The NXR Podcast - November 25, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Being Above Reproach


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Length

5 minutes

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167.19243

Word count

954

Sentence count

56


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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19.620 Jesus said,
00:00:20.740 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25.380 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30.640 Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach.
00:00:34.560 In your notes, I've written this.
00:00:35.440 This particular qualification is the top.
00:00:38.000 It's at the very top.
00:00:39.220 Not the very top because I just gave one other so that it's, you know, you get it.
00:00:41.840 It's in the top five, top two, whatever.
00:00:43.900 It's in the top of both a list for qualifications for elders in 1 Timothy 3,
00:00:47.780 our particular text today, and Titus 1, another list of qualifications for elders.
00:00:53.720 This is not a requirement of perfection.
00:00:57.640 We've got to be careful.
00:00:58.220 What does it mean to be above reproach?
00:01:00.000 We spoke of some of this last week.
00:01:01.680 Let's look at it a little bit more in detail now.
00:01:04.320 The Greek word conveys the idea of not possessing anything in one's life
00:01:08.540 that Satan might be able to use against you.
00:01:12.160 Simply put, an elder must not be living a double life.
00:01:15.940 He must be a man of integrity.
00:01:18.080 He cannot be a hypocrite.
00:01:20.020 When he sins, because above reproach does not mean sinless perfection,
00:01:24.560 only Christ is sinlessly perfect, so an elder will sin.
00:01:28.360 He's a qualified man, but not a sinless man.
00:01:30.680 So when he sins, he judges himself.
00:01:33.780 An elder is qualified when at those times where he does, in fact, sin,
00:01:40.440 the first person to confront him on his sin is him.
00:01:46.340 That's a wonderful sign of a man being qualified.
00:01:51.860 To brag on our other four elders,
00:01:54.260 It is a rare occasion when I or someone else has to go to them and cause them to understand, bring to their attention a failure on their part that they have not already been made aware of by the conviction of the Holy Spirit in their own hearts, in their own lives.
00:02:19.640 there's very little correction on our elder team
00:02:24.740 because there's very much conviction on our elder team
00:02:29.140 that's not to say that we do not disagree
00:02:31.760 that's not to say that we do not correct when necessary
00:02:35.160 but often there's not as much correction
00:02:38.020 because there's much confession
00:02:39.900 there's much confession among the pastors of this church
00:02:45.040 as we meet together, as we talk together, as we pray together
00:02:49.860 And so to be above reproach is not to be sinlessly perfect,
00:02:53.400 but it is to be a man who ultimately, at the end of the day,
00:02:56.120 does not have a crack in the wall of the fortress.
00:02:59.200 There is no weak point that the enemy might exploit
00:03:02.520 in order to bring him down and ultimately do the church much harm.
00:03:07.720 And one of the ways that he fortifies the walls,
00:03:11.120 spiritual maturity as a defense,
00:03:14.020 not just for himself, not for his own reputation,
00:03:17.220 but for the protection and safety of the people
00:03:18.960 of God, one of the ways that he fortifies that wall, one of the ways that he fills in
00:03:23.840 the cracks is through constant, continual, careful confession.
00:03:30.860 A man who has to be corrected regularly is probably not quite ready to be an elder.
00:03:35.900 But a man who still is a sinner but confesses regularly.
00:03:40.480 Do you see the distinction?
00:03:42.140 There is a difference.
00:03:43.900 So to be above reproach is not to say a man who is sinlessly perfect, but it's a man who
00:03:47.540 recognizes his sin quickly and doesn't always have to be have to be corrected because he's
00:03:54.480 he's quick to announce to present to confess his sin to the appropriate parties he is above
00:04:04.440 reproach houston we have a problem i repeat we have a problem our conference is about to sell
00:04:10.940 out. I mean, about to sell out. We probably have about 75 to a hundred seats left. Our venue holds
00:04:18.140 about 525 to 550 seats. And we currently have 450 people who are registered for this conference.
00:04:25.260 The excitement is tangible. A lot of people registered because they wanted to hit the early
00:04:29.920 bird rate. We're now at our normal rate, $130 for an adult, $50 for a kid who's 11 to 17 years old
00:04:37.120 and kids 10 and under get in free.
00:04:39.400 You can bring the whole family.
00:04:40.500 But the problem is not that we're going to raise the rate again.
00:04:43.420 The problem is we're going to run out of tickets
00:04:45.120 and we're going to run out pretty fast.
00:04:47.360 Again, we've got about 100 seats or less.
00:04:50.740 450 people six months out are already registered for this conference.
00:04:55.080 We don't want you to miss it.
00:04:56.740 So to ensure that you get to make it to this conference,
00:04:59.720 you need to register not a month from now,
00:05:02.380 not a week from now, not tomorrow, but today.
00:05:05.220 You want to be there for the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th, with James White, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Joel Webben.
00:05:17.260 Go to RightResponseConference.com.
00:05:19.960 Again, that's RightResponseConference.com.
00:05:23.080 It will sell out very soon.
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