The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - God’s Love Makes Perfect Sense… To Entitled Sinners

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00:00:16.360 and gospel of Jesus Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a

00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. The reason why the gospel is offensive

00:00:30.480 is because the gospel, it does not start with the love of God, but it begins with the righteousness

00:00:37.860 of God. And so I want to go ahead and move on now to the third characteristic.

00:00:45.940 The third characteristic of the gospel that we see in these two small verses today,

00:00:51.100 Romans 1 16 and 17 is this that the gospel reveals the righteousness of God

00:00:59.500 far too often and for far too long when the gospel is preached

00:01:05.600 it is preached as though the only thing or at least the biggest thing or certainly the first

00:01:12.400 thing that is revealed in the gospel of God is his love but the apostle Paul under the inspiration

00:01:19.820 of the spirit of God says that what is revealed is not God's love but his righteousness for in it

00:01:28.820 the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith as it is written the righteous shall

00:01:36.320 live by faith in your notes I've written the following in verse 17 Paul explains precisely

00:01:43.200 how the gospel is the power of God for salvation. For in, that is, the gospel, the righteousness of

00:01:50.820 God is revealed. Notice Paul does not begin with the love of God in the gospel, but rather he begins

00:01:57.140 with the righteousness of God in the gospel. The gospel demonstrates God's love for sinners,

00:02:03.400 Romans 5.8. But the gospel must also demonstrate something else in order for it to be viewed as a

00:02:11.000 stumbling block by some and foolishness by others. First Corinthians 1 23. The love of God is not

00:02:19.360 offensive to most sinners. In fact, God's love seems to make perfect sense to man in his natural

00:02:28.320 state. On the other hand, the righteousness of God is highly offensive because it presents a major

00:02:35.660 problem for sinful man. If God is righteous and we are not, then each of us stands condemned

00:02:42.160 before him. And without a savior, a mediator, a substitute, a go-between, then this condemnation

00:02:50.760 of God is permanent and eternal. Permanent and eternal. See, the love of God is not offensive

00:02:59.280 to most sinners in fact these days if you tell someone who is an unbeliever an unbelieving

00:03:07.720 neighbor perhaps that you see them as you're going for a walk with your children and you start to

00:03:14.620 sync up for a while and conversate and it comes out that you're a christian and that you go to

00:03:21.220 church on the lord's day and the person says hey i've been wondering about christianity over the

00:03:27.840 last couple years and i've started to read a little bit of the bible for myself and i have

00:03:32.400 some questions if you don't mind me asking and you begin to articulate to them and seeking to explain

00:03:39.420 the central theme and message of the christian faith the bible that the gospel of jesus christ

00:03:49.960 is the only hope of salvation for sinners and as you explain this let's say that you are not

00:03:57.820 unashamed but rather you compromise and shrink back and you choose to lean on not saying anything

00:04:06.280 that is untrue but conveniently neglecting to say other things that are true you lean on and

00:04:13.320 emphasize the love of God for people and we don't even say the love of God for sinners because that

00:04:19.640 just might be a little bit a little bit too harsh just god loves people the central message of the

00:04:28.040 christian faith is the gospel of jesus christ that's what you need for salvation okay what's

00:04:32.380 the gospel neighbor the gospel is that god loves people they're not wowed by that message do you

00:04:39.640 know why they're not wowed by that message because they would actually be shocked if god didn't love

00:04:46.400 people because they think that the love of God is something that every single person deserves

00:04:55.280 except for maybe Donald Trump depending on your neighbor all right if you have a liberal you know

00:05:00.900 crazy person as a neighbor but they think for the most part that the bulk the mass of humanity

00:05:07.840 98% of them that they actually deserve the love of God that what would be shocking to your

00:05:14.000 unbelieving neighbor is saying, well, God actually doesn't love all people. And the Bible doesn't

00:05:21.000 even just say that God, you know, hates the sin but loves the sinner. But there are multiple verses

00:05:26.180 in Scripture that says that God loathes the sinner, that God hates the sinner, that his heart detests

00:05:34.460 a particular type of sin no sinner and that the the absolute shock of the gospel is not that god

00:05:45.280 justly would condemn all but that in his mercy and grace he would choose to save

00:05:52.100 even some much less many when you tell people today who are unbelieving that god loves them

00:06:00.380 they think of course he does of course he does in fact not only not only does he love me i i think

00:06:10.200 that he would be wrong not to i i think that god if there is a god that he's obligated to love me

00:06:16.520 he'd be a monster if he did anything else of course he loves me he must love me because i'm special

00:06:25.880 and i've been told that i'm special since the day i was born

00:06:31.680 and yeah i've made a few mistakes along the way but even those mistakes it wasn't really me it

00:06:38.820 was because of my toxic environment i i've done some things but you know if you let me frame the

00:06:46.660 narrative right you probably would admit that you do the same things yourself really i haven't

00:06:51.900 sinned at all, when we really think about it, if we get just a little creative in the way that we

00:06:58.780 define sin, the worst things I've ever done in life is simply a response to, you know, to these

00:07:04.340 toxic people that have been surrounding me, giving off their negative energy. I'm late for my yoga

00:07:11.820 class you tell a person like that that god loves them and they say of course

00:07:20.760 but you tell a person like that in the gospel not beginning with the love of god but rather

00:07:29.200 revealing the righteousness of god that god is holy and that they are sinful well now you have

00:07:36.680 their attention you also have their anger very likely but their attention nonetheless

00:07:43.120 i've found that if i want to get someone's attention in order to possibly persuade them

00:07:48.500 making them angry often works they may not like me but it's kind of like you know you see like a

00:07:58.700 wreck on the side of the highway and you know that there's just going to be another wreck if

00:08:03.440 everybody keeps turning their heads, but you just, you can't look away. It's kind of my preaching

00:08:10.420 style. And people, you know, I hate you, but I'm still watching because I'm even taking notes

00:08:18.540 because I want to remember, were there 17 reasons to hate Joel or 20? You know, so like that, you

00:08:24.340 know, but it works. That's what the apostles do. The apostles, every town they entered, it was

00:08:30.200 either revival or a riot and if it was a riot well then they just viewed it within the sovereignty

00:08:36.900 of god that he had ordained for them a prison ministry in that particular town

00:08:41.000 and they would minister to the inmates there until they died or were let loose or an angel

00:08:49.880 came in the night caused an earthquake and shook and rattled and opened the bars

00:08:55.100 the gospel is an offense now lest i make it more than offense of an offense than it actually is

00:09:05.180 the gospel is also we should remember good news the gospel is the very proclamation of good news

00:09:15.100 the gospel is the salve that heals the wound that hosea chapter 6 that the lord not like

00:09:25.100 The Lord has slain me, but on the third day, He will revive us.

00:09:37.240 He will come to us like the spring rains, the spring rains that water the earth.

00:09:44.240 The Lord and the sword of the Spirit and His law, He slices and cuts to pieces.

00:09:50.920 but in his grace and gospel he binds back up again and makes whole the gospel is good news

00:10:00.140 the gospel is salve the gospel is honey but only to those who are being saved

00:10:20.920 We'll see you next time.

The NXR Podcast - November 08, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - God’s Love Makes Perfect Sense… To Entitled Sinners

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