The NXR Podcast - September 16, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Men, Get To Work

Topics
work and exhaustion
Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Matt Chandler Jamie White Joseph Boot Gary DeMar Joel Webin
QUESTIONS - What Do Reformed Baptists Believe About Children Who Die In Infancy？ QUESTIONS - Should Presbyterians & Baptists Work Together？

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Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

161.22

Word count

961

Sentence count

54

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Hate speech

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In this episode, Pastor Joel Webin talks about how a Christian man is called by God to be a workaholic. He talks about the importance of being a productive Christian man, and how God created men to do meaningful work.

Transcript

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00:00:00 Big news, really big news.
00:00:03 Our next Right Response Conference is in the works.
00:00:06 We've got a number of things already lined up
00:00:08 and organized.
00:00:09 This is what we've got so far.
00:00:11 The whole conference, three days long
00:00:13 on post-millennialism and theonomy.
00:00:17 And the speakers, Dr. James White,
00:00:20 Dr. Joseph Boot, Gary DeMar,
00:00:22 and of course, yours truly, Pastor Joel Webin.
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00:00:43 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
00:00:47 mouth of God.
00:00:48 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:50 men especially are called by god to work in a spiritual sense and in a practical sense
00:01:01 there is a way in which a man can just simply with all the right intentions he can just simply
00:01:07 have too much time on his hands where he's sitting there and contemplating existential
00:01:13 questions of the universe and and he's a christian and he loves the scripture and so he's delving
00:01:19 into deep doctrine and theology and all these kinds of things, but at the end of the day,
00:01:23 if he doesn't have a job, statistics show us that he's probably eventually going to develop
00:01:30 depression. He's probably eventually going to develop anxiety. He's probably eventually going
00:01:36 to be frustrated because he was created by God as a man to do meaningful work. And sometimes
00:01:45 part of the problem with anxiety and depression and these kinds of things, particularly as they
00:01:50 pertain to men, is that men simply just have too much time on their hands. They're not busy
00:01:57 enough. They should be busier. I like what Matt Chandler said in one of his sermon clips a few
00:02:04 years ago. He said that a Christian man with a wife and with children, he wakes up before his
00:02:09 children do. He beats them to waking up and he studies the scripture. He spends time in prayer. 0.81
00:02:15 Then he helps with breakfast and getting the children ready.
00:02:18 Then he gets in the car, he goes to his job, he works long hours, he comes back home,
00:02:23 he helps put away the dishes, all those kinds of things.
00:02:25 He catechizes his children, he puts them to bed, he prays over them.
00:02:28 He then spends time with his wife, checking on her heart, washing her in the Word,
00:02:33 praying with her, and then when it's all said and done, he goes to bed exhausted.
00:02:38 Part of the reason why certain sins are so prevalent among men in our culture today,
00:02:44 such as sexual immorality is because men just aren't exhausted enough. Men just have too much
00:02:51 energy. We should be more tired. We should be exhausted. Being a man means a life of exhaustion.
00:03:00 Get excited. That's, you know, that's, it means working hard. And it means taking on more and
00:03:09 more and more responsibility men especially young men in many ways they're like trucks big
00:03:15 dually wheel 750 horsepower trucks and what what young men want to do with all that power and all
00:03:22 that torque is they want to fishtail in the parking lot or they want to drag race their
00:03:26 truck you know downtown but but ultimately what the truck like that the reason why it's given so
00:03:31 much torque and so much power is so that so that two to four tons of weight could be put down in
00:03:38 the bed and the truck can get to work. One of the things that helps a young man not waver but drive
00:03:44 straight is to load him down with a lot of weight, a lot of responsibility, a lot of work.
00:03:52 That's something that is actually life-giving. I've realized that so much in my idolatry in the
00:03:59 past, and so being sinfully desirous of comfort, I thought that it would save me. I thought that
00:04:08 comfort and having, you know, large blocks of free time in my schedule and all these kinds of things
00:04:14 that it would provide for me a sense of security and peace and joy. But I can tell you from
00:04:21 experience that now I have far less free time, and yet I feel far happier. I feel much more
00:04:30 fulfilled, and I also just feel more peace. Turns out it actually was not really good for me to have
00:04:38 massive blocks of free time in my schedule. What was good for me as a man was to take a wife, 0.89
00:04:45 to have children, for our church to grow,
00:04:49 to begin to take more pastoral and shepherding meetings,
00:04:52 to preach more, to teach more, to work more,
00:04:55 and to go to bed really tired.
00:04:58 Staying up at night, being anxious and tossing and turning,
00:05:03 there could be perhaps something going on there.
00:05:07 Maybe something that you need some medical help with.
00:05:11 In most cases, you probably just need to repent of sin.
00:05:14 Most things, I think, are spiritual and have spiritual implications.
00:05:18 But that being said, it also could be practical,
00:05:22 just in the sense that what you need to do is go outside and run,
00:05:26 double your hours at work,
00:05:28 and then lo and behold, magically, you'll be able to sleep.
00:05:32 One of the reasons that we can't sleep at night,
00:05:35 it's not because we're anxious, it's because we're not tired.
00:05:38 And we're not tired because we don't work.
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