The NXR Podcast - May 08, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - “For This Is What It Means To Be King”

Topics
death and victory
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Joe Biden Pharisees
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Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

140.8

Word count

1,068

Sentence count

71

Harmful content

Toxicity

3

sentences flagged

Hate speech

2

sentences flagged


Summary

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What does it mean to be a king? What does it take to be one? What is it like to live and reign as a Christian King? How does it differ from the story of King Loon, the King of Archenland and The Horse and His Boy?

Transcript

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Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
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 quote from C.S. Lewis. This is from The Horse and His Boy.
00:00:57 and it's quoting King Loon, who was the king of Archenland, which was an ally to Narnia.
00:01:06 It came in their defense. He's now instructing what a king should be.
00:01:13 For this is what it means to be a king, to be first in every desperate attack and last in every
00:01:21 desperate retreat and when there's hunger in the land as must be now and then in bad years
00:01:29 to be a king is to wear finer clothes and laugh louder over a scantier meal than any man
00:01:37 in your land that's what it is to be a king first to attack last to retreat and in times of
00:01:47 Providence, when provisions are few, not to paint yourself up with dust and ashes like the Pharisees
00:01:56 did, choosing not to bathe. They wanted everyone to know that they were fasting, to look scrawny,
00:02:04 to look mournful. No, no, no. A king is in 2023 when they're mutilating children and murdering
00:02:11 them in the womb. A king takes it seriously. He's the first into battle, the last to retreat, 0.54
00:02:17 and though don't miss this as he's fighting he's laughing he's laughing
00:02:24 his kids are not afraid
00:02:28 the weight of the matter is in fact waiting but the kids don't know it i can't even remember the
00:02:37 the movie i want to say schindler's list maybe but i remember distinctly watching a movie when
00:02:42 i was younger with my parents i think it was black and white and it was about the holocaust
00:02:47 and it was about a father and his son in an internment camp and he's the whole time
00:02:56 like making it like a game to where they're in one of the most terrible scenarios you could imagine
00:03:03 and yet the child is having a decent time and even when he's being taken off at the end to the gas
00:03:11 chamber to Don. He hides his boy away. There's a little crack where the boy's able to see his
00:03:18 father, and his father's making a joke out of him and marching like this and smiling and winking at
00:03:24 his son. Because it's two things. One, he cares for the boy. There are certain things that our
00:03:33 children are not ready to carry. But two, it's not just pretending for the sake of the boy.
00:03:43 His pretending for the sake of the boy in the Christian reality is actually not pretending. 0.64
00:03:48 It's actually living into the truer reality. Because we are able to say, death, where is your 0.98
00:03:56 sting. We're able to actually laugh as we go to the gas chamber because Christ has won. His
00:04:07 victory is final. This world and all its pain and sin and rebellion against God is not the end of
00:04:14 the story. It's not. And so we raise our children to know the whole story. And the whole story
00:04:23 involves things that are sad,
00:04:26 truly, deeply sad.
00:04:31 But sadness is swallowed up in joy.
00:04:35 Though the sadness may last for the night,
00:04:38 the joy comes in the morning.
00:04:40 Darkness is swallowed up in light.
00:04:42 Death swallowed up in victory.
00:04:46 The truer truth is life,
00:04:51 not death.
00:04:53 light, not darkness. And so we're able, what that does is it doesn't cause you to be
00:05:00 a pietist disengaged. When we truly believe the truest end of the story, what it allows you to do
00:05:06 instead is it allows you to embrace honestly, with integrity, every ounce of the darkness
00:05:14 because you can bear it because the light outweighs it. The light is greater. It allows
00:05:22 you to be brutally honest with death because death pales in comparison to life and the final
00:05:31 end of the story is that death is swallowed up in life a king and we are all brothers and sisters
00:05:39 called to be a holy priesthood a kingdom of priests to live and reign with the son a christian king
00:05:48 is first to the fight, last in retreat, and laughing along the way.
00:05:57 Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
00:06:01 Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry,
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00:06:13 In fact, some of you, you shouldn't afford it.
00:06:16 Let's be honest. 0.95
00:06:17 We're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites 0.98
00:06:26 lost their minds over the last three years due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply
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00:06:40 a recession right now regardless. Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the
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