The NXR Podcast - May 03, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Gnosticism & Pietism ｜ Two Plagues On Modern Evangelicalism

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
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In this episode of Daily Truth, we discuss the concept of Gnosticism and how it relates to the Christian faith. We also discuss the role of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, and how to find God's truth.

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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. Gnosticism is the idea that the body is of little account,
00:00:56 that the physical world is trivial, that it doesn't have real value. The Gnostics in the
00:01:03 first century, that the apostles were combating, the Gnostics in their false heretical teaching,
00:01:09 what they were continuing to say again and again is that, you know, the body is just a prison.
00:01:15 It's this fleshly, carnal, unvaluable, trivial prison for the soul. And the soul is really a
00:01:24 value. Now, the word Gnostic comes from Gnosis. Gnosis means secret knowledge. So that's another
00:01:29 element of Gnosticism is this idea that there's this hidden, secret, elite, spiritual knowledge.
00:01:38 It's a mystery. It's a secret. It's something that you can't see. You can't ascertain. And so what
00:01:44 do you need? Well, you need to be inducted into the Cool Kids Club. The only way to find out this
00:01:52 really meaningful, true, the truest truth that's ever been trued in the whole true world, the only
00:01:57 way to figure that out is you have to have one of these elite guys tell you about it. Because it's
00:02:05 invisible. It's hidden. You'll never find it on your own. And so there's this elitist mentality,
00:02:10 this secret mentality. But the other element, the other aspect of Gnosticism, is that it's all
00:02:16 spiritual. It's not something that can be reasoned to. It's not something physical in the world.
00:02:22 it's not rational it's something that you would never be able to ascertain on your own and sadly
00:02:29 that that is a false doctrine that was combated by the apostles in the first century christian
00:02:34 church but sadly that is something that that the western church and the last few i would say
00:02:41 i don't know 150 maybe 300 years has really embraced in large part because of the enlightenment
00:02:47 and the embrace of gnosticism and now pietism real briefly pietism is this idea well to sum it
00:02:55 up in a phrase the old phrase uh that guy is so heavenly bound or heavenly focus that he's no
00:03:02 earthly good have you ever heard that phrase before he's so heavenly minded he's no earthly
00:03:07 good right that he's just thinking about floating on a cloud as a disembodied spirit with jesus for
00:03:14 eternity. But he's not really engaged in the physical world at all. He's not really caring
00:03:21 about practical matters, physical matters, earthly matters at all. Surely we should be heavenly
00:03:27 minded. But being heavenly minded in a true biblical sense immediately calls us right back
00:03:33 to earth. Just as Connor was saying, true saving faith, trusting the Lord Jesus, longing for
00:03:40 for eternal union with him there's there's fullness of joy in his presence there in his
00:03:46 right hand there are pleasures forevermore and the christian longs for these things but in longing
00:03:51 for christ and a longing for for a spiritual eternal reality with christ longing for heaven
00:03:58 for the christian immediately calls us back to earth because if we love christ jesus said if you
00:04:03 love me you will obey me and when we look to the commands of christ they all have physical tangible
00:04:10 earthly application. So Christ said, you love me and you long to be with me always. Great work and
00:04:16 feed your kids. Oh, okay. You love me and you long to be with me in heaven. Great. Love your wife as
00:04:24 I've loved the church. See the spiritual marriage, eternal marriage, Christ in the church. See how I
00:04:29 love her. I wash her. I gave myself up for her. Okay, you go do that in physical, tangible, earthly
00:04:36 ways here now with a woman in front of your face that you can see not just this ethereal universal
00:04:42 invisible sense but in a real sense don't be a pietist piety is a good thing piety is the the
00:04:53 puritans often spoke of piety is simply it's the spiritual disciplines it's study of scripture
00:05:00 it's fasting it's prayer it's longing to be further sanctified and and conformed into the
00:05:05 image of Christ. It's the desire for progressive holiness. Progressive, not positional. You are
00:05:11 positionally, perfectly righteous the moment you believe. Because positional, perfect righteousness
00:05:17 is the righteousness of Christ, which is received not progressively and gradually through obedience,
00:05:22 but rather immediately and fully through grace and faith alone. Okay? But the desire for
00:05:30 progressive righteousness, progressive holiness, sanctification. This is piety. Piety, good.
00:05:37 Pietism, bad. Piety, good. But being a pietist, in the sense that I'm using the word, is a bad
00:05:47 thing. It's the person who doesn't really care about the world. And the thing that's so wrong 0.99
00:05:53 about not really caring about the world
00:05:55 is that we're called to be like God.
00:05:59 And guess what?
00:06:00 God cares about the world.
00:06:02 God so loved the world that he sent his only son.
00:06:06 God cares about this world. 1.00
00:06:07 So we don't want to be Gnostics, 1.00
00:06:09 secret, spiritual, ethereal knowledge 1.00
00:06:11 in the 17th dimension. 0.72
00:06:12 And we don't want to be pietist, just sitting, right? 0.82
00:06:16 My Christian life involves 12 hours 0.88
00:06:18 of sitting and thinking about heaven.
00:06:20 But I've done nothing in any practical terms.
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