The NXR Podcast - July 28, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Blessed Assurance & The “Feelings” Of Forgiveness

Topics
forgiveness assurance confession
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ
DAILY TRUTH - Acknowledging Sin & “Exonerating” God SUNDAY SERMON - Christian Nationalism & Baptist Covenant Theology

Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

129.01

Word count

628

Sentence count

46

Harmful content

Hate speech

9

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Summary

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When we confess our sins, we immediately are coming back into fellowship in the subjective sense of feeling reconciled with the Lord, and receive a fresh assurance of God's forgiveness. But there is a difference between being forgiven and having a confident, knowing assurance of that forgiveness.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:35.520 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:39.620 The reason why in our liturgy we have a portion that is called not just the forgiveness of sins,
00:00:47.100 but the assurance of forgiveness.
00:00:50.160 We say every Lord's Day, and now for an assurance of Christ's pardon.
00:00:53.980 The reason why we say assurance is what we're saying is that if you are in Christ,
00:00:59.140 by grace through faith in him alone,
00:01:01.480 then you've already been forgiven.
00:01:03.780 You walked in the room forgiven.
00:01:05.480 You'll leave the room forgiven.
00:01:06.820 You'll be forgiven on the way home.
00:01:08.460 You'll be forgiven when you go to bed,
00:01:10.060 when you rise in the morning.
00:01:11.060 You're forgiven.
00:01:12.980 But there is a difference in being forgiven
00:01:15.160 and having a confident, knowing assurance
00:01:19.160 of that forgiveness. 0.87
00:01:21.500 Even for the Christian,
00:01:23.380 although biblically speaking,
00:01:24.780 he can never lose his salvation.
00:01:27.180 And therefore, he will never have God ever again as his enemy or judge.
00:01:33.880 But rather, God is, from now on, his adoptive father.
00:01:38.420 Even for the Christian, who has God as his adoptive father, 0.88
00:01:44.060 that Christian can still be, as the Puritans wrote, 0.71
00:01:47.280 in a state of being under God's fatherly displeasure.
00:01:53.120 Still father, in the objective sense.
00:01:56.020 but displeasure.
00:01:59.560 As we saw even in our confession of sin today,
00:02:03.120 which I believe comes from Psalm 32.
00:02:08.060 Yep.
00:02:09.680 Your hand of discipline was heavy upon me. 1.00
00:02:13.620 This is a Christian talking. 1.00
00:02:16.960 That even a Christian can, 0.99
00:02:20.180 by choosing not to repent, 1.00
00:02:22.440 by choosing to procrastinate in confession of sin, by choosing to hide sin like Achan. 0.98
00:02:33.140 The Christian who, in the objective category, has already been forgiven past sins, present sins, 0.53
00:02:39.080 future sins, in the objective sense has God as His heavenly Father. And there's nothing that He
00:02:45.880 could ever do to lose that, not depths, not heights, not angels, nor demons. Nothing can
00:02:49.660 separate him from the love of God. And yet, in the subjective sense, God's hand of discipline
00:02:56.240 heavy upon him, my bones began to groan within me because I was in a state of hiding sin.
00:03:06.100 Even though objectively I have been forgiven, subjectively I don't feel forgiven.
00:03:11.820 And that is painful to be in a state, as a Christian, under God's fatherly, albeit, but fatherly displeasure.
00:03:26.080 When we confess our sins, we immediately are coming back into fellowship in the subjective sense of feeling reconciled with the Lord.
00:03:39.620 feeling and receiving a fresh assurance of God's forgiveness. The forgiveness that was
00:03:47.700 already there, but now an assurance, a knowing, a confidence of that forgiveness.
00:03:56.100 A closeness restored in our relationship with our heavenly Father. That happens in confession.
00:04:03.900 And when we procrastinate in confessing sin, his hand of discipline will be heavy upon us.
00:04:11.540 Although we objectively are forgiven, we will feel oftentimes as though we are not.
00:04:17.920 We will begin in these states of unconfessed sins often to doubt the assurance of our salvation.
00:04:26.740 Even as someone who's reformed in your theology, knowing that you can never lose your salvation,
00:04:32.200 but beginning to believe
00:04:33.260 perhaps you never had it to begin with?
00:04:36.660 I've been there.
00:04:39.880 But when we confess our sin,
00:04:41.780 it is good for the soul.
00:04:44.520 It gives us new life
00:04:46.480 in the subjective sense.
00:04:49.580 Feeling reconciled.
00:04:51.040 Feeling forgiven.