The NXR Podcast - July 18, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - How Evangelicalism Prioritizes The Faithless Over The Faithful

Topics
prodigal son sense realization
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ James Paul
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In this episode of Daily Truth, Pastor Ken teaches on the role of the church in caring for the poor, the widows, the orphans, the sick, the elderly, and the orphaned. The church is often called to do good to all, but when it comes to those who have been faithful and faithful, what do we do with them?

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00:00:30.000 Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:35.600 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:39.680 Now, I think that one of the big reasons, a real reason,
00:00:44.400 that the evangelical church is not as attractive as it could be
00:00:48.540 is because the common principle in the name of missions and evangelism for a very long time
00:00:56.600 has been do good for those outside the church
00:00:59.880 at the expense of those who are faithful within the church.
00:01:04.720 Think of 1 Timothy chapter 5.
00:01:07.720 Even when it comes to widows,
00:01:09.300 there's all the practical criteria, right?
00:01:11.700 If she's younger and her husband dies, 1.00
00:01:13.460 she should probably remarry. 0.99
00:01:15.380 And don't hastily make a vow before the Lord
00:01:17.900 towards lifelong singleness.
00:01:21.080 So she needs to be at least 65 years of age. 0.77
00:01:25.040 And she also, she needs to not have someone else, 0.99
00:01:29.840 another member of her family,
00:01:31.180 perhaps a brother or a son or an uncle
00:01:33.860 that could meet her needs.
00:01:35.680 If there's another family member that could meet her needs,
00:01:38.300 then let them show some return to their parents,
00:01:42.420 which is good and pleasing to the Lord,
00:01:43.920 and let the church not be financially burdened.
00:01:46.900 Don't add her to the roster.
00:01:49.500 But then Paul goes further.
00:01:51.080 He doesn't just list the practical, physical criteria.
00:01:54.200 she needs to be of this age. She actually needs to be a widow indeed, meaning a true widow. She 0.99
00:01:59.620 doesn't have other family members that could help. But then he begins to get to the spiritual side.
00:02:04.760 He says she must have washed the feet of the saints.
00:02:10.220 And he also says, and I think this one's practical and physical, he says she must have brought up
00:02:15.860 children. Meaning that if she's a widow and she's 65 years old and she has no sons that can care
00:02:24.660 for her, but she has no sons because she was a feminist with blue hair and refused to have 1.00
00:02:29.940 children, then you know what she gets? Starvation. And cross-reference to Galatians chapter 6, 1.00
00:02:41.200 as often as you have opportunity. Do good to all. So we don't have to not help. We can help
00:02:49.320 as often as we have opportunity. But if it comes down to limited finite resources of a local church
00:02:58.120 and there are 10 widows and you can only care for nine of them sufficiently and nine of them
00:03:05.520 brought up children, but those children died as well.
00:03:11.040 You think of an example would be Naomi.
00:03:15.500 Not only her husband, but also both of her sons perished.
00:03:19.900 It was actually her daughter-in-law that provided for her.
00:03:22.540 But some kind of scenario like that, 0.98
00:03:24.560 nine widows that are true widows indeed,
00:03:27.380 and it's not that they didn't have sons 1.00
00:03:29.900 because they were feminists and they hated children. 1.00
00:03:33.200 children. No, they didn't have sons because either they couldn't, God didn't open their 1.00
00:03:37.920 wombs, which is a very difficult thing, or because their sons had likewise perished just as their
00:03:43.680 husband has. If that's the scenario, there's 10 widows. You can only afford to care for nine of
00:03:48.660 them. Nine of them are faithful and one of them is not. You prioritize the nine. What do we do in
00:03:54.080 American evangelicalism? In the name of outreach, what we'll do is we'll tax the faithful in order
00:04:02.100 to do more for those who at the end of the day despise the church. Whether it be a food drive
00:04:09.200 or free car wash or whatever it is, some kind of activity, some kind of service, some kind of
00:04:14.620 thing. But when it comes to those who have been faithful and faithful and faithful and faithful,
00:04:22.780 when they really need help, maybe it's, you know, a Chili's gift card or, or, you know,
00:04:30.880 Or we do precisely what James tells us not to do.
