Joel Webbon Said God Would Destroy Him. Phil Johnson Responds.

Phil Johnson spent 43 years as John MacArthur's editor and the founding executive director of Grace to You. He's now retired. He's also living with multiple myeloma. In this conversation with Emilio Ramos he talks about all of it — and then about the sermon he never wanted to preach. Assigned the topic of Christian nationalism by his own pastor, Phil delivered a message that drew more response than anything else he has preached from the Grace Community Church pulpit. It also drew a public warning from Joel Webbon that those who oppose Christian nationalism will be destroyed by God. Phil's response: water off a duck's back. What follows is a wide-ranging case that the movement is a fad with a dangerous leading edge — a revival of Kinism, a magnet for open anti-Semitism, and a confusion of conservative politics with the gospel itself. Phil traces the pattern back through the social justice movement and the emerging church, and further back to his own conversion, which began when he won a political argument and then opened 1 Corinthians for the first time. Also in this episode: the truth about attendance at Grace Community Church since MacArthur's death, Nathan Busenitz in the pulpit, and why no state church in history has ever stayed faithful to the gospel. Subscribe for weekly Reformed theology, biblical theology, and presuppositional apologetics from Red Grace Media. Phil Johnson’s sermon on Christian Nationalism from Grace Community Church Kingdom Come: A Biblical Assessment of Chr... SUPPORT THE MINISTRY Patreon ▸ patreon.com/redgracemedia 00:00 "Certainly Phil's shaking in his boots" 00:38 Welcome 00:55 Phil's cancer, and how to pray for him 04:56 Facing a terminal diagnosis as a Calvinist 06:35 Grace to You after John MacArthur 07:05 How Phil became MacArthur's editor 12:10 The purpose statement that outlives the preacher 15:39 Is Grace Community Church in decline? 17:17 Nathan Busenitz steps into the pulpit 20:23 The sermon Phil never wanted to preach 24:10 Emerging church, social justice, and the anatomy of a fad 28:31 Theonomy returns: the postmillennial engine 30:48 The "Christ Is King" conference and open anti-Semitism 32:24 Coining "Christian groypers" 34:09 Kinism: racism with Reformed vocabulary 36:43 Charlie Kirk and the conservative-Christian conflation 39:10 "There is no political remedy for what ails our culture" 41:53 Faith plus politics corrupts the gospel 42:24 How an argument about politics led Phil to Christ 45:26 Billy James Hargis and the original Christian nationalists 49:39 Joel Webbon's threat 51:54 Every Christian government in history has failed 53:20 1 Corinthians and the wisdom of this age 56:03 No mandate to commandeer the machinery of government 58:56 Why no state church stays faithful 59:34 Calvin, Cromwell, and Will Durant's verdict 1:01:40 "Exaggerated lordship theology" 1:04:06 The wheat, the tares, and Peter's sword 1:06:32 The response to the sermon 1:08:12 Closing and prayer #ChristianNationalism #PhilJohnson #ReformedTheology #JohnMacArthur #GraceToYou