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All right, here we go. Welcome to the Rod of Iron podcast, Fundamental Baptist, breaking
down discussions, dogma and daily events. I am your host, Pastor Bruce Mejia here, of
First Works Baptist Church here in beautiful Southern California. And I'm joined by the
fundamentalists, Brother Heiktoff Macian and Brother Adam Kenzari. Oh, wait, no, they're
not here. The reason they're not here is because they're big fans of The Chosen. I'm just kidding.
I know they're not. Now, I'm actually here with Brother Marco Sanchez and Brother Cody.
And we are and of course, we have brother Ulysses on the board there. And tonight we're
actually it's a special episode. We've got some new guests with us today. They're not
really new. You guys have been here before. And so but we're going to be discussing the
subject of The Chosen. And we're not talking about The Matrix. We're talking about we're
talking about the Christian series going on right now. I believe it's on Netflix and other
platforms called The Chosen that essentially highlighting the life and times of Jesus Christ.
But it's from a Mormon slash Catholic perspective. And so have you guys be honest? Have you guys
watched The Chosen at all? No, no. Well, just clips, clips, clips of it. Okay. Well, today
I spent about, I don't know, two hours or so watching many, many clips of The Chosen
just to kind of get a feel for it. But quite honestly, I don't think I had to watch it
to know. Like it basically confirmed what I already judged. And yes, you heard right.
Judged about The Chosen because I've been absent, have judged already. You don't need
necessarily to watch and all three seasons because there's three seasons of it. And apparently
the last one came out in December of 2022. And each one has, or at least the last one
has about seven to eight episodes. And so, but I feel like I didn't need to watch the
whole thing. And to be quite honest with you, when I was watching The Chosen, the clips,
but by the end of those two and a half hours or so that I was watching them, I was grieved.
I was just like, I was really, really grieved. And my righteous soul was vexed from minute
to minute, hour to hour. And it's because of the fact that The Chosen is very unbiblical,
but obviously it is a, it's highlighting the life of Jesus Christ. So, you know, you would
expect for it to be somewhat biblical or use biblical doctrines, biblical concepts, but
they actually deviate from the Bible quite a bit. And the reason I want to, you know,
we're talking about this is because of the fact that a lot of Christians like The Chosen.
Oh yeah. And unfortunately even fundamental Baptists. Yeah. Right now, brother Cody, you
come from, I mean, you're a fundamental Baptist now, but you come from that type of non-denom
church, right? Tell us about it. Oh man, where did I even start? They do all of the chosen.
Start with that flannel. No, I'm just kidding. Where'd you get that flannel? First of all,
where'd you get it at? The bookstore? Some of that stuff you can't shake off. It sticks
with you for the rest of your life. Yeah. As you can tell, he has, he has, he has a
button all the way to the top, which is a, a, a very strong indicator that he's been
influenced by the non-denom church. That's more like my Samberg. You know, roots. Oh,
is that what it is? Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. He's Mexican in heart. Yeah. Cause only
Mexicans typically. But he also has ripped jeans though. No, I'm just kidding. Does he
have any? It's for his knees so they can breathe. Wow. Yeah. I mean like a non-denom churches,
they love the chosen. Oh yeah. Anything that has to do with like Christianity amalgamated
with like Hollywood and Hollywood that puts stuff out. Anything that's popular. Yeah.
Like any actor or celebrity that's popular, they just love anything that attaches the
name Christian to it. They just, they'll take it. They'll just suck it up. Are you saying
like when they, when some Hollywood actor or actress like says God in a prayer or something
like that, they're just like, Oh man, this person's probably saved. Chris Pratt said,
you know, believe all the judges Christ for something. Yeah. I was like, which I don't
even think he said that. I think he like, no, he's like, you have God or something like
that. He said God. Yeah. And hope and hope. And all of a sudden, like all these Christians
are just all over it. Right. Because to them it's just like, Oh, as long as some Hollywood
elite is talking about Jesus, it's a good thing. Which obviously we're glad that people
are talking about Jesus, but we would expect Christians though, to have the discernment
to understand that they're not Christian. They're not saved. And you know, when, when
someone who is popular, famous and elite in Hollywood or whatever begins to take the responsibility
to explain the things of God, you know, obviously it's wrong because they're not, the Bible
says that unsafe people are the natural man to receive it, not the things of the spirit
of God, neither can they know them for their spiritually discern. So you need to save people,
actual Christians to teach you the Bible, not these, you know, pervert Hollywood elites
or whatever. But all that to say, you know, series type films are very, very popular right
now. Pretty, pretty much, I think Netflix is that that's what it's all about, right?
Where they have like a season, but they have like, I don't know, 10 episodes per season.
And that's what they decided to do with the gospels is essentially highlight the gospels
in these shows, but they make it in such a way that it's like a, it's like a drama or
something like that. You know what I mean? So tonight we're going to talk about the chosen
because a lot of people are up in arms about people like me who call out the chosen, John,
Jonathan Rumi, who plays Jesus Christ in the chosen and simultaneously also plays a sodomite
in the new movie, Jesus revolution. Yeah. So it's just like, you know, you find it,
you think it's okay to play this, this apostate looking Jesus. Okay. In the chosen. Yeah.
And then go ahead and transfer over to being a sodomite reprobate in Jesus revolution.
And it's pretty sad too, because you take a picture, you take any clip of, you know,
him in playing Jesus and then him playing Lonnie Frisbee and they looked the same character.
They look exactly the same. So it's like, what are they trying to get
across that? What Jesus was like. Yeah, exactly.
You know, blasphemous idea of who Jesus is. Yeah. And you know, most people think that
Jesus looked like a hippie. Yeah. Unfortunately. And it's, that's nowhere in scripture. And
so, I mean, he didn't have to do much to switch from looking like the Jesus in the chosen
to looking like a Frisbee and Jesus revolution, because that's the false Jesus that they worship.
Yeah. You know, just changed from a dress into a hippie clothes, basically. Yeah. It
would almost seem, and by the way, it's just like, I mean, Frisbee kind of looking probably
was more modest than the Jesus in the chosen as far as the way he dressed. Cause I think
Jesus in the chosen, he was in a dress most of the time. And so that's called cross-dressing.
That's an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. But you know, what's interesting is that Jonathan
Rumi plays Frisbee in Jesus revolution, which is about a church or churches known as Calvary
Chapel who probably love watching the chosen. So it's just like, they're kind of like feeding
into that whole system there, you know, and I guarantee you, they love Jesus revolution.
They love the chosen. Well, again, like Greg glory, like he loves like Mel Gibson's work
and all that stuff. So it's like he had him at the, his like harvest crusade that he does
over here at Anaheim. He had Mel Gibson there talking about like the passion of the Christ
when he filmed it and all that stuff. So it's like, he's just like a con conglomerate of
just religions there. He's had Jonathan Rumi at the crusades as well too, interviewing
him. Well, uh, Mel Gibson's a major hardcore Catholic. Yeah. And even the passion of the
Christ is very much Catholic. Yeah. It has a lot of, um, you know, Catholic ideologies
in it and they uplift Mary in that movie and everything. And Jonathan Rumi is also a Catholic.
Yeah. And in fact, you know, the, the, the show, the chosen, you know, cause I talked
to someone about, I talked to another Christian about the chosen who I found out later likes
the chosen. They like watching it. And I had heard through the grapevine that basically
Mormons made the chosen. Yeah. And they were kind of like, well no, they didn't make it.
It's just under the canopy of Mormon is it's not like an official, whatever film company
isn't officially Mormon, but they align themselves with Mormons and, and the, they, they did
like a lot of their film for, um, the chosen in like some Mormon, like Utah or something
like that. Yeah. Well, here's the thing is that it actually is created by Mormons in
the sense of when you look, when you actually look it up, Mormons own 56% of it, of the
chosen. And, and then, uh, the other 44% is owned by Catholics, but then you get Christians
watching it, but then they make it for Christians. So the guy, the guy who the director, his
name is Dallas Jenkins. Okay. Who's a professing Christian. And, um, he comes from a church
called harvest Bible Calvary, I think, or, or Harvard, yeah. Harvest Bible Calvary. And
it's, it's like one of these non-denom churches, but he, the guy's obviously not saved. Okay.
