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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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Lockdowns, Mandates, and Coercion 0:10 We welcome you to chapter 39. We're walking through the book reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. Chapter 39, the loss of medical freedom. What a hot topic this is.0:22 March the seventeenth 20 20, the day that changed America. The day the lockdowns went into effect. It it was bizarre how this was applied. I live in San Diego, and, I remember us0:34 going down to the beach 1 time, and the beach was all cordoned off. In other words, it was regarded to be unsafe for you to be on the beach, the open expansive beach. Remember hearing the story of 1 90 year old man who0:46 was out sitting by the beach on by himself, just alone. And they sent police out there to remove him, that he wasn't allowed to be out there because they literally had yellow tape all around the0:58 boardwalk and around the beach area. It was absolutely astounding. The irrationality of the application of this was stunning. Many churches and many pastors rose up against this.1:10 Many of them paid a high price. Some of them are still in court over even though they couldn't even find a single case of COVID caused by anybody in their church. In fact, they kept the church open during this time. The1:21 government went after him just the same. And then as if that wasn't enough, then mandatory vaccination, coercive, violating the very notion of religious conscience, independent conscience, the capacity1:33 to say, I put into my body what I wanted to put into my body. This was occurring at the same time. The issues of consent, some people didn't want the vaccine in them because they felt the the items that used in there,1:44 the ingredients of the vaccine had come from aborted children. They didn't want that. They also felt it was experimental. It wasn't tested nearly enough. I I remember years ago, many years ago, my late wife, she1:56 was ill, battling cancer. She died after a 6 year battle with cancer. But we were living in San Diego and flying to Houston, Texas, the MD Anderson Hospital. And there were experimental programs that we could try, and we2:08 did, towards the end, try a a number of them. She qualified to get into these experimental programs. But the fact is, these had to be programs that you signed up for. You wanted to do this.2:20 In this case, the government mandated upon everyone to go into these kind of programs. On top of that, even morally offensive was the fact that the manufacturers of the so called vaccines2:32 were granted immunity or liability. They they they simply were not they were not held responsible in any liable way for what the what may it may cause. The the coercion caused people to2:44 fill out various forms to try to get, as conscientious objectors, religious objectors to it. I helped assist as a pastor, nurses, and members of the military who did not want to take the vaccine,2:56 assisted that, signed the papers for them. Many of them were turned down. Most in military were driven out of the military, and only until Donald Trump was became president did he reinstate though those3:08 individuals. It raises an interesting moral and ethical question. When you're coerced to do something, what what is the extent to which you can lie about something and not be violating the3:19 conscience or the holy spirit's act action in your life? Give an example. If you're asked if you're housing, during World War 2, let's say, and, in Germany in 193:31 late 19 thirties, if you're hiding a Jew to try to save their life and the gestapo knocks on your door and says, do you have a Jew here? Do you say no, or should you say yes? If you say yes, the Jew gets killed. If you3:43 say no, you may be able to protect the life of the Jew. And so there becomes a higher moral moral order at stake here. Is it legitimate to lie in that picker case? I think given the higher moral issue of a Jew being3:54 killed, yes, it's legitimate to lie in that case. What about if it's your life? This may be at stake. There were there were issues being raised, questions that were coming up. If I have a4:06 vaccine card, if I get 1 somehow, but I haven't been vaccinated, is it is it appropriate for me to use that? Well, if if that is your feeling that you want to save your life, I would say ethically, you4:18 have every right to do that from a moral standpoint. You may disagree with that. We can dialogue about that another time. But during this time, it got coerced upon individuals this time. Along comes the World Health4:29 Organization. We've talked about that in previous videos, so I'll only just mention that very, very briefly. But they ripped away any medical freedom, any right of conscience, and they want to demand that4:41 they determine what a pandemic is. And when they determine what a pandemic is, every other nation of the world must come under them. What the biggest loss during the whole COVID season in American history. The biggest4:53 loss was the issue of trust. We used to trust certain institutions. We used to trust certain medical, faculties. We just do not trust them anymore. And then along comes World Health Organization5:05 with its so called pandemic preparedness accord, an attempt to take over all other parts of the world in the case of a pandemic. We've already talked about it before. I simply remind5:17 you what I said in the previous video, and that is according to them, a pandemic is whatever they say it is. So a pandemic is climate change or a video, or it would be,5:28 guns, or it would be, malinformation, misinformation, disinformation, what they call an info infodemic. In other words, they can define anything what they want, and so long as that qualifies as5:40 a pandemic by their definition, and they're the ones who get to say what a pandemic is, then they can take control of the countries of the world. Tremendous loss of trust in what could have been a good organization.5:52 It could have had noble causes, but the result was medical a new phrase, medical totalitarianism, a loss of medical freedom. And the result of that caused us not to want to participateEthical Dilemmas and Global Threats 6:05 in all kinds of governmental coercion that was happening in our country. The good news is we had members of congress rising up and saying this is wrong. We had certain members of congress, both the house and senate,6:16 trying to pass laws against this kind of coercion as what was happening right before us. What what does what does the scripture say as it relates with moments like this? I wanna take you to Romans 13.6:29 You always hear it said that we are to submit to governmental authorities. You're supposed to submit. Now if you unpack the Greek carefully, I want you to turn, if you have the book with you, to page 36:40 25. Page 3 25 in your book. I'm gonna take you to to the the actual Greek reading there. You'll see the Greek letters that are intensely there on the page. 3 25.6:52 How does that translate? That translates, let every soul be to the authority's hyper authority be subject. Now what happens in English, it gets7:04 read, let every let every person be subject to authority. But look what the Greek language actually states, let every soul, every person, to the7:16 authority's hyper authority be subject. Hyper authority. Let every soul to the authority's hyper authority. Now what would that be? To the authority, government authorities,7:28 what's the hyper authority? The hyper authority is God himself. The hyper authority, we would say, the lordship of Christ. So there7:39 is authority above the lower authority. We talked about that in the video. We talked about the the theology of the lesser magistrate. Book of Acts chapter 5 says7:51 whether we obey God, obey a man, we're gonna obey God. And so let me go rewind that so you have this going in your mind as we end this video. And that is let every soul to theBiblical Authority Over Government 8:03 authorities hyper authority be subject. Let all authorities on earth be subject to God. And we're going from culturally8:15 woke to biblically awake.8:19 Let us pray. Lord, we pray for medical freedom in our nation, for the gift of health and the right to make informed health care decisions for ourselves.8:32 Give discernment over our health care choices and the ability to access information aligned with your word. May health care providers have the freedom to practice their professions.8:44 Expose and remove all malpractices. In Jesus' name, amen.8:51 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 Lockdowns, Mandates, and Coercion6:00 Ethical Dilemmas and Global Threats8:00 Biblical Authority Over Government
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