The NXR Podcast - February 03, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - How To Care For Your Elderly Parents As They Die


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00:00:00.000 All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
00:00:04.620 because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and
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00:00:39.580 God bless.
00:00:40.220 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
00:00:42.060 Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
00:00:44.740 because you're spending your cash and your lives
00:00:47.040 on raising young children
00:00:48.640 in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
00:00:50.680 Praise God for you and that endeavor.
00:00:53.800 However, algorithms are a thing.
00:00:56.300 Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing.
00:00:58.560 And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and effectiveness of this ministry
00:01:04.120 that doesn't cost you a dime is by spending just a few moments leaving us a five-star review.
00:01:11.280 Also, perhaps even more effective than that, you can share our podcast with a friend.
00:01:16.520 We hope you'll take the time to do so.
00:01:18.440 Thank you so much.
00:01:19.700 God bless.
00:01:21.700 Jesus said,
00:01:22.720 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:01:27.580 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:01:31.740 Honor your father and mother.
00:01:34.140 And I do believe that this includes, at some level, as best we can with the resources that God has given us,
00:01:41.880 not just to give mere lip service to our father and mother,
00:01:47.020 but to honor them in practical, tangible ways.
00:01:50.340 um our society has done a terrible job at honoring our father and mother
00:01:57.880 a terrible job at honoring our father and mother when our fathers and mothers get old
00:02:05.080 we send them to the glue factory we ship them off we let somebody else deal with that problem
00:02:13.220 whereas there are many cultures and societies where fathers and mothers when they reach
00:02:20.040 an elderly stage of life they they live with their grown children until they die
00:02:28.100 and that's just the way that the society and culture functions i think of my parents
00:02:34.700 and my grandmother that when she was older and could not care for herself they moved her into
00:02:41.380 their home and she died physically in that house and they were there caring for her of course
00:02:48.360 outsourcing some medical expertise towards those later moments of life when she was in physical
00:02:54.480 pain, but they honored my dad's mother, that she died with them. She didn't die surrounded by
00:03:02.860 strangers. She died surrounded by people that she loved, that she knew. My mother did the same for
00:03:10.620 her mother. They weren't able to bring her into the home, but my mother was gone for several months
00:03:18.020 collectively with her mother when she had leukemia, when she died, caring for her, loving her,
00:03:27.280 comforting her, reminding her of God's promises, singing some of her favorite hymns, sharing with
00:03:34.240 her some of her favorite Bible verses. I think of Jim Wilson, who recently passed away. Doug Wilson's
00:03:42.820 father. He passed away in the home with the family. And as he got older, Doug and Nancy,
00:03:50.420 they left their house and they moved into Jim's house. It seemed to make more sense for whatever
00:03:57.120 reason practically. And when he died, he had his son, daughter-in-law, grandchildren,
00:04:04.580 great grandchildren about 20 25 individuals all in all singing and praying around his bed as he
00:04:16.180 breathed his last breaths and entered into glory honoring your father and mother
00:04:22.520 now practically one of the implications of honoring your father and mother
00:04:27.220 is money. Money. At some level, to care for your parents as they age will likely require some
00:04:39.640 inconvenience. It could just simply be having to move homes or this or that, but it also might
00:04:45.860 involve money. Now, the scripture also says it is not right for the children to save up for the
00:04:51.280 parents, but rather that the parents would save up for the children. So that's not an excuse for us
00:04:58.200 before we reach a point of being elderly to do our best to store up an inheritance not only for
00:05:03.880 our children, but our children's children. So as best we can, that we would not be a financial
00:05:08.680 burden, but it will be a physical and time burden. And God has orchestrated things in his providence
00:05:16.820 and sovereignty in such a way. Right now, my wife and I have four young children. Later in life,
00:05:24.640 it's likely that we'll have more money than we currently do. But we won't have more energy
00:05:30.480 than we currently do. And right now, with the stage of our children, what they need is energy.
