The NXR Podcast - May 31, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - God Chooses The Foolish To Despise The Wise

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Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
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Joel Webin Jared Longshore Matthew Henry Chris Wiley Doug Wilson Haunted Cosmos Brian Sauve Joseph Boot Joe Biden Brighthearth Kingshall James
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God doesn't just choose among the wisest, he also chooses among the foolish. In the case of Gideon, God does so not only to honor and honor those who are foolish, but also to despise those who would esteem themselves as being wise. God does this not just with individuals, but with groups of individuals. And we see this in the example of the disciples.

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00:00:42.320 Jesus said,
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00:00:47.980 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:49.940 Matthew Henry further commentating on this portion of our passage Joshua 4 verses 5 through 8 he says
00:00:58.760 this this intended monument deserved to be made of stones curiously cut with the finest and most
00:01:06.600 exquisite art but these stones out of the bottom of the river were more natural and more apt
00:01:13.640 indications of the miracle. Let posterity know by this that Jordan was driven back the waters,
00:01:22.020 for these very stones were then fetched out of it. In the institution of signs, God always chose 0.95
00:01:29.400 that which was most proper and significant rather than that which is pompous. It makes me think of
00:01:37.840 First Corinthians chapter one, verse 27, that says,
00:01:41.440 but God chose what is foolish in the world
00:01:44.820 to shame the wise.
00:01:46.700 God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.
00:01:51.580 Now in the context of first Corinthians chapter one,
00:01:54.120 verse 27, this is referencing individual people
00:01:57.300 that God in his sovereignty elected to salvation,
00:02:01.480 that he chose by the power of his spirit to regenerate,
00:02:05.120 to cause them to become new creatures in Christ Jesus,
00:02:08.480 to endow them with the gifts of faith and repentance,
00:02:11.920 to cause them to become Christians, believers.
00:02:15.860 And so 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27 is saying 0.97
00:02:18.640 that God chose foolish people
00:02:20.960 to despise those who would esteem themselves as being wise. 0.97
00:02:26.980 And God continues to do this today.
00:02:29.240 In reference, again, to individual people,
00:02:31.740 God doesn't just save those who are intellectual or those who are rich
00:02:36.880 or those who are elite in society. 0.96
00:02:41.460 But God often chooses to save among those who are foolish, 0.95
00:02:46.280 those who are of little standing by the perception of society, 0.80
00:02:51.900 those who are, as James says, poor.
00:02:54.640 Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith?
00:02:58.800 And so in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27, it's referencing individual people.
00:03:04.520 God chooses from among the poor.
00:03:06.540 God chooses from among the foolish.
00:03:08.700 And he does so to despise the wise, just as he did with Gideon.
00:03:13.420 God is jealous.
00:03:15.520 The Bible actually says his name is jealous.
00:03:19.600 He is a jealous God.
00:03:20.820 And as the scripture further testifies, he will share his glory with no man.
00:03:25.400 And one of the ways that God garnishes glory for himself and ensures that his glory is not given to another is that he performs great and mighty works in such a miraculous way that no man, no creature could be possibly given the credit.
00:03:43.080 So in the case of Gideon, he whittles down this army and then whittles it down even further to a number of just 300 in order to defeat tens of thousands.
00:03:55.020 And he does this not to make much of Gideon,
00:03:58.540 but to make much of himself.
00:04:00.680 So too, in 1 Corinthians 1, verse 27,
00:04:04.300 God doesn't just choose the elite
00:04:06.520 or the wise of this world,
00:04:10.280 for the wisdom of this world is first and foremost,
00:04:13.060 according to Scripture, demonic.
00:04:15.380 It's not true wisdom.
00:04:16.480 But rather, God chooses those who are viewed 0.97
00:04:18.820 as foolish in this world 0.96
00:04:20.560 in order to make much of himself, 1.00
00:04:22.700 to show that it was not man, it was not his innate reason,
00:04:27.040 but God in his power, in his wisdom, in his glory 0.57
00:04:31.360 that used even those who are foolish to do incredible things. 0.81
00:04:35.200 Think of the disciples. 0.99
00:04:37.040 The people said, are these not unlearned fishermen?
00:04:40.620 But they noted that they had been with Jesus.
00:04:45.300 That was the difference.
00:04:46.800 It was not their formal schooling.
00:04:49.600 It was not that they had been to the best universities
00:04:52.660 or studied under the most notable rabbis. 1.00
00:04:57.560 It was that these uneducated fishermen
00:05:00.100 spent three years with Jesus, give or take,
00:05:03.600 that made them incredibly knowledgeable
00:05:06.700 to where they were able to argue and debate
00:05:10.220 even the wisest of their age. 0.99
00:05:13.880 And so God chooses the foolish to despise the wise.
00:05:19.220 God does this with individual people.
00:05:22.560 That's what we see with the disciples.
00:05:25.060 That's what we see in 1 Corinthians 1.27.
00:05:28.800 That's what we see in the illustration that I gave from the story of Gideon.
00:05:34.160 But beyond that, what Matthew Henry, the late great Puritan, is getting at and commentating on our particular text today, Joshua 4,
00:05:43.240 is that God uses this same concept not just in his choice of salvation with individual people,
00:05:50.220 but also in his sovereign choice of signs and seals.
00:05:56.920 It was not that Israel was called to gather for themselves 12 stones of marble
00:06:05.400 and then give them to the most gifted and skilled artist and sculptor in all the land
00:06:12.500 to make some glorious, intricate monument.
00:06:16.840 now that wasn't fitting for the work that god had performed god is more interested in that which is
00:06:24.740 proper than that which is pompous whoa whoa you're gonna want to hear this our next two conferences
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