The NXR Podcast - March 22, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Do Human Beings Actually Have Free Will？

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ Apostle Paul Joe Biden
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Length

10 minutes

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122.19

Word count

1,326

Sentence count

83

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6

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Summary

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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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00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. A person who receives the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ
00:00:56 is a person who has a new nature.
00:00:59 They're making a choice that no one else makes
00:01:03 because they have another nature.
00:01:07 Your choices are limited by your nature.
00:01:11 There are certain things that an ox will do
00:01:14 and certain things that an ox will not do.
00:01:17 There are certain things that a lion will do
00:01:21 and certain things that a lion will not do.
00:01:26 Because these creatures are bound by the confines of their nature. 0.99
00:01:31 The notion that human beings have limitless free will is a naive and foolish notion. 0.92
00:01:43 You cannot will yourself to fly. 0.98
00:01:47 You cannot will yourself to be nine feet tall.
00:01:51 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 You cannot will yourself as a man to become a woman. 0.99
00:02:06 You cannot will yourself as a woman to become a man.
00:02:11 our choices which we do have
00:02:16 they are bound by our nature
00:02:19 and furthermore they are bound by providence
00:02:24 I chose to wear a black shirt today
00:02:29 but I did not make that choice
00:02:32 from limitless options
00:02:34 I did not have limitless options
00:02:38 because I'm not a millionaire
00:02:39 air. I have 10 dress shirts to choose from. Most of them aren't clean. Providentially,
00:02:52 my spectrum of choices is now narrowed even further. And within these choices, there's
00:03:01 all these other multiple variables and circumstances, my preference and personality, my nurture
00:03:09 as well as nature and upbringing
00:03:11 and all the things that brought me here today
00:03:13 to wear a black dress shirt.
00:03:18 When you go and choose what seat to sit in
00:03:21 in a movie theater,
00:03:22 you are not making that choice
00:03:24 with half the freedom as you suppose.
00:03:30 You're making that choice 0.99
00:03:31 based off of the size of your prostate 0.75
00:03:33 and how often you think you're going to have to get up 0.65
00:03:37 and use the restroom.
00:03:39 You're making that choice dependent on the age of your children
00:03:43 and if they're with you
00:03:45 and whether or not they had a nap that day
00:03:47 and how loud they'll be.
00:03:50 You're making that choice based off of the distance
00:03:53 between you and the screen and viewer visibility,
00:03:57 what seats were already taken by other people
00:03:59 and which ones are left and available.
00:04:05 You are not autonomous.
00:04:07 There is only one autonomous being in all the universe, and that is the triune God.
00:04:15 He alone has true freedom of the will.
00:04:20 He alone has what we would call true autonomous freedom.
00:04:26 Creatures have freedom, but the will of creatures is strictly bound.
00:04:33 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 just by strictly trying to avoid the laws of non-contradiction
00:05:00 just within a logical argument much less a biblical one
00:05:05 you cannot have two autonomously free beings
00:05:12 in the same context in the same universe
00:05:16 if one being is autonomously free
00:05:22 than the other being, by virtue of this one's autonomous freedom,
00:05:27 the other one cannot be.
00:05:30 Their autonomy would contradict and limit the autonomy of the other.
00:05:36 When we say that God is sovereign,
00:05:41 we should take note and acknowledge that by way of consequence,
00:05:45 we are also saying that man is bound.
00:05:48 If God has sovereign freedom in all creation, then all creatures are bound by his sovereignty.
00:06:00 Bound.
00:06:03 No one is neutral.
00:06:06 Because all of us are creaturely, physical, finite, and most importantly, in the spiritual and moral realm, fallen.
00:06:18 Both your finitude and your fallenness severely limit your choices, what you're actually able to do.
00:06:31 And what the Bible teaches in regards to that last category of fallenness,
00:06:37 not just physical hindrances creaturely hindrances finite hindrances but moral hindrances
00:06:46 spiritual hindrances namely the sin nature a fallen nature one of the choices that your
00:06:56 fallen nature if you are not in christ not born again not regenerate with a new heart
00:07:01 by the power of the Holy Spirit,
00:07:03 one of the choices that is off the table for you
00:07:07 is belief in the Son of God.
00:07:12 You will not trust Him.
00:07:16 Indeed, you cannot trust Him. 0.82
00:07:21 And that is why the heartbeat of the Reformation
00:07:23 and Reformed theology is namely this.
00:07:27 Regeneration precedes faith.
00:07:30 Regeneration precedes faith.
00:07:35 In order to enter the kingdom of heaven, per the gospel of John chapter 3,
00:07:42 much less even see the kingdom of heaven, according to Christ,
00:07:47 you must be born again.
00:07:51 You cannot exercise faith in Christ unless you first be born again.
00:07:58 unless you first be given a new heart,
00:08:03 a.k.a. a new nature.
00:08:07 What does the Apostle Paul teach
00:08:09 in his epistles to the Corinthians?
00:08:12 That if any man is in Christ,
00:08:15 he is a new creature,
00:08:18 a new creation.
00:08:21 And as a new creature,
00:08:24 he has a new nature.
00:08:25 And with a new nature,
00:08:27 he has a new spectrum of choices available to him.
00:08:34 And the new nature, one of the choices that is made available
00:08:38 to those who have a new nature,
00:08:41 we are new creatures with a new heart,
00:08:44 endowed with the gifts of faith and repentance.
00:08:47 One of the choices available to us now is faith in Christ
00:08:52 and true repentance of sins.
00:08:55 and not only is the choice of faith in Christ made available to us now
00:09:01 but it is the guaranteed option that any new creature in Christ Jesus will undoubtedly choose
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