The NXR Podcast - September 07, 2023


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

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Jesus Christ
DAILY TRUTH - Christian Nationalism In Jeremiah 18 DAILY TRUTH - Christian Nationalism & The First Table Of The Law

Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

156.24

Word count

1,135

Sentence count

98

Harmful content

Hate speech

2

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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?

Transcript

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00:00:00 In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month
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00:00:23 five-star review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. Now, one of the phrases in
00:00:30 Jeremiah 18, 6 through 11 is if they do what is evil in my sight, which is equivalent to another
00:00:36 way of saying is not listening to my voice. Okay. How does God make his voice heard is now the
00:00:43 implicit question begged from this text. How is God's voice heard by the nations? And what
00:00:50 particularly what message, what words, speech is coming from God's voice. So how do the nations
00:00:57 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 multiple texts for this. This is Psalm chapter 19 verses 1 through 4. It says this, the heavens
00:01:08 declare, that is the heavens talk. It's a voice. It's speech. The heavens declare the glory of God.
00:01:16 the sky proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, uses the actual word speech. Day to
00:01:26 day pours out speech. Night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words
00:01:33 whose voice is not heard. So there is speech coming from what? It's God ultimately, but what
00:01:40 is the providential means that God's voice is being spoken through? Well, the heavens, the sky,
00:01:47 day to day, night to night, and this speech that is coming from God through what he has made,
00:01:54 his handiwork. So creation is the instrument, the megaphone that God is speaking through.
00:02:00 So God's voice is coming through loud and clear by what he has made. This is natural revelation
00:02:06 through creation itself. And this speech and these words are heard. Or said the other way,
00:02:14 as verse three says, there is no speech from the creation, the skies. There are no words
00:02:19 in what God has made, his handiwork, whose voice is not heard. So one, God is speaking through
00:02:26 creation. Two, it's not just that God is speaking, every single person hears. It's not just that God
00:02:33 is speaking into the void, but people might still be able to find some kind of excuse and absolve
00:02:40 themselves of their refusal to listen because God was speaking, but he was speaking over here in the
00:02:45 void. He was speaking, you know, in a trench deep down in the ocean, but nobody was there to hear.
00:02:50 God was speaking, but God failed in his responsibility to make sure that man actually
00:02:57 received and heard God's speech. Well, this passage obliterates that possibility of an
00:03:04 interpretation. It says that his voice, not only does it come forth, not only does creation pour
00:03:11 out speech. So the implication here is creation is speaking, God speaking to creation, and not
00:03:17 just a little bit, but it's pouring forth speech. So God is speaking a lot. Speech is pouring forth,
00:03:24 And not only is God speaking and speaking a lot, but his voice is being heard.
00:03:31 It's being heard.
00:03:31 Now, verse four says their voice, there being different elements of creation that have just
00:03:36 been listed, like the heavens and the skies and the day and the night, their voice, which
00:03:42 is the voice of God, but them being the means, their voice goes out through all the earth
00:03:47 and their words to the end of the world.
00:03:51 So that's one more element that we need to bake into the equation.
00:03:55 One, God is speaking.
00:03:57 What venue?
00:03:58 How?
00:03:58 Through creation.
00:04:00 Is God speaking a little?
00:04:01 No.
00:04:02 Pours forth speech.
00:04:04 So God is speaking a lot.
00:04:05 How is he speaking?
00:04:06 Through creation.
00:04:08 Is man listening?
00:04:09 Yes.
00:04:10 There is no speech.
00:04:11 There are no words of God that come through creation that are not heard.
00:04:15 So they're heard.
00:04:16 And who hears them?
00:04:18 Well, it goes on, verse four, it says,
00:04:20 their voice goes out through all the earth.
00:04:24 God's not just speaking to one little corner of the world.
00:04:27 He's not just speaking in Mesopotamia.
00:04:29 He's not just speaking to one nation.
00:04:31 All the earth, their voice goes out through all the earth
00:04:34 and their words to the end of the world.
00:04:37 So God is speaking.
00:04:38 He's speaking a lot.
00:04:40 He's speaking through creation.
00:04:42 Man hears God's voice and not just one man
00:04:46 in one place and one time, but all men in all places in all times. So that all are without an
00:04:53 excuse. Now taking that and cross-referencing back to Jeremiah chapter 18, verse 6 through 11,
00:04:59 one of the things, one of the chief things that God destroys nations for is their wicked deeds
00:05:07 in his sight, which is equivalent to not listening to his voice. God's voice rings forth to the
00:05:16 nations, every corner of the world. His voice is loud. His voice is clear. His voice comes forth,
00:05:24 his words, his speech in abundance. It comes forth to all the corners of the earth. Not one person
00:05:31 misses the message everyone hears his voice and those who do not listen to his voice not just on
00:05:38 an individual personal basis but corporately as groups of people as nations if a nation chooses
00:05:44 to harden their heart and not listen to the clear abundant voice of God which has gone forth
00:05:50 and they have heard but they choose to reject the message then Jeremiah 18 is talking to them
00:05:58 It's not just talking to Israel 25 to 3,500 years ago.
00:06:03 It's talking to them.
00:06:05 It's talking to New Zealand.
00:06:07 It's talking to Canada.
00:06:09 It's talking to England and France
00:06:12 and these states of the United States of America.
00:06:16 It's talking to us.
00:06:19 God is speaking.
00:06:20 And if we do not listen, if we reject the message,
00:06:23 God will send disaster.
00:06:26 Likewise, any nation whose God is Yahweh will be exalted.
00:06:32 So there is blessing for nations today that submit to the Lord,
00:06:37 that hear his voice, and there are curses for nations today.
00:06:41 It's not a one-to-one ratio.
00:06:43 It's not in the same covenantal framework as Israel under the old covenant.
00:06:48 I feel like I've labored that point a million times.
00:06:50 I'm just being abundantly clear.
00:06:52 That is not happening today.
00:06:54 It's not a one-to-one ratio.
00:06:56 as it was with Israel under the Old Covenant.
00:06:59 But to pretend as though God is not intimately involved
00:07:04 in the affairs of nations today
00:07:06 is to miss so much of the Bible.
00:07:10 I just, I don't even know where to begin. 0.99
00:07:13 That is to unhitch from the Old Testament. 0.99