And that's a fact. Okay. And the reason I say that is because when he talks about the
chosen and he talks about the fact that he's, he's teaming up with Mormons, because that's
exactly what it's not just under the canopy of Mormonism. Mormons basically own the whole
thing and he's like begging them to allow him and his team and his crew to go film at
a Mormon site, which is Goshen. And then he said that when he went there, he's like, Oh,
the presence of God is here. He goes, I can feel the presence of God here. It's like,
he feels the presence of something that's for sure. Yeah. Joseph Smith. What? And then
also when he talks about the Mormons who are, you know, he's teaming up with to make this,
make this show, he calls them his brothers and his sisters. So obviously, you know, he
identifies with them. So that's all I need to know to make, to, to, to prove that Dallas
Jenkins is not saved. Yeah. I think he's a universalist if I sounds about right. Yeah.
Don't quote me on that though, but I believe he is a universalist. You said quote him on
that. Okay. So make sure you cut that out. Yeah. Cut that out though. I just want to,
I don't want to be, but if it's true though, can you look, if you guys, you could just
look at that up later. Can you check that out? Yeah. And then the, the, the, the company,
the company that distributes the chosen is by Mormons as well because it's vid angel,
which is owned by angels, angels. Yeah. Actually owned by our Moroni I guess. Right. It's owned
by Mormons. So Mormons are producing and Mormons are allowing this guy to film it on their
side. They own 56% of it. It sounds like it's made by Mormons. And in fact, okay, go ahead
and pull up. Let me see some of these clips here. Just, just, just scroll down a bit.
Just click on the first one. You don't have to open it on the first one. You lie on the
first one on the first. All right. All right. Let's see here. All right. Go down. What's
with the, what's up with the LGBT wheel right there? Keep going. What is my, let's see.
Keep going. Keep going. That's the one. Okay. Open that up. Go ahead and make it large.
So let, let, let it play and turn it down. Just let it play. You like you suck at this.
This guy, this guy acts like he's never used a computer before. What are you doing? What
are you doing? Look. Okay. You see the very top on the corner, left hand corner of the
video that right there. Click on that. Ass on metal right there. Okay. Now mute it. Pause
it or mute it. Just pause it. This guy doesn't know how to use volume buttons or nothing.
Okay. So this is a scene from the chosen. Okay. And this is from the gospels where Jesus
goes into the synagogue and he essentially begins to, or he goes into the temple and
he begins to read out of the book of Isaiah. Okay. And this is the famous passage where
when Jesus reads from me, he's saying, you know, that he's been anointed to preach the
gospel to the poor. And he basically says at the end of the, of the scripture there
today is this scripture fulfilled in your ears, because it's a prophecy of Jesus Christ
coming to essentially preach the word of God. It's the time of their visitation as the Bible
would put it. Right. And so this is what that scene's about. And of course we know that
the Pharisees get upset and all these things. And so there's this confrontation between
him and a Pharisee in the chosen. Now skip forward a little bit while they're talking.
Just go in the middle. Let's just go in the middle, see where that's at. So he's just
like, so this is one scene in here where he's claiming to, you know, the guy's like, who
are you claiming to be? You know? And he's like, he's claiming to be the Messiah. And
this guy is just like, no, he's not saying that. And then Jesus is like, actually I am
kind of saying that. It's just like really like blasphemous or something. You know what
I mean? Like kind of like, uh, he, they're, they're being kind of facetious about the
whole thing. Yeah. Like why would Jesus say a word like kinda or something like that?
Scoot forward a little bit. Let's see. Keep going right there. All right. Play it.
And then he like whisper something in his ear or something like that. What the heck
is going on? Shout it upon the host house, brother. When did Jesus ever just like whispered
to his own? You know, Jesus, we're here. Watch. If you do not renounce your words, we will
have no choice but to follow the law of Moses. Shut up. Pharisees weren't able to do that.
They can't just stone someone to death. I am the law of Moses.
It's like a no-killer or something. Shut it off. See you. All right. So very dramatic
thing, huh? Like, and, and, you know, it's just like, we have no choice but to follow
the law of Moses. Because basically what they're saying is like, if someone speaks presumptuously,
they're a false prophet and false prophets should be put to death. Right. And so the
Pharisees is like, we have no choice but to follow the law of Moses, basically saying
that they're going to kill him because he's coming to be Jesus or coming to be the Messiah
and they don't believe that. So they think he's a false prophet and then Jesus walks
up and he's just like, I am the law of Moses. Now, people who don't know the Bible, they're
just like, ooh, burn. That's great. But what they don't realize is that's third Nephi 15
verse nine. And I don't know if anybody knows that, but third Nephi 15 verse nine, the book
of Nephi is not in the Bible. It's in the book of Mormon. So people were like, no, it's
not a Mormon film. Let me say this. They probably quote more of the book of Mormon than they
do the actual scriptures themselves. They give biblical concepts in the video and in
the show. And obviously the major thing about the chosen is that they're highlighting the
miracles and things of that nature. They obviously follow the storyline of the gospel as far
as the events are concerned. Right. But here's the thing, though, and that's what people
argue. They're like, well, you know, it's still somewhat like the Bible. Obviously,
it's not going to be perfect. But here, herein lies the problem, because Christians don't
seem to have a problem with people adding to or taking away from God's word. Yeah. Right.
Because that's the major thing that they're removing from the show is doctrine. And why
do they remove doctrine? Because it's too offensive. It doesn't have a dramatic appeal
like this, because there's sometimes where Jesus says things that were really offensive.
They weren't funny, you know, and there wasn't this climactic scene where it's just like,
I am the law of Moses. There are instances in the Bible that were like that, but that's
not one of them. Most of it is just like these directors and writers saying, we'll just cut
this out. We're not going to put this in there. Put the Beatitudes in there. Put this or put
that. And so that's why I think it's pretty blasphemous. Yeah. Because what it's doing
is it's causing people to be comfortable with undermining the Bible. Yeah. And to essentially
defend the movie in the name of entertainment. You know, because Christians are like, well,
I can't watch a Hollywood movie, so this is the best thing. And you know, nothing's perfect.
And they're just taking artistic liberty. And I get taking artistic liberty, right?
Like sometimes you got to take artistic liberty with certain things because you don't know
exactly how it took place. But when it comes to God's word, though, you can't take artistic
liberty with that. No. That's basically what the NIV, ESV, NASB, and all these other modern
versions do. They take artistic liberty. Or how about the Ebonics Bible? Yeah. They take
artistic liberty by changing it. OK. And so and I find that the vast majority of people
who defend this show, who I've spoken to because I made a couple of videos about Jonathan Rumi,
they're women. I mean, that's just fact. And then, you know, some of the guys and there's
some guys who are mad at that, but it's mostly women. Yeah. Because it has an emotional appeal
to it. Yeah. I saw that one. It's like a novella. Well, it's almost like the whole premise of
the show is just showing like just playing down God's word and playing down how Jesus
is because it just gives like a flippant Jesus. Like it's like, oh, yeah, I'm hanging out
with everybody. Yeah. You know, lovable Jesus kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Which is what the
Antichrist is going to be. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to be this likable person. And throughout
the show, at least the clips that I saw, he keeps calling what he's going to do a revolution.
Oh, man. He's like, he's like, we're going to start a revolution. A revolution. Jesus
never said he started a revolution. Yeah. What the heck is that? What is the Sheg of
Hara? You know, what is that is the chosen biblically accurate? The chosen stays true
to the details that are in the text of the New Testament. Each episode takes artistic
license to fill in the many blanks where the text does not go into detail. But this artistic
license is all feasible considering the details that are provided. So what are they saying?
They're basically saying we take artistic liberty to fill in the blanks of what the
Bible doesn't give us. But the blanks that we're filling in are given to us by the rest
of the Bible. But none of that is backed up by the Bible. No, they're basically just saying,
filling in the blanks, meanings we're adding to God's word. Just adding to it. Or let's
put the Book of Mormon in there. Yeah. And you know what? Christians who don't read the
Bible don't notice it. They're like, oh, that's a cool line. What is that? It's probably like,
dude, I am the law of Moses. Yeah. And they made it all really dramatic and stuff. So
obviously people will be, you know, they'll think like, oh, that was super epic. That
gave me the chills. This is going to be used of God. Yeah. And it's all from the Book of
Mormon. God, Jesus Christ is the word of God. But he's referring to the actual written law,
which he said he came out to destroy, but to fulfill. Right. And so and when it says,
you know, when Jesus says, if you would have believed Moses, you would have believed me.
He wrote of me. Right. It's referring to the prophetic statements made about Jesus Christ.
