The NXR Podcast - February 28, 2023


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

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Joe Biden
DAILY TRUTH - Obesity In The Church DAILY TRUTH - The Paralysis Of Too Many Choices

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

160.78

Word count

1,250

Sentence count

71

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

6

sentences flagged

Hate speech

4

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

Truth and love are two different tools used at different times for different ends. Truth is a hammer and love is a screwdriver, and it depends on what job you're trying to accomplish. In some cases, we may need the hammer, and in other cases we need the screwdriver. The Bible describes the relationship between truth and love as "Love" and "Truth."

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
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00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. We would never tell a 17-year-old girl who weighs, you
00:00:57 know 78 pounds and and she looks in the mirror and every time she looks in the mirror she says
00:01:03 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 anorexic girl who has a a problem a mental problem dysphoria she is not seeing clearly 0.95
00:01:19 she is deceived there may be demonic spirits at work or it may just simply be a mental
00:01:26 deficiency, or it could be the effect of being brainwashed and influenced by TikTok and Instagram
00:01:34 and Hollywood and all these different things, multiple contributing factors. But the point
00:01:39 remains that what she sees when she looks in the mirror is categorically false. It is not true.
00:01:45 And it therefore is not loving for us to go and say, I want to affirm your truth. Hey, if your
00:01:53 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 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 fattest girl i've ever seen now apply that same logic to transgenderism is that not exactly what 0.99
00:02:16 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 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 your truth and the most loving thing that i can do is affirm that reality no the most loving thing
00:02:37 that we can do is love someone in truth when the bible says that we're called to speak the truth
00:02:44 in love sadly many evangelical christians have taken truth and love as though they were at odds
00:02:51 with one another. We've pitted them against one another. Like truth and love are two options
00:02:56 and that we're able to choose one at any given time. Like as though truth and love are two
00:03:03 different tools used at different moments for different ends, right? Truth is a hammer and
00:03:09 love is a screwdriver and it depends on what job we're trying to accomplish. In some cases,
00:03:14 we may need the hammer. In some cases, we may need the screwdriver. That is not the way that
00:03:19 the Bible describes the relationship between truth and love. The truth is loving, and love,
00:03:28 if it is love, is always truthful. The best way to think of these is apply it to the concept or
00:03:35 the doctrine of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit, again, to go back to
00:03:41 that analogy or illustration, it's not a toolbox with nine different tools inside, right? Love,
00:03:48 joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
00:03:54 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 screwdriver, at other moments I need the hammer. I'm going to take out of my toolbox love for this
00:04:06 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 Spirit. Listed in Galatians, first and foremost, it is not an exhaustive list. These are simply
00:04:18 some of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And that word fruit should be understood as fruit, just
00:04:25 like the fruit of our faith, as Connor said earlier, is obedience. Fruit simply means evidence,
00:04:32 the result of, the physical visible manifestations of another ultimate reality. Fruit is the cause
00:04:42 of the root or the effect, I should say, of the root. So when the Bible speaks of the fruits of
00:04:49 the Spirit, we're not saying that there are nine fruit of the Spirit like a buffet and you choose
00:04:54 one at a time or maybe two or three and you leave the rest there and you come back for them
00:04:59 later whenever they're needed. That's not what's being described. To use, well, to use fruit as
00:05:06 the analogy of fruit, right? An apple, banana, pineapple, oranges. If we were to think of it
00:05:12 like that, there are not nine fruit of the Holy Spirit, meaning nine different kinds of food
00:05:18 fruits, apples and oranges and lemons and whatever. No, it would be nine different characteristics of
00:05:25 one piece of fruit. Like an apple is crunchy and sweet and tart and this and nine different
00:05:33 characteristic. The fruit of the Spirit is the characteristics of the third person of the Holy
00:05:39 Trinity, namely the Holy Spirit of God. That's the way that we're meant to understand the fruit
00:05:44 of the Spirit, which means what? It means that if you have the Holy Spirit, which you do if you are
00:05:50 in Christ, per 1 Corinthians chapter 6, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom
00:05:57 you have received from God. You are not your own. You were bought with a price, and if you have the
00:06:03 Holy Spirit, you do not have a portion of the Holy Spirit. Can I be frank with you for just a
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