Monday, October 3, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:48)
When Doctrine Collides With Politicians—California Seems to Be Ground ZeroPart II (11:48 - 20:34)
Blasphemy on a Billboard: Governor Gavin Newsom Manages to Reach a New LowAn Open Letter to Governor Gavin Newsom by Grace Community Church (John MacArthur)Part III (20:34 - 25:19)
‘Please Respond to the Gospel, Turn to Christ, and Use Your Office to Advance the Cause of Righteousness Instead of Undermining It’: Pastor John MacArthur’s Message to California Governor Newsom
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, October 3rd, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. It is often instructive |
| 0:15.0 | these days to look to the state of California and as we're thinking about what could be called |
| 0:20.0 | the People's Republic of California I want us to keep in mind that what we are seeing |
| 0:24.0 | there is often a sign of things to come where you live. |
| 0:28.3 | The state of California is a trendsetter. |
| 0:30.3 | It intends to be, and in terms of cultural and political and even moral issues it often is and that should concern us all |
| 0:37.7 | Precisely because California is basically now a very leftward one-party state, especially when it comes to say officials elected on a |
| 0:45.8 | statewide basis. |
| 0:47.5 | But furthermore, even in national politics, California functions as an incredible engine for progressivism. |
| 0:54.4 | But it also underlines so the most interesting intersections between the increasing moral |
| 0:59.6 | radicalism on the left of California and theological issues. |
| 1:04.0 | And there are some very interesting situations for us to observe. |
| 1:08.0 | The most interesting right now is what I would describe as a duel between California's governor Gavin Newsom and one of the |
| 1:14.8 | most influential Christian leaders of our time that will be John MacArthur, |
| 1:18.8 | pastor teacher of the Grace Community Church there in the area of Los Angeles. |
| 1:24.4 | But before we turn to Newsom and Pastor MacArthur, I want us to turn to what has been unfolding |
| 1:30.2 | already. |
| 1:31.7 | And it's interesting in this case that most of the action in terms of what has been unfolding in the intersection between religion and politics or political office in California has not had to do with evangelical Christianity but rather with Roman |
| 1:45.0 | Catholicism. |
| 1:46.0 | I want to offer a suggestion as to why that's so. |
| 1:48.7 | Well, first of all it's so, because as you are looking at the liberalism that so marks California politics, that |
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