The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Anorexia, Demon-Possession, TikTok, & The Fruit Of The Spirit.

00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys. I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry

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00:00:42.200 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of

00:00:47.300 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. We would never tell a 17-year-old girl who weighs, you

00:00:57.880 know 78 pounds and and she looks in the mirror and every time she looks in the mirror she says

00:01:03.920 i'm a whale i'm so overweight i'm disgusting i'm ugly we would never say it's loving to tell that 0.92

00:01:11.700 anorexic girl who has a a problem a mental problem dysphoria she is not seeing clearly 0.95

00:01:19.200 she is deceived there may be demonic spirits at work or it may just simply be a mental

00:01:26.040 deficiency, or it could be the effect of being brainwashed and influenced by TikTok and Instagram

00:01:34.300 and Hollywood and all these different things, multiple contributing factors. But the point

00:01:39.140 remains that what she sees when she looks in the mirror is categorically false. It is not true.

00:01:45.680 And it therefore is not loving for us to go and say, I want to affirm your truth. Hey, if your

00:01:53.060 truth is that you're fat as a as a 78 pound 17 year old girl well i mean it would be unloving 1.00

00:02:00.640 for me to tell you that your truth isn't real so you know what sweetheart you are fat you're the 0.99

00:02:08.080 fattest girl i've ever seen now apply that same logic to transgenderism is that not exactly what 0.99

00:02:16.380 we're told to do as loving that same 17 year old girl let's now say she has a healthy weight

00:02:22.580 but but she says i'm a boy well hey if that's what you see if that's how you feel if that's

00:02:31.860 your truth and the most loving thing that i can do is affirm that reality no the most loving thing

00:02:37.820 that we can do is love someone in truth when the bible says that we're called to speak the truth

00:02:44.700 in love sadly many evangelical christians have taken truth and love as though they were at odds

00:02:51.100 with one another. We've pitted them against one another. Like truth and love are two options

00:02:56.880 and that we're able to choose one at any given time. Like as though truth and love are two

00:03:03.140 different tools used at different moments for different ends, right? Truth is a hammer and

00:03:09.940 love is a screwdriver and it depends on what job we're trying to accomplish. In some cases,

00:03:14.480 we may need the hammer. In some cases, we may need the screwdriver. That is not the way that

00:03:19.700 the Bible describes the relationship between truth and love. The truth is loving, and love,

00:03:28.040 if it is love, is always truthful. The best way to think of these is apply it to the concept or

00:03:35.580 the doctrine of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit, again, to go back to

00:03:41.420 that analogy or illustration, it's not a toolbox with nine different tools inside, right? Love,

00:03:48.840 joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

00:03:54.200 I'm building a house right now, and at some moments I may need the saw, at other moments I need the

00:04:00.620 screwdriver, at other moments I need the hammer. I'm going to take out of my toolbox love for this

00:04:06.680 leg of the race, and truth for this leg of the race, and gentleness for it. No, the nine fruit of the

00:04:12.940 Spirit. Listed in Galatians, first and foremost, it is not an exhaustive list. These are simply

00:04:18.860 some of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And that word fruit should be understood as fruit, just

00:04:25.280 like the fruit of our faith, as Connor said earlier, is obedience. Fruit simply means evidence,

00:04:32.120 the result of, the physical visible manifestations of another ultimate reality. Fruit is the cause

00:04:42.940 of the root or the effect, I should say, of the root. So when the Bible speaks of the fruits of

00:04:49.620 the Spirit, we're not saying that there are nine fruit of the Spirit like a buffet and you choose

00:04:54.760 one at a time or maybe two or three and you leave the rest there and you come back for them

00:04:59.540 later whenever they're needed. That's not what's being described. To use, well, to use fruit as

00:05:06.060 the analogy of fruit, right? An apple, banana, pineapple, oranges. If we were to think of it

00:05:12.520 like that, there are not nine fruit of the Holy Spirit, meaning nine different kinds of food

00:05:18.980 fruits, apples and oranges and lemons and whatever. No, it would be nine different characteristics of

00:05:25.560 one piece of fruit. Like an apple is crunchy and sweet and tart and this and nine different

00:05:33.860 characteristic. The fruit of the Spirit is the characteristics of the third person of the Holy

00:05:39.740 Trinity, namely the Holy Spirit of God. That's the way that we're meant to understand the fruit

00:05:44.840 of the Spirit, which means what? It means that if you have the Holy Spirit, which you do if you are

00:05:50.360 in Christ, per 1 Corinthians chapter 6, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom

00:05:57.620 you have received from God. You are not your own. You were bought with a price, and if you have the

00:06:03.360 Holy Spirit, you do not have a portion of the Holy Spirit. Can I be frank with you for just a

00:06:10.500 second right here at the end? Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry

00:06:15.500 and from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you. I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you,

00:06:22.540 you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest.

00:06:29.160 We're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites 0.98

00:06:37.880 lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply

00:06:45.380 cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people change the definition of a recession. We are living in

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The NXR Podcast - February 28, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Anorexia, Demon-Possession, TikTok, & The Fruit Of The Spirit.

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