Okay. But nowhere does he said, I am the law of Moses. They're slipping that in there because
of the fact that they need to appease their masters in the Mormon temple. Jesus said,
I am a lot of things like I am the bread of life. I am the door. Yeah, exactly. I am the
true vine. I am the door. I am the bread of life. The I am that I am. Yeah. I mean, you
know, if you took our some artistic liberty and he said like, I am that I am, you know,
I'd be like, okay, wrong story, bro. But at least you're quoting the Bible there, you
know, but they're not even doing that. He's just like, I am the law of Moses. And again,
so when it comes to this show, I believe it attracts two types of people. One, the ones
who give a rip about doctrine and they don't mind undermining it and they love being entertained.
Okay. These are these watered down Christians and they're, they're probably going to watch
this and they're going to get very, very offended at what I'm saying. Okay. But it's true. You
just need to face the facts. That's what it is. You're undermining God's word. You don't
think it's important to, you don't think it's important for this show to be biblically accurate.
Yeah. It's just like, well, you know, it's like, whatever. Okay. Now look, there's essentially
documentaries that are made or movies that are made about a person, about a group or
whatever. Sometimes people take artistic liberty. That's fine because they're not God. And it's
not the Bible. You can't take artistic liberties with Jesus Christ or the word of God. Yeah.
Because artistic liberty essentially is implying that you're taken away from or adding to the
story. So it's going to track those people and it's going to cause people who are straddling
the fence who don't really know to become watered down and cause them to undermine the
Bible. The other ones have already already doing that. Cause they see all these other
Christians that are watching this and approving it. Leaders that are watching it. Their pastors
are watching it. So then it's just like, okay, maybe it's not that important. It gets the
point across type of a thing, which is, isn't that what they say about like the modern versions
of the Bible? Like, well, it gets the point across or something like that. But it gets
a different point across. It doesn't get the Bible's point across. It teaches false doctrine.
Yeah. Well, even my old pastor used to say, cause he used to talk about the passion of
the Christ. When Passion of the Christ came out, he used to say, well, people get a lot
of their doctrine from TV. And that's true. Instead of opening the Bible and actually
seeing, well, the King James Bible and actually seeing what it actually says, they just watch
a TV show and it's like, well, this is what it is. Yeah. I wonder how many people are
watching the chosen and then they're just like, you know what? I'm going to read my
Bible from cover to cover. I wonder how many people have read the, just the four gospels.
Period. Yeah. Just the four gospels by themselves. How many people are being inspired to read
the word of God, cover to cover. And when they re and let's say they do and they come
to the gospels, they're going to be like, Oh, the movie's way more interesting than
this. You know, go back to the, what does, what does that say? Oh, that's, that's the,
that's the director Dallas Jenkins. It says in the official trailer of the chosen season
three, the Pharisees warned Jesus that they may have to follow the, uh, the punishment
for blasphemy in the law of Moses. If he continues his perceived blasphemy in response, Jesus
says, I am the law of Moses. While the interaction is not directly taken from the Bible, it never
would have occurred to me when I saw the chosen season three trailer that the statement would
be spark would be the spark of another controversy. Oh yeah. Because it's in a freaking false
book. Alas, the paranoia and conspiratorial thinking of some purveyors of discernment
no no bounds. You're talking about us in the recent live stream, Dallas Jenkins was forced
to address the scene and make it clear that it was not intentionally based on the book
of Mormon as some people are claiming just slipped it in. We didn't know it was going
to be a wrap. I put there, I put that there on accident. It says that in the book of Mormon.
Wow. Well, here's the thing. When he was there, remember he felt the presence of God, but
it wasn't God capital G. Yeah. It's a little G the same God that inspired Joseph Smith.
He did it intentionally. He put it there on accident. He's come on. This guy is an idiot.
Now, okay, you're on the perfect clip right there, Ulysses. So let me show you the artistic
liberty that they take with this show. Okay. Now, now look, let me just explain something.
When I write, when I write my sermons, I write sermons. Yeah. You know, we write sermons
and even when you look at my notes, it's just verses. Like someone came up to me on Sunday,
they're just like, I looked at your sermon notes and they're really basic. They're just
verses. And I'm like, that's all I got. It's like the Bible and everything else I preach
from the heart. Now, Jesus is the greatest preacher that has ever lived because he is
the word of God. Amen. Okay. And so he doesn't need to like revise what he says. No, you
know, we, I'm, I'm a fallible person. I've made mistakes behind the pulpit. I misquote
a verse, right? Like I, I'm just, I'm not in errant. And so I'll make mistakes or whatever.
And maybe if I make a mistake in one sermon, somewhere down the road, if I ever preach
on that same subject, I'll be sure to remember that. So I don't make the mistake again. And
then, you know, I'm like, all right, I got to take this out because this isn't, I need
to explain this a different way or whatever. You know, whatever Jesus explains, whatever
he says is true because he is truth. Part of me doesn't want to know where this is going,
but I'm just, I'm just building this up. Okay. And what I'm saying is, you know, Jesus, when
he in the gospels, he's not writing sermons. He's not like, Oh, you know, just writing
out the BIA. And you know what else he's not doing? He's not taking anyone's advice on
how to preach or what the word of God says. Right? Like he's not going to his disciples
like, Hey, what do you think about this? Like sometimes I'll go to the church members and
I'm like, Hey, I found this in the Bible. What do you think about this interpretation
of this specific parable or, you know, this picture that we see in the Old Testament or
something? Because I'm not, I'm not infallible. And therefore, you know, maybe I'm not seeing
something, someone else can have a different perspective. They can bring up another scripture.
Right. But Jesus didn't have to do that because he is the word of God. Yeah. You know, the
Bible says, Oh, you fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoken. And
then he says, beginning of Moses and all the prophets, he, uh, he expounded into them and
all the scriptures, the things concerning himself. So right off the bat, when he's talking
to the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, he's just spinning verses. He's like, Psalm
says this, and you know, the law says this, and he just like quoting versus cause he is
the Bible. Yeah. He's not like pulling out a sermon. He's just like, all right, I had
Matthew write this out for me. He's my scribe. So, you know, this is what the Bible says.
He is the Bible. Yeah. Yeah. Play the clip. Which section stands out to you the most?
Do not be anxious about your life. Of course. Are there any sections that concern you? Stop
it. Give me your honest opinion. Stop it. Stop it. Uh, are there any sections in the
sermon that concern you? Because I don't want, I don't want to offend you or anything. I
thought he said in John chapter six, does this offend you? And then he just proceeds
to just keep preaching it. Yeah. He's like, what is your, he didn't even give him a chance
to give him to give an opinion. He's so this is like, oh, I don't want to offend you. Right.
This is Matthew. So the show, let me explain something. Okay. Apparently the show has Matthew
and different, you know, Mark, Luke and John. And anytime you have a Bible or a gospel event,
some story going on and he's like healing someone during the background, like writing
it. So they literally think that the disciples were just transcribing everything that took
place as it happened. It's like a diary or something. Yeah. You know, those people in
the court that like they have to like, but they have to write early. Right. So they literally
believe that the disciples were just 24 hours a day, just writing every single jot and tittle
of everything that Jesus Christ did. And you know, the viewer might think, well, isn't
that what happened? Weren't they testifying of what they saw? Yes, but hold on a second.
The gospels were not written on the day of the events. And in fact, when you study the
Bible, which is something you should do instead of studying the chosen, okay, you'll find
out that the gospels were actually the books that were written last in the New Testament,
long after the book of Acts and the epistles of Paul, the epistles of Peter, and even the
book of Revelation. You're like, wait a minute, I thought Matthew, Luke and John were the
beginning of the gospels. Yeah. Chronologically, of course. Because chronologically, that's
how it took place. But when they were written, they're written way later. And someone may
say, well, no, I don't believe that. Because then there could be all types of inaccuracies
because they would have forgotten. Well, good, because the Bible actually says that holy
men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. So they were inspired by God to
write the Word of God way after the events. And nowhere in the Bible does it say that
Jesus is checking in with his disciples to make sure it's understandable or something.
Palatable. Go on, keep playing. Give me your honest opinion.
I know I don't have to say that, but the whole truth. You know, I won't be offended. It's
very striking. Matthew's gay. I do the math in terms of good news and bad. Seems like
there's not a lot of good news. Anyone who looks at the woman with lust has already committed
adultery. Doesn't that make everyone an adulterer? If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge
it out. Wouldn't that lead to an entire population of people walking around with only one eye?
Oh, and this one. If anyone were to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak
as well. Trees that bear bad fruit being cut down and torn into the fire. The gate is narrow
and hard that leads to life. Oh, hearted. Apart from me, I never knew you. Do you realize
how heavily laden your sermon is with these kinds of ominous pronouncements? I haven't
even named half of them. It's a manifesto. Matthew. It's a man. I'm not here to be sentimental
and soothing. I'm here to start a revolution. Well, see, they're enemies. What do you mean?
