The NXR Podcast - October 10, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Growing In The Grace Of Godly Grief

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ
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Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

136.31

Word count

732

Sentence count

28


Summary

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In this episode, Pastor Ken teaches on the benefits of being a Christian born again. He uses the analogy of a fire hose and a mirror, and how as we grow closer and closer to Christ, the water of the Word is washing away the filth and the grime that still remains.

Transcript

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00:00:27 i've used this illustration before i'll use it once more i can't i'm sure there's a better one
00:00:33 but i've used it so long at this point if it ain't broke you know don't fix it so imagine that
00:00:38 following jesus it could be illustrated by christ in one hand holding a full body mirror
00:00:47 and in the other a fire hose and you and i filthy after wallowing in the mud in our sin
00:00:55 are now being closer and closer pulled to Christ.
00:01:02 And it's not even just that we're walking towards him.
00:01:04 I think the last time I shared with you guys
00:01:05 this illustration, I said maybe,
00:01:08 and this illustration, you know,
00:01:09 Jesus has a third hand and with that one,
00:01:11 he's got a lasso.
00:01:12 And so he's, you know, fire hose, mirror,
00:01:14 and then pulling us in towards him.
00:01:17 And as the Christian born again
00:01:20 is getting closer and closer to the Lord,
00:01:21 the the fire hose the the water of the word is is is rinsing him washing him being washed in the
00:01:31 word that the the filth and the grime is actually in the objective sense being removed you are
00:01:36 becoming more christ-like you are getting better you are being conformed day by day into the image
00:01:43 of Christ. This is true, undeniably true. But in the very same breath, as you get closer to Jesus
00:01:53 in the fire hose, the pressure increases and is blasting away the grime and the filth to where
00:01:59 you're actually becoming more, not less, but more clean, you're also getting closer to the mirror
00:02:05 or you're getting a clearer and clearer view of the filth and the mud that still remains.
00:02:11 and i don't know about you but that has been my experience in following jesus
00:02:16 year after year after year that is actually at times hard to even believe that i'm being
00:02:26 sanctified and in the objective sense growing being conformed into the image of christ's
00:02:33 likeness because that second half of the story the other side of the coin the subjective sense
00:02:39 of perception, I'm becoming so much more aware and not only aware, but grieved and burdened
00:02:47 by the sin that still remains. And not only the sin that still remains, but past sins that I know
00:02:54 are dead and been buried with Christ and fully forgiven. Even the memory of past sins, I'm now
00:03:01 aware much more fully of how serious those sins were. And the moment that I committed those sins,
00:03:10 I recognized that they were sins. I recognized that I needed forgiveness, but I didn't realize
00:03:14 how serious the sin really was. And now later in life, a year later, in some cases, you know,
00:03:21 over a decade later, I look back and I'm like, whoa, I knew it was wrong. I knew I needed
00:03:27 forgiveness. I confessed that sin to the Lord. I confessed it to saints, to others. I've been
00:03:33 assured of Christ's pardon and forgiveness. I've repented and by God's grace been restored. That's
00:03:39 not the man I am any longer. And yet even a past sin grieves me in some ways more today
00:03:45 than the day that I committed the sin. Not because I'm under condemnation, not because it isn't
00:03:52 forgiven, and not because I haven't improved, not because I'm still that mare, but because
00:03:58 the softness, by God's grace, the softness of my heart to be pierced and grieved by sin
00:04:06 is much more profound at this point of my life than it was when I was younger.
00:04:14 And all that is grieving on the one hand, but on the other, should be a profound and
00:04:22 deep encouragement because it is one of the surest fruits of real salvation that you have
00:04:30 in fact been born again but you do in fact belong to jesus because you no longer merely
00:04:38 acknowledge failure and sin but you're grieved by it
00:04:52 We'll be right back.