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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Biblical Mandate to Expand and Fill the Earth 0:10 Well, welcome to chapter 49 of Reversed from Culturally Woke to biblically awake. We're on chapter 49. How many of you have ever heard of this? The 150:22 minute city. Most people have never even heard of that. What is the 15 minute city by definition? 15 minute city is means you have to organize your life so you're0:33 only allowed to travel a distance of 15 minutes anyway by bicycle or by walking. In other words, so your house, your place of employment, your shopping,0:46 your entertainment, everything you would go to would be only a 15 minute walk or bicycle ride in any any direction. What is at issue in this proposal? By the0:57 way, you can just Google this if you're not familiar with it. And you'll see right away that in England, it's already being experimented, parts of Europe as well. What is what happens when this occurs? You lose your1:09 basic rights. Now historically, cities and urban areas are different demographically than rural areas. Why is1:21 that important to this discussion? Cities historically are more leftist in nature. Why is that? They have a higher dependence upon government. Rural areas,1:32 in contrast, have more conservative values. They're more, self self care, a personal responsibility. They're able to care for themselves considerably better and1:44 not nearly as dependent upon government. Consequently, the 15 minute city well, we'll get to that in a moment, but it attempts to push these kind of values in these kind1:56 of environments. Let's go to the bible. What does Genesis 1 28 say? It says to go out and multiply. Now we're aware with the multiplication, but the the going out, the2:08 sending, The implication is we're to expand and replicate the garden. Take seriously that notion. You expand. Go go take charge of the2:20 earth. Move out. Enjoy this great land that God has created for you. The 1st cities were built by Cain. Cain's the 1 who killed Abel. They were done when they left the presence of2:32 the Lord, and they gathered themselves in cities for the 1st time. They built walls of protection around them. The protection that they begin to rely on at that time in the Bible was not on2:44 the Lord anymore. It was not on transcendent a transcendent God. It was man centered protection. Let's gather and put ourselves together and put walls around us. So it is.2:56 Well, let's go to this 15 minute city now. What's the unintended consequence of this potential regulations they want to do in cities where you would only be able to travel3:09 15 minutes, either walking or by bicycle to everything you do in the course of a day, in the course of your lifetime. What would that do? Well, 1st of3:20 all, it would would take rural areas away with their more conservative values and push more leftist policies because as we said earlier, sociologically, historically, cities3:32 tend to have more reliance upon government as opposed to self reliance. It would reduce your car usage, or if you even had a car, you probably wouldn't even have 1 in this case. That's the goal.3:44 And your mo your mobility options would be vastly reduced. You'd be really a captive audience. Does that remind you of anything in history? The answer is yes. Germany, pre World3:56 War 2. Let's just see what it says here. Go to your book if you have it, page 3 98. With a semi confined citizenry, that is a captive audience, the government will be tempted4:08 to exercise further control on any number of things it deems critical to restrain. Certain types of foods, the amount of power and water used, are we already experiencing4:20 that? The amount of personal living space owned, rent rates for protected classes of people, are we already seeing that? The number of vehicles allowed, if any, how many miles can be driven, and4:32 on and on. Also, the more densely packed a city becomes, the easier it is to implement comprehensive surveillance to monitor movements and enforce social compliance4:44 in line with government expectations. You may not be aware, or perhaps some of you are, that in Germany, you had all kinds of passports back then. You had a passport, not just your normal 1. You had a4:56 passport to go purchase things. You had passport for this, passport for that, passport. You had to have governmental permission for virtually everything you do. A loss of mobility, it could be the5:07 loss of roads, the the kind of the wonderful interstate system we now enjoy in this country, that that would not be a part of a 15 minute city. Remember, the goal is to get you to move. Only in a 15 minute distance that5:19 you can ride a bike or travel or walk, in in any any distance. So what's that mean? That means a loss of your freedom to associate. Let's think of a large church. Let's suppose you're5:31 part of a large church. Suppose that large church is a 20 minute drive away. Well, you're not gonna be able to do that 15 minutes on a bicycle. And so your capacity to associate with other people, to5:43 assemble, is gone. This runs counter to the command of God to disperse, to go out to the ends of the earth. Everything about the 15 minute5:54 city is in complete violation to the pattern that God established all the way in Genesis. We are moving from culturally woke to biblically awake.Consequences: Control, Surveillance, and Loss of Freedom 6:07 Father, we thank you for the freedom and privilege you've given us to live and dwell according to your plan for nations. And for cities,6:19 may we not be subject to concentration, even concentration camps. We ask you to deliver us from the spirit of control and6:31 that we we'd prefer you over convenience. In Genesis chapter 1, we read, God blessed them, Adam and Eve.6:43 And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the6:55 earth. We thank you, Lord, that you have given us this authority. May we steward it and use it wisely. We thank you for the privilege of bringingPrayer and Closing 7:07 forth life and being a blessing to you on this earth. In Jesus' name, amen.7:14 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey, don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Biblical Mandate to Expand and Fill the Earth6:00 Consequences: Control, Surveillance, and Loss of Freedom7:00 Prayer and Closing
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