The NXR Podcast - September 26, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Binding The Strongman & Plundering His House


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14 minutes

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1,896

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99

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What does it mean to be a Christian and a disciple of Jesus Christ? What role does He play in the life of the world? What does the word of God have to do with the life and ministry of Satan?

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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 to 50,000
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00:00:24.060 review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. The second and final main point from today
00:00:30.380 is that Joshua slays the giants, but Israel plunders the house. That's the shadow way of 0.88
00:00:39.200 stating it. The substance way of stating it is that Jesus binds the strong man and the church
00:00:47.860 takes the land. In your notes, I've written this, Joshua thoroughly crushed all the strongholds of
00:00:55.620 the Canaanite kings. And in this sense, Joshua took the whole land, as chapter 11 concludes.
00:01:02.820 However, there were still many small towns and villages remaining. It was the task of each
00:01:09.440 individual tribe to fight and plunder the land that was specifically apportioned to them 0.99
00:01:15.420 as their inheritance. If these tribes failed to do so, it was not because of any lack in the power
00:01:22.460 of God, but their own failure to take for themselves what Joshua had given and allotted
00:01:28.460 to each of them. In the same sense, Jesus, who is the ultimate Joshua, has already defeated the enemy
00:01:37.140 and conquered the land, but he also calls us into battle to further the secure what is already
00:01:45.580 ours. Mark chapter 3 verse 27, Jesus says this, but no one can enter a strong man's house and
00:01:52.700 plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man, then indeed he may plunder his house.
00:02:00.080 This is what Jesus has already done 2,000 years ago
00:02:05.320 in his life, his death, his resurrection
00:02:08.020 and glorious ascension to the right hand
00:02:10.660 of God the Father Almighty.
00:02:12.980 Jesus has bound the strong man.
00:02:16.000 This does not mean, let me get specific here
00:02:18.860 without just the post-millennial platitudes,
00:02:21.440 let me get specific.
00:02:24.640 Satan has not yet been cast into the lake of fire.
00:02:29.260 That is a futurist event that will occur, but has not yet occurred.
00:02:36.260 But Satan has been thoroughly bound in such a way that he is no longer able to deceive
00:02:43.460 the nations, that is, deceive the nations to the same degree, in the same manner, with
00:02:50.540 the same level of delusion that he once did before the work of Christ was finished.
00:02:57.500 Satan still prowls around today in this gospel age
00:03:00.900 as a roaring lion seeking who he may devour.
00:03:04.320 But his leash, which he has always been on for the record,
00:03:07.740 has been tightened and severely shortened by the work of Christ.
00:03:13.020 Now, Satan has always been on a leash in the sense that
00:03:15.480 even before the earthly ministry of Christ,
00:03:18.720 Satan still had to report to God in regards to what he was able to do.
00:03:25.200 In the book of Job, we see the sons of God, the Elohim, Ben Elohim,
00:03:34.220 they were gathered before God in a council of sorts, and that Satan was among them.
00:03:40.960 He appears before God, and God says, from where do you come?
00:03:44.420 Well, what have you been up to?
00:03:45.620 From wandering to and fro on the face of the earth.
00:03:48.320 God says, have you considered my servant Job?
00:03:51.540 And Satan essentially says, paraphrasing here,
00:03:53.800 yeah, he's faithful, but only because you've blessed him so much.
00:03:59.360 Who would bite the hand that feeds him?
00:04:02.620 But if you take away that blessing, if you allow me to intervene, he'll curse you.
00:04:10.000 And God does allow Satan to intervene.
00:04:12.500 But notice that the parameters are all set.
