The NXR Podcast - November 16, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Growing In Spiritual Maturity

Topics
spiritual maturity and competency
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Nathan Anderson James Dude Gary DeMar Joel Webin Joe Boot
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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

153.33

Word count

1,102

Sentence count

62

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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In this episode, Pastor Joel Webin discusses the importance of spiritual maturity in the church, and how it is related to character, character and competency. He also discusses the myth that a Christian can come into spiritual maturity apart from their knowledge of the Word of God.

Transcript

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00:00:00 Hey guys, real quick, before we get started, I have a small request.
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00:00:19 Jesus said,
00:00:20 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 If we were to take all the qualifications for elders that we find in 1 Timothy 3, verses 1-7,
00:00:35 and we were to sum them up in one concept, it would be spiritual maturity.
00:00:42 An elder must be mature in the Lord.
00:00:46 He must be spiritually mature.
00:00:48 The only thing that we could perhaps add to that is that he must not only be spiritually mature,
00:00:54 but he must also be competent.
00:00:56 if we were to say if there were two parts perhaps for leaders in the church of god we would say that
00:01:03 there is character and there is competency character and competency now i believe that
00:01:10 in some regard competency actually does flow from character that if a man or a woman is spiritually
00:01:17 mature you do not come by spiritual maturity apart from deep real knowledge from the word
00:01:26 have gone it's it's like what i say in the beginning of every single one of my sermons we
00:01:29 don't love with our hearts that which we do not know with our minds so i just want to i want to
00:01:34 burst that bubble i want to i want to completely just dismantle that myth that has grown so
00:01:41 powerful in the evangelical church today that somehow christians could come into spiritual
00:01:48 maturity apart from doctrine false so if someone truly is spiritually mature in terms of character
00:01:58 they will at least in some degree have a measure of competency because you don't grow in character
00:02:05 in sanctification apart from knowing god's word and we've got it we have to dismiss
00:02:14 this, that myth that reigns so prevalent in the evangelical church today that, you know,
00:02:20 well, you're theological, you're really good at loving God with your mind, and I'm really good
00:02:24 at loving him with my heart. What does that mean? That's a Gnostic, heretical divorcing
00:02:30 of the mind and the heart. That's not Christian. It's not Christian. It's not biblical. 1.00
00:02:37 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and mind and soul. That's not like, hey, there's four
00:02:42 different, you know, paths to choose. You know, some will love them with their strength. Like,
00:02:46 what does that even look like? Like, you don't know God with your mind and you don't love him
00:02:49 with your affections, but you're just pushing, you know, lifting weights for the Jesus, like
00:02:53 strength apart. It's a collective deal. It's a package deal. You're loving God, not with
00:03:01 you choose which one of these soul or heart or strength or mind. No, you're loving God with
00:03:06 all of your being all of your being so there is no love for god in these other realms if you will
00:03:13 apart from the realm of the mind and so if we are to come into spiritual maturity in terms of
00:03:19 character it is because we are coming to love god more with our minds and if we are loving god more
00:03:25 with our minds understanding the truth and the depth of his word then we are by default consequently
00:03:30 growing also not just in character, but in competency. All right, all right, all right.
00:03:35 Stop twisting my arm. I know you want to hear the inside scoop. Here it is, the glorious vision of
00:03:41 Right Response Ministries for the first half of next year, 2023. We have not one, not two, but
00:03:47 three massive endeavors that we will accomplish by the grace of God. The first you already know
00:03:54 about. It's our Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference, May 5th, 6th, and 7th, with James
00:03:59 Dwight, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly, Pastor Joel Webin. This is selling
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00:04:10 I really don't know. So don't waste another moment. Go to rightresponseconference.com,
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00:04:22 next year. Now, this is where you come in. We need your help. Our next two endeavors are number one,
00:04:28 a documentary style film, and number two, a brand new studio. Both of these things are seeking to
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00:04:44 tired of as Christians doing things poorly. We've done our best with what we have, but by God's
00:04:51 grace, we want to do even better. This is not going to be just another video. This is not going to be
00:04:57 a sermon or an interview or a podcast, but we're going to make a documentary style film. And we're
00:05:03 going to be hiring Nathan Anderson, the director of On Earth As It Is In Heaven, a very, very
00:05:09 successful post-millennialism documentary that's on Amazon and YouTube, came out a couple years ago.
00:05:15 He's going to be flying in from Chile to help us direct this film. And our documentary is going to
00:05:21 be on post-millennialism and theonomy, why it's biblically valid, why it's absolutely necessary,
00:05:28 and why, by the grace of God, theonomy and post-millennialism are currently on the rise.
00:05:34 So we're going to make this film and we need your support. And not just this film, but we're going
00:05:40 to make all of our videos and podcasting and everything we do here at Right Response Ministries
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00:05:58 it would be complete and publicly available in May or June of 2023, next year. The studio,
00:06:06 our goal is that it would be completely done in its construction and the equipment and the setup
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00:06:40 God bless.
00:06:41 Thank you.