You sound sentimental and soothing. I'm talking about revolution. Revolution. Come here and
say, Hey, everyone, just keep doing what you've been doing for the last 1000 years since it's
been going so great. Stop. Stop it. Oh, so he's the Jesus of the chosen is claiming that
all the believers from the Old Testament transitioning into the New Testament have been doing it
wrong. He was keep doing what you've been doing for the last 1000 years. There's safe
people who transition from the Old Testament to the New Testament. Peter was saved. There's
all types of people that were saved. The transition. Obviously, the nation as a whole is pretty
bad, but he's claiming as though they just started this. What do you mean this revolution?
What are you talking about? It's been an awakening or something. Yeah. Radicalization and all
that. Yeah. This is a revolution. My manifesto. It sounds communist. Yeah, exactly. Keep playing
it. Also, there's the beginning and the end. What about the beginning? I consider that
the beginning is more logistical. Right now your opening line is you are the salt of the
earth. I'm worried, particularly if it is windy or if the crowd is larger than we expect
that people near the back will hear saltier and it will immediately go to minor negative
connotation. Where does it say this? Yes. When Rome destroyed Carthage, they sold the
city with salt to make it. Where in the word of God does Jesus take Matthew aside and say,
hey, what do you think about how I'm starting my sermon here? Because according to what
he's quoting here is Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five begins with the Beatitudes.
After the Beatitudes and the persecution that he talks about, then he gets into being the
salt of the earth. The show is claiming that Jesus starts off his thoughts with you being
the salt of the earth. Later on, he implements the Beatitudes. Then they have this moment
where it's just like, and then we'll talk about the salt of the earth. Matthew's all,
oh, yeah, that sounds great. As if Jesus didn't have it to begin with. When Jesus talked about
the Beatitudes, he just preached it from the heart right then and there. He doesn't need
someone to write it for him. This is so stupid. And converse about how to structure, how to
make sure that they understand. Honestly, this whole scene is just kind of like mocking
God's word. It is just like, oh, you're saying like you're saying this and stuff. And then,
you know, the guy playing Jesus is like, he's trying to make it palatable for the masses
or whatever it was trying to make it. It's supposed to be a scene that's funny. Like
it's comical, like talking about how I guarantee you, Matthew was not this disrespectful. No.
Or he's just like, yeah, exactly. I mean, he's just like, he's like, he doesn't like
the way he's writing it. He doesn't like the structure of the sermon or whatever. It's
weird. This is not in the Bible folks. And he's just like, well, it gets the point across
that this is an apostate show. That's the point that it gets across. I would encourage
you to actually go read the book of Matthew written by Matthew and tell me if you find
this entire scene in the Bible. Keep playing it. Oh, we're, this is, and by the way, let
me say this before you, before you hit play, but go hover over the play button though.
This right here, I said before, before hit play, this guy, this MC over here, this right
here is nothing compared to what I'm going to show you in just a bit. Oh man, this isn't
even the worst parts. This is bad. You think this is bad. This is actually like a tame
one warming up, warming up for the bad stuff. All right, keep going to curse anyone who
would rebuild upon it. I share your concern about the opening line, but I hear your concern.
I think the sermon needs some sort of introduction and invitation into what, as you have rightly
pointed out, will be a complex and at times challenging set of teachings. What does the
word assault of the earth even mean? I'm not good at metaphor. All right, stop it. I'm
done. I'm done with salt preserves meat from corruption. It's slow. So he's like, he's
like, I agree with your concerns. You know, I think it needs an introduction. And in the
other scene where they're discussing how to write the sermon, because you know, Jesus
spent like a week trying to write the sermon. Because obviously, you know, he's like a human
being that is fallible apparently in this show. He basically comes up with the Beatitudes
later and he's like, the Beatitudes are the map. And it's a map that shows people who
to go to to find the truth. Dude, bro. Whoa. Radical, dude. The reason he even came up
with the Beatitudes is to give unsafe people a map of who to go to to find the truth. And
then he talks about the salt of the earth. But here's the thing. That's not what the
Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that we are to go to them. We are to go to the sinner
and preach the gospel unto them. God didn't give them a map. They give them the law of
God written in their hearts. He gave them the testimony of creation. And there's churches,
there's Christians, obviously, but the Bible commissions Christians to go out and preach
the gospel to them. He didn't give them a map. What is that? All right. Let's see what
else we got here. We'll skip that one for now. What is this? Oh, we should save this
one. Or we should just do it right now. Okay. Rip the Band-Aid off. Yeah. Let's just rip
the Band-Aid off right now. Wait, wait, wait. Pause it. Pause it. Pause it. Pause it. Okay.
Got to prepare us for this one. Folks, if after this you still like the chosen, you
don't love the Bible. That's just it. You don't love the Bible. Preach it. Call yourself
King James only too. Because what I'm about to show you right now, I mean, everything
is unbiblical in the show, but this is one of the most unbiblical things you will ever
see. Okay. Now, this is the actor that plays Judas Iscariot, this guy right here. And in
this clip, he's essentially describing the character development of Judas. Judas is mentioned
in the Gospels. Not much is mentioned about him. You say, why is that? Because the information
that is given is what God wants us to know about Judas. Okay. There is no character development
in the Gospel regarding Judas. It's just plain and simple. Yeah, he was the devil from the
beginning. There's no character development. Well, you know what, Cody? Okay, you're judging.
Because apparently, according to the chosen, he wasn't the devil from the beginning. And
you're going to see right now, he was a man with good intentions who really wanted to
follow Jesus. I feel bad now for judging him. Yeah. Shame on you. Hey, brother, you need
to read Maccabees 5. Judge not. Judge not has to be judged, bro. Oh, wait. Check this
out. This blew my mind. Hit it. Hello, my name is Luke Dimion, and I play John the Beloved.
What? I can't get away. Okay. Yeah, I'm Luke. I play Judas. I'm sorry. I just wanted maybe
like 10 minutes judgment. Judas. You guys are amazing. What Judas goes through in the
first episode, listening to the sermon is a revelation. Realizing that there is someone
saying the words that he's been wanting to hear all his life. Wow. Okay, more than anything
knows that he wants to be a part of that. Why didn't they take up a collection? They
could be living like kings. I'm going with them. Did you hear what he said? This guy
said that he heard that. So he's claiming that he heard a sermon from Jesus and he's
just like, this is what I've been waiting for my whole life. I hope it's John chapter
eight is what he's talking about. You are your father, the devil, the lesser father
of the devil. You do. Uh, okay. Keep going. I'm going to make commentary, but, but keep
going. Why didn't they take up a collection? They could be living like kings. I'm going
with them. What? He's finally found a purpose that he's willing to die for. Uh, pause. Yeah.
That purpose is like stealing money. That purpose is being the treasurer of one of the
12 disciples and then hanging himself and stealing money. And yeah, he did die for it.
He died for 30 pieces of silver. He hung himself. Go ahead. Don't you want to do something that
will really matter? I will be remembered throughout history. Hey, pause. Well, you know what you
know, that that is a true statement because we do remember Judas to this very day. Yeah.
He is a historical figure throughout history for sure. As being one of the most wicked
people who's burning in the lowest hell. Go ahead. I know that he went into it with the
most genuine of expectations of just hoping to be a helpful part. Did you hear what he
said? He's like, I know that he went in. You would think this actor would read the Bible
and like, he like learned the character before he did this show. Like most, do you know who
you're talking about here? Yeah. Most actors like they, they prepare like heavily and invest
in and investigate the time and figure out his, they, they, they, they read books and
biographies and documentaries. Dallas Jenkins came up to him and was like, you want to make
some money? I got to get that bag. It's like Judas. He literally says that he started out
with the best of intentions. Is that the book of Mormon? Dude, the Bible literally says
that he was a devil from the beginning. That means he went into this whole thing with the
intention to steal money. Wicked intentions. With bad intentions. Not good intentions.
He is what the Bible refers to as the son of perdition. Yeah. Keep playing it. I want
to be a part of that. So, so this season we're introduced to Judas's family or what's left
of his family, uh, through his older sister, uh, who we find also working very diligently.
And in that we see a very cautious and concerned older sister. That's what you said when I
joined the mining company. Uh, whether that's from Judas's past mistakes or maybe a previous
need to constantly prove himself to her or to those around him. We see this concern,
but obviously you see the intention of the show is to get people to sympathize with Judas.
Yeah. Oh yeah. Whereas the Bible Lee, when you read the gospels, you leave with a, uh,
a detest for him. Like you despise him because he's such a wicked and evil person. The actor
they even chose to is like this timid nerdy like, Hey, I'm Judas guys. That's pretty good.
