The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - God’s NOT a Universal Father

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00:00:19.700 Jesus said,

00:00:20.800 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

00:00:25.440 You're listening to Daily Truth.

00:00:30.000 If you do not have Christ as your Savior, then you do not have God as your Father.

00:00:38.680 God is not your hope.

00:00:41.580 God is your greatest enemy.

00:00:45.340 God should bring you dread.

00:00:48.540 For those who do not have Christ as their Savior, you should have an incessant fear of the judgment of God.

00:00:57.600 I think of Amazing Grace.

00:01:00.000 the second verse it says it was grace that taught my heart to fear and grace my fears relief

00:01:09.260 in the preaching of the gospel we often speak of that second half the gospel works itself

00:01:17.560 that the grace of god the good news of the grace of god brings sweet relief grace my fears relief

00:01:26.640 But we forget that the same grace that relieves our fears

00:01:30.720 is the same grace that instilled those fears to begin with.

00:01:35.520 It was grace that taught my heart to fear,

00:01:38.780 and grace my fears relieved.

00:01:41.520 Meaning this, that the person who is in the most fearful shape,

00:01:47.620 the person who actually has the most to fear

00:01:50.320 is the person who is not in Christ

00:01:52.480 but also not afraid of the judgment of God.

00:01:58.340 They have neither been adopted as God

00:02:00.560 by God as their father

00:02:02.420 but neither are they afraid of God as their judge.

00:02:07.100 The person who ironically has the most to fear

00:02:09.980 is the person who fears the least outside of Christ.

00:02:17.140 It is a grace of God, therefore,

00:02:20.320 that he teaches our hearts to fear.

00:02:24.180 That initial fear.

00:02:27.180 As we come to see God as judge,

00:02:29.360 as we come to see his holiness

00:02:30.900 in the goodness of his law,

00:02:33.040 and as we come to see our sinfulness

00:02:34.880 and all the ways that we've failed

00:02:36.960 and fallen short of his glorious standard.

00:02:41.780 It is a grace, the initial grace of God

00:02:45.100 that teaches our hearts to fear.

00:02:47.040 And this fear, this initial fear

00:02:49.880 is what drives us to the cross

00:02:52.460 where those fears are relieved.

00:02:56.760 If you do not have God as your Father,

00:03:00.420 it is because you do not have Christ as your Savior.

00:03:04.080 And if you do not have Christ as your Savior,

00:03:08.120 it is the most gracious and merciful thing

00:03:10.960 that the Lord can do

00:03:12.260 to teach your heart to fear.

00:03:16.020 I pray that you might fear Him today.

00:03:19.880 that you might fear His holiness,

00:03:22.840 fear His wrath,

00:03:24.820 fear His judgment,

00:03:26.140 which even now hangs over your head.

00:03:30.200 But that's not the end of the prayer.

00:03:33.960 I pray that,

00:03:35.720 that you might be driven by that fear

00:03:38.160 to the cross,

00:03:40.200 where you find the gospel,

00:03:43.060 the forgiveness of sins,

00:03:45.440 reconciliation to the triune God,

00:03:47.740 justification being declared righteous in his sight salvation from sin and death

00:03:55.780 so it's grace that taught our hearts to fear and it is the grace of the gospel that relieves those

00:04:04.620 fears i pray that you might come to christ today thanks so much for listening but real quick

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The NXR Podcast - May 12, 2022

DAILY TRUTH - God’s NOT a Universal Father

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