The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - For Those Times When You Think You’re Going To Hell…

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00:00:27.500 there's a distinction between salvation and assurance of salvation and in this category

00:00:33.220 of the assurance of salvation throughout the entirety of first john three main tests are

00:00:38.820 listed the love test that's what i've been espousing these last seven minutes love for

00:00:46.200 the household of faith love for the brothers love for christians

00:00:52.400 the obedience test obedience to christ's commandments beginning with the moral law

00:01:00.780 of god which we find in its summary in exodus chapter 20 the decalogue the ten commandments

00:01:08.500 love for god and neighbor not creatively defined by you but immutably defined by god in scripture

00:01:18.400 Love for God.

00:01:19.880 Have no other gods before me.

00:01:21.800 Do not make for yourself any graven images.

00:01:24.600 Do not take the Lord's name in vain.

00:01:26.700 And remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.

00:01:29.920 Love for neighbor and particularly fellow brothers in Christ.

00:01:36.580 Honor thy father and mother.

00:01:38.460 Do not murder.

00:01:39.580 Do not commit adultery.

00:01:41.220 Do not steal.

00:01:44.020 Do not bear false witness.

00:01:46.540 And do not covet.

00:01:48.520 This is how we love our neighbor.

00:01:50.620 The first four commandments teach us how we love the Lord, our God.

00:01:55.040 So the obedience test, obedience to the moral commands of God.

00:02:00.940 As we grow in outward obedience, it's tangible, it's objective, it can be witnessed, not just by you.

00:02:07.580 Here's the beauty.

00:02:09.180 Not just by you, but it can be co-discerned as we grow in obedience

00:02:14.300 and our outward obedience to the commands of God

00:02:16.840 is witnessed by others.

00:02:18.900 Namely, again, the household of faith.

00:02:21.880 So that I can have others, not just myself,

00:02:24.420 not just dependent on my own subjective,

00:02:27.180 fleeting feelings of confidence and assurance

00:02:29.500 and the love of God for me,

00:02:30.680 but I can look when I'm lacking assurance

00:02:32.800 to my wife, to my parents, to my friends, to my church,

00:02:39.360 and they can say,

00:02:40.200 brother, you're lacking in assurance right now.

00:02:42.240 I understand you've confessed that to us,

00:02:44.620 that you're struggling with insecurity and fear,

00:02:47.160 doubting the love of God.

00:02:48.300 But this is what we've seen.

00:02:50.940 This is what we've heard.

00:02:53.280 This is what we know.

00:02:54.900 And you should know as well.

00:03:12.240 We'll be right back.

The NXR Podcast - November 16, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - For Those Times When You Think You’re Going To Hell…

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