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

156.23566

Word count

1,135

Sentence count

86


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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.
00:07:13.480 That is to unhitch from the Old Testament.