00:04:16.520 Number one, Satan has not already previously intervened
00:04:20.440 because God has set a hedge of protection around Job.
00:04:23.800 He has not been permitted, allowed to intervene.
00:04:27.440 When God does finally allow Satan to intervene,
00:04:30.520 he sets the parameters of what Satan can do.
00:04:34.500 That Satan can take away his wealth, even his children,
00:04:37.740 but he cannot harm Job in his flesh.
00:04:41.640 Then Satan comes back and says,
00:04:43.060 well, he still hasn't cursed you,
00:04:45.400 but life for life, flesh for flesh.
00:04:50.220 If you allow me to afflict his flesh,
00:04:52.380 his physical health, then he'll curse you. And God allows Satan to do even that. But at every step
00:04:59.560 of the way, God determines the boundaries. So my point is this, even before the coming of Christ,
00:05:05.140 Satan is on a leash. Satan is on a leash in the very sense that all creatures are on a leash.
00:05:13.380 Logically speaking, there can only be one autonomously sovereign being in the universe.
00:05:22.380 God is that autonomously free being.
00:05:27.100 The freedom of the potter cannot be restrained or inhibited by whatever freedom the clay might possess.
00:05:35.800 And so because of God's autonomous liberty and his sovereign freedom,
00:05:43.560 all creatures, including Satan, have always been limited in their freedom.
00:05:50.360 but Satan was further, and I would argue greatly further, limited, restrained, bound as a strong
00:05:58.860 man of the house being the world. Woe to you, O earth, for the devil has been cast down to you,
00:06:04.440 that the earth was, in a sense, Satan's house, that Adam was given dominion by God, but he
00:06:10.080 forfeited his dominion as a steward in God's house, that is God's earthly cosmos. Adam as
00:06:16.200 the federal head steward in the house of God, this physical creation, he forfeited his dominion
00:06:21.580 and handed it over to Satan by his sin. So that Satan becomes the strong man of the house on fair
00:06:28.980 terms. This is why Satan, when he tempts Jesus in the wilderness, he says, if you will bow down
00:06:36.140 and worship me, I will give you all the kingdoms of the world. Now, Jesus' response is not to say,
00:06:41.200 well, I don't care about politics, so kingdoms don't really interest me. I just like to be a
00:06:45.440 pietist. That's not his response. Jesus declines the offer, resists the temptation of Satan,
00:06:53.780 but not because he is uninterested in political kingdoms of this earth, but because he is
00:06:58.960 uninterested in having those kingdoms given to him by Satan because he fully intends to take them.
00:07:06.460 And he does. But it is a real offer. When Satan makes this offer to give the kingdoms of this
00:07:15.420 earth to jesus he is offering to jesus what he actually has dominion over at that time but no
00:07:24.380 longer by jesus life and death and resurrection and glories ascension to the right hand of god
00:07:32.440 the father almighty these kingdoms of the earth no longer belong to satan the third 0.70
00:07:38.600 Reich, as bad as it may have been, could be 0.53
00:07:40.580 measured in a matter of months.
00:07:43.960 But there
00:07:44.720 has been nothing
00:07:45.700 like Babylon. 0.98
00:07:48.740 Nothing like Assyria 0.98
00:07:50.160 or Persia. 1.00
00:07:54.680 The world has been an incredibly 1.00
00:07:56.800 dark place, and it still
00:07:58.480 is dark in many regards.
00:08:01.740 But not like
00:08:02.800 it once was.
00:08:04.680 Because Jesus is the light of the world.
00:08:06.700 and he has come into the world.
00:08:11.920 Now, men love the darkness and hate the light
00:08:14.480 because their deeds are evil. 0.94
00:08:15.600 And like cockroaches, unregenerate man left in his sin
00:08:19.060 scatters from the light of Christ 0.95
00:08:21.080 and congregates in dark corners of the world
00:08:25.320 and continue to rebel against God,
00:08:28.080 trying, seeking, attempting to make the world
00:08:30.340 as dark as he possibly can.
00:08:34.300 But darkness cannot cast out light.
00:08:36.700 light progressively and gradually through the work of christ is casting out darkness
00:08:44.520 and so joshua he is the one who drives out and conquers and caleb with his help