That's pretty good. I, you know, I, Oh, I'm just, I just want to be a part of something.
Yeah. I'm just trying to have good intentions. Yeah. So, but, but when you read the gospels,
you do not get that vibe. This is a different vibe from the Bible. You read about Judas.
He's like, Oh, this could have been given to the poor. But then the narrative tells
you he didn't, he said it's not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a covetous
person who was a thief and he wanted the money basically. So anytime Judas is mentioned,
it's always in a negative light, always in a negative light. God's word highlights Judas
100% of the time in a negative light. There's never a time in the gospels where he specifically
mentioned doing something good, believing something good, never. Cause even when it's
sound, even when the Bible seems to highlight something that he says that is good, the narrator
clarifies that for you and says, Hey, don't be mistaken. It's not because he cared for
the poor. It's because he loves money. This show's doing the opposite. So it's, it's,
it's create, it's developing this character in order to get people. It's pulling at the,
the heartstrings of the audience to try to get them to sympathize with Judas. Now, why
would they do that? Because Judas is the antagonist of the gospels. He's the one who betrayed
Jesus. He's the son of perdition. And in fact, he is essentially a symbolic representation
of the antichrist, bottom line. But why are they trying to glorify him or make him this
like, I don't know, anti-villain or something like that where it's just like, Oh, he was
just mistaken and he started off good. And this is how people get, you know, rough get
go. Yeah. He's just had a rough upbringing, you know, his sister Devon. That's her name
is okay. I never seen her sister. This is Devon, you know, and he's like, he has the
best of intentions. Sister's so concerned about him and stuff that never happened. Where
is this coming from? But you know what? There's some lady watching the chosen right now. Yeah.
Just watching this character development. Like I know some Judas is in my life. Your
pastor's probably one of them. Yeah. It's getting people, it's getting Christians to
sympathize with wicked people. Whereas the Bible, okay. King David, when writing a Psalm
about Judas, because this is prophecy, Judas was prophesied in the Old Testament, pictures
of him all the time, but it's specifically in the Psalms where they specifically said,
you know, I can't think of the verse right now. What is it? It's Psalm 55. Let me just
pull, let's just pull it up. Okay. I'm fallible, so I'm going to misquote it. Where is it?
It's Psalm 70 actually. Okay. A Psalm about Judas Iscariot. Oh, wait, wait, no, this is
about the Jews. Close, close. They both start with J. Hold on. I'm going to pull this up
real quick because this is very important. You guys can talk amongst yourselves. Don't
keep playing it though. I think that guy, the Judas guy is Armenian. Dang, good thing
Bill of Hight's not here today. That's probably why he didn't want to come. He's like, nah,
that guy's Armenian. He would have sympathized a little bit. Oh, okay, there it is. Psalm
109. So in Psalm 109, this is a Psalm written about Judas Iscariot. Now this is never going
to get quoted in the show. Okay. Cause it's just too hardcore. That's Old Testament, brother.
Yeah, that doesn't count, brother. All right. This is about Judas Iscariot. Listen to this.
Let his days be few and let another take his office. About that nice guy, that nice timid
guy. Yeah, the guy who had the good intentions, who wanted to do something big, who was just
very genuine. David, who's a picture of Jesus Christ says, nah, let his days be few. And
then he says, let another take his office. Okay. Now before I read on, because it's good,
it's always good to cross reference, you know, cause some theologian who's never read the
Bible will say, how do you know I was talking about Judas? Right. But in the, in the book
of Acts, when they're selecting a new apostle to replace Judas, cause Judas killed himself.
The apostle Peter said in Acts chapter one verse 19, and it was known into all the dwellers
that you were assuming so much as the field is called in their proper tongue, Al-Saddamah,
that is to say the field of blood for it is written in the book of Psalms, let his habitation
be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his Bishop prick let another take. That's
another way of saying, let another take his office. Yeah. Okay. And he's paraphrasing a
lot there, but look what it goes on to say. Let his children be fatherless and his wife
a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg, let them seek their bread also out
of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the stranger
spoil his labor. And let me just say this is like, well, you know, that's old Testament.
David just saying from his own heart, he is inspired by God to write this. If this is
something that God didn't want in the Bible, you know what God would have done. You would
not allow it to be in the Bible. Did you know that if God was just like, I don't believe
that that's his opinion, but he put it in the Bible because it's true. And in fact,
it's prophetic. Hey, this is the vibe of the Bible. Yeah. A lot of people who watch the
chosen and love the chosen probably say, have that same viewpoint about King David in the
Psalms that it's just David. It's just him talking. That's not God. Let there be none
to extend mercy unto him. Not even God. Neither let be, let there be any to favor his fatherless
children. Let his posterity be cut off. And in the generation following, let their name
be blotted out. He's a don't even let his descendants be saved, man. Let the iniquity
of his fathers be remembered with the Lord. And let not the sin of his mother be blotted
out. Let them be before the Lord continually that he may cut off the memory of them from
the earth because he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man
that he might even slay the broken in heart, referring to Jesus. As he loved cursing, so
let it come upon him. As he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. As
he clothed himself with cursing, like as with a garment. So he wasn't genuine. He wasn't
sincere. He didn't have the best of intentions. He clothed himself with cursing as with a
garment. So let it come into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones, which is
one of the reasons why his pry bowels gushed out. Let it be unto him as a garment which
covered them and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually. Let this be the reward
of mine adversary from the Lord and of them that speak evil against my soul.
I didn't see any of that. That doesn't sound like that guy right there. It doesn't sound
like good intentions. It sounds like God hates Judas Iscariot. But they're painting some
picture as though this guy is just sincere. He was just led astray. This guy was wicked.
Keep playing it. Let's continue on here. Concerned but comforting character.
Yo, what? This person that he can relate to intimately and empathetically that you're
not afraid will judge him. You can just expect that this character, no matter what, has the
best intentions for Judas.
Go follow your rabbi. Go follow your rabbi.
Was Devon mentioning the Psalms?
I am.
There's more to him because there's more to all of us. We've all made mistakes. When Judas
hears Jesus tell them to go out by two and he's paired with Simon right out of the get-go,
I think he's genuinely terrified. I think there's a moment that he thought that there
would be at least a transitioning period where he'd convert to the group slowly but surely
he'd earn his way up because I think he really wants a leadership position of his own. That's
what he wants. He wants to have a say in how the group functions and how the group works.
I've developed some ideas on ways we can generate income to sustain our ministry in a reliable
way.
I think it's important that the writer's in the right position.
Because as just one of the group, as one of the disciples, because why wouldn't he be?
Please welcome Judas to the group.
It's very easy for us to judge someone who's just done something wrong. It's important
to showcase that.
It's super easy to judge someone who's just done something wrong. Like, we trade Jesus
for 30 pieces of swords?
And so it's, I'm sorry, but it surprises me so much when people ask, is it surprising
when you see these villains in a dynamic fashion that you say, no, I'm only surprised it took
so long.
Whoa.
That last comment is super blasphemous. He's basically saying no wonder it took so long
for Judas to betray Jesus in a sense.
Unbelievable.
To get his villain moment or something.
He's all three and a half years, I would have done it in the first.
Show's a good guy to play the part.
I mean, that's so much bullcrap on that clip about Judas Iscariot. And it boils my blood
because Judas is such a wicked person in the Bible. And essentially what the show is doing
is undermining what God's view is of a person.
No, God's view of a person is merciful. He's not though.
And of all people, the man who betrayed Jesus Christ.
The man who betrayed Jesus Christ, the son of perdition, the man who was a devil from
the beginning, who did not believe.
He's not someone who just was led astray. He joined Jesus' disciples and followed Jesus,
quote unquote, with nefarious intent.
Not with sincerity, not because he wanted to do something big, not because he believed
in Jesus.
He did it because he was an infiltrator.
That's what the Bible's teaching there is that he's an infiltrator. He's a wicked person.
But this guy is trying to get people to sympathize with the evil man, with the villain, and make
him seem as though like...
And you know why? Because these churches are filled with infiltrators.
Yeah, filled with Judases.
And I'm pretty sure the one who's developed this character for this show was probably
an infiltrator.
Yeah.
Because it's going to make it easier for infiltrators to infiltrate churches and reprobates and
Judas Iscariots and thieves and child molesters to infiltrate churches under the guise of,
well, I was just...
Like before, you couldn't go into a congregation and be like, well, I'm just like Judas Iscariot.
Because people were like, whoa, bro, that's wicked.
But then now, this, I'm like Judas Iscariot, I'm just misunderstood.
