Phil Johnson

And again, I, I do lean towards B, that this, they, they wanted this message to get out

outUh, this is Phil Johnson, uh, crashing out over William Wolfe saying this.

Wow, it doesn't really surprise me that he thinks this way.

It surprises me that it, it is a conscious, considered conviction, and he's willing to say it out loud.

But when they tell you this is where they stand, believe them.

So this is Phil Johnson opposing Christian nationalism, uh, because-

So, I mean, it, it does first re-

This guy is lost without John MacArthur.

Hello.

welcome back thank you always good to have you man um we're just giving the people what they want we are about to dive into round two of this phil johnson anti-christian nationalism sermon and uh you know i saw in the comments you wanted me to finish i and honestly guys i wasn't gonna do it by myself i just i couldn't do it i couldn't do it I was like, I sat through it.

I was like, look, I got to the end.

I was like, I'm repeating myself so much.

Uh, that's like the attitude that they have toward it.

And, and it's like, no, these are, these were godly men that believed in Jesus.

And, uh, And the reason why Phil Johnson, uh, you know, probably a Norwegian, I don't know what his ancestry is.

Like the reason that Phil is a believer, a big reason is that a thousand years ago is great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather converted with one of those Norse Kings.

It's been a real delight to hear all of those who have taught in this series on how the story ends, and I am so thankful to everyone who participated in terms of preaching in the series.

And just wanna say thanks to Mark Zakovich for last week on the eternal state, to Carl Hargrove the week before that on the great white throne judgment, to Steve Crawford for his work on the tribulation, and especially Daniel chapter nine, and of course, to Phil Johnson for his amazing message on Christian nationalism and how to think about those things.

And I'm thankful to you men as well for your participation in the series, so thank you, and thanks for being willing to join me in answering all of the tricky and tough questions that all of you asked.

It was amazing.

Some of you are familiar with the Church of Christ.

For many years there was that television show, Duck Dynasty, and Phil Johnson, et cetera.

Ph-Phil Robertson, excuse me.

[audience laughing] Don't tell Phil Johnson I said that.

[audience laughing] Phil Robertson, one of the key characters, outspoken individuals on that show, was an example of this kind of teaching.

He belonged to the Unite-- or to the Church of Christ and believed that baptism was necessary for salvation.

He had hidden for years.

He was one of John MacArthur's right-hand men, along with several others, Phil Johnson and others.

But he didn't protect the work.

And friends, it can go on and on and on and on.

And we have several great speakers that are always coming to this conference every year, sometimes some new ones.

That includes yourself, of course, but H.P. Charles, Phil Johnson, Denny Burke, Rick Holland, Dan Doran, and Philip DeCourcy, some really wonderful men of God who are pastors in these other places.

And they come here every year, and we hold this conference on a certain topic.

I'm really in line with Ephesians 4, that we might speak the truth and love in the world as we're being called to do.

Tom's church leadership did so, with Tom recusing himself entirely from the process.

They conducted a thorough investigation, even enlisting other outside pastors, including Phil Johnson of Grace Community Church, to examine the allegations and provide counsel.

The vast majority of the allegations against Tom proved to be baseless, and even the strongest allegation could only be categorized as, as careless or unwise in the opinion of all the respected, doctrinally sound pastors and theologians who examined the evidence and publicly offered their thoughts.

In my article that we've linked in the show notes, there's a link to a video by Pastor Gabriel Hughes, former elder at Tom's church, showing clips from several sermons of Tom's alleged plagiarism.

He unhesitatingly agreed to all the recommendations of his church leadership, candidly addressed the issue with his congregation, and immediately began taking measures to prevent any future citation issues.

But this was apparently not a satisfactory resolution to the matter for the then anonymous accusers.

Subsequent to the March mailing of the dossier to FBC Lindale's leadership, the accusers cast a wider net, and in June, sent another round of mailings of the dossier to higher profile pastors and entities, including Protestia, Phil Johnson, like Michelle just said, Gabe Hughes, Tom Ascol, and possibly as many as three dozen others, urging them to look into the matter and make all of this public in hopes of destroying Tom Buck's ministry.

Now, we're not assigning this motive.

Today, we are talking about Christian nationalism.

We will be reacting to Phil Johnson's sermon.

I've been thinking about doing this for a while.

Grace Community Church, you guys know John MacArthur's church.

We've abandoned politics, and that's why we're here.

That's why we're here, precisely because of the retreatist mentality that is going to be conveyed in this sermon.

I don't know, Phil Johnson, never met him.

He's probably a wonderful man.