The NXR Podcast - September 07, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - In Opposing Christian Nationalism, Don’t “Unhitch From The Old Testament”


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Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

156.24

Word count

1,135

Sentence count

86

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Hate speech

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Summary

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How does the nations hear the voice of God? How does the world hear God's voice? What does God say to the world through creation? What is the role of creation as a megaphone through which the world hears God's words?

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00:00:00.000 In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month
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00:00:16.360 and gospel of Jesus Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a
00:00:23.480 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Now, one of the phrases in
00:00:30.740 Jeremiah 18, 6 through 11 is if they do what is evil in my sight, which is equivalent to another
00:00:36.340 way of saying is not listening to my voice. Okay. How does God make his voice heard is now the
00:00:43.740 implicit question begged from this text. How is God's voice heard by the nations? And what
00:00:50.620 particularly what message, what words, speech is coming from God's voice. So how do the nations
00:00:57.440 hear the voice of God? And what is this voice of God saying to the nations? I'm going to give you
00:01:03.120 multiple texts for this. This is Psalm chapter 19 verses 1 through 4. It says this, the heavens
00:01:08.300 declare, that is the heavens talk. It's a voice. It's speech. The heavens declare the glory of God.
00:01:16.420 the sky proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, uses the actual word speech. Day to
00:01:26.020 day pours out speech. Night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words
00:01:33.740 whose voice is not heard. So there is speech coming from what? It's God ultimately, but what
00:01:40.540 is the providential means that God's voice is being spoken through? Well, the heavens, the sky,
00:01:47.600 day to day, night to night, and this speech that is coming from God through what he has made,
00:01:54.460 his handiwork. So creation is the instrument, the megaphone that God is speaking through.
00:02:00.360 So God's voice is coming through loud and clear by what he has made. This is natural revelation
00:02:06.560 through creation itself. And this speech and these words are heard. Or said the other way,
00:02:14.200 as verse three says, there is no speech from the creation, the skies. There are no words
00:02:19.560 in what God has made, his handiwork, whose voice is not heard. So one, God is speaking through
00:02:26.060 creation. Two, it's not just that God is speaking, every single person hears. It's not just that God
00:02:33.780 is speaking into the void, but people might still be able to find some kind of excuse and absolve
00:02:40.180 themselves of their refusal to listen because God was speaking, but he was speaking over here in the
00:02:45.320 void. He was speaking, you know, in a trench deep down in the ocean, but nobody was there to hear.
00:02:50.040 God was speaking, but God failed in his responsibility to make sure that man actually
00:02:57.740 received and heard God's speech. Well, this passage obliterates that possibility of an
00:03:04.640 interpretation. It says that his voice, not only does it come forth, not only does creation pour
00:03:11.860 out speech. So the implication here is creation is speaking, God speaking to creation, and not
00:03:17.980 just a little bit, but it's pouring forth speech. So God is speaking a lot. Speech is pouring forth,
00:03:24.440 And not only is God speaking and speaking a lot, but his voice is being heard.
00:03:31.080 It's being heard.
00:03:31.760 Now, verse four says their voice, there being different elements of creation that have just
00:03:36.920 been listed, like the heavens and the skies and the day and the night, their voice, which
00:03:42.200 is the voice of God, but them being the means, their voice goes out through all the earth
00:03:47.280 and their words to the end of the world.
00:03:51.040 So that's one more element that we need to bake into the equation.
00:03:55.160 One, God is speaking.
00:03:57.300 What venue?
00:03:58.320 How?
00:03:58.940 Through creation.
00:04:00.400 Is God speaking a little?
00:04:01.720 No.
00:04:02.280 Pours forth speech.
00:04:04.520 So God is speaking a lot.
00:04:05.980 How is he speaking?
00:04:06.980 Through creation.
00:04:08.220 Is man listening?
00:04:09.460 Yes.
00:04:10.180 There is no speech.
00:04:11.500 There are no words of God that come through creation that are not heard.
00:04:15.900 So they're heard.
00:04:16.600 And who hears them?
00:04:18.200 Well, it goes on, verse four, it says,
00:04:20.800 their voice goes out through all the earth.
00:04:24.200 God's not just speaking to one little corner of the world.
00:04:27.180 He's not just speaking in Mesopotamia.
00:04:29.320 He's not just speaking to one nation.
00:04:31.260 All the earth, their voice goes out through all the earth
00:04:34.140 and their words to the end of the world.
00:04:37.360 So God is speaking.
00:04:38.900 He's speaking a lot.
00:04:40.780 He's speaking through creation.
00:04:42.680 Man hears God's voice and not just one man
00:04:46.060 in one place and one time, but all men in all places in all times. So that all are without an
00:04:53.980 excuse. Now taking that and cross-referencing back to Jeremiah chapter 18, verse 6 through 11,
00:04:59.860 one of the things, one of the chief things that God destroys nations for is their wicked deeds
00:05:07.300 in his sight, which is equivalent to not listening to his voice. God's voice rings forth to the
00:05:16.740 nations, every corner of the world. His voice is loud. His voice is clear. His voice comes forth,
00:05:24.800 his words, his speech in abundance. It comes forth to all the corners of the earth. Not one person
00:05:31.940 misses the message everyone hears his voice and those who do not listen to his voice not just on
00:05:38.780 an individual personal basis but corporately as groups of people as nations if a nation chooses
00:05:44.960 to harden their heart and not listen to the clear abundant voice of God which has gone forth
00:05:50.980 and they have heard but they choose to reject the message then Jeremiah 18 is talking to them
00:05:58.820 It's not just talking to Israel 25 to 3,500 years ago.
00:06:03.820 It's talking to them.
00:06:05.740 It's talking to New Zealand.
00:06:07.840 It's talking to Canada.
00:06:09.580 It's talking to England and France
00:06:12.200 and these states of the United States of America.
00:06:16.620 It's talking to us.
00:06:19.200 God is speaking.
00:06:20.940 And if we do not listen, if we reject the message,
00:06:23.800 God will send disaster.
00:06:26.220 Likewise, any nation whose God is Yahweh will be exalted.
00:06:32.340 So there is blessing for nations today that submit to the Lord,
00:06:37.300 that hear his voice, and there are curses for nations today.
00:06:41.600 It's not a one-to-one ratio.
00:06:43.600 It's not in the same covenantal framework as Israel under the old covenant.
00:06:48.400 I feel like I've labored that point a million times.
00:06:50.860 I'm just being abundantly clear.
00:06:52.620 That is not happening today.
00:06:54.240 It's not a one-to-one ratio.
00:06:56.220 as it was with Israel under the Old Covenant.
00:06:59.860 But to pretend as though God is not intimately involved
00:07:04.020 in the affairs of nations today
00:07:06.940 is to miss so much of the Bible.
00:07:10.360 I just, I don't even know where to begin. 0.99
00:07:13.480 That is to unhitch from the Old Testament. 0.99