He's like, oh man, yeah, I saw The Chosen.
I definitely...
I get you.
Dude, yeah.
I get you, bro.
I get your vibe, bro.
You wanna be the treasurer, bro?
Yeah.
I'm like, dude, my goodness.
All right, what else?
Let's see what we got here.
We're reacting here to The Chosen.
This is great.
This show is bad.
I didn't know how bad it was, but it was bad.
What's the next one?
Bad, bad.
Okay.
All right.
So, go ahead and click on that and pull pause when you do.
God loves the world.
All right.
So, skip forward a little bit.
Okay, right there.
Don't press play yet.
So, this is Nicodemus and Jesus.
Okay.
Now, whether you wanna believe Nicodemus got saved or not is irrelevant.
Okay.
We just wanna be accurate to what the Bible says.
All right.
So, there's a bunch of stuff added to this.
And people will make the argument, well, he quotes John 3.16, and it's true.
He does.
I mean, he doesn't quote it like the John 3.16 to the King James, but it's there.
It's like the NIV or the ESV.
It's like they're not gonna completely destroy John 3.16.
You couldn't take out John 3.16 if you're doing a scene like this.
Because John 3.16 is known by every Christian and even unsafe people.
So, if you misconstrued John 3.16, everyone would know.
So, you have to add a little bit of truth there, you know what I mean, in order to make
sure that you deflect from what your true intentions are.
But this is a discourse between Nicodemus and Jesus from John 3, and a bunch of stuff
is added.
So, let's go ahead and watch it real quick.
I'll make commentary throughout the clip.
Any questions?
Shall we sit first?
Oh, yes, of course.
He comes to him by night, right?
That's accurate.
The Eastern slums.
Many wandering preachers have succeeded in gathering crowds with their rhetoric and fiery
tone.
I've heard a few of them over the years myself, so you know the type.
Okay, stop it.
Stop it.
Okay.
Did you catch that?
About fundamental Baptist...
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, Nicodemus, obviously, this isn't from the Bible.
But he says, you know, I've heard a lot of preachers in the past with their rhetoric
and fiery preaching.
And Jesus is like, yeah, I've heard of myself in the synagogues.
They're downplaying hard preaching.
Okay.
Why is this?
Is this intentional?
Of course it is.
It's a subtle attack on biblical preaching.
So it's making it seem as though Jesus is against fiery preaching, even though he basically
comes with the same spirit that every prophet of the Old Testament came in.
So this show is making Jesus discredit all the prophets who came before him.
Like Ezekiel, where he told him to...
Smile with your...
Stomp with your foot and slap your thigh with your hand.
Where I say I make your voice as a trumpet.
Yeah, cry out loud and spare not, and show my people their transgression.
Because biblical preaching is supposed to be hard.
Jehovah says, preach the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
So here we have Nicodemus saying fiery rhetoric, those fundamental Baptist types.
And then Jesus is like, yeah, I've heard that myself.
Or John the Baptist.
What about John the Baptist?
Well, here they don't call him John the Baptist.
Really?
They call him the baptizer.
And that's also intentional.
Because you don't want to call him John the Baptist, because there's a group out there
of who they're referring to, the preachers with the fiery rhetoric, who are called Baptists.
And the Bible does talk about John the Baptist.
They're like, he's the baptizer.
Keep playing it.
How does he baptize in his...
But I have never heard anyone tell the paralytic to kiddo and walk.
Much less it actually happens.
So what is your conclusion?
I believe you are not acting alone.
No one can do these signs you do without having God in him.
Only someone who has come from God.
And how is that belief going over in the synagogue?
Which is why we are here at this hour.
What else?
What have you come here to show us?
A kingdom.
That is what our rulers are worried about.
No, not that kind.
Then what?
A sort of kingdom that a person cannot see unless he is born again.
Born again?
Yes.
You mean a new creature?
Conversion from gentile to Jewish?
No, that's not what I'm talking about.
Okay, stop it.
He's born again.
So they're trying to make it seem as though the Nicodemus of the chosen understands more
than the Nicodemus of the Bible.
He's like, oh, you talk about a conversion.
This is what being born again is, right?
To become a new creature.
And he's like, no, no, no, that's not what I'm talking about.
But Nicodemus of the Bible, he didn't understand any of that.
Keep playing it.
If you don't believe me, return to the womb, because that would be a problem for me.
My mother, and she rest in peace, is dead.
What?
Truly, I say to you.
What's going on?
Is that it?
No, no, no, that's not it.
Play it right there.
No, no, no, you went too far.
You went too far.
Right there, just play it.
See where you're at.
Complained against God and against Moses in the wilderness of Paris.
Go back.
That's what it is.
And that which is born of this person cannot see unless he is born again.
Born again?
Yes.
You're born again?
Yes.
You're born again?
Yes.
You're born again?
Yes.
You're born again?
Yes.
You're born again?
Yes.
You're born again?
Yes.
You mean a new creature?
A new conversion from gentile to Jewish?
No, no, that's not what I'm talking about.
Then what is born again?
I hope you don't mean return to the womb, because that would be a problem for me.
My mother, and she rest in peace, is dead.
Truly, I say to you.
Unless one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh.
And that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
That part of you, that is what must be reborn to a new life.
So scoot forward a little bit.
It's too cheesy for me right now.
Mind is consumed with thoughts of what a stir these words would cause among the teachers
of the law.
Yes, and I do not expect otherwise.
I speak of what I know and have seen, and it has not been received by the religious
leaders.
It's hard to receive.
I have told you of earthly things, and you do not believe.
How can I tell you heavenly things?
I believe your words.
I just fear you may not have a chance to speak many more of them before you are silenced.
I have come to do more than speak words, Nicodemus.
More miracles.
Yes, but even more than that.
Do you remember when the children of Israel...
He says they came to do more than speak words.
Scoot forward a little bit.
But have eternal life.
So this has nothing to do with Rome.
It's all about sin.
God did not send his son into the world to condemn it, Nicodemus.
He sent him to save it through him.
It's as simple as Moses' serpent on the pole.
Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned
already.
See, he's writing in the background.
I've never heard anything like this before.
He's just, bro, I'm writing the gospel right now, bro.
Dude, I gotta catch this, bro.
Mary, that day, I told my wife and my students I see that she was beyond human aid.
She was a god who could have healed me.
Join me and my students.
In two days time, we leave Capernaum.
Come see the kingdom I am bringing into this world.
But I...
You have a position in the Sanhedrin.
You have family.
You are getting advanced in years.
I understand.
But the invitation is still open.
The invitation to what exactly?
To lead a nomadic life, to give up who I am?
It's true.
There is a lot you would give up.
But what you would gain is far greater and more lasting.
Is this another one of your born-again mysteries?
Maybe.
I know mysteries aren't easy for a scholar.
Think about it.
Take your time.
On the morning of the fifth day, we leave, and we'll meet by the well in the southern
quarter of Nadore.
Is this...
Is the kingdom of God really coming?
What does your heart tell you?
Heart is to keep above all things and desperately wicked, brother.
This turns into a Disney movie.
It could tell me nothing except that I have standing on the holy ground.
When does Nicodemus ever do this?
And why is Jesus' eyes all glossy?
Every scene is like that.
Holy roof.
I do hope you come with us, Nicodemus.
I don't have to do that.
You don't have to do that.
What are you doing?
Kiss the sun.
What?
What did he say?
He said you don't have to do that.
What are you doing?
I'm still here, I agree with you.
Perish in the way.
You don't have to worship God.
Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.
I need to read John chapter 3 again.
I think I missed that in John chapter 3.
I want to read the real John chapter 3 now.
I was like, yo, this is way too corny for me right now.
You can come in, Ms. Ashley.
Chapter 30 verse 36.
No, no, verse 37, bro.
So confusing.
37 through 48 or something, just extra stuff.
Can you believe this?
Can you believe that?
It also sounded like the guy playing Jesus was saying to Nicodemus he has to give up
his life to see the kingdom of God too.
Whereas the emphasis of John chapter 3 is that you have to believe on Jesus Christ.
So, he's implying that in order for him to be a part of this kingdom, he has to give
up everything in order to have it.
But that's not what the Bible says.
The Bible says we have to believe on Jesus Christ.
And that's it.
So, you see, even though they quote, because he does quote, we skipped a part, but he does
quote John 3.16, which I'm willing to readily admit that.
But you see how works are added to that.
By saying he has to give up everything.
He's like, I know you're old and you have a status.
That would mean I have to give up everything.
I know it's hard.
