The NXR Podcast - October 09, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Are Christians Totally Depraved？


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7 minutes

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1,039

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41

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The Christian is not called by God to wallow in our sin, but by God's grace to do what is good. What does it mean to be a Christian even though we have been saved from sin?

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00:00:00.000 In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month
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00:00:16.360 and gospel of Jesus Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a
00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. We're not called by God to
00:00:30.280 wallow in our sin. It is an objective fact that if you are in Christ, you are a saint.
00:00:40.260 You have a new heart. Even in regards to the doctrine of total depravity within the Reformed 0.97
00:00:46.940 tradition, yes, we uphold the doctrine of total depravity, but total depravity does not apply for
00:00:53.640 the Christian. It doesn't. The Christian is a new creature in Christ Jesus. He has been born again. 1.00
00:01:04.880 His heart of stone has been removed and has been replaced now with a heart of flesh,
00:01:09.720 a heart that by its very nature is soft and malleable and receptive to the voice of God.
00:01:16.940 They are now sheep, in a sense, always were, but now sheep that have been found and are in the fold of the shepherd, responding to the shepherd, not only hearing his voice, but loving his voice.
00:01:34.640 Now, those who are born again, those who have been saved are still sinners, but not in the same way.
00:01:42.360 The sin nature has been done away with.
00:01:45.520 now the flesh still remains and I believe this is precisely what the apostle Paul
00:01:49.980 addresses in Romans chapter 7 that sin still resides within the members of my being
00:01:55.440 he says and I believe this is not pre-conversion but this is Paul speaking as a Christian he says
00:02:02.340 so I find this law at work that when I want to do good evil is right there present with me so
00:02:09.040 that the good that I want to do this I cannot carry out oh what a wretched man I am who will
00:02:14.160 save me from this body of death. And that's key. He doesn't say who will save my soul
00:02:23.340 or who will replace my heart of stone with a heart of flesh. No, these things have already
00:02:29.780 occurred. And yet Paul still recognizes that although he has a new heart, although his soul
00:02:36.180 has been justified already, his body is still fallen at a need of redemption. There is a sense
00:02:44.780 in which Paul is waiting to be saved, although in the same sense, he recognizes that he has been
00:02:51.760 saved. Salvation is a big banner. The simplest way that I could explain it is like this.
00:02:58.460 justification sanctification glorification justification pertaining to the soul being
00:03:07.180 declared righteous in an instant at the moment of conversion sanctification the lifelong process
00:03:14.000 in between justification and natural death sanctification is the renewing of the mind
00:03:19.860 so justification speaks to the declaring of righteousness with the soul sanctification
00:03:26.660 the process of renewing the mind, and then glorification is the future salvation and
00:03:33.160 restoration of the body. Soul, mind, body. Justification, sanctification, glorification.
00:03:39.860 And in that sense, we can say, truthfully, that we have been saved, we are being saved. Ephesians
00:03:46.840 uses that present tense language, being saved, and we will be saved. And the will be future tense
00:03:53.400 is the way that Paul speaks of salvation in Romans 7,
00:03:56.700 who will save me from this body of death.
00:04:00.040 He recognizes that his soul has been justified.
00:04:02.960 His mind, Romans 12,
00:04:05.400 is being no longer conformed to the pattern of this world,
00:04:08.120 but rather transformed the renewing of his mind daily
00:04:11.580 through the process of sanctification.
00:04:13.860 And yet he still recognizes there is still a fullness,
00:04:17.280 a culmination of the salvation that Jesus has purchased for him
00:04:21.480 that he is yet to receive that is waiting for him in the future and that is the glorification of his
00:04:28.580 flesh and in the meantime he recognizes sin still resides within the members of my flesh
00:04:34.320 that there is that remains in me in this life in this fallen flesh an inclination a temptation
00:04:41.240 towards sin that the flesh has not yet been redeemed but the sinful flesh is distinct from
00:04:50.380 the sin nature. In theological categories, these should not be conflated as one. The unbeliever
00:04:57.880 has the sinful flesh and the sinful nature. The believer in this life still has a sinful flesh 1.00
00:05:05.340 to make war with, but no longer the sinful nature, but clearly what the Bible teaches, 0.63
00:05:11.320 a new nature. And the new nature is not bent on sin. That's what Paul was speaking to in my
00:05:18.760 inward being, I delight in the law of God. Well, that's what David says, but then Paul arguing,
00:05:24.340 he says, he says that I long to do what is good, but I find this law at work. That when I want to
00:05:31.040 do good, I genuinely desire to do good, not just a moral superficial goodness, but good according
00:05:36.740 to the immutable standard of God with right intents and right motives, with right heart
00:05:41.480 for God's glory and by his grace. And yet even when I want to do that, my flesh is still at war
00:05:48.380 against me i want to do good but cannot carry it out oh what a wretched man i am who will save me
00:05:54.880 who will complete my salvation the fullness future sense by redeeming not only my soul but also my
00:06:01.300 flesh my body if you're in christ jesus you still have sin residing within the members of your flesh
00:06:11.280 the three great enemies of the christian is the world the devil and the flesh you still have to
00:06:18.060 wage spiritual warfare by the spirit walking by the spirit that you might not gratify the sinful
00:06:24.940 desires of the flesh this is a daily war that the christian must engage in and even though you've
00:06:30.460 been born again and justified and given a new heart there is still a war against the flesh
00:06:36.280 but you do not if you are in christ possess a sin nature
00:06:40.500 and so in that sense in theological terms you are not totally to pray
00:06:48.060 We'll be right back.