The NXR Podcast - March 31, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Clear Signs Of An Abusive Pastor


Episode Stats


Length

11 minutes

Words per minute

144.20016

Word count

1,631

Sentence count

59

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

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Toxicity

1

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Summary

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Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
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Toxicity classifications generated with s-nlp/roberta_toxicity_classifier .
00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:42.320 Jesus said,
00:00:43.500 man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:45.140 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:48.160 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52.340 There is no such thing as inherent human authority.
00:00:58.220 meaning that an unjust law is not a law.
00:01:05.020 An unjust law is no law at all.
00:01:09.120 And that applies to the civil realm,
00:01:12.340 that applies to the home,
00:01:15.160 and that applies to the church.
00:01:18.780 Would someone in spiritual authority,
00:01:21.720 an ecclesiastical authority in the realm of the church
00:01:24.980 says something or commands something that is not rooted in the commandments of god in scripture
00:01:33.840 a church member not only is it permissible to disobey your pastor it is actually required
00:01:41.840 that you resist that ecclesiastical tyranny that's why when things are not clear one of the things
00:01:51.080 that a godly and mature pastor will seek to do is to exercise the authority of counsel rather than
00:01:58.340 the authority of command because counsel can be rejected when a pastor gives you his counsel you
00:02:05.200 can say thanks but no thanks but when a command is given it's given with a binding quality and now
00:02:14.020 if it is not a command of scripture and the pastor is wrong you must still resist it but the pastor
00:02:19.920 is actually exercising tyranny. That would be spiritual abuse. That he is going beyond his
00:02:26.840 jurisdiction. All human authority is vested authority. There is no such thing as inherent
00:02:33.260 human authority. And with this vested authority, all human authority has very clear binding
00:02:40.720 jurisdictions you have authority this far and no further a pastor only has so much authority
00:02:51.760 and he must not overstep the bounds of his authority that's why again with covid when it
00:02:59.460 came to shutting down churches my position was to keep the church open one because of revelation one
00:03:06.820 that we started with in our worship today, a theological reason, but a practical reason,
00:03:12.780 not just theological, but just logical, and not wanting to be an abusive ecclesiastical tyrant.
00:03:19.600 If the church is closed, everyone who's in the church who feels obligated and convicted
00:03:25.180 to worship, their conscience is dismissed. You cannot worship God. We close the church.
00:03:31.980 if the church is open guess what that position allows for people can stay home and some who feel
00:03:40.000 called to worship can worship one position objectively accommodates more people one
00:03:46.780 position namely opening the church allows those to stay home if they wish and those who want to
00:03:52.160 worship to worship but the position of closing the church is essentially pastors all over our nation
00:03:57.560 who said to their congregants who felt convicted by the Holy Spirit and from the Word of God,
00:04:02.680 like Revelation chapter 1, like Hebrews chapter 10 verse 24 and 25, do not neglect the gathering
00:04:08.500 of the saints as some have done. Those who felt convicted from the Spirit and the Word of God
00:04:14.160 that we should be gathering. Pastors who closed their churches said, your conscience doesn't
00:04:19.640 matter i don't care and i will force you to sin against your own conscience and that pastor should
00:04:29.840 be removed that is abuse that is spiritual abuse when we think here's here's the deal when we think
00:04:37.720 of spiritual abuse abuse we think that guy yells when he preaches or we think that guy takes really
00:04:45.820 strong positions like the husband is the head of his wife or we think that guy that guy believes
00:04:53.180 that when it comes to parenting uh that the parent who spares the rod hates their child
00:04:59.360 yeah that's that's quoting scripture that's a quote not exegesis a quote like that guy's harsh
00:05:06.920 no but when when the bible talks about what's actually abusive think of the false teachers
00:05:12.160 that Paul's constantly combating.
00:05:14.580 Do you know what is characteristic
00:05:16.020 and descriptive of the false teachers?
00:05:18.080 They're the guys who have smooth and flattering speech,
00:05:22.400 the scripture says.
00:05:23.400 The bad guys, right?
00:05:24.760 Are we the baddies? 0.99
00:05:25.940 I wish Big Eva would do that.
00:05:27.320 Are we the baddies?
00:05:28.580 Yes.
00:05:30.180 David French, am I the baddie?
00:05:31.860 Phil Vicious, am I?
00:05:32.540 Yes.
00:05:33.980 The baddies in the New Testament,
00:05:35.800 they're the guys who have the very smooth tone.
00:05:39.600 the nicest guys are the bad guys and then the guys who who preach sermons like peter on the
00:05:49.220 day of pentecost in acts 2 that says this jesus who you crucified god has resurrected and made him
00:05:56.560 both savior and lord right preacher don't say you say we we include yourself we peter says you
00:06:04.820 look at all the old-timey preachers Spurgeon we was not in his vocabulary I don't even know if he
00:06:11.040 knew the word it's you always you that's how the apostles the good guys preached the way that the
00:06:20.980 bad guys talked was smooth seductive nice flattering so their tongue was kind but what
00:06:31.060 made the person actually a heretic was not how they said things but what they said
00:06:39.240 we live in a culture and the evangelical church has opted for this position as well we live in
00:06:47.540 a culture and a church age where we care more about how something is said than what is said
00:06:54.520 the party that is always identified by the New Testament apostles as the false teachers
00:07:01.640 are the ones who are introducing strange doctrines. It doesn't matter how they introduce it.
00:07:10.080 It doesn't matter what speech or tone or attitude they have. What matters is not how, but what.
00:07:18.020 and in fact the apostle paul goes even further and talks about those who are quarrelsome he uses
00:07:24.760 the word quarrelsome and upsetting whole households and you know who they are the
00:07:29.900 quarrelsome people truly objectively quarrelsome in the mind of paul are the people who have the
00:07:35.460 nicest tone you'll ever find smooth and flattering speech but they are quarrelsome because they are
00:07:43.040 the ones who are introducing to the apostolic church strange doctrine that's causing fights
00:07:49.460 and conflict the person who introduces wrong doctrine is the one who is labeled as the
00:07:55.480 quarreler and the person who defends the truth even if he does it with a raised voice is not
00:08:02.940 the quarreler but that is the one who is faithful and for the record the reason why i believe
00:08:10.960 faithful pastors do preach and don't just pace back and forth between two ferns with skinny jeans
00:08:18.320 and a plexiglass pulpit, right? That the pulpit is just as see-through as the pastor's soul. I'm
00:08:24.420 just going to share with you. The reason why faithful pastors don't preach like that, the
00:08:30.300 reason why they have pulpits that look like tanks, and the reason why they yell from time to time,
00:08:35.560 and they say we occasionally but they also say you is because the scripture commands let the one
00:08:41.860 who speaks speak as though he is speaking the very oracles of god so when i preach i am not getting
00:08:50.020 up here to share with you my thoughts if i am to preach at all scripture commands me to preach as
00:08:58.120 though i am heralding the very oracles of god so it is not i feel like or i think or maybe
00:09:05.080 if i've got a theological maybe in my arsenal you save that for a podcast or a conversation
00:09:12.920 over a snack with a friend you don't bring that into the pulpit of god because here you herald
00:09:20.440 the oracles of god you don't whisper
00:09:24.360 you don't speculate you preach you preach and although many would say that's harsh tone and
00:09:36.000 therefore that is quarrelsomeness the bible says precisely the opposite can i be frank with you
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