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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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All right, guys, we made it to the end of another week. All week this week we've been talking about hate, specifically hating evil. So we're doing this by diving into Psalm 97. So, for the last time this week, I'll go ahead and read that it's called the Lord Reigns. The Lord Reigns, let the earth rejoice, let the many coastlands be glad. Clouds and thick darkness are all around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and burns up his adversaries all around. His lightings light up the world. The earth sees and trembles, the mountains melt like wax before the Lord, before the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim his righteousness and all the peoples see his glory. All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boasts and worthless idols worship him. All you gods. Zion hears and is glad and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. On verse 10, again, it reads O you who love the Lord, hate evil. He preserves the lives of his saints. He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. So, specifically, my thesis all week has been that as Christians, we don't hate evil nearly enough, and yesterday we talked about the evil of standpoint epistemology. Today we're wrapping up this week by talking about how Christians don't hate the evil of the isms enough. Yes, you heard me correctly, the isms.

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So specifically, today we're going to discuss Marxism, communism, socialism and feminism. So just to give you a quick primer on all of these, because we can't just do a deep dive, let's look at the isms that I just mentioned. So Marxism, this refers to the work and philosophies of Karl Marx. So Marx's theory argues that history is a struggle between classes, right? So he calls on the bourgeoisie and the proletariat that's in his parlance and that capitalism oppresses the working class. So Marx called for a classless or communist society. So what is communism? That is, a stateless society without classes and without capitalism. And so downstream of communism is socialism. So socialism is kind of like communism, light if you will. So it's a more flexible version of communism. It's not as hard as you know normal communism. It's not as hard as you know normal communism. It allows for government and economic interventions to, you know, quote unquote reduce inequality. And then, downstream of those, you have something like feminism. So the feminist movement, especially second wave feminism, built off of the foundation of Marxism and critical theory, which was essentially fighting to destroy so-called social constructs and, you know, patriarchal oppression.

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So here are three reasons why we should hate the isms more. Number one God's design brings order. The isms bring chaos. So one of the main overarching themes of the entire Bible is God injecting order into chaos. Okay, so that's what happened at creation. That's what happened when he gave his chosen people the law and the judges. That's what happened when he sent his son to this earth. Right, to eventually die on a Roman cross to provide propitiation for our sin debt to him. Right, the isms are fueled by disorder and the constant tearing down of whatever structure is currently in place. Right, this is a direct opposition to the design God gave us.

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Reason number two they breed hatred and envy. So all the isms pit the supposed haves against the supposed have-nots, right, and this leads to covetousness. So in Exodus 20, verse 17, you shall not covet your neighbor's house and you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant, or his ox or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's. The isms fuel is hatred of what you have and an insatiable desire to have or really to take what someone else has. And reason number three they pull people away from the roles God laid out for them, away from the roles God laid out for them. So feminism especially wants to usurp the role of head given to the man, as described in Ephesians 5.

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So let me read some, you know, feminist ear melting scriptures here. Ephesians 5.22, wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. And then in 1 Corinthians 11, verse 3, but I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ and the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of a wife is her husband and the head of Christ is God. So are Christians called to hate? Yes, emphatically and for the last time this week yes, yes, yes. We are called to hate evil and our hatred must compel us to act. So we should push back the darkness of the isms at every opportunity. Thank you for your attention this week. Stay sharp.

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