The NXR Podcast - September 15, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Grace Is A Gift, But So Is Faith

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ Grace
DAILY TRUTH - Providence & Presence ｜ Two Forms Of Grace Through Trials SUNDAY SERMON - The Destructive Power Of Soft Men

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

117.7

Word count

879

Sentence count

42


Summary

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In the midst of trials and tribulations, God's grace and grace alone is the source of our trust in God. God is sovereign over all things, including our response to Him, our obedience, our trust, and our faith. God does not share glory with man, but with God alone. He is the only one who can give us the faith necessary to receive that grace, and yet even though God provides that trust, he is still within his rights and within His rights to command it.

Transcript

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00:00:00 In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month
00:00:04 to 50,000 downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more
00:00:10 positive reviews, the more the algorithm picks us up, and more people are confronted by the law
00:00:16 and gospel of Jesus Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a
00:00:23 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform thanks if the grace of god is like a baseball then
00:00:30 faith is like the glove but god gives both he throws the perfect pitch and he gives you the
00:00:37 glove god does it all we are expected to put our trust in god and not to hedge our bets but to put
00:00:48 our trust in God alone but it is in the final analysis it is God himself who grants us faith
00:00:58 that faith is not merely something that can be conjured up manufactured by the will and sheer
00:01:05 grit of man but faith is something that God provides I believe help my unbelief God gives
00:01:15 faith. God grows faith, but he does so through sanctification progressively as a process in his
00:01:25 providence, in his presence. He does all of this. It's all his work. It's all his doing, which is
00:01:32 why he gets all the glory. God doesn't share glory with man because not because God is petty
00:01:39 or arrogant god doesn't share glory with man because he's just because he's fair
00:01:48 and it would be unjust and unfair to accredit man with anything because he hasn't done
00:01:57 anything god gets all the glory because god does all the work
00:02:03 including not just grace but providing the faith to receive that grace and yet even though god
00:02:13 provides that trust he's the one who gives it but he is still within his rights and holy and just
00:02:22 to command it god commands several things throughout scripture that he ultimately provides
00:02:29 God commands our obedience but if any man is faithful to obey God's commandments
00:02:35 then what will we say on that final day when we stand before him and he says well done good and
00:02:41 faithful servant pro tip I would respond by saying well done good and faithful leader if I followed
00:02:50 you well at all it's only because you led me well it's not because I hung on to Jesus it's because
00:02:58 Jesus hung on to me. It's not because I'm a good follower. It's because you're a faithful leader.
00:03:05 In fact, quite the opposite. There were several times that I, like the one sheep that was led
00:03:11 astray, I wandered off the beaten path. And it was not that I, because of my own wisdom, because of
00:03:18 my own righteousness, found my way back to the fold. But instead, the shepherd left the 99.
00:03:24 He went and found me and brought me back.
00:03:29 He will hold me fast.
00:03:32 Yes, we are commanded to cling to Christ,
00:03:36 to trust in Christ, to follow Christ,
00:03:40 to listen to Christ, to obey the commandments of Christ.
00:03:44 And if we do, it's because of Christ.
00:03:49 Both his grace and his gift of providing
00:03:53 the faith necessary to receive that grace.
00:04:00 So these two things, my point is,
00:04:03 in theological terms, they are not mutually exclusive.
00:04:06 They are not a contradiction of terms.
00:04:08 They are not opposed to one another,
00:04:11 God's command and God's gift.
00:04:15 God can command trust and obedience from his people
00:04:19 and in the very same instance be the source of faith and trust and the one who girds up our
00:04:27 obedience. It is him who wills and works in and through you in order to do that which is good
00:04:36 and pleasing in his sight. That's Philippians. It says, work out your salvation with fear and
00:04:45 trembling. That's your responsibility. That is God's just, righteous commandment to you. Do it.
00:04:52 You work out your faith with fear and trembling. And if we finish the verse,
00:05:00 it goes on to say, it is he who wills and works in and through. Both are true.
00:05:08 simultaneously true one does not contradict the other there are a few things in scripture that
00:05:18 to us may be an apparent paradox but in reality in God's reality and in the mind of God and that
00:05:28 which actually is there is no contradiction at all God commands man has human agency and
00:05:35 responsibility. And yet God is still meticulously sovereign over all things, including our response
00:05:43 to him, our obedience, our faith, our trust in such a way that every good and perfect gift comes
00:05:50 from him. And so he merits all the glory. So what we find in the first six verses of our text
00:06:00 is that God is gracious in the midst of trial
00:06:03 both by providence, increasing difficulty
00:06:06 along with our sanctification,
00:06:07 and in his presence, fresh mercy, fresh grace,
00:06:11 a fresh encouragement,
00:06:13 even when we've already received the command
00:06:16 and the encouragement dozens of times before.
00:06:19 God yet once more provides his grace.
00:06:23 Grace in the midst of trials,
00:06:25 both by providence and presence,
00:06:28 but also our obligation, although this too is his grace, our obligation to trust God.
00:06:36 And here's the ticket to trust God alone.
00:06:58 We'll be right back.