The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Guns, Knives, & Sarcasm

00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.

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00:00:13.800 However, algorithms are a thing.

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00:00:37.040 take the time to do so. Thank you so much. God bless. When we're looking at Jesus said, man cannot

00:00:44.760 live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. You're listening

00:00:49.640 to daily truth using utilizing the the rhetoric of christ and some of the apostles i might add

00:00:59.500 and some of the prophets like elijah right perhaps your god is using the toilet right now

00:01:04.300 you know uh maybe he'll be back in a little bit right though that kind of that language is in the

00:01:09.060 scripture but when we're looking to use that language and to use it lawfully rightly morally

00:01:14.700 one thing that we should ask is the language itself we need to weigh that with a biblical

00:01:19.360 worldview with a biblical standard but then the next thing is this not just what is being said

00:01:24.300 and not just how it's being said but this is one category that christians often never even

00:01:31.140 consider and it's who is it being said to who's it being said to a lot of times people we just

00:01:39.880 operate underneath this assumption that well you just you you can never say that there's not one

00:01:47.840 scenario that ever morally justifies the use of of this point made in this way right so you're

00:01:56.080 considering two out of three important categories what and how what is being said how is it being

00:02:04.000 said. And I suggest, brothers and sisters, that there's an immensely significant third category,

00:02:10.340 which is what is being said, how is it being said, but also who is it being said to.

00:02:20.120 Notice Jesus, he never aims the crosshairs of his sarcasm, of his mocking language,

00:02:31.500 at an old, widowed woman

00:02:34.740 who's poor and starving.

00:02:40.000 It's almost as, I think that third category

00:02:42.700 seems to be the most weighty category,

00:02:46.220 the who, who's the audience.

00:02:48.740 I think that's the weightiest category

00:02:50.580 that you can measure

00:02:51.940 by just simply looking at the life of Jesus.

00:02:56.080 It seems as though the major category,

00:02:58.520 it. Whenever we see Jesus using a serrated edge, a sharp tongue, it is almost always boils down to

00:03:07.300 not even what he's saying or how he's saying it, but who he's saying it to. If they're the leaders

00:03:13.620 of the day, oppressing the people of God, then Jesus has no qualms about telling them that they're

00:03:21.640 dumb. One final thing. I like Amy Craft used this analogy. I thought it was great. Her and my wife

00:03:31.380 were talking, we were all talking about kids. And okay, but what about with our kids? You know,

00:03:38.060 because we have certain rules, there are certain words that Olive and Ruth and Eleanor are not

00:03:42.440 allowed to say. Oh, you looked up, huh? Olive and Ruth and Eleanor are not allowed to say certain

00:03:48.000 words but but i noticed that at first if i wasn't careful i could implicitly just say you're not

00:03:55.920 allowed to use this word because it's a bad word the problem with that argument even as we're

00:04:01.320 disciplining and training teaching our children is what do you what do you do when you tell your

00:04:05.480 kid they can't use a word because it's a bad word but then one day they read the bible and see jesus

00:04:09.020 using it right so what we've done instead is we've started saying there were certain words that it's

00:04:17.060 not a bad word but it's a sharp word that words are like knives knives are not inherently immoral

00:04:24.720 you're allowed to have knives in your home but our three-year-old doesn't use a knife

00:04:30.740 right we're not saying knives are bad we're not banning knives

00:04:36.440 same with guns right we're not banning guns no we're saying oh no there's there's a place for

00:04:42.960 this it's sharp sure but sharp doesn't make it bad because sometimes you need something sharp

00:04:49.600 sometimes you need a knife sometimes you need a gun but that's kind of the fourth category is

00:04:56.660 what's being said how's it being said who's it being said to but then also who's saying it

00:05:02.700 so the audience that you're speaking to but also who are you and i would again suggest

00:05:10.320 if if the who in regards to who's using the language who's saying the sharp words if the who

00:05:17.960 is a 14 year old teenager and the who they're saying it to is their mom and dad

00:05:25.040 it could literally be a quotation of the words of jesus and be sin you see so weighing these kinds

00:05:34.360 things matters. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end? Look, some of you

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The NXR Podcast - March 14, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Guns, Knives, & Sarcasm

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