00:05:37.680 They need parents who can run after them. They can be with them, training them, loving them,
00:05:44.000 encouraging them, disciplining them, teaching them, 12 hours a day. And I praise God that it's
00:05:51.640 12 hours a day. Really 10, if you can really get a good nap in there.
00:05:59.220 I mean, when you think about it, right, waking up at 7, going to bed at 7, getting a little nap
00:06:04.900 from 1 to 3, whatever it may be, in that 2, 3-year-old age, if God didn't design children
00:06:11.260 to require as much sleep as they do, the human race would have ended. I really, I think because
00:06:18.340 of our sin and our selfishness, I really think we would have been done by now, like thousands of
00:06:23.400 years ago. So it's the mercy of God that children require as much sleep as they do. And it's the
00:06:29.620 mercy of God that God gives us, if we're willing, many children. Because as tiring as it sometimes
00:06:37.200 is there's it's just there's no greater blessing apart from marriage and salvation itself
00:06:43.520 i thought i knew the things in life that would make me happy and i've realized again and again
00:06:51.900 and again that every single one of the things that i thought would make me happy actually made
00:06:56.760 me miserable that i've always been wrong like always so i think i need more free time and god
00:07:05.040 thinks I need four kids. And those things are at odds with one another. One made me anxious
00:07:11.680 too much time. The other made me joyful. It's good for a man to go to bed tired,
00:07:20.580 to live a full life, to spend himself for someone else. So honoring your father.
00:07:28.060 All right. All right. All right. Stop twisting my arm. I know you want to hear the inside scoop.
00:07:32.920 Here it is. The glorious vision of Right Response Ministries for the first half of next year,
00:07:38.660 2023. We have not one, not two, but three massive endeavors that we will accomplish by the grace
00:07:46.020 of God. The first you already know about. It's our Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference.
00:07:51.180 This is selling out incredibly fast. By the time this commercial airs, you may not even
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00:08:07.960 Conference next year. Now, this is where you come in. We need your help. Our next two endeavors
00:08:13.880 are number one, a documentary-style film, and number two, a brand new studio. Both of these
00:08:21.100 things are seeking to accomplish one primary goal, which is excellent, high-quality, glorious
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00:08:36.400 what we have, but by God's grace, we want to do even better. This is not going to be just another
00:08:42.200 video. This is not going to be a sermon or an interview or a podcast, but we're going to make
00:08:47.580 a documentary-style film, and we're going to be hiring Nathan Anderson, the director of On Earth
00:08:53.280 as it is in heaven, a very, very successful post-millennialism documentary that's on Amazon
00:08:59.300 and YouTube, came out a couple years ago. He's going to be flying in from Chile to help us direct
00:09:05.080 this film. And our documentary is going to be on post-millennialism and theonomy, why it's
00:09:11.900 biblically valid, why it's absolutely necessary, and why, by the grace of God, theonomy and
00:09:17.640 post-millennialism are currently on the rise. So we're going to make this film and we need
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00:09:35.120 highest level of quality and Christian excellence that we possibly can. That's where the new studio
00:09:41.140 comes in. This new film, our date that we're shooting for is it would be complete and publicly
00:09:47.200 available in May or June of 2023 next year. The studio, our goal is that it would be completely
00:09:54.660 done in its construction and the equipment and the setup and the stage and everything
00:09:58.980 by January, February of 2023 next year. We need your prayers. We need your encouragement.
00:10:07.280 And for those of you who are willing to do so, we need your generous support. You can give towards
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00:10:19.840 rightresponseministries.com forward slash donate. Thank you so much for all your help. God bless.
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00:10:43.820 much. Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end? Look, some of you guys,
00:10:50.460 you're financially supporting this ministry, and from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you. I
00:10:55.860 cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of you,
00:11:03.180 you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous economy.
00:11:09.940 Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years 0.91
00:11:18.080 due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people
00:11:25.000 change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now, regardless.
00:11:31.840 Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store.
00:11:36.460 You cannot support financially this ministry at this time, nor should you.
00:11:42.700 But you could still help us tremendously.
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00:11:58.820 This is the way the system works.
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