The NXR Podcast - March 22, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Do Human Beings Actually Have Free Will？


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10 minutes

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1,326

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84

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The notion that human beings have limitless free will is a naive and foolish notion. A person who receives the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ is a person who has a new nature. They are making a choice that no one else makes because they have another nature. Your choices are limited by your nature. There are certain things that an ox will do and certain things a lion will not do. Because these creatures are bound by the confines of their nature.

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00:00:42.340 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47.420 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. A person who receives the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ
00:00:56.220 is a person who has a new nature.
00:00:59.400 They're making a choice that no one else makes
00:01:03.520 because they have another nature.
00:01:07.120 Your choices are limited by your nature.
00:01:11.260 There are certain things that an ox will do
00:01:14.500 and certain things that an ox will not do.
00:01:17.720 There are certain things that a lion will do
00:01:21.420 and certain things that a lion will not do.
00:01:26.220 Because these creatures are bound by the confines of their nature. 0.99
00:01:31.060 The notion that human beings have limitless free will is a naive and foolish notion. 0.92
00:01:43.440 You cannot will yourself to fly. 0.98
00:01:47.380 You cannot will yourself to be nine feet tall.
00:01:51.000 There are certain things, no matter what you want, will not happen because your nature does not allow for it to happen. 0.97
00:02:01.780 You cannot will yourself as a man to become a woman. 0.99
00:02:06.980 You cannot will yourself as a woman to become a man.
00:02:11.140 our choices which we do have
00:02:16.360 they are bound by our nature
00:02:19.920 and furthermore they are bound by providence
00:02:24.340 I chose to wear a black shirt today
00:02:29.360 but I did not make that choice
00:02:32.540 from limitless options
00:02:34.400 I did not have limitless options
00:02:38.040 because I'm not a millionaire
00:02:39.460 air. I have 10 dress shirts to choose from. Most of them aren't clean. Providentially,
00:02:52.920 my spectrum of choices is now narrowed even further. And within these choices, there's
00:03:01.380 all these other multiple variables and circumstances, my preference and personality, my nurture
00:03:09.320 as well as nature and upbringing
00:03:11.500 and all the things that brought me here today
00:03:13.980 to wear a black dress shirt.
00:03:18.420 When you go and choose what seat to sit in
00:03:21.240 in a movie theater,
00:03:22.700 you are not making that choice
00:03:24.980 with half the freedom as you suppose.
00:03:30.240 You're making that choice 0.99
00:03:31.840 based off of the size of your prostate 0.75
00:03:33.880 and how often you think you're going to have to get up 0.65
00:03:37.160 and use the restroom.
00:03:39.320 You're making that choice dependent on the age of your children
00:03:43.480 and if they're with you
00:03:45.160 and whether or not they had a nap that day
00:03:47.720 and how loud they'll be.
00:03:50.140 You're making that choice based off of the distance
00:03:53.220 between you and the screen and viewer visibility,
00:03:57.220 what seats were already taken by other people
00:03:59.860 and which ones are left and available.
00:04:05.560 You are not autonomous.
00:04:07.180 There is only one autonomous being in all the universe, and that is the triune God.
00:04:15.640 He alone has true freedom of the will.
00:04:20.240 He alone has what we would call true autonomous freedom.
00:04:26.160 Creatures have freedom, but the will of creatures is strictly bound.
00:04:33.460 Human beings, the pinnacle of earthly creatures, made in the very image of God, have greater, wider spectrum of freedom than animals do, which are governed predominantly by instinct, but even our freedom is likewise limited.
00:04:52.880 just by strictly trying to avoid the laws of non-contradiction
00:05:00.900 just within a logical argument much less a biblical one
00:05:05.880 you cannot have two autonomously free beings
00:05:12.460 in the same context in the same universe
00:05:16.440 if one being is autonomously free
00:05:22.000 than the other being, by virtue of this one's autonomous freedom,
00:05:27.720 the other one cannot be.
00:05:30.280 Their autonomy would contradict and limit the autonomy of the other.
00:05:36.240 When we say that God is sovereign,
00:05:41.180 we should take note and acknowledge that by way of consequence,
00:05:45.460 we are also saying that man is bound.
00:05:48.120 If God has sovereign freedom in all creation, then all creatures are bound by his sovereignty.
00:06:00.860 Bound.
00:06:03.440 No one is neutral.
00:06:06.680 Because all of us are creaturely, physical, finite, and most importantly, in the spiritual and moral realm, fallen.
00:06:18.120 Both your finitude and your fallenness severely limit your choices, what you're actually able to do.
00:06:31.520 And what the Bible teaches in regards to that last category of fallenness,
00:06:37.040 not just physical hindrances creaturely hindrances finite hindrances but moral hindrances
00:06:46.920 spiritual hindrances namely the sin nature a fallen nature one of the choices that your
00:06:56.680 fallen nature if you are not in christ not born again not regenerate with a new heart
00:07:01.860 by the power of the Holy Spirit,
00:07:03.560 one of the choices that is off the table for you
00:07:07.080 is belief in the Son of God.
00:07:12.140 You will not trust Him.
00:07:16.300 Indeed, you cannot trust Him. 0.82
00:07:21.240 And that is why the heartbeat of the Reformation
00:07:23.940 and Reformed theology is namely this.
00:07:27.520 Regeneration precedes faith.
00:07:30.200 Regeneration precedes faith.
00:07:35.900 In order to enter the kingdom of heaven, per the gospel of John chapter 3,
00:07:42.880 much less even see the kingdom of heaven, according to Christ,
00:07:47.960 you must be born again.
00:07:51.800 You cannot exercise faith in Christ unless you first be born again.
00:07:58.880 unless you first be given a new heart,
00:08:03.640 a.k.a. a new nature.
00:08:07.720 What does the Apostle Paul teach
00:08:09.880 in his epistles to the Corinthians?
00:08:12.740 That if any man is in Christ,
00:08:15.060 he is a new creature,
00:08:18.300 a new creation.
00:08:21.680 And as a new creature,
00:08:24.120 he has a new nature.
00:08:25.580 And with a new nature,
00:08:27.380 he has a new spectrum of choices available to him.
00:08:34.080 And the new nature, one of the choices that is made available
00:08:38.120 to those who have a new nature,
00:08:41.000 we are new creatures with a new heart,
00:08:44.980 endowed with the gifts of faith and repentance.
00:08:47.640 One of the choices available to us now is faith in Christ
00:08:52.360 and true repentance of sins.
00:08:55.360 and not only is the choice of faith in Christ made available to us now
00:09:01.020 but it is the guaranteed option that any new creature in Christ Jesus will undoubtedly choose
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