DAILY TRUTH - Gnosticism & Pietism ｜ Two Plagues On Modern Evangelicalism
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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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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
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God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Gnosticism is the idea that the body is of little account,
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that the physical world is trivial, that it doesn't have real value. The Gnostics in the
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first century, that the apostles were combating, the Gnostics in their false heretical teaching,
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what they were continuing to say again and again is that, you know, the body is just a prison.
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It's this fleshly, carnal, unvaluable, trivial prison for the soul. And the soul is really a
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value. Now, the word Gnostic comes from Gnosis. Gnosis means secret knowledge. So that's another
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element of Gnosticism is this idea that there's this hidden, secret, elite, spiritual knowledge.
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It's a mystery. It's a secret. It's something that you can't see. You can't ascertain. And so what
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do you need? Well, you need to be inducted into the Cool Kids Club. The only way to find out this
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really meaningful, true, the truest truth that's ever been trued in the whole true world, the only
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way to figure that out is you have to have one of these elite guys tell you about it. Because it's
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invisible. It's hidden. You'll never find it on your own. And so there's this elitist mentality,
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this secret mentality. But the other element, the other aspect of Gnosticism, is that it's all
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spiritual. It's not something that can be reasoned to. It's not something physical in the world.
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it's not rational it's something that you would never be able to ascertain on your own and sadly
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that that is a false doctrine that was combated by the apostles in the first century christian
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church but sadly that is something that that the western church and the last few i would say
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i don't know 150 maybe 300 years has really embraced in large part because of the enlightenment
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and the embrace of gnosticism and now pietism real briefly pietism is this idea well to sum it
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up in a phrase the old phrase uh that guy is so heavenly bound or heavenly focus that he's no
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earthly good have you ever heard that phrase before he's so heavenly minded he's no earthly
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good right that he's just thinking about floating on a cloud as a disembodied spirit with jesus for
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eternity. But he's not really engaged in the physical world at all. He's not really caring
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about practical matters, physical matters, earthly matters at all. Surely we should be heavenly
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minded. But being heavenly minded in a true biblical sense immediately calls us right back
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to earth. Just as Connor was saying, true saving faith, trusting the Lord Jesus, longing for
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for eternal union with him there's there's fullness of joy in his presence there in his
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right hand there are pleasures forevermore and the christian longs for these things but in longing
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for christ and a longing for for a spiritual eternal reality with christ longing for heaven
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for the christian immediately calls us back to earth because if we love christ jesus said if you
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love me you will obey me and when we look to the commands of christ they all have physical tangible
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earthly application. So Christ said, you love me and you long to be with me always. Great work and
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feed your kids. Oh, okay. You love me and you long to be with me in heaven. Great. Love your wife as
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I've loved the church. See the spiritual marriage, eternal marriage, Christ in the church. See how I
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love her. I wash her. I gave myself up for her. Okay, you go do that in physical, tangible, earthly
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ways here now with a woman in front of your face that you can see not just this ethereal universal
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invisible sense but in a real sense don't be a pietist piety is a good thing piety is the the
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puritans often spoke of piety is simply it's the spiritual disciplines it's study of scripture
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it's fasting it's prayer it's longing to be further sanctified and and conformed into the
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image of Christ. It's the desire for progressive holiness. Progressive, not positional. You are
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positionally, perfectly righteous the moment you believe. Because positional, perfect righteousness
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is the righteousness of Christ, which is received not progressively and gradually through obedience,
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but rather immediately and fully through grace and faith alone. Okay? But the desire for
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progressive righteousness, progressive holiness, sanctification. This is piety. Piety, good.
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Pietism, bad. Piety, good. But being a pietist, in the sense that I'm using the word, is a bad
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thing. It's the person who doesn't really care about the world. And the thing that's so wrong
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God so loved the world that he sent his only son.
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And we don't want to be pietist, just sitting, right?
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Can I be frank with you for just a second, right here at the end?
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Look, some of you guys, you're financially supporting this ministry, and from the bottom
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