The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Godly Grief, Repentance, & Killing Sin

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00:00:30.000 Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the

00:00:34.480 mouth of God.

00:00:35.520 You're listening to Daily Truth.

00:00:39.540 The first thing that Joshua does after Israel is defeated by Ai is to humble himself before

00:00:47.560 God and mourn.

00:00:50.720 Still, it is not long before God tells him that his mourning, that is his grief, is enough.

00:00:57.880 God does not delight in the grief of his saints merely for grief's sake. Rather,

00:01:05.760 godly grief is granted by God as a gift and as a means to a glorious and good end.

00:01:14.820 I could not help but think, as working through the text this week and preparing for the Lord's

00:01:20.220 day in preaching God's Word of a correlation between verse 10 and 11 of our text and 2nd

00:01:28.360 Corinthians chapter 7 verses 9 10 and 11 which says this as it is I rejoice not because you were

00:01:38.540 grieved but because you were grieved into repenting for godly grief produces a repentance that leads

00:01:46.660 to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. For see what earnestness

00:01:54.980 this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves,

00:02:01.520 what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment. If you're familiar with

00:02:08.160 that particular text in 2 Corinthians, it is very likely that the Apostle Paul, who is the human

00:02:14.380 author inspired by the Holy Spirit of God is referring to what he previously wrote in his

00:02:20.300 first letter to the Corinthians regarding a particular man who was caught in sin. And the

00:02:26.820 church at Corinth was boasting. Now, they weren't boasting in this man's sin in and of itself.

00:02:34.940 Very likely, instead, what was going on is that the church at Corinth was boasting in regards

00:02:41.680 to their tolerance, charitableness, graciousness in light of such an outrageous sin. So the church

00:02:51.540 in Corinth very likely was not saying this particular sin that this young man has committed

00:02:57.620 with a member of his own family is wonderful and we're proud of it. No. Instead, what they were

00:03:06.180 likely saying is, it's horrible, and look how charitable we are. Even in the case of outrageous

00:03:13.940 sin, we, the church at Corinth, we welcome all sinners. You belong here. Love is love.

00:03:24.220 No judgment here. Judgment-free zone. The church at Corinth welcomes everybody. This young man,

00:03:31.620 you might notice next to the cross, we also have a rainbow flag. That's what was going on.

00:03:38.320 The church at Corinth wasn't boasting in the sin. What they were boasting in is their position

00:03:43.740 theologically of antinomianism. We're not under law here. We're under grace, which is precisely

00:03:53.080 what the Bible does in fact say, but under grace and no longer under law in what regard should be

00:04:00.960 the question that we ask. We are no longer, for those who are in Christ Jesus, there is now,

00:04:05.780 therefore, no more condemnation. You are not under law insofar as judgment, insofar as condemnation.

00:04:15.000 You are under, rather, grace afforded to you through faith in Jesus Christ alone, His person

00:04:21.960 and His finished work. But that does not mean that the Christian is not under law in regards

00:04:28.340 to a moral obligation. David said, as a Christian, as one who is trusting in his ultimate heir,

00:04:37.460 the Christ, that there would be a greater king who would sit one day on his throne of the increase

00:04:43.140 of his government. There would be no end that he would rule with an iron scepter. David, as well

00:04:49.080 with all the other Old Testament saints, was saved in the exact same manner that you and I are

00:04:54.960 by trusting in Jesus, they saw in shadows and types. We see in substance, looking back with

00:05:04.200 more clarity on this side of the cross. But the point is that David was a Christian, and David

00:05:09.580 of the law, he says, I delight in the law. And it is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

00:05:17.500 It illuminates for me the path to salvation. No, it illuminates to me the path from salvation.

00:05:24.960 I'm saved by grace alone, through faith alone.

00:05:28.640 Abraham believed God,

00:05:30.260 and it was accredited to him as righteousness.

00:05:33.080 But as Connor so faithfully just taught,

00:05:35.500 as he was working through the liturgy this morning,

00:05:38.080 David, he believes God.

00:05:40.200 He is trusting in Christ alone.

00:05:42.300 He acknowledges that he is a sinner,

00:05:44.080 and that God is a thrice holy God,

00:05:46.800 and that the chasm between God and Him is infinite,

00:05:50.860 and that he can only be saved

00:05:52.400 by an act of sheer grace alone,

00:05:54.960 And yet, having been saved by grace alone, he delights in the law of God and sees the law not

00:06:02.200 as something that shows him the path to merit salvation, but it shows him the path of how to

00:06:07.060 respond in gratitude for salvation. That is the biblical view. But the church at Corinth is not

00:06:15.740 thinking in those terms. See, they have abandoned legalism, good, but overcompensated into the realm

00:06:23.920 of antinomianism. That is a picture, I believe, of the evangelical church as a whole in the West

00:06:32.340 today. We are not legalists. Okay, and what does that mean? It means we hate obedience.

00:06:41.520 Wait, what? We never preach law in this church. Wait, what? You're bragging about that?

00:06:49.880 brother i don't think that's a brag you want you want to rethink that

00:06:55.700 no we preach law we do the question is how do we preach obedience to the law of god as a means of

00:07:06.500 earning salvation no that's legalism but do we not preach law at all pretending as though

00:07:14.140 obedience doesn't even matter? No. That's antinomianism. Both are a failure.

00:07:22.340 So the church at Corinth is bragging not about the particular sin of this young man, but bragging

00:07:27.400 about their antinomian, against law, disposition regarding his sin. And so Paul writes to them in

00:07:37.020 1 Corinthians, his first letter, chapter 5, and says, purge the immoral man from among you.

00:07:44.140 take the sin seriously. But then he writes back to the very same church in his second letter,

00:07:51.840 and he actually says, and I believe it's the same man, this would be 2 Corinthians chapter 2,

00:07:57.160 he says, welcome him back in, lest he be overburdened by unceasing sorrow. He's repented.

00:08:05.080 You've done your job. The point was not to condemn him indefinitely, but to convict him that he might

00:08:13.060 repent. And so welcome him back in. And then later in chapter 7 of 2 Corinthians, the apostle Paul

00:08:20.320 says, now you, speaking about the church as a whole in a corporate sense, quit mourning.

00:08:29.080 Grief is good insofar as it is a means to accomplish God's predestined end. And that end

00:08:39.240 of grief in many cases, if not virtually all cases, is repentance. And so what the Apostle

00:08:47.980 Paul is essentially saying to the church in Corinth is this. He's saying, you've been grieved

00:08:53.260 by the sin of this man, and your grief has produced zeal, commitment, vigilance towards holiness.

00:09:04.980 Ultimately, what it's produced is repentance.

00:09:08.280 It's been used by God to produce individual repentance for Him,

00:09:12.740 which is why you should welcome Him back in.

00:09:14.760 But it's also produced corporate repentance for you as a church for your sin,

00:09:20.860 which was tolerating His sin.

00:09:24.480 You too have repented of your antinomianism.

00:09:28.440 He's repented of His sexual immorality. 0.81

00:09:31.440 You've repented of your antinomianism.

00:09:33.580 and guess what?

00:09:35.100 Now that the zeal has come,

00:09:38.020 now that the repentance has been accomplished,

00:09:42.340 quit crying.

The NXR Podcast - July 25, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Godly Grief, Repentance, & Killing Sin

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