The NXR Podcast - October 16, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Evangelicals Don’t Get What It Means To Be “Worldly”


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5 minutes

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Word count

789

Sentence count

36

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1

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Toxicity

1

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Summary

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The reason why people choose not to believe in Jesus is because they are still in love with the world. The love of the world represents all that which is antagonistic to the character of God. That which stands in direct opposition to the things of God is the love of stuff.

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00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks the reason why people choose
00:00:30.920 not to believe in jesus is because they are still in love with the world now using the world in this
00:00:37.720 context to mean the demonic system underneath satan's domain i'm not saying that the one who
00:00:46.140 is condemned loves the world insofar as the world represents humanity i'm not saying that the one
00:00:51.440 who is condemned loves the world insofar as the world represents the created cosmos. I'm saying
00:00:56.160 the one who is condemned loves the world insofar as the world represents all that which is
00:01:02.560 antagonistic to the character of God. I'm speaking of the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh,
00:01:10.340 and the boastful pride of life. I'm speaking of worldliness in the terms that 1 John speaks
00:01:16.260 of worldliness or what we see in the very beginning in the garden in genesis chapter 3
00:01:22.480 eve who is deceived by the serpent she saw these three aspects of worldliness
00:01:30.240 she saw that the fruit that it was good for making one wise that is the boastful pride of life
00:01:37.780 she also saw that is good for nourishment right that's the lust of the flesh she also saw that
00:01:43.880 was beautiful, appealing, attractive to the eyes. That's the lust of the eyes. 0.98
00:01:49.500 That's worldliness. To be in love with the world in the sinful sense is to love that which stands
00:01:57.280 in direct opposition to the things of God. It is the love of money, for instance. It's just one
00:02:03.880 illustration and example. The love of money that is the root of all kinds of evil, not money itself.
00:02:10.180 job was rich abraham was rich you can be rich and love god and not love money
00:02:18.640 but rather use money wisely to expand the kingdom
00:02:22.280 so love of the world is not the love of stuff see that's where christians have messed up let me just
00:02:29.900 make this point it's important we have conflated love of the world in the sinful sense that the
00:02:35.980 Bible actually speaks of with the love of the world in the physical sense, insofar as the world
00:02:40.780 represents the created cosmos and stuff. So we say, if you love stuff, you're worldly.
00:02:48.900 And there's a sense in which if you love, truly, affections flowing from the heart,
00:02:53.760 love stuff more than Christ, more than God, in an idolatrous fashion, then yes, you are worldly
00:02:59.960 in the sinful sense of the term.
00:03:03.700 But what we've done is we've conflated these terms.
00:03:07.860 That word world is used at least four different ways
00:03:10.440 just in 1 John alone.
00:03:13.420 But we've conflated worldliness to the point
00:03:16.140 where we've said, well, worldliness is the lust of the eyes,
00:03:19.160 it's the lust of the flesh, it's the boastful pride of life,
00:03:20.980 it's also just loving stuff, it's also, you know,
00:03:23.420 if you like to hike, you know, you're probably worldly.
00:03:25.980 And then what we've done is we've said, well, righteousness,
00:03:28.580 We're going to define righteousness in the exact opposite way.
00:03:32.040 And what does righteousness become conflated with, synonymous with?
00:03:35.700 Pietism.
00:03:37.660 So what does it mean now to be righteous?
00:03:39.940 To be righteous is to care nothing for this world at all.
00:03:44.120 Right?
00:03:44.620 To not care about your country.
00:03:45.860 To not care about your family.
00:03:47.340 To not care about your posterity.
00:03:49.040 To not care about your own descendants, your own grandchildren.
00:03:54.520 Right?
00:03:55.100 Because all that's worldly.
00:03:56.200 to not care about creation right so so worldly means to care about temporal things which means
00:04:06.820 to be not worldly to be righteous is to not care to only think of heaven right that the only
00:04:14.120 righteous thing that anyone could ever do is sit in a chair by themselves as the world is going up
00:04:19.180 in flames and think delicious, romantic, erotic thoughts about God.
00:04:26.560 That's your modern evangelical.
00:04:30.540 And that that would be called righteous.
00:04:33.580 Whereas what that should be called is effeminate. 0.80
00:04:41.220 It's effeminate. 1.00
00:04:42.360 It's Gnostic. 0.97
00:04:43.900 It's pietistic. 0.89
00:04:45.020 and it's I'll be careful it's not manly I'll say that and I don't mean manly as defined by
00:05:01.540 Joe Rogan I mean it's not manly in the sense that it's not manly defined by Christ himself
00:05:08.960 who is the perfect example
00:05:12.180 of biblical manhood. 0.97
00:05:15.280 That is not the way that Christ lived
00:05:17.440 in his earthly ministry.