And then when the guy begins to worship him, as many did in the Gospels, Jesus is like,
what are you doing?
You don't have to do that.
Jesus never did that.
Jesus never said that.
It's crazy.
When they would bow, they would bow.
They would bow and he would allow them to because he's God.
But you know, it's good that he didn't bow to him because obviously he's not God.
So isn't that crazy?
All right, let's see if there's any more we're going to react to.
Go to the top.
Let's see.
They try to make it so dramatic too.
Like Jesus is buried.
In five days we leave.
We ride at dawn.
Go to the next one.
Let me see here.
Go ahead and play this one.
This is the woman at the well.
And this is talk about adding a bunch of stuff.
Now wait, hit pause real quick.
I truly believe from the bottom of my heart to the top of my, from the bottom of my feet
to the top of my head, that the chosen is made for women.
I believe that.
I truly believe that because it, you know, someone who is just like biblically sound,
you know what I mean?
Who actually reads the Bible and doesn't care about the emotional aspect of like this.
They're not going to care, but you know, women can be emotional.
Yeah.
The Nicodemus scene was a little over the top for...
Very over the top.
It fell over the cliff.
I don't think a lot of men will be interested in a scene like that.
But you know, you get some, some lady who's trying to transition out of soap operas or
whatever, you know, some drama.
Would have cried at that scene right there.
They would have been tearing up and everything and not cared what the Bible actually says.
Okay.
Now, the reason I bring that up is because this particular scene is very much geared
towards women.
Okay.
Now we remember this.
This is in John chapter four.
Yeah.
Okay.
Where Jesus runs into the Samaritan woman at the well.
He calls her out on, you know, the fact that she's had five husbands and that she is committing
fornication because she's living with the husband that she's with.
She tries to change the subject.
He brings her back.
And then basically she goes home.
She tells everyone about what Jesus, you know, that he prophesied of her and he's the Messiah
basically.
Right.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of John chapter four.
Okay.
Now this adds a bunch of stuff that is just obviously not in the Bible as we've seen with
the other clips.
The difference being is that he like begins to name all her husbands.
What the hell?
And she's like, and he did this to you.
And he did this to you.
Like trying to like basically show that it wasn't her fault.
It was like the guy's fault or something.
Watch it.
I'm doing a disservice to the explanation.
Let's see this, this gay crap right now.
Would you give me a drink?
Did you hear me?
That's bad, huh?
What?
You would you ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan and a woman?
I'm sorry.
When does Jesus ever apologize?
And when does he ever say, please?
Never bro.
Why haven't you come with others?
Why so late in the day?
Don't women come to the wells in the pool of the morning?
None of them will be seen with me.
So I have to commit to you.
Is that really what the Bible says?
She's basically saying no one's willing to be seen with me because they're ashamed of
her.
Long story.
I'd still like a drink of water if you can spare it.
Amazing what a parched throat will do.
Aren't I unclean to you?
Won't you be defiled by this vessel?
Maybe some of my people say that about your women, but I don't.
Yeah?
And what do you say?
I say if you knew who I am, you'd be asking me for a drink.
Really?
And I would give you living water.
Would?
Except that you have nothing to draw water with and this is a deep well.
Besides, what do you need from me if you have your own supply of living water?
Long story.
But Jewish water is better than Samaritan water?
That's not what I said.
That's not even what the Bible says.
Who dug this well?
Your water is better than his?
I know, Jacob.
And everyone who drinks this water will thirst again.
But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again.
Wow.
Wouldn't that be nice?
The water I give will become in a person a spring of water, welling up to eternal life.
Really?
Yes, really.
Prove it.
First go and call your husband and come back.
I will show you both.
I don't have a husband.
You are right.
You've had five husbands.
And the man you're living with now is not your husband.
Haha.
Oh, I see.
You're a prophet.
You're here to preach at me.
Usually the one good thing about coming here alone is I can escape being condemned.
I'm not here to condemn the Bible.
I've made mistakes.
Too many.
But it's men like you who have made it impossible for me to do anything about it.
Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews insist Jerusalem is the only
place for true worship.
They say that because the temple is there.
Exactly where we're not allowed.
I'm here to break those barriers.
Oh, break the barriers.
And the time is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship
the Father.
Where am I supposed to go when I need God?
I've never received anything from God, but I couldn't thank Him even if I did.
Anywhere.
God is spirit.
And the time is coming and is now here that it won't matter where you worship, but only
that you do it in spirit and truth.
Heart and mind, that, that is the kind of worshiper he's looking for.
Not you.
It won't matter where you're from or what you've done.
Do you believe what I'm telling you?
Until the Messiah comes.
Just like every other man.
And sorts this mess out, including me.
I don't trust in anyone.
You're wrong when you say that you've never received anything from God.
This Messiah you speak of.
I am He.
The first one was named Ramin.
Like Top Ramen?
You were a woman of purity who was excited to be married.
But he wasn't a good man.
He hurt you.
The ringing in the ears right now.
He made you question marriage and even the practice of your faith.
Stop it.
The second was Farzad.
On your wedding night, his skin smelled like oranges.
Every time you pass by the oranges in the market, he was the only truly godly man you've
been with.
He smelled like lemon, but you felt unworthy.
Why are you doing this?
The third one was...
You are the first.
You know, like, what did you...
Yeah, this thing smells like curry.
You picked the wrong person.
I came to Samaria just to meet you.
This is stupid.
Do you think it's an accident?
You can see how that's geared towards like, you can see how this is geared to like some
divorced woman or something.
Yeah, man.
It's like, God understands you.
Your first husband or whatever did this and you're...
It's all the man's fault.
Yeah.
You know, this is not in the Bible.
If anything, the character, obviously the Samaritan woman, she wanted to hear it.
And then over here, she's like, I don't wanna hear it.
You're condemning me, all that stuff.
It's like...
Yeah, he's like, you're condemning me for this.
She was like trying to avoid and trying to change the subject and then he brought her
back on course and then she believed and she ended up going back and getting the guys to
come, the men to come from the city and they got saved as well.
But this is over here trying to...I feel like this is taking jabs at the male authority.
Yeah, it's like a feminist.
It's a very much feminist and it's like pulling at the heartstrings of all these single women
out there who have all these bad men in their lives or something.
You know what I mean?
But Jesus never said anything like that.
And women who have been divorced or something like that.
Or they were in an abusive relationship or they committed fornication or whatever it
may be.
It's just like, I'm not worthy.
I can't trust anybody.
I don't trust man or whatever.
It's just like, that's not what the chapter is about.
I'm here to break down the barrier.
Yeah, the racial barrier between the medicines and Israelites.
It's like that's not what the Bible says.
All those communists, feminists.
It's a grief.
Let me see if there's one more.
Social justice.
Yeah, social justice nonsense.
Let's see, Jesus arrives in Decapolis.
Now we will skip that one.
Let's see, what's another one?
Jesus feed the 5,000?
Nah.
Actually go down to, keep going.
Jesus raises, keep going.
Keep going.
Right there.
Let's go to John the baptizer.
Let's go to John the baptizer, dude.
King of the universe.
Let's save those big titles for the debate.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's save those big titles.
Don't call me those big titles.
You know, because Jesus is not about titles.
Ah, yes.
What do we have here?
These are two of your cousin's disciples, Avner and Adonah.
Jesus of Nazareth?
That name I respond to readily.
Why not be returning to Nazareth in this lifetime?
The baptizer has an urgent question for you.
I recognize you from the day John introduced me to Andrew.
Behold the lamb of God who comes to take away the sin of the world.
Yes, good memory.
My cousin can get excited.
So, hold on, pause it there.
So you know, the Jesus of the chosen is taking shots at John the baptist.
Yeah, my cousin can get a little excited because John the baptist in the bible is portrayed
as being a fiery preacher, which is why he has the spirit of Elijah, because Elijah was
a fiery preacher.
So Jesus of the chosen is here to just kind of like, hey, you know, yeah, these guys are
getting a little excited.
These fundamentalists and they're fiery.
I've heard them before kind of downplaying the preaching of the bible.
You know what I mean?
Because that's not what the bible says.
The bible never says that Jesus speaks of John the baptist.
He says he's the greatest.
Yeah, he was born among women.
Yep.
And he even says Jesus, the bible says that he came in the spirit of Elijah because of
the fact that Elijah was a fiery preacher, just like John the baptist was a fire preacher.
So keep going here.
This is a fake Jesus.
Simon brought us in haste.
This isn't appropriate here.
We can talk later.
Simon.
I actually think now is the perfect time.
Who here has experienced John the baptizer in some way?
John the baptizer.
I know some of you rejected John, but some of you believed his message.
