The NXR Podcast - August 19, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Imitating All Of Christ

Topics
imitating Christ's love and mockery
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Peter
QUESTIONS - How Should Christians Vote？ QUESTIONS - What Are Some Views Of Salvation Besides Calvinism and Arminianism？

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

174.55

Word count

535

Sentence count

47


Summary

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Jesus mocked the enemies of God. Not always, but frequently. In fact, even naming Peter the rock was an irony. He picks his weakest, most emotionally fluctuating disciple and says, "You're the rock."

Transcript

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00:00:19 Jesus said,
00:00:20 Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:29 Daily Truth
00:00:30 with Christ, we're called to imitate him, right? In all measures. Now what people will say, well,
00:00:35 look at Christ and we see how he mocks all the time. Like satire was one of the most favorite
00:00:41 forms of Jesus in his discipleship. He's constantly being satirical. I mean, even naming Peter the
00:00:46 rock was an irony. It was poking fun. He picks his weakest, most emotionally, constantly fluctuating
00:00:56 disciple and says, you're the rock. I have no doubt that when Jesus did this, the other disciples
00:01:01 were snickering. We miss some of the satire of Jesus. We miss some of these things. Now here's
00:01:09 the deal. So Jesus mocked the enemies of God. Not always, but frequently. Frequently. Now the
00:01:16 Christian is going to say, well, we're called to imitate Christ, but only some aspects of Christ.
00:01:21 So we should seek to imitate Christ as he loves.
00:01:24 Now, first and foremost, Jesus is God.
00:01:28 All the attributes of God are always present at all times.
00:01:32 So as Jesus is telling John chapter 8 that the Pharisees are sons of the devil,
00:01:35 he is not mocking and putting love on the back burner.
00:01:39 He is mocking and loving.
00:01:40 He is loving through mockery.
00:01:43 That's biblical.
00:01:44 That's good.
00:01:45 But the point is, even if we did that, which would be horrible Trinitarian theology,
00:01:49 It'd be horrible theology proper in our doctrine of God.
00:01:52 The reality is, even if Jesus was loving here and mocking there,
00:01:55 we should imitate everything about Jesus.
00:01:58 And the person who says, well, we shouldn't imitate Christ in mocking
00:02:02 because Christ is the son of God.
00:02:04 And we don't have the wisdom and maturity necessary to mock properly.
00:02:09 And we'll probably mock sinfully.
00:02:12 Well, by that logic, we could say, well, then we also shouldn't seek to love.
00:02:16 What in the world makes you think that you have the wisdom to love properly?
00:02:21 So we're going to imitate Christ loving,
00:02:24 knowing that he's God and infinitely wise and that we're not
00:02:27 and that we're going to mess up love,
00:02:29 but we're not going to imitate his mocking because we might mess that up.
00:02:34 So what's the result?
00:02:35 When we mock and fail, we don't say we shouldn't mock.
00:02:39 We repent of mocking poorly and ask God by his spirit to help us mock better.
00:02:44 Correct?
00:02:46 Correct.
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