The NXR Podcast - December 14, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Motivation For Living A Disciplined Life

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Paul John Calvin Nathan Anderson Richard Baxter Joel Webin Hebrews
THEOLOGY APPLIED - In Vitro Fertilization & Children Who Die In Infancy - w C.R. Cali DAILY TRUTH - The Need For A Disciplined Lifestyle

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11 minutes

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The key to becoming disciplined is motivation, and discipline for godliness is no different. According to 1 Corinthians 1:8, one of the motivations for training ourselves for Godliness is the undeniable, unmovable fact that godliness holds immense value not only for this life, but also the life to come.

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00:00:19 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:22 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 So the key to becoming disciplined is motivation, any kind of discipline, and discipline for godliness is no different.
00:00:36 According to verse 8 of our text, one of the motivations for training ourselves for godliness is the fact,
00:00:41 the undeniable, unmovable fact, that godliness holds immense value not only for this life but also the life to come.
00:00:49 This life is not all there is, brothers and sisters.
00:00:52 We must have set in our minds eternity.
00:00:55 the Puritan preacher Richard Baxter was famous for saying I preach as though I might never preach
00:01:00 again and as a dying man to dying men the Bible is clear that as members of the fallen human race
00:01:08 that is the sinful human race our lives are short it has been appointed to each man to die and then 0.90
00:01:15 the judgment the scripture says therefore it is imperative that we each prepare for the life to
00:01:22 come and in addition to this so one of the motivations is that this life is not all there
00:01:27 is as first corinthians chapter 15 says if this life if christ wasn't raised from the dead and
00:01:32 that we weren't promised to be raised from the dead also if this life was in fact all there is
00:01:36 then eat and drink and be merry for tomorrow we die yolo is a great a great guide for life
00:01:45 if this life is all there is but it's not so one of the motivations is in fact that there is a life
00:01:52 to come and in that life to come we will be confronted by the living God that is the holy
00:01:57 God it has been appointed for each man a day to die and then the judgment so one of the things
00:02:02 that motivates us is a fear of God knowing that this life is not all that we have been given we
00:02:08 must prepare for the life to come but also and here's the comfort the consolation brothers and
00:02:14 sisters in addition to this according to verse 10 of our text we toil and strive some texts say
00:02:20 suffer reproach, right? We work hard and we're even willing to be persecuted because we have our hope
00:02:27 set on the living God who is the savior of all people, especially those who believe. Our discipline,
00:02:35 our training for godliness, our toiling and striving is worth the cost. It's hard work,
00:02:41 it's costly work, but it's worth it because the living God is also a saving God. Our God is
00:02:49 infinitely holy and just but he is also exceedingly merciful and kind look at the text verse 10
00:02:55 for to this end right for what for what point what's the point what's the purpose to this
00:03:02 purpose we work hard we toil and strive why because we have hope and there's an object
00:03:11 brothers and sisters of our hope our hope is not just this this intangible hope it is a hope that
00:03:16 It is set on something objective.
00:03:18 It is set on the living God.
00:03:20 Let me pause there for a moment.
00:03:22 Why on earth should fallen men set their hope on the living God?
00:03:30 You and I are dead men walking.
00:03:34 God promised the day that you eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you shall surely die.
00:03:42 Each of us have fallen short of the glory of God.
00:03:45 Each of us have rebelled against the...
00:03:46 Each of us are dead men. Why should dead men, men who are dead, set their hope on the God who is living?
00:03:54 Because the living God, you've got to understand this.
00:03:56 Think of the Hebrews, the book Hebrews in the Bible, New Testament says,
00:04:02 it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
00:04:08 Why set our hope on the living God?
00:04:12 the scripture says elsewhere it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living god
00:04:17 because the living god the holy god the judge of the living and the dead he is also the saving god
00:04:24 he is the savior and this is how saving he is this is the point this this isn't paul's chance
00:04:32 to you know i don't i don't think paul's saying i'm going to slip in a little bit of reformed
00:04:35 theology and calvinism right here this is his point of saying savior of all people but especially
00:04:40 those who believe i am convinced this is it why does he say this we know here's the last paragraph
00:04:47 right before the conclusion we know that paul clearly taught that jesus would one day return
00:04:51 to receive his people and to deliver retribution and judgment to those who have not obeyed the
00:04:56 gospel that's paul also paul the same paul who wrote this text verse 10 first timothy chapter
00:05:02 four verse 10 he also wrote second thessalonians chapter one verses eight through nine that says
00:05:06 Jesus will return and eternally judge those who have not
00:05:10 obeyed his gospel. So therefore it is abundantly clear
00:05:14 from scripture that not everyone will be saved. Universalism is a heresy.
00:05:18 It is wrong. So then what is Paul saying? That God is
00:05:22 the Savior of all people. Well John Calvin,
00:05:26 a 16th century theologian, he suggested that Paul is using the word Savior
00:05:30 in two senses. In a general sense, and when I say general
00:05:34 sense you guys got to hear that because on general sense all right let's catch this because if you
00:05:39 don't hear this then you're going to think that john calvin and joel webin are heretics in a
00:05:43 general sense god is the savior of the whole world in regard to the whole world but in a special sense
00:05:50 with regard to only believers now the general sense is this that god gives protection and
00:05:55 provision under the banner of his common grace even to the wicked who refuse his call to salvation
00:06:01 However, in a special sense, God is the savior of believers since he not only provides them with temporal blessings, but also eternal deliverance from his judgment and never ending joy.
00:06:13 Now, here's the point. There are heinous, wicked people. There are murderers and abusers who, as I speak and as you listen, are enjoying wonderful meals, who are watching sunrises, breathing fresh air.
00:06:39 there are wicked people who are experiencing regularly for 70 80 90 years pleasure see god
00:06:49 in a general sense not eternal but in a general sense in his long suffering in his slowness to
00:06:55 anger and his kindness and tolerance and forbearance god is saving that is he is sustaining
00:07:01 he is sparing them and if God saves even those who refuse the most wicked thing that any person
00:07:10 could do who refuse to obey his gospel second Thessalonians if God saves for a time that is
00:07:19 he he causes it to rain on both the wicked and the righteous in his common grace he gives good
00:07:25 temporal blessings, pleasure, life, joy, even to the wicked who have disobeyed his gospel for 70,
00:07:32 80, 90 years, then certainly we can set our hope on the living God. Because if he even saves for
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