He has had a profound impact on so many in this region.
These are two of his disciples, so let's welcome them.
What is that about?
Some of you may also know that John is currently imprisoned by Herod in Micaiah.
I think it would be instructive for us to hear what's on his mind in the midst of such
challenge.
It's a difficult question.
It might be better privately.
It's fine.
This is hate.
So do you see what's being done here?
Hit pause, Ulysses.
So these are John's disciples.
John the baptist's disciples.
Yeah, they're being scared.
And they're fearful, and it's almost as if Jesus Christ is calling them on the carpet.
You know what I mean?
So he's almost making a distinction between John the baptist and himself.
You know, John the baptist is the one who gets all excited, and he's the one who's all
kind of crazy.
His disciples are confronting Jesus.
But this isn't the story of the Bible.
And in fact, he tells them specifically, you know, John is the greatest who's born among
women, and he knows that John is discouraged because he's in prison.
And so, but here it kind of seems as though he's making a mockery of John the baptist's
disciples.
Yeah, tell us all what's going on.
What's on his mind?
Yeah, what's on his mind?
Tell us what he wants to say.
Why are you hiding it kind of thing?
Yeah.
I'm going to ask you, if you are really the one who is to come, or should we look for
someone else?
That's supposed to be Peter right there, that guy.
Say that last part again.
Should we look for someone else?
For those of you who could not hear, John the baptizer, my cousin, who has prepared
the way for me, is now questioning if I am the Messiah, or if maybe we should keep waiting.
John is getting impatient, yes?
It's one of his quirks.
Oh really?
It's one of his quirks.
It's been a long time.
It's a word that reached our ears about what happened in Nazareth, yet you said the spirit
of the Lord is upon you to proclaim liberty to the captives.
If you say you are here to free prisoners, then why does he remain?
He rightfully wonders why you would allow his entire ministry to be halted by an impostor
king.
These fundamentalists, they're just...
Proclaiming liberty to the captives is more than just freeing inmates.
There are many kinds of captivity that keep people.
Is that what we're supposed to tell him?
No, that's just for you.
We heard our former comrades Andrew and Philip have gone to the Decapolis.
Is that where you're planning to launch the revolution to over to Rome?
I have something in mind for the Decapolis, and it will be revolutionary, but probably
not in the way you're thinking.
What are we supposed to report back?
Careful.
Go and tell John what you hear and see.
The blind receive their sight.
The lame walk.
The lepers are cleansed.
The mute speak.
And the poor have the good news preached to them.
Blessed is the one who is not offended by me.
I will always be offended by blasphemy.
As should all of you.
So what happened to his daughter?
You know this isn't blasphemy.
I did not see what happened.
Your supposed rabbi disrespected me as a holy man, another sign of his evil spirit.
And I also don't know any of the details that happened.
He is hiding something.
And I cannot stand here and allow you all to be deceived by his sorcery, even if I'm
the only one willing to protect you.
Go.
This is a guitar in the background.
You have seen and heard here today.
And add to that the dead are raised as well.
Tell John I love him.
He doesn't even say that.
Tell John I love him.
P.S.
I wish you were here.
Did my response to the baptizers disciples sound to any of you like a rebuke?
Yes.
I can always count on you, Nathaniel.
And that's it.
What the hell is that?
What is that?
There is one last one, but we're not going to watch it.
It's basically where the disciples are in the sea.
And it's boisterous.
There's a storm.
And then Jesus walks on the water.
Peter is there.
He tells them bid me come.
If it is you.
He comes and he walks on water and begins to sink.
And they do that, but there's a bunch of dialogue in there that's not in the Bible.
He's like, if it's you, you know, bid me come.
And he's just like, if you have faith, you know, if you have faith, if you walk by faith,
you can do it.
And Peter starts rebuking him.
And he's just like, you're helping all these Gentiles.
We're rooting for your people.
Like from the boat.
He's like getting on him because he's healing all these Gentiles and Samaritans.
And he's like mad at Jesus and all these things.
And he's just like, what is up with this like social justice, social justice, racial stuff
that you guys are, you know, inserting, embedding into.
Yeah.
It's everything outside of the Bible.
Things that the Bible actually condemns.
Revolution, feminism, comrades, communism, you know, social justice, warriors.
That's what communism, communists use.
They'll use like all my comrades.
Yeah.
Apparently Jesus had 12 comrades in the chosen year.
That's so crazy.
So folks, I hope that you, you may not like my preaching and I'm not saying you have to
go listen to my preaching or anything like that as an alternative or something, but you
know what?
I hope you give heed to this and see how wicked and blasphemous this is.
And if you say, well, I still see nothing wrong with it, then basically just say that
you don't believe the Bible because this takes so much out of the Bible and it inserts so
much in of things that are just completely contrary to not only the word of God, but
the nature of God, the nature of Jesus Christ.
It misrepresents Jesus.
It misrepresents John the Baptist.
It misrepresents the disciples.
It adds a bunch of people and it tries to get you to sympathize with evil and wicked
people such as Judas Iscariot.
I mean it does a major disservice to the gospels to the point where no Christian should be
watching this garbage because it's going to cause you to just have a low view of God's
word.
Yeah.
And you know what?
If you keep watching this, you don't esteem the Bible.
Just say that because I watched about two hours of this different clips and I'll be
quite honest with you.
When I stopped watching, I was just like, man, I'm grieved in my spirit.
My spirit is vexed, just insurmountably vexed from all of this nonsense that's in here.
And you know why?
Because I know the Jesus of the Bible.
I know the disciples.
I know the word of God.
I read the Bible and I get mad when people misrepresent the Bible.
Yeah.
Yeah, but the miracles are still there.
Yeah, of course they're there because that's why you're watching it.
It's because you want to see in live action, you know, with all the graphics and everything,
you want to see all that, but you know what?
The Bible's important.
Yeah.
Okay.
And even then, aside from removing things out of the Bible, you remove concepts out
of the Bible.
You make, they're mixing works with salvation, with faith, you know, with John chapter three
and the scene with Nicodemus.
And so here's a verse that I believe sums up the chosen who, in my opinion, is what's
going on here.
Yeah.
Or do you see that part?
Let's save those big titles.
Ah, yes.
What do we have here?
I hate this scene.
This scene is so stupid.
I don't even know.
I don't even know if Elise has left.
That was weird.
I believe that this should be called the rejected, not the chosen.
This is the reprobate.
The show should be called the reprobate because it's rejected by God.
It's not chosen by God.
Here's a great verse to summarize what the chosen is all about.
And this is for all of you chosen lovers and fans of Jonathan Rumi and his depiction of
Jesus Christ, which, by the way, Jonathan Rumi is a hardcore Catholic who, you know,
practices necromancy and lays next to a grave of a sodomite homosexual who was responsible
for the Jesus movement and inspired Chuck Smith to start Calvary Chapel.
He's laying next to his grave and he's communicating with the dead.
This is the guy who promotes Catholicism.
He promotes praying the rosary and all these all this nonsense, just in case you didn't
know.
But I fear less by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety.
So your mind should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For he that cometh preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if he receive
another spirit which ye have not received or another gospel which ye have not accepted,
ye might well bear with him.
So he's saying the apostle Paul is telling the Corinthian church is like, I'm afraid
of you.
He's like, I'm jealous of you.
He says, but I'm afraid that you just easily beguiled.
You're easily fooled.
Because it kind of sounds like he's like someone could come preaching another Jesus.
He said, another gospel, have another spirit, and you might actually accept it and be okay
with it.
The chosen is another Jesus.
The chosen is another spirit.
It's another gospel, and all kinds of Christians are like, sign me up.
And they're bearing with it.
They're like, this is good.
So that's my take on the chosen.
I mean, what do you guys think about that?
So anything you guys want to add to that?
That was basically a sermon.
I need to go read my Bible after this.
That's all I ask.
Dude, after I saw that, I'm like, I need to go read the gospels just to kind of like clean
all that filth out and give me a biblical reality check from this nonsense that is called
the chosen.
I hope you Christians out there who are watching to get right with God and stop watching that
crap and actually pick up the word of God and read it and love it.
And the Bible is more exciting than the chosen because it's actually real life.
It's actually what happened.
And so that's pretty much it, folks.
It's a great episode that we got there for the Rod of Iron and just kind of picking apart
the chosen.
You can say that's what I did because that's exactly what I did.
I picked it apart and rightfully so.
But gentlemen, thank you so much for being here and thank you for tuning in to the Rod
of Iron podcast.
We'll see when we have another episode and that's pretty much it, folks.
Have a good night.
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