The NXR Podcast - April 14, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - How To Preach The Gospel To Yourself

Topics
desire and sin sin and theology
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Joe Biden Hebrews James
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Length

11 minutes

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Word count

1,404

Sentence count

106

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Toxicity

1

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Summary

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What is the source of sin? What causes us to sin? Is it our emotions, our thoughts, or our desires? What does it mean to be a sinner? What is sin and what does it entail? What are the circumstances that lead to sin, and why do we sin?

Transcript

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00:00:00 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:36 We hope you'll take the time to do so. Thank you so much. God bless.
00:00:42 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Before sin is an action, it begins as a condition.
00:00:56 Our behaviors are determined by our emotions.
00:01:01 Our emotions are determined by our thoughts.
00:01:04 And our thoughts are determined even deeper by desire.
00:01:10 You do sinful things because you feel sinful in sinful ways.
00:01:18 You feel in sinful ways because you think in sinful ways.
00:01:22 And you think in sinful ways because your desires, at the bare bottom of the barrel, your desires are polluted.
00:01:34 This is what scripture teaches.
00:01:36 What is the source of sin?
00:01:38 If we were to get down to the bottom of it, James chapter 1 verse 13 through 15 says,
00:01:44 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God.
00:01:49 For God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
00:01:54 So God is not the source of our sin and transgression.
00:01:59 What is the primary source then?
00:02:03 Verse 14.
00:02:04 But each person is tempted when he is enticed by his own desire.
00:02:11 Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin.
00:02:15 And sin, when it is fully grown, brings death.
00:02:21 In your notes, I've written this.
00:02:23 People usually try to blame their sin on their circumstances.
00:02:28 They might say, I got angry because someone cut me off in traffic.
00:02:32 I started to worry because I lost my job and my finances are low.
00:02:36 I yelled at my roommate because they weren't listening to me.
00:02:41 However, the reality is that our circumstances are not the cause of our sin,
00:02:47 but merely serve to illuminate what is already in our hearts.
00:02:52 Everything we say and do is rooted in our desires,
00:02:57 and how we go about fulfilling our desires is shaped by what we believe.
00:03:03 So the process is like this. Action, behaviors, the sin that you do, it stems from emotions, feelings, sin at the level of emotions, which stem from thoughts, sinful thinking, which ultimately stems from desire.
00:03:32 Now, here we must distinguish.
00:03:36 There are desires that in themselves are inherently sinful.
00:03:42 But in many cases, there are desires that are inherently good,
00:03:47 but the way in which we go about seeking the fulfillment of that said desire is sinful.
00:03:56 Take care, brothers, Hebrews 3 verse 12 says,
00:04:00 lest there be found in any of you
00:04:02 an evil, unbelieving heart
00:04:05 leading you to fall away from the living God.
00:04:10 Notice these words.
00:04:12 Take care, brothers.
00:04:15 This is the apostle speaking
00:04:17 not merely to brothers according to the flesh
00:04:20 because they are Hebrews,
00:04:22 but also brothers in the spiritual sense.
00:04:25 He is speaking to the church.
00:04:27 And even in that context, speaking to the church, he says a stark warning.
00:04:36 Be careful, church. Be careful, brothers.
00:04:40 Lest there be found, even in you, an evil, unbelieving heart that would lead you to fall away from the living God.
00:04:49 What is it that causes us to fall away from the living God?
00:04:52 That is, to apostatize? To shipwreck our faith?
00:04:57 What is it that causes us to go apostate? It is an evil unbelieving heart. Now notice here those 1.00
00:05:07 two descriptives. Evil unbelieving heart. These are not two kinds of hearts that are both negative
00:05:15 but one in the same. An evil heart is an unbelieving heart and an unbelieving heart
00:05:23 is in fact an evil heart. All sin ultimately stems from unbelief. So sin at the level of action, 0.70
00:05:34 it stems from emotion. Sinful feelings stem from sinful thoughts. Sinful thoughts stem
00:05:42 from sinful desires. And where these inherently sinful desires spring from, or even inherently
00:05:51 good desires, although pursued in sinful ways, in both cases, that stems from the deepest part,
00:05:59 which is belief. What you believe about God, what you believe about man, what you believe about the
00:06:10 world in which we live, and what you believe about yourself, that will ultimately shape and guide and
00:06:18 even as strong as dictate every desire you have and every method you utilize for fulfilling
00:06:28 certain desires which will shape the way you think which will shape the way you feel which
00:06:34 will shape the way you speak and live sin is rooted in desire and perverse desires or even
00:06:45 good desires pursued in perverse ways, all of that is shaped by theology. What do you believe?
00:06:55 And when it comes to the belief of a person, it is what you trust as well as what you treasure.
00:07:04 When the scripture speaks of faith and implicit personal trust in Jesus,
00:07:13 it is to trust in the sense of believing it is true, objectively and factually true.
00:07:23 But it is not only faith in that sense, trusting in the truth of the matter,
00:07:29 But it is also faith in the sense of personal adoration, of affection, of love, to trust and treasure, to trust and treasure.
00:07:46 Be careful, brothers, lest there be found in any of you an evil heart which is an unbelieving heart.
00:07:55 and an unbelieving heart, which is an evil heart.
00:08:01 Sin is never truly conquered by simply changing our outward behaviors.
00:08:06 It is never merely conquered by sola bootstrapia,
00:08:12 gritting your teeth and pulling yourself up.
00:08:17 Sin is only mortified, not merely managed,
00:08:22 but killed when sin is hated.
00:08:25 And sin will only be hated when Christ and his covenants and his promises are cherished.
00:08:36 We kill sin when we hate sin.
00:08:39 We hate sin when we love Jesus.
00:08:42 And we love Jesus when we come by grace to see his love for us.
00:08:48 1 John 4.19
00:08:50 We love because he first loved us.
00:08:53 So he first loves us in Christ.
00:08:58 We then love him.
00:09:00 And if we love him, we will obey him.
00:09:04 Seeking to do that which is right and seeking to mortify all that which is an offense to God.
00:09:12 Namely, our sin.
00:09:14 Sin is never truly conquered by simply changing our outward behaviors.
00:09:19 What really needs to change is what we are believing in our hearts
00:09:23 All sin is a heart issue and the gospel is the only message that has the power to change the human heart
00:09:31 Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
00:09:34 Look, some of you guys you're financially supporting this ministry and from the bottom of my heart. I say thank you
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