The NXR Podcast - June 06, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Claiming “Wisdom” As An Excuse For Disobedience

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Matthew Henry Abraham Michael Foster Gavin Newsom Megan Basham Canaan Jacob
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In order to be circumcised, Israel must be circumcised on the eighth day of the seventh generation, which is why they neglected to do so for the first 38 years of their 40-year wanderings in the wilderness. Why did they do this? And why did they neglect it?

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00:00:49.940 according to natural reason it was foolish to undergo circumcision at this time however when 0.89
00:00:59.380 god gives a command we must not consult with flesh and blood according to human reason it would have 0.82
00:01:08.320 made much more sense for israel to be circumcised before crossing the jordan for that matter they had 0.99
00:01:17.780 38 years, 40 in total, but 38 years for this new generation of Israelites to be circumcised
00:01:27.360 in the wilderness as they were on the way to the promised land. There were ample opportunities,
00:01:34.660 in other words, for Israel to be circumcised when they were not surrounded by a threat, 0.55
00:01:42.300 when they were not surrounded by their enemies. 0.66
00:01:46.740 To be circumcised at this time defies human reason 0.66
00:01:51.300 because of the natural healing process. 0.99
00:01:55.340 It made all the fighting men in Israel
00:01:58.460 temporarily, albeit, but temporarily vulnerable,
00:02:03.680 not able to fight.
00:02:05.720 For some of you, if you're familiar
00:02:07.800 with your Old Testament narratives,
00:02:10.080 You may be familiar of a particular time when a particular people were circumcised and they were defeated during that vulnerable moment of healing.
00:02:21.660 The sons of Jacob tricked a neighboring tribe into joining into covenant with Israel, this family, by undergoing circumcision.
00:02:36.080 and then to avenge their sister, 0.74
00:02:39.520 they used that moment after this neighboring tribe 0.99
00:02:43.480 had just been circumcised to go and slaughter them 0.99
00:02:47.260 before they were able to be healed 0.96
00:02:49.280 and therefore before they were able to fight successfully.
00:02:55.180 So we have a biblical example
00:02:57.700 where circumcision clearly is not a practical advantage in battle.
00:03:03.920 right at least not for the first few days it takes a little bit of time so again in a practical sense
00:03:13.340 you would think why would you enter into enemy territory and then make yourselves vulnerable
00:03:21.020 why not deal with that before or why not deal with that after after you've defeated not only
00:03:28.680 Jericho but all the other surrounding enemy camps? Or why not deal with it for 38 years? It's not as
00:03:36.700 though you didn't have time. There were 38 years, the last 38 years of the 40, while wandering in
00:03:44.540 the wilderness, that circumcision was neglected. Now on that point, it's a difficult reality of
00:03:55.380 the Old Testament narrative to reconcile. Because we know that God was very particular
00:04:01.560 through Abraham that every Hebrew male should be circumcised on the eighth day. And we know that 0.98
00:04:10.940 God was also particular through Moses during the time of Israel held in bondage in Egypt. And for
00:04:19.160 the first two years, as they were led out of Egypt, there was also, again, this renewal covenant
00:04:26.260 ceremony, circumcision and Passover. God was very insistent, in particular, that his people
00:04:34.480 should bear the covenant signs of their covenant God and his covenant promises.