00:04:34.480 We say, I wish you well, be warm, well clothed and well fed.
00:04:40.220 I'll be praying.
00:04:41.740 But then we do nothing for their actual physical need.
00:04:45.120 See, one of the things, here's the point.
00:04:46.680 This is the great tragic irony.
00:04:48.300 One of the things that makes the people of God attractive
00:04:50.820 is when the people of God take care in priority,
00:04:55.340 in order of priority, triage,
00:04:57.300 when the people of God take care of the people of God.
00:05:00.880 When the people of God take care of the people of God, 0.99
00:05:03.680 those who are not a part of the people of God,
00:05:06.880 when life gets hard, when they feel alone,
00:05:09.360 when they're at the end of their rope,
00:05:10.460 you know what they think?
00:05:12.300 They might be tempted to think,
00:05:14.240 maybe there's something to this whole church thing.
00:05:19.300 I mean, that's what the prodigal son did.
00:05:21.860 He's in a far off distant land.
00:05:23.840 And notice there's a lot of dynamics,
00:05:25.440 but just one of them says he's in a far distant land.
00:05:27.800 A famine comes to the land, right?
00:05:29.000 So all of a sudden the economy is getting rough. Everyone's feeling it. He's feeling it, especially because he lavishly spent all of his inheritance and he's far off away from his home country.
00:05:39.940 He hires himself out as one who would be a hired hand to feed the pigs. And he's so destitute that he's looking at the pods that are being fed to the pigs saying, that looks pretty good.
00:05:55.200 That's when you know you're poor.
00:05:56.900 That's when you know you need some help.
00:05:59.380 So he's longing to be fed with the pig food.
00:06:02.380 And then the text goes on and says,
00:06:04.020 and no one gave him anything.
00:06:06.680 Now the very next words in the text are,
00:06:08.860 and he came to his senses.
00:06:11.480 No one gave him anything.
00:06:13.360 He woke up.
00:06:14.960 Crazy how that works, huh? 1.00
00:06:17.840 So he was poor because of his own foolish decisions. 0.95
00:06:21.060 he did not get a handout at taxpayers dime and it caused him to make a change in his life
00:06:28.500 amazing huh crazy how that works now but notice this it's not just that so one he comes to his
00:06:35.280 senses he realizes i need to make a change but now let's talk for just a moment about the specific
00:06:40.700 change that he chooses to make the very next words is he says the servants in my father's house have
00:06:47.660 it better than I do. So he doesn't just say, I need to get my act together. I need to go somewhere
00:06:52.600 and do something. No, he's very specific. He says, I know exactly where to go. I'm going to go to the
00:06:59.280 place where in this house, my father's house, everyone is well provided for. Imagine if the
00:07:07.900 church could be like that. I'm in a far distant land. I've been living in a rebellious manner.
00:07:14.540 some of these common grace functions are starting to dry up because of a corporate societal rebellion
00:07:23.140 against the principles of christ it's affecting everyone but it's really affecting me no one's
00:07:29.220 giving me a handout because we're not robbing the taxpayer to give to someone so no one gave me
00:07:35.760 anything i'm now coming to my senses where should i go the father's house the father's house they
00:07:42.680 everyone's taken care of in the father's house. And what's the entrance? What's the prerequisite?
00:07:48.360 What do I have to do to go to the father's house? Repent. I have to say I'm sorry to the father.
00:07:57.060 Crazy. I know it's just crazy. You know, I'm sure it would never work. Socialism, it's, but have we
00:08:02.660 really tried it though? You know, I mean, come on. Have we really ever tried socialism? Yeah, that's
00:08:08.120 got to be the solution, socialism. Or you could do socialism, or you could do prodigal son.
00:08:14.540 You could do Bible. I mean, Bible might be worth a try. I know I sound extreme here, but
00:08:18.840 I think it might be worth a try.