00:08:54.780 conquers the giants in the land of canaan and then he apportions the land to israel
00:09:02.400 the people of God.
00:09:04.540 But that is not to say it is true,
00:09:06.760 and our text ends with these words,
00:09:08.900 the land ceased, it had rest from war.
00:09:12.460 But as you'll see later,
00:09:14.700 there were still plenty of battles left to be fought.
00:09:18.680 But none of those battles were ultimately the war
00:09:23.020 in the sense that Joshua faced
00:09:25.920 as he led Israel in driving out
00:09:29.600 all the main juggernaut kings and kingdoms. Joshua binds Satan, in a sense, and Israel then
00:09:40.060 plunders the house. Joshua removes the kings. He chops off the head of the snake, and then he says 0.90
00:09:48.360 there's still adversaries to be dealt with, but you got it from here. And so too, Jesus, in the
00:09:56.140 ultimate sense is the final Joshua, he binds Satan. That does not mean that Satan doesn't have
00:10:02.640 any minions or that Satan himself has been cast into the lake of fire, but Satan is bound. His
00:10:09.060 leash, he still has certain ability to tempt, to push, to prod, to deceive, but his leash has been
00:10:16.940 severely shortened. His influence has been severely lessened. And although we are right in the middle
00:10:24.040 of a spiritual war still to this day.
00:10:27.220 The most decisive battle of this war,
00:10:30.480 the battle of Bunkers Hill has already been fought
00:10:33.440 at the hill of Calvary
00:10:35.040 and the decisive victory has already been ensured.
00:10:39.440 So that we're simply following up
00:10:41.900 with what Christ has already finished.
00:10:46.120 That's what we see in our text today.
00:10:48.480 God's grace in his presence, but also providence,
00:10:51.540 allowing us to face smaller adversaries first in his kindness, 0.99
00:10:56.140 progressively building to facing the Anakim,
00:10:59.040 some of our greatest giants, 1.00
00:11:00.860 one example being our own death,
00:11:03.240 last after having been matured in sanctification.
00:11:06.800 And also that Jesus is the better Joshua
00:11:12.000 and that the sting of death has already been removed
00:11:15.720 and that Satan is bound,
00:11:17.840 if in no other way he is bound in this sense,
00:11:20.320 He's still alive.
00:11:21.760 He's still on the prowl.
00:11:25.260 But he only had, he has many weapons in his arsenal.
00:11:29.140 But there was only one weapon that was truly lethal.
00:11:33.720 A lethal weapon.
00:11:35.900 And Christ has disarmed him from that lethal weapon.
00:11:39.940 Do you know what that lethal weapon was?
00:11:43.680 Unforgiven sin.
00:11:44.900 the one lethal weapon that satan had possessed that could ultimately and eternally destroy
00:11:54.460 the sons of men is the penalty of our sin the weapon of condemnation and a condemnation that
00:12:02.820 is not a mere accusation to discourage people but a condemnation that was factually true
00:12:12.420 You sinned against the triune God, a thrice holy God.
00:12:18.020 But what Jesus has accomplished by his death and resurrection
00:12:22.160 is that the teeth, the fangs have been ripped out of the lion's mouth.
00:12:29.360 He roars.
00:12:30.640 Don't get me wrong.
00:12:32.060 He roars.
00:12:33.420 But his bark is much bigger than his bite these days.
00:12:36.960 He has weapons, but his best final and eternal lethal weapon
00:12:45.160 has been stripped out of his hands.
00:12:49.140 But he no longer can point to unforgiven sin
00:12:53.400 and say that the justice of God demands eternal hell
00:12:57.600 because that sin has been paid for in full.
00:13:04.560 And therefore we have nothing to fear.
00:13:06.960 this is why the righteous are as bold as lions,
00:13:12.980 because the greatest lion of the tribe of Judah
00:13:17.440 was slain for the sins of men,
00:13:20.980 so that we stand righteous before God,
00:13:24.120 no longer under any condemnation,
00:13:26.540 so that all the accusations of the enemy
00:13:29.360 ultimately ring hollow.
00:13:32.460 That his gun,
00:13:33.700 all of the bullets in the chamber have been removed he can bark but he can't bite
00:13:43.240 not in any eternal final way not for the people of god and so we plunder the house
00:14:03.700 We'll be right back.