The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Is There Really No Such Thing As A “Carnal Christian”？

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00:00:41.660 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of

00:00:46.720 God. You're listening to Daily Truth. Now, there is no such thing as a carnal Christian in the

00:00:54.240 sense of someone who claims to be justified, who has no fruit of sanctification. No fruit of 0.85

00:01:01.560 sanctification. So if we mean there is no such thing as a carnal Christian, and a carnal Christian

00:01:06.380 is defined as one who has not been sanctified at all, then yes and amen a thousand times.

00:01:13.320 Unfortunately, I do believe that there are some good brothers, who I respect in many ways,

00:01:18.280 who would throw in that carnal Christian term

00:01:21.560 to mean that, well, in such a general way

00:01:25.480 that it would sweep under its rug, as it were, 0.99

00:01:29.420 weak Christians, smoldering wicks, bruised reeds. 1.00

00:01:33.320 People who really are justified 0.99

00:01:34.560 and actually, because they're justified,

00:01:36.980 really are sanctified, but just slower.

00:01:41.160 Sanctified in a real objective sense,

00:01:43.780 but just in one area

00:01:45.140 and not the one that you say is the most important.

00:01:47.280 Do you know that that's one of the greatest temptations, I believe, one of the greatest temptations of Christians, and especially those in positions of spiritual authority, namely pastors such as myself, is to say that this area of sanctification trumps all other areas of sanctification.

00:02:05.340 that what we do is it's not so much that we discard the scripture it's something that is

00:02:12.860 biblically and objectively true but what we do is we're not discarding the scripture but what we're

00:02:18.460 doing is we are narrowing the scripture it's truncating the scripture it's it's not an untruth

00:02:25.740 it's simply a half truth or in many cases a tenth truth or a one hundredth of a truth what we can do

00:02:35.000 is we can say, well, there is no justification without the proof of sanctification, and sanctification

00:02:42.100 looks like blank. And what we just said, the way that we've just defined sanctification and what

00:02:47.820 it looks like is in accordance with the scripture. The problem is that the scripture also says a

00:02:53.760 whole lot more. So sanctification looks like growing in the area of sexual purity. And so

00:03:01.440 if you're a young single man and you are struggling with lust and giving into that temptation, then

00:03:09.020 you are not sanctified at all. And therefore, you are not justified. And therefore, you are under

00:03:14.940 God's wrath. Well, if you're a young single man who is falling into an area of temptation and sinning,

00:03:22.980 that is no trivial matter but i have dealt with many men who are struggling in that area

00:03:31.540 but by god's grace are undoubtedly growing in spiritual maturity and sanctification in other

00:03:38.620 areas why do these other areas why are they considered of no account why has the whole

00:03:45.400 realm of sanctification and fruit of the Spirit been truncated down to one minute aspect of

00:03:52.580 obedience to God's law. Now, that's not to minimize that particular aspect of obedience to God's law.

00:03:59.860 Certainly, it matters. But to pretend as though the whole of the Christian life could be boiled 0.65

00:04:07.120 down to a man conquering the arena of lust is a truncation of the Christian life. Can I be frank

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The NXR Podcast - February 08, 2023

DAILY TRUTH - Is There Really No Such Thing As A “Carnal Christian”？

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