00:04:40.980 and then all of a sudden we have an ellipses we have this parenthetical pause of 38 years
00:04:51.700 just about an entire generation according to jewish measurements of time an entire generation
00:04:59.680 where the commandment of the hebrew males to be circumcised on the eighth day is utterly neglected
00:05:06.940 and the biblical text does not tell us anywhere in the Pentateuch the first five books of the
00:05:14.100 Old Testament or in Joshua it does not tell us an explicit command coming from God that they
00:05:22.620 should neglect circumcision and yet I do believe that by way of necessary inference this is the
00:05:30.620 proper interpretive conclusion that the people of God should come to. We should assume that this was
00:05:37.500 not merely radical neglect of obedience to God's commands, but although the command is not explicitly
00:05:44.920 stated in the biblical text, we should assume that there was a command given through Moses to the
00:05:51.980 people of Israel during their 40-year wandering, that they were not only neglecting, but that they
00:06:00.360 were actually forbidden by God through divine command to apply the covenant sign of circumcision
00:06:08.140 to their children. And if God did give this command, which I believe he did, we know that
00:06:14.300 God does not issue his commands and his laws arbitrarily, but that he would do so for a
00:06:21.200 particular purpose. Matthew Henry, I think, is helpful at this point. He too holds to the
00:06:28.680 position that Israel did not simply neglect obedience to circumcise their children during
00:06:35.660 this 38 years of the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, but rather that they were
00:06:41.240 prohibited and divinely explicitly forbidden from doing so by a command through Moses from the Lord
00:06:49.660 himself. Matthew Henry says it like this, had not God enjoined it to Abraham under a very severe
00:07:01.180 penalty that every man child of his seed should be circumcised on the eighth day, in accordance
00:07:08.360 with Genesis 17, 9 through 14, and yet under the government of Moses himself to have all their
00:07:17.040 children that were born for 38 years together left uncircumcised is unaccountable. So great
00:07:25.680 an omission could not be a general oversight, but only by divine direction. Therefore, it seems to
00:07:34.560 have been a continued token of God's displeasure against them for their unbelief and murmuring. 0.51
00:07:41.980 circumcision was originally a seal of the promise of the land of Canaan it was in the believing hope
00:07:51.120 of that good land that the patriarchs circumcised their children but when God had sworn in his wrath
00:07:58.600 concerning the men who came out of Egypt that they should be consumed in the wilderness and
00:08:04.820 never enter Canaan nor come within sight of it as a further ratification of that sentence and to be
00:08:13.480 a constant memorial of it to them, all that fell under that sentence and were to fall by it were
00:08:21.820 forbidden to circumcise their children, by which they were plainly told that whatever others might,
00:08:29.280 they should never have the benefit of that promise of which circumcision was the seal.
00:08:37.340 What we find in these verses, particularly verses 4 and 5 and 6,
00:08:45.040 is that they did not circumcise their Hebrew male sons
00:08:49.900 because they were not permitted to enter into the land of Canaan.
00:08:54.660 They being the original generation of Israelites who came out of Egypt.
00:09:01.020 Let me read those verses once more so that they're fresh in our minds.
00:09:04.960 This is Joshua 5, verses 4, 5, and 6.
00:09:09.560 The Bible says this, 0.50
00:09:11.900 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them. 0.99
00:09:15.700 All the males of the people who came out of Egypt, 0.88
00:09:18.860 all the men of war had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt. 0.99
00:09:25.920 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, that first generation,
00:09:31.700 yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt
00:09:37.020 had not been circumcised. For the people of Israel walked 40 years in the wilderness until
00:09:43.940 all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt perished, because they did not obey.
00:09:51.400 This is key. They did not obey the voice of the Lord. The Lord swore to them that he would not 0.51
00:09:58.460 let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with
00:10:05.820 milk and honey. So why was this new second generation of Israel that was born along the way 0.99
00:10:14.920 during this 40-year period of wandering in the wilderness, why were they not circumcised? 0.97
00:10:20.840 Because of God's displeasure towards them? Ironically, what I want you to catch is this.
00:10:27.500 It was actually because of God's displeasure with their parents. It was God's just wrath
00:10:35.440 towards the first generation of israel those who had been captives and slaves in egypt who had come 0.98
00:10:42.020 out of egypt it was god's displeasure with them the parents generation that caused him to forbid
00:10:49.620 them from applying the sign and seal of circumcision to their children fight by flight
00:10:56.780 why leaving godless places is loving godless places i've had a lot of people tell me recently
00:11:03.340 pastor joel you're post-millennial you claim to believe that jesus is king of every square inch
00:11:10.100 but apparently you don't think he's king of california because i've heard your personal
00:11:14.320 story that you used to be a pastor there and that you left for the state of texas notice the title
00:11:20.960 not fight or flight but fight by flight think of the prodigal son he comes to the end of his rope
00:11:29.120 he's longing to be fed with the pods given to the pigs and the parable says no one gave him
00:11:35.840 anything no member of the father's house tracked him down to give him a handout he was hurting 0.91
00:11:42.820 he had to lie in the bed that he had made for himself by his foolish choices you know what
00:11:49.760 the next words in that parable are no one gave him anything and he came to his senses he began to
00:11:57.100 repent. There are 10 million professing Christians currently living in the state of California.
00:12:03.620 What if they're fighting, but at the same time, while well-intentioned, they're also funding? 0.71
00:12:10.340 What if California could be brought to its knees simply by the faithful not fighting there,
00:12:16.460 but leaving there and forcing Gavin Newsom and other tyrants like him to actually have to
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