The NXR Podcast - April 14, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - How To Preach The Gospel To Yourself

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

Words per minute

125.96

Word count

1,404

Sentence count

99

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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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00:00:00.000 All right, listen, guys, I get it.
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00:00:42.360 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of
00:00:47.420 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Before sin is an action, it begins as a condition.
00:00:56.940 Our behaviors are determined by our emotions.
00:01:01.420 Our emotions are determined by our thoughts.
00:01:04.880 And our thoughts are determined even deeper by desire.
00:01:10.800 You do sinful things because you feel sinful in sinful ways.
00:01:18.000 You feel in sinful ways because you think in sinful ways.
00:01:22.140 And you think in sinful ways because your desires, at the bare bottom of the barrel, your desires are polluted.
00:01:34.400 This is what scripture teaches.
00:01:36.600 What is the source of sin?
00:01:38.900 If we were to get down to the bottom of it, James chapter 1 verse 13 through 15 says,
00:01:44.500 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God.
00:01:49.200 For God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
00:01:54.640 So God is not the source of our sin and transgression.
00:01:59.720 What is the primary source then?
00:02:03.060 Verse 14.
00:02:04.640 But each person is tempted when he is enticed by his own desire.
00:02:11.180 Then desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin.
00:02:15.300 And sin, when it is fully grown, brings death.
00:02:21.320 In your notes, I've written this.
00:02:23.180 People usually try to blame their sin on their circumstances.
00:02:28.000 They might say, I got angry because someone cut me off in traffic.
00:02:32.240 I started to worry because I lost my job and my finances are low.
00:02:36.620 I yelled at my roommate because they weren't listening to me.
00:02:41.200 However, the reality is that our circumstances are not the cause of our sin,
00:02:47.380 but merely serve to illuminate what is already in our hearts.
00:02:52.860 Everything we say and do is rooted in our desires,
00:02:57.100 and how we go about fulfilling our desires is shaped by what we believe.
00:03:03.900 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.
00:03:32.000 Now, here we must distinguish.
00:03:36.720 There are desires that in themselves are inherently sinful.
00:03:42.200 But in many cases, there are desires that are inherently good,
00:03:47.420 but the way in which we go about seeking the fulfillment of that said desire is sinful.
00:03:56.060 Take care, brothers, Hebrews 3 verse 12 says,
00:04:00.240 lest there be found in any of you
00:04:02.820 an evil, unbelieving heart
00:04:05.660 leading you to fall away from the living God.
00:04:10.440 Notice these words.
00:04:12.360 Take care, brothers.
00:04:15.300 This is the apostle speaking
00:04:17.700 not merely to brothers according to the flesh
00:04:20.720 because they are Hebrews,
00:04:22.640 but also brothers in the spiritual sense.
00:04:25.960 He is speaking to the church.
00:04:27.740 And even in that context, speaking to the church, he says a stark warning.
00:04:36.700 Be careful, church. Be careful, brothers.
00:04:40.100 Lest there be found, even in you, an evil, unbelieving heart that would lead you to fall away from the living God.
00:04:49.060 What is it that causes us to fall away from the living God?
00:04:52.680 That is, to apostatize? To shipwreck our faith?
00:04:57.740 What is it that causes us to go apostate? It is an evil unbelieving heart. Now notice here those 1.00
00:05:07.480 two descriptives. Evil unbelieving heart. These are not two kinds of hearts that are both negative
00:05:15.160 but one in the same. An evil heart is an unbelieving heart and an unbelieving heart
00:05:23.880 is in fact an evil heart. All sin ultimately stems from unbelief. So sin at the level of action, 0.70
00:05:34.660 it stems from emotion. Sinful feelings stem from sinful thoughts. Sinful thoughts stem
00:05:42.880 from sinful desires. And where these inherently sinful desires spring from, or even inherently
00:05:51.040 good desires, although pursued in sinful ways, in both cases, that stems from the deepest part,
00:05:59.400 which is belief. What you believe about God, what you believe about man, what you believe about the
00:06:10.140 world in which we live, and what you believe about yourself, that will ultimately shape and guide and
00:06:18.980 even as strong as dictate every desire you have and every method you utilize for fulfilling
00:06:28.760 certain desires which will shape the way you think which will shape the way you feel which
00:06:34.760 will shape the way you speak and live sin is rooted in desire and perverse desires or even
00:06:45.020 good desires pursued in perverse ways, all of that is shaped by theology. What do you believe?
00:06:55.520 And when it comes to the belief of a person, it is what you trust as well as what you treasure.
00:07:04.420 When the scripture speaks of faith and implicit personal trust in Jesus,
00:07:13.880 it is to trust in the sense of believing it is true, objectively and factually true.
00:07:23.720 But it is not only faith in that sense, trusting in the truth of the matter,
00:07:29.400 But it is also faith in the sense of personal adoration, of affection, of love, to trust and treasure, to trust and treasure.
00:07:46.860 Be careful, brothers, lest there be found in any of you an evil heart which is an unbelieving heart.
00:07:55.900 and an unbelieving heart, which is an evil heart.
00:08:01.540 Sin is never truly conquered by simply changing our outward behaviors.
00:08:06.680 It is never merely conquered by sola bootstrapia,
00:08:12.000 gritting your teeth and pulling yourself up.
00:08:17.700 Sin is only mortified, not merely managed,
00:08:22.360 but killed when sin is hated.
00:08:25.900 And sin will only be hated when Christ and his covenants and his promises are cherished.
00:08:36.480 We kill sin when we hate sin.
00:08:39.840 We hate sin when we love Jesus.
00:08:42.540 And we love Jesus when we come by grace to see his love for us.
00:08:48.580 1 John 4.19
00:08:50.180 We love because he first loved us.
00:08:53.800 So he first loves us in Christ.
00:08:58.240 We then love him.
00:09:00.060 And if we love him, we will obey him.
00:09:04.800 Seeking to do that which is right and seeking to mortify all that which is an offense to God.
00:09:12.180 Namely, our sin.
00:09:14.600 Sin is never truly conquered by simply changing our outward behaviors.
00:09:19.220 What really needs to change is what we are believing in our hearts
00:09:23.900 All sin is a heart issue and the gospel is the only message that has the power to change the human heart
00:09:31.020 Can I be frank with you for just a second right here at the end?
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