The NXR Podcast - October 06, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Continually Growing In Conviction Of Sin

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ C.S. Lewis
DAILY TRUTH - I “AM” (Not “WAS”) The Chief Of Sinners SUNDAY SERMON - Calvinism, Arminianism, & “Prevenient Grace”

Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

133.67

Word count

671

Sentence count

22


Summary

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In this episode, we continue our series on the Old and New Testaments. This week s episode examines the role of the older men in Jesus' life, and how they became more aware of their own sin over time, while the younger men were less so.

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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
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00:00:16.360 and gospel of Jesus Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a
00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. C.S. Lewis, in Purging the
00:00:30.460 Poisoned Well Within, writes the following, when a man is getting better, he understands more
00:00:36.980 clearly the evil that is still in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness
00:00:43.840 less and less. Let me read that once more. When a man is getting better, he understands more
00:00:50.880 clearly the evil that is still in him, when a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness
00:00:57.640 less and less. I think that perhaps not explicitly, but implicitly, there's an argument. This very
00:01:06.740 principle could be argued from the particular text of the woman who was caught in the midst
00:01:11.240 of adultery. They bring her before Jesus in order to trap him. It's not about her. It's not about
00:01:18.480 upholding standards of holiness and being faithful to the law of Moses. They're simply using her as
00:01:24.860 a pawn in order to trap Jesus because they know that Jesus is abundantly compassionate and merciful.
00:01:31.720 But they also know that Jesus is righteous and holy. They're trying to position him in such a
00:01:38.180 way where his sympathy for the woman might tempt him in order to compromise the law of Moses.
00:01:43.080 and then they would be able to prove that he was in fact a heretic that he was a false teacher
00:01:49.060 and jesus kneels down and begins to write in the dirt many people have different speculations in
00:01:57.240 regards to what he was writing i'm of the position that it's likely he was writing out the ten
00:02:01.700 commandments or perhaps being god in the flesh instead of merely writing the ten commandments
00:02:10.480 in the general sense he may have been writing out individual specific sins of the people in
00:02:15.980 the crowd watching maybe in his kindness just not adding their name to it but in either sense what
00:02:24.880 we see in that particular text is that one by one the accusers of the women they turn around and
00:02:31.780 leave but what i want to draw out specifically is this that it begins with the older ones and then
00:02:39.720 to the younger ones and think about that for a moment back in light of what c.s lewis says i'll
00:02:47.140 read the quote once more when a man is getting better he understands more clearly the evil that
00:02:51.940 is still in him when a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less
00:02:56.900 or back to our primary text the apostle paul later in life adopting the language the label
00:03:05.340 the name chief of sinners the older men are the ones who turn around and depart first
00:03:13.800 and then eventually is the younger men who walk away jesus says he who was that without sin let
00:03:19.940 him be the one to cast the first stone and the younger men are the ones who realize the
00:03:27.120 significance of what jesus has just said it takes them the longest to realize that they're
00:03:32.540 the butt of the joke but the older men they seem to be the ones who realize it much more quickly
00:03:40.280 not just because they're old and they've had more life more years to actually commit sin
00:03:48.040 but likely part of what's going on in this particular historical event is that these
00:03:55.080 older men not only have more sin to account for because they've lived more years as sinners on
00:04:01.200 the earth, but that over the course of time through age, they have not only accrued more
00:04:07.140 sin, but they become more acutely in tune and aware of their sinfulness.
00:04:31.200 We'll be right back.