point out the inconsistencies, and will continue to do so.
There are no inconsistencies in Gods word or His actions.
God is defined as omniscient and perfect yet He is surprised, disappointed and has had His mind changed. An omniscient, perfect entity cannot (by definition) be surprised, disappointed or change His mind. He already has perfect knowledge.
That is one of many contradictions in the fantasy product of ancient men.
Would you mind terribly if I borrowed your Sarcasm certification stamp from time to time? It is the official stamp of the Sarcastic Society of America is it not?
If the Bible is to be believed, there certainly are. You declaring the opposite does not make it so.
Again, demonstrably false.
It is not mine, but if it were I would be happy to share it.
Meh, I'm far older than John MacArthur's fantasy of Young Earth Creationism.
Literal one week creation when it happened is no fantasy. It’s the truth as to our origins.
That's nice. Prove it!
Do you think anyone is impressed by your unsupported declarations of truth? Who are you to deem that we were created and that it took one week? If you deem this truth then you bear the burden of proof. The best you can do is simply declare this as your belief. Then you bear no burden of proof but your unsupported declaration remains laughable.
Whether a secularist doubter that God even exists is impressed by the truth or not is of absolutely no concern to me.
Your intellectual rebuttal is to claim that you do not care. I suspect this will surprise nobody here.
I'm certainly not surprised. There is never any logical rebuttal offered. Only intellectual dishonesty and dodging.