{"id":1213,"date":"2023-10-26T20:57:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadiantheopolitans.ca\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2023-10-26T21:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T21:04:43","slug":"how-to-be-lords-of-the-universe-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiantheopolitans.ca\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"How to be Lords of the Universe, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1213\" class=\"elementor elementor-1213\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e8d94f9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e8d94f9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2036ea3\" data-id=\"2036ea3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b762c47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b762c47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The fourth speech from the Canadian Theopolitans Conference.\u00a0 This speech really gets to the heart of the practical outworking of what Paul is teaching in 1 Corinthians 3.\u00a0 We are not revolutionary.\u00a0 We are not slaves. 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It is in the church&#8217;s suffering that the power of the gospel is revealed.<\/p><p>I owe a thanks to James Wood&#8217;s piece on Hoedemaker and Kuyper ad Fontes.\u00a0 Read it <a href=\"https:\/\/adfontesjournal.com\/church-history\/how-abraham-kuyper-lost-the-nation-and-sidelined-the-church\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 He drew out for me the two phrases from Hoedemaker, which I use extensively in this speech: &#8220;A state with a Bible&#8221; and &#8220;The whole church and the whole naiton.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p><p>Here is the speech:\u00a0<\/p><p><iframe title=\"Rev James Zekveld - Lord&amp;apos;s of the Universe (Part II)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KC8IoyVvdpw?start=31&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth speech from the Canadian Theopolitans Conference.\u00a0 This speech really gets to the heart of the practical outworking of what Paul is teaching in 1 Corinthians 3.\u00a0 We are not revolutionary.\u00a0